The Huffington Post—Drug Companies Drive the Psychiatric Drugging of Children

The Huffington Post—July 24, 2012

by Dr. Peter Breggin, Reform Psychiatrist

(click image to visit the psychiatric drug database) “The health professions would do far more good stopping the drugging of children than continuing or increasing it. Ethical professionals need to work toward removing children from psychiatric drugs.” – Dr. Peter Breggin

July 24, 2012 – Johnson & Johnson, the company that makes the antipsychotic drug Risperdal, has tentatively agreed to a settlement of $2.2 billion to resolve a federal investigation into the company’s marketing practices. Although details are not fully finalized, this includes “a roughly $400 million criminal fine for the illegal promotion of the antipsychotic Risperdal,” according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s been well documented that Johnson & Johnson confidentially paid psychiatrists such as Harvard’s Joseph Biederman to promote adult drugs such as the powerful antipsychotic drug Risperdal for children. The company has even ghost-written at least one of the Harvard professor’s “scientific” articles.
Another recent DOJ settlement with drug company GlaxoSmithKline resulted in Glaxo’s agreement to pay $3 billion in criminal and civil fines. As I wrote in an earlier Huffington Post blog:

In one of the most egregious examples of fraudulent marketing, “In the case of Paxil, prosecutors claim GlaxoSmithKline employed several tactics aimed at promoting the use of the drug in children, including helping to publish a medical journal article that misreported data from a clinical trial,” [according to the New York Times].

Glaxo manipulated and rewrote this study, which was rejected by the FDA for failing to show efficacy. The Glaxo rewrite made it appear as though the drug was useful for adolescent depression even though the FDA had not approved Paxil for adolescents. The company then got almost two dozen well-known researchers and “experts” to put their names on the article as if they had written it.

GlaxoSmithKline also secretly paid about $500,000 to psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff, while he was a professor at Emory University, to promote Paxil

GlaxoSmithKline also secretly paid about $500,000 to psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff, while he was a professor at Emory University, to promote Paxil. Glaxo even ghostwrote a psychopharmacology textbook for family doctors, who write many prescriptions for children, which was “coauthored” by Nemeroff and psychiatrist Alan Schatzberg. Nemeroff was sanctioned for failing to report the Glaxo payments he received while at Emory. But he’s landed on his feet running, now chairing the psychiatry department at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami.
None of these drug-company-bought psychiatrists has suffered serious consequences. Biederman remains a star at Harvard and Nemeroff recently received a new $2 million federal grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. These influential psychiatrists are just two out of many doctors who have been investigated for extensive financial relationships with drug companies.
Meanwhile, the DOJ has now enforced a total of $8.9 billion in criminal and civil fines against GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Johnson & Johnson.
Drug-company marketing has bought rich rewards, as reflected in the increasing numbers of children and youth diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other psychiatric problems. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 12.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls age 5-17 were diagnosed with the disorder in 2009. With the rates growing especially rapidly in the older children, considerably more than 12.3 percent of older boys are given this diagnosis, which almost inevitably leads to treatment with stimulant drugs such as Ritalin, Concerta, Focalin, Dexedrine and Adderall. Given estimates of 2.8 million children taking stimulants for ADHD in 2008, the number is now well over three million and rising.

“Drug-company marketing has bought rich rewards, as reflected in the increasing numbers of children and youth diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other psychiatric problems.” – Dr. Peter Breggin

Last year, the American Academy of Pediatrics overrode FDA drug guidelines and advised that children as young as 4 could be diagnosed with ADHD and treated with stimulants. This will surely increase the numbers of younger children psychiatrically diagnosed and medicated with other drugs as well. In our professional experience, children given stimulants may become the targets of additional drugs as their conditions worsen due to the stimulants. Stimulants have been the entering wedge into the widespread psychiatric drugging of America’s children. Once the door was opened, nearly all the other psychiatric drugs came rushing in.
Keep in mind that the more than three million children on psychiatric drugs are for only one class of medication — stimulants for ADHD. Large numbers of other children are being put on highly dangerous adult antipsychotic drugs, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers, often to treat so-called “childhood bipolar disorder.” Psychiatrist Biederman’s work “helped to fuel a controversial 40-fold increase from 1994 to 2003 in the diagnosis of pediatric bipolar disorder … and a rapid rise in the use of antipsychotic medicines in children,” according to the New York Times. Bipolar disorder, like most other psychiatric diagnoses for children, is linked to the greater use of various psychiatric drugs. No surprise that this is so, since as in the case of Joseph Biederman, the “top” researchers in child psychiatry are heavily funded by pharmaceutical companies.
It is our personal and professional opinion that most childhood psychiatric diagnoses have no scientific validity. ADHD, for example, is described and diagnosed by a collection of behaviors – inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity — that can be caused by innumerable factors including too high expectations for a child, confused parenting, family disintegration, racism and poverty, inadequate teaching, poor nutrition, bullying, and head injury. The diagnosis literally shuts down the search for the real causes, undermines effective parenting and teaching approaches, and guarantees that the child will be medicated.
As another example, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) merely describes a child who displays anger. In the words of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, ODD involves “A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least six months.” The top three “symptoms” are “(1) often loses temper, (2) often argues with adults, and (3) often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults’ requests or rules.” That’s not a disease in a child, it’s a sign that something has gone haywire in the child’s life and is not being remedied.
My most recent review of the scientific literature in Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal concludes that stimulants, antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs are very harmful to the brain. With increasing millions of children being placed on drugs that can harm normal development of the child’s brain and mind, and substitute for proper teaching and parenting, it’s time to change emphasis. As a society, we need to resist the quick fix that does more harm than good, and to stand up against the massive drugging of children.
The health professions would do far more good stopping the drugging of children than continuing or increasing it. Ethical professionals need to work toward removing children from psychiatric drugs.
The health professions would make a major contribution to the wide-scale health of children not only by curtailing psychiatric drugging, but also by offering the opportunity for parents to withdraw their children from these psychoactive substances.
Peter R. Breggin, MD is a psychiatrist in private practice in Ithaca, New York, and the cofounder with his wife Ginger Breggin of the Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy. He is the author of dozens of scientific articles and more than twenty books. His latest book is Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and Their Families. It is based on a Person-Centered Collaborative Approach to psychiatric treatment with the focus on psychiatric drug withdrawal. It also describes many of the most severe adverse effects of psychiatric drugs that require drug withdrawal.
Ginger Breggin, in addition to cofounding and managing the Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, has coauthored books with her husband, contributes to their mutual research projects, and blogs independently on The Huffington Post.
Disclosure: Peter Breggin, M.D. has been a plaintiffs’ medical expert in product liability suits against the mentioned drug companies including Eli Lilly, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, and Johnson & Johnson.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-breggin/psychiatric-drugs_b_1693649.html

