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Phillip J. Watt, Contributor
So often in the truth network the term 'elite' is used to describe the people at the top of the shadow power pyramid, however these societal parasites certainly don't deserve that word ascribed to them. This secret government has inflicted untold suffering on all of us, as well as literally murdered millions of people.
They've done the former in many ways, including, but not limited to:
Unfortunately, when you control these societal mechanisms you control society itself, and when we look at all the suffering, disenfranchisement and dishonor that these four areas have inflicted on all of us, the people need an effective, collective response.
Furthermore, this obviously doesn't include the deaths of millions of people from illegal, unethical and outright unnecessary wars over our relatively recent history. The lies, deception and false flags which have sent our fellow men and women into fights designed for resource and power consolidation is an absolute disgrace to humanity's legacy, especially when we're now at a point where we can live in abundance and peace if we simply designed our civilization in that way.
All of this illustrates as clear as day that these people, these so-called leaders, are as far as you can get from the elite in our society.
So Who Then, Are the Elite?
Well, there's a solid argument that we are all elite – even those who have heavy karma weighing on their souls – because we are all a part of the interconnected life energy which is the creative force in our reality.
Yet, there's a more practical version too.
The true elite in our society are simply the authentic men and women. Why? Well let's take a look at the definition of 'elite' and then critique it, shall we.
Meanings for 'Elite'
noun1.(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anythingconsidered collectively, as of a group orclass of persons.
2. (used with a plural verb) persons of the highest class:Only the elite were there.
3.a group of persons exercising the major share of authority orinfluence within a larger group:
the power elite of a major political party.
4.a type, approximately 10-point in printing-type size, widely used intypewriters and having 12characters to the inch.
Compare pica1.
adjective5. representing the most choice or select; best:
an elite group of authors.The first definition found at the embedded link states that: 'the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons'.
What is 'the choice or best of' referring to in the context of humanity? In our current age of information and consciousness expansion, we've reached a beautiful balance where we know both scientifically and philosophically that we are all an individual expression of the one thing. This means that no one is inherently 'better' than anyone else, however it is also true that we are all developed in different ways and to various degrees.
Therefore, even though no one is fundamentally better than anyone else, we may be more advanced than another person in specific ways, such as compassion, but they might for example be more refined in communication than we are.
This is where the authentic person comes in. If we aim to connect with both our strengths and weaknesses, and are 'real' to ourselves in response, we are a genuine person who recognizes that we are not better than others, we are simply on our own journey of empowerment and awakening, just like everyone else is.
Simply, the 'best of' humanity are those individuals who not just face themselves for who they really are, but create with it too, instead of looking down on others for whatever reason they feel justified to make themselves feel better about themselves.
The result? Unity and community, not disconnection and degradation.
The second definition is 'persons of the highest class'.
Now of course class is not referring to material wealth, for as we all should know by now the monetary system is a scam, people consistently inherit blood money and there are many sickos who hoard wealth and use it to obtain power and resources in unhealthy and undeveloped ways.
Therefore, class in this context should refer to the definition 'of high quality, integrity, status, or style'. When we consider high quality human traits, this translates into a person or group of persons who don't just apply respect and honor towards themselves, but also their fellow-man and the environment they live in.
And that obviously reflects the authentic person.
The third and final definition which is relevant to this discussion is 'a group of persons exercising the major share of authority or influence within a larger group'.
This one can be better understood by beginning with the concept that real power isn't power over others, it's self-empowerment. Simply, real authority is honoring our self-determining power, which then transforms into respecting it in others.
In addition, most people in the truth movement understand that law does not necessarily equal ethics, which means that anybody who makes or enforces law is not guaranteed automatic respect, like they somewhat used to be. That's not to say they don't deserve respect, because many who work for our sick system are just ignorant to what they truly stand for and are doing their best with the understanding they have to provide a genuine community service.
Regardless, the so-called authority in our society is not really authority at all.
Ultimately, those individuals who are authentically connecting with and representing the expansion of our collective consciousness are the real power brokers, the real influence, in our society. This elite level of authority may be subtle, instead of explicit, but make no mistake: it is the most powerful and influential form of authority in our current age.
Final Thoughts
Humanity is moving towards an unprecedented stage of it's collective consciousness, where truth and individual sovereignty will inevitably reign supreme. This expansion has not just been decades, but centuries in the making.
Given the opposite is also true, where a new dark age of deception is upon us, it takes a highly empowered individual to rise above the lies of the official narratives to genuinely connect with not just the greater truths of the external world, but the internal realm too.
These individuals are the genuine group of elite humans who we should all look to for not leadership, but guidance in becoming our own more authentic self.
Moreover, no one is fully awake to the realities and ongoing creation of our world. The authentic man or woman may be an example for us to aspire to, but no one is or ever will be without an opportunity to further enrich their state of awareness, including how it's translated into their actions.
In this sense, we're all the same. We're all imperfectly perfect.
About the Author
Bernie Suarez, Guest
No event in American history (if you ask me) has been more engineered, more anticipated and more built up than the upcoming November 8, 2016 presidential election. Face it. This presidential election season made the truth movement mainstream. Evil and corruption was brought into the light. We've observed what a George Soros-like engineered regime breakdown looks and feels like from the inside, our side this time. We had heard and read about all those foreign governments that the US overthrew with their "democracy" tactics using "special forces," NGOs, paid-for revolutionaries, activists and in some cases flat-out murderous fighters (ISIS, moderate rebels). This time the engineered chaos was happening here in the US.
This 2016 election season has been packed with outright exposed corruption, lies, propaganda, murders, stolen primaries, fabricated accusations, distractions, staged debates and much more. We have seen a criminally accused presidential candidate get away with crimes in broad daylight while suspected of suffering from Parkinson's disease, passing out, having seizures and even being followed around by a creepy doctor with a seizure medication injector. This is the stuff Hollywood films are made of. The list of the insanity goes on and on, right? We've witnessed plenty of lies, propaganda and Jerry Springer Show-like attacks by the candidates to create just the perfect smokescreen so that Americans are not looking into the events in Aleppo or Mosul much less the Hillary-DNC-mainstream media corruption scandals and revelations.
Instead of keeping a close eye on the doings of the US criminal empire, the elite relied on a very in-your-face and increasingly arrogant, defiant and now very busted and discredited mainstream media to push the desired paradigm and reinforce it every which way they can. Actually, this understates the situation. What really happened was that the mainstream media joined forces with the chosen candidate of the ruling oligarchs (Hillary) and together their campaign (the DNC-Hillary-Soros-Moveon.org-Michael Moore-Hollywood-mainstream media complex) has brought us to the ending that truth seekers are now looking ahead to with great anxiety and anticipation. Actually, I'm understating the situation again. All or most Americans (awakened or not) are anticipating and anxiously awaiting the end results of the US presidential elections.
The question we should all be asking then is, how did we get here? Oh, and perhaps more importantly, where are we going? To answer this, one must realize that the ruling elite have plans. They have a lot of money and they have players willing to go along with their plans. Not sure of this? Then please research Sandy Hook or Boston bombing events. Or research many of the crisis actor events of the past few years.
That's right. While they were staging one event after another, too many Americans were too busy and too afraid to call these fake events for what they were. Too many Americans fell for the trick that we were supposed to believe mainstream media "stories" and narratives unless we could "prove" that the account didn't happen the way mainstream media said it did. In other words, many Americans were tricked into believing that, unless proven otherwise, we should BELIEVE mainstream media. Well here we are in October of 2016 and finally (though it has been common knowledge to many of us for a long while) the illegitimacy of the mainstream media is carved in stone. No longer can it be considered a "conspiracy" by anyone, that mainstream media is corrupt and acts as a tool of psychological terrorism against the public on behalf of the ruling elite.
That said, now it is time to confront the fully engineered and long-planned ending of this 2016 US presidential election. Will staged "political terrorism," a term just introduced a couple of weeks ago into the American psyche, be staged as Mike Adams at Natural News is writing about? Will this "terrorism" or planned "event" mark the beginning of the end of America? If so, what will happen? How will it all go down? Many are now wondering how deep is this web of corruption and how far will the traitors identified before us be willing to go to destroy America?
The one thing everyone should accept is that this ending has been planned just like so many "events" of the past several years have been scripted and planned. So today I invite readers to acknowledge this very important singular factor in today's events. The fact that they are planned. The notion of organic and spontaneous results is something the ruling elite hate. They hate anything that is organic, spontaneous, unpredictable, people-powered, natural and real. They need everything to be controlled, scripted, planned, orchestrated, engineered. Do you see a pattern here? One consciousness longs for freedom, naturalness and spontaneity, the other longs to control, orchestrate, engineer and dictate the ending, like a master would want to control his slave.
Understanding this fundamental contrast between the control-freak consciousness (think ruling elite) and the free-spirited consciousness, will allow you to see what's coming this November 8th 2016. What's coming is a long-awaited day for which the ruling elite have paid a lot of money and hired many people to manipulate and control the ending of. So the real question is, will their operation succeed? Looking at the election day ending from a bird's-eye view and seeing how the ruling elite think and operate it is not difficult to see that they, too, are waiting for that day so that they can implement whatever plan they'll need based on the materializing reality at that moment. In this (what I'll call) wait-and-see plan whose execution will either be entirely controlled from the beginning or be an adjusting reaction-based plan to be determined by the emerging reality, we can be sure that at no point will the ruling elite accept an ending that ruins their plan. In other words, they will adjust their plan as often and as desperately as possible and necessary to engineer an ending to their liking.
This ultimately is all we need to know to plan our (truth seekers and freedom lovers) next move. And our next move should look something like this if you ask me:
1- Have a plan including options for self-sustaining yourself and your loved ones (food, water, shelter and other personal needs).
2- Expect corruption but continue fighting and exposing the perpetrators. Let's not let one of these traitors (including crisis actors and operatives working for the State) get away with what they have done.
3- Don't rely ONLY on the Internet to keep track of developing events. You might want to write down current event information, or better yet print out key articles and documents (proof). Also download important videos; don't assume these videos will always be available on YouTube or the Internet. Remember we are entering a much more volatile and intense information war age. The main point is we need to archive the evidence against those criminals who have betrayed America and humanity.
4- Beware of layered psychological operations. Question everything you hear and don't discount that some "news" is designed for you to hear it (get it?). Unfortunately the controllers have indeed upped the ante when it comes to the information war. In deceptive times like these, grabbing on to the principles you believe in become much more important than agreeing with someone on every little nuance about a particular event. Stay oriented and remember who the bad guys are, especially as we see the Hillary-mainstream media complex laughably blaming Russian president Vladimir Putin for all the now-revealed corruption and criminality of the Clintons, the mainstream media, the DNC and many others.
Now is the time to confront the very real and very relevant inherent concepts of truth versus lies, lightness versus darkness, freedom versus slavery and knowledge versus hidden knowledge (the occult); because this, my friends, is what we are dealing with. We (truth seekers) are all in this together. We didn't ask to be put in this show, it sort of came to us. Perhaps we (awakened humanity) are fulfilling a role that we cannot fully understand. This species we call humans needs some members of its kind to save the rest of the species, and if you are reading this then you are probably a chosen vessel in this battle for humanity.
There is nothing to fear, for the ending has surely been scripted. We (like them) will also respond in real-time in the most effective way possible. What we need to do more than anything else is …. (pay attention) … think ahead just like they do.
