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Dr. Tenpenny on the Dangers of Vaccines

Mike Adams of Natural News recently interviewed Dr. Sherri Tenpenny about the dangers of vaccines. Note that the link takes you to a summary article but I've embedded the full video interview below.

What made this interview so powerful is that it goes beyond usual counterpoints and into the philosophical foundations underpinning the medical-pharmacological belief system. Dr. Tenpenny spotlights the reasons why vaccines are more a faith-based religion or mythology than a science. After all, were it a science, we would see actual results from placebo-based double-blind studies proving vaccines are harmless. We’d also see studies that link the impacts of vaccines beyond 14 days, and see that it is not accurate to say that a vaccine is “effective”, implying "protection" because it generates antigens, which in many cases have been proven to leave you vulnerable and in some cases more susceptable to the disease. True science would also not attempt to credit vaccines for ridding the world of diseases which were already on the decline, primarily due to improved sanitation.

How one can be labeled as a conspiracy wacko or radical for simply questioning the need to inject an infant with diseased animal, insect and fetal matter, potential carriers of other harmful and cancer-causing agents, along with hundreds of toxic chemicals, proven to cause brain inflammation, autoimmune disorders, allergies and asthma at a time when brain and immune system development are so vulnerable, demonstrates how desperate the complex has become.

The simple fact that governments have assumed all risk for vaccine manufacturers operating with immunity should cause one to get all the facts beyond what their doctors has been conditioned to tell them. Indemnity has aligned the pharmaceutical motive of profit with the government motive of plausible deniability of financial liability. Clearly, this is an unholy combination.

Many medical professionals, while individually well-meaning, have fallen prey to an institution built on peer pressure where professional dissent is professional suicide, oddly not too unlike a street gang. The Andrew Wakefield witch hunt is certainly a message to others who question the institution.

In any event, Tenpenny’s Saying No To Vaccines is an invaluable reference for making more informed decisions.

So You Want Wal-Mart to Run the Government Huh?

It looks like this one has been flying around for a long time, but I just received an email that joked that Wal-Mart execs be given a shot at running the government given the financial failures of Social Security to Freddie/Fannie and so on. I know this is just tongue and cheek, but when you argue that "government" is this dumb, lumbering, inefficient, beastly and wasteful creature, you miss the chance to make the larger point about corporatism.

Wal-Mart is exactly what happens when government is fused at the hip with the biggest corporations, something Hayek warned us about decades ago in Road to Serfdom.

So Wal-Mart should run the government huh? Silly rabbit, they and others like them effectively do! But they are smart enough business people not to take the actual reigns and to not have you and me, the milk cows, pay for all these so called “failures” that make their business so successful.

This all reminds me of the expression, works as spec'ed.

Where would those "free market" cowboys in Bentonville be when you take away:

1.) Trillions in Medicare to keep their pharmacies pushing pills

2.) An executive decision to weaponize food in the early 70’s which lead to a decade’s long glut of corn-based processed goodies they can sell less than real value

3.) Cheap labor in Asia due to years of government oppression by regimes with favorite nation status

4.) Trillions in Defense budget and petrodollar warfare to subsidize their global warehouse on wheels 

5.) Billions of tax payer subsidized under-employment benefits for workers who turned to government programs for health care

6.) A revolving door from board room to lobbyists to executive government agencies which shape policies in their favor

7.) Federal government subsidized housing market (in cohoots with the Fed cartel's policy of ZIRP) causing overbuild out into the exurbs which gave them plenty of new corners to build on

I bet you can easily think of more.

The Factions Shaping Egypt

"To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people." Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former U.S. National Security Advisor, Co-Founder of the Trilateral Commission, Member, Board of Trustees, Center for Strategic and International Studies

A quick up front: My postings have become less frequent with a number of big changes in my life. I’ll leave it at that since this website has never been about me, and more about the larger forces shaping our world. I’m also less motivated to write as it seems safe to assume we've hit a critical mass of awareness and mainstream media propaganda has been reduced to the laughing stock of credibility. Over the last few years the number of alternative websites has exploded with what Zbigniew Brzezinski is calling the “the global political awakening", so it seems most of what needs to be said is being said, and time is precious these days.

In any event, here’s an insightful boots-on-the-ground article on the political factions of Egypt. It points towards a direction of a military coup, similar to what put Nassar in power. Here’s a brutal snapshot of what life is like outside of the rioting squares:

Saturday was indescribable. Nothing that I write can describe the utter state of lawlessness that prevailed. Every Egyptian prison was attacked by organized groups trying to free the prisoners inside. In the case of the prisons holding regular criminals this was done by their families and friends. In the case of the prisons with the political prisoners this was done by the Islamists. Bulldozers were used in those attacks and the weapons available from the looting of police stations were available. Nearly all the prisons fell. The prison forces simply could not deal with such an onslaught and no reinforcements were available. Nearly every terrorist held in the Egyptian prisons from those that bombed the Alexandria Church less than a month ago to the Murderer of Anwar El Sadat was freed, the later reportedly being arrested again tonight.

