http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XACyDh-YeAA&feature=PlayList&p=606A09848CC3E26B&index=0
http://atlejohanlovaas.com/
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Water issues
A few years ago, Governer Gray Davis ordered that all municipal water supplies in the state of California have fluoride/fluorine in their drinking waters. They also, doubled the amount of fluoride PPM at the same time. In a stroke of a pen, any local municipality had their freewill taken from them on the issue, as there were still holdouts in the state. This kind of fascist enforcement of poisoning millions of people with neural killing toxins, which cause a host of other ailments is beyond the pale. Happily, years before that, I switched my family over to distilled water, which gurantees that any foreign contaminents are removed. Ironically, I was talking with a plumber last week about distilled water and he actually said to me, "but you are missing out on all those necessary minerals."
Can you believe that? I just smiled.
First, mineralized water has about a 4% absorption rate in your body. It either throws the rest away or, as in the case of many toxins like fluoride or lead or cadmium, builds them up in the bones, teeth, muscles and brain. These toxins slowly strangle you until you are a walking basket case of varying ailments, permanent headaches, and endless illnesses that allopathic doctors then leap upon so they can make money filling you up with other toxins which just add to the body's misery.
Your body was designed to obtain minerals from plants. This uptake of minerals through plants is a design thing in creation and your body has a whopping 98% absorption rate of minerals obtained this way. Hard, pill based minerals are seen as toxic loads to the body. To deal with this, what needs to be done is to get colloidal based minerals which are leeched and extracted from plants grown that are rich in ALL THE MINERALS, rather than just a few.
Even though we distill our drinking water, we still have to bathe in fluoridated water. And that's a problem, because the largest organ in your body is your skin and it loves to absorb things. The solution then is to get filters on your water supply or have the good fortune to live in a place where you have well-water and can avoid the intentional toxins placed in municipal water supplies.
FYI.
Can you believe that? I just smiled.
First, mineralized water has about a 4% absorption rate in your body. It either throws the rest away or, as in the case of many toxins like fluoride or lead or cadmium, builds them up in the bones, teeth, muscles and brain. These toxins slowly strangle you until you are a walking basket case of varying ailments, permanent headaches, and endless illnesses that allopathic doctors then leap upon so they can make money filling you up with other toxins which just add to the body's misery.
Your body was designed to obtain minerals from plants. This uptake of minerals through plants is a design thing in creation and your body has a whopping 98% absorption rate of minerals obtained this way. Hard, pill based minerals are seen as toxic loads to the body. To deal with this, what needs to be done is to get colloidal based minerals which are leeched and extracted from plants grown that are rich in ALL THE MINERALS, rather than just a few.
Even though we distill our drinking water, we still have to bathe in fluoridated water. And that's a problem, because the largest organ in your body is your skin and it loves to absorb things. The solution then is to get filters on your water supply or have the good fortune to live in a place where you have well-water and can avoid the intentional toxins placed in municipal water supplies.
FYI.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The big lie of why the middle east hates us so very much is because they hate our freedoms. Freedom? In the United States? Really? In the video below you have an 80 year old catholic priest protesting abortion at Notre Dame, which is a chatholic university.
So the police arrest him. Bind him. And strap him down so he cannot move. And they call this freedom?
Still believe the big lies of the politicians and the media?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiz4tfjSuPc
So the police arrest him. Bind him. And strap him down so he cannot move. And they call this freedom?
Still believe the big lies of the politicians and the media?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiz4tfjSuPc
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Think and Research
Think and research
By Don Bradley, May 2009
For me, the greatest classroom is the world around us. We live on an amazing planet, what with all its varying forms of life in the mineral, plant, animal, and human kingdoms. These kingdoms, as many know, are made up of varying elements which then make up these previously mentioned forms of life. We also know that everything is energy, is living, and its all about density, frequency, and sound, which makes the illusory world seem as substantial as it is. And it is substantial, because it has to be in order for there to be interaction between form and spirit.
Many people make claims about this world be simply a construct or an illusion projected by “controllers” who then keep the world slaves. This is a lie. Creation exists as a construct for all levels of souls and paths. Those on the dark side simply understand its workings better than the uninformed population and use it to their advantage. There are a lot of “big names” out there doing the whole matrix illusion thing, but they’ve got it wrong and generally seem to intentionally never speak about the essential constructs of said matrix with any detail; this is so because they are false prophets who want to keep that kind of detail out of the public’s hands.
Fact.
The reason for doing so is because in keeping these realities secret allows them to maintain control over those people who remain unaware and ignorant. If the world is so very much an illusion certain writers tell us about and who claim that if we just believe enough, we can pass our hand through a wall; then show me. Ahh… There’s the rub. The problem with paid shills and liars is that, as in times past, we have to take their word on a thing. Or they rely on hand drawings to illustrate their often fractured perceptions.
For myself, I much prefer the path of demonstrating the thing. Hence, all the photography showing that the earth, water, air, fire, plant, and other aspects of existence is alive. Its one thing to say something is thus and so, it’s quite another to show it to be so. I find it so much more revealing to show actual photographic proof of the dimensional realities I speak about, because then you can see for yourself what is being discussed. Back in February of 2002, when I said that orgone visibly affects the material universe, I demonstrated (for the first time by anyone) ice stalagmites in ice cube trays. There it was, visible for all to see. Taking a person’s word for a thing has always led to the problems we have in the world today: manipulation, control, and enslavement. The time for taking things on faith is past. For look at what a population’s blind faith in their governments has done, just in the 20th century alone. Millions upon millions of dead men, women, and children, all because they blindly believed what they were told without proof and without thinking the thing through.
I myself experienced this same dilemma as I turned to various church and other spiritual organizations seeking a deeper understanding of how things worked and why I was seeing what I was seeing. The more I took things on faith, the less satisfied I became in the results, finding very often that what these groups were teaching to be bald-faced lies. We were given minds to think with. Surrendering your mind to the will of another simply because they say so is an abomination to everything that stands for freedom in our hearts.
Demand proof of the realities around you. Do your own research. Make sure that what you are being told jives with the facts in hand and the facts yet to be discovered. Governments are by and large the biggest propagators of lies and disinformation extant, but there you see the masses, glued to the newspapers and televisions as if every word out of the mouths of newscasters and politicians is the sublime truth.
Wonder Bread Builds Bodies in 12 Ways, was the slogan of the sixties. Then, as people actually started looking into what went into that bread, they found it had empty calories, devoid of nutrition and filled with the worst chemicals and the most denatured and bleached flour ever to see a baker’s oven. We know this because somewhere down the line, someone stopped believing the propaganda and started thinking and checking the facts for themselves. Once it became common knowledge that the only thing wonderful about Wonder Bread was that it gave nothing to anyone’s body but fat cells and clogged colons, then the lies stopped. Someone asked the question and found out the facts. That person sought out proof and saved millions of families from the savagery of lies and foisted upon them by the advertising agencies.
As well should we all, in this time of supreme manipulation by the varying pontiffs and pundits who act like our betters, but are merely stooges and shills for the controllers keeping us in an endless state of slavery.
Demand proof. Research. Think. Reflect. Observe. Do your own thinking. Use the searchlight of your mind and observe everything that comes into your path, being objective about what you see. Open yourself to the experience of knowing and being.
We’ve been told for decades by dentists that mercury amalgams and fluoride were not only safe but good for us. Wow. What a whopper of a lie that turned out to be. The EPA lists both items as unsafe toxins harmful to human and animal health. Both affect the nervous system and the brain, causing a gradual weakening of the cerebral cortex, reduction in the myelin sheath, as well as birth defects and autism, for starters. But because some folks started to actually look into the matter, we now have the facts in hand and are better informed. They did their own research, their own thinking, and the world is all the better for it.
For the above reasons and standards set forth by previous pioneers, I use what is plainly visible in photography and the advertising and symbols of the world to help people understand. That’s why my blogs are filled with pictures of every kind. Its one thing to say a thing is thus and so, it’s something completely different when you can prove it. This is why I use a camera to help explain what is going on around us, so that we can be better informed and then, make better decisions.
And it has cost me plenty to do this. Loss of job, loss of income, loss of home, everything.
Ironic isn’t it? I supplied the first proof that crystals in orgone do as advertised but to this day, I am ostracized by the orgone community. And why? Because I insist on proof before making any kind of public claim or endorsing this or that new contrivance. If it’s not demonstrable, I pass every time until such time that it is demonstrable.
Humanity has been led down the garden path of lies for far too long and that must end now. We must and should demand proof regarding the claims and announcements of our elected and religious leaders. We must pull back the curtain of lies that keeps us in slavery and know what is and what isn’t. For to do any less is to be a slave. A literal slave.
I’m done with slavery. How about you?
By Don Bradley, May 2009
For me, the greatest classroom is the world around us. We live on an amazing planet, what with all its varying forms of life in the mineral, plant, animal, and human kingdoms. These kingdoms, as many know, are made up of varying elements which then make up these previously mentioned forms of life. We also know that everything is energy, is living, and its all about density, frequency, and sound, which makes the illusory world seem as substantial as it is. And it is substantial, because it has to be in order for there to be interaction between form and spirit.
Many people make claims about this world be simply a construct or an illusion projected by “controllers” who then keep the world slaves. This is a lie. Creation exists as a construct for all levels of souls and paths. Those on the dark side simply understand its workings better than the uninformed population and use it to their advantage. There are a lot of “big names” out there doing the whole matrix illusion thing, but they’ve got it wrong and generally seem to intentionally never speak about the essential constructs of said matrix with any detail; this is so because they are false prophets who want to keep that kind of detail out of the public’s hands.
Fact.
The reason for doing so is because in keeping these realities secret allows them to maintain control over those people who remain unaware and ignorant. If the world is so very much an illusion certain writers tell us about and who claim that if we just believe enough, we can pass our hand through a wall; then show me. Ahh… There’s the rub. The problem with paid shills and liars is that, as in times past, we have to take their word on a thing. Or they rely on hand drawings to illustrate their often fractured perceptions.
For myself, I much prefer the path of demonstrating the thing. Hence, all the photography showing that the earth, water, air, fire, plant, and other aspects of existence is alive. Its one thing to say something is thus and so, it’s quite another to show it to be so. I find it so much more revealing to show actual photographic proof of the dimensional realities I speak about, because then you can see for yourself what is being discussed. Back in February of 2002, when I said that orgone visibly affects the material universe, I demonstrated (for the first time by anyone) ice stalagmites in ice cube trays. There it was, visible for all to see. Taking a person’s word for a thing has always led to the problems we have in the world today: manipulation, control, and enslavement. The time for taking things on faith is past. For look at what a population’s blind faith in their governments has done, just in the 20th century alone. Millions upon millions of dead men, women, and children, all because they blindly believed what they were told without proof and without thinking the thing through.
I myself experienced this same dilemma as I turned to various church and other spiritual organizations seeking a deeper understanding of how things worked and why I was seeing what I was seeing. The more I took things on faith, the less satisfied I became in the results, finding very often that what these groups were teaching to be bald-faced lies. We were given minds to think with. Surrendering your mind to the will of another simply because they say so is an abomination to everything that stands for freedom in our hearts.
Demand proof of the realities around you. Do your own research. Make sure that what you are being told jives with the facts in hand and the facts yet to be discovered. Governments are by and large the biggest propagators of lies and disinformation extant, but there you see the masses, glued to the newspapers and televisions as if every word out of the mouths of newscasters and politicians is the sublime truth.
Wonder Bread Builds Bodies in 12 Ways, was the slogan of the sixties. Then, as people actually started looking into what went into that bread, they found it had empty calories, devoid of nutrition and filled with the worst chemicals and the most denatured and bleached flour ever to see a baker’s oven. We know this because somewhere down the line, someone stopped believing the propaganda and started thinking and checking the facts for themselves. Once it became common knowledge that the only thing wonderful about Wonder Bread was that it gave nothing to anyone’s body but fat cells and clogged colons, then the lies stopped. Someone asked the question and found out the facts. That person sought out proof and saved millions of families from the savagery of lies and foisted upon them by the advertising agencies.
As well should we all, in this time of supreme manipulation by the varying pontiffs and pundits who act like our betters, but are merely stooges and shills for the controllers keeping us in an endless state of slavery.
Demand proof. Research. Think. Reflect. Observe. Do your own thinking. Use the searchlight of your mind and observe everything that comes into your path, being objective about what you see. Open yourself to the experience of knowing and being.
We’ve been told for decades by dentists that mercury amalgams and fluoride were not only safe but good for us. Wow. What a whopper of a lie that turned out to be. The EPA lists both items as unsafe toxins harmful to human and animal health. Both affect the nervous system and the brain, causing a gradual weakening of the cerebral cortex, reduction in the myelin sheath, as well as birth defects and autism, for starters. But because some folks started to actually look into the matter, we now have the facts in hand and are better informed. They did their own research, their own thinking, and the world is all the better for it.
For the above reasons and standards set forth by previous pioneers, I use what is plainly visible in photography and the advertising and symbols of the world to help people understand. That’s why my blogs are filled with pictures of every kind. Its one thing to say a thing is thus and so, it’s something completely different when you can prove it. This is why I use a camera to help explain what is going on around us, so that we can be better informed and then, make better decisions.
And it has cost me plenty to do this. Loss of job, loss of income, loss of home, everything.
Ironic isn’t it? I supplied the first proof that crystals in orgone do as advertised but to this day, I am ostracized by the orgone community. And why? Because I insist on proof before making any kind of public claim or endorsing this or that new contrivance. If it’s not demonstrable, I pass every time until such time that it is demonstrable.
Humanity has been led down the garden path of lies for far too long and that must end now. We must and should demand proof regarding the claims and announcements of our elected and religious leaders. We must pull back the curtain of lies that keeps us in slavery and know what is and what isn’t. For to do any less is to be a slave. A literal slave.
I’m done with slavery. How about you?
End TImes Baloney
Sigh...there is so much junk out there about 2012 and the apocalypse and all that. Preachers blast their congregations with it, it's all over youtube, and the video stores are just full of enormous amounts of misinformation. Here are a couple of things to remember.
First, most of these exposé’s on end times use the bible as their main reference point from which they slide into all non-verifiable noize which scares the dickens out of the weak minded and fearful. Okay, let's use the bible then.
In Matthew chapter 24, Jesus/Yeshua explains varying things which detail the run-up to the mess of the end of this age. But, he also leaves a clear time marker, which it seems every single video producer, writer, and preacher ignores out of hand. He says clear and I quote,
Matt 24:14/15 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations;and then shall the end come. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoke of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place...
Okay. Here He gives a time marker, the only one in Matthew that is definitive. The abomination of desolation in the holy place as foretold by Daniel and also in Revelations, btw, is when the anti-Christ stands in the 3rd Temple (where the dome of the rock is now in Jerusalem) and proclaims himself the returned Christ. Flat-out, he's saying that the end time tribulations (which you can actually get detail on that by reading revelations) is when to expect the mess the world is calling the end times. Has that happened yet? Of course not.
Let's look at Revelations for a moment, shall we. In it, we find a document that explains, on chronological order, what the world can expect as these things go by. You have the seals, the trumpets, bowels, along with other celestial events interspersed and so on. A simple reading of it quite clearly delineates an orderly sequence of events. Now, we've been inundated for hundreds of years, each generation screaming at the top of their longs that their generation is the end of the world. Especially during world war II.
But wait a moment there. As we proceed through the breaking of the seals, what do we find. That on Seal Six, there is a great worldwide earthquake that levels mountains and moves islands from their places. Wow, that's some event, I think we would all agree. Has it happened yet? Obviously it has not happened in the last two thousand years. An event like that would be a major blow to every land of the world, throwing it back decades and laying waste to well...the whole planet.
Yet, our culture is being hypnotized and programmed to believe that already we are in chapter 18 or 12, or 22 of Revelations or some such nonsense. If anything can be said about revelations, it's quite clearly a chronological roadmap, one foot before the other, one event after the other. However, the dark side is using every lie possible to get people to believe that we are already in varying places all over the place, without ever once mentioning the sequential order of that document. You'd think this obvious reality would be common chat among those end times writers making a fortune on talk shows, with their books, and doing videos. Nope. Not a peep. It's amazing how many preachers, pastors, priests, and the like go on and one about this end times that or whatever, without ever considering or even giving mention to the roadmap. And you can't have it both ways. You can't say on one section its a literal thing, and then change to another page and say its vague. It's either one way or the other.
Because it's all about the fear, friends. Keep you fearful and reactive, and therefore, under their control. As long as you function in a state of fear, you have given over control of your life (both inner and outer) and handed it over to total strangers who look at you with contempt.
The other two devices being deployed as reasons for keeping up the scare are Nostradamus and the Mayan Calendar.
On one hand they have vague quatrains which are so very vague that you have their fear shills out doing the same thing and on the other, you have a calendar that resets at 2012. Okay, so it resets. But what does that have to do with the End Times. They've got their devils out with nice suits and speaking all earnestly about how on 2012, we're all going to die. Right...
And here is the problem. People just believe what they are told, and if they can get enough network sanctioned "scholars" to push home the point, they must be telling the truth, right? Ten people telling you the sky is red doesn't make it so. Do your own thinking. Look past the fear paradigms and see reality for what is really is.
More on this later.
First, most of these exposé’s on end times use the bible as their main reference point from which they slide into all non-verifiable noize which scares the dickens out of the weak minded and fearful. Okay, let's use the bible then.
In Matthew chapter 24, Jesus/Yeshua explains varying things which detail the run-up to the mess of the end of this age. But, he also leaves a clear time marker, which it seems every single video producer, writer, and preacher ignores out of hand. He says clear and I quote,
Matt 24:14/15 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations;and then shall the end come. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoke of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place...
Okay. Here He gives a time marker, the only one in Matthew that is definitive. The abomination of desolation in the holy place as foretold by Daniel and also in Revelations, btw, is when the anti-Christ stands in the 3rd Temple (where the dome of the rock is now in Jerusalem) and proclaims himself the returned Christ. Flat-out, he's saying that the end time tribulations (which you can actually get detail on that by reading revelations) is when to expect the mess the world is calling the end times. Has that happened yet? Of course not.