And so today I'm thinking ahead. I have plans for both scenarios (Trump or Hillary declared victory). I have plans for no "political terrorism" and political terrorism, shock or no shock, chaos or no chaos. In my world the problem remains the same until we hold these corrupt ruling elite, their politicians and players all responsible for their criminality and corruption. Plain and simple, the ruling elite must be identified, stopped and held accountable for their crimes against humanity and the US Constitution. This is more important than any presidential election. Will a Trump victory make this accountability more possible? Many are hopeful of this, but ultimately we must find a way to impose our will on the future and not rely on a politician to do this for us.
Finally, I'm reminded of the very last line of the film The American Dream when the villain asks, "What do you think this is?" and the answer: "This is AMERICA!!" Likewise, let's remember, this IS America, the politically hijacked land that guarantees each and every individual inherent rights which are clearly and indisputably outlined in the US Constitution. Will an opportunity present itself for the rule of law to be restored or will the ruling elite have their way? That question will very likely be answered at a time not necessarily coinciding with election night. This is a reminder to all that the battle we face for humanity and truth is continuous and very long term, not about one isolated moment or day.
About the Author
Bernie is a revolutionary writer with a background in medicine, psychology, and information technology. He is the author of The Art of Overcoming the New World Order and has written numerous articles over the years about freedom, government corruption and conspiracies, and solutions. A former host of the 9/11 Freefall radio show, Bernie is also the creator of the Truth and Art TV project where he shares articles and videos about issues that raise our consciousness and offer solutions to our current problems. His efforts are designed to encourage others to joyfully stand for truth, to expose government tactics of propaganda, fear and deception, and to address the psychology of dealing with the rising new world order. He is also a former U.S. Marine who believes it is our duty to stand for and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. A peace activist, he believes information and awareness is the first step toward being free from enslavement from the globalist control system which now threatens humanity. He believes love conquers all fear and it is up to each and every one of us to manifest the solutions and the change that you want to see in this world, because doing this is the very thing that will ensure victory and restoration of the human race from the rising global enslavement system, and will offer hope to future generations.
Lucas Dare, Staff Writer
"The key idea for the space fence is about surveillance beyond comprehension, all the way down to the DNA." ~Elana Freeland
Lockheed Martin, one of the world's largest military industrial contractors, is leading the development of a 'space fence' to surround planet earth with a new breed of high frequency satellite communications. The ostensible purpose is to provide the U.S. Air Force with the ability to identify and track objects and 'space junk,' and to detect space events, however, the system will also provide an unprecedented level of surveillance over the entire planet.
"Construction is underway on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands to build Space Fence, a sophisticated system that will dramatically improve the way the U.S. Air Force identifies and tracks objects in space.
Space Fence will use Gallium Nitride (GaN) powered S-band ground-based radars to provide the Air Force with uncued detection, tracking and accurate measurement of space objects, primarily in low-earth orbit.
The locations and higher wave frequency of the new Space Fence radars will permit the detection of much smaller microsatellites and debris than current systems. Additionally, Lockheed Martin's Space Fence design will significantly improve the timeliness with which operators can detect space events, which could present potential threats to GPS satellites or the International Space Station. The flexibility and sensitivity of the system will provide coverage of deep space geosynchronous orbits while maintaining the surveillance fence."
A promotional video from Lockheed Martin touts the benefits and capabilities of the space fence:
Version 1.0 of the space fence, dubbed Air Force Space Surveillance System, went live in 1961 and came offline in 2013 in preparation for the new version, which will be able, 'use S-band radar and will track a larger number of small objects than previous space radars: "about 200,000 objects and make 1.5 million observations per day, about 10 times the number" made by existing or recently retired US assets."'
Hidden Intent
Truthful information, not marketing propaganda, is as always difficult to come by when examining military industrial projects, however to some, the space fence is more than a complex system to keep us safe in space, and technology of this nature and power represents an extreme escalation in the war on the individual and the war on consciousness.
Elana Freeland, investigative journalist and author of Chemtrails, HAARP, and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth, is publishing a new book in 2017 entitled, The Space Fence, which combines her knowledge of covert technologies and the frequency war on planet earth with specific information related to the space fence project. Her analysis leads to the conclusion that this project is part of a web of technologies being put into place to monitor, surveil and influence humans on a mass and on an individual scale, with the intention of creating a high-frequency prison of sorts, which will affect human behavior and consciousness in a way that benefits the aims of the world's ruling elite.
The space fence is precisely the type of technology needed to bring human consciousness under full control in a new kind of government, the technocracy. According to journalist Jon Rappoport, this is the realization of the dark vision for humanity as described by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. Rappoport remarks:
"Every time I read Brave New World I see complacent animals grazing in pastures. That's the picture. Human animals at peace in the fields. Nothing to care about. Nothing to think about. Just bend and chew. Don't worry, be happy.
Brave New World reveals a landscape in which people would be unable to turn around and throw off what has been done to them. They would not consider it. They would have no basis for comparison. They would have no cultural memory.
They are living in a universal super-welfare state. Their needs are satisfied—especially the central need: pleasure. It isn't gained or worked for. It's given. It's a fact as basic as rain and sun. It's there. It's the shortest distance between the present moment and the next moment." ~Jon Rappoport
Secrecy is the norm in our world today, and there are, of course, two stories behind the space fence project: the official version of creating a safer world, and the more holistic version uncovered and revealed by dedicated journalists and whistleblowers.
"The degree of secrecy from official sources that we've learned to live with in modern society is reaching a dysfunctional level between the public state and deep state covert operations. Programs that include geoengineering, weather manipulation, and attempts to ionize our atmosphere for the purposes of surveillance do exist, although they're completely ignored by mainstream media. The idea of an enormous space fence being built with public money but with no compelling explanation being given, leads to the possibility that there are powerful reasons for hiding it." ~Dark Journalist
The Frequency Prison – How the Space Fence Will Act as a Planetary Lockdown System
In a recent interview with Dark Journalist, Freeland explains how a deluge of advanced technologies developed by the military and funded by the deep state will be brought to bear on the human race.
Her investigation looks into the covert intention to modify and invade the human body with nano-technologies designed to act as receivers for frequency information distributed by programs such as HAARP and the space fence. Nano-bots, nano-fibers, genetically modified organisms, engineered bacteria, and heavy metals, are already being delivered into the human population by geoengineering projects, vaccines, foods, water, and pharmaceuticals.
"They want those nano-bots inside our bodies. These are the little towers inside that will give complete control, not only over our body, but over our brains.
These nano-bots are wired for a wireless world and can be remotely triggered." ~Elana Freeland
Speaking on the matter of remote mind control as achieved by a global network of electromagnetic control, she remarks:
"The key idea for the space fence is… about surveillance beyond comprehension, all the way down to the DNA. and the surveillance is not, don;t think satellites and things up in the sky, think your cell towers and the GWEN towers and the NEXRADs across the nation. And now think of the little heavy metals inside your bloodstream that are turning your entire body into – it's always been an electric tower, our bodies are transmitters and receivers – but now, with the heavy metals in there, that are highly conductive, and living in a wireless environment with masses of waves moving through us all the time, even in remote areas, we have to think that this is part of the surveillance system. These are the little towers inside us, that will give complete control, not only over our body, but over our brains. And this is what they're heading toward. The space fence is very much connected to transhumanism, and the so-called singularity that they believe is coming. They are working hard to transform the earth plane into something unnatural, artificial." ~Elana Freeland
The web of technological control becomes even more complex and more encompassing when you add to this the deployment of sounding rockets delivering aluminum-oxide into the upper atmosphere, the spraying of barium in the skies, CERN, and HAARP technology. The aim is the formation of a saturnine ring around the planet, creating a tight ring of surveillance and genetic control over planet earth and the human race.
The space fence is the kind of project, shrouded in secrecy and disinfo, American taxpayers are funding with little to no explanation, no accountability, and no possible way to understand. While our economy at home is being gutted by central banks and a globalist takeover, we are being led into the shackles of the technocracy.
Foreshadowing This Dark New World
As with many of the darkest plans of the world elite, their intent is often foreshadowed by Hollywood in science fiction films. The predictive programming regarding SKYNET in the film The Terminator is a classic example.
The following clip from the 2009 movie Gamer, offers a glimpse of a system such as this. In it, the villain has delivered nano-technologies into the brains of people, which act as receivers of signals sent by himself, giving him the power to direct the actions of others.
In the following breakdown of the villain's plan in the film Kingsman: The Secret Service, the evil capitalist, played by Samuel Jackson, has given free SIM cards to everyone on the planet, whereby he can transmit a signal causing people to unwittingly go into a violent murderous rage. The endgame here is global depopulation to rid the earth of the 'virus,' which is how he views human beings.
Final Thoughts
"We're up against something very organized, very scientific, and very dangerous." ~ Elana Freeland
The evidence of a war on consciousness being waged against the human race is substantial. Journalist Graham Hancock has outlined with great eloquence how the war on drugs attempts to restrict our access to the vast powers of our spirituality, and now this war is going digital, taking to the heavens.
Information of this nature presents with the opportunity to increase our own personal awareness and work towards the elevation of personal and collective consciousness, empowering us to both resist and survive this madness.
About the Author
Lucas Dare is a staff writer for Waking Times, where evolution and revolution unite, and for Offgrid Outpost.
Jon Rappoport, Guest
Be mainstream. Go along with the mainstream tide. Adopt the position of the mainstream. If you waver, just watch more network news.
A well-known reporter once told me, "We don't call lying lying. We call it editing."
You can go back in history as far as you want to, and you'll find the word WE used over and over by society's leaders. We must do this, we must do that. We must unify, we must come together. What is this WE?
In the way it's deployed, it isn't anything. It's a grand fiction. It's the gateway into mind control.
If a hazy WE can replace an accountable, responsible, motivated, creative I, the goose is cooked. Because the WE is sugar for the brain.
The WE never turns out to be independent. Only the I can be independent.
As a result of a little thing called the 1960s, WE took over from I. A cooked, frazzled, diluted mix of Asian philosophies and spiritual teachings rolled out on to the scene. WE was now a catchy trendy idea. It gained power. It showed up on the radar of elite propaganda operatives. They were waiting for it, because they had played a role in making it fashionable in the first place.
The op was working. It was gaining traction. WE could replace I in many minds. Among the educated and "hip," among intellectuals and academics and home-grown spiritual teachers, among Left critics of the establishment, among the drug addled and lazy hangars-on, the entire basis of the American Republic—protecting the freedom and rights of the independent individual—could be undermined. A "superior" WE could be installed.
As the years and decades passed, this notion of the WE—in truth, the Collective—and its requirements, in a "humane civilization," expanded. "Share and care" took center stage. It reached to gobble up the whole stage.
On every level of society, people were urged to think of themselves as part of the WE—the "greater group." The individual and his hopes, his unique dreams, his desires and energies, his determination and will power…all these were portrayed as relics of an unworkable and deluded past.
In certain cases, lone pioneers who were innovating in directions that could, in fact, benefit all of humanity, were absorbed into the one body of the collective, heralded as humane…and then dumped on the side of the road with their inventions and forgotten.
In the planned society of WE, no one rises above the mass, except those men who run and operate and propagandize the mass.
Eventually, it would come to something like this: Peter Callero, of the Department of Sociology, Western Oregon University, wrote a book titled: The Myth of Individualism: How Social Forces Shape Our Lives (2013, 2nd Ed). His sentiments and those of his contemporary academics echoed back and forth.