 

On the streets of Cairo it was the scene of a jungle. With no law enforcement in town and the army at a loss at how to deal with it, it was the golden opportunity for everyone. In a city that is surrounded with slums, thousands of thieves fell on their neighboring richer districts. People were robbed in broad daylight, houses were invaded, and stores looted and burned. Egypt had suddenly fallen back to the State of Nature. Panicking, people started grabbing whatever weapon they could find and forming groups to protect their houses. As the day progressed the street defense committees became more organized. Every building had its men standing in front of it with everything they could find from personal guns, knives to sticks. Women started preparing Molotov bombs using alcohol bottles. Street committees started coordinating themselves. Every major crossroad had now groups of citizens stopping all passing cars checking their ID cards and searching the cars for weapons. Machine guns were in high demand and were sold in the streets.

Also GardenSERF has some unique perspective into the revolutionary forces shaping Egypt and how the Hegelian dielectric exploited by the invisible hand of global forces works in practice. It does seem life is imitating fiction.

 There are those in the West who believe in the Hegelian synthesis of opposites and this includes Sunnis and Shiites within Islam. They believe that if these feuding elements within Islam are brought to an eventual understanding with each other, that the new leaders who emerge can be used to keep 1 Billion people under better control in the future.

 

 

Color Revolution in Egypt?

It seems the jury is split on whether or not Egypt is going to be another color revolution, but no doubt global forces will make every attempt to hijack any legitimate revolution in order to install a solution in waiting after releasing the social pressure valve. 

 
Wasn’t it odd that after the government yanked the Internet, preventing another internal Twitter Revolution, that suddenly you had CNN as if on cue showing protests by the likes of “Democracy for Egypt” all over the world? 
 
I bet if you scratch the surface, you’ll find the Freedom House or the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), NGOs which implement the RAND plan for non-violent overthrows, doing the work the CIA used to do. 
  
History of color revolutions http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=620979
 
RAND document on Swarming (how you mobilize decentralized forces): http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB311.pdf
 
Once again, anger flows towards a puppet in Mubarak but not the puppet masters in the western financial-political cartels lead by the IMF which created most of the policies Mubarak simply implemented.
 
As they say, dictators don’t dictate, they do what they are told, until they get some ideas of their own and then they get replaced.
 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22993
 
With mobs wanting “change” and no clear vision for what they want other than “democracy” I suspect establishment forces will usher in a new boss marketed as the second coming of Nassar, who will be much like the old boss.
 
As for the Brotherhood Big Media keeps spinning about, that was an MI6 creation just as Al Quaeda was  a CIA asset, a convenient tool for destabilization and helping reshape the Arab world while imposing other agendas by the military-industrial-financial complex.
 
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=muslim_brotherhood

Attention Shoppers

Big Sister is watching you. Here's the deal on the latest move by the surveillance state.

 

TSA Backlash

It's good to see the growing backlash against the TSA, an out-of-control organization of 50,000 whose main purpose is to condition the public that being treated as a prisoner is the new normal. In what bizarre fairytale must one live for it to be acceptable for unelected bureaucrats to radiate us with back scatter X-rays, grope our wives and naked scan our children in violation of child pornography laws without any reasonable cause?

The letter to John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, signed by PhD’s from the University of California, San Francisco frames the potential health risks well.

Airports and warzones are the proving grounds for surveillance state technologies deployed on the homeland.  A case in point - the backscatter x-ray vans, once used in Afghanistan and Iraq are coming to a city near you. It isn’t hard to imagine the chorus of voices claiming that this technology will increase the effectiveness of drug checkpoints in the US as they scan each vehicle with ease.

Search points, such as the TSA Visible Inter-mobile Prevention and Response (VIPER) operation at a truckstop on I-20 outside of Atlanta are becoming more common. VIPER has now moved into bus stations.

You know this dance. It’s always the Orwellian mantra of terror, drugs and safety. If travelers go along with the airport “nakedizers” without a fuss, expect to see them appear at the entrance of state buildings, schools and stadiums.

Turning larger economic interests against TSA practices will be more effective than in-line heroics. For now, yes you can opt out for a grope, but what happens when you can’t? The only way the TSA gets checked is if big spender travelers make it clear to the world’s largest airlines, hotel chains and tourist destinations that the TSA is a barrier between them and their money.

“Dear Disney/Hilton/Marriott/Southwest/American/Continental/City Chamber of Commerce etc. I was planning a trip this year, but will not expose my family to the TSA’s potentially hazardous and tyrannical practices and will instead be content to spend my money locally...”

Avoiding GMOs

Everything You HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods from Jeffrey Smith on Vimeo.

Download this Shopping guide for avoiding GMOs.

Chart of the Day 4Nov10

As the arsonists at the Fed launch the next round of currency destruction with QE2 igniting all tradable asset markets, Bernanke has the audacity to recite the “modest inflation of 1-2%" nonsense.

I don’t have to tell you savvy readers that the government core inflation figures are meaningless. Sure, prices are stable if you don’t eat, use fuel or require any commodity that comes out of the ground. The reality of cost of living increases is best shown in the chart below courtesy of the folks at Casey Research. 2% huh?

 

Vaccination Schedule

As a follow-up to the last posting on vaccines, and the fear mongering effort behind the H1N1 scare of 2009, I wanted to re-link an older but must-read article below on infant and child vaccination schedules by Donald W. Miller, Jr, MD.