hey folks  this article's from 2010 -----hows about ALL  them shot -tins ???                      can't B  the drugs ?   they ' s   ALL good  fer U.S. ?    working   fine  nut-tin happening ???   fine

American Psychiatric Association Called Upon to Cut Drug Company Ties and Put Lives of Children Before Profits

Also see: DSM Panel Members Still Getting Pharma Funds
By CCHR International
May 21, 2010
NEW ORLEANS – As psychiatrists from around the world flood the area this weekend to take part in the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), psychiatric watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is demanding that the APA sever all ties to pharmaceutical company interests and that psychiatrists stop killing children with harmful drugs.
The APA is expected to release its guidelines to reduce pharmaceutical industry ties at its convention, but it is likely to be self-serving and occurred only after public and legislative pressure forced the issue.
The US Senate Finance Committee has investigated at least 16 APA psychiatrists over their undisclosed financial ties to drug companies, including the APA’s own President, Alan Schatzberg who has stepped down as principal investigator of a National Institute of Health (NIH) funded study after months of Congressional scrutiny into his ties to the drug he was studying.  He was found to have actually initiated the patent application of the drug he was studying to “treat psychotic depression.”
Other notable APA members under scrutiny by the Senate Finance Committee and scheduled to present in New Orleans are Thomas Spencer, Assistant Director of the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Joseph Biederman, Chief of the Program in Pediatric Psychopharmacology, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Spencer reportedly failed to disclose at least $1 million in earnings from drug companies between 2000 and 2007. Dr. Biederman earned $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers during the same period, most of which was not disclosed to Harvard University officials. In March 2009, court documents showed Biederman promised Johnson & Johnson in advance that his studies of their antipsychotic risperidone (Risperdal) would prove effective when used on preschool age children. Risperdal has been linked to potentially life-threatening diabetes and Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome.  The FDA database from 2000 to 2004 found at least 45 deaths in children under 18 with newer antipsychotics and 1,328 reports of other serious side effects, some life-threatening.
Former APA president Nada Stotland stated: “We are in the midst of a revolution caused by public and legislative concern about the influence of the for-profit sector….” [Emphasis added].  Part of that public pressure for the APA to disclose its conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies was driven by Lisa Cosgrove Ph.D. et al’s study of DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR committee members, which found that of the 170 members, 56% had one or more financial associations with companies in the pharmaceutical industry.  Pharma’s psychotropic drug profits have soared commensurately with the increased numbers of disorders voted into the DSM.
While APA leaders and members profit from their industry connections to the drugs they are promoting; children are being killed by these same drugs.
Also see:  Meet the Psychiatrist Pushing For A Brave New World of Pre-Drugging Kids—Patrick McGorry

People & Power—Drug Money

A 23 minute TV expose on Big Pharma by ALJAZEERA (see video at bottom of this page)
This piece pulls no punches exposing the rampant fraud, fatal drug side effects, off label marketing, criminal practices  and “absolutely jaw dropping” payouts Pharma makes to psychiatrists/doctors.

• “There is so much money to be made in stealing from the United States Healthcare system,” says Patrick Byrnes, Taxpayers Against Fraud.

• Lewis Morris, US Department of Health states, “One of the things we are now looking at is going after the executives in these companies and holding them personally accountable.”

• Sharon Ormsky, FBI Financial Crimes Unit states, “Pharmaceutical fraud is one of our top three threats — everybody is touched by these frauds in the extent that when you look at the billions of dollars that go into healthcare for the United States, a good percent,  3-10% of that is believed to be siphoned off into fraud—that’s  money that  could be going to very needy patients.”

