Saturday, August 30, 2014
Friday, August 29, 2014
Quote De Jour
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Goethe
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
There is an 800% Higher Probably Americans Will be Killed by Police Than by a Terrorist
The Ferguson incident has exposed the underbelly of the United States and now everyone is starting to pay attention that there is a higher risk of being killed by police even when they chase or shoot at people who need not be you. The risk is 800% greater that you will be killed by POLICE rather than a terrorist. The Economist has reported the death by police so far are ZERO in Japan and Britain, 8 in Germany and 409 in America.
But that is not the half of it. Since 911, the police have killed more people than the terrorists are claimed to have done in those attacks. It is getting to the point that if you see a policeman in the USA, you better try to move away. This is no longer the ’50s. If there is a cat in the tree, my bet they will try to shoot it first but probably take down the tree with the hail of bullets. Police seem to think they have the right to play soldier and war games on the streets of America.
Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de La Brede et de (1689-1755) was truly perhaps the most influential of the political French philosophers who did more to alter the course of the world than anyone of this time. He gave us the separation of power for the structure of the United States and the Second Amendment – right to bear arms.
Prince of Savoy acquired a brilliant skill and the wisdom that allowed him to see that military victory was merely an instrument for achieving political ends. He was Europe’s most formidable general who was wounded 13 times himself, yet always faced a world of cunning foes with conspirators at his back that he regarded as the “hereditary curse” of Austria serving three emperors, Leopold I, Joseph I, land then Charles VI. Of these men, Prince of Savoy considered that the first had been a father, the second a brother, but with the third, he was just the hired help.
The Prince of Savory came to see that standing armies would be easily used. A talented general, he realized that there should be no armies and that would reduce war. The brilliant insight of the Prince of Savoy greatly influenced Montesquieu, that it laid the foundation for the right to bare arms, as the Second Amendment to the United States constitution for the idea was to eliminate standing armies that feed the cycle of war returning the nation to the very was Rome began – with citizen militias.
The Police are out of control and have become standing armies within the civilian population. They are truly our greatest risk to national security that should be defined as the welfare of the people not the safety of government. This will be the greatest threat to our liberty moving forward into 2020 domestically.They are trained to see us as the enemy for they are there to protect government from the people. Of course there are always individual exceptions. Some can be turned. This was the key to winning the revolution in Ukraine. Turn the police against government and you stand a chance to win freedom.
The Suicide of Robin Williams: Why We Need a Grand Jury Inquest to Investigate It
On July 2, 1961, an American icon, Earnest Hemingway, committed
suicide at his beloved vacation home in Ketchum, Idaho. He had just
flown to Ketchum after being discharged from Mayo Clinic’s psychiatric
ward where he had received a series of electroshock “treatments” for a
depression that had started after he had experienced the horrors of
World War I as an ambulance driver.One of his duties was to retrieve fragments of mutilated human bodies in the battle zone. He was haunted by the images of dead and bodies and dying humans for the rest of his life so there was no question that he had what was later to be understood as combat-induced posttraumatic stress disorder, with depression and insomnia. Hemingway himself had been severely wounded by shrapnel. Like many victims of combat-induced PTSD, he drank a lot of alcoholic beverages and had had a series of failed marriages, with financial problems related to the alimony payments to his ex-wives. He understood that his psychiatric ECT “treatment” had erased his memory, and he knew that his writing career, his reason for living, was over.
Almost exactly 53 years after Hemingway’s suicide,
another American icon, Robin Williams, entered a psychiatric facility in
Minnesota (July 1, 2014). He had been given an as yet unknown cocktail
of prescription drugs that resulted in his losing weight and withdrawing
from his loved ones, sleeping, after his discharge later that month, in
his darkened bedroom up to 20 hours a day, in an apparent drug-induced
stupor.
Williams was said to have developed Parkinson’s Disease
(and had been given some new drugs for it), which can commonly be caused
by antipsychotic drugs, now often prescribed, off label (i.e.,
unapproved for such indications by the FDA), for insomnia, especially
psychostimulant drug-induced insomnia (which Williams suffered from). It
should be mentioned that antipsychotic drugs (like Abilify, Seroquel,
Geodon, etc) also commonly cause diabetes, obesity and hyperlipidemia,
in addition to the neurological movement disorders that mimic
Parkinson’s Disease. It is also important to note that when a patient
suddenly quits antipsychotic drugs (even if first used for non-psychotic
indications like insomnia) withdrawal symptoms can occur, such as acute
psychoses, hallucinations, insomnia and mania any of which can lead a
physician to falsely diagnose schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
Within weeks after Williams’ discharge from Hazelden’s
Rehabilitation facility in Lindstrom, MN, he hung himself in the bedroom
of his San Francisco home where he was certainly suffering multiple
side effects from his cocktail of drugs. He left no suicide note, but
certainly his psychiatrists, psychologists and other staff members at
Hazelden know exactly what Williams could have written on such a note.
So far Hazelden is mum on what happened to Williams during July’s rehab
stay.
Some of Williams’s closest friends are claiming that the
newly prescribed drugs were what killed him, but the media that is
swarming all over the tragic event are avoiding those logical and
obvious conclusions; for anybody who is aware of the well-known
connections between psychiatric prescription drugs and violence,
suidicality, dementia, and irrational thoughts and actions (whether
while taking the drugs or withdrawing from them) has already asked him
or herself the question: “I wonder what psych drugs Robin was on?”
Knowing that Williams had been under the care of
psychiatrists for the last six weeks of his life, certain taboo
questions need to be asked and answered.
But don’t hold your breath. There will be no answers
unless we get them in the secret details of what happened at Hazelden,
including what brain-altering drugs he was on..
Shouldn’t There be Penalties for Pushers of Legal Brain-altering Drugs?
There are penalties for bartenders who serve underage
drinkers who go on to have auto accidents while under the influence.