Collero: "Most people today believe that an individual is a person with an independent and distinct identification. This, however, is a myth."
Really? The historical record shows that a great struggle had been waged, over many centuries, for the liberation of the individual from the WE, the mass, the monolithic group.
And now, on the basis of a modern propagandized fantasy, each one of us should return to the past and embrace the chains of sameness?
Official reality says yes. Official reality says surrender. Official reality says a paradise is waiting for us if we dispense with our uniqueness and individuality.
Official reality is psychotic. Because the WE does not recognize YOU.
About the Author
Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine.
If there's one thing we've learned so far from election 2016 it's that the American people do not understand their government.
The perception is that we have a democracy, and that in this democracy we the people have vested power in our government which we exercise through the act of voting. 'Throw the bastards out,' has long since been the war cry of the impotent democrat, yet we no longer even have a democracy to cling to, and although most people choose to ignore it, this fact of life has been visible for decades.
An oligarchical government is a form of rule in which a small group of wealthy individuals have control over the critical mechanisms of state power, industry and economy. These people are unelected, unaccountable and they exercise control on behalf of their personal financial interests, drawing on the productive power of a nation to support their lifestyles and geopolitical ambitions. The ruling class in such a nation is often comprised of dynastic families who pass the baton of power back and forth between themselves, managing the illusion of change and evolution while never actually ceding their franchise over the masses.
The Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton phenomenon is a contemporary example of this exchange.
In 2014, a Princeton study in the academic journal Perspectives on Politics published their conclusion that America had officially transitioned to an oligarchy. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has even recently made comments to this effect, telling Oprah Winfrey and her audience that 'now it's just an oligarchy.' These two warnings follow decades of comments and public admissions by former presidents and key political figures warning us that our country was being taken over by shadowy financial interests.
Inarguably, there is an invisible government running America, yet we are still urged to cast our vote for president every four years. Why do they allow us to participate in this charade if they know our vote doesn't make any difference?
Voting as a Tool to Create the Illusion of Consent
Even many true dictatorships hold political elections as tools to manufacture the illusion of consent for their party. Stalin is perhaps the most astounding example of this, for, during his rule, while the people of the nation were being brutalized by The Red Terror, election results came in showing over 99% support for the Communist Party.
Saddam Hussein also used this tactic to great effect in a 1995 in a referendum aimed at creating the illusion of public support for his reign, with 99.9% of the population voting in favor.
China's Mao, arguably the greatest murderer of all time, also forced his subjects into the ballot booth, using the results as propaganda to support his totalitarianism.
America is not yet a dictatorship, it is but an oligarchy with big dreams of becoming one. As such, we are still transitioning out of the ideology of personal liberty and self-rule, and are still dependent on the ritual of voting as acknowledgment of this heritage, even though selecting a president does nothing to favorably influence the direction of the nation.
The oligarchy still needs us to believe that we are free so that we won't get serious about revolution, and voting is the best tool for maintaining this illusion. It serves the dual purposes of providing an outlet for our righteous indignation, pacifying our anger and sapping our political drive, and of acting as a survey to determine which policies will meet the least amount of popular resistance.
Final Thoughts
If you're one of the few Americans who hasn't already committed yourself, heart and soul, to one of the two majorly phony political parties dominating the U.S., and are still trying to decide which taste of bitters you'll go for on election day, consider this: there is no Constitutional requirement that you vote.
There is not yet a law in America that obliges you to consent to the corruption, lies, criminality, war-mongering, fear, hate, stupidity, tyranny, surveillance and self-destruction being championed by today's candidates. You are still free to opt-out and explore the moral highroad of conscientious objection, should your value system be so utterly insulted by the fake election process taking place before us.
"The American people are being guilted, bullied, pressured, cajoled, intimidated, terrorized and browbeaten into voting. We're constantly told to vote because it's your so-called civic duty, because you have no right to complain about the government unless you vote, because every vote counts, because we must present a unified front, because the future of the nation depends on it, because God compels us to do so, because by not voting you are in fact voting, because the "other" candidate must be defeated at all costs, or because the future of the Supreme Court rests in the balance.
You are under no moral obligation to vote for the lesser of two evils. Indeed, voting for a lesser evil is still voting for evil." ~John W. Whitehead
About the Author
Dylan Charles is a student and teacher of Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi and Qi Gong, a practitioner of Yoga and Taoist arts, and an activist and idealist passionately engaged in the struggle for a more sustainable and just world for future generations. He is the editor of WakingTimes.com, the proprietor of OffgridOutpost.com,
Lucas Dare, Staff Writer
John F. Kennedy was outspoken against the secret government growing behind the curtains of American democracy. In his address to American publishers and the media in 1961, two years prior to his public assassination, he remarked about the nature of secrecy and the dangers of allowing our government to operate without our consent and beyond our knowledge, warning the press to consider the importance of their role in protecting American liberty from the emergence of the Deep State. In essence, JFK was the first major American whistleblower.
"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings." ~John F. Kennedy
Today, as the world hangs on every Wikileaks release coming from Edward Snowden, it is clear that the role of whistleblower in our society is critical to the survival of freedom, and also clear the public demands the truth.
The Science of Destroying Whistleblowers
There is a definitive science to preventing and destroying whistleblowers which includes a continuum of intimidation tactics that are very effective at keeping government employees from going public with information that could be harmful to the state.
Author of From the Company of Shadows, and a decorated former CIA officer and anti-terrorism specialist turned whistleblower, Kevin Shipp, recently spoke in a public awareness event in Northern California on the issues moral people face when confronted with evidence of state corruption. He begins by asking why there are not more whistleblowers in a world where government secrecy and covert activity has become the norm.
"I come from the belly of the best. I was a interviewer, interrogator, I was a counter intelligence agent. I was a polygraph examiner. I was an internal investigator, and on and on and on. So I know this system and I know it well, and then I experienced it personally. Why don't people come out in these secret programs that they know are illegal and unconstitutional? Why don't they come out and blow the whistle and tell people what's going on?" ~Kevin Shipp
Speaking from his personal experience, both as a witness from inside the CIA and as a person who is directly taking the risks associated with exposing government corruption, he reveals his insight into this issue, offering a solid explanation of why more people don't come forward with the truth about our government's unconstitutional and immoral activities.
According to Shipp, there is a complete game plan in play that covers all the bases of intimidation, harrasment and coercion, and as outlined below, here are the main things that prevent more people from becoming speaking out.
1.) Binding Secrecy Agreements
Ninety-nine percent of all would-be whistleblowers are convinced to look the other way by use of binding secrecy agreements as terms for employment or promotion.
Essentially, in order to work for the government in any capacity that would involve one in any of the many unconstitutional programs it operates today, employees must sign binding secrecy agreements where they cannot talk without going to prison for doing so. This type of agreement was originally designed as a way to legitimately protect sources, methods and technology, however the intention has changed dramatically and it is now used broadly as a form of intimidation used to conceal criminal activity.
These agreements are forfeitures of constitutional rights such as the right to a jury trial, the right to sue the government, and all rights to due process.
2.) The Intelligence Community and the State Secrets Privilege
"There is a massive, mammoth, complex secret mechanism in the U.S. Government, it's called theintelligence community. It is so powerful that not even the Congress or the Senate can control it. Matter of fact, it controls them. It does whatever it wants. They have these Senate investigations, and they'll come and they say, 'sorry Senator, we can't tell you what we're doing because you don't have the agency clearance.' And that's where it's shut down." ~Kevin Shipp
By using the state secrets privilege, which was created by the executive branch of the U.S. Government, the intelligence community can prevent and stop any investigation into sensitive issues, it can prevent disclosure of pertinent information in an investigation, and it can stop any lawsuits it wishes to shut down.
"The state secrets privilege (SSP) is a common law privilege that allows the head of an executive department to REFUSE to produce evidence in a court case on the grounds that the evidence is secret information that would harm national security or foreign relation interests if disclosed." [Source]
3.) Direct Personal Intimidation and Harassment
If someone persists on going public with state secrets, or even indicates an intention to do so, there is are a number of tactics that can be applied to embarrass, intimidate, and directly penalize them. This may come in the form of demotion, of giving someone embarrassing or compromising assignments, or by directly intervening in their personal lives in illegal ways such as financially destroying one's family by blocking retirement funds or by raising interest rates on credit union loans so their vehicles and homes become unaffordable.
4.) Psychological Re-Education
This tool is used to officially discredit a potential whistleblower before they actually go public so that if they succeed at drawing attention to an agency their character is already defamed and documented as being unstable.
"What they'll do is they'll say, 'we can see that you're very stressed out by all of this, and we want to help you, so, we're going to refer you to the office of medical services so you can undergo some psychological counseling to help you sleep at night and make you better and get rid of your anxiety, so, we're going to set up an appointment for you to meet with a psychologist.'
Now, where do you suppose that goes? The interview's over, the document is falsified, 'employee is paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, and disgruntled.' That goes in the file, so if it ever does get to the Congress or Senate or court, they pull it out and say, 'well look, he or she went under an evaluation and they're basically unstable, end of story, shut the case down.'" ~Kevin Shipp
5.) Internal Investigation by the Offices of Inspectors General
Inspector generals are presented as an objective and honest safeguard in the bureaucratic process, however this is not always true.
When a significant case is presented with overwhelming evidence is presented against the state, the inspector general for any agency can step in with their own conclusions citing there is no problem nor wrong-doing, and that their internal investigation had not revealed anything. This effectively prevents any outside body from being able to fully examine whistleblower allegations.
Final Thoughts
"They will destroy you. They'll destroy your career, your finances, destroy your family. They'll take you all the way down as far as they can." ~Kevin Shipp
All in all this creates a culture of fear within all government agencies, effectively silencing dissent before it happens.
We've seen what happened to Bradley Manning who was prosecuted under the espionage act for releasing military documents to Wikileaks. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden have been living for years in exile under the protection of foreign governments for their roles in exposing how the state is violating our constitutional rights. Even at the civil level people who expose state corruption are persecuted beyond common sense as is evidenced in the case of Ramsey Orta, the only person going to jail in relation to the murder of Eric Garner by the NYPD, after he filmed Garner's murder in 2014.
In light of all of this, it is no wonder that more people do not speak out on government programs that violate our natural and civil rights, for it takes tremendous courage and incurs significant risk to do so.
About the Author
Lucas Dare is a staff writer for Waking Times, where evolution and revolution unite, and for Offgrid Outpost.
Nathaniel Mauka, Staff Writer
Continuing cannabis prohibition becomes even more preposterous in light of a recent archaeological discovery. Many pot promoters are already well aware that the forefathers of the United States utilized cannabis and hemp to become fruitful. Many more are cognizant that the false war on drugs was a way to squelch would-be activists who were fighting against war in Nixon's time. Looking outside of the trillion-dollar prohibition industry into the archives of history, we can confirm that cannabis was not just accepted, but revered.
A 2,500-year-old cannabis burial shroud was recently unearthed along the Silk Road in Turpan, China. Archaeologists found a grave thought to belong to a 35-year-old male who was wrapped in cannabis leaves. Some of the plants were up to a meter long, and researchers believe they were used ritually. Radiocarbon dating was used to verify the age of the mummy.
Archaeologist, Dr. Hongen Jiang, of the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and his colleagues described the discovery as "extraordinary" in the journal Economic Botany.