Let's look at Revelations for a moment, shall we. In it, we find a document that explains, on chronological order, what the world can expect as these things go by. You have the seals, the trumpets, bowels, along with other celestial events interspersed and so on. A simple reading of it quite clearly delineates an orderly sequence of events. Now, we've been inundated for hundreds of years, each generation screaming at the top of their longs that their generation is the end of the world. Especially during world war II.
But wait a moment there. As we proceed through the breaking of the seals, what do we find. That on Seal Six, there is a great worldwide earthquake that levels mountains and moves islands from their places. Wow, that's some event, I think we would all agree. Has it happened yet? Obviously it has not happened in the last two thousand years. An event like that would be a major blow to every land of the world, throwing it back decades and laying waste to well...the whole planet.
Yet, our culture is being hypnotized and programmed to believe that already we are in chapter 18 or 12, or 22 of Revelations or some such nonsense. If anything can be said about revelations, it's quite clearly a chronological roadmap, one foot before the other, one event after the other. However, the dark side is using every lie possible to get people to believe that we are already in varying places all over the place, without ever once mentioning the sequential order of that document. You'd think this obvious reality would be common chat among those end times writers making a fortune on talk shows, with their books, and doing videos. Nope. Not a peep. It's amazing how many preachers, pastors, priests, and the like go on and one about this end times that or whatever, without ever considering or even giving mention to the roadmap. And you can't have it both ways. You can't say on one section its a literal thing, and then change to another page and say its vague. It's either one way or the other.
Because it's all about the fear, friends. Keep you fearful and reactive, and therefore, under their control. As long as you function in a state of fear, you have given over control of your life (both inner and outer) and handed it over to total strangers who look at you with contempt.
The other two devices being deployed as reasons for keeping up the scare are Nostradamus and the Mayan Calendar.
On one hand they have vague quatrains which are so very vague that you have their fear shills out doing the same thing and on the other, you have a calendar that resets at 2012. Okay, so it resets. But what does that have to do with the End Times. They've got their devils out with nice suits and speaking all earnestly about how on 2012, we're all going to die. Right...
And here is the problem. People just believe what they are told, and if they can get enough network sanctioned "scholars" to push home the point, they must be telling the truth, right? Ten people telling you the sky is red doesn't make it so. Do your own thinking. Look past the fear paradigms and see reality for what is really is.
Ice experiments
Pictured below is an ice cube come from a tray of distilled water that has a simple blessing. As a control I made two trays from the same water source, made at the same time. One tray received no blessing, the other did. Now this experiment has been well documented using microscopes, as is well known, and usually blessing by priests. Well, I'm just a regular guy, so gave it a go.
In the unblessed trays the ice cubes did have nice clarity and star formations, like that. In the blessed tray, the ice cubes developed complete faces with energy nimbuses around the head in varying details. Ever single blessed cube had some kind of face or angelic form that was visible.
Sadly, my camera is not of very good quality nor do I have proper lighting to reveal what is easily visible to anyone in the room.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Hatred
By Don Bradley, May 2009
We all know what hate is, how it can fill a person, drive them to mental images of savagery, malice, and cruel acts. It can and often does, drive them to act out the feelings within the bosom of their heart. Once a person decides upon allowing this frequency to overtake their thinking and feeling states, they are often quite capable of doing any and every kind of imaginable harm, very often justified by some ridiculous set of conditions which they believe wholeheartedly, gives them the absolute right to hate and therefore act upon that hatred.
From the instant that hatred takes seat in the heart of any soul it at once freezes their outer aura and creates a literal flint-hard shell which acts as a barrier to any impulse, thought, or feeling that stands above and outside their hatred. This then, becomes a self-serving vicious cycle: the mind and feeling aspects of these lost souls create a self-imposed wall which only allows that information and awareness inside the self of the person which only agrees with the frequency of hate and of course, the object of their hatred. And it grows. And it breeds. It breeds judgment and contempt. And that is the last and final road of hatred which dissolves any spiritual links they could ever have with the divine. We see it all the time in nationalistic/jingoistic mantras of state, in religious orders, and especially, in the membership of the “network,” that unique clique of half-human, half-reptilian/demonically controlled souls who by dint of their very existence live, breath and serve the lower frequencies: fear, lust, anger, hatred, judgment, gluttony, apathy, malice, and so on.
Once this occurs nothing can be done to help them, for their very own anger, hate, self-pity, and malice create thick walls which then will attack any form of help which might be of use in their breaking of the hatred that holds them prisoner. Love for these souls becomes merely an act, a device, which is used like a saber to gain favor, compliance, or control of those around them. For that is how they are controlled, by those above them.
It’s one of the ironies of the situation. Love can set them free, but they cannot feel it, know it truly, or understand its divine workings for as long as contempt and hatred fill the chambers of their heart, they can only know and present the façade or appearance of love. For the façade of love is all they receive themselves. They then believe lust is love; being attentive to please, is love. They believe these things and do them, because that is how they are treated. And in the network, they want two things and that always: more power and more money. And to get this, they must please, obey, and be attentive. If they are “asked” go here and do thus and so, they do it. For refusal means an immediate stoppage on their goal of achieving more power and money.
Hatred then becomes the spiritual currency of the satanic realm. For how else can you get a soldier to shoot a child in the head, or get an individual to murder an innocent person, unless they are filled with hate? How else can you convince a woman to be a “honey-pot” and sleep with total strangers—pretending to love them—so as to gain control of the person and their world? Only hate allows one person to see another and then decide to do these very common things in our time. Only hatred creates those conditions of fear, loathing, and contempt which then enables the person to become capable of any foul deed. Only hatred allows one stranger to setup and then betray someone they’ve never met before.
With hatred, not only are the worst acts possible, but generally are probable, given the state of affairs in the world today. Hatred of one group by another means the group doing the hating will do any conceivable act of destruction toward the group of which they hate. We see it all around us. The wealthy controlling the poor and using them as cannon fodder, taking away their jobs, spraying their skies and water supplies with poison, and injecting them with poisons which turn them into the walking dead.
Hatred does all these things and more. A person who is filled with the darkest frequency of hate—contempt—very often lies, suborns others, and will spread every vile unfounded rumor about any object of their hatred. They will cheat, steal, and murder, if given the chance. They will turn a blind eye to the dark actions of other haters and pretend as if everything is normal.
Contempt is the darkest frequency of hate, for it is of mind. It creates and allows for a judgmental attitude which then squarely sorts all of life into factions, sections, and groups. This one better than that, this person or ideology better than that, and so on down the line until one day, all the world is fighting against all the rest of the world, and usually and quite ironically, with some kind of validation which has been handed them by other haters. Life for many then becomes an endless experience of being hated, seeing hatred, and watching the world burn itself to ashes, all in the name of hate.
The great prophets of the past ages knew this—and especially Christ—which is why they constantly advised anyone who would listen to take hold of themselves, root out any prejudices, judgments, and hatreds first and foremost, within themselves. Until the day comes that we can honestly say to ourselves that hate has left my soul, can we honestly say we are free. For as long as hatred and its various still-born offspring live in our hearts, we are slaves to a world which is controlled by those using hate to keep the poor under the boot of oppression, the world in wars and slaveries of every kind, and the people lost and confused about the deeper meanings and purpose of life.
It’s up to each of us to turn the magnifying glass of our mind and insight upon the domain of our very selves and see honestly how we think, feel, and relate to ourselves and the world around us. Anytime we find those aspects which stand in opposition to the spirit of love within ourselves, we must then “get to work.”
As son Randy pointed out yesterday, “until we conquer hate within ourselves first, we are unable to conquer it in the world.”
Precisely.
We all know what hate is, how it can fill a person, drive them to mental images of savagery, malice, and cruel acts. It can and often does, drive them to act out the feelings within the bosom of their heart. Once a person decides upon allowing this frequency to overtake their thinking and feeling states, they are often quite capable of doing any and every kind of imaginable harm, very often justified by some ridiculous set of conditions which they believe wholeheartedly, gives them the absolute right to hate and therefore act upon that hatred.
From the instant that hatred takes seat in the heart of any soul it at once freezes their outer aura and creates a literal flint-hard shell which acts as a barrier to any impulse, thought, or feeling that stands above and outside their hatred. This then, becomes a self-serving vicious cycle: the mind and feeling aspects of these lost souls create a self-imposed wall which only allows that information and awareness inside the self of the person which only agrees with the frequency of hate and of course, the object of their hatred. And it grows. And it breeds. It breeds judgment and contempt. And that is the last and final road of hatred which dissolves any spiritual links they could ever have with the divine. We see it all the time in nationalistic/jingoistic mantras of state, in religious orders, and especially, in the membership of the “network,” that unique clique of half-human, half-reptilian/demonically controlled souls who by dint of their very existence live, breath and serve the lower frequencies: fear, lust, anger, hatred, judgment, gluttony, apathy, malice, and so on.
Once this occurs nothing can be done to help them, for their very own anger, hate, self-pity, and malice create thick walls which then will attack any form of help which might be of use in their breaking of the hatred that holds them prisoner. Love for these souls becomes merely an act, a device, which is used like a saber to gain favor, compliance, or control of those around them. For that is how they are controlled, by those above them.
It’s one of the ironies of the situation. Love can set them free, but they cannot feel it, know it truly, or understand its divine workings for as long as contempt and hatred fill the chambers of their heart, they can only know and present the façade or appearance of love. For the façade of love is all they receive themselves. They then believe lust is love; being attentive to please, is love. They believe these things and do them, because that is how they are treated. And in the network, they want two things and that always: more power and more money. And to get this, they must please, obey, and be attentive. If they are “asked” go here and do thus and so, they do it. For refusal means an immediate stoppage on their goal of achieving more power and money.
Hatred then becomes the spiritual currency of the satanic realm. For how else can you get a soldier to shoot a child in the head, or get an individual to murder an innocent person, unless they are filled with hate? How else can you convince a woman to be a “honey-pot” and sleep with total strangers—pretending to love them—so as to gain control of the person and their world? Only hate allows one person to see another and then decide to do these very common things in our time. Only hatred creates those conditions of fear, loathing, and contempt which then enables the person to become capable of any foul deed. Only hatred allows one stranger to setup and then betray someone they’ve never met before.
With hatred, not only are the worst acts possible, but generally are probable, given the state of affairs in the world today. Hatred of one group by another means the group doing the hating will do any conceivable act of destruction toward the group of which they hate. We see it all around us. The wealthy controlling the poor and using them as cannon fodder, taking away their jobs, spraying their skies and water supplies with poison, and injecting them with poisons which turn them into the walking dead.
Hatred does all these things and more. A person who is filled with the darkest frequency of hate—contempt—very often lies, suborns others, and will spread every vile unfounded rumor about any object of their hatred. They will cheat, steal, and murder, if given the chance. They will turn a blind eye to the dark actions of other haters and pretend as if everything is normal.
Contempt is the darkest frequency of hate, for it is of mind. It creates and allows for a judgmental attitude which then squarely sorts all of life into factions, sections, and groups. This one better than that, this person or ideology better than that, and so on down the line until one day, all the world is fighting against all the rest of the world, and usually and quite ironically, with some kind of validation which has been handed them by other haters. Life for many then becomes an endless experience of being hated, seeing hatred, and watching the world burn itself to ashes, all in the name of hate.
The great prophets of the past ages knew this—and especially Christ—which is why they constantly advised anyone who would listen to take hold of themselves, root out any prejudices, judgments, and hatreds first and foremost, within themselves. Until the day comes that we can honestly say to ourselves that hate has left my soul, can we honestly say we are free. For as long as hatred and its various still-born offspring live in our hearts, we are slaves to a world which is controlled by those using hate to keep the poor under the boot of oppression, the world in wars and slaveries of every kind, and the people lost and confused about the deeper meanings and purpose of life.
It’s up to each of us to turn the magnifying glass of our mind and insight upon the domain of our very selves and see honestly how we think, feel, and relate to ourselves and the world around us. Anytime we find those aspects which stand in opposition to the spirit of love within ourselves, we must then “get to work.”
As son Randy pointed out yesterday, “until we conquer hate within ourselves first, we are unable to conquer it in the world.”
Precisely.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
swine flu propaganda and other ops
As with all government and media coordinated blitzes of this type, it's all about testing their system for the real thing. They are measuring public response to the scare, measuring what worked and what didn't work, checking on the fear levels, using sabbats as energy markers (Beltaine in this case), checking to see how much of the aware public is countering their moves, seeing who buys into the fear paradigms, and all that. They test to see how many dead bodies they need to scale up the fear. The less aware a person is, the more likely they are going to buy into this nonsense and be fooled and manipulated.
2000 people die a day from malaria every single day. Ever hear about that in the media? You won't.
If you want to see the real "death" numbers regarding life on earth, check out the actuarial tables used by insurance companies. Once you've read these, everything else falls into perspective. More people die from falling down stairs in a single day than the bird or swine flu will kill in a year. Keep things in perspective, stay cool, and realize you are being played by master black magicians who use every resource at their command to get new legislation created so they can force-feed drugs into your bodies. And they drugs they will give you will actually do the killing...over time.
Stay aware. Stay calm. Stay focused.
2000 people die a day from malaria every single day. Ever hear about that in the media? You won't.
If you want to see the real "death" numbers regarding life on earth, check out the actuarial tables used by insurance companies. Once you've read these, everything else falls into perspective. More people die from falling down stairs in a single day than the bird or swine flu will kill in a year. Keep things in perspective, stay cool, and realize you are being played by master black magicians who use every resource at their command to get new legislation created so they can force-feed drugs into your bodies. And they drugs they will give you will actually do the killing...over time.
Stay aware. Stay calm. Stay focused.
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
Going veggie is one of the best things you can ever do for yourself. Cook vegetarian whenever you can. Get rid of processed cooking oils and use olive oils. Choose days where you will only have vegan foods. Make visits to fast-food joints the occasional thing, rather than the daily thing and live better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzdhBo4pbgE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzdhBo4pbgE
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Swine Flu TV Propaganda (1976)
They are ramping up the fear. They are getting ready to sell us a vaccine. Beware of any government endorsed or mandated vaccines. This has happened before. It is happening again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TottXB6jdZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TottXB6jdZA
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
666 - Trilateral commission logo
As can be seen, the Rockefeller created and world controlling trilateral commission logo is really 3 stylized sixes. 666
Cutting Through The Haze
By Don Bradley
April 2009
We certainly live in interesting times. We live in a time where governments spray the skies with chemtrails, poison our food and water intentionally, plaster the airwaves with mind control laden music and videos, create false-flag attacks to restrict freedoms, start wars to control regions, and foster the breakdown of the natural order of family, home, and a relation to divinity. In times as these, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by it all and feel powerless to deal with all the various facets of this coordinated attack against the form, spirit, and psyche of the human race. It seems—given their willingness to especially do this to their own ranks within the network—a hopeless task toward finding some kind of way out of the madness of it all.
Well, there is a way out.
It may take a bit of time and effort, but there is a way to surf this cresting wave of satanic destruction sweeping over the planet.
First, we must understand some basic simple realities as regards ourselves as living beings. We are spirit in form, soul in body. That’s number one. Everything starts from this point. Everything we do branches from this one realization and it needs to be clearly understood as fact, by anyone seeking a way out of the loony bin we call this “civilized” planet of ours.
Second, we must realize that all power of change, direction, and of awareness comes from our mind and therefore, its connection to whatever level of spiritual understanding we know and have, given our circumstance in the world. Now, this varies from person to person, as do any skill sets found anywhere, possessed by anyone. However, a bit of effort in this area yields volumes. The old saying, “As a man thinketh, so is he,” is nod to this foundational understanding of how our consciousness precedes beingness on any level. We cannot change anything in our lives without first having an understanding, a desire for the change, then employing our will to do make the change. We can see that this is so, by simply reviewing how we’ve went about making choices in our life for education, employment, living standards, social environments, recreation, reading and reflection material, exercise, and so on. It all starts from thinking, perceiving, reviewing, and then finally, acting upon the choices made once the former were given consideration.
Of course, life being what it is, very often we found that our lives have become examples of occurrences made quite outside ourselves by others. I.E., a man being drafted for war finds himself 3 months later carrying a rifle and saying, “what happened? How did I get here?” I am referring of course to the mystery of fate and freewill. Fate will place you where you are born, your opportunities, and the events that are coming into your life; our freewill is how we deal within the framework of fate as given. Within that framework, we maintain the ability to choose how to function, again given the circumstances and conditions and situations that fate brings to our door. It is different for each of us, yet the same rules apply for all. As we make our choices, we control our future fate from the foundations of our current freewill choices. Therefore, every choice we make constantly conditions and determines our future.
Because the above is a great truth, it is one of the prime reasons why there is so very much propaganda out in the world with celebrity magazines, torrid televisions shows, and violent films, filled with every blasphemy to the pure heart that beats deep within each of us. These various forms of media are there to condition how we see ourselves, and to provide us with mental action imagery that is anti-spirit so we will make poor choices when confronted by the machinations of fate. Our poor choices—conditioned by the media and their “heroes”—is our freewill, that then conditions our future fate. It is why our school systems are corrupted with gay men, so the young boys growing up will be emasculated. It’s all about conditioning us to make poor choices. Or terrible choices. Or spirit killing choices. Only a satanic, anti-spirit agenda could and would do such a thing and it’s the definition of our world today.
To beat this expensive and worldwide contrivance against the very soul of humanity requires us to stand back and look at things presented to us objectively. We must look beyond the superficial and reactive nature of these low creations and see them for what they truly are: an attack against our freewill system by using powerful conditioning techniques. How many of us have watched children emulate and go play after watching a television show, exactly like the characters in the show down to mannerism, vocal inflection, and moral choices? Countless times. “Yes, but they are children, we know better.” Really? Visual imagery coupled with drama is a powerful conditioning tool, even to the point of seeing how adults very often will utter lines from famous movies, without even thinking about it. The media is by and far the most advanced weapon the “network” has at controlling the population and it has worked very effectively. We see it all around us in fashion, social mores, and personal choices people have made and are making every single day. And every choice changes our future fate. Every time.