There are penalties for street corner drug pushers who supply their
junkies with dangerous illicit drugs, and there are penalties for the
drug lords who are at the top of the drug supply chain.
But shouldn’t there also be penalties for legal drug
pushers who are supplying medications to their addictive and addicted
clients without first obtaining from them fully informed consent after
understanding what are the dangers of the drugs? Shouldn’t there be
penalties for legal drug pushers who are prescribing dangerous
brain-altering psychiatric drugs in combinations that have never even
been tested for safety in the animal labs?
The heretofore respected – and very profitable –
industries of Big Pharma, Big Psychiatry, Big Medicine and drug
rehabilitation are all very interested in keeping any and all unwelcome
truths about the lethality of their products from being aired out in the
mainstream press. Thus the rapid disappearance of interest in the
celebrity suicides or lethal psych drug overdoses by the time the
belated coroner report reveals what drugs were in the victim’s blood and
gastric contents. (Note that many coroners are not aware that many
psych drugs are detectable in brain tissue long after the time that they
disappear from the blood; therefore many coroners don’t bother to test
for drugs in brain tissue samples).
If blood tests are negative for drugs, it is often
erroneously assumed by the uninformed public (and even by medical
professionals) that drugs aren’t a factor in the aberrant behavior or
death of drug-taking patients. Drug withdrawal commonly causes patients
to become irrational, violent or suicidal – realities that can occur at
any time, even after the drug has disappeared from the blood.
The Taboo Reality: Psych Drugs Can Cause Suicidalit
There have been millions of words written about how much
everybody was shocked by Williams’ suicide. There have been thousands
of flowers placed at any number of temporary shrines. There have been
hundreds of comments on the internet from amateur arm-chair
psychologists spouting obsolete clichés about suicide, mental illness,
drug abuse, alcoholism, cocaine addiction, and how wonderful
prescription drugs have been. for depression.
And there have been dozens of dis-informational essays
and website commentaries written by professional psychiatrists who have
financial or career connections to Big Pharma, Big Psychiatry, Big
Medicine and the rehab industries. Most of those commentaries distract
readers from making the connections between suicidality and psych drugs.
Some of the comments I have read have preemptively tried to discredit
those who are publicly making those connections.
Whenever unexpected suicides or accidental drug
overdoses occur among heavily drugged-up military veterans, active duty
soldiers, celebrities or other groups of individuals, I search – often
in vain – for information in the print media and on TV, radio and the
internet that will identify the drugs that are often involved. There
seems to be a taboo on revealing the drug names, dosages, length of
usage or who prescribed them. One has to read between the lines or wait
until the information might possibly be revealed at www.ssristories.org (which, by the way should be mandatory reading for everybody, especially those who prescribe or consume psychiatric drugs)..
Rarely can I find information about the crazy-making
drugs involved, the prescribing physicians or the institutions that were
treating the individual before the unexpected death. Patient
confidentiality is usually the reason given for the cover-ups – and
which is the reason why important teachable moments about these
tragedies are lost every day.
There is a lot of fluff to wade through on those mostly
futile searches for the truth about the drugs. The useful information
that could clinch the suspected real diagnosis (i.e., psychiatric
drug-induced suicidality or psychiatric drug withdrawal syndrome rather
than the usual “mental illness” [of unknown cause]) seems to be cleverly
concealed – probably with the intent to misinform the public and
perpetuate the ever-present, cunningly-implanted myths of mental
illness.
Calling for an Inquest into the Suicide of Robin Williams
What the Robin Williams’ case needs, especially in view
of the American epidemic of prescription psychiatric drug deaths and
suicides (tens of thousands every year), is an unbiased judicial inquest
to determine the real root causes of his suddens and only partially
explained death.
Autopsies can determine the immediate cause of death but
inquests can reveal the underlying motivational or contributing factors
involved. And the results of an inquest could be the beginning of a
rational discourse about drug-induced violence and drug-induced mental
ill health. So far the corporate media’s rush to judgment about
celebrity suicides and the violence epidemic has been subverting
teachable moments that could save tens of thousands of lives in America.
The disinformation so vigorously forced upon us from the four special
interest groups mentioned above has guaranteed the dumbing-down of most
of the potential consumers of psychiatric drugs, so that most Americans
have become true believers in what they are repeatedly told about drugs
in the prime time commercials on TV.
The Marin County coroner has established the preliminary
cause of death in Williams’ case: suicide by asphyxiation/hanging. No
surprises there. The coroner has also told the press that the toxicology
findings on the blood and gastric fluids won’t be ready for 6 weeks
(even though the tests could actually be completed in hours or days).
The confidence of the American public in Big Pharma’s
highly profitable drugs and vaccines must not be shaken. Wall Street’s
rigged stock market does not easily allow anything that could destroy
investor confidence in their major publicly-traded corporation’s
products, even if the product is bogus or destructive.
The beauty of an unbiased public inquest, which should
have been done in the case of Adam Lanza and every other school shooter
murder-suicide, would be the subpoena power of a grand jury to open up
the previously secretive medical records and force testimony from
Williams’ treatment team. The public could finally hear information that
could make comprehensible the mysterious death of yet another high
profile suicide victim and start the process of actually positively
America’s suicide and violence epidemics.
An inquest would likely reveal that Robin Williams did
not have a “mental illness of unknown cause” or “bipolar disorder of
unknown cause” or “depression of unknown cause” or “suicidality of
unknown cause”. An inquest would obtain testimony from medical,
psychiatric and psychopharmaceutical experts such as Peter Breggin, MD,
Joseph Glenmullen, MD, Grace Jackson, MD, David Healey, MD, Russell
Blaylock, MD, Fred Baughmann, MD and other well-informed medical
specialists who don’t own stock in Big Pharma and who know well how
dangerous their drugs can be.