Now the U.S. government is fighting back.  In the last two years alone, the  government has fined six of America’s  top ten pharmaceutical companies for fraud.  Investigations are ongoing against another three.  In this period the industry has had to pay out over 5 billion dollars in fines, and topping the list is drug giant Pfizer, having recently settled civil & criminal charges resulting in $2.3 billion dollars —the biggest fraud case, the biggest criminal case, the biggest false claims act in U.S. history.   ALJAZEERA also exposes Pfizer’s “interesting way of doing business.  Witnesses in the case revealed just how the company persuaded doctors to prescribe its drugs. It entertained them in strip clubs, it told them that the blues teenagers feel when they don’t make the football team was signs of treatable depression and it paid them to endorse Pfizer drugs. One doctor received $150,000 in a year.
Also highlighted is the current scandal regarding antipsychotic drugs, including state law suits, dangerous documented side effects and how federal investigators are now looking into claims drug company Johnson & Johnson illegally marketed their antipsychotic drug Risperdal to children, paying “some of the most influential doctors in the field” in order to accomplish this.  And leading that pack sits none other than the  [now] infamous psychiatrist Joseph Biederman, who has been “credited” with the huge increase of children prescribed psychiatry’s most powerful/dangerous drugs, antipsychotics, while receiving millions in Pharma kickbacks that he failed to disclose.   Biederman is shown on tape being questioned under oath, and when asked “What rank are you?” Biederman responds, “Full Professor.” When asked “What comes after that?” Biederman responds, “GOD.”
This is a 23 minute expose well worth watching.

People & Power - Drug http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1TwdsYVHjGA

An Inquisitive Couple’s Visit to Newtown, Connecticut

Photos and Commentary by Scott DeLarm
Edited by James F. Tracy

My partner and I became fed up with the mainstream media’s depiction of what took place in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012. So on January 20 we traveled there from our home in Ottawa Canada in an effort to visit the sites and respectfully approach the locals.





Before we even got off the highway there was a display of dozens of American flags on the shoulder. There is a large tented memorial located just off the freeway. The tent had a sign on the outside, “Sandy Hook Memorial Never Forgotten.” Inside the tent was a chaplain who asked that I not take any photos. There were hundreds of stuffed animals and candles as well as children’s art from around the country–if not the world. Inside was also a donation jar that was at mid-afternoon close to full of money. We signed one of the boards with condolences from Canada. I saw adults and children inside the tent on the two visits we made. No one was there who was impacted directly. I asked the chaplain if she had seen any children whom had been impacted. She did not answer.



We spent January 21 in Newtown visiting the Sandy Hook School and Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire House, Gene Rosen’s residence, the 100 Church Hill Restaurant (and pub), the Newtown Bee offices, as well as the Newtown Police Department. We found that the school can not be seen from the front when coming down Riverside Road which is the only access to the school passing the fire house. This may explain why there was no “media” photos of the broken / shot out glass at the front.



Dickenson Road was closed with layers of orange cones and numerous “No Trespassing” signs. The entire school is now enclosed with fencing, barbed wire, no trespass and surveillance signage.



The front of the school is entirely boarded up which would be consistent with broken glass. The lettering from the front of the school “Sandy Hook Elementary” is removed.




The side door and other windows were not boarded up.  No cameras could be seen at the front door or anywhere on the property.

Gene Rosen lives next door to the fire house. Thus Ms. Victoria Soto’s students that landed on Mr. Rosen’s yard had to come down Dickenson Drive and turn right, passing the fire house, to get to Mr. Rosen’s. A lady at the Rosen house would not answer the door when I knocked.


We sat at the 100 Church Hill Restaurant for a couple of hours. There were about 10 people inside. There were about 100 drawings from children from around the country (if not the world) offering condolences and well wishes. No one was talking about these. My partner and I spoke with a couple in their early twenties for an hour or so. They were life long locals. Eventually they asked why we were in Newtown and we told them we had heard of their tragedy. They did not comment further and we did not push the issue.  Later, I mentioned that I had read online where some people had suggested that Newtown might have a lively Satanic community. One of the two locals remarked, “I could believe that.”


We then went to the offices of The Newtown Bee, the community’s  weekly newspaper, where we spoke with the editor, Mr. Curtis Clark. Mr. Clark did not offer a warm reception and stated from the start that they were concentrating the paper’s efforts on healing efforts and that he had little time. I told him I was there to follow up on The Bee’s report that stated, in part, “A man with a gun who was spotted in the woods near the school on the day of the incident was an off-duty tactical squad police officer from another town, according to the source.” I asked who this officer was, and why he was in the woods.

Mr. Clark told me that there was a number of “conspiracy theories floating around” and “some of them even suggest that the shooting didn’t even happen.” Furthermore, “Snopes.com debunks many of these conspiracy theories.” I told Clark I was familiar with Snopes, but it was The Bee that reported that this was an off duty officer prancing about in the woods on the day of the shooting. Clark would not address this report and became very agitated with me “interrogating” him. “I don’t intend to discuss this any further with you,” he said. Mr. Clark then referred me to the Newtown Police for any additional questions. As I was walking out of the office I overheard a lady on the phone explaining to a caller that “there is an ongoing investigation,” and referring the caller to Snopes.com.