As National Geographic explains,
"The burial is one of 240 graves excavated at the Jiayi cemetery in Turpan, and is associated with the Subeixi culture (also known as the Gushi Kingdom) that occupied the area between roughly 3,000 to 2,000 years ago. At the time, Turpan's desert oasis was an important stop on the Silk Road.
Cannabis plant parts have been found in a few other Turpan burials, most notably in a contemporaneous burial in nearby Yanghai cemetery discovered nearly a decade ago, whichcontained close to two pounds of cannabis seeds and powdered leaves."
Ancient Chinese people utilized cannabis for a multitude of purposes. Some of the earliest archaeological hemp evidence dates back to around 10,000 B.C., as evidenced by rope imprints on broken Chinese pottery.
Hemp bowstrings were thought to be stronger than bamboo, and used by master archers. Large allocations of land were put aside just for growing hemp for this purpose. Hemp was also utilized for clothing, paper, and most importantly, medicine.
It was considered 'ma,' which is a unique designation for a plant in traditional Chinese medicine. A 'ma' plant was able to restore both the masculine or strong and active forces within a person as well as the feminine, or more passive, accepting forces in such a way as to restore health and maintain a yin-yang balance.
Ma was used to treat deficiencies of Yin, such as: female weaknesses (menstruation), gout, rheumatism, malaria, beri-beri, constipation, and absentmindedness as well as restoring Yang deficiency which could cause learning problems, depression, and anxiety.
In ritualistic use, cannabis was used to cultivate 'wu' by the shaman. It was considered a gift from the Gods. In early Chinese Taoist rituals, cannabis was used in conjunction with ginseng to set forward time in order to reveal future events. Taoists added cannabis to incense burners as early as the first century A.D. and the fumes were thought to enhance longevity. In these early Taoist rituals, the fumes of cannabis in incense burners were said to create a mystic exaltation and contribute to well being.
In 1925, H. L. Mencken wrote an fervent plea:
"Prohibition has not only failed in its promises but actually created additional serious and disturbing social problems throughout society. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic but more. There is not less crime, but more. … The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished."
Today, the federal government sees no medicinal, nor ritualistic benefit for legalizing cannabis. Perhaps the plant can reveal future events, or cure us from cancer, but as long as the prohibition of this sacred plant, used for thousands of years, continues, the trillion-dollar industry will continue to fill its craw with tax-payer money.
About the Author
Nathaniel Mauka is a researcher of the dark side of government and exopolitics
Rise of the Posthuman Technocracy
Nathaniel Mauka, Staff Writer
When Seth Lloyd, a professor of Quantum-Mechanical Engineering at MIT first suggested that the Universe was a giant, quantum computer, the notion garnered a few people's attention. Lloyd believes that everything in the Universe is made up of chunks of information called 'bits,' disputable as a seeming extension of the materialistic view of the world where 'stuff' is all there is, with no ability for a sentient being to escape the Matrix. Those green, streaming numbers in the opening scene of the film, in fact, would account for everything if it were up to Lloyd, but he is not alone in assuming that we live in a Universe with such a limited description.
Nothing But Bits
There are purportedly a number of billionaires in Silicon Valley and elsewhere who are using Lloyd's popularized view as a jumping board to develop technologies which would free us from a bit-made actuality – otherwise known as the computer simulation we collectively call the Matrix. Lloyd thinks that even atoms are made of 'bits.' If this were the case, then a simple reprogramming of the 1's and 0's ought to give us an innumerable number of options, but even a quantum computer has limitations.
Mathematician, Peter Shor was able to show that a quantum computer can solve some of the most impossible problems in nanoseconds, but just like Artificial Intelligence, you can't fake real experience and sentient reality. More importantly, what are the implications of giving 'the machines' power over our lives, even if some of them have made redundant activities less bothersome?
Ray Kurzweil once wrote that the exponential growth of AI will lead to a technological singularity, a point when machine intelligence will overpower human intelligence. Lloyd argues that a great quantum computer has already taken over. Stephen Hawking has also warned that Artificial Intelligence could take over humanity – so if we were to juxtapose these scenarios over one another, even you and I are just 'bits,' certain to experience an impending doom.
Other large corporations just took over the Internet, the last bastion of fair information sharing on the planet. Do Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and others in this technocracy threaten not just the democratic governance of technology, but the absolute sovereignty of ourselves?
Transhumanists have already popularized the notion of cyborgs and 'super human powers' augmented with hardware machinery and software computer parts. The game is half played.
Katherine Hayles wrote in her 1999 publication How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics,
"In the posthuman, there are no essential differences, or absolute demarcations, between bodily existence and computer simulation, cybernetic mechanism and biological organism, robot technology and human goals…. Humans can either go gently into that good night, joining the dinosaurs as a species that once ruled the earth but is now obsolete, or hang on for a while longer by becoming machines themselves. In either case…the age of the human is drawing to a close."
In a technocracy, power is given only to those who can make decisions based on technological knowledge. The system of governance which holds technology as God cannot fathom the subtleties of human emotion, nor express compassion, morality, or achieve spiritual ascension.
Ceding Your Power to the Technocracy
As William Henry has put it, "Are you ready to cede your body to the global body and to Transhumanist technology under [the] Transnationalists's control?" Really this is a world – a Universe – no different than the one imagined by the cabal for thousands of years. An elite few create a 'One World Government,' only in this case it expands into solar systems and planets we have yet imagined visiting. The United Nations has even called this "Universal Plan" a way to extend peace, but we should not be fooled.
No Guns, Just Microchips
If you don't agree with the technocratic agenda, fear not that you'll be on the other end of a gun. You'll be micro-chipped instead. Or, you'll pick out your implantable device, or your retina lens created by Google. In one of the most secretive start-ups ever, Magic Leap, has raised more than billion dollars to create an implantable contact lens that injects computer-generated images or floats virtual objects into your very 'real' world view. DARPA has already developed numerous technologies to infiltrate your brain, and even to take control over your peripheral nervous system. You won't have personal relations with other human beings. Your avatar will do it for you.
Two Choices
Humanity is undergoing a metamorphosis, but there are two directions we could take. Lloyd's version is only one. Another involves ascending spiritually, instead of relying on technology and artificial intelligence in order to 'outsmart' mortality. While Google and Big Pharma, along with the Department of Defensepromise an extra 500 years to some among us, those who have obtained true enlightenment, as suggested by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, can experience something much greater than a little bit of extended time in a skin suit.
About the Author
Nathaniel Mauka is a researcher of the dark side of government and exopolitics, and a staff writer for Waking Times.
Isaac Davis, Staff Writer
Americans are sleepwalking into World War III, and as events in Syria are shaping up it could come any moment as the biggest October surprise ever. At this stage in the conflict, we are one minor event away from all out war between the world's major super powers, an event which would most certainly result in nuclear war. All that is needed is for the right type of false flag event to serve as provocation.
"In naval warfare, a "false flag" refers to an attack where a vessel flies a flag other than their true battle flag before engaging their enemy. It is a trick, designed to deceive the enemy about the true nature and origin of an attack." [Source]
As the world pretends to be ruled by democratically elected governments, and as the world's people feign freedom under an ever-expanding surveillance, police and warfare state, some semblance of pretext is needed in order to manufacture sufficient consent for the oligarchy's standing plans of forcing us into expansion of the Orwellian Permanent War.
A brief look at how this tactic has historically been used helps to predict what is certainly forthcoming in Syria, as paraphrased from James Corbett of the Corbett Report.
1780's – The Swedish-Russian War of 1788-1790 began when Swedish troops were intentionally dressed up as Russian troops then sent to attack their own border with Finland, effectively tricking the public into believing Russia had attacked, thereby kicking off a war will killed thousands.
1931 – The Japanese army deliberately destroyed a portion of a Japanese owned railway, then blamed it on Chinese dissidents to justify the military occupation of Manchuria.
1939 – Nazi war engineers dressed up Polish prisoners in Polish military uniforms and directed them to attack a German radio station. They prisoners were shot dead and their bodies left on the scene as evidence of Polish aggression, leading to Hitler's invasion of Poland, signifying the official start of World War II.
1954 – Operation Susannah was an Israeli effort to convince the British military to continue their military presence in the Suez Canal, in support of Israeli interests. Egyptian patsies were hired to detonate bombs in American and British civilian targets, then blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood.
1962 – "In 1962 the US Joint Chiefs of Staff authored a document called Operation Northwoods calling for the US government to stage a series of fake attacks, including the shooting down of military or civilian US aircraft, the destruction of a US ship, sniper attacks in Washington, and other atrocities, to blame on the Cubans as an excuse for launching an invasion. President Kennedy refused to sign off on the plan and was killed in Dallas the next year." [Source]
1964 – A U.S. destroyer patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin was attacked by torpedoes, ostensibly by the North Vietnamese, thereby causing President Johnson the authorization of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, thus beginning U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. It is now known that no attack actually occurred and that the NSA was involved in fabricating this event.
1967 – "In June 1967 the Israelis attacked the USS Liberty, a US Navy technical research ship, off the coast of Egypt. The ship was strafed relentlessly for hours in an apparent attempt to blame the attack on Egypt and draw the Americans into the Six Day War, but amazingly the crew managed to keep it afloat. In 2007 newly released NSA intercepts confirmed that the Israelis knew they were attacking an American ship, not an Egyptian ship as their cover story has maintained." [Source]
1999 – A series of devastating bombings on civilian apartment buildings in Russia were blamed on Chechen terrorists, although Russian FSB agents were later caught using the exact same type of bombs in what was publicly called a security exercise.
2001 – The 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington were blamed on 19 Al Qaeda terrorists and immediately used the pretext for beginning the Global War on Terror, of which the political doctrine for this was already in place and in play. 15 years later, information about the true nature of the attacks is still surfacing, proving that the 9/11 Commission was a whitewash to help catalyze public support still ongoing wars which were planned prior to 9/11.
"Further, the process of transformation [of the military], even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor." –[Source]
Furthermore, other examples of historical significance demonstrate how minor or ambiguous events are seized on and deliberately used as propaganda to achieve the greater objective of drawing nations into war.
1904 – The sinking of the British ocean liner The Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, which was carrying tons of war materials from America, was blamed on German u-boats, leading to a severe diplomatic row which brought the United States into World War I. Speculation remains as to what exactly happened to the Lusitania, however, the official explanation is highly suspicious, and the event was used to achieve the objectives of war financiers to broaden the conflict.
1933 – A German parliamentary building in the Reichstag was set ablaze one month after Hitler's election to the office of Chancellor. It is believed that three Bulgarian communists were to blame, however this is contentious among historians. The event was heavily propagandized by the Nazi party to galvanize support for war.
READ: 3 Things to Prepare for No Matter Which Candidate Wins the ElectionOne can also include in this list an ever-growing growing handful of European and American domestic terror attacks such as the London bombings of 2005, and the Bataclan theatre massacre of Paris in 2015. To further expand on the historical precedent of using false flag attacks to propel agendas of state aggression, many instances of assassination and military intervention into the politics of sovereign nations around the world in order create consent for militarism could be included.
Final Thoughts
As the U.S. continues to aid and support ISIS, Al-Nusra and other terrorist organizations in its ploy to overthrow the Assad government for the primary benefit of Israel, a false flag event signaling the beginning of a direct confrontation with Russia could come at any time. At present it looks as though the most likely scenario would be something along the lines of the USS Liberty attack, which would involve the deliberate targeting of our own forces while creating the perception of a Russian attack on U.S. or NATO components.