Robin Williams not have a Mental Illness of Unknown Etiology
Just knowing a little about the life and times of Robin
Williams (as would also be the case for that long list of drugged-up
Hollywood celebrities that “died too soon”) easily disproves most of the
amateur or professional theories about his death that have appeared
online. The proposed inquest would reveal what happened inside the
locked doors of the rehab facility.
What is the major reason that many psych drug sceptics,
medical professionals and psychiatric survivors want an inquest in the
Williams’ suicide? We want to know the names of the ingredients in the
cocktail of drugs that had been tried on him (and the dosages and length
of time they were taken). We want to know what side effects he had from
the drugs and what his responses were. We want to know what was the
reasoning behind the decision to prescribe unproven drug cocktails on
someone whose brain was already adversely affected by the past use of
potentially brain damaging drugs.
And we want to know, for the sake of past and future
victims of these neurotoxic drugs, if the prescribing practitioners
fully informed Williams about the dangers of his treatments,
particularly the black box warning that is at the top of every product
information packet of every SSRI drug: that the risk of suicide is doubled in those who take them. And
we want to know if Williams knew that the drug cocktails that were
prescribed for him had never actually been tested for either short or
long-term safety on lab animals or humans?
(It is important to remind ourselves here that no
psychiatric multi-drug combinations have ever been approved by the FDA
for use on human subjects, with the outrageous exception being the
approval for marketing that the FDA gave for the use of the
anti-psychotic drug Abilify in combination with SSRI antidepressants [a
combination apparently found to be modestly safe and modestly effective
in short-term trials] in cases where the SSRI drug alone had failed to
relieve the sadness in some subjects.)
Stress-induced and Drug-induced Mental Ill Health Doesn’t Mean One Has a Mental Illness (of Unknown Etiology)
Robin Williams gained fame and fortune as a comic actor,
starting with what was to become his trade mark manic acting style
(stimulant drug-induced mania?) on “Mork and Mindy”. As have many other
famous persons that attained sudden wealth, Williams spent his millions
of dollars lavishly and – in retrospect – often foolishly. After his
third marriage he found that he could no longer afford the Hollywood
lifestyle.
But long before his two divorces and his subsequent
serious financial difficulties caused him to crack and fall of the
sobriety wagon for the final time, Robin Williams had lived in the fast
lane, working long exhausting days and partying long exhausting nights
with the help of stimulant drugs like the dependency-inducing drug
cocaine (that overcomes sleepiness and fatigue) and tranquilizers like
the equally dependency-inducing alcohol (that can counteract the
drug-induced mania and drug-induced insomnia that often results from
psycho-stimulants like cocaine, nicotine, caffeine, Ritalin, Prozac,
Paxil, Wellbutrin, amphetamines, etc).
Williams had acknowledged that he was addicted to both
cocaine and alcohol when his famous comedian friend John Belushi died of
an accidental drug overdose shortly after they had snorted some cocaine
together (March 4, 1962). (BELUSHI DIED MARCH 5 1982 ) Williams quit
both drugs cold turkey, and he remained sober and cocaine-free for the
next 20 years. There is no public information about the possible use of
addictive prescription drugs, but it is well-known that many Hollywood
personalities have close relationships with both prescription-writing
physicians and illicit drug pushers.
However, Williams did relapse in 2006 and started
abusing drugs and alcohol again, eventually being admitted to a Hazelden
drug rehab facility in Oregon. After “taking the cure” he continued his
exhausting career making movies, doing comedy tours and engaging in
personal appearances in order to “pay the bills and support my family”.
After two expensive divorces, huge indebtedness and an
impending bankruptcy, Williams was forced, in September of 2013, to sell
both his $35,000,000 home and his ranch in Napa Valley. He moved into a
more modest, more affordable home in the San Francisco area, where he
lived until his suicide.
But despite solving his near-bankruptcy situation (which
would make any sane person temporarily depressed), Williams continued
having a hard time paying the bills and making the alimony payments; and
he was forced to go back to making movies (which he despised doing
because of the rigorous schedule, working long days and being away from
his family for extended periods of time. He hated the fact that he was
being financially forced to sign a contract to do a “Mrs. Doubtfire”
sequel later in 2014.
For regular income, he took a job doing a TV comedy
series called “The Crazy Ones”, but the pressures of working so hard got
him drinking again, even using alcohol on the set, which he had never
done before. He was making $165,000 per episode and was counting on
continuing the series beyond the first season in order to have a steady
income.
So when CBS cancelled the show in May 2014, humiliation,
sadness, nervousness and insomnia naturally set in, and he decided to
go for professional help at a Hazelden facility in my home state of
Minnesota, spending most of July 2014 as an inpatient there. In
retrospect, that decision had fatal consequences. The public deserves to
know what really happened inside that facility.
Robin Williams ended his life shortly after being
prescribed a cocktail of unproven drugs that had never been certified by
the FDA as either safe or effective.
There are no reports about any electroshock treatments
ever having been given to Williams, but an inquest to bring to light
important details such as that would certainly go a long ways to
de-mystify his untimely death. It is the least that could be done to
honor the man, give some additional meaning to his life and perhaps make
something good come out of the bad that has so unnecessarily confused
us survivors.
Robin Williams’ fans certainly deserve to know what
really happened to him. There are many painful lessons to be learned,
and we should be mature enough by now to learn them.
The psychiatric drug-taking public deserves to know what
were the offending drugs that might have contributed to his anguish,
sadness, nervousness, insomnia, sleep deprivation, hopelessness and
irrational, very likely drug-induced, suicide.
And the family and friends of Robin Williams certainly
deserve to understand the essential facts of the case which, without an
inquest, will otherwise just result in a continuation of America’s
“mysterious” suicide and violence epidemics, and the continuation of Big
Pharma’s unjust gravy train that has been deceiving – and destroying –
so many for so long.