Next, we proceeded to the Newtown Police Department.  After entering I walked up to the glassed-in safety window, picked up the phone on the wall and asked the attendant on the other side if I could speak with the Communications Officer. I explained why. He directed me to  The Newtown Bee. I advised him that The Bee had directed me to them and he asked me to have a seat. The room was rectangular with doors on both ends. Then, a male and female police officer simultaneously entered through each door. I addressed the female sergeant, telling her I would like to know who was the off duty tactical officer The Bee reported on on December 27. A male officer I was not addressing repeatedly ordered me to remove my hands from my pockets.

The female sergeant told me that the man detained was the uncle of a student at the school who had gone to get his niece. I asked about the police scanner audio where the dispatcher reports that a caller from inside the school saw “two shadows” run by the gym at the back of the school. Additionally, an officer apparently arriving at the scene stated “I’ve got ‘em (sic).  They are running at me down Crestwood.” Crestwood Drive borders that backside of the school beyond some woods. The sergeant told me that this was the confusion of the day and that there were not two individuals. “It was just someone that went crazy, killed a bunch of people and then killed himself,” she said consolingly. “You have nothing to worry about. You are safe.” I still wonder.

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Labor Minister Says France Is "Totally Bankrupt"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/28/2013

Things in France must not be very serious, because the French labor minister accidentally let the truth come out a little earlier today. As the Telegraph reports, France's labour minister sent the country into a state of shock on Monday after he described the nation as “totally bankrupt."
Remember: France is one of the supposedly stable countries in Europe.

"Michel Sapin made the gaffe in a radio interview, which left French President Francois Hollande battling to undo the potential reputational damage. "There is a state but it is a totally bankrupt state,” Mr Sapin said. “That is why we had to put a deficit reduction plan in place, and nothing should make us turn away from that objective." It appears that once one wipes out the propaganda and the smooth politico talk, things are bad and getting worse at Europe's core. "Data from Banque de France showed earlier this month that a flight of capital has already left the country amid concerns that France’s Socialist leader intends to soak the rich and businesses. The actor Gérard Depardieu has renounced his French citizenship and decamped to Russia in protest, while David Cameron said Britain will “roll out the red carpet” to attract wealthy individuals. Pierre Moscovici, the finance minister, said the comments by Mr Sapin were “inappropriate”."

At least France can hike the tax on the millionaires to 75% to generate more money. Oh wait, no it can't.
But if capital is leaving France, where is it going? The FT has the answer:

Almost €100bn of private funds flowed back into the eurozone’s periphery late last year after action by the European Central Bank encouraged reinvestment in the crisis-hit countries.

The scale of the net inflows, equivalent to about 9 per cent of the economic output of Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland and Greece according to calculations by ING, the Dutch bank, highlight the revival in investor confidence in Europe’s monetary union after Mario Draghi, ECB president, pledged to preserve its integrity.

The return of capital has encouraged policy makers to believe the eurozone crisis is over, with Mr Draghi this month pointing to “positive contagion” in the region. The euro has also moved sharply higher.

Turns out it isn't, and the capital was merely rotating from the frying pan and into the 9th circle of insolvency hell. But at least the SNB is still buying up every French bond it can get its hands on to indicate that all is well with the "totally bankrupt state."
And speaking of private capital rotation, well Europe needed it. Recall the chart of European M3 loans to non-financial corporations we showed earlier based on central bank data:

Yup - a record outflow.
So if it wasn't for the private capital scrambling to fill the hole, Q4 in Europe would have been an absolutely epic disaster. One can only hope that private funds are as bottomless as the public central banks backstopping them, because should there be a reflaring of risk, all bets for Europe are off, precisely at a time when everyone is hoping that the worst is behind and that Europe, as every European politician was quoted as saying in past weeks, is now "fixed."
Of course, if France is totally bankrupt, there's nothing that a little diversionary war can't fix. Perhaps it is time to expand the Mali offensive a bit: there's a tempting little country in Asia called Vietnam...