The situation in Syria is ripe for exactly this kind of covert, subversive tactic. There is historical precedence to suggest that a Syrian false flag event is imminent, therefore people the world over mustprepare to resist and to survive this.
About the Author
Isaac Davis is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and OffgridOutpost.com Survival Tips blog. He is an outspoken advocate of liberty and of a voluntary society. He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficient to break free of the control matrix. Follow him on Facebook, here.
Zoey O'Toole, Green Med Info
Far too many are still swooned by false promises from people with initials like "Dr." and "CEO" in front of their names.
I grew up in the 1960s, inundated by commercials for margarines made from hydrogenated vegetable oils that "promised" those margarines would keep my cholesterol levels low and protect me from heart disease. Yet in 2015, nearly 50 years later, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence of the harm they do, especially to the circulatory system and the heart, the Food and Drug Administration announced that artificial trans fats of the very sort that made up a good percentage of those margarines were no longer "generally recognized as safe," and food manufacturers would have three years to remove these substances from their products altogether.
How did this happen? How could we get the science so wrong that it was actually backward, and how did it take us 50 years to figure it out?
On September 12, 2016, The New York Times published a very illuminating article by Anahad O'Connor entitled "How the Sugar Industry Shifted the Blame to Fat." According to O'Connor,
The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.
The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease,including many of today's dietary recommendations, may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.
"They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades," said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. and an author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper. [emphases mine]
As you may imagine from my past writings, I am not the least bit surprised that the sugar industry cynically and deliberately attempted to shape the science of nutrition and heart disease, nor even that their attempt to "derail the discussion about sugar" was so wildly successful for so long. What I do find shocking, however, is just how little money and how few people it took to completely divert the mainstream scientific understanding on the subject for more than 50 years, to the point where many conscientious cardiologists, as well as the American Heart Association, are still advocating low-fat/low-saturated-fat diets, while only recently acknowledging that sugar even plays a role. According to the article,
The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today's dollars to publish a 1967 review of research on sugar, fat and heart disease. The studies used in the review were handpicked by the sugar group, and the article, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, minimized the link between sugar and heart health and cast aspersions on the role of saturated fat. [emphasis mine]
A mere $50,000 in today's dollars – not even a year's salary for one scientist? That's all it took to get three Harvard scientists to completely eschew scientific integrity and deliberately promulgate incorrect ideas that not only "derailed the discussion" on nutrition and heart disease, but were also directly responsible for destroying the health of generations of Americans? Way to go, Sugar Association! High five! Even Big Tobacco can't compete with that kind of bang for the buck.
One of the major objections people have when I tell them that our current vaccine schedule is ruining the health of our children (just as supposedly "heart-healthy" foods ruined the health of adults) is that it can't be true because, if it were true, it would require a conspiracy on an international scale of such size and complexity that it would defy credulity. I always agree a conspiracy such as they describe, where very many people (including your garden-variety pediatrician) all know the truth and collude to delude the public, would defy credulity. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Three people may keep a secret if two of them are dead." But is that sort of conspiracy truly necessary to create the outcome we're seeing where up is down, and unhealthy is healthy?
I've never thought so. In fact, I've been saying for a long time that it doesn't require some huge, complex conspiracy, involving everyone at a couple of government agencies, six major manufacturers, pediatricians' offices all over the world, mainstream media reporters, and research labs at major universities, to achieve an entrenched backward understanding of the health implications of a one-size-fits-all, shoot-'em-up vaccine schedule. And this New York Times article is the proof. All that's required are the following four elements:
1) Some individuals (not very many as it turns out) who put profit before people: As we can see in the Sugar Association documents, our sugar execs and Harvard researchers fit the bill perfectly. These people consciously and deliberately set out to misinform the scientific community, the medical community, and the general public because it was in their monetary interest to do so. And, regrettably, such people abound in a society (like ours) which regards profit as its highest good. How hard is it to imagine that vaccine manufacturers could and would (in a heartbeat) do the exact same thing for a business sector that currently brings in about $40 billion a year and is expected to be a major source of growth? For a prize that big wouldn't they be willing to throw around millions if it got them what they wanted? What if I told you that back in 1986, pharmaceutical companies were threatening to get out of the vaccine business altogether? They were getting walloped by the press and in courtrooms all over the country because so many children's lives were destroyed by DPT vaccines, and they told the U.S. government they were done unless they were absolved them of all monetary responsibility for harm caused by their products. What if I told you that Congress obliged and did remove financial liability with the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, and – shockingly – the defunct vaccine industry was suddenly a gold mine.
In 1986, the average American kid got DPT, MMR, and polio vaccines, and vaccine manufacturers were supposedly going broke from damages. Today's average kid gets hepatitis B, rotavirus, DTaP, Hib, pneumococcal, polio, influenza, MMR, varicella, hepatitis A, HPV, and meningococcal vaccines, with many more anticipated, and the vaccine manufacturers are pulling money in hand over fist, not paying a cent in damages, despite the fact that so many more children are getting hurt.
2) True Believers who ignore the evidence in front of their faces. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to how many people actually read, much less critically, the review study these Harvard guys wrote and/or the studies it was based on? I'd be willing to bet it was precious few. But many, many heard the headlines and believed the study's conclusions could be taken at face value, even though they saw patients every day who defied its predictions. From the perspective of the True Believer, these patients were either "lying," "deluded," or "outliers" because "everybody knows" diets high in fat and saturated fat would clog your arteries and stop your heart. From reading way too many so-called science blogs in the last decade that do exactly the same thing these Harvard researchers did – promote conclusions that are not supported by the scientific research and directly contradict the clinical data at hand – and noting that these conclusions go completely unquestioned by the vast majority of readers (who, ironically, tend to call themselves "skeptics"), who then turn around and ridicule anyone who actually doesquestion the conclusions, I can attest that these people are everywhere. And while being duped themselves, they are often utterly, if amusingly, convinced of their own intellectual superiority.
As a matter of fact, this phenomenon is so widely known and understood that it is enshrined in a fairy tale. In The Emperor's New Clothes, a couple of con men convince an emperor to hire them to make him a fabulous new wardrobe. He does so only to be provided with . . . nothing. That "nothing" however is talked up so well that all the lords and ladies of the land ignore the evidence of their own eyes and convince themselves that their naked emperor is instead sumptuously attired, until a child – their "intellectual inferior" – points out the obvious, that the emperor is starkers. There are always truth-tellers in society. When the "lords and ladies of the land" are ready to hear truth has much less to do with who is saying it or how it is said than how soon they exhaust their own ability to maintain cognitive dissonance and are finally ready to acknowledge what has been staring them in the face all along. For some, it happens early because they are less invested in the illusion. Others will stubbornly refuse to see The Matrix, continuing to invest all their energy in the illusion until it kills them.
3) People who have figured out at least some part of the truth, but keep quiet out of the need to preserve their incomes and/or their careers. As Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Is it really credible that all the lords and ladies of the land can convince themselves that the emperor is wearing the ultimate designer outfit, despite the fact that he is so obviously naked? Surely not. There are many concrete thinkers among us who just don't have that much imagination. So why don't even one or two of them speak out? Chances are good they have or desire status, power, and position that are directly dependent upon staying in the good graces of the emperor. Psychological tests have repeatedly shown that when even marginal status is on the line, many will fall in with the crowd, and even more will do so if the task is somewhat difficult or involves a judgment call.
The film The Big Short, about the mortgage-backed securities debacle that led (or should have led), to the demise of a number of "important" banking institutions, contains a few very clear examples of this phenomenon. In the first example, one of the main characters, Mark Baum played by Steve Carrell, becomes convinced that the mortgage-backed securities market is based on fraud: the mortgages that underlie the securities are defaulting in large numbers and yet, illogically, the securities' ratings do not drop. He goes to see the woman at Moody's Investor Service (a supposedly independent organization that rates the quality of investment vehicles) who is responsible for the rating he's interested in and asks her how such a situation is possible. She defends her actions by saying that if she doesn't give the banks what they want, they'll just go across the street to Standard & Poor's and get it there. The second example happens when Baum takes the story to a journalist he respects who absolutely understands what he has been told and the gravity of it, but refuses to print it because he's taken a long time to cultivate his industry sources and he doesn't want to piss them off. After all, his wife is going to have a baby and he needs to keep his job. He asks, "What am I supposed to do? Write a piece called 'We're all fucked?'" As it turned out, when the housing bubble collapsed shortly thereafter, demolishing the savings and financial holdings of many, many people with it, that would have been entirely appropriate.
4) People at government agencies willing to put industry interests before the interests of the public. This element is necessary to allow for true message control, but is also inevitable in the absence of strict and enforced conflict-of-interest rules. After all, government agencies are populated with people, most of whom when left to their own devices will fall into one of the previous three categories. In our Sugar Association example, we find that one of the Harvard scientists, D. Mark Hegsted, went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where in 1977 he helped draft the forerunner to the federal government's dietary guidelines. Awesome, huh? Talk about message control! As far as the article indicates, he wasn't even being paid by the Sugar Association anymore, but he could hardly admit that his own work was fraudulent, could he?
In The Big Short, we get a similar glimpse of how conflicts of interest at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the watchdog agency that is supposed to be watching out for taxpayers' interests, kept the agency from protecting consumers. One of Baum's crew talks to his cousin, who works at the SEC, while at a conference in Vegas. The cousin confesses they aren't doing much investigation at all since their budget was cut and she is in Vegas on her own dime to float her resume with a few investment banks. When her cousin is shocked by the conflict of interest inherent in such actions, she tells him there are no rules against it and it happens all the time. How could an SEC investigation of Goldman Sachs have any sort of integrity, if the person performing the investigation is free to seek a job with Goldman Sachs? Answer: it can't. When it comes to vaccines, similar conflicts of interest are rampant at the CDC. Just a couple of examples: Julie Gerberding, head of the CDC when it recommended three doses of Gardasil for all teenaged girls and when it performed the studies that originally "exonerated" vaccines, especially the MMR, in the development of autism, went on to head the vaccine division of Merck, the maker of the MMR and Gardasil (where she made a heck of a lot more than $50,000). Dr. Paul Offit, the developer of a rotavirus vaccine, sat on a committee where he voted to recommend his own vaccine be added to the infant schedule. He too made a heck of a lot more than $50,000.
Corruption at the CDC is so widespread that it isn't hard to find incontrovertible evidence (verified by Freedom of Information Act requests) that they are playing fast and loose with science. The Verstraeten study, that supposedly gets mercury off the hook in the etiology of autism, actually did the exact opposite before the data was massaged four separate times to make a strong dose-dependent relationship go away. Nearly three years ago, a senior scientist at the CDC, Dr. William Thompson, called Dr. Brian Hooker, an autism dad and advocate, and told him that he'd been tortured by guilt for nearly a decade because there were a number of irregularities with an MMR study published in 2004. Thompson told Hooker exactly which data to request to prove those irregularities (i.e., research fraud of the same sort perpetrated by the Harvard researchers who'd been paid by the Sugar Association), data that Thompson's co-authors literally threw away. According to Thompson, the CDC had compromised its own research on the subject for over a decade, and it had gotten to the point where Congress should just take the data and give it to an independent organization to analyze because the CDC can't be trusted. In addition, many of the studies they paid for on vaccines and autism were coordinated by Poul Thorsen, a Danish researcher who is now wanted by the U.S. government for fraud. You might think that the CDC might be concerned about a researcher who had evidently had no scruples about defrauding the government to the tune of over a million dollars, but not only does the CDC (and U.S. government) have so little concern about the actions of a man who would commit such fraud that they never called any of his studies into question, the man is still happily publishing scientific research in Denmark, apparently completely unconcerned about the possibility of extradition to stand trial.