The issue of fate and freewill is by and large the biggest and yet, unspoken of reality governing the reasons, wherefores, and whys of our existence. No one discusses this primarily reality for none rarely consider it. At all. Those that are slightly aware tend to write articles decrying the state of things, without ever offering a solution. The solution is within our hands and it always has been.
The first step is to say aloud: the world presented to me is more than what it seems. For it is. Far more than the physical cacophony of unending noise, blather, and busyness as given over by the elite and their conditioning protocols. This declaration is kind of like hitting a spiritual tuning fork within ourselves. It summons the vicissitudes of fate to then bring to our attention that very same “more” we know exists in reality. Take a moment and reflect upon the previous statement before reading further. What we are doing is making a new choice using our freewill, which will then affect the future events of our fate by bringing to us a deeper knowledge of life as it is in reality, rather than as is presented to us by our controllers.
Once we demand a solution towards understanding the nature of a problem, we initiate events which will then emerge into our future experience to resolve the demand. If the demand is greater knowledge, then knowledge will come into our hands. Of course, we can’t just sit on a couch and wait around for enlightenment like some yogi in the far east. We must do our part in seeking it out so the circumstances can come into play. Once we understand this rule and how it works, we can and should then apply to all the areas of our existence:
· Religion: the true nature of man, spirit, soul, and divinity as it really is.
· Government: Who and what is government and what is their real purpose in our world.
· Relationships: what is the mystery of connection to all that is.
· Creativity: what animates creativity and its outward expressions.
· Existence: what is our purpose for being, beyond food, sleep, and procreation.
· Nutrition: what foods should I be eating that will make for an illness free and well-functioning body.
The list you make for your declarative statements can be endless. As it should be. But once you made these declarations make sure that you are sincere in them and that there is real interest and power in your aspiration to know, understand, see, and become. Any half-hearted or whimsical efforts will return exactly as given out. Put in little, get very little. Mean what you say, say it with all your heart and soul, and then seek and knock as opportunity provides. The results may surprise.
A clarifying note, so as to avoid the minefields of distortion and misinformation presented out in the world. When seeking and asking and therefore retuning your fate matrix, make sure you add in the phrase the truth. For example, your declarative statement and aspiration should be mentally formed as follows: Show me the truth as regards the true nature of soul, body, spirit, love, and beingness. By asking for the truth, you call into your life path the truth only. Now, the dark side may then try to slip you a micky on this with directions and knowledge that is filled with lies, falsehoods, and misdirections. But because you have asked for and declared for the truth, these false leads and misdirects will ring as brass and you’ll see them for the lies that they are.
We know that in the field of religion alone, there are so very many people clamoring for our attention with their way towards god and a divine life, as to be overwhelming. Christianity alone has hundreds of varying denominations and sects that each creed as given over seems to contradict not only the other denominations, but the very bible they all purport as their guiding light. Everyone seems to have a different creed on just what the meanings are in the bible. It’s a literal babel of noise. When we add into the mix all the other faith systems of earth, it seems nigh unsolvable. However, it is solvable, and there are those who are solving it right now.
It will help to start employing some life and spirit affirming techniques in our daily existence that will keep that tuning fork ringing within our hearts. We want our mind, body, and soul in the best possible condition so that as we grow, see, understand, know, be, and love, we will have the best reception to new experiences as possible. This means having a healthy body, stable emotions, and a clear thinking mind at our disposal.
The following will help.
1. Get healthy. Go organic whenever possible, and make sure your body has a daily supply of colloidal vitamins and minerals. Start cooking at home, learning how to make healthy dishes from scratch, rather than from processed packages. That means learning how to cook healthy foods that taste great. I’ve been cooking vegetarian meals for my four sons for years now with wonderful results and am constantly learning new dishes for them. We all are distilled water addicts, drinking several gallons a day between us. We distill our own water and it’s simply the best. Use organic skin creams (no chemicals), soaps, and deodorants; make sure your toothpaste is fluoride free. In addition to this, detox your body twice yearly with a complete system cleanse, especially if you are 40 and older. The decades pile up on us and there are years of stuff to be cleansed from our often, very poisoned bodies.
2. Get centered. At the very least, once a day, center yourself, quiet your thoughts, cast your worries from your mind and heart, and just stand in the presence of the kingdom of God within you. Being outside in the sun helps a great deal, plus all the vitamin benefits from doing so. These are the moments to know and be. Hear, feel, and sense the divine love that is within you and without you and is ever present. This one daily act alone will change everything you are into someone very wonderful, centered, healed, aware, connected, and stable. Changes come slowly, so make the best of each daily centering, by really grasping any new perceptions, thoughts, and guidance as may be given over to your consciousness.
3. Pray every day. For understanding. For love. For guidance. For wisdom to know truth from lies. For kindness and compassion. For the ill and infirmed. Keep it honest and sincere.
4. Be creative. Start doing those things where you make something from nothing. It’s a divine thing to be a creator soul and the best of humanity often comes from those times where creativity is expressed.
5. Control your speech. This, for most people, is the hardest thing to accomplish. Listen with a clear and objective mind to your speech, how you speak, what you say, why you say it, and most importantly, what your real motivations are behind the things you say to others and to yourself. Our speech to ourselves is most revealing, for there we see our true understanding of our motives and self-perceptions. Those that can perceive their self speech are very advanced upon the way of life, for they truly know who they are, what motivates them, why they exist, what their self-esteem issues are, and how very little control they have over their desires, hatreds, pettiness, and other character vices. Control of speech is an advanced thing and in it, we really hear others—more than what they are saying, but why they are saying it to us, and their motivations and desires, and what animates their souls, for good or ill. With this comes speaking directly and to the point. You find that you then say what you mean and mean what you say. Deception becomes barbaric for you. You find that as you require honesty you must therefore give over honesty first, within yourself and outward, as you express yourself to the world. To control our speech means to listen, as if our very life were hanging in the balance. For it is…it is.
6. Study yourself and the life that is visible to you. Wherever you are, there is life in all its forms. Really look at it, see it, and marvel at the wonder of it all. This will connect not only to the form of life, but its divine essence. Here lies the visibility of all things divine, as well as the distortions imposed upon life by the dark side. Both become visible. Lifetimes can be spent studying life, people, places, and things. Really make an attempt to see the world around you. It pays big dividends from the first moment we strive towards this understanding. Anything dismissed is an opportunity lost, remember that.
7. Be kind to others and to yourself. Be kind in your thoughts, feelings, and actions. To be kind in action, but hating in your heart is to be a kingdom divided against itself, which must then fall. Be the same inside as you are outside. Be whole.
These few, simple steps will set into motion entirely new future experiences for you in every department of your life that will help you “cut through the haze” of life at this time, during this epoch. It may be a few minutes away, days, or weeks, but little by little, your future—based on your new freewill choices of today—will then come into being which will bring all the new sincere aspirations into the forefront of your experiences, thereby coloring the new you. Then after a time, you’ll look back on the old years as though one living blind and marvel that you ever made it this far. See you to it.
April 2009
We certainly live in interesting times. We live in a time where governments spray the skies with chemtrails, poison our food and water intentionally, plaster the airwaves with mind control laden music and videos, create false-flag attacks to restrict freedoms, start wars to control regions, and foster the breakdown of the natural order of family, home, and a relation to divinity. In times as these, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by it all and feel powerless to deal with all the various facets of this coordinated attack against the form, spirit, and psyche of the human race. It seems—given their willingness to especially do this to their own ranks within the network—a hopeless task toward finding some kind of way out of the madness of it all.
Well, there is a way out.
It may take a bit of time and effort, but there is a way to surf this cresting wave of satanic destruction sweeping over the planet.
First, we must understand some basic simple realities as regards ourselves as living beings. We are spirit in form, soul in body. That’s number one. Everything starts from this point. Everything we do branches from this one realization and it needs to be clearly understood as fact, by anyone seeking a way out of the loony bin we call this “civilized” planet of ours.
Second, we must realize that all power of change, direction, and of awareness comes from our mind and therefore, its connection to whatever level of spiritual understanding we know and have, given our circumstance in the world. Now, this varies from person to person, as do any skill sets found anywhere, possessed by anyone. However, a bit of effort in this area yields volumes. The old saying, “As a man thinketh, so is he,” is nod to this foundational understanding of how our consciousness precedes beingness on any level. We cannot change anything in our lives without first having an understanding, a desire for the change, then employing our will to do make the change. We can see that this is so, by simply reviewing how we’ve went about making choices in our life for education, employment, living standards, social environments, recreation, reading and reflection material, exercise, and so on. It all starts from thinking, perceiving, reviewing, and then finally, acting upon the choices made once the former were given consideration.
Of course, life being what it is, very often we found that our lives have become examples of occurrences made quite outside ourselves by others. I.E., a man being drafted for war finds himself 3 months later carrying a rifle and saying, “what happened? How did I get here?” I am referring of course to the mystery of fate and freewill. Fate will place you where you are born, your opportunities, and the events that are coming into your life; our freewill is how we deal within the framework of fate as given. Within that framework, we maintain the ability to choose how to function, again given the circumstances and conditions and situations that fate brings to our door. It is different for each of us, yet the same rules apply for all. As we make our choices, we control our future fate from the foundations of our current freewill choices. Therefore, every choice we make constantly conditions and determines our future.
Because the above is a great truth, it is one of the prime reasons why there is so very much propaganda out in the world with celebrity magazines, torrid televisions shows, and violent films, filled with every blasphemy to the pure heart that beats deep within each of us. These various forms of media are there to condition how we see ourselves, and to provide us with mental action imagery that is anti-spirit so we will make poor choices when confronted by the machinations of fate. Our poor choices—conditioned by the media and their “heroes”—is our freewill, that then conditions our future fate. It is why our school systems are corrupted with gay men, so the young boys growing up will be emasculated. It’s all about conditioning us to make poor choices. Or terrible choices. Or spirit killing choices. Only a satanic, anti-spirit agenda could and would do such a thing and it’s the definition of our world today.
To beat this expensive and worldwide contrivance against the very soul of humanity requires us to stand back and look at things presented to us objectively. We must look beyond the superficial and reactive nature of these low creations and see them for what they truly are: an attack against our freewill system by using powerful conditioning techniques. How many of us have watched children emulate and go play after watching a television show, exactly like the characters in the show down to mannerism, vocal inflection, and moral choices? Countless times. “Yes, but they are children, we know better.” Really? Visual imagery coupled with drama is a powerful conditioning tool, even to the point of seeing how adults very often will utter lines from famous movies, without even thinking about it. The media is by and far the most advanced weapon the “network” has at controlling the population and it has worked very effectively. We see it all around us in fashion, social mores, and personal choices people have made and are making every single day. And every choice changes our future fate. Every time.
The issue of fate and freewill is by and large the biggest and yet, unspoken of reality governing the reasons, wherefores, and whys of our existence. No one discusses this primarily reality for none rarely consider it. At all. Those that are slightly aware tend to write articles decrying the state of things, without ever offering a solution. The solution is within our hands and it always has been.
The first step is to say aloud: the world presented to me is more than what it seems. For it is. Far more than the physical cacophony of unending noise, blather, and busyness as given over by the elite and their conditioning protocols. This declaration is kind of like hitting a spiritual tuning fork within ourselves. It summons the vicissitudes of fate to then bring to our attention that very same “more” we know exists in reality. Take a moment and reflect upon the previous statement before reading further. What we are doing is making a new choice using our freewill, which will then affect the future events of our fate by bringing to us a deeper knowledge of life as it is in reality, rather than as is presented to us by our controllers.
Once we demand a solution towards understanding the nature of a problem, we initiate events which will then emerge into our future experience to resolve the demand. If the demand is greater knowledge, then knowledge will come into our hands. Of course, we can’t just sit on a couch and wait around for enlightenment like some yogi in the far east. We must do our part in seeking it out so the circumstances can come into play. Once we understand this rule and how it works, we can and should then apply to all the areas of our existence:
· Religion: the true nature of man, spirit, soul, and divinity as it really is.
· Government: Who and what is government and what is their real purpose in our world.
· Relationships: what is the mystery of connection to all that is.
· Creativity: what animates creativity and its outward expressions.
· Existence: what is our purpose for being, beyond food, sleep, and procreation.
· Nutrition: what foods should I be eating that will make for an illness free and well-functioning body.
The list you make for your declarative statements can be endless. As it should be. But once you made these declarations make sure that you are sincere in them and that there is real interest and power in your aspiration to know, understand, see, and become. Any half-hearted or whimsical efforts will return exactly as given out. Put in little, get very little. Mean what you say, say it with all your heart and soul, and then seek and knock as opportunity provides. The results may surprise.
A clarifying note, so as to avoid the minefields of distortion and misinformation presented out in the world. When seeking and asking and therefore retuning your fate matrix, make sure you add in the phrase the truth. For example, your declarative statement and aspiration should be mentally formed as follows: Show me the truth as regards the true nature of soul, body, spirit, love, and beingness. By asking for the truth, you call into your life path the truth only. Now, the dark side may then try to slip you a micky on this with directions and knowledge that is filled with lies, falsehoods, and misdirections. But because you have asked for and declared for the truth, these false leads and misdirects will ring as brass and you’ll see them for the lies that they are.
We know that in the field of religion alone, there are so very many people clamoring for our attention with their way towards god and a divine life, as to be overwhelming. Christianity alone has hundreds of varying denominations and sects that each creed as given over seems to contradict not only the other denominations, but the very bible they all purport as their guiding light. Everyone seems to have a different creed on just what the meanings are in the bible. It’s a literal babel of noise. When we add into the mix all the other faith systems of earth, it seems nigh unsolvable. However, it is solvable, and there are those who are solving it right now.
It will help to start employing some life and spirit affirming techniques in our daily existence that will keep that tuning fork ringing within our hearts. We want our mind, body, and soul in the best possible condition so that as we grow, see, understand, know, be, and love, we will have the best reception to new experiences as possible. This means having a healthy body, stable emotions, and a clear thinking mind at our disposal.
The following will help.
1. Get healthy. Go organic whenever possible, and make sure your body has a daily supply of colloidal vitamins and minerals. Start cooking at home, learning how to make healthy dishes from scratch, rather than from processed packages. That means learning how to cook healthy foods that taste great. I’ve been cooking vegetarian meals for my four sons for years now with wonderful results and am constantly learning new dishes for them. We all are distilled water addicts, drinking several gallons a day between us. We distill our own water and it’s simply the best. Use organic skin creams (no chemicals), soaps, and deodorants; make sure your toothpaste is fluoride free. In addition to this, detox your body twice yearly with a complete system cleanse, especially if you are 40 and older. The decades pile up on us and there are years of stuff to be cleansed from our often, very poisoned bodies.
2. Get centered. At the very least, once a day, center yourself, quiet your thoughts, cast your worries from your mind and heart, and just stand in the presence of the kingdom of God within you. Being outside in the sun helps a great deal, plus all the vitamin benefits from doing so. These are the moments to know and be. Hear, feel, and sense the divine love that is within you and without you and is ever present. This one daily act alone will change everything you are into someone very wonderful, centered, healed, aware, connected, and stable. Changes come slowly, so make the best of each daily centering, by really grasping any new perceptions, thoughts, and guidance as may be given over to your consciousness.
3. Pray every day. For understanding. For love. For guidance. For wisdom to know truth from lies. For kindness and compassion. For the ill and infirmed. Keep it honest and sincere.
4. Be creative. Start doing those things where you make something from nothing. It’s a divine thing to be a creator soul and the best of humanity often comes from those times where creativity is expressed.
5. Control your speech. This, for most people, is the hardest thing to accomplish. Listen with a clear and objective mind to your speech, how you speak, what you say, why you say it, and most importantly, what your real motivations are behind the things you say to others and to yourself. Our speech to ourselves is most revealing, for there we see our true understanding of our motives and self-perceptions. Those that can perceive their self speech are very advanced upon the way of life, for they truly know who they are, what motivates them, why they exist, what their self-esteem issues are, and how very little control they have over their desires, hatreds, pettiness, and other character vices. Control of speech is an advanced thing and in it, we really hear others—more than what they are saying, but why they are saying it to us, and their motivations and desires, and what animates their souls, for good or ill. With this comes speaking directly and to the point. You find that you then say what you mean and mean what you say. Deception becomes barbaric for you. You find that as you require honesty you must therefore give over honesty first, within yourself and outward, as you express yourself to the world. To control our speech means to listen, as if our very life were hanging in the balance. For it is…it is.
6. Study yourself and the life that is visible to you. Wherever you are, there is life in all its forms. Really look at it, see it, and marvel at the wonder of it all. This will connect not only to the form of life, but its divine essence. Here lies the visibility of all things divine, as well as the distortions imposed upon life by the dark side. Both become visible. Lifetimes can be spent studying life, people, places, and things. Really make an attempt to see the world around you. It pays big dividends from the first moment we strive towards this understanding. Anything dismissed is an opportunity lost, remember that.
7. Be kind to others and to yourself. Be kind in your thoughts, feelings, and actions. To be kind in action, but hating in your heart is to be a kingdom divided against itself, which must then fall. Be the same inside as you are outside. Be whole.
These few, simple steps will set into motion entirely new future experiences for you in every department of your life that will help you “cut through the haze” of life at this time, during this epoch. It may be a few minutes away, days, or weeks, but little by little, your future—based on your new freewill choices of today—will then come into being which will bring all the new sincere aspirations into the forefront of your experiences, thereby coloring the new you. Then after a time, you’ll look back on the old years as though one living blind and marvel that you ever made it this far. See you to it.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Genetically Modified Foods: 80% of What's In Your Grocery Cart
Genetically Modified Foods: 80% of What's In Your Grocery Cart
- Dr Tim O'Shea
"As a scientist, actively working in the field [of GMO] I find that it is very, very unfair to use our fellow citizens as guinea pigs." - Arpad Pusztai, PhD
Since the 1990s world agriculture and food production has undergone the most radical transformation in history. With very little public awareness, in just a few short years genetically modified foods have come to dominate both global agriculture and supermarket shelf space.