And again to the fierce defenders of the medical establishment, this is not to say that all vaccinations are bad, but rather to repeatedly expose the blatant suppression of data that suggests the risks are much greater than advertised, when the benefits in many cases are questionable at best. The collusion between BigPharma and government agencies at the Simpsonwood Conference in 2000 is a case in point.

The medical, political and legal doctrines are structured such that the burden of proof to demonstrate without a reasonable doubt that vaccinations are harmful falls on an ill-equipped public, rather than requiring the vaccination establishment to prove that they are not. Once again, the situation is symptomatic of a corporatist system that trumps the rights of individuals to act on informed decisions.

Vaccination is a controversial subject, and many parents worry about subjecting their children to them. Readers of my article "Mercury on the Mind," about vaccines and dental amalgams, have asked what vaccines I would recommend their children receive. This article addresses that question.

In the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule put out by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), 12 vaccines are given to children before they reach the age of two. Providers inject them against hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus (lockjaw), pertussis (whooping cough), polio, pneumococcal infections, Hemophilus influenzae type b infections, measles, mumps, rubella (German measles), chickenpox, and influenza (the flu).

Infectious disease was the leading cause of death in children 100 years ago, with diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, and pertussis accounting for most them. Today the leading causes of death in children less than five years of age are accidents, genetic abnormalities, developmental disorders, sudden infant death syndrome, and cancer. A basic tenet of modern medicine is that vaccines are the reason. There is growing evidence that this is so, but perhaps not quite in the way conventional medical wisdom would have it. (Read Full Article)

Also, Mercola just published an excellent summary on risks of the Hepatitis B vaccine.

Hepatitis B vaccination has been recommended by federal health officials since 1991 for all infants and children.

There are now hepatitis B vaccine mandates for children to attend daycare or school in 47 states, despite strong evidence that the health risks of doing this outweighs the benefit for your child.

Three hepatitis B shots are part of the standard government-recommended childhood vaccination schedule, with the first dose given at 12 hours of age in the newborn nursery of most hospitals.

But hepatitis B is a primarily blood-transmitted disease associated with risky lifestyle choices such as unprotected sex with multiple partners and intravenous drug use involving sharing needles—it is NOT primarily a "children's disease."

As Dr. Jane Orient of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) so eloquently testified to Congress:

"With hepatitis B vaccine, the case for mandatory immunization with few exemptions is far less persuasive than with smallpox or polio vaccines, which protected against highly lethal or disabling, relatively common, and easily transmissible diseases...

"For most children, the risk of a serious vaccine reaction may be 100 times greater than the risk of hepatitis B."

There are more reports of serious adverse reactions in children than there are cases of childhood hepatitis B reported in America and, despite what you may hear in the media, reactions can be serious. (Read Full Article)

The Latest Chapter of the Global Corporate Takeover

Even if you subscribe to the “accidental” view of history (i.e. stuff just happens with some black swans along the way), you cannot deny the decades long push towards a carefully managed consolidation of global economic and political power. In Marshall’s latest article, he describes the evolution in plain sight of the G20 as power centralizes, as it always does, under the opportunity of crisis.

In May of 2010, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the IMF, stated that, “crisis is an opportunity,” and called for “a new global currency issued by a global central bank, with robust governance and institutional features,” and that the “global central bank could also serve as a lender of last resort.” However, he stated, “I fear we are still very far from that level of global collaboration.”[1] Well, perhaps not so far as it might seem.

       
The notion of global governance has taken an evolutionary path to the present day, with the principle global political and economic actors and institutions incrementally constructing the apparatus of a global government. In the modern world, global governance is an inter-lapping, intersecting, and intertwined web of international organizations, think tanks, multinational corporations, nations, NGOs, philanthropic foundations, military alliances, intelligence agencies, banks and interest groups. Globalization – a term which was popularized in the late 1980s to refer to the global spread of multinational corporations – has laid the principle ideological and institutional foundations for this process. Global social, economic and political integration do not occur at an equal pace; rather, economic integration and governance on a global level has and will continue to be ahead of the other sectors of human social interaction, in both the pace and degree of integration. In short, global economic governance will set the pace for social and political global governance to follow. (Read Full Article)

Another Look at Inflation

Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose. -John Maynard Keynes

 

As we enter another economic inflection point, the global currency crisis and murmuring of massive inflation is getting more ink in the mainstream. Everybody knows that every debtor nation’s central bank is working overtime to default through devaluation of the currency. When you’re on the hook for tens of trillions in bond repayments, entitlements and interest with no real hope of making good,  then of course your goal is to pay those obligations in the future with much cheaper money. At the same time, you rob from creditors and savers starved by artificially low interest rates with pushing them to plunge their eroding funds into the (P&DCM 500) Pump-and-Dump Casino Markets thinking it is better to buy expensive companies at low yields than bankrupted government promises. Of course the negative impacts of inflation fly in the face of the constant central bank mantra to inflate at all costs.