Agenda 21, Obamacare, Obama law vs. Constitution

Obama Pushing American People closer to Armed Resistance

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/52727

- Sher Zieve

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Each and every day now Obama and his syndicate government are pushing harder and harder for the removal of all of our liberties, in order to place us into slavery and create a permanent police state. Even the most dense on the far Left are now aware—some only vaguely—that things are not as they should be. However, the further Left one goes, the more perverse and unstable one becomes.
Luciferianism—Marxist, Nazi, Fascist or otherwise—is and has always been the End Goal of the power-maddened once-human would-be masters and oppressors of the human race. And nation by nation, they have been practicing this tyranny for a very long time.
Members of the Obama syndicate and the growing New World Order globalist elites long ago came out into the open with their plans.
From Agenda 21 (to steal all private property and move humans from rural environments to urban centers where their movements and population numbers will be easier to manipulate and control), through the removal of all human rights (while the “overseers” say they are actually installing them)—in America that’s nullifying the US Constitution and substituting it with ObamaLaw—and replacing the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with the worship of Lucifer (also known as atheism and Islam), our planned overseers are now daily stripping us of everything we have and punishing our beliefs if they do not subscribe to the worship of both their malevolent vision and dark lord. This is what’s occurring. It’s directly in front of us, now, and in our faces.
The atrocities of the current US government and its leaders are truly too many and too vast to itemize here. However, my own columns since 2008 to the present have warned what would happen if Obama was elected to his first term as POTUS and addressed the majority of major abominations he and his lackeys have committed since Obama has been in office. There are, also, multiple books outlining his tyrannical plans and their implementation, including his expert use of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, which teaches overwhelming the US system on every level. I will not and cannot address them all here. However, Richard Poe is also one who writes about this insidious plan in his 2005 article The Cloward-Piven Strategy: “Their article called for “cadres of aggressive organizers” to use “demonstrations to create a climate of militancy.”
” Intimidated by threats of black violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government for help. Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of “a federal program of income redistribution,” in the form of a guaranteed living income for all—working and non-working people alike. Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it. With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.”
For the past several years, the Obama syndicate has created one “emergency” after another that had to be addressed “immediately” with no time to take a look at what his syndicate members were actually doing. Because of this, we lost the arguably best health care system in the world to the debasing and not-about-health ObamaCare. It’s tyrannical, taxation with no representation and anti-human reality are only now coming to the surface, while Obama and his adherents laugh loudly at us with champagne and $300-400 per pound Kobe steaks at the still ongoing White House Obama Parties. Did you know that clothing is now charged an additional ObamaTax because ObamaCare states your personal clothes are “medical devices?”
Obama has been summarily firing and replacing US Constitution-upholding Generals and Admirals in the US military with those who will, instead, swear their allegiance to Obama and the United Nations group. Note: Multiple source links to these are available in my past columns.
It strongly appears that Obama may also be creating massacre scenarios, in order to confiscate law-abiding citizens’ legally owned firearms—”never let a crisis go to waste” even if you have to create it? Was the latest the tragedy and horror perpetrated at Sandy Hook? At first—and second—glance I dismissed the information and videos stating that this was all part of the Obama coup to remove our weapons. However, there are so many anomalies, exposed intentionally provided false directions and openly (again…in our faces) faked media footage that it presents us with the necessity of asking questions. There were many who legitimately lost their children and other loved ones from the madman who slaughtered so many innocent lives. For those people, nothing but God and time can help their real pain. But, at least a few of the victims who supposedly lost their children on that horrid day are shown relaxed and smiling just before their “press conferences” when they visibly change their expressions. Note: To date I have not seen these “debunked” (links below) nor even addressed by the debunkers.
Some also seem to have been “victims” at other recent massacres. Also, in all three recent shootings—Colorado theatre, Oregon Mall and Sandy Hook—multiple witnesses report additional shooters who seem to have gotten away. Debunking these ostensible “conspiracy theories” originally presented a full time job for many leftist and at least one conservative site. But, not all of them have been debunked. We will have to make up our own minds but, we need to consider all of the evidence. We certainly should have learned by now that, with regards to the actions coming from the Obama syndicate, there are no coincidences. One thing, however, that we do know with certainty is that in each of these circumstances, the shooters were taking anti-depressant psychotropic drugs…drugs that, over the years, have proven to have caused multiple suicides and homicides enacted by patients ingesting them.
Since 2009, Obama has been using military helicopters to fly over US cities and tanks and other heavy artillery in “training exercises.”
These cities include but, are not limited to Boston, Los Angeles, Miami and Boulder. This is a first in our history as a nation. The populations are not warned ahead of time, in order to create the maximum amount of fear of their government. Obama used the helicopters to fly over residents in Worchester, Massachusetts and literally dive-bombed residents homes waking them up at midnight and his latest escalation in Obama’s ongoing war against US citizens was a fly-over and joint military-local police exercise conducted this month in Miami, FL. This time, however, gunfire was added to make it seem more real. The citizenry was not warned ahead of time and many ran for cover. This, my friends, is your government at work…working, that is, to either force you into submission (better give those guns up or else!) or begin the second US Civil War. After all, Obama has now had plenty of practice at doing so—with both his Egypt and Libyan excursions. You didn’t really think those were about democracy, did you? They were about installing Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood as the rulers of those countries, while he used their populations to practice on how to affect his total takeover of the USA…for himself and Islam.
We didn’t vote him out of office and I do realize “the fix was in” so that all too many of our votes against Obama weren’t counted. Therefore, he is now in the process of stepping up his destruction of this country and its population. Or, you can choose to be slaves. That is always a possibility. If you do not want to, again, be a free people and take the responsibility of taking back our country, the freedom to worship our God and ridding ourselves of our oppressors—predominantly in Washington D.C.—you may choose to die slowly. These are now the only 2 options left.
　
Obama’s war—the War against America—has already begun in earnest. This far, our military and too many local police are training to bring us down.
May God bless all who choose to fight and bring back the Republic.

36 “And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.”