What are GM foods?
What are their effects on human health and nutrition?
What are the effects on human DNA?
What have we done to our food?
This chapter hopes to serve as an introduction to the enormous new field known as the Biotech Industry. Does it really hold the promise of 'feeding the starving people' of the world as we often hear, or is there some other agenda here?
HISTORY OF GMO
This is a fast summary of GMO.
GMO - genetically modified organisms, whether plant or animal. Smith does a fairly good job of presenting a brief history of the evolution of biotechnology. [2] Turns out that the chemical corporations who produced mega-tons of nitrogen for bombs during the first and second world wars wanted to put that same technology to use postwar. This marked the beginning of the global market for agricultural pesticides and fertilizers.
In the past 100 years, the chronological sequence went:
Nitrogen bombs
fertilizer
pesticides
GM
Agribiz
Same guys, same industry, same corporations down through the decades.
The postwar transition from bombs to fertilizers was very successful, up until the early 1990s when the idea occurred to them that an even bigger market could be created for a chemical weedkiller that would kill all the plants in a field except the crop itself. But in order to withstand such a powerful poison, that crop would have to have a specific immunity or resistance to the weedkiller.
How could such immunity be made possible? Enter GM.
After years of experimentation, they found a way to make soybeans that were resistant to a very powerful weedkiller called Roundup. Get the American cowboy imagery there? Anyway, even though the immunity only lasted a few generations, it made for farming efficiency-- very clean fields. You could spray an entire field with poison-- even the crop itself. And the only thing left standing was the crop. [13]
Genetically modified soybeans were the first large scale crop to undergo massive Genetic Modification. How big is the experiment? Consider this. In 1996, there were no acres of GM soybeans in the US. After just 13 years, virtually all US soybeans are considered genetically modified! 300 million acres.
As far as global agriculture, by 1996 almost no acres of GM crops had been planted. After just 13 years, 42% of the total arable land on earth was planted with GM crops! [2] That should give some idea of the scope of the GM experiment. It's brand new to the planet Earth.
10 major US crops today are GMO. The total harvest of four of them is primarily GMO:
corn
cottonseed
soy
canola
BIODIVERSITY VS. MONOCULTURE
Any understanding of the GMO phenomenon in the US requires adding 2 new words to our vocabulary: Biodiversity and Monoculture.
Biodiversity just means nature's efforts to spread out and multiply as many versions of a plant species as possible, that are slightly different in their ability to survive different environments. This will give each species the best chance of surviving some cataclysmic environmental change. Or some small local ones. Natural selection. The more versions of a plant species there are the better its chances for long-term survival.
Monoculture on the other hand means that by using new agricultural practices in which only GM seeds are sown, there is only one exact species that grows. As time goes by, all the traditional species of a certain plant or crop are replaced by the one GM version. Monoculture is now happening to dozens of plant species worldwide.
To control the market, GM crops typically have a terminator gene inserted into their DNA which makes them sterile. That means for the first time in history these seeds won't germinate the next crop or be able to benefit from tiny self-improvements year by year, responding to changes in environment.
Why did the corporations want the GM crops to be sterile? Money. They wanted to force the farmer to have to come back to them every season and buy new seed. The company owns the patent on the GM version of the plant AND they own the seed. Integrated marketing. It's about total profit.
HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
The four main global multinational corporations responsible for the trillion dollar GM global agribusiness are of course
Monsanto
DuPont
Dow Chemical
Syngenta
In Engdahl's book [5] and elsewhere we can take a look at the track record of these companies as far as being cited and fined for global pollution during the past century. It's no secret - they don't even bother to deny it. Try googling Monsanto global pollution. Do the phrases sulfuric acid, PCB creation, Agent Orange, birth defects, dioxin, Lysol, bribery, etc. keep coming up? Who invented napalm? DuPont. Who paid huge fines for dumping old Agent Orange on open land in New Zealand? Dow Chemical. After the Vietnam War, Monsanto and Dow paid $63 million in damages to Korean vets and $180 million to American vets but not a single dime to the Vietnamese people themselves. [11]
In the landmark DVD The Future of Food [6] we are presented with evidence of how the world works. The revolving door between Monsanto and powerful positions in US government regulating agencies is epitomized:
Here are some career moves of just a few top Monsanto execs in recent years:
Donald Rumsfeld: CEO of Searle; Sec. Defense
Wm Ruckelhaus: CEO of Monsanto; FDA
Michael Freidman: EPA
Linda Fisher: EPA Deputy Minister
Jack Watson: White House chief of staff
Clarence Thomas: US Supreme Court
Mickey Kantor: Secretary of Commerce
Anne Veneman: Secretary of Agriculture
Margaret Miller: Deputy Director FDA
Below we will see Michael Taylor, formerly one of Monsanto's top lawyers and his role in preventing GM foods from ever being labelled. Taylor was also responsible for any risk assessment data in soybeans or any other GM experiment to be protected from the FDA by a nondisclosure clause protecting Monsanto's proprietary intellectual property. That's lawyer talk for a virtual license to poison the general public.
Taylor also saw to it that no hormones in commercial dairy products need ever be labelled.
Incidentally, guess where Taylor went after his years of selfless service to the FDA. Right. Straight back to Monsanto as vice president. p 11 [5]
Since George Herbert, all US presidents have gone out of their way to be supportive, actually pro-active, in placing absolutely no obstacles in the way of GMO advancement. And thereby hangs a money trail, but that's outside the scope of this chapter.
MORAL DILEMMA: THE ABILITY TO PATENT LIFE
The patenting of life - now this was a totally new suggestion to human jurisprudence with the advent of GMOs.
Wow - we're going to have to decide now whether or not it will be legal for humans or corporations to hold patents on living things. There were a few faint voices who raised an objection:
------- "The plants animals and microorganisms comprising life on earth are part of the natural world into which we were all born. The conversion of these species, their molecules, or parts into corporate property through patent monopolies is counter to the interests of the people of the world.
------ "No individual, institution or corporation should be able to claim ownership over species or varieties of living organisms. Nor should they be able to hold patents on organs, cells, or proteins."
- Council for Responsible Genetics [14]
Nice, but a bit too warm and fuzzy for the world at this particular juncture apparently -- this moral dilemma took about 5 minutes to resolve. Even though our Constitution implies a prohibition against the patenting of life, little obstacles like that were no match for phat corporate legal teams. Time for clever East coast lawyers to invent a few new words, that's all.
HOW CAN THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS HUGE EXPERIMENT?
Proper planning. GM has been on the drawing board since the early 1950s. Long story there. [5] We can pick it up in 1986 when there was a strategy meeting at the White House. GHW Bush, Monsanto and the Dept. of Agriculture met to set the groundwork for the GM industry. Right then they greenlighted the whole project, from here to eternity. Or as long as it would work. At that meeting it was decided that this brand new and unknown Biotechnology Industry which was about to unleash the largest agriculture experiment in history, would not require any government regulation or control!!
Why not? The new legal mantra for GMO they coined was "substantial equivalence." (p 4 [5] ) Here's how this particularly twisted bit of lawyering unravelled: the new GM organisms are simply extensions of normal plant and animal breeding that occur naturally, and therefore require no government regulation or oversight, they bleated. Like Gregor Mendel and grafting roses and all that. This magic slogan has been upheld in every single decision even to the present day and is the reason that NOT ONE LAW has ever been passed regarding the regulation of any GMO.
But then a new problem arose: patenting. OK, so if GMOs are exactly the same as the natural plants then how can they be patented? If it was supposedly substantially equivalent to the natural version, how could a seed be different?
Lawyers can stoop to any occasion. Simple solution: another slogan. What they did next was to say that even though GMOs are substantially equivalent to the natural version, lawyers will now hereby claim that the GMO versions are "substantially transformed" enough to allow the corporate giant to receive a patent.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Inconceivably, this impossibly simplistic and ridiculous little word trick has proved out in every adjudication involving GMOs for the past decade. It is exactly how the impenetrable Bush doctrine of GMO protectionism has been played out without a hitch, up to the present time.
THE PRIMARY MYTH
Way back in 1954 Watson and Crick devised the double helix model of DNA, which still dominates the popular perception of human genetics. So in each of your cells there is a DNA molecule that is exactly like the one in all your other cells and that's what makes each of us unique. Think we all got that much, right? Now each species also has unique DNA characteristics that have evolved over the aeons that limits breeding to its own. In fact that was Darwin's original definition of a separate species-- the ability to mate. Once natural evolution caused the DNA to become so divergent that two creatures could no longer mate, that was where a new species began.
Each species' collective DNA is called their genome.
Now the conventional Wikipedia-level wisdom about genetics is that DNA is a double string of genes and that each gene determines a single genetic trait. Like blue eyes, or alcoholism, or being 6' tall, or artistic talent, or a strong immune system, or good teeth, or a tendency to autism, etc.
In the new pseudo-science of Biotechnology, that idea is constantly reinforced - namely that it's a one gene / one trait situation. And all we have to do then is figure out which gene does what, change it around a little, recombine the new genes in the sequence we want, and voilà - we just made a watermelon that can play chess, or a blue rose, or a Congressman not primarily interested in looting. Or a bean that resists weed-killer.
Something outside nature. If we can just change things around a little. Unfortunately nature is not quite that simple.
The human genome has only recently been decoded, in 2007. Scientists were surprised to discover that there were only about 35,000 genes in human DNA, and not millions like they always expected. This small number presents some problems for the original model.
The first problem is that there are at least 10 million possible antigens that our immune system has to be able to recognize. [1] A mere 35,000 genes couldn't possibly be that versatile.
Further complications came when they discovered that each gene can code for literally thousands of different proteins in the body. That single fact alone blows the one gene/ one trait model out of the water. [3]
Then there's the concept of the promoter gene - which is a gene that is responsible for switching on or switching off an entire sequence of genes, which together may determine one single trait or characteristic.
Things became even more complicated when they learned that gene sequences - some long, some short - also code for specific commands.
This is a vast oversimplification, but even at this level we can see that the one gene / one trait idea is no longer an option, except at the science fiction / animatronix / Fox news level. One gene may be involved in countless commands and sequences.
Against all science, however, the biotech corporations one after another persist in claiming that their particular genetically modified product is different-- that they have figured out exactly what one gene does - all its possible effects on the new organism - and that they alone have solved the puzzle.
And they get away with this because most of the people in this country have lost the ability for abstract thought.
NOT LIKE GREGOR MENDEL
Let's get one thing straight here: Today's biotech industry is doing nothing even slightly resembling the work of Gregor Mendel in the 1800s with his pioneering methods of grafting and hybridization. The obvious difference is that GM bypasses all natural reproduction, and sidesteps any natural progression of generations. Natural breeding is a slow process involving generation after generation of sexual reproduction. GM is abrupt. Boom! A new species in 2 weeks.
The other departure you might have noticed is that Gregor Mendel never tried to cross an iguana with a water lily-- the old ways never even imagined crossing the species barrier. This is one blatant new characteristic of GMO that gets quietly ignored. By the inattentive.
Now once these brand new species are created, they can then be more or less permanent if they are released back into nature and allowed to intermix with the natural species of plant or animal. And once that happens they cannot be recalled. DNA in a test tube is stable and linear. But in a living organism DNA is unstable, nonlinear, complex and unpredictable. Same in the real world.
With brand new species popping up, which have bypassed centuries of natural selection and immunity, comes the real possibility of new diseases, new cancers, new epidemics. So keep this in mind the next time you read something comparing GM to natural old time breeding and grafting. Or about how scientific and life-saving GMOs are. That is op-ed think tank propaganda, at the highest level.
METHODS OF GENETIC MODIFICATION
As we saw above, one of the first GMO experiments was crossing the DNA of a flounder with that of a tomato. This was done in order to make the tomato able to withstand colder temperatures. Oh yes, did we mention? -- in the biotech industry, pieces of DNA can be transferred theoretically from any plant to any animal, vice versa, or any combination thereof.
Segments of DNA from one species are randomly spliced into the DNA of the other species hundreds and hundreds of times until the desired effect appears. How this cross-species DNA insertion is accomplished is a little less than scientific. The two most common methods of DNA modification are
the gene cannon
using bacteria and viruses as carriers for the DNA fragment [2]
Scientists refer to the Position Effect when talking about not being able to predict where the inserted fragments will end up in the genetic sequence. Limitless possibilities result-- recombining genetic sequences that can turn on or turn off vital processes that have taken thousands of years to refine.
In the gene cannon method tiny little golden bullets are shot into the cells of the target organism with a .22 calibre pistol. Not kidding. Hundreds of times. In this way the DNA of the host organism can be available for splicing in new fragments from the donor species. Of course this method is imprecise and unpredictable and anything but scientific. Only a tiny percentage of the blasted foreign DNA ends up inside the host DNA, of course. But if you do it enough times, you might eventually get a desired recombination. This was the how the flounder and tomato genes were combined.
The more popular method however is to use bacteria and viruses as carriers of donor DNA fragments which may then invade the host's DNA and splice in the new pieces. We have long known that viruses have this ability to invade the host's DNA and to actually splice themselves into the DNA strands. Both these methods of genetic modification result in the random scrambling of the host's DNA, which has virtually unlimited unpredictable consequences.
We're talking about a fatal disruption of the genetic blueprint. This makes for [2]
DNA instability
Insertion mutation
Carcinogenesis
Specifically with respect to cancer, GM using the viral carrier method has been thought to explain some part of the meteoric rise of colon cancer in recent years, at the #3 spot in US cancers today. Scotland's Dr Stephen Ewen, Pusztai's co-author, talks about how a growth factor effect from the inserted GM fragment very possibly could act upon the colon cells, causing them to divide out of all control. [12]
PROBLEMS WITH PROMOTER GENES
Promoter genes, we recall, are triggers that switch on certain sequences of genes in order to cause a certain cell action or event. The biotech industry saw a marketing niche in using a promoter gene to switch on a certain trait in a GM product they had created. This would be useful to protect their original invention: in order to make use of the GM plant seed they had already sold, the promoter gene or 'key' would also have to be present. Cozy marketing, but it has a few drawbacks.
--- 1. a promoter gene can turn on a variety of gene sequences besides the one for which it is intended
--- 2. if the promoter jumps to an organ, it can cause unregulated growth and unusual cell proliferation. [12] Does unregulated growth in any of your organs sound like something you'd want to sign up for any time soon?
--- 3. Barry Commoner describes randomly activating a promoter gene as "having the same effect as a heavy dose of gamma radiation." [3]
--- 4. Top UK scientist Arpad Pusztai agreed: promoter genes can cause immune dysfunction in any organ (p 63 [2] )
--- 5. Viruses that have long been dormant in human DNA can be reactivated by promoter genes in GMO foods. [12] Again, we're talking evolutionary tampering.
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
In the early 90s when it was uncertain how the biotech industry was going to unfold, the corporations were still naive enough to think that they actually had to study how animals would react to GM food, since it was being released on the human population. So they assigned one of the leading research scientists in the UK to create a model for testing GM food on animals - Dr Arpad Pusztai. He began feeding lab rats GM potatoes and carefully recording the results. After 110 days, he found that almost all of them exhibited adverse effects, including:
--- decreased size of heart, brain, reproductives--- damaged immune system - white cells--- thymus and spleen damage--- enlarged intestines pancreas--- precancerous changes in stomach and gut [12]
Pusztai considered these changes significant.
As he was writing up his findings in preparation for publication, Pusztai was approached by a high profile radio show in England to discuss the issue. This was August of 1999. A two hour interview was clipped down to 2 minutes actually broadcast, but it was enough to cause a huge scandal in England. No one realized how sensitive an issue GM food was until Pusztai came on the air and made a few critical comments on what he had observed. He was concerned because he realized that his were the only animal studies that had been conducted on GM food, but worse that these foods had been in the supermarkets in the UK and the US already for years and no one knew anything about them. He said he was afraid the British people were being used as "guinea pigs" for GM foods.
The timing was perfect: Tony Blair had just had the blueprints for Britain's new Food Standards Agency drawn up and they were heavily invested in GM foods. So when Pusztai came on the air, it set off a national scandal that had to be hushed up immediately. The overkill is what attracted the most attention however. Pusztai was fired, repudiated, silenced and basically ostracized from the scientific community. And he was one of the most respected scientists in the UK. p 17 [2]
The Pusztai incident triggered a huge media war in England that lasted for months and ended up with the government cast in a very unfavorable light, as they had obviously secretly tried to introduce dangerous foods untested into a prominent position in the British diet. The British Medical Association ended up coming out in favor of Pusztai and totally exonerating him. The end result was a moratorium on GM foods in the UK. ([2] chapter 1)
Incredibly through all this, there was not a murmur about it in the US press, even though it went on for months. Pusztai can never be mentioned in mainstream media in the US. No one has ever re-created his work anywhere, nor will they ever. Got that? -- there can be no scientific testing of the physical effects of GM foods on humans. Or animals, for that matter. It is not permitted. And of course there is no GMO limit in US foods, and no testing has ever been done because, remember, NOT ONE LAW has ever been passed regulating GM foods in America.
You might want to back up and re-read that last paragraph, before you order your next pizza or Happy Meal.
We have just skimmed over the highlights of the Pusztai scandal here, but the reader is directed to Jeffrey Smith and to Dr Ewen for more of that astounding story. [2, 12]
HOW MUCH OF THE AMERICAN DIET IS GM TODAY?
Best estimate: 80% of processed foods on supermarket shelves contain at least some GMOs, and at least 60% have GM as a primary ingredient.
Don't believe it? How about we go through your grocery cart from last weekend?