Now that “everybody” knows we’re doing to dive head first into massive inflation, you still have a full set of deflationary forces at work including a foreclosure/contracts/MERS freeze threatening 10’s of Trillions in debt instruments, China, loss of incomes, the Internet, unemployment and a massive government debt bubble due to governments and central banks assuming mountains of private debt since 2008. But this is all window dressing for the ultimate con:

That the currency itself is debt and that any talk of paying down the debt is foolish because from the onset of issuing an interest-bearing debt-based currency, you ensure that there will never be enough currency in existence to repay the principle plus interest.

Since the financial collapse, Charles Smith has made some good arguments on why 10's of trillions in asset deflation can defeat the most aggressive central bank policies, but makes some critical distinctions between inflation and currency devaluation in his Hyperinflation Is a Political Process essay. These points are worth emphasizing.

He brings up the key difference between purely fiat and credit-based currency systems, a point that often gets lost in the constant printing press banter where the implications of debt as currency get lost sometimes. So yes, we need to be careful to distinguish between "too much money chasing too few goods" and the amount of credit in the system, since credit can be a case of pushing on a string if no one borrows in a fractional reserve system. In other words, you can’t force people to take loans, BUT you can continue to destroy the currency.

The end result for most folks is that each Federal Reserve Note (FRN) gets you less of what you need because commodities act like a sink for a credit source that refuses to expand, at the same time that each FRN gets harder to come by for loss of income as a result of the deflationary effect of no "money" expansion.

While I couldn’t agree more than we need to end the Fed, against what promises to be a chaotic political backdrop on the ashes of God only knows what type of social and economic turmoil we'll be facing several more years down the road,we need to make sure the new devil we create isn’t worse than the old devil from Jekyll Island that we’ve known since 1913. If you end the Fed, but don’t end the fractional reserve debt-based currency system, you have accomplished nothing. Inevitably, the result would be that power would only be nominally transferred to another Keynesian Creature under the thumb of the same financial elite IMF/BIS establishment promising to bring an order from chaos.

When you talk of a true national central bank, as the expression goes, you must be careful what you wish for. A true central bank is a lesser of two evils because you can’t have sovereignty without control of the money supply. As it stands, we have financial tyranny of the oligarchs (“give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws”) and what Alexis de Tocqueville referred to as tyranny of the majority through politicians pressured for entitlements, bread and circus. In theory, a central bank helps with the first matter, but not the second. It is still politically convenient to print money instead of tax.

The only certainty is that any instrument of government financial power will be compromised by the financial elite and abused by politicos in the same ways they always have been, so new powers must be limited. If and when we do End the Fed, Congressional monetary control should remain limited, the Legal Tender laws should be repelled freeing up private parties to except other forms of payment, 100% reserve requirements be required, Federal Reserve Notes should be relegated to a government script (e.g. tax payments) and legitimate Constitutional definition for Dollar be re-established.

Death of Contracts in a Banana Republic

One of the requirements for a functional society is each person has the assumption that another person will in general do what he agrees he will do, forming the basis of contract law. Ideally, a written contract would be nothing more than a formality after two parties make a verbal agreement, but in a litigious society like our own, the written contract rules. Once enough people lose confidence in that basic assumption, the ground beneath society gives way and you have a banana republic.

That said the current contract and foreclosure debacle are causing many to do just that in the US. As more former middle class reach the conclusion that the game is rigged, their belief in the system fades, and many such as the middle class couple in this Zerohedge article reach the point of saying ‘f-it’.

What’s really important is that law-abiding middle-class citizens are deciding that playing by the rules is nothing but a sucker’s game. 

Just like the poker player who’s been fleeced by all the other players, and gets one mean attitude once he finally wakes up to the con?

When the backbone of a country starts thinking that laws and rules are not worth following, it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to anarchy.
 
TV has given us the illusion that anarchy is people rioting in the streets, smashing car windows and looting every store in sight. But there’s also the polite, quiet, far deadlier anarchy of the core citizenry—the upright citizenry—throwing in the towel and deciding it’s just not worth it anymore.
 
If a big enough proportion of the populace—not even a majority, just a largish chunk—decides that it’s just not worth following the rules anymore, then that society’s days are numbered: Not even a police-state with an armed Marine at every corner with Shoot-to-Kill orders can stop such middle-class anarchy. 

Brian and Ilsa are such anarchists—grey-haired, well-dressed, golf-loving, well-to-do, exceedingly polite anarchists: But anarchists nevertheless. They are not important, or powerful, or influential: They are average—that’s why they’re so deadly: Their numbers are millions. And they are slowly, painfully coming to the conclusion that it’s just not worth it anymore.

The implications on the housing market are huge as clear title forming the basis of property ownership comes into question as described in this Whiskey and Gunpowder article.

Well, if borrowers challenge foreclosure proceedings, and if banks (as they have already begun to do) halt foreclosure proceedings nationwide, the process of establishing a market-clearing price in the U.S. house market is frozen. Buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell if the ownership of the underlying collateral — the house itself — is in doubt. What sane person would enter a market like this with prices effectively having completely broken down?

CHS sums the larger context in a mortgage market that is for all intents and purposes already completely owned by the government. In a banana republic, government outwardly becomes nothing more than a legitimized crime syndicate that loots the public on behalf of the cronies behind it.