Like so many other long-term injustices, I'm delighted that this evidence of the collusion between the sugar industry and Harvard researchers that has clouded the science of nutrition for so long is finally seeing the light of day. But it would have been so much better for the general public if this information had been in the mainstream media, 20, 30, or even 50 years ago, wouldn't it?
The interesting thing to me is that the health information (if not the corruption angle) has been available to the public for quite a while. There have been real scientists doing real work all along, but only a small number of people were paying any attention at all, and they were labeled "quacks" by mainstream medicine because they challenged what "everybody knows." I went to a doctor 29 years ago who put me on a low-sugar/low-carb hypoglycemia diet to lower my cholesterol (280 at the start). I was told it was fine to keep eating butter and egg yolks. I thought she was crazy, but I followed that advice for a month. My cholesterol dropped like a hot rock. I was shocked.
Anyone know someone whose cholesterol dropped like that with a low-saturated-fat diet? Yeah, didn't think so. And don't even get me started on all the weight my friends gained while on low-fat diets.
Guess what happened to that doctor? Her license to practice medicine was revoked.
Clearly, she, and anyone else paying attention to the evidence right in front of their faces (the emperor's "free willy," so to speak), could figure out the truth long before those clinging to the imaginary ideal of "scientific consensus." Turns out it doesn't require super brains to see the truth. It just requires curiosity, honesty, and bravery, three things that are not all that common unfortunately. This stuff isn't true because the New York Times finally took notice and gave its stamp of approval. It was true all along, and good, curious, honest, and brave people lost their careers fighting for that truth and the right to help people get well.
If you're thinking oh, thank God that's over, think again. Industry forces are still labeling conscientious physicians and researchers who are brave enough to counter their lies with the truth, who want to help you get and stay well, as "quacks." When Vioxx, a popular Merck painkiller, was killing a ridiculous number of the people who took it, what did Merck do? They attacked the doctors who raised questions as to its safety. Of course, the doctors were right, and Merck ended up paying over $6 billion in fines and settlements. But Merck made over $11 billion on Vioxx before it was withdrawn from the market, making the $6 billion a mere hand slap for the unethical behavior that cost the lives of many. And right now in California, we are seeing a popular physician, Dr. Robert Sears, who is an acknowledged expert on the subject of vaccines (he literally wrote the book), being investigated for writing a medical exemption for one of his patients. Despite the fact that he actually vaccinates kids every day, he represents enough of a threat that vaccine manufacturers would dearly love to get his medical license revoked.
Vaccines are by no means the only area where we can see the same sort of disconnect between reality and what we're told by mainstream information sources. There are reputable scientists telling us that glyphosate, GMOs, fluoride, ultrasounds, aluminum, C-sections and even Tylenol present unacknowledged health hazards that officials and other scientists deny with the bureaucratic equivalent of "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain," while at the same time ignoring the fact that people are getting sicker by virtually every standard, even as they obsessively follow official recommendations.
As my 10-year-old son said this morning, "The truth tends to come out, no matter how many dollar bills you throw on top of it." (I was impressed with his profundity, but he was pretty sure he'd read it somewhere. If anyone knows where it came from, let me know.) The real question is when will the truth come out? Will it take another 50 years? I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pretty sure my heart can't take hearing about many more children who received nine vaccines in a day and either went to the hospital that night with their brains on fire or were found dead in their cribs the next morning. And how many people in the last 50 years had their lives cut short or their health trashed because they took the bogus messaging about saturated fats and sugar to heart – literally? Do we really have to wait another 50 years before we see the folly of what we're doing now and stop it? Or can we use the example that's right in front of our noses to finally get enough people talking about the many naked emperors in our midst?
It will take the bravery of a great many people to "take this sinking boat and point it home," but the more of us there are, the less brave each of us has to be. And, unlike Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, we may not still have time.
Think about it.
Ask yourself who you are listening to when it comes to your health or that of your children? And, more importantly, who are they listening to? Do they truly have your best interests at heart, or do they owe their allegiance to some random corporation that stands to make a killing from your pain and suffering? Are you being told that all is well, even as you and yours get sicker and sicker?
Then ask yourself, isn't it time you joined the revolution?
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Isaac Davis, Staff Writer
In a televised interview with ABC's Mike Wallace in 1958, author of the seminal classic Brave New World, Aldous Huxley laid out his rather grim vision for the future of the human race in a prescient and timeless warning for us to wake up. After having lived through the bloodbaths of World War I and II and in the early stages of the nuclear cold war, he discussed the problems of freedom and survival in America, making a number of predictions more relevant today, nearly 60 years later, than ever before.
Huxley, as introduced by Wallace:
"A man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley 27 years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us." ~Mike Wallace
As the world now sleepwalks into a third world war which will certain bring about a nuclear holocaust, Huxley's message is more important than ever because it serves as a reminder that a critically thinking individual is the truest and most formidable weapon against the destructive and psychopathic tendencies of tyrants.
The following 6 predictions taken from this interview were exceptionally farsighted at the time, and are presented here as an amplification of Huxley's imperative that we all must wake up to the truth of how power is misused in our world.
1.) Technology, Bureaucracy and Television Would be Used to Enslave Us
HUXLEY: As technology becomes more and more complicated, it becomes necessary to have more and more elaborate organizations, more hierarchical organizations, and incidentally the advance of technology is being accompanied by an advance in the science of organization.
It's now possible to make organizations on a larger scale than it was ever possible before, and so that you have more and more people living their lives out as subordinates in these hierarchical systems controlled by bureaucracy, either the bureaucracies of big businesses or the bureaucracies of big government.
HUXLEY: Hitler used terror on the one kind, brute force on the one hand, but he also used a very efficient form of propaganda, which er…he was using every modern device at that time. He didn't have TV., but he had the radio which he used to the fullest extent, and was able to impose his will on an immense mass of people. I mean, the Germans were a highly educated people.
WALLACE: Well, we're aware of all this, but how do we equate Hitler's use of propaganda with the way that propaganda, if you will, is used let us say here in the United States. Are you suggesting that there is a parallel?
HUXLEY: Needless to say it is not being used this way now, but, er…the point is, it seems to me, that there are methods at present available, methods superior in some respects to Hitler's method, which could be used in a bad situation. I mean, what I feel very strongly is that we mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology.
This has happened again and again in history with technology's advance and this changes social condition, and suddenly people have found themselves in a situation which they didn't foresee and doing all sorts of things they really didn't want to do.
WALLACE: And well, what…what do you mean? Do you mean that we develop our television but we don't know how to use it correctly, is that the point that you're making?
HUXLEY: Well, at the present the television, I think, is being used quite harmlessly; it's being used, I think, I would feel, it's being used too much to distract everybody all the time. But, I mean, imagine which must be the situation in all communist countries where the television, where it exists, is always saying the same things the whole time; it's always driving along.
It's not creating a wide front of distraction it's creating a one-pointed, er…drumming in of a single idea, all the time. It's obviously an immensely powerful instrument.
WALLACE: Uh-huh. So you're talking about the potential misuse of the instrument.
HUXLEY: Exactly. We have, of course…all technology is in itself moral and neutral. These are just powers which can either be used well or ill; it is the same thing with atomic energy, we can either use it to blow ourselves up or we can use it as a substitute for the coal and the oil which are running out.
2.) Advertising Will Bypass Rationality and Capture the Mind's of Children
HUXLEY: …advertisement plays a very necessary role, but the danger it seems to me in a democracy is this…I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circumstance.
But what these people are doing, I mean what both, for their particular purposes, for selling goods and the dictatorial propagandists are for doing, is to try to bypass the rational side of man and to appeal directly to these unconscious forces below the surfaces so that you are, in a way, making nonsense of the whole democratic procedure, which is based on conscious choice on rational ground.
WALLACE: Of course, well, maybe…I…you have just answered this next question because in your essay you write about television commercials, not just political commercials, but television commercials as such and how, as you put it, "Today's children walk around singing beer commercials and toothpaste commercials." And then you link this phenomenon in some way with the dangers of a dictatorship. Now, could you spell out the connection or, have…or do you feel you've done so sufficiently?
HUXLEY: Well, I mean, here, this whole question of children, I think, is a terribly important one because children are quite clearly much more suggestible than the average grownup; and again, suppose that, er…that for one reason or another all the propaganda was in the hands of one or very few agencies, you would have an extraordinarily powerful force playing on these children, who after all are going to grow up and be adults quite soon. I do think that this is not an immediate threat, but it remains a possible threat, and…
WALLACE: You said something to the effect in your essay that the children of Europe used to be called 'cannon fodder' and here in the United States they are 'television and radio fodder.'
HUXLEY: Well, after all, you can read in the trade journals the most lyrical accounts of how necessary it is, to get hold of the children because then they will be loyal brand buyers later on. But I mean, again you just translate this into political terms, the dictator says they all will be ideology buyers when they are grownup.
3.) The Rise of Dictatorship Based on Terrorism
HUXLEY: I think this kind of dictatorship of the future, I think will be very unlike the dictatorships which we've been familiar with in the immediate past. I mean, take another book prophesying the future, which was a very remarkable book, George Orwell's "1984."
Well, this book was written at the height of the Stalinist regime, and just after the Hitler regime, and there he foresaw a dictatorship using entirely the methods of terror, the methods of physical violence. Now, I think what is going to happen in the future is that dictators will find, as the old saying goes, that you can do everything with bayonets except sit on them!
4.) The Pharmacological Revolution Will Make Us Love Slavery
HUXLEY: …this is the… the pharmacological revolution which is taking place, that we have now powerful mind-changing drugs which physiologically speaking are almost costless. I mean they are not like opium or like coca…cocaine, which do change the state of mind but leave terrible results physiologically and morally.
…if you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled, and this they will do partly by drugs as I foresaw in "Brave New World," partly by these new techniques of propaganda.
They will do it by bypassing the sort of rational side of man and appealing to his subconscious and his deeper emotions, and his physiology even, and so, making him actually love his slavery.
I mean, I think, this is the danger that actually people may be, in some ways, happy under the new regime, but that they will be happy in situations where they oughtn't to be happy.
…We know, there is enough evidence now for us to be able, on the basis of this evidence and using certain amount of creative imagination, to foresee the kind of uses which could be made by people of bad will with these things and to attempt to forestall this…
5.) Political Candidates Would Become Merchandise Marketed by Professionals
WALLACE: You write in Enemies of Freedom, you write specifically about the United States. You say this, writing about American political campaigns you say, "All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere; political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter."
HUXLEY: Well, this is the…during the last campaign, there was a great deal of this kind of statement by the advertising managers of the campaign parties. This idea that the candidates had to be merchandised as though they were soap and toothpaste and that you had to depend entirely on the personality.
I mean, personality is important, but there are certainly people with an extremely amiable personality, particularly on TV, who might not necessarily be very good in political…positions of political trust.
WALLACE: Well, do you feel that men like Eisenhower, Stevenson, Nixon, with knowledge aforethought were trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public?