In addition, virtually all confined animals are fed GM food almost exclusively, most of it GM soy.
TO LABEL OR NOT TO LABEL?
In 1991 the policy commissioner of the FDA was Michael Taylor. Under his personal guidance the decision never to label GM foods in the US was ushered into policy and enshrined in an unassailable position. That decision has never been challenged.
Taylor's position just before joining the FDA? Chief counsel for Monsanto. [6]
Despite 94% of the public being in favor of GMO labels, we will never see them in the US. Even with 50% of the people saying they wouldn't eat GMO foods if they knew. With 80% of supermarket foods now GMO, does all this fit the profile of a secret agenda?
Although a label of organic is supposed to mean non-GMO, in reality it is simply unregulated. Giant strawberries, vegetables that don't go bad, grapefruits with the sections turned 90 degrees from normal, etc. - these unnatural growth patterns evident in so much of our produce today, including organic, it doesn't take much imagination to realize what is happening.
AGRIBUSINESS REPLACES AGRICULTURE
The revolution in agriculture in which food production was gradually concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer year after year has been going on since the 1950s.
For example, in 1935 there were 6.8 million farms in the US. By 2007 that number was down to 2 million. (US Dept of Agriculture, [6] )
Between 1979 and 1999 more than 300,000 farmers were forced out of business in the US. Farmers became indebted to large agri-corporations for the costs of crop production. Year by year they couldn't keep up and were driven out of business.
Today Agribusiness is an $800 billion per year proposition in the US, second only to pharmaceuticals.
Here are some examples of the concentration of food production:
4 companies control 64% of hog production
4 companies control 84% of cattle slaughter
3 companies control 71% of soybean processing
3 companies control 63% of flour milling
4 companies control 89% of breakfast cereal
2 companies control 80% of US seed corn
the same 2 control 80% of soybean seeds
30 food retailers have 1/3 of global grocery sales
5 companies completely dominate chicken meat production
It just goes on and on, but you're probably getting the picture. These companies have names that we're all familiar with: Monsanto, Hormel, Danone, Dupont, etc. For the whole list look at the books by Smith and Engdahl. [2, 5]
THE DOOMSDAY SEED VAULT - PLAN B
Back at the beginning of GM, some big players in the world agribusiness game realized that the experiment with GM crops might not work out in the long run as successfully as they had hoped. Their scientists saw that the supposed increased yields per acre they always promised only lasted the first few years, and after that yields declined. They also realized that the new GM mutations of plants and crops that were being released into the world were indeed irrevocable, and also were contaminating forever the natural lines that they were able to cross-breed with. They began sowing terminator gene technology into the natural agriculture of the planet.
So being realistic, the top scientists decided they needed to hedge their bets -- they needed a Plan B, in case they would really cause a Mad Max /Armageddon scenario to evolve. So they had a meeting - the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto, Bill Gates, Syngenta, the Norwegian government, and a few other players got together and decided that they would gather together as many of the pristine original varieties of seeds from as many of the world's plants as they could find. And they would build a big deep-freeze vault in some safe place to store the seeds in case this GM crop experiment got so out of hand that it irremedially contaminated all the vegetation on earth.
So the place they picked was a frozen little island off the coast of Norway in the North Sea called Svalbard. [5, 15] And there they carved this vault into the side of a mountain in this remote little place.
You can view images of Svalbard at http://www.croptrust.org/main/arctic.php?itemid=211Their goal: to store seeds from as many as 3 million different varieties of plants, from all around the world. They are almost finished. Bizarre as it sounds, this story is absolutely true. And if you don't believe it you can visit Svalbard next time you are in Oslo. (Bring your own nightlife.)
Why Norway? Because Norway had been smart enough not to join the EU. The EU banned GM seeds across the board in 1997.
The point here is - this is how drastic and potentially catastrophic the global GMO agriculture experiment really might be, that the largest corporations on earth would find it necessary to build a Noah's Ark of the world's seeds in case they unwittingly destroy the majority of the world's agriculture. The name Doomsday is actually their own word -- that's what they call it!
No US media has ever covered this story. Who would believe it? It sounds like something out of Austin Powers...
GREEN REVOLUTION
Long ago, One-World junior SS Henry Kissinger said:
"If you control the oil you control the country; if you control the food, you control the population."
This is what the global GM movement has always been about. The Rockefeller Foundation years ago came up with the slogan Green Revolution to disguise the true agenda and to make it look like the goal of GM food expansion was to "feed the starving people" of the world. [5] This should always be a panic phrase, whenever you hear it - when anyone wants to do your country a favor for free-- that's usually the time to head for the jungle. In reality, people are getting more wary of being sold out by their government officials receiving corporate payoffs. In 2003 for example George Bush's so-called Initiative to End Hunger In Africa (a dead giveaway) failed miserably. Many Africans nations actually preferred starving over accepting Bush's offer of free GM food!
E.L. Bernays think tank terminology which paves the way psychologically for the incursion of Agribusiness into poor nations always includes slogans like:
free enterprise
free trade
feed the world
open markets
oppressed colonials
Your first instinct when you read these phrases should be to look for the subtext, the angle: how are GM foods are being marketed here?
Taking such propaganda techniques to absurd lengths, another favorite is asserting that countries who oppose GM foods coming in are actually "supporting genocide" because they're standing in the way of feeding the people!
Another classic is pretending that the rationale for Terminator technology in GM seeds is not so the farmers have to keep buying new seed from Monsanto every year, but rather to "protect corporations from unscrupulous farmers." That's why the seeds have to be made sterile. That's another stock propaganda slogan now. Yes, unscrupulous farmers who would dare to employ traditional farming techniques that have allowed their people to survive for thousands of years.
All this positioning and preparation has paid off. The plan to destroy the indigenous agriculture of developing nations and to replace it with corporate agriculture has been successful beyond any expectations the Rockefeller Foundation and the GM corporations ever entertained in their wildest imagination.
POSILAC - THE FIRST MASS MARKETED GMO PRODUCT
In the early 90s Monsanto was preparing for the rise of the corporatization of the dairy industry-- dairy agribusiness. Foremost in all such endeavors is profit, of course. Profit at all costs. In this instance cows were seen as nothing more than cogs in the production machinery. Their job: to produce milk. The corporate challenge was one dimensional: how could they produce more milk. Not better milk, not provide better nutrition for the people consuming the dairy products, not ensure that the milk was safe for human consumption, not looking out for the physical well-being of the cows themselves-- none of that nonsense. Milk production output - period.
After minimal testing Monsanto scientists came up with the Golden Goose of the corporate dairy business: recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH). (p 12 [2] )
Monsanto's rBGH invention was called Posilac. It was approved by the FDA as safe for humans in 1994 after being tested for only 90 days on 30 rats! (p 12, [5] ) Obviously there were no long term safety studies of Posilac completed even though they were recommended by all of FDA's own scientists.
What this synthetic hormone could do was to keep cows lactating continuously even after a calf was born. In fact, milk production was now no longer dependent on calving at all. With rBGH cows were effectively turned into milk machines whose only limitation was how long they could survive on a highly refined diet while staying loaded up on huge doses of drugs, antibiotics, and hormones.
Answer: usually about 3 years, practically nonstop. Many farms don't even bother to unhook the cows and just leave them confined and attached to the machines day after day, like some lab experiment in a Terminator movie.
At the outset let's take a second here and notice that we have just made a major departure from nature, notwithstanding from 100,000 years of animal husbandry. A natural milk cow may lactate for 12 years or more because she is providing for a newborn calf every year. But all that pregnancy stuff doesn't merge well with blue-sky corporate agenda of more at any cost. It's down time, an unallowable expense. We have a drug that can force the cows' body to use up all natural reserves for 3 years with no annoying pregnancies? Bring it on! Oh, the cow will die after only 3 years as a result? So? That comes under unavoidable overhead - the cost of doing business.
How did Posilac get approved so fast? Going back and looking at the records, we find that any FDA scientist who objected to Posilac's being railroaded through the approval process was immediately fired! They were also forced to say that rBGH does not persist in the milk product after it is out of the cow, and even if it does would be destroyed in the human digestive tract. Both these falsehoods have been thoroughly brought to light and shown to be the exact opposite of physiological reality.
In the limited studies Monsanto did on cows (3 cows to be exact) they injected only 10 mg per day of rBGH into the cow. Then they made their studies based on those amounts. In actual practice a modern dairy cow gets 500 mg every 2 weeks which causes hormone levels in her body for the rest of her short life to be 1000x normal. (p 14 [2] )
Without being broken down by human digestion, most rBGH is then transferred into the human circulatory system, not only causing enormous confusion with the other hormones in the endocrine system, but giving rise to a more serious consequence.
IGF-1 - INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR 1
It was soon discovered by scientists that once in the cow's body, much of the synthetic rBGH was converted to another hormone called insulin-like growth hormone 1 or IGF-1. This is actually a normal hormone in cows and in humans, in small amounts. IGF-1 is a hormone that limits certain physiologic activities, milk production being one of them. In nature, IGF-1 is the switch in the cow's body that turns off milk production when it's time to wean the calf. All it takes is a small amount.
And that's the problem -- small amounts. rBGH stimulates a cow's level of IGF-1 up to 1000x normal, or more. What this does to the cow is to inhibit cell death of the lacteals. In other words, the hormone prevents the natural course from taking place: the milk producing cells should die off as the calf is weaned. Think about something in your body that is inhibiting cell death of a tissue that should be controlled-- in other words promoting a certain cell type to reproduce itself unregulated, out of control.
What disease does that sound like a definition of?
And this brings us to the most frightening fact of all: IGF-1 transfer to humans through commercial milk. All those cell effects are introduced into human physiology in huge amounts, since the mid 1900s when rBGH began to be used in most commercial dairies.
What age group gets the most milk recommended? Children. What does the curve of childhood cancer incidence look like since 1994? Straight up.
In Jeffrey Smith's book [2] we learn some other facts about IGF-1:
pre-menopausal women with high IGF-1 are 7x more likely to develop breast cancer
men are 4x more likely to develop prostate cancer
those who drink rBGH milk are also likely to develop colon and lung cancer
Ever hear any of that in media? Of course not. All we hear is You Never Outgrow Your Need for Milk, or various op-ed pieces written under ghost names by dairy industry writers made to look like investigative reporting about the health values of pasteurized commercial dairy. Which in this country is the result of cows on rBGH.
We are actually the only country that allows so much milk to be sold with rBGH. Canada banned Posilac in 1999 - not because of the danger to humans but because of what the dangerous hormone does to cows! So rBGH is banned not on the supermarket shelves, but from the dairy cows themselves in Canada.
In the EU after finding overwhelming evidence of breast and prostate cancer in humans from huge amounts of IGF-1, Posilac was banned.
In 1999, the UN banned Posilac.
In 2007, so did Starbucks!
The US is the only country in the world with an unregulated supply of milk with IGF-1 and rBGH being offered in stores. We are also the only country where a discussion of rBGH has been effectively banned from media.
ANTIBIOTICS IN MILK
When the commercial dairy cows began coming down with enormous rates of all infections from the inhumane new milking procedures, the amount of antibiotics had to be raised by a factor of 100. (p 11 [5] ) The FDA granted permission virtually overnight for this monumental increase, even though it had extremely dangerous consequences for the effect on human intestinal probiotics after consumption of such over-medicated milk.
Guess who rammed through that regulation? FDA deputy director Margaret Miller: former Monsanto executive.
OTHER NEW ANIMAL PRACTICES IN GM AGRIBUSINESS Similar to the way domestic dairy cows are treated, many new animal practices have emerged in the brave new world of raising animals in the corporate food production:
----- chickens raised their entire lives in tiny cages not much bigger than them--on diets of GM soy, loaded with hormones and antibiotics and arsenic (for parasites) and then slaughtered for your grocery store or the Colonel after 6 weeks. Hormones and antibiotics intact.
----- pigs raised their entire lives crowded together in small cages-- never see the light of day-- slaughtered at 600 lbs. Same hormones and antibiotics. Diets of GM soy.
These corporate animal farms have heavy security. No visitors, no cameras, no disclosure. You can drive past them for miles without seeing an animal-- just miles and miles of long low buildings.
Ask the people north of Ames Iowa, where 10% of the world's pork is produced. Ask them if they ever see any hogs.
In these secret start-to-finish meat factories there are effectively no health and safety regulations. They are virtually unmonitored for food contamination. Injured animals are routinely not cared for, just left to suffer and die, because caring for them would disrupt production and raise production costs. They are run like any corporation: that is, fixed on profits above all else. [8]
The US Dept of Agriculture quotes figures of between 10 and 28% "animal loss" for injured and mutilated animals that die as a result of production procedures that are absolutely indifferent to the care of the animals themselves. (p 139 [5] ) Makes you realize what a joke the ASPCA really is -- these guys want to hang out on Hollywood sets so they can put their little stamp at the end about how no dog or cat was harmed in the filming of the movie, when all this systematic horror show is going on all day every day at the global level we've just described... Actually the corporations through their lobbying have gotten themselves formally exempted from SPCA laws, not that that excuses the heinous nature of the entire process. Ever think about the cumulative karmic debt the human race is building up? ... this animal thing is a just a tiny corner. But they're living beings.
A few of the consequences of the modern system of corporate animal confinement practices:
- Mass concentrations of animal wastes in local landfills, contaminating ground water and underground supplies
- CDC cites at least 40 new human diseases that have resulted from exactly this source, including the rise of spontaneous abortions - so many women not able to bring the child to term. ( [5] p 141)
- the skyrocketing of all human cancers in the eastern shore area of Maryland where the majority of the nation's commercial chickens are raised, from 200 cases per 100,000 population for all types of cancers - the national average - up to 275 cases per 100,000 following the FDA's OK to add huge amounts of arsenic to the chicken feed.
It goes on and on. Look at the sources cited below for more, if you can take it.
THE GENETIC MODIFICATION OF IRAQ: WHY IRAQ HATES THE US
Besides blaming them for 9/11, occupying their country, decimating their population, littering their landscape with depleted uranium, there is another major reason Iraq will hold the US in lowest regard for generations to come: Bremer's 100 Orders. Part of the 'reconstruction' legislation of Iraq, Bremer's 100 Orders were written into the new constitution of Iraq, forced by US Pentagon influence. [5] Never mentioned in US media.
Bremer Order #81 states that Iraq's "farmers shall be prohibited from reusing seeds of protected varieties, or any variety." Protected varieties means they are protecting Monsanto.
This order ..."gave plant patent holders [Monsanto] absolute rights over farmers using their GM seeds for 20 years."
The farmers are forced to buy new seed every year from Monsanto, who had genetically altered the indigenous Iraqi plants slightly - just enough to patent them.
The farmers are further required to sign a contract which states that they owe Monsanto an annual "technology fee" as payment for Monsanto having stolen their indigenous plants and altering them enough to own the new varieties! (Engdahl p 212 [5] )
This "law" was never negotiated between two sovereign nations. Instead it was imposed directly upon Iraq by the Pentagon. The author of Order 81? Monsanto.
There's more. Abu Ghraib was famous long before it made headlines as a US torture facility. For years and years Abu Ghraib had held a seed bank of all Iraq's indigenous crop seed. After the Americans came, the seed bank mysteriously vanished. Immediately after that, GM seeds were introduced by Monsanto and Sungene. Soy, wheat and sunflower. [5]
The bottom line is, as part of our reconstruction program for Iraq, receipt of the money was dependent on them accepting the terms that were written for the Pentagon by Monsanto execs, especially with respect to the role of GMOs in all future agricultural.
There is no polite way to state this: we stole the agricultural heritage of this country and gave it to Monsanto, indenturing Iraqi farmers to Monsanto permanently.
Ever hear that on CNN?
WHAT IS THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION?
William Engdahl gives a penetrating look at this puppet organization that seems given to making restrictive pronouncements on world agriculture by consistently defending and protecting the interests of the biotech industry against claims from poor countries or private farmers.
Originally set up out of Washington DC, the WTO was then moved to Geneva to give it the appearance of being an independent international organization. WTO has continued to take most of its cues directly from Washington. [5]
One of those directives has always been that individual countries do not have the power to enforce their own food safety laws upon the manufacturers and importers of any GM foods. (p 218 [5] ) And who co-wrote the text of that agreement? No surprise here: Cargill, Nestle, DuPont, Monsanto. In this light the WTO can be seen as little more than a police agency which would "force GM crops on a skeptical world." [5]
The way such enforcement is accomplished has become quite routine: if a small country objects to the importation of GM foods, WTO immediately steps in and pronounces these objections as "unfair trade practices." Right out of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell.
If a country wants to require GM labelling, WTO's stock attack phrase is "technical restrictions to trade."
WTO policy is very easy to understand when one stands back and takes a look at their decisions and initiatives: they always protect the Agribusiness giants. In their view the sovereign nations have no right to protect their own people from GMO imports.
A $trillion a year global industry certainly needs an international mouthpiece.
SO THEN WHO'S PROTECTING THE PUBLIC FROM GMOs?
With no laws ever passed regulating the huge biotech industry, nor any government regulating body ever established for that purpose, the ghastly joke is that these multinationals, who collectively share the most egregious record of global contamination and pollution of any group in history, are left to self-police! The famous quote from Monsanto's Phil Angell aptly portrays how seriously they would regard any imaginary responsibility to self-police:
-- "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is to sell as much of it as possible. Answering for its safety is the FDA's job."
In 1987 the EPA arbitrarily raised the toxicity limits of glyphosate from 6 parts per million to 20 parts per million with no additional testing. Why? Monsanto requested it! (p 75 [9] ) As the development of Roundup continued to exceed even those expanded safety levels, in 1993 Monsanto won an unheard-of "exemption from further review or tracking" from the EPA for Roundup Ready Soybeans! [9]
Environmental Protection?