For more information on the above very serious issues, check out these websites:
www.ssristories.com, www.mindfreedom.org, www.breggin.com, www.cchrint.org, www.drugawareness.org, www.psychrights.org,www.quitpaxil.org, www.endofshock.com, www.madinamerica.com.
Dr Kohls is a family physician
who, until his retirement in 2008, practiced holistic (non-drug) mental
health care. Dr Kohls warns against the abrupt discontinuation of any
psychiatric drug because of the common, often serious withdrawal
symptoms that can occur in patients who have been taking any
dependency-inducing psychoactive drug, whether legal or illicit. He
recommends close consultation with an aware, informed physician who is
familiar with drug withdrawal syndromes, the dangers of psychiatric drug
use and the nutritional needs of the drug-toxified and
nutritionally-depleted brain.
Dr Kohls
is a past member of MindFreedom International, the International Center
for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology and the International
Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is the editor of the occasional
Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
7 Nasty Effects of BPA – in Water Bottles
Bisphenol a (BPA) is the widely used chemical found in many plastics,
food can linings, and even on US dollars and receipts. Known as an
endocrine-disrupting chemical that mimics the hormone estrogen, BPA has
been linked to numerous negative health effects in countless studies.
The worst part? While the Food and Drug Administration considered
banning the chemical in March of 2012, the ban was denied,
and BPA continues to be ubiquitous. So what exactly does mean? It means
the entire U.S. is still subjected to the chemical’s negative effects.Here are 7 nasty effects of BPA.
1. Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is slowly becoming one of the many well-known negative outcomes induced by BPA exposure. In fact, over 130 studies have confirmed the link between bisphenol A and to ailments like breast cancer, obesity, and reproductive problems. Ironically, the popular nonprofit Susan G. Komen for the Cure partners with many bottled water companies for their ‘For the Cure’ races across the nation. The problem, obviously, is that most of these plastic bottles contain BPA.2. Early Puberty
While girls typically enter into puberty (or have in the past, at least) at just over ten years of age, studies show that this age has fallen by more than a year within only one generation. Some girls are even seeing breasts at 7 years old. Although there are other factors to consider, BPA may be to blame as well.After examining 1,151 girls between the ages of 6 and 8 in the United States over a two year period, researchers found that multiple chemical classes were detected at high levels within the girls’ urine. About one-third of the girls went through puberty prematurely.
“Our research shows a connection between chemicals that girls are exposed to on a daily basis and either delayed or early development. While more research is needed, these data are an important first step in evaluating the impact of these common environmental agents in putting girls at risk,” lead researchers Dr Mary Wolff said.
3. Heart Disease
Some research has linked both BPA and phthalates to a disorder known as atherosclerosis. This disorder, which is the hardening of the arteries through the buildup of plaques, negatively impacts blood flow and ultimately increases your risk of heart disease. Shocking, the research is not the first of its kind. One team also found that individuals with higher levels of bisphenol-a in their urine were more than twice as likely to suffer from coronary heart disease than those with lower levels.4. and 5. Infertility in Males and Females
Bisphenol a has been found to be adversely affecting male genital development, subsequently leading to compromised fertility health. One study examined the effects of BPA on the distance between the genitalia and the anus in males, known as the Anogenital distance (AGD). AGD is very important biologically for a number of reasons, and plays a prominent role in the health of one’s fertility. Researchers found that parental exposure to BPA during pregnancy was associated with shortened AGD in male offspring. In other words, high level BPA exposure led to offspring with AGD defects.AGD has been linked to fertility in males, making BPA’s negative impact on the male reproductive system noteworthy. Men with an AGD lower than the median, which sits around 52 mm (2 in), have seven times the chance of being sub-fertile as compared to those with a longer AGD.
But males aren’t the only one’s suffering; BPA has been linked to reproductive issues in women as well. In one study, researchers found that BPA caused reproductive problems that can affect women, including abnormal egg development. The eggs of fetuses exposed to BPA had difficulty forming follicles, which ultimately increases the risk of eggs dying before maturation. Additionally, the researchers observed other abnormalities, showing signs that they would carry too many chromosomes as a result of not dividing during development. This could lead to miscarriages or disorders like Down Syndrome.
6. Sparks Multiple Negative Brain Alterations
Further adding on to BPAs long list of negative effects, some research has also found that the chemical disrupts a gene responsible for proper nerve cell function, ultimately leading to compromised brain development. Researchers of the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, discovered that BPA could damage central nervous system development by disrupting a gene called Kcc2.“Our study found that BPA may impair the development of the central nervous system, and raises the question as to whether exposure could predispose animals and humans to neurodevelopmental disorders,” study researcher Dr. Wolfgang Liedtke, M.D., Ph.D., said.Another study found that exposure to bisphenol-A early in life can spark changes in gene expression. The changes occur in a part of the brain called the amygdala, which can lead to increased levels of anxiety.
The study abstract states:
“Early life exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), a component of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins, alters sociosexual behavior in numerous species including humans. The present study focused on the ontogeny of these behavioral effects beginning in adolescence and assessed the underlying molecular changes in the amygdala.”
7. Obesity
Last, but certainly not least, BPA may be one of many factors responsible for the obesity epidemic. One study found that high BPA exposure is associated with obesity in the general adult population in the U.S.Another study, examining BPA concentrations in the urine of kids aged 6 to 19, found that obese children made up 22% of individuals with the highest BPA levels in their urine. About 10% of kids who had the lowest BPA concentration in their urine were obese.
Additional Sources:
Forbes
NY Times
NationalGeographic
Monday, August 18, 2014
Mickey D's fed up-Now testing new automated cashiers that won't go on strike demanding $15/hour
Behold McDonald's new automated cashiers. According to a variety of sources over on Reddit,
the new machines are currently being tested and could soon roll out
nationwide. The kiosks would presumably be quick, efficient, require new
"green" and "teal" check boxes on the employee diversity forms, and
would never, ever, demand $15 per hour.