Either there is due process of law or you have a kleptocracy/"banana republic" oligarchy. At present, that is the decision we face as a nation. If the banking Elites and their partners in the Central State (Fed and Treasury) are allowed to "win" and gut the property laws of the states, then the U.S.A. will be revealed as a kleptocracy/"banana republic" oligarchy.

If state laws are upheld, then the "too big to fail" banks are insolvent and they will fail. Then the question of kleptocracy arises once again: will the banks be allowed to fail as per Classic Capitalism, that is, their owners and managers will have to absorb the losses of that bankruptcy/failure, or will the Central State use its powers to collect taxes and cover the private losses of the Bank/Financial Power Elites? Privatizing profits and socializing losses has been the entire game plan since the global house of cards collapsed in 2008.

It's decision time, citizens. Either the banks/Central State "win" and we are a kleptocracy/ "banana republic," or they lose and the U.S. mortgage/ banking sector implodes and is either formally socialized (i.e. owned lock, stock and barrel by the Central State) or rebuilt from scratch without big banks, Federal guarantees and the Fed's incestuous interventions. ("We create the credit that enables the mortgage, you issue the mortgage, and then we buy the mortgage.")

There is no "fix" or half-measure that can patch this over now.

Sweet Lies

The industry that spends fortunes to convince you that terminator seeds and gene guns are just an extension of Mendel’s peas, and that neurotoxins like aspartame are healthy is at it again in the latest PR campaign to convince you that high fructose corn syrup is equivalent to sugar. 

The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) has petitioned the U.S. FDA to allow manufacturers the option of using the term “corn sugar” instead of “high fructose corn syrup”.

In their press release on the subject, they claim that “independent research demonstrates that the current labeling is confusing to American consumers.”

They blame “inexact scientific reports and inaccurate media accounts” for the current stigma associated with high fructose corn syrup.

In reality, as opposed to the CRA’s dream world, if you need to lose weight, or if you want to avoid diabetes and heart disease, high-fructose corn syrup is one type of sugar you’ll want to avoid.

Part of what makes HFCS such an unhealthy product is that it is metabolized to fat in your body far more rapidly than any other sugar (Read full article).

Calling out Keynesian Claptrap

Believing it important to also read the people you disagree with, not an article goes by where I don’t cringe at the opinions of Paul Krugman, as leading voice of the NYT Keynesian economic establishment.

In his September 28 New York Times blog post, Paul Krugman announced that “economics is not a morality play.” That turn of phrase is his way of defending the idea that in unusual times, such as the sort of deep recession we are in, we can get strange relationships between economic cause and effect. The result is that actions which we might find highly distasteful can have positive effects. Thus we cannot afford to be overly concerned with morality if the goal is to get out of the recession (Read Full Article)

Vaccines, GMOs and Population Control

More people are becoming aware of the dangers of mercury in vaccinations, but mercury is just the tip of a very long spear. Vaccines, such the annual flu shot, are a cocktail of other toxins such as formaldehyde, aluminum and oil-based adjuvants like squalene.  And the same industry which benefits by a widely held belief that flu vaccines are safe and effective through massive PR campaigns has never produced a real study that confirms either. The Cochrane group found that the maximum effective rate is 1-3% because for starters they seldom match the correct virus:

http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html

So with all the downside risk, which is suppressed as with the attack on Dr. Wakefield’s autism studies, the potential benefit seems slim to none. But vaccines are profitable and protected by the FDA, which based on their track record (GMOs, glyphosate, aspartame, MSG and so on), clearly puts profitability and the agenda of its handlers before public health. Is it any wonder when powerhouse lobbyists are appointed as FDA advisors by the White House?

The corruption runs so deeply from the corporate, regulatory to the institutional because too few benefit from the truth:  

http://wholefoodusa.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/cdc-votes-everyone-should-get-flu-vaccination-this-fallwinter/

Darker still, the WHO, the world’s supposed health watchdog, worked for decades with population control councils to develop a stealth anti-fertility push in the 3^rd world through a tetanus vaccination program that only targeted women of child-bearing age.

http://www.naturalnews.com/026907_food_vaccination_health.html

Power, greed and control motives, expressed in NSSM 200, Henry Kissinger’s document on population reduction in resource rich countries using food as a weapon, are disguised by a fake veil of humanitarianism. 

http://www.schillerinstitute.org/food_for_peace/kiss_nssm_jb_1995.html

As a study in how the vaccine, GMO and population control agendas converge, the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations are currently financing a project called The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) headed by former UN chief, Kofi Annan, which would push GMOs such as spermicidal corn, onto Africa.

http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Swine_Flu/Gates_Vaccines/gates_vaccines.html

Open Source Ecology

The open source philosophy has evolved from its roots in software into an enabler of resilient communities. Open Source Ecology (OSE) fuses capital and labor by using minimalist open source designs and scrap metal to implement a framework for relatively self-sustaining communities based on the construction set shown below.

 

OSE is emerging as a powerful trend as more people opt out of the corporatist economy by choice or through necessity tending to a way of life tending towards:

1.)    Individual liberty

2.)    Resource-based monetary system

3.)    Decentralized autonomy

4.)    Direct capitalism as opposed to state-managed Keynesian/Marxist/Neoliberal economies

5.)    Local- and regional-level resilience

Watch this video for a 40-minute overview of the OSE Economy in the box and the concept of miniaturizing civilization.