So with no one monitoring this new experiment in global agriculture, when would we actually know that we have reached the point of no return? It took 40 years for the carcinogenic effects of altered tobacco to be acknowledged. And it's still legal. The poison insecticide DDT was used unrestrictedly from 1948 to 1972 all over the world, before it was finally banned. Before we dumped 91 million liters of Monsanto's Agent Orange defoliant onto the jungles of Vietnam, [10] causing tens of thousands of birth defects and cancer cases, they assured us it was harmless. Remember?
OTHER GMO FOODS
In The Magic Bean we listed foods that contained primarily GM ingredients:
most breads
pastries
cookies
candy
soft drinks
margarine
pasteurized dairy
high fructose corn sweetened foods
salty snacks
deep fried fast foods
croutons
most foods wrapped in cellophane
most cereals
anything hydrogenated
most domestic non-organic meats and poultry products
farm-raised fish
most salad dressing
Just a few examples, but you can see how the 80% figure is no exaggeration. Obesity is just a side effect of the DNA-altering diet that we bring home every week in our grocery bags. Are we seeing any overall differences in the general health of American people since GM foods began to predominate?
RECENT CHANGES IN THE SOCIAL FABRIC
at least 10% of US couples are now infertile
sperm counts are down to 50% of what they were 25 years ago
1 in 6 of US girls are at menarche by age 8
proliferation of hermaphroditic birds fish and animals in nature
rampant sexual ambiguity through the culture
skyrocketing of all degenerative and infectious diseases among young people despite a $2 trillion annual health budget
skyrocketing of autism
incidence of neurological disorders in children: 1 in 6
decline in high school literacy rates
decline in the % of childbearing women who are able to breastfeed their infants
CONCLUSION
This has been the briefest of introductions to the area of GM foods, their prevalence, and what they mean in this country at the present time. The reader is urged to follow up on the appended references for more information, especially the DVD The Future of Food.
So if you're in perfect health, have tons of energy, never get colds or feel tired, maybe you've got Keith Richard's constitution and are impervious to any level of toxicity. You think you can afford to ignore this entire chapter. But if there are some physical imbalances or illnesses that seem to be progressing year by year, you will never return to equilibrium until you
---- stop accumulating more DNA-altering food---- detox what is residual in your tissues
As far as solutions go, the first step in eliminating GM foods, is to read carefully all labels before placing anything in our grocery cart. Look for the above clues. As for detoxification from the bio-accumulated GM residuals that are trapped in our tissue cells from the last 10 or 15 years of an uninformed lifestyle, the reader is directed to the chapters titled
http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/gmo/genetically-modified-foods.php
- Dr Tim O'Shea
"As a scientist, actively working in the field [of GMO] I find that it is very, very unfair to use our fellow citizens as guinea pigs." - Arpad Pusztai, PhD
Since the 1990s world agriculture and food production has undergone the most radical transformation in history. With very little public awareness, in just a few short years genetically modified foods have come to dominate both global agriculture and supermarket shelf space.
What are GM foods?
What are their effects on human health and nutrition?
What are the effects on human DNA?
What have we done to our food?
This chapter hopes to serve as an introduction to the enormous new field known as the Biotech Industry. Does it really hold the promise of 'feeding the starving people' of the world as we often hear, or is there some other agenda here?
HISTORY OF GMO
This is a fast summary of GMO.
GMO - genetically modified organisms, whether plant or animal. Smith does a fairly good job of presenting a brief history of the evolution of biotechnology. [2] Turns out that the chemical corporations who produced mega-tons of nitrogen for bombs during the first and second world wars wanted to put that same technology to use postwar. This marked the beginning of the global market for agricultural pesticides and fertilizers.
In the past 100 years, the chronological sequence went:
Nitrogen bombs
fertilizer
pesticides
GM
Agribiz
Same guys, same industry, same corporations down through the decades.
The postwar transition from bombs to fertilizers was very successful, up until the early 1990s when the idea occurred to them that an even bigger market could be created for a chemical weedkiller that would kill all the plants in a field except the crop itself. But in order to withstand such a powerful poison, that crop would have to have a specific immunity or resistance to the weedkiller.
How could such immunity be made possible? Enter GM.
After years of experimentation, they found a way to make soybeans that were resistant to a very powerful weedkiller called Roundup. Get the American cowboy imagery there? Anyway, even though the immunity only lasted a few generations, it made for farming efficiency-- very clean fields. You could spray an entire field with poison-- even the crop itself. And the only thing left standing was the crop. [13]
Genetically modified soybeans were the first large scale crop to undergo massive Genetic Modification. How big is the experiment? Consider this. In 1996, there were no acres of GM soybeans in the US. After just 13 years, virtually all US soybeans are considered genetically modified! 300 million acres.
As far as global agriculture, by 1996 almost no acres of GM crops had been planted. After just 13 years, 42% of the total arable land on earth was planted with GM crops! [2] That should give some idea of the scope of the GM experiment. It's brand new to the planet Earth.
10 major US crops today are GMO. The total harvest of four of them is primarily GMO:
corn
cottonseed
soy
canola
BIODIVERSITY VS. MONOCULTURE
Any understanding of the GMO phenomenon in the US requires adding 2 new words to our vocabulary: Biodiversity and Monoculture.
Biodiversity just means nature's efforts to spread out and multiply as many versions of a plant species as possible, that are slightly different in their ability to survive different environments. This will give each species the best chance of surviving some cataclysmic environmental change. Or some small local ones. Natural selection. The more versions of a plant species there are the better its chances for long-term survival.
Monoculture on the other hand means that by using new agricultural practices in which only GM seeds are sown, there is only one exact species that grows. As time goes by, all the traditional species of a certain plant or crop are replaced by the one GM version. Monoculture is now happening to dozens of plant species worldwide.
To control the market, GM crops typically have a terminator gene inserted into their DNA which makes them sterile. That means for the first time in history these seeds won't germinate the next crop or be able to benefit from tiny self-improvements year by year, responding to changes in environment.
Why did the corporations want the GM crops to be sterile? Money. They wanted to force the farmer to have to come back to them every season and buy new seed. The company owns the patent on the GM version of the plant AND they own the seed. Integrated marketing. It's about total profit.
HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
The four main global multinational corporations responsible for the trillion dollar GM global agribusiness are of course
Monsanto
DuPont
Dow Chemical
Syngenta
In Engdahl's book [5] and elsewhere we can take a look at the track record of these companies as far as being cited and fined for global pollution during the past century. It's no secret - they don't even bother to deny it. Try googling Monsanto global pollution. Do the phrases sulfuric acid, PCB creation, Agent Orange, birth defects, dioxin, Lysol, bribery, etc. keep coming up? Who invented napalm? DuPont. Who paid huge fines for dumping old Agent Orange on open land in New Zealand? Dow Chemical. After the Vietnam War, Monsanto and Dow paid $63 million in damages to Korean vets and $180 million to American vets but not a single dime to the Vietnamese people themselves. [11]
In the landmark DVD The Future of Food [6] we are presented with evidence of how the world works. The revolving door between Monsanto and powerful positions in US government regulating agencies is epitomized:
Here are some career moves of just a few top Monsanto execs in recent years:
Donald Rumsfeld: CEO of Searle; Sec. Defense
Wm Ruckelhaus: CEO of Monsanto; FDA
Michael Freidman: EPA
Linda Fisher: EPA Deputy Minister
Jack Watson: White House chief of staff
Clarence Thomas: US Supreme Court
Mickey Kantor: Secretary of Commerce
Anne Veneman: Secretary of Agriculture
Margaret Miller: Deputy Director FDA
Below we will see Michael Taylor, formerly one of Monsanto's top lawyers and his role in preventing GM foods from ever being labelled. Taylor was also responsible for any risk assessment data in soybeans or any other GM experiment to be protected from the FDA by a nondisclosure clause protecting Monsanto's proprietary intellectual property. That's lawyer talk for a virtual license to poison the general public.
Taylor also saw to it that no hormones in commercial dairy products need ever be labelled.
Incidentally, guess where Taylor went after his years of selfless service to the FDA. Right. Straight back to Monsanto as vice president. p 11 [5]
Since George Herbert, all US presidents have gone out of their way to be supportive, actually pro-active, in placing absolutely no obstacles in the way of GMO advancement. And thereby hangs a money trail, but that's outside the scope of this chapter.
MORAL DILEMMA: THE ABILITY TO PATENT LIFE
The patenting of life - now this was a totally new suggestion to human jurisprudence with the advent of GMOs.
Wow - we're going to have to decide now whether or not it will be legal for humans or corporations to hold patents on living things. There were a few faint voices who raised an objection:
------- "The plants animals and microorganisms comprising life on earth are part of the natural world into which we were all born. The conversion of these species, their molecules, or parts into corporate property through patent monopolies is counter to the interests of the people of the world.
------ "No individual, institution or corporation should be able to claim ownership over species or varieties of living organisms. Nor should they be able to hold patents on organs, cells, or proteins."
- Council for Responsible Genetics [14]
Nice, but a bit too warm and fuzzy for the world at this particular juncture apparently -- this moral dilemma took about 5 minutes to resolve. Even though our Constitution implies a prohibition against the patenting of life, little obstacles like that were no match for phat corporate legal teams. Time for clever East coast lawyers to invent a few new words, that's all.
HOW CAN THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS HUGE EXPERIMENT?
Proper planning. GM has been on the drawing board since the early 1950s. Long story there. [5] We can pick it up in 1986 when there was a strategy meeting at the White House. GHW Bush, Monsanto and the Dept. of Agriculture met to set the groundwork for the GM industry. Right then they greenlighted the whole project, from here to eternity. Or as long as it would work. At that meeting it was decided that this brand new and unknown Biotechnology Industry which was about to unleash the largest agriculture experiment in history, would not require any government regulation or control!!
Why not? The new legal mantra for GMO they coined was "substantial equivalence." (p 4 [5] ) Here's how this particularly twisted bit of lawyering unravelled: the new GM organisms are simply extensions of normal plant and animal breeding that occur naturally, and therefore require no government regulation or oversight, they bleated. Like Gregor Mendel and grafting roses and all that. This magic slogan has been upheld in every single decision even to the present day and is the reason that NOT ONE LAW has ever been passed regarding the regulation of any GMO.
But then a new problem arose: patenting. OK, so if GMOs are exactly the same as the natural plants then how can they be patented? If it was supposedly substantially equivalent to the natural version, how could a seed be different?
Lawyers can stoop to any occasion. Simple solution: another slogan. What they did next was to say that even though GMOs are substantially equivalent to the natural version, lawyers will now hereby claim that the GMO versions are "substantially transformed" enough to allow the corporate giant to receive a patent.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Inconceivably, this impossibly simplistic and ridiculous little word trick has proved out in every adjudication involving GMOs for the past decade. It is exactly how the impenetrable Bush doctrine of GMO protectionism has been played out without a hitch, up to the present time.
THE PRIMARY MYTH
Way back in 1954 Watson and Crick devised the double helix model of DNA, which still dominates the popular perception of human genetics. So in each of your cells there is a DNA molecule that is exactly like the one in all your other cells and that's what makes each of us unique. Think we all got that much, right? Now each species also has unique DNA characteristics that have evolved over the aeons that limits breeding to its own. In fact that was Darwin's original definition of a separate species-- the ability to mate. Once natural evolution caused the DNA to become so divergent that two creatures could no longer mate, that was where a new species began.
Each species' collective DNA is called their genome.
Now the conventional Wikipedia-level wisdom about genetics is that DNA is a double string of genes and that each gene determines a single genetic trait. Like blue eyes, or alcoholism, or being 6' tall, or artistic talent, or a strong immune system, or good teeth, or a tendency to autism, etc.
In the new pseudo-science of Biotechnology, that idea is constantly reinforced - namely that it's a one gene / one trait situation. And all we have to do then is figure out which gene does what, change it around a little, recombine the new genes in the sequence we want, and voilà - we just made a watermelon that can play chess, or a blue rose, or a Congressman not primarily interested in looting. Or a bean that resists weed-killer.
Something outside nature. If we can just change things around a little. Unfortunately nature is not quite that simple.
The human genome has only recently been decoded, in 2007. Scientists were surprised to discover that there were only about 35,000 genes in human DNA, and not millions like they always expected. This small number presents some problems for the original model.
The first problem is that there are at least 10 million possible antigens that our immune system has to be able to recognize. [1] A mere 35,000 genes couldn't possibly be that versatile.
Further complications came when they discovered that each gene can code for literally thousands of different proteins in the body. That single fact alone blows the one gene/ one trait model out of the water. [3]
Then there's the concept of the promoter gene - which is a gene that is responsible for switching on or switching off an entire sequence of genes, which together may determine one single trait or characteristic.
Things became even more complicated when they learned that gene sequences - some long, some short - also code for specific commands.
This is a vast oversimplification, but even at this level we can see that the one gene / one trait idea is no longer an option, except at the science fiction / animatronix / Fox news level. One gene may be involved in countless commands and sequences.
Against all science, however, the biotech corporations one after another persist in claiming that their particular genetically modified product is different-- that they have figured out exactly what one gene does - all its possible effects on the new organism - and that they alone have solved the puzzle.
And they get away with this because most of the people in this country have lost the ability for abstract thought.
NOT LIKE GREGOR MENDEL
Let's get one thing straight here: Today's biotech industry is doing nothing even slightly resembling the work of Gregor Mendel in the 1800s with his pioneering methods of grafting and hybridization. The obvious difference is that GM bypasses all natural reproduction, and sidesteps any natural progression of generations. Natural breeding is a slow process involving generation after generation of sexual reproduction. GM is abrupt. Boom! A new species in 2 weeks.
The other departure you might have noticed is that Gregor Mendel never tried to cross an iguana with a water lily-- the old ways never even imagined crossing the species barrier. This is one blatant new characteristic of GMO that gets quietly ignored. By the inattentive.
Now once these brand new species are created, they can then be more or less permanent if they are released back into nature and allowed to intermix with the natural species of plant or animal. And once that happens they cannot be recalled. DNA in a test tube is stable and linear. But in a living organism DNA is unstable, nonlinear, complex and unpredictable. Same in the real world.
With brand new species popping up, which have bypassed centuries of natural selection and immunity, comes the real possibility of new diseases, new cancers, new epidemics. So keep this in mind the next time you read something comparing GM to natural old time breeding and grafting. Or about how scientific and life-saving GMOs are. That is op-ed think tank propaganda, at the highest level.
METHODS OF GENETIC MODIFICATION
As we saw above, one of the first GMO experiments was crossing the DNA of a flounder with that of a tomato. This was done in order to make the tomato able to withstand colder temperatures. Oh yes, did we mention? -- in the biotech industry, pieces of DNA can be transferred theoretically from any plant to any animal, vice versa, or any combination thereof.
Segments of DNA from one species are randomly spliced into the DNA of the other species hundreds and hundreds of times until the desired effect appears. How this cross-species DNA insertion is accomplished is a little less than scientific. The two most common methods of DNA modification are
the gene cannon
using bacteria and viruses as carriers for the DNA fragment [2]
Scientists refer to the Position Effect when talking about not being able to predict where the inserted fragments will end up in the genetic sequence. Limitless possibilities result-- recombining genetic sequences that can turn on or turn off vital processes that have taken thousands of years to refine.
In the gene cannon method tiny little golden bullets are shot into the cells of the target organism with a .22 calibre pistol. Not kidding. Hundreds of times. In this way the DNA of the host organism can be available for splicing in new fragments from the donor species. Of course this method is imprecise and unpredictable and anything but scientific. Only a tiny percentage of the blasted foreign DNA ends up inside the host DNA, of course. But if you do it enough times, you might eventually get a desired recombination. This was the how the flounder and tomato genes were combined.
The more popular method however is to use bacteria and viruses as carriers of donor DNA fragments which may then invade the host's DNA and splice in the new pieces. We have long known that viruses have this ability to invade the host's DNA and to actually splice themselves into the DNA strands. Both these methods of genetic modification result in the random scrambling of the host's DNA, which has virtually unlimited unpredictable consequences.
We're talking about a fatal disruption of the genetic blueprint. This makes for [2]
DNA instability
Insertion mutation
Carcinogenesis
Specifically with respect to cancer, GM using the viral carrier method has been thought to explain some part of the meteoric rise of colon cancer in recent years, at the #3 spot in US cancers today. Scotland's Dr Stephen Ewen, Pusztai's co-author, talks about how a growth factor effect from the inserted GM fragment very possibly could act upon the colon cells, causing them to divide out of all control. [12]
PROBLEMS WITH PROMOTER GENES
Promoter genes, we recall, are triggers that switch on certain sequences of genes in order to cause a certain cell action or event. The biotech industry saw a marketing niche in using a promoter gene to switch on a certain trait in a GM product they had created. This would be useful to protect their original invention: in order to make use of the GM plant seed they had already sold, the promoter gene or 'key' would also have to be present. Cozy marketing, but it has a few drawbacks.
--- 1. a promoter gene can turn on a variety of gene sequences besides the one for which it is intended
--- 2. if the promoter jumps to an organ, it can cause unregulated growth and unusual cell proliferation. [12] Does unregulated growth in any of your organs sound like something you'd want to sign up for any time soon?
--- 3. Barry Commoner describes randomly activating a promoter gene as "having the same effect as a heavy dose of gamma radiation." [3]
--- 4. Top UK scientist Arpad Pusztai agreed: promoter genes can cause immune dysfunction in any organ (p 63 [2] )
--- 5. Viruses that have long been dormant in human DNA can be reactivated by promoter genes in GMO foods. [12] Again, we're talking evolutionary tampering.
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
In the early 90s when it was uncertain how the biotech industry was going to unfold, the corporations were still naive enough to think that they actually had to study how animals would react to GM food, since it was being released on the human population. So they assigned one of the leading research scientists in the UK to create a model for testing GM food on animals - Dr Arpad Pusztai. He began feeding lab rats GM potatoes and carefully recording the results. After 110 days, he found that almost all of them exhibited adverse effects, including:
--- decreased size of heart, brain, reproductives--- damaged immune system - white cells--- thymus and spleen damage--- enlarged intestines pancreas--- precancerous changes in stomach and gut [12]
Pusztai considered these changes significant.