Monday, August 11, 2014
Hospitals (Obama Care) to begin monitoring your credit card purchases to flag 'unhealthy' habits
(NaturalNews) What you buy at the grocery store, where you live, and
even your membership status at the local gym are all subject to a new
data collection scheme by the American medical system. Reports indicate
that hospitals and doctors' offices all across the country are now
collecting this and other personal information in order to target
individuals deemed to have "unhealthy" lifestyle habits that put them at
high risk of disease.
Bloomberg reports that hospital systems in both North and South Carolina as well as Pennsylvania have already begun tracking people's food-purchasing habits by spying on them through public records and credit card transactions. Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), which operates some 900 care centers throughout the Carolinas, has teamed up with a data-mining company to compile and track this information for the later purpose of calling "high-risk" folks and urging them to make a change.
"What we are looking to find are people before they end up in trouble," stated Michael Dulin, chief clinical officer for analytics and outcomes at CHS, to Bloomberg. "The idea is to use big data and predictive models to think about population health and drill down to the individual levels to find someone running into trouble that we can reach out to and try to help out."
Though seemingly benevolent, the plan is overshadowed by serious privacy concerns that many say violate the established terms of the patient-doctor relationship. Simply plugging an individual's purchasing data into a metric and coming up with a risk assessment figure is also an entirely shortsighted way of gauging personal health, not to mention the fact that sharing this information without consent violates the public trust.
The strategy "is very paternalistic toward individuals, inclined to see human beings as simply the sum of data points about them," stated Irina Raicu, director of the Internet ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, in a telephone interview with Bloomberg.
"The traditional rating and underwriting has gone away with health-care reform," admitted Robert Booz, an analyst at Gartner Inc., a technology research and consulting firm, as quoted by Bloomberg. "What they are trying to do is proactive care management where we know you are a patient at risk for diabetes so even before the symptoms show up we are going to try to intervene."
An example used in media reports is an asthma sufferer who is caught purchasing cigarettes along with her groceries. This individual would be further monitored to see if she is keeping up to date with her asthma medications; if not, she might be approached by a local hospital system or doctor who would advise her to follow official protocol, with the added bonus of this information providing a further "in" for the government to track members of the public.
"Just the notion [that] any US hospital institution is interested let alone willing to provide preventive care is bull," wrote one RT.com commenter about this latest government conspiracy. "US healthcare has eroded to despotism marketing people for profit with claims of healthcare merely an excuse to shoehorn their way into your business."
Sources for this article include:
http://www.bloomberg.com
http://rt.com
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Bloomberg reports that hospital systems in both North and South Carolina as well as Pennsylvania have already begun tracking people's food-purchasing habits by spying on them through public records and credit card transactions. Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), which operates some 900 care centers throughout the Carolinas, has teamed up with a data-mining company to compile and track this information for the later purpose of calling "high-risk" folks and urging them to make a change.
"What we are looking to find are people before they end up in trouble," stated Michael Dulin, chief clinical officer for analytics and outcomes at CHS, to Bloomberg. "The idea is to use big data and predictive models to think about population health and drill down to the individual levels to find someone running into trouble that we can reach out to and try to help out."
Though seemingly benevolent, the plan is overshadowed by serious privacy concerns that many say violate the established terms of the patient-doctor relationship. Simply plugging an individual's purchasing data into a metric and coming up with a risk assessment figure is also an entirely shortsighted way of gauging personal health, not to mention the fact that sharing this information without consent violates the public trust.
The strategy "is very paternalistic toward individuals, inclined to see human beings as simply the sum of data points about them," stated Irina Raicu, director of the Internet ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, in a telephone interview with Bloomberg.
Feds to track individual behavior under guise of 'preventive healthcare'
But this approach aligns with the overall goals of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known more accurately as Obamacare, which relies upon such data to come up with patient risk assessments. With the federal government now holding the reins of patient care, minimizing use of the system is a top priority that apparently requires managing the activities and eating habits of the general population in the same way that a farmer might manage his cowherd."The traditional rating and underwriting has gone away with health-care reform," admitted Robert Booz, an analyst at Gartner Inc., a technology research and consulting firm, as quoted by Bloomberg. "What they are trying to do is proactive care management where we know you are a patient at risk for diabetes so even before the symptoms show up we are going to try to intervene."
An example used in media reports is an asthma sufferer who is caught purchasing cigarettes along with her groceries. This individual would be further monitored to see if she is keeping up to date with her asthma medications; if not, she might be approached by a local hospital system or doctor who would advise her to follow official protocol, with the added bonus of this information providing a further "in" for the government to track members of the public.
"Just the notion [that] any US hospital institution is interested let alone willing to provide preventive care is bull," wrote one RT.com commenter about this latest government conspiracy. "US healthcare has eroded to despotism marketing people for profit with claims of healthcare merely an excuse to shoehorn their way into your business."
Sources for this article include:
http://www.bloomberg.com
http://rt.com
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Why Are Chemtrails Being Digitally Added to Old Movies?
One episode of CSI NY even featured a conspiracy theorist professor as a victim, someone who actor Gary Sinise’s investigator character on the show called “totally anti-American” because the professor believed in chemtrails and water fluoridation. (They don’t elucidate either that he believed water fluoridation is poison purposefully added to the water to, say, dumb people down or anything, they just say the professor believed in water fluoridation — I guess believing in water fluoridation at all period is anti-American? Way to go writers.)
Well now it appears chemtrails are actually being added to digitally remastered film footage decades after the fact.
Why do you think that is?
I’m asking because I just watched this video:
Apparently this movie “The Railway Children” was released in 1970. When footage of it was reused in the commercial above in 2005, whoever used it decided to go ahead and add a trail in a small corner of the sky over the children.