In a practical application example of OSE, you'd build a tractor from scratch by downloading the modular, open source design, rather than use a credit line from a multi-national finance company to purchase a tracker with thousands of individually sourced and specialized components. Or how about a hole puncher?

Open Source Metal Hole Puncher - Prototype I from Marcin Jakubowski on Vimeo.

 

There’s of course a tension between the open source philosophy and capitalism, though I argue that most “capitalists” that are threatened by open source aren’t capitalists, but rather statists disguised as capitalists. Sharing for the common good seems to have some collectivist underpinnings, so let’s take a closer look. Is it really the small scale direct capitalist working in a true free market or the state-sponsored, multi-national monopolist who is threatened?

The International Intellectual Property Alliance, a lobby group broadly representing the RIAA, MPAA and others, has requested that the U.S. government put countries including Indonesia, Brazil and India on the “Special 301 watchlist.” Special 301 is a report that concerns the “adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights” around the globe. Being put on the associated watchlist effectively puts those countries on a shortlist of governments considered “enemies of capitalism” who aren’t doing enough to protect intellectual property abroad. The reason the IIPA is so concerned about the aforementioned countries? They apparently have the audacity to either use or advocate the use of open-source software either in government departments or in state-owned businesses.

So what would John Galt think of the free distribution of ideas? The notion that open source jives with direct capitalism requires that you not mistake money, defined as a store of wealth, as the only form wealth for exchange in a voluntary trade agreement. In open source, the consideration is that any derived works that are publicly distributed must also be made available under the same terms. Money may not be exchanged, but the creator may see that submitting a design is still within his own selfish interest to take advantage of future enhancements and so voluntarily enter an agreement that does not threaten his personal property or wealth. Under those terms, even Ayn Rand would be OK with it.

In any event, I’ll keep watching these OSE pioneers closely. They have a bold vision and are clearly rolling up their sleeves and getting to work building something new rather than wasting time poking jabs at a failed system.

Quick Hits for 8July10

 

· Britain as the canary in our coalmine for dehumanizing police state technologies has introduced Sigard, a mobile communications technology that can “anticipate anti-social behavior and violence by analyzing the information picked up by its sensors”. Thought crimes anyone?

· The FAA is under pressure to open skies to drones beyond patrolling the borders. This will be a major step in removing the face-to-face aspect of policing the population in the US as it has in wars overseas. Unmanned aircraft will play a major role in the turbulent events that unwind over the next two decades.

· The EU wants to keep all Internet searches for 2 years to protect the children. When are draconian measures not sold to the public as measures to protect the children? 

· Saudi’s announcement that they are “conserving oil for future generations” isn’t going to go over well with its petro welfare population. The thinking may be the illusion of holding back wells may be better than exposing the reality of dry holes in what too many believe are infinite supplies.

· Lenny Kravitz, Mos Def and More Jam for Gulf Aid is the only good thing to come out of the oil disaster.

 

Quick Hits for 4July10

The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.

— Saruman, The Lord of the Rings

 

· Like warmed over cold war comfort food, the Russians are back. OK, not exactly – this is less about borders and more about dueling global factions.

· Speaking of the “borderless” universe, see the rise of corporate-hollow state gang warfare. I’m reminded of the Kurt Vonnegut quote to “join a gang, any gang”.

“Our society has become a neighborhood where street-gangs—corporate entitites—battle one another for position. Even the Government is just another street gang. (Meanwhile) Courts and the so-called “justice system” are busy policing individuals. Individuals’ rights are more curtailed and restricted than ever before. But corporate entities are freer than ever before.”

· In the shape of things to come as more cities, counties and states go bankrupt, the town of Maywood, California laid off all city employees and dismantled its police department. Don't expect government fiefdoms to go down without a fight as the lines, in some cases, between taxing authority for fewer and fewer services, and extortionist mob blurs.   

 

 

Quick Hits for 22June10

· A lesson of history while the US-Israeli Iranian war drums beat: We’re usually if not always manipulated into war. Take the acceptance that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was completely unprovoked. FDR wanted to get the US into the war against Germany, but it would be political suicide to align with communist Russia. So in FDR knew the best indirect route was to pick a fight with Russia’s enemy Japan through an 8-point plan, which included cutting off her oil.

· Kunstler on the inability of most Americans to face the realities of contraction.

· At what point will the Mother of all Bailouts (MOAB) extend to the states? Look for people to continue to leave California in droves.  

 

· The Army employs man-hunting blimps.

 

Quick Hits for 21June10

· The services so many take for granted are going away as cities are beginning to charge to keep street lights lit. "Government can't afford now the basic kinds of things that we thought government basically did.”

 

· 11 US warships cross the Suez Canal.

 

· The Baltric Dry Index points to a drop in trade. Also see flashback for background on the BDI from the end of 2008.

 

· Something mysterious is killing crops in the south. Is there a connection to the dispersants used on the oil gusher?

 

Quick Hits for 18June10

· As if we needed a reminder, housing isn’t close to a bottom because there are too many houses, demographics don’t support it, the government is already propping up most of the market, defaults are still adding to supply and the peak of mortgage resets are still 2 years out. The bigger picture of course is that most housing “wealth” was squandered on a living arrangement that assumed an infinite supply of cheap oil.