As he was writing up his findings in preparation for publication, Pusztai was approached by a high profile radio show in England to discuss the issue. This was August of 1999. A two hour interview was clipped down to 2 minutes actually broadcast, but it was enough to cause a huge scandal in England. No one realized how sensitive an issue GM food was until Pusztai came on the air and made a few critical comments on what he had observed. He was concerned because he realized that his were the only animal studies that had been conducted on GM food, but worse that these foods had been in the supermarkets in the UK and the US already for years and no one knew anything about them. He said he was afraid the British people were being used as "guinea pigs" for GM foods.
The timing was perfect: Tony Blair had just had the blueprints for Britain's new Food Standards Agency drawn up and they were heavily invested in GM foods. So when Pusztai came on the air, it set off a national scandal that had to be hushed up immediately. The overkill is what attracted the most attention however. Pusztai was fired, repudiated, silenced and basically ostracized from the scientific community. And he was one of the most respected scientists in the UK. p 17 [2]
The Pusztai incident triggered a huge media war in England that lasted for months and ended up with the government cast in a very unfavorable light, as they had obviously secretly tried to introduce dangerous foods untested into a prominent position in the British diet. The British Medical Association ended up coming out in favor of Pusztai and totally exonerating him. The end result was a moratorium on GM foods in the UK. ([2] chapter 1)
Incredibly through all this, there was not a murmur about it in the US press, even though it went on for months. Pusztai can never be mentioned in mainstream media in the US. No one has ever re-created his work anywhere, nor will they ever. Got that? -- there can be no scientific testing of the physical effects of GM foods on humans. Or animals, for that matter. It is not permitted. And of course there is no GMO limit in US foods, and no testing has ever been done because, remember, NOT ONE LAW has ever been passed regulating GM foods in America.
You might want to back up and re-read that last paragraph, before you order your next pizza or Happy Meal.
We have just skimmed over the highlights of the Pusztai scandal here, but the reader is directed to Jeffrey Smith and to Dr Ewen for more of that astounding story. [2, 12]
HOW MUCH OF THE AMERICAN DIET IS GM TODAY?
Best estimate: 80% of processed foods on supermarket shelves contain at least some GMOs, and at least 60% have GM as a primary ingredient.
Don't believe it? How about we go through your grocery cart from last weekend?
In addition, virtually all confined animals are fed GM food almost exclusively, most of it GM soy.
TO LABEL OR NOT TO LABEL?
In 1991 the policy commissioner of the FDA was Michael Taylor. Under his personal guidance the decision never to label GM foods in the US was ushered into policy and enshrined in an unassailable position. That decision has never been challenged.
Taylor's position just before joining the FDA? Chief counsel for Monsanto. [6]
Despite 94% of the public being in favor of GMO labels, we will never see them in the US. Even with 50% of the people saying they wouldn't eat GMO foods if they knew. With 80% of supermarket foods now GMO, does all this fit the profile of a secret agenda?
Although a label of organic is supposed to mean non-GMO, in reality it is simply unregulated. Giant strawberries, vegetables that don't go bad, grapefruits with the sections turned 90 degrees from normal, etc. - these unnatural growth patterns evident in so much of our produce today, including organic, it doesn't take much imagination to realize what is happening.
AGRIBUSINESS REPLACES AGRICULTURE
The revolution in agriculture in which food production was gradually concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer year after year has been going on since the 1950s.
For example, in 1935 there were 6.8 million farms in the US. By 2007 that number was down to 2 million. (US Dept of Agriculture, [6] )
Between 1979 and 1999 more than 300,000 farmers were forced out of business in the US. Farmers became indebted to large agri-corporations for the costs of crop production. Year by year they couldn't keep up and were driven out of business.
Today Agribusiness is an $800 billion per year proposition in the US, second only to pharmaceuticals.
Here are some examples of the concentration of food production:
4 companies control 64% of hog production
4 companies control 84% of cattle slaughter
3 companies control 71% of soybean processing
3 companies control 63% of flour milling
4 companies control 89% of breakfast cereal
2 companies control 80% of US seed corn
the same 2 control 80% of soybean seeds
30 food retailers have 1/3 of global grocery sales
5 companies completely dominate chicken meat production
It just goes on and on, but you're probably getting the picture. These companies have names that we're all familiar with: Monsanto, Hormel, Danone, Dupont, etc. For the whole list look at the books by Smith and Engdahl. [2, 5]
THE DOOMSDAY SEED VAULT - PLAN B
Back at the beginning of GM, some big players in the world agribusiness game realized that the experiment with GM crops might not work out in the long run as successfully as they had hoped. Their scientists saw that the supposed increased yields per acre they always promised only lasted the first few years, and after that yields declined. They also realized that the new GM mutations of plants and crops that were being released into the world were indeed irrevocable, and also were contaminating forever the natural lines that they were able to cross-breed with. They began sowing terminator gene technology into the natural agriculture of the planet.
So being realistic, the top scientists decided they needed to hedge their bets -- they needed a Plan B, in case they would really cause a Mad Max /Armageddon scenario to evolve. So they had a meeting - the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto, Bill Gates, Syngenta, the Norwegian government, and a few other players got together and decided that they would gather together as many of the pristine original varieties of seeds from as many of the world's plants as they could find. And they would build a big deep-freeze vault in some safe place to store the seeds in case this GM crop experiment got so out of hand that it irremedially contaminated all the vegetation on earth.
So the place they picked was a frozen little island off the coast of Norway in the North Sea called Svalbard. [5, 15] And there they carved this vault into the side of a mountain in this remote little place.
You can view images of Svalbard at http://www.croptrust.org/main/arctic.php?itemid=211Their goal: to store seeds from as many as 3 million different varieties of plants, from all around the world. They are almost finished. Bizarre as it sounds, this story is absolutely true. And if you don't believe it you can visit Svalbard next time you are in Oslo. (Bring your own nightlife.)
Why Norway? Because Norway had been smart enough not to join the EU. The EU banned GM seeds across the board in 1997.
The point here is - this is how drastic and potentially catastrophic the global GMO agriculture experiment really might be, that the largest corporations on earth would find it necessary to build a Noah's Ark of the world's seeds in case they unwittingly destroy the majority of the world's agriculture. The name Doomsday is actually their own word -- that's what they call it!
No US media has ever covered this story. Who would believe it? It sounds like something out of Austin Powers...
GREEN REVOLUTION
Long ago, One-World junior SS Henry Kissinger said:
"If you control the oil you control the country; if you control the food, you control the population."
This is what the global GM movement has always been about. The Rockefeller Foundation years ago came up with the slogan Green Revolution to disguise the true agenda and to make it look like the goal of GM food expansion was to "feed the starving people" of the world. [5] This should always be a panic phrase, whenever you hear it - when anyone wants to do your country a favor for free-- that's usually the time to head for the jungle. In reality, people are getting more wary of being sold out by their government officials receiving corporate payoffs. In 2003 for example George Bush's so-called Initiative to End Hunger In Africa (a dead giveaway) failed miserably. Many Africans nations actually preferred starving over accepting Bush's offer of free GM food!
E.L. Bernays think tank terminology which paves the way psychologically for the incursion of Agribusiness into poor nations always includes slogans like:
free enterprise
free trade
feed the world
open markets
oppressed colonials
Your first instinct when you read these phrases should be to look for the subtext, the angle: how are GM foods are being marketed here?
Taking such propaganda techniques to absurd lengths, another favorite is asserting that countries who oppose GM foods coming in are actually "supporting genocide" because they're standing in the way of feeding the people!
Another classic is pretending that the rationale for Terminator technology in GM seeds is not so the farmers have to keep buying new seed from Monsanto every year, but rather to "protect corporations from unscrupulous farmers." That's why the seeds have to be made sterile. That's another stock propaganda slogan now. Yes, unscrupulous farmers who would dare to employ traditional farming techniques that have allowed their people to survive for thousands of years.
All this positioning and preparation has paid off. The plan to destroy the indigenous agriculture of developing nations and to replace it with corporate agriculture has been successful beyond any expectations the Rockefeller Foundation and the GM corporations ever entertained in their wildest imagination.
POSILAC - THE FIRST MASS MARKETED GMO PRODUCT
In the early 90s Monsanto was preparing for the rise of the corporatization of the dairy industry-- dairy agribusiness. Foremost in all such endeavors is profit, of course. Profit at all costs. In this instance cows were seen as nothing more than cogs in the production machinery. Their job: to produce milk. The corporate challenge was one dimensional: how could they produce more milk. Not better milk, not provide better nutrition for the people consuming the dairy products, not ensure that the milk was safe for human consumption, not looking out for the physical well-being of the cows themselves-- none of that nonsense. Milk production output - period.
After minimal testing Monsanto scientists came up with the Golden Goose of the corporate dairy business: recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH). (p 12 [2] )
Monsanto's rBGH invention was called Posilac. It was approved by the FDA as safe for humans in 1994 after being tested for only 90 days on 30 rats! (p 12, [5] ) Obviously there were no long term safety studies of Posilac completed even though they were recommended by all of FDA's own scientists.
What this synthetic hormone could do was to keep cows lactating continuously even after a calf was born. In fact, milk production was now no longer dependent on calving at all. With rBGH cows were effectively turned into milk machines whose only limitation was how long they could survive on a highly refined diet while staying loaded up on huge doses of drugs, antibiotics, and hormones.
Answer: usually about 3 years, practically nonstop. Many farms don't even bother to unhook the cows and just leave them confined and attached to the machines day after day, like some lab experiment in a Terminator movie.
At the outset let's take a second here and notice that we have just made a major departure from nature, notwithstanding from 100,000 years of animal husbandry. A natural milk cow may lactate for 12 years or more because she is providing for a newborn calf every year. But all that pregnancy stuff doesn't merge well with blue-sky corporate agenda of more at any cost. It's down time, an unallowable expense. We have a drug that can force the cows' body to use up all natural reserves for 3 years with no annoying pregnancies? Bring it on! Oh, the cow will die after only 3 years as a result? So? That comes under unavoidable overhead - the cost of doing business.
How did Posilac get approved so fast? Going back and looking at the records, we find that any FDA scientist who objected to Posilac's being railroaded through the approval process was immediately fired! They were also forced to say that rBGH does not persist in the milk product after it is out of the cow, and even if it does would be destroyed in the human digestive tract. Both these falsehoods have been thoroughly brought to light and shown to be the exact opposite of physiological reality.
In the limited studies Monsanto did on cows (3 cows to be exact) they injected only 10 mg per day of rBGH into the cow. Then they made their studies based on those amounts. In actual practice a modern dairy cow gets 500 mg every 2 weeks which causes hormone levels in her body for the rest of her short life to be 1000x normal. (p 14 [2] )
Without being broken down by human digestion, most rBGH is then transferred into the human circulatory system, not only causing enormous confusion with the other hormones in the endocrine system, but giving rise to a more serious consequence.
IGF-1 - INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR 1
It was soon discovered by scientists that once in the cow's body, much of the synthetic rBGH was converted to another hormone called insulin-like growth hormone 1 or IGF-1. This is actually a normal hormone in cows and in humans, in small amounts. IGF-1 is a hormone that limits certain physiologic activities, milk production being one of them. In nature, IGF-1 is the switch in the cow's body that turns off milk production when it's time to wean the calf. All it takes is a small amount.
And that's the problem -- small amounts. rBGH stimulates a cow's level of IGF-1 up to 1000x normal, or more. What this does to the cow is to inhibit cell death of the lacteals. In other words, the hormone prevents the natural course from taking place: the milk producing cells should die off as the calf is weaned. Think about something in your body that is inhibiting cell death of a tissue that should be controlled-- in other words promoting a certain cell type to reproduce itself unregulated, out of control.
What disease does that sound like a definition of?
And this brings us to the most frightening fact of all: IGF-1 transfer to humans through commercial milk. All those cell effects are introduced into human physiology in huge amounts, since the mid 1900s when rBGH began to be used in most commercial dairies.
What age group gets the most milk recommended? Children. What does the curve of childhood cancer incidence look like since 1994? Straight up.
In Jeffrey Smith's book [2] we learn some other facts about IGF-1:
pre-menopausal women with high IGF-1 are 7x more likely to develop breast cancer
men are 4x more likely to develop prostate cancer
those who drink rBGH milk are also likely to develop colon and lung cancer
Ever hear any of that in media? Of course not. All we hear is You Never Outgrow Your Need for Milk, or various op-ed pieces written under ghost names by dairy industry writers made to look like investigative reporting about the health values of pasteurized commercial dairy. Which in this country is the result of cows on rBGH.
We are actually the only country that allows so much milk to be sold with rBGH. Canada banned Posilac in 1999 - not because of the danger to humans but because of what the dangerous hormone does to cows! So rBGH is banned not on the supermarket shelves, but from the dairy cows themselves in Canada.
In the EU after finding overwhelming evidence of breast and prostate cancer in humans from huge amounts of IGF-1, Posilac was banned.
In 1999, the UN banned Posilac.
In 2007, so did Starbucks!
The US is the only country in the world with an unregulated supply of milk with IGF-1 and rBGH being offered in stores. We are also the only country where a discussion of rBGH has been effectively banned from media.
ANTIBIOTICS IN MILK
When the commercial dairy cows began coming down with enormous rates of all infections from the inhumane new milking procedures, the amount of antibiotics had to be raised by a factor of 100. (p 11 [5] ) The FDA granted permission virtually overnight for this monumental increase, even though it had extremely dangerous consequences for the effect on human intestinal probiotics after consumption of such over-medicated milk.
Guess who rammed through that regulation? FDA deputy director Margaret Miller: former Monsanto executive.
OTHER NEW ANIMAL PRACTICES IN GM AGRIBUSINESS Similar to the way domestic dairy cows are treated, many new animal practices have emerged in the brave new world of raising animals in the corporate food production:
----- chickens raised their entire lives in tiny cages not much bigger than them--on diets of GM soy, loaded with hormones and antibiotics and arsenic (for parasites) and then slaughtered for your grocery store or the Colonel after 6 weeks. Hormones and antibiotics intact.
----- pigs raised their entire lives crowded together in small cages-- never see the light of day-- slaughtered at 600 lbs. Same hormones and antibiotics. Diets of GM soy.
These corporate animal farms have heavy security. No visitors, no cameras, no disclosure. You can drive past them for miles without seeing an animal-- just miles and miles of long low buildings.
Ask the people north of Ames Iowa, where 10% of the world's pork is produced. Ask them if they ever see any hogs.
In these secret start-to-finish meat factories there are effectively no health and safety regulations. They are virtually unmonitored for food contamination. Injured animals are routinely not cared for, just left to suffer and die, because caring for them would disrupt production and raise production costs. They are run like any corporation: that is, fixed on profits above all else. [8]
The US Dept of Agriculture quotes figures of between 10 and 28% "animal loss" for injured and mutilated animals that die as a result of production procedures that are absolutely indifferent to the care of the animals themselves. (p 139 [5] ) Makes you realize what a joke the ASPCA really is -- these guys want to hang out on Hollywood sets so they can put their little stamp at the end about how no dog or cat was harmed in the filming of the movie, when all this systematic horror show is going on all day every day at the global level we've just described... Actually the corporations through their lobbying have gotten themselves formally exempted from SPCA laws, not that that excuses the heinous nature of the entire process. Ever think about the cumulative karmic debt the human race is building up? ... this animal thing is a just a tiny corner. But they're living beings.
A few of the consequences of the modern system of corporate animal confinement practices:
- Mass concentrations of animal wastes in local landfills, contaminating ground water and underground supplies
- CDC cites at least 40 new human diseases that have resulted from exactly this source, including the rise of spontaneous abortions - so many women not able to bring the child to term. ( [5] p 141)
- the skyrocketing of all human cancers in the eastern shore area of Maryland where the majority of the nation's commercial chickens are raised, from 200 cases per 100,000 population for all types of cancers - the national average - up to 275 cases per 100,000 following the FDA's OK to add huge amounts of arsenic to the chicken feed.
It goes on and on. Look at the sources cited below for more, if you can take it.
THE GENETIC MODIFICATION OF IRAQ: WHY IRAQ HATES THE US
Besides blaming them for 9/11, occupying their country, decimating their population, littering their landscape with depleted uranium, there is another major reason Iraq will hold the US in lowest regard for generations to come: Bremer's 100 Orders. Part of the 'reconstruction' legislation of Iraq, Bremer's 100 Orders were written into the new constitution of Iraq, forced by US Pentagon influence. [5] Never mentioned in US media.
Bremer Order #81 states that Iraq's "farmers shall be prohibited from reusing seeds of protected varieties, or any variety." Protected varieties means they are protecting Monsanto.
This order ..."gave plant patent holders [Monsanto] absolute rights over farmers using their GM seeds for 20 years."
The farmers are forced to buy new seed every year from Monsanto, who had genetically altered the indigenous Iraqi plants slightly - just enough to patent them.
The farmers are further required to sign a contract which states that they owe Monsanto an annual "technology fee" as payment for Monsanto having stolen their indigenous plants and altering them enough to own the new varieties! (Engdahl p 212 [5] )
This "law" was never negotiated between two sovereign nations. Instead it was imposed directly upon Iraq by the Pentagon. The author of Order 81? Monsanto.
There's more. Abu Ghraib was famous long before it made headlines as a US torture facility. For years and years Abu Ghraib had held a seed bank of all Iraq's indigenous crop seed. After the Americans came, the seed bank mysteriously vanished. Immediately after that, GM seeds were introduced by Monsanto and Sungene. Soy, wheat and sunflower. [5]
The bottom line is, as part of our reconstruction program for Iraq, receipt of the money was dependent on them accepting the terms that were written for the Pentagon by Monsanto execs, especially with respect to the role of GMOs in all future agricultural.
There is no polite way to state this: we stole the agricultural heritage of this country and gave it to Monsanto, indenturing Iraqi farmers to Monsanto permanently.