37 “Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all”—Daniel 11:36-37

The origin of Marxism is within a Satanic mystery cult:
Neo-völkisch movements (Nazi and Fascist Satanism):
Agenda 21 Eco-Cities Built for Permanent Population Control:
Richard Poe on Cloward-Piven Strategy:
Sandy Hook Explained:
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/01/fox-news-director-wchris-phillips-sandy-hook-2546394.html”>Sandy Hook – ‘Second Shooter In Custody’ : Fox News Director W/Chris Phillips:
Holmes had help: Aurora shooting:
‘More than one shooter’ on scene at Oregon mall - Reports:
Robbie Parker Recalls 6-Year Old Daughter, Newtown Shooting Victim Emilie Parker:
CNN video of police charge at Sandy Hook is not Sandy Hook:
Massachusetts Citizens frightened by Military Exercises at Midnight:
Machine gun fire from military helicopters flying over downtown Miami Fl.:
OBAMA CARE IMPOSES AN ADDITIONAL TAX ON CLOTHING!:
Sher Zieve is an author and political commentator. Zieve’s op-ed columns are widely carried by multiple internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard news. Her columns have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Sacramento Sun, in international news publications, and on multiple university websites. Sher is also a guest on multiple national radio shows.
Sher can be reached at sherzieve@bajabb.com

Sandy Hoax: A Dose Of Grim Reality

• Posted on January 28, 2013
• by Clyde Lewis
• in Articles

SANDY HOAX:
A GRIM DOSE OF REALITY

Timing is everything and while many of the mainstream news organizations have left behind the events at Sandy Hook because it is no longer expedient to push their agenda, I figured it would be the best time to now openly discuss a viewpoint about this event that has not been brought up in any conversation. I believe that saying it now will have more impact, then having it drown in the controversy of gun control, and conspiracy theory that is formed simply for hits to a website, or numbers on a face book page.
I want everyone to know that as a father without contact with my son, and a man who gets to be around a 6 year old, I am not insensitive to the tragedy of not being able to see your child grow up. I also experienced a loss when a colleague of mine was killed in the Clackamas shootings. I want to emphasize that while the media will have you believe that these are qualifications as speaking from experience, I can assure you that there is nothing as horrible as hearing about children dying needlessly and when you suddenly realize the whole picture it becomes even more of tragedy and it gives you a sick feeling that things like this can happen in the United States.
The only thing I can remember is that it was a tragedy that ruined the magic of Christmas. The entire country was saddened to hear about the senseless shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary. I know full well that what I am about to say will inspire anger and legitimate outrage in some people but it has to be said, No one knows what really happened that day. All we have is information that fits an agenda. All we have is the emotional hurt from what we have been told about the murdered children and the lone nut gunman.
We have been given just enough information, in order to determine that the victims were real at Sandy Hook. That is about it, and even then it is all an emotional cudgel that forces us not to even ask if there is any truth that we can have that would give us closure to this devastating event.
If you want to know what happened at Sandy Hook on December 14th, 2012 all you have to do is to grab the crisis template and test it. The crisis template always seems to involve an inspection, visit from dignitary, or drill prior to the event.
Then the incident takes place in a place of open infrastructure to create a fishbowl terror scenario, this includes malls, theaters, schools. Then there is always eye witness accounts of maybe one of two suspects. Those suspects disappear and then a name is given as the suspect. Sometimes names are changed, suspects are eliminated and then there in one suspect that usually either is apprehended or commits suicide.
I first discovered this ‘crisis template’ when I was investigating two incidents in 2007. One was a report about suspect that allegedly tried to bomb the Hillary Clinton Campaign headquarters in New Hampshire. The suspect strapped a bomb to his chest took Hostages and witnesses told Fox news that the suspect was named Troy Allen Stanley.
Then, as if we blinked, the suspect changed names to Leeland Eisenberg. The motive of his attempted bombing was allegedly because Eisenberg wanted to call attention to the mental health system in America and the apparent lack of treatment available to people who suffer from mental illness.
A month after that, there was murder-suicide shooting at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska. Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins killed nine people including himself and like the situation in New Hampshire, witnesses gave one story to the media about multiple suspects to the media and later the police changed the story from multiple shooters to one.
Multiple witnesses said they saw a suspect detained near a bus stop at the mall. What was interesting about the shooting was just an hour prior President George W. Bush was in Lincoln, Nebraska speaking. Also there was a report that a week before, a grenade was found with a pin in it at the location and that Homeland Security advisers chose West roads mall as a place to review safety measures prior to the shooting.
Now these incidents are important because of the Sandy Hook incident and how we don’t have answers but we sure do see the same template with various versions of the incident, different suspects, multiple shooters and how some people believe that this was either a drill or an event that was carried out by some black ops mercenaries.
There is information that the political world wants you to believe. The media then takes that information and through hyper reality reinforces the opinions of the political world. There used to be a time where the media questioned and challenged the political view and the agendas hey push. The media should be in the business of creating public trust and living up to the standard of a public’s right to know.
Today, the media world has become soft and partisan. It has become malleable and, unfortunately, it is highly controlled. It only responds to disaster and then hires two political pundits to analyze what it means. The middle ground will always wind up being the spokesman from the military or the police department that reinforces a guarded story that immediately discredits what was reported previously.
Once again, no one – not even the media or ‘conspiracy theory’ sites – have given us a full account of what happened at Sandy Hook. Lieutenant Paul Vance speaking on behalf of the Connecticut troopers that were assembled at the school admits that much of the information surrounding the shooting of the 26 victims has been withheld.