 

· Greer wrote a heady essay on a maturing peak oil meme hitting the mainstream and the evolution of social and personal outlooks beyond the two extremes: Myth of Infinite Progress and Myth of Apocalypse.

 

Let's just hope the early majority peakists self-organize to the new realities and don't look to government and the international community to "do something" as was the case with the climate cultists. For our corporatist government shall do it it does best: Stripmine the productive assets that remain even in a shrinking economy, under the cloak of moral cause, which could be put to better use at the local level.

 

· Add lithium, lead, copper and other minerals to pipelines, opium and Russian-Chinese leverage for the reasons for being in Afghanistan.

 

· Have you really considered what your life will be like if they don’t stop the oil gusher?

Quick Hits for 16Jun10

· Newsflash: We don’t need more MBAs to serve as lieutenants in a failed, destructive centralized economic system. We’re going to need more independent thinkers who don't mind getting their hands dirty in a decentralizing economic model. Unfortunately what is marketed as education should be relabeled indoctrination. Years of government subsidies of low interest college loans have driven tuition rates beyond their inherent market value, much like low interest rates worked the same effect in the housing market. So it shouldn't be a surprise that there aren't enough jobs for those leaving the assembly lines of college.

 

· BP’s hiring of private security contractors gives us a glimpse of the iron fist of corporatism, as the mask behind outright control of shell governments by multinationals fades. When asked how a private security guard can keep a journalist off a public beach, the response is, “I can tell you where to go because I’m employed (by the corporation) to keep this beach safe.” A corporation by definition is a sociopath, so it is not a stretch to say that we are under sociopathic control.

 

· Isreal’s self-chosen committee into the Gaza flotilla incident should be fair and unbiased (cough). Meanwhile, Isreal has deployed a nuclear Dolphin class submarine off the coast of Iran.

 

· What will the state-bank-military complex plan next?

Quick Hits for 13June10

· How bad is it, really? As a follow-up to his post last month, “SRH” has pulled together and sourced the very disturbing conclusion that while BP is siphoning some of the oil from the BOP to pacify the masses, the subsurface structure is deteriorating.

· And how extensive is the ecological damage and cover-up of the real impact? I will say for the record that I’ve always been skeptical that even if oil were produced deep within the earth’s crust as per the abiogenic oil theory, that we couldn't bring enough production on line due to net return on energy and materials to mitigate the overall depletion rates of traditional oil and gas production at this stage in the game. The claim that there's a Ghawar underneath the GOM without extensive proof shouldn't cloud the real gist of the article of the extensive corporate-government cooperative effort to cover-up how dire the situation really is.

· For ladies in the US adapting to the new realities and wondering what it was like to be a woman in Argentina after things went sideways.

· Didn’t Keynes say that in the long run we’re all dead anyway? It seems this is the long run.

· A man in China protects his home with a homemade cannon.

• Xe, the company formerly known as Blackwater, is for sale. Do you know of any private buyers with multinational corporate interests to protect in an age of rage?

 

Quick Hits for 8June10

Kunstler on America spiraling into a scary place.

Got Goggle? You might instead go with startpage.com which doesn't log searches.

Peakaholics make the NYT, but true to form, it was a silly depiction about a woman growing plants in her kitchen and I'm sure most readers will simply go back to their lattes. Nothing to see here folks. Seriously.

Yes, Obama has known how bad things are in the Gulf for a long time. Now Senator Bill Nelson is confirming that the casing is pierced underneath the surface, would mean that oil is making its way up through the subsurface strata gushing from one or more additional places on the sea bed away from the BOP.

Iran Red Crescent to Gaza. An Iran-Israeli skirmish could be the tipping point for WWIII.

Major Concerns for Those Living near the Gulf

The catastrophe in the Gulf is getting to a point where the ecological, social and economic impacts are beyond comprehension. The suffering is immense and unfortunately getting worse, from the fishermen who can no longer make a living to the sea creatures floundering in a toxic stew.

At the risk of sounding like an alarmist, I’ve feared since reports started breaking on how dire the downhole situation was a month ago, that we are on the verge of a massive exodus from the entire effected region. It seems unavoidable that the current will push the oil around the coast of Florida, up the Eastern seaboard and out into the Atlantic Ocean.

One immediate concern is that power plants that use water from the Gulf Coast may need to be shut down. Rolling blackouts are especially concerning with Florida’s large elderly population and a flat terrain which means that most water distribution requires electricity.

There is also a risk that rain could distribute the dispersant Corexit on shore, even though I have not seen conclusive evidence of the percentage that could be distributed through the evaporation cycle. Nonetheless, hurricanes and tropical storms would push the toxic waters further inland even without the help of rain. The third major risk is benzene contamination of the water supplies. Sadly, but at this point probably inevitably, economic desperation will drive many westward as was the case during the Dust Bowl of the Depression.

Never, Never, Never, Ever

Let a crisis go to waste, in the words of Rahm Emanuel. As a follow up to yesterday's article about the void of leadership how fitting it is that Obama is proclaiming it is time to thrust forth the climate legislation. For the five people out there that still believe this self-serving nonsense is about the environment, please for the love of your highest good follow the money.