Sure, it’s very subtle…but again, name one justifiable reason why they would do that — go to the extra effort to add a trail to mar an otherwise pretty, clear blue sky in a film where no trails were in the sky to begin with — if not for propaganda/normalization purposes?
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Ouestion Of The Day
"Has anybody ever heard of a logical reason why the
Palestinian people should be destroyed because of what the Germans did
to a bunch of other Europeans?" - bilejones
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Twenty-one questions about Ebola: government propaganda, medical corruption and bioweapons experiments
#2) Why should we trust the CDC's handling of Ebola when the agency can't even keep track of its anthrax, avian flu and smallpox samples?
#3) Why were Ebola victims transported to cities in the USA when they could be given state-of-the-art medical care overseas? "Now, they are bringing in highly infectious patients into this nation that is Ebola-free. In doing so, they are violating the primary rule of contagion: isolation." - Radio host Michael Savage (2)
#4) Why is the company working on Ebola vaccines -- Tekmira -- receiving money from Monsanto and considers Monsanto to be one of its important business partners? (3)
#5) If Ebola is "not a threat" to U.S. citizens as government authorities keep claiming, then why did the U.S. Department of Defense spend $140 million on an Ebola-related contract with the Tekmira company?
#6) If Ebola is not a threat to the U.S., then why did the Department of Defense deploy Ebola detection equipment to all 50 states? (4)
#7) Why did President Obama just sign a new executive order authorizing the government arrest and quarantine of Americans who show symptoms of respiratory infections? (5)
The language of his new executive order states that government officials may forcibly detain and quarantine people with:
...diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled.
#8) How can we trust a government to tell us the truth about Ebola when that same government repeatedly lies about Swine Flu, influenza, Fukushima radiation, weather control technology, the security of the border and seemingly everything else?
#9) If U.S. doctors claim to be so incredibly careful around Ebola that the virus could not possibly escape from the containment rooms at Emory University, then how did the American doctors being treated there contract Ebola in the first place? Weren't they also being careful?
#10) How are U.S. doctors and health workers supposed to even identify people with Ebola when they appear "fit and healthy" right until the very end? "What's shocking is how healthy the patients look before they die and how quickly they decline. A number of the Ebola patients I've seen look quite fit and healthy and can be walking around until shortly before their deaths." - Dr. Oliver Johnson (6)
#11) If Ebola is not spread through the air as some claim, then why do doctors who treat Ebola patients always wear masks?
#12) If hospitals are good at infection control, then why did so many SARS victims contract the infection while sitting in waiting rooms at hospitals? "A government report later concluded that for the hospital overcome by SARS, 'infection control was not a high priority.' Eventually, 77% of the people who contracted SARS there got it while working, visiting or being treated in a hospital." - Fox News (7)
#13) If Ebola escapes from patients at Emory University and begins to infect the public, do you think we would ever be told the truth about it? Or instead, would the official story claim that "Ebola terrorists" let it loose?
#14) WHO BENEFITS FROM AN EBOLA OUTBREAK in the USA? This is a key question to ask, and the answers are obvious: the CDC, vaccine manufacturers and pharma companies, and anyone in government who wants to declare a police state and start rounding people up for quarantine in a medical emergency.
#15) We already know there are powerful people who openly promote population reduction (Bill Gates, Ted Turner, etc.) Is a staged Ebola outbreak possibly a deliberate population reduction plan by some group that doesn't value human life and wants to rapidly reduce the population?
#16) Why are U.S. health authorities intentionally concealing from the public the true number of possible Ebola victims in U.S. hospitals who are being tested for Ebola right now? "In an apparent attempt to avoid hysteria, U.S. health authorities are withholding details about a number of suspected Ebola victims from the public." - Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars (8)
#17) If Ebola infections are so easy to control (as is claimed by U.S. health authorities), then why are Ebola victim bodies being openly dumped in the streets in West Africa? "Relatives of Ebola victims in Liberia defied government quarantine orders and dumped infected bodies in the streets as West African governments struggled to enforce tough measures to curb an outbreak..." - Reuters (9)
#18) Why do many locals in Sierra Leone truly believe the recent Ebola outbreak was deliberately caused by government officials? "Ebola is a new disease in Sierra Leone and when the first cases emerged, many people thought it might be a government conspiracy to undermine certain tribal groups, steal organs or get money from international donors..." - The Daily Mail (6)
#19) Given that the U.S. government has already funded outrageous medical experiments on Americans and foreigners (see the NIH-funded Guatemalan medical experiments), why should we not believe the government is capable of deploying Ebola in bioweapons experiments in West Africa?
#20) Given that many vaccines accidentally cause the disease they claim to prevent (due to weakened viruses still remaining active in a small number of vaccine vials), isn't it likely that Ebola vaccines might actually cause Ebola infections in some percentage of those receiving them? How can we trust any vaccines when vaccine manufacturers have been granted absolute legal immunity from faulty products or failures in quality control?
#21) How can we trust a medical system that continues to put mercury in flu shots, refuses to recommend vitamin D to cancer patients and has been criminally corrupted to the point where drug companies are routinely charged with felony crimes for bribery and price fixing?
Sources for this article include:
(1) http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/08/04/ma...
(2) http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/ebola-madness-is-...
(3) http://www.naturalnews.com/046290_ebola_pate...
(4) http://www.naturalnews.com/046259_ebola_outb...
(5) http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/executive...
(6) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-27...
(7) http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/08/04/ma...
(8) http://www.infowars.com/u-s-health-authoriti...
(9) http://news.yahoo.com/bodies-dumped-streets-...