HUXLEY: No, but they were being advised by powerful advertising agencies who were making campaigns of a quite different kind from what had been made before. and I think we shall see probably, er…all kinds of new devices coming into the picture. I mean, for example, this thing which got a good deal of publicity last autumn, subliminal projection.
WALLACE: And we'll be persuaded to vote for a candidate that we do not know that we are being persuaded to vote for.
HUXLEY: Exactly, I mean this is the rather alarming picture that you're being persuaded below the level of choice and reason.
6. ) Evil People Will Take Advantage of Technology and Government to Gain Power
WALLACE: The question, of course, that keeps coming back to my mind is this: obviously politics in themselves are not evil, television is not in itself evil, atomic energy is not evil, and yet you seem to fear that it will be used in an evil way. Why is it that the right people will not, in your estimation, use them? Why is it that the wrong people will use these various devices and for the wrong motives?
HUXLEY: Well, I think one of the reasons is that these are all instruments for obtaining power, and obviously the passion for power is one of the most moving passions that exists in man; and after all, all democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one man or any one small group have too much power for too long a time.
After all what are the British and American Constitution except devices for limiting power, and all these new devices are extremely efficient instruments for the imposition of power by small groups over larger masses.
Final Thoughts
This interview was recorded 27 years after the publication of Brave New World, which in and of itself was an eloquent warning to freedom loving people. Fast-forward to 2016 and we find that Huxley was right on every account,
"…after all, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance." ~Aldous Huxley
Watch the full interview here:
About the Author
Isaac Davis is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and OffgridOutpost.com Survival Tips blog. He is an outspoken advocate of liberty and of a voluntary society. He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficient to break free of the control matrix. Follow him on Facebook, here.
Jon Rappoport, Guest
It turns out that unvaccinated children aren't little time bombs walking around ready to blow and spread devastating disease in their wake.
That's a myth. It's told by the medical cartel, for their own obvious reasons.
And it turns out that children raised in a healthy way are strong, and have strong immune systems.
This was once viscerally known and understood and accepted as a truism.
Those who insist on 50 or 60 shots of germs and toxic chemicals for every child, like it or not, are participating in an ongoing criminal enterprise.
Their vision is unnatural and perverse.
It turns out that stimulating the production of antibodies—which is the purpose of vaccines—is not the be-all and end-all of existence. It isn't the road to health. It isn't an automatic lease on life.
Every aspect of a child's life contributes to, or detracts from, his immune-system health and strength. This is traditional knowledge. This basic tree of knowledge has been shaken and hacked at by decades of remorseless propaganda from official medical/government/corporate mob bosses.
The vaccine establishment has become a protection racket. Take your shots or pay the social and political consequences.
Natural health is a reality. It isn't a stunt.
When smallpox ravaged England, it wasn't the lone work of a virus. It was sewage in the city streets, horrendous overcrowding, lack of basic nutrition, grinding poverty. It was also the smallpox vaccine:
"Smallpox, like typhus, has been dying out (in England) since 1780. Vaccination in this country has largely fallen into disuse since people began to realize how its value was discredited by the great smallpox epidemic of 1871-2 (which occurred after extensive vaccination)." (W. Scott Webb, A Century of Vaccination, Swan Sonnenschein, 1898.)
And then there is this: "The combined death rate from scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough and measles among children up to fifteen shows that nearly 90 percent of the total decline in mortality between 1860 and 1965 had occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread immunization. In part, this recession may be attributed to improved housing and to a decrease in the virulence of micro-organisms, but by far the most important factor was a higher host-resistance due to better nutrition." Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis, Bantam Books, 1977
Improve environmental conditions and the standard of living, and you pave the way for natural health. It's not a mystery. It never was.
—The basic purpose of promoting these dud "epidemics" that come down the pipeline every few years is: to convince the population that they can't live in a state of natural health; there is no such thing as natural health; everyone must live their lives under the constant supervision of doctors.
This is becoming the central myth of our times.
It is becoming the primary form of surrender.
Natural health is a silver bullet to medical vampires.
How many studies can you find that investigate the factors of health in children who do quite well without overriding medical attention? How many studies in peer reviewed journals examine large groups of healthy unvaccinated children? None.
Health is basically a non-medical condition.
The primary medical psyop is the effort to erase that understanding.
Every healthy unvaccinated child is a refutation of the medical cartel.
If your business is sickness, and you're unscrupulous, it stands to reason you'll try to find more and more sickness, even, and especially, where it doesn't exist.
You'll never study health, because it would put you out of business.
About the Author
Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine.
(To read about Jon's mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)
Nathaniel Mauka, Staff Writer
Imagine a cow being branded on a farm. Now imagine your family dog being micro-chipped so he can be returned to his owners if lost. The next logical step from these commonly accepted practices include the tagging and observation of you. The only question is who is doing the tagging?
There are numerous individuals who have been subjected to scientific experimentation in order to remove what are said to be alien implants from their bodies. Mainstream science has largely ignored these claims, as many of them have been debunked, but the precedence for implanting foreign objects into the human body for purposes of manipulation and control is well established.
Stanford University scientists have already figured out how to beam power wirelessly to tiny, rice-sized implants placed inside the human brain. These micro-implants were created under the auspices of acting as sensors to the brain, heart, liver, gut and other mechanisms in the body in order to report results back to a doctor, but there are obviously other implications for such technologies.
Unlike a pacemaker that sits just under the skin, and can often cause irritation, alien micro-implants that were surgically removed by doctors were found to be enveloped in a skin-like membrane that helps to keep the device in place without the body's rejection of it.
Alien implants are thought to be a way for other civilizations to tag and locate human subjects for research. X-rays, CAT scans and photographs have documented odd-looking devices from the size of a pea, to much larger technologies which have several moving components.
These implants are often atomically aligned, often create a very powerful electromagnetic field, and it seems that our own nerves grow into the implant itself, so when it is removed, it can feel as though a part of the body is going with it. One of the most commonly observed oddities concerning alien implants it that there is no inflammatory response in the body to the implant, and many patients who have them have no history of surgeries of any kind in their medical files.
Looking through an electron microscope at magnification levels of 100,000X, researchers have discovered that these implants are made of almost a dozen different elements, and when sent to metallurgy labs, the lab technicians do not recognize many of the elements they contain, some of which are fluorescent.
Moreover, many people who have claimed they have been implanted are 'normal' people who don't want to draw attention to themselves and seem to be trying to assimilate into society as a common member of the human race. They have jobs, families, and money woes. Others have credible medical degrees, and have spent years researching the phenomenon of alien implants.
Roger K. Leir was an American podiatric surgeon and ufologist who spent a large portion of his life investigating alien implants. As stated by Dr. Leir in MUFON, "The findings of these implant surgeries are highly unusual. In all these cases, there was virtually no inflammatory response." Many of his cases reported having strange dreams and alien abduction experiences near the time they noticed having implants.
Derrel Sims, a hypno-anesthesiologist is said to have one of the largest collections of alien implants in the world. He says that these are not tracking devices, but something else. Of all the implants he has seen, he states that less than 1% of the population may actually have an alien implant. The others are likely nano-bots and other implant types that have already been documented in military personnel, as placed by the Department of Defense.
For example, DARPA would like to 'help' soldiers and the elderly by placing in them, a black box brain implant that triggers memories. The Pentagon earmarked over $70 million in funding for this single project.
DARPA is also developing something called "Electrical Prescriptions", or ElectRx. It is nothing more than a program which they say "could reduce dependence on pharmaceutical drugs," and offer a new way to treat illnesses, but really they aim to make super soldiers, with healing abilities like the Wolverine or the Incredible Hulk, which they can also 'unplug' when they are no longer useful.
DARPA's technology is based on a biological process known as neuromodulation, in which the peripheral nervous system (the nerves that connect every other part of the body to the brain and spinal cord) monitors the status of internal organs and regulate the body's responses to infection and disease. This Department of Defense equipment appears to be a reverse-engineered technology reminiscent of many of the alien implants that have been documented.
When alien implants were removed, most people experienced changes in their health, mood, dreams and psychic phenomena. They experience pain from having the implant removed, but it later subsides. For some the pain stops immediately upon removal.
Though there is little documentation pointing to the true nature of an alien implant, it is certain that DARPA's version is anything but benign. It is possible that the alien implants are intended for multiple purposes – some of them nefarious, and others potentially beneficial, but the military industrial complexuses all its resources for creating better soldiers, and more compliant sheeple. It will be interesting to see the field of alien implants explored more completely in years to come, and whether or not any within the DOD come forward to explain where their own implant technologies originate from.
About the Author
Nathaniel Mauka is a researcher of the dark side of government and exopolitics, and a staff writer for Waking Times.
Wes Annac, Contributor
Heroin is evil, and its users deserve compassion, not ridicule or punishment. It's best not to get hooked on any hard drug, especially if you're repeatedly told that it's dangerous and it will kill you, if not make your life hell.
However, not everyone is properly informed about heroin and other dangerous opiates. As we'll learn, some are led to a heroin addiction after getting hooked on opiates prescribed by a doctor and having nowhere to turn when their prescription runs out.
Whether it's the rebellious youth or the "ordinary" members of society who discover the drug through dependence on prescription opiates, heroin addiction is affecting an alarming number of people in the U.S. and Canada.
But why? What makes this illicit substance so valuable to people of all ages, races and social classes?
Heroin's initial euphoric effect and the withdrawal symptoms that occur a few hours after use combine to form a habit that, for many, quickly escalates into an addiction.
Heroin Facts
Healthy Canadians reports that heroin is a depressant drug that slows down the activity of the nervous system (1). It's usually a fine, white, bitter-tasting powder when pure, but it's often mixed with sugar, starch and other substances that resemble it (1).
Some users combine it with alcohol or other depressants, which is dangerous and puts them at an increased risk for overdose (1).
Once ingested, the drug almost immediately produces a "pleasurable feeling" that can last anywhere from 45 seconds to a few minutes (1). This is followed by a period of tranquility that can last up to an hour (1).
The effects last about 3 to 5 hours overall, and regular users tend to ingest it every 6 to 12 hours to avoid withdrawal symptoms (1).
American Heroin Use up 145% Due Partially to Prescription Opiates
Citing the U.N. World Drug Report, Reuben Brody at Inside Hook reports that heroin use is up 145% in the United States since 2007(2). That's over 100% in less than ten years. 80% of addicts start with prescribed drugs such as OxyContin, which is the pharmaceutical cousin of heroin (2).
OxyContin's effects dissipate after about 3 hours, which puts the user in pain again (2). The withdrawal suffered from OxyContin is stronger than heroin (2).
Since prescribed OxyContin treatments eventually end, the patient is left addicted with no access to the opiate (2). As a result, many are quickly exposed to the local street heroin that's cheaper than black market prescription meds and comes with a more tolerable withdrawal (2).
Canada's New Rules
While the United States continues its fruitless drug war in the face of alarmingly high addiction rates, Canada has chosen a new strategy: legalizing heroin for medical purposes.
With the new law, the Canadian government is choosing to treat heroin addiction as a major public health threat rather than completely criminalizing or legalizing it (3).
Many think legalization is the best way to combat the threat, and they see the new law as more of a foundation for what's to come than a perfect solution.
Alice Salles at Anti-Media reports that like Americans, opiate use has increased significantly among the Canadian populace (3).
It's become so bad that over a four-month period earlier this year, 256 Canadians died of a fentanyl overdose (3). If you don't know, fentanyl is the substance tied to "bad batches" of heroin also responsible for widespread American deaths (3).