 

Whether it is through FAT, VAT or Carbon Taxes, rest assure the bankrupted governments of the world, acting as agents of the financiers and multinationals that back them and certainly not your representatives, will do absolutely anything they can to ensure their existence by extorting whatever wealth still remains from the other 95% of the population. You could see this coming a mile away knowing that it was only a matter of time before O would take advantage of the highly emotional situation enfolding in the Gulf to railroad the agenda.

 

Our Chernobyl of Leadership

In the article below, Dmitry Orlov explains how the response to the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is a nail in the coffin of government leadership legitimacy. I've long thought that Obama is our Gorbachev, and now Orlov makes the case that politically the oil volcano is our Chernobyl. Although I’ve never seen it as a strictly linear process, you can see Orlov’s 5 stages of collapse (Financial (2008), Commercial (2009), Political (2010), Social, Cultural) play out with each passing day.

 

It is embarrassing to be lost. It is even more embarrassing for a leader to be lost. And what's really really embarrassing to all concerned is when national and transnational corporate leaders attempt to tackle a major disaster and are found out to have been issuing marching orders based on the wrong map. Everyone then executes a routine of turning toward each other in shock, frowning while shaking their heads slowly from side to side and looking away in disgust. After that, these leaders might as well limit their public pronouncements to the traditional "Milk, milk, lemonade, round the corner fudge is made." Whatever they say, the universal reaction becomes: "What leaders? We don't have any."

Getting lost can be traumatic for the rest of us too. When we suddenly realize that we don't know where we are, urgent neural messages are exchanged between our prefrontal cortex, which struggles to form a coherent picture of what's happening, our amygdala, whose job is to hold on to a sense of where we are, and our hippocampus, which motivates us to get back to a place we know as quickly as we possibly can. This strange bit of internal wiring explains why humans who are only slightly lost tend to trot off in a random direction and promptly become profoundly lost. After these immediate biochemical reactions have run their course, we go through the usual stages of:

1. denial—"We are not lost! The ski lodge is just over the next ridge, or the next, or the next..."
2. anger—"We are wasting time! Shut up and keep trotting!"
3. bargaining—"The map must be wrong; either that or someone has dynamited the giant boulder that should be right there..."
4. depression—"We'll never get there! We're all going to die out here!" and 
5. acceptance—"We are not lost; we are right here, wherever it is. We better find some shelter and start a campfire before it gets dark and cold." (Read Full Article)

The Israeli Influence over US Foreign Policy

Two former CIA officers, Ray McGovern and Philip Giraldi, discuss the depth of the Israeli influence of US foreign policy through its political action committee AIPAC. For a deeper dive, read The Israeli Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt.

 

Keep this in mind as Israel’s propagandists go into overdrive after their attack of a Gaza humanitarian aid ship in international waters. Imagine for a moment what the US response would be if the attacker would have been Iran.

 

Fleecing the Flock

From the first time you issue a currency that represents interest-bearing debt, and not an actual store of value, you guarantee that there will always be more money owed to the issuing bank than money in circulation. The game works as long as new fools can be found to pay the interest of old, but eventually no more can be found and the Ponzi scheme falls in on itself. This simple truth is why the debt can never be repaid and the financial system is assured to eventually collapse. The only other certainty is that the financiers will use the government's monopoly of force to completely fleece the flock all the way down.

With that in mind, Gerald Celente describes how the game is rigged, how the deck is stacked and what to expect as the global bankers revolt intensifies.

 

25 Questions for the Delusional

You could easily extend the list to 50 or 100, but for the zombies among us who like a cargo cult believe the economy is recovering, here are 25 questions to ask from the theeconomiccollapseblog. I chalk some of it up to apathy as a self-defense mechanism, but apathy is going to claim a lot of victims if things continue to move sideways at the current pace.

Denial and anger also play their roles, and have been crystal clear in the opening act of the ecological catastrophe in the Gulf that will at a minimum have the the environmental, social and economic fallout equivalent to several nucs going off in the southeast. Have you considered what a massive evacuation from the Gulf of Mexico region might look like? The dynamic is one of a junkie who gets upset with the pusher after an overdose, and not one of responsible adults and stewards.

#1) In what universe is an economy with 39.68 million Americans on food stamps considered to be a healthy, recovering economy?  In fact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts that enrollment in the food stamp program will exceed 43 million Americans in 2011.  Is a rapidly increasing number of Americans on food stamps a good sign or a bad sign for the economy?

#2) According to RealtyTrac, foreclosure filings were reported on 367,056 properties in the month of March.  This was an increase of almost 19 percent from February, and it was the highest monthly total since RealtyTrac began issuing its report back in January 2005.  So can you please explain again how the U.S. real estate market is getting better?

#3) The Mortgage Bankers Association just announced that more than 10 percent of U.S. homeowners with a mortgage had missed at least one payment in the January-March period.  That was a record highand up from 9.1 percent a year ago.  Do you think that is an indication that the U.S. housing market is recovering?

#4) How can the U.S. real estate market be considered healthy when, for the first time in modern history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United Statesthan all individual Americans put together? (Read Full Article)