Monday, August 4, 2014
12 Iconic Stores And Restaurants That Are Rapidly Disappearing
Rapidly Disappearing
Moody’s Investors Service
said in a report this week that RadioShack is in danger of running out
of cash by autumn of 2015, according to Bloomberg News. It’s the latest indication that the struggling chain is doomed, following news in the spring that it planned to close up to 1,100 stores. (Those plans were scaled back to around 200 store closures,
but still…) The electronics chain’s difficulties probably shouldn’t
come as much of a surprise given the times we live in today. After all,
the word “radio” is in the name. Who buys radios anymore?
RadioShack is hardly the only well-known national chain that is
flummoxed by the ultra-competitive, rapidly changing modern-day
marketplace and shutting locations, among other steps, as a survival
tactic. Here are 11 others.
Albertsons
Amid toughening competition in the grocery space—low-cost upstarts, dollar stores, big box all-purpose stores, and online sellers have all stepped up their game—the Albertsons supermarket chain announced earlier this year it would be closing 26 stores, most of them in California. In late July, Albertsons bought Safeway, and the merger is expected to bring about more store closures, most likely ones operating under the Albertsons or Vons brand.
Amid toughening competition in the grocery space—low-cost upstarts, dollar stores, big box all-purpose stores, and online sellers have all stepped up their game—the Albertsons supermarket chain announced earlier this year it would be closing 26 stores, most of them in California. In late July, Albertsons bought Safeway, and the merger is expected to bring about more store closures, most likely ones operating under the Albertsons or Vons brand.
Staples
Quite a lot is riding on the current back-to-school shopping season for Staples. After a subpar fourth quarter last year, it announced it would close as many as 225 stores in 2014, after closing 42 throughout North American in 2013. Declining sales have continued into the first half of 2014, largely due to the widespread consumer “shift to e-retailers, mass merchants and drugstores to buy their office supplies,” as Reuters put it. More closures are inevitable if sales during the all-important back-to-school period aren’t up to snuff—and maybe even if they’re decent, as Staples seems increasingly focused on online sales.
Quite a lot is riding on the current back-to-school shopping season for Staples. After a subpar fourth quarter last year, it announced it would close as many as 225 stores in 2014, after closing 42 throughout North American in 2013. Declining sales have continued into the first half of 2014, largely due to the widespread consumer “shift to e-retailers, mass merchants and drugstores to buy their office supplies,” as Reuters put it. More closures are inevitable if sales during the all-important back-to-school period aren’t up to snuff—and maybe even if they’re decent, as Staples seems increasingly focused on online sales.
Family Dollar
In April, after yet another report of declining store sales, Family Dollar said it would be shutting 370 locations. Now that rival Dollar Tree is buying Family Dollar, it’s likely that more stores—from one or both of these brands, which often have locations in very close proximity to each other—will disappear.
In April, after yet another report of declining store sales, Family Dollar said it would be shutting 370 locations. Now that rival Dollar Tree is buying Family Dollar, it’s likely that more stores—from one or both of these brands, which often have locations in very close proximity to each other—will disappear.
Quiznos
The toasted sandwich chain peaked sometime in the early ’00s, when it boasted some 5,000 stores around the U.S. Quiznos closed around 2,000 locations during the Great Recession years, not only because household spending budgets shrunk, but also because of increased competition from highly successful Subway and all manner of trendy fast-casual restaurants. The more positive economic climate of recent years hasn’t brought Quiznos back from the brink. The companyfiled for bankruptcy earlier this year. While Quiznos wants to put this all in the past, a trickling of closures continues, such as one planned to take place in Austinin August.
The toasted sandwich chain peaked sometime in the early ’00s, when it boasted some 5,000 stores around the U.S. Quiznos closed around 2,000 locations during the Great Recession years, not only because household spending budgets shrunk, but also because of increased competition from highly successful Subway and all manner of trendy fast-casual restaurants. The more positive economic climate of recent years hasn’t brought Quiznos back from the brink. The companyfiled for bankruptcy earlier this year. While Quiznos wants to put this all in the past, a trickling of closures continues, such as one planned to take place in Austinin August.
Aeropostale
24/7 Wall Street put Aeropostale on its list of “10 Brands That Will Disappear in 2015,” and some 125 of its stores are set to disappear by the end of the current fiscal year. The company’s sales and stock price have been cratering due to what’s described as a “seismic shift” in teens’ fashion taste.
24/7 Wall Street put Aeropostale on its list of “10 Brands That Will Disappear in 2015,” and some 125 of its stores are set to disappear by the end of the current fiscal year. The company’s sales and stock price have been cratering due to what’s described as a “seismic shift” in teens’ fashion taste.
Abercrombie & Fitch
Similar to Aeropostale, the much-higher priced Abercrombie & Fitch has cited a “challenging retail environment,” especially among teens, as a prime reason for declining sales—and why it is being forced to close dozens of stores. The overpriced merchandiseand the fat-shaming comments of its CEO probably haven’t helped either.
Similar to Aeropostale, the much-higher priced Abercrombie & Fitch has cited a “challenging retail environment,” especially among teens, as a prime reason for declining sales—and why it is being forced to close dozens of stores. The overpriced merchandiseand the fat-shaming comments of its CEO probably haven’t helped either.
Toys R Us
The continued shift to online shopping, combined with a shift among consumers away from toys and more toward gadgets, has had the toy store giant in a funk for years. To cope with declining sales, there have been thousands of layoffs at the retail and administrative levels, and some expect store closures at any moment. Overall, things look grim. “There is a 50-50 chance the company can survive,” Howard Davidowitz, chairman of the retail consulting firm Davidowitz & Associates, told the The Record in New Jersey, home of Toys R Us’s headquarters. “I’m not saying they are finished. I would not say that. But there is a limited time, given the debt level they have, for this business to get fixed.”