Lt Paul Vance Sandy Hook Hoax http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z9DM1EW4cMc

That means that the media was not qualified to make conclusions on what happened, and other media “truth” sites are not capable of giving the whole picture, only different opinions and ideas based on holes in the narrative that the mainstream media decides to avoid. With truth pretty well compromised it is important to use caution with information coming from the mainstream narrative and conspiracy theory websites. It is important to understand that the controllers of information are trying to create false leads and are attempting to create turmoil within the United States.
What so-called conspiracy theory sites attempt to do is to create a dialogue about all of the things that don’t add up and this is a healthy way of getting people to think about information or lack of it. What is unhealthy is how many of the theories presented are quoted as absolute truth and the crisis of discernment is evident.
While everything we hear about Sandy Hook can be questioned, and while the mainstream says that evidence gathered by the so called conspiracy theorists is specious and insensitive, I want to expose serious evidence that the so-called ‘Sandy Hoax’ has a serious absence of duality and objectivity.
When a culture experiences a traumatic event there are so many micro events happening part conscious and part unconscious. The collective then creates a matrix of agreements, runs many different narratives, and then we begin to see things that give us ideas as to why the tragedy took place.
From the very beginning, the Sandy Hook incident lacked a matrix, a complete narrative and a reason for why it all happened. Even everything we thought we saw in the narrative seemed unreal. This is why many people think that what happened was staged or even a hoax.
Media outlets first reported that two men entered Sandy Hook Elementary School on the morning of Dec. 14th, 2012 and began a shooting rampage. One of them, we were told, was dead inside the school and the other had been captured outside. There’s video footage of police pursuing and subduing a suspect. The police radio even captured the moment when an officer was in pursuit of the suspect and had him prone in the woods. There was also a witness on television that told reporters that a suspect was in handcuffs claiming that he was not the shooter and was sitting in the front seat of a police car.

Police Walked A Man In Camo Pants And Dark Jacket Out Of Woods SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOOTING http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSzKd5867UY&feature=player_embedded

The second shooter has not been mentioned again in mainstream narrative even though there is footage and a witness stating that they had apprehended him.

Raw Film CT Police Search Woods After Shooting- 2 More Perps Shown http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOUYyMreZ9Q&feature=player_embedded

According to the Newtown Bee, a local community newspaper there may be a hidden clue as to who the “suspect” was. According to columnist Andrew Gorosko’s “Police Union Seeks Funding for Trauma Treatment” article it states the following:

“As police this week continued their probe into the December 14 incident involving 26 shooting deaths, including 20 first-graders and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the lawyer who represents the Newtown Police Union is seeking help from the town, state, and federal governments to extend paychecks for “three to five” town police officers who were so traumatized by the incident that they have not yet been emotionally able to return to work.”

The article then continues to say that three to five of the town police officers who responded to the crime scene have been off work and collecting sick time pay in light of their being traumatized by the school shooting incident.
“However, because the town provides only ten sick days for an officer annually, those police now face the prospect of being off work without pay.”
The article continues with what is believed to be a “reliable source” stating that another officer “an off duty tactical officer” or “Swat team member” from another jurisdiction was in the woods during the shooting at the school.
“A man with a gun who was spotted in the woods near the school on the day of the incident was an off-duty tactical squad police officer from another town, according to the source.”
Hearst Connecticut newspapers were also quick to point out that the 911 dispatcher was also told that there were two shooters on the scene.
“I have reports of two shooters running past the building, past the gym, which would be rear,” a dispatcher said on the tape, before trailing off. Shortly afterward, the operator told a State Police trooper who was racing to the scene from the nearby Troop A barracks in Southbury to “make sure you have your vest on.”
So the question is what were tactical shooters from another town doing in the woods near the school prior or during the shooting?
Between 9:35 Am and 9:49 AM EST the shootings allegedly took place. There were some curious witness accounts that at both the senior center and firehouse had some interesting visitors around 9:05 am EST.
Witnesses claim that just before police raced to the scene on Riverside Road there were silver and black vehicles parked there and a construction sign that read “EVERY ONE MUST CHECK IN.” The sign was actually seen behind Gene Rosen when he was interviewed by Fox News.