Ever hear that on CNN?
WHAT IS THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION?
William Engdahl gives a penetrating look at this puppet organization that seems given to making restrictive pronouncements on world agriculture by consistently defending and protecting the interests of the biotech industry against claims from poor countries or private farmers.
Originally set up out of Washington DC, the WTO was then moved to Geneva to give it the appearance of being an independent international organization. WTO has continued to take most of its cues directly from Washington. [5]
One of those directives has always been that individual countries do not have the power to enforce their own food safety laws upon the manufacturers and importers of any GM foods. (p 218 [5] ) And who co-wrote the text of that agreement? No surprise here: Cargill, Nestle, DuPont, Monsanto. In this light the WTO can be seen as little more than a police agency which would "force GM crops on a skeptical world." [5]
The way such enforcement is accomplished has become quite routine: if a small country objects to the importation of GM foods, WTO immediately steps in and pronounces these objections as "unfair trade practices." Right out of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell.
If a country wants to require GM labelling, WTO's stock attack phrase is "technical restrictions to trade."
WTO policy is very easy to understand when one stands back and takes a look at their decisions and initiatives: they always protect the Agribusiness giants. In their view the sovereign nations have no right to protect their own people from GMO imports.
A $trillion a year global industry certainly needs an international mouthpiece.
SO THEN WHO'S PROTECTING THE PUBLIC FROM GMOs?
With no laws ever passed regulating the huge biotech industry, nor any government regulating body ever established for that purpose, the ghastly joke is that these multinationals, who collectively share the most egregious record of global contamination and pollution of any group in history, are left to self-police! The famous quote from Monsanto's Phil Angell aptly portrays how seriously they would regard any imaginary responsibility to self-police:
-- "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is to sell as much of it as possible. Answering for its safety is the FDA's job."
In 1987 the EPA arbitrarily raised the toxicity limits of glyphosate from 6 parts per million to 20 parts per million with no additional testing. Why? Monsanto requested it! (p 75 [9] ) As the development of Roundup continued to exceed even those expanded safety levels, in 1993 Monsanto won an unheard-of "exemption from further review or tracking" from the EPA for Roundup Ready Soybeans! [9]
Environmental Protection?
So with no one monitoring this new experiment in global agriculture, when would we actually know that we have reached the point of no return? It took 40 years for the carcinogenic effects of altered tobacco to be acknowledged. And it's still legal. The poison insecticide DDT was used unrestrictedly from 1948 to 1972 all over the world, before it was finally banned. Before we dumped 91 million liters of Monsanto's Agent Orange defoliant onto the jungles of Vietnam, [10] causing tens of thousands of birth defects and cancer cases, they assured us it was harmless. Remember?
OTHER GMO FOODS
In The Magic Bean we listed foods that contained primarily GM ingredients:
most breads
pastries
cookies
candy
soft drinks
margarine
pasteurized dairy
high fructose corn sweetened foods
salty snacks
deep fried fast foods
croutons
most foods wrapped in cellophane
most cereals
anything hydrogenated
most domestic non-organic meats and poultry products
farm-raised fish
most salad dressing
Just a few examples, but you can see how the 80% figure is no exaggeration. Obesity is just a side effect of the DNA-altering diet that we bring home every week in our grocery bags. Are we seeing any overall differences in the general health of American people since GM foods began to predominate?
RECENT CHANGES IN THE SOCIAL FABRIC
at least 10% of US couples are now infertile
sperm counts are down to 50% of what they were 25 years ago
1 in 6 of US girls are at menarche by age 8
proliferation of hermaphroditic birds fish and animals in nature
rampant sexual ambiguity through the culture
skyrocketing of all degenerative and infectious diseases among young people despite a $2 trillion annual health budget
skyrocketing of autism
incidence of neurological disorders in children: 1 in 6
decline in high school literacy rates
decline in the % of childbearing women who are able to breastfeed their infants
CONCLUSION
This has been the briefest of introductions to the area of GM foods, their prevalence, and what they mean in this country at the present time. The reader is urged to follow up on the appended references for more information, especially the DVD The Future of Food.
So if you're in perfect health, have tons of energy, never get colds or feel tired, maybe you've got Keith Richard's constitution and are impervious to any level of toxicity. You think you can afford to ignore this entire chapter. But if there are some physical imbalances or illnesses that seem to be progressing year by year, you will never return to equilibrium until you
---- stop accumulating more DNA-altering food---- detox what is residual in your tissues
As far as solutions go, the first step in eliminating GM foods, is to read carefully all labels before placing anything in our grocery cart. Look for the above clues. As for detoxification from the bio-accumulated GM residuals that are trapped in our tissue cells from the last 10 or 15 years of an uninformed lifestyle, the reader is directed to the chapters titled
http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/gmo/genetically-modified-foods.php
Friday, April 3, 2009
Wave of mass shootings
The network needs to get the guns banned and seized and they need it done this year. Now, they have a "liberal" in the White House, and Dems always vote for gun control. This is the year, it would appear, that they go for the guns. They need the population disarmed. Personally, there are far better ways of dealing with oppression than using firearms, but the system knows that the average person will use weapons to defend themselves against savagery and tyranny at the end of the day. They need and want what they have and are doing, in Gaza. Disarm, take away the food, the electricity, and any form of communication; then you can do what you will, which is their credo.
One need only look at the history of China and Russia in the mid 20th century to see how millions upon millions of disarmed citizens were literally erased from this planet. Disarmament precedes savagery. All cowards feel emboldened when they know there is little chance for reaction and response. And as the population seems unwilling to take and use the procedures en masse to stop the darkness sweeping over the western countries. The great tool in our possession is realizing that the people outnumber the devils, 1,000 to 1. All we have to do is quit. Stop participating in the ongoing charade. But, the population has to do it in toto, as was accomplished when Gandhi was alive. Until that time, and as long as humanity thinks in terms of self first, they have us. Over a barrel.
The first wave to come, legislation-wise, is mass gun registration. "Just register your guns, please. That's all we ask."Phase two will be gun confiscation. Under some pretense, as provided for in the small print of the legislation. Then, the homoland security, police state apparatus will swing into gear and start going to those homes and seizing them with swat operations. Doors kicked in and innocent people shot down like animals. For that is how things are done these days.It is coming.
The people who do the shootings are either completely mind-controlled or they are doing it for a kind of satanic sacrifice. You see, in satanic circles, sacrificing your life for the collective good of the network is considered a high thing, praise-worthy even. They are assured that they will soon be taken care of in the next life and will quickly reincarnate in good standing with the network. They know this to be so, because unlike the many uninitiated and unaware, the dimensional realities just out of phase are full of their kind eagerly looking to get back into bodies into better circumstances than which they left. The lower astral plane is full of such souls.
One need only look at the history of China and Russia in the mid 20th century to see how millions upon millions of disarmed citizens were literally erased from this planet. Disarmament precedes savagery. All cowards feel emboldened when they know there is little chance for reaction and response. And as the population seems unwilling to take and use the procedures en masse to stop the darkness sweeping over the western countries. The great tool in our possession is realizing that the people outnumber the devils, 1,000 to 1. All we have to do is quit. Stop participating in the ongoing charade. But, the population has to do it in toto, as was accomplished when Gandhi was alive. Until that time, and as long as humanity thinks in terms of self first, they have us. Over a barrel.
The first wave to come, legislation-wise, is mass gun registration. "Just register your guns, please. That's all we ask."Phase two will be gun confiscation. Under some pretense, as provided for in the small print of the legislation. Then, the homoland security, police state apparatus will swing into gear and start going to those homes and seizing them with swat operations. Doors kicked in and innocent people shot down like animals. For that is how things are done these days.It is coming.
The people who do the shootings are either completely mind-controlled or they are doing it for a kind of satanic sacrifice. You see, in satanic circles, sacrificing your life for the collective good of the network is considered a high thing, praise-worthy even. They are assured that they will soon be taken care of in the next life and will quickly reincarnate in good standing with the network. They know this to be so, because unlike the many uninitiated and unaware, the dimensional realities just out of phase are full of their kind eagerly looking to get back into bodies into better circumstances than which they left. The lower astral plane is full of such souls.
Network Survelliance "Gang Stalking"
The network is satanic. It's a group, pyramid system, with many varying layers of wealth - and poverty, on the lower rungs - including police, the intelligence agencies (ALL OF THEM), doctors, executives, actresses, waitresses, you name it - even the guy running the gas station. It's large and controls all aspects of our world. What is known as gang stalking is really just what is honestly known as "aggressive survelliance" by network members. The way to deal with gang stalking is to bless your enemies, with all the love, kindness, and empathy you can command. For those on the dark side, these higher frequencies are like hot coals on their head...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG52QemWSgI
http://gangstalking.ca/examples.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG52QemWSgI
http://gangstalking.ca/examples.htm
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Invalid Argument Terms
Invalid Argument Terms/Techniques(some of these terms do not always imply an invalid technique,but the ploy can be labeled as such)
Ad Antiquitam Appealing to convention or traditional action as a proof of validity.
Ad hoc Simply means directed to a single proposition or issue--no further implications intended. A proliferation of ad hoc adjustments to a theory indicates a crisis in acceptability.
Ad hominem (abusive) Attacking the behavior or character of the man instead of his argument. Appealing to emotions and/or prejudices rather than to intellect or reason.
Ad Novitam Appealing to modernity or newness as a proof of validity.
Associationism Implying that an associative relationship is a causative one.
Affirming the Consequent Within valid logic structure when we say that if A is true then B is true, we must prove A to be true in order to conclude that B is true. Affirming the consequent is to erroneously conclude that A is true upon finding that B is true.
Authoritarianism Unquestioning reliance on an authority or expert.
Composition Fallacy Applying to the whole the properties of the parts.
Defeatism Claiming an end is impossible to achieve as a reason for not following a line of reason.
De fide Literally "of faith", but implying revealed by god and requiring unconditional assent.
Denying the Antecedent Within valid logic structure when we say that if A is true then B is true, we must not assume B to be false because A is false. Denying the antecedent is to erroneously conclude that B is false upon finding that A is false.
Derision Using an emphasis on ridicule to assail a premise or argument.
Dis-accreditation The ploy of pointing out a lack of formal accreditation on the other side.
Disaffirmation A contradiction or repudiation of a premise formerly stated or agreed upon.
Dismissal Dismissing a premise, hypothesis or theory before hearing the argument.
Dis-qualification Excusing oneself by the ploy of being formally or academically unqualified.
Division Fallacy Applying to the part what may be true of the whole.
Dogmatism Unwarranted or arrogant stating of opinion or position.
Equivocation Using the same term or word in different and incomparable senses.
Enthusiasm Originally implying supernatural inspiration, it is often used to try to override logic.
Exaggeration Overemphasizing to an extreme degree.
False Analogy An offering of resemblances that don't really imply essential similarity.
Gamblers Fallacy Thinking that some pattern of the past has an influence on a truly random event.
Genetic Fallacy The Origin of something is erroneously ascribed.
Ignotum per ignotius The attempt to defend an assertion against criticism by deriving it from some "general principle" that is even more vulnerable to that criticism.
Illogical Based on faulty logic.
Invalid Emphasis Accenting or stressing a word or phrase in a sentence where that accent or emphasis changes the probably received meaning..
Invalid Syllogism A syllogism is a major premise, minor premise and valid conclusion such as: All virtues are laudable, kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable. An invalid form would be: Some Danes are dogs, Lars is a Dane; therefore Lars is a dog.
Irrelevance Where an argument that may support one conclusion is used to support another, or where the argument is misguided or oblique to the issue at hand.
Hyper-limitation Intentionally and/or needlessly limiting the number of options or possibilities.
Hypocrisy* Originally meant lacking in judgment or lacking the quality of careful and critical thinking. Now used here to denote an agenda other than to arrive at the truth.
Loaded Questions Asking questions where no simple response can be reasonable, or where any response implies acceptance of what is asserted as part of the question.
Mala fide With intent to deceive.
Mal entendu Misunderstood or poorly conceived.
Mal absurdum Mis-characterization or invalid reduction to an absurdity..
Misinform To supply with misleading information.
Non-comparable Not worthy of comparison.
Non sequitur Latin for out of sequence, a break in the chain of logic with an unwarranted leap.
Pedantism A demand to prove the case within the conventional framework..
Petitio principii Assuming in the premise of an argument the conclusion which is to be substantiated; a form of circular reasoning.
Post Hoc Ergo Prompter Hoc An argument that implies that since A preceded B in time, A caused B.
Proton Pseudos First or fundamental falsity or error. Many times arguments start with this up front or as a hidden assumption.
Red Herring Raising an issue or challenge that is not relevant or is simply a distraction from the issue at hand.
Reductionism Any method or theory that reduces data, information or processes to seeming equivalents that are less complex or developed than is the real case.
Reification The attempt to make a purely abstract idea or concept into a real-world extant entity.
Red Herring The introduction of extraneous material or irrelevant argument to divert attention or focus on the issue at hand.
Simplistic Demand Demanding a simple or inadequate answer to a complex question or issue.
Special Pleading Using a double-standard to require less rigorous treatment for one's own assertion than one would use against a counter assertion.
Straw man Arguing against a premise no one has taken, knocking that premise down, and then assuming or implying that you have then discredited the original at question.
Tautology A form of needless repetition or circular reasoning that does not advance understanding.
Ultra-Symbolism Confusing the symbol with the reality for which it stands.
Unilateralism Taking into account only one side of an issue or matter.
Ad Antiquitam Appealing to convention or traditional action as a proof of validity.
Ad hoc Simply means directed to a single proposition or issue--no further implications intended. A proliferation of ad hoc adjustments to a theory indicates a crisis in acceptability.
Ad hominem (abusive) Attacking the behavior or character of the man instead of his argument. Appealing to emotions and/or prejudices rather than to intellect or reason.
Ad Novitam Appealing to modernity or newness as a proof of validity.
Associationism Implying that an associative relationship is a causative one.
Affirming the Consequent Within valid logic structure when we say that if A is true then B is true, we must prove A to be true in order to conclude that B is true. Affirming the consequent is to erroneously conclude that A is true upon finding that B is true.
Authoritarianism Unquestioning reliance on an authority or expert.
Composition Fallacy Applying to the whole the properties of the parts.
Defeatism Claiming an end is impossible to achieve as a reason for not following a line of reason.
De fide Literally "of faith", but implying revealed by god and requiring unconditional assent.
Denying the Antecedent Within valid logic structure when we say that if A is true then B is true, we must not assume B to be false because A is false. Denying the antecedent is to erroneously conclude that B is false upon finding that A is false.
Derision Using an emphasis on ridicule to assail a premise or argument.
Dis-accreditation The ploy of pointing out a lack of formal accreditation on the other side.
Disaffirmation A contradiction or repudiation of a premise formerly stated or agreed upon.
Dismissal Dismissing a premise, hypothesis or theory before hearing the argument.
Dis-qualification Excusing oneself by the ploy of being formally or academically unqualified.
Division Fallacy Applying to the part what may be true of the whole.
Dogmatism Unwarranted or arrogant stating of opinion or position.
Equivocation Using the same term or word in different and incomparable senses.
Enthusiasm Originally implying supernatural inspiration, it is often used to try to override logic.
Exaggeration Overemphasizing to an extreme degree.
False Analogy An offering of resemblances that don't really imply essential similarity.
Gamblers Fallacy Thinking that some pattern of the past has an influence on a truly random event.
Genetic Fallacy The Origin of something is erroneously ascribed.
Ignotum per ignotius The attempt to defend an assertion against criticism by deriving it from some "general principle" that is even more vulnerable to that criticism.
Illogical Based on faulty logic.
Invalid Emphasis Accenting or stressing a word or phrase in a sentence where that accent or emphasis changes the probably received meaning..
Invalid Syllogism A syllogism is a major premise, minor premise and valid conclusion such as: All virtues are laudable, kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable. An invalid form would be: Some Danes are dogs, Lars is a Dane; therefore Lars is a dog.
Irrelevance Where an argument that may support one conclusion is used to support another, or where the argument is misguided or oblique to the issue at hand.
Hyper-limitation Intentionally and/or needlessly limiting the number of options or possibilities.
Hypocrisy* Originally meant lacking in judgment or lacking the quality of careful and critical thinking. Now used here to denote an agenda other than to arrive at the truth.
Loaded Questions Asking questions where no simple response can be reasonable, or where any response implies acceptance of what is asserted as part of the question.
Mala fide With intent to deceive.
Mal entendu Misunderstood or poorly conceived.
Mal absurdum Mis-characterization or invalid reduction to an absurdity..
Misinform To supply with misleading information.
Non-comparable Not worthy of comparison.
Non sequitur Latin for out of sequence, a break in the chain of logic with an unwarranted leap.
Pedantism A demand to prove the case within the conventional framework..
Petitio principii Assuming in the premise of an argument the conclusion which is to be substantiated; a form of circular reasoning.
Post Hoc Ergo Prompter Hoc An argument that implies that since A preceded B in time, A caused B.
Proton Pseudos First or fundamental falsity or error. Many times arguments start with this up front or as a hidden assumption.
Red Herring Raising an issue or challenge that is not relevant or is simply a distraction from the issue at hand.
Reductionism Any method or theory that reduces data, information or processes to seeming equivalents that are less complex or developed than is the real case.
Reification The attempt to make a purely abstract idea or concept into a real-world extant entity.
Red Herring The introduction of extraneous material or irrelevant argument to divert attention or focus on the issue at hand.
Simplistic Demand Demanding a simple or inadequate answer to a complex question or issue.
Special Pleading Using a double-standard to require less rigorous treatment for one's own assertion than one would use against a counter assertion.
Straw man Arguing against a premise no one has taken, knocking that premise down, and then assuming or implying that you have then discredited the original at question.
Tautology A form of needless repetition or circular reasoning that does not advance understanding.
Ultra-Symbolism Confusing the symbol with the reality for which it stands.
Unilateralism Taking into account only one side of an issue or matter.
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