The continued shift to online shopping, combined with a shift among consumers away from toys and more toward gadgets, has had the toy store giant in a funk for years. To cope with declining sales, there have been thousands of layoffs at the retail and administrative levels, and some expect store closures at any moment. Overall, things look grim. “There is a 50-50 chance the company can survive,” Howard Davidowitz, chairman of the retail consulting firm Davidowitz & Associates, told the The Record in New Jersey, home of Toys R Us’s headquarters. “I’m not saying they are finished. I would not say that. But there is a limited time, given the debt level they have, for this business to get fixed.”
TCBY
Once 1,500 franchises strong, TCBY has closed two-thirds of its locations over the years. TCBY has tried many things to kickstart the business—Greek fro-yo, sharing space with sister brand Mrs. Fields Cookies—but some think that TCBY is likely to suffer the same fate as Crumbs, the trendy cupcake chain that recently shut down.
Once 1,500 franchises strong, TCBY has closed two-thirds of its locations over the years. TCBY has tried many things to kickstart the business—Greek fro-yo, sharing space with sister brand Mrs. Fields Cookies—but some think that TCBY is likely to suffer the same fate as Crumbs, the trendy cupcake chain that recently shut down.
Barnes & Noble, J.C. Penney, Sears
The decline, and perhaps impending death, of these three iconic, old-timey retailers has been discussed for so long that it’s almost surprising they’re still around. Barnes & Noble has closed 10% of its stores over the last five years, despite the fact that its long-time book-selling rival, Borders, is no longer in the picture, and despite relentless pressure from Amazon.com. J.C. Penney is routinely described as being in a “death spiral” and “at death’s door.” As for Sears, when CEO Edward Lampert was speaking to investors this past spring, he offered a brutally honest vision of what’s to come. “Closing stores is going to be part of our future,” he said.
The decline, and perhaps impending death, of these three iconic, old-timey retailers has been discussed for so long that it’s almost surprising they’re still around. Barnes & Noble has closed 10% of its stores over the last five years, despite the fact that its long-time book-selling rival, Borders, is no longer in the picture, and despite relentless pressure from Amazon.com. J.C. Penney is routinely described as being in a “death spiral” and “at death’s door.” As for Sears, when CEO Edward Lampert was speaking to investors this past spring, he offered a brutally honest vision of what’s to come. “Closing stores is going to be part of our future,” he said.
Did you Know a 2.3% Medical Excise Tax that began on January 1st is supposed to be "hidden" from the consumer?
Who knew a fishing
rod was a medical
device?
CABELA'S
Medical Excise Tax on
Retail Receipts?
This is an image of a sales receipt from Cabela's, a popular sporting goods store.
CABELA'S
This is an image of a sales receipt from Cabela's, a popular sporting goods store.
The
2.3% Medical Excise Tax that began on January 1st is supposed to be "hidden"
from the consumer, but it's been brought to the public's attention by hunting
and fishing store Cabela's who have refused to hide it and are showing it as a
separate line item tax on their receipts, the email states.
I did some research and found directly from the IRS's website information that PROVES this to be true and an accurate portrayal of something hidden in Obamacare that I was not aware of! Now being skeptical of this I went to the IRS website and found this!
Q1. What is the medical device excise tax? A1. Section 4191 of the Internal Revenue Code imposes an excise tax on the sale of certain medical devices by the manufacturer or importer of the device.
I did some research and found directly from the IRS's website information that PROVES this to be true and an accurate portrayal of something hidden in Obamacare that I was not aware of! Now being skeptical of this I went to the IRS website and found this!
Q1. What is the medical device excise tax? A1. Section 4191 of the Internal Revenue Code imposes an excise tax on the sale of certain medical devices by the manufacturer or importer of the device.
Q2.
When does the tax go into effect? A2. The tax applies to sales of taxable
medical devices after Dec. 31, 2012.
Q3.
How much is the tax? A3. The tax is 2.3 percent of the sale price of the
taxable medical device. See Chapter 5 of IRS Publication 510, Excise Taxes,
and Notice 2012-77 for additional information on the determination of sale
price. IRS.gov <http://irs.gov/> <http://irs.gov/>
Chapter
Five http://www.irs.gov/publications/p510/ch05.html
So being more curious I clicked on "Chapter 5 Of IRS Publication 510."
And what do I find under "MEDICAL DEVICES" under "MANUFACTURERS TAXES"?
The following discussion of manufacturers taxes
Applies to the tax on: Sport fishing equipment;
Fishing rods and fishing poles;
Electric outboard motors;
Fishing tackle boxes;
Bows, quivers, broad heads, and points;
Arrow shafts;
Coal;
Taxable tires;
Gas guzzler automobiles;
and
Vaccines.
So being more curious I clicked on "Chapter 5 Of IRS Publication 510."
And what do I find under "MEDICAL DEVICES" under "MANUFACTURERS TAXES"?
The following discussion of manufacturers taxes
Applies to the tax on: Sport fishing equipment;
Fishing rods and fishing poles;
Electric outboard motors;
Fishing tackle boxes;
Bows, quivers, broad heads, and points;
Arrow shafts;
Coal;
Taxable tires;
Gas guzzler automobiles;
and
Vaccines.
<http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p510.pdf>
We
have been fooled again, if we believe that the Affordable Care Act is all
about health care. It is a monstrous law
that will ration health care while bankrupting the country. It also
appears to be a law with a whole lot of taxes that we the people have yet to
be made aware of.
It is a political con to gain more control. It is also a method to obtain more taxes for the liberals to buy the votes of the ignorant and uninformed and those who want something for nothing.
I guess it’s just like Nancy Pelosi said, "We have to pass it to see what is in it."
It is a political con to gain more control. It is also a method to obtain more taxes for the liberals to buy the votes of the ignorant and uninformed and those who want something for nothing.
I guess it’s just like Nancy Pelosi said, "We have to pass it to see what is in it."
Well,
what is next? What else is there we do not know about?
Where
is the press? O yes, it's in the tank for Obama.
Please
pass this on
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