The sign never indicates where to check in – it only assumes that those who know where to check in will check in and for what is anyone’s guess. There are many people who believe that the sign would indicate that some sort of drill or action was already planned and that those “in the know” were required to check in.
James Tracy, a professor from Florida Atlantic University, is suggesting the deaths at Sandy Hook may have resulted from a training exercise. Tracy says that “crisis actors” may have been employed in a conspiracy to shape public opinion in favor of gun control.
There are many people who speculate that a lot of Tracy’s theories came from a “leaked” Pottawattamie County, Iowa Emergency Management Agency document, Operation Closed Campus Exercise Plan.”
Many media organizations did exactly what was done during the 2007 Clinton campaign headquarters hostage crisis and the 2007 Westroads Mall incident. They issued conflicting reports about the identity of the alleged shooter behind the massacre. They were also responsible for airing footage of officers chasing suspects into the woods and interviewing witnesses, including children, that mentioned that they saw multiple gunmen prone and cuffed at the scene.
CNN initially reported that the man who murdered at least 26 people was named Ryan Lanza.
However, hours later, those outlets were forced to retract that identification. The New York Post and Fox News were the first to report that Adam Lanza, Ryan’s brother, was the alleged shooter. They were followed by outlets including CNN, CBS, the Associated Press and the New York Times. The AP wrote that a law enforcement official had “transposed” the names of the two brothers. There were also reports that Adam may have been carrying Ryan’s ID. A local CBS station aired footage of what it said was Ryan Lanza being led away in handcuffs, there was no explanation why on one hand we heard that a suspect was apprehended “Ryan” and another “Adam” was dead at the scene.
It was also erroneously reported by several news outlets that Ryan and Adam’s mother Nancy who also was allegedly shot and killed was a teacher at Sandy Hook and that Ryan massacred her class. That was not true.
A school board director never heard of her.
While news organizations got a lot of things wrong initially and then later turned the story into a anti-gun agenda, there was also a bit of disinformation making the rounds in conspiracy circles.
Peter Lanza, the father of both Ryan and Adam, had been separated from Nancy for nearly 11 years. It was reported that Peter was an executive at GE Energy Financial Services. In order to find some connection to the Aurora shootings, several unknown “conspiracy theorists” had the notion of quoting as truth that both Peter Lanza and Colorado shooter James Holmes’s father were set to testify in the LIBOR hearings.
This is FALSE!
However, it does not excuse him from a scandal that is even more interesting. According to his LinkedIn site, Lanza has worked “closely with many of the preeminent partnership tax advisors in the United States on a daily basis Lanza’s responsibilities at GE-EFS include:
• Tax strategies, planning and tax operations
• Reporting directly to GE-EFS Chief Financial Officer
• Consultations on “structuring, negotiating asset acquisition, dispositions”
• Responsible for risk management on transactions
• Assist other employees in achieving business tax objectives
• Partner with GE Corporate tax group to “leverage technical resources . . . provide support on projects and initiatives”
GE has been successfully evading paying taxes for some time now. Although the corporation reported global profits of $14.2 billion with $5.1 billion of that total being attributed to American operations, GE claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. Lanza, would have contributed to the success of GE evading corporate taxes in the United States.
There have been many investigative sources that claim that the LIBOR scandal allegations were first put out on the web by a COINTELPRO group in order to distract from the tax scandal.
There may still be many lies being propagated by COINTELPRO groups to discredit anyone who believes them or continues to report them without fact checking. That is why a dose of reality not only exposes the mainstream narrative as disinformation but also the half truths that have been created by do-it-yourself theorists that push their lies as truth.
The grim reality is that this whole Sandy Hook case plays by the template of crisis I had pointed out earlier. Even the suspect’s car that we were told was owned by Lanza’s mother belonged to a man named Chris Rodia. According to the police radio the license plate on the Black Honda was 872-YEO was registered to Rodia who was involved with copper wire theft.

ALERT— Sandy Hook Shooters Car Is Registered To A Christopher A. Rodia "872 YEO" Google It... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQSuoYJbxnI&feature=player_embedded

Adam Lanza had a history of mental problems, making him the perfect patsy. Several eyewitness local news reports state that there was no assault rifle found beside Lanza’s dead body, just two pistols. According to medical examiner and releases from the State Police, Lanza shot each victim between 3 and 11 times during a 5 to 7 minute span. If one is to average this out to 7 bullets per individual—excluding misses—Lanza shot 182 times, or once every two seconds. Yet, according to the official story, Lanza was the sole assassin and armed with only one weapon. Thus, if misses and changing the gun’s 30-shot magazine at least 6 times are added to the equation, Lanza must have been averaging about one shot per second — extremely skilled use of a single firearm for a young man with absolutely no military training and who was on the verge of being institutionalized. Still, an accurate rendering of the event is even more difficult to arrive at because the chief medical examiner admittedly has no idea exactly how the children were shot or whether a struggle ensued.
Many researchers think Lanza was killed earlier and his dead body was later conveniently dropped at the school where a team of military-trained snipers did the deed. We can only assume that the kill ratio would indicate this is true.
The Intel Hub reports that: “According to and confirmed by GenealogyBank.com, the alleged lone shooter Adam Lanza that left 26 people dead on December 14, 2012 was documented to be deceased one day prior to the mass shooting that took place at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut.The SSDI database shows Adam Lanza to be deceased on December 13, 2012, one day prior to the school shooting. Confirmation Status is listed as “Proven”. However the state of issue is New Hampshire. The implications of this are unfathomable if accurate.”

Aside from these assumptions, let’s go back to the facts that I first brought up about the lack of a matrix or a factual core narrative and how the entire incident has so many running narratives – both mainstream and conspiratorial – that they can all be rejected except for one thing.
If you believe the mainstream media and police accounts, the entire incident lacks objectivity and basic duality. In every incident there are many sides to a story, but eventually there are two sides. In the case of Sandy Hook, there is only one side to the story – which makes it more of a reality show with an agenda than a news story.
For example, all of the aggrieved parents spoke to only mainstream media outlets. CNN especially had the monopoly of speaking with the grieving parents. Anyone else