Since Canadian officials are seeing the trend in both countries as an increasing threat, new proposals were launched by Health Canada in May to let doctors prescribe heroin to addicts who don't respond to methadone or similar treatments (3). The law was enacted September 8th (3).
The standard Canadian drug laws remain in place for most heroin users, as the only changes made were to the health code (3).
Under the new rules, doctors can only prescribe heroin to users determined to have a serious addiction(3). Prescription can only happen under a "special access" program in cases where standard treatment has been inefficient, and nothing significant changes for users not considered serious addicts (3).
According to ABC News, candidates for the Canadian pilot program must be considered longtime addicts who've tried "at least twice" to stop using (3).
Those who are accepted can go to a clinic between two to three times a day, where they're provided the drugs and a syringe (3). They're monitored by on-site medical staff, and the staff can intervene in the event they show signs of overdose (3).
It's a great start, but it alone won't achieve what's needed to combat this epidemic.
New Rules Intended to Treat and Prevent Addiction
Daniel Raymond, policy director for Harm Reduction New York, says the new rules should be seen as an extension of existing rehab programs that take medical approaches rather than anything resembling legalization (3).
Whereas medicinal cannabis is legal in many parts of the world due to its effectiveness in treating various conditions, heroin's legalization in Canada is intended to prevent abuse, overdose and addiction.
Legalization Would Ensure Quality, Decrease Addiction Rates
Citing Chris Calton, author of How Legal, Branded Heroin Would Make Drugs Safer, Alice writes that the legalization of heroin would free the drug market and drive up producer accountability for the quality of their product (3).
Consumers would demand more choices as they become aware of deficiencies or differences between products (3), leading producers to compete to have the best product by safety and quality standards.
Calton argues that name brands are instrumental to the production of high quality products and the accountability for such quality (or lack thereof) (3).
Black Market Suppliers Can't Supply a Safe Product
Quality is more assured in name-brand products than bargain brands, and in the case of illicit substances, the violence and risk of arrest that pervade the black market – which is created by the laws surrounding these drugs – makes it too costly and risky for suppliers to provide a safe or high quality product (3).
In a free market not plagued with violence or the threat of arrest, consumers are given wider access to knowledge about the product(3). One of the only exceptions to this rule is when large companies use deceptive labeling and other tactics to avoid accountability for things that don't belong in their products(3).
Consumers are better informed when a market is free; this would be the case with heroin and other illicit drugs (3).
The ability to "establish brand consistency" is suppressed when a product is made illegal and put into the hands of smugglers too busy dodging the law to create or advertise a high quality product (3).
Calton explains that a producer in an illicit market has to try to survive in the trade long enough to establish a reputation, find a good means to advertise an illegal product, and make sure the product isn't tainted by distributors (3) – all while trying to avoid being tied to any of it.
This is basically impossible and leads producers to cut corners at the expense of users (3).
Should Drugs Be Legalized?
So what do you think? Do you think heroin and other opiates should be legalized, their usage monitored by doctors, and producers held accountable for quality? Though people are understandably divided on the issue, some suggest total legalization as a solution to addiction and the harm caused by the failed drug war.
If we could regulate these drugs and ensure they're not mixed or tainted with other substances, perhaps addiction rates would fall and we'd finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. Or perhaps, as legalization opponents fear, the change would create too lax of an atmosphere around drug use and make young people think it's okay.
I don't believe this for two reasons:
Drug Laws Benefit Pharmaceutical Companies
The current drug laws may seem at first glance to successfully draw the line between safe and harmful substances. For example: caffeine is legal but heroin is not.
However, an educated, discerning look at these laws makes it clear that they're not based on the safety of the drugs, but rather, how the laws benefit pharmaceutical companies and the private prison industry.
For example: caffeine is legal but cannabis is not. Certain opiates are legal for medicinal use but kratom is not. Cannabis has never been responsible for a single death, but drugs that do kill people are perfectly legal.
Alcohol and tobacco are good examples, but even caffeine, a drug I enjoy, has killed people.
Heroin Use Facts
Now, we'll check out some facts about heroin use and addiction to determine if a change in the drug laws could bring down skyrocketing addiction rates and save lives.
Feel free to skip ahead if you'd rather not learn the unsettling facts surrounding heroin addiction. It's perfectly understandable not to want to fill your head with these depressing facts.
For those who stick around, however, becoming aware of these things can help us approach the issue with more compassion for addicts caught in a downward spiral of euphoria followed by misery.
According to Healthy Canadians, the negative short term effects of heroin use on the mind include dizziness and confusion (1). The physical effects include drowsiness; constricted pupils; nausea and vomiting; an itching or burning sensation in the skin; headaches; and slowed breathing (1).
We'll learn more about the long term effects a little later.
Overdose Facts
The risk of overdose is high; one of the reasons for this is that users are rarely aware of the actual strength of the drug (1).
Heroin takes effect quickly, and a person who takes too much could immediately lose consciousness (1). Symptoms of an overdose include clammy or bluish skin; slowed breathing; vomiting; loss of consciousness; and suppression of breathing in large enough quantities to be fatal (1).
Overdose is more likely if the drug is taken with other depressants such as alcohol, benzodiazepines, methanol or other kinds of opioids(1).
Long Term Negative Effects of Use
The long term negative effects of heroin use are worse than the short term. The negative effects on the mind include learning or memory problems; difficulty controlling impulsive behavior; apathy or a lack of emotion; depression; and unstable moods (1).
The physical effects, some of which come from using unclean needles or syringes, can include infectious diseases like HIV or hepatitis B or C; blood poisoning; skin sores; an infection in the lining of the heart; insomnia; constipation; collapsed veins; liver and kidney disease; and the obvious, addiction.
Addiction & Withdrawal Symptoms
The symptoms of addiction and withdrawal should be enough to convince anyone considering trying the drug to let go of the thought while they still can.
Healthy Canadians reports that addiction can develop "within weeks of regular use" (1). The need for the drug quickly takes over the user's life (1), driving them to desperately pursue a fix that does less and less for them every time.
The severity of the withdrawal symptoms depends on the amount and frequency of use; the length of time they've been a regular user; their health; and the conditions under which their withdrawal happens(1), among other factors.
Symptoms can begin 8 to 12 hours after their last dose and may reach a peak between 24 to 48 hours after (1). The symptoms "subside substantially" after 5 days to a week (1).
In addition to intense cravings, users in withdrawal may experience the following symptoms:
The Existing Laws Do No Good
In an age where the existing drug laws are coming into question and the world is considering moving in a new direction, it's important to be aware of the harms these laws have caused. We should celebrate measures like those taken by the Canadian government, but we shouldn't rest on our laurels because there's more to be done.
We need to change the way we see drugs. Specifically, we need to change our perspective on which drugs are and aren't harmful.
This can set us on a genuine path to preventing addiction and treating those afflicted, and no matter how much we disagree about drugs, we can all agree that something needs to change. Except maybe those who profit from the existing laws at the expense of a deeply wounded society.
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(1) "Heroin", HealthyCanadians.gc.ga, n.d. –http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/healthy-living-vie-saine/substance-abuse-toxicomanie/controlled-drugs-substances-controlees/heroin-heroine-eng.php
(2) Reuben Brody, "Canada Is Now Allowing Doctors to Prescribe Heroin", Inside Hook, September 19, 2016 –http://www.insidehook.com/nation/canada-docs-prescribe-heroin-decriminalization
(3) Alice Salles, "Canada Just Legalized Heroin for Medical Use to Combat Overdose Epidemic", Anti Media, September 16, 2016 –http://theantimedia.org/canada-legalized-heroin-medical-use/
This article (Canada Responds to Opiate Epidemic by Legalizing Heroin for Medicinal Use) was originally created and published by Openhearted Rebel and is re-posted here with permission.
Dylan Charles, Editor
Some 90% of the world's media is controlled by a mere six corporations. The business model of this industry is dependent on advertising revenue, which means that the content they produce must serve well the bottom lines of advertisers, or more significantly, content cannot be of detriment to the profits of corporate advertisers.
This is the reason why so much of the most important news in our times goes un-noticed and under-reported on, most notably environmental news, for if our attention was sufficiently directed to these issues then we would certainly change our attitudes, priorities and behaviors, potentially harming the income streams of the biggest environmental destroyers on the planet, and the biggest advertisers.
Of particular note is the destruction being done to the Amazon, the 'lungs of the earth' as it is known by those who understand the value of life and the need to protect the world's ecosystems from corporate greed. While indigenous people continue to rally around in support of Amazonian conservation, consumerism in 'first-world' parts of the world continues to demand resources that are increasingly being harvested from the most bio-diverse regions of the planet.
After failed conservation efforts, the Ecuadorian government has given up and as of September 2016 the state owned oil company Petroamazonas began drilling for oil in the most pristine and biodiverse region of the entire Amazon, the Yasuní. As reported by Amazon Watch:
Commercial oil production has begun at Tiputini C, the first of a slated 200-plus wells inside the ITT fields (Ishpingo, Tambococha,Tiputini) underneath Ecuador's Yasuni National Park. The remote UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that borders Peru has some of the highest species of birds, mammals, amphibians, insects, and trees ever recorded. In just one hectare it has more tree species than there are in all of the United States and Canada combined, an area that is one billion times that size. Scientists believe that Yasuní's unique concentration of biodiversity and hotspot of endemic species are due to a climate that allowed species to survive the Ice Age.
The park is also home to the Tagaeri-Taromenane, two indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. Drilling and planned expansion into the park is a virtual death sentence for them, surrounding the nomadic peoples with oil extraction on all sides.
Today, Ecuador is expected to announce production of the first of an initial 3,000 barrels per day, a number that is expected grow to some 300,000 by 2022.
Corporate Advertisers Directing Public Consciousness
Sadly, from the perspective of economy, it makes sense that news like this goes untouched by corporate media because many of the top global advertisers are from industries that sell us products derived from materials extracted or produced in the rainforest.
According to Business Insider, three of the top ten U.S. advertisers are automobile manufacturers (General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Fiat-Chrysler), representing an industry completely dominated by big oil. Furthermore, two of the companies on this list, including the number one global advertiser Proctor & Gamble, sell consumer products which are heavily reliant on petroleum by-products as well as on palm oil, one of the chief products harvested in the in the world's rainforests.
When you look at top global advertisers beyond the U.S. economy, the list expands to include many more consumer product conglomerates, such as Unilever, L'Oréal, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Toyota, Volkswagen, MARS and McDonald's.
In short, these are the corporations that are paying for the vast majority of the world's media content and it would be a sincere conflict of their interests to tell the truth about how vital the Amazon is and how rapidly it is being destroyed.
Final Thoughts
The Amazon is perhaps the world's greatest natural resource in terms of extractable materials, land, and it's extraordinary biological and cultural diversity. Yet, as the wheels of the matrix keep grinding forth, the Amazon is being increasingly turned under for profit, while most people hardly notice.
About the Author
Dylan Charles is a student and teacher of Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi and Qi Gong, a practitioner of Yoga and Taoist arts, and an activist and idealist passionately engaged in the struggle for a more sustainable and just world for future generations. He is the editor of WakingTimes.com, the proprietor of OffgridOutpost.com, a grateful father and a man who seeks to enlighten others with the power of inspiring information and action. He may be contacted at email@example.com.
March 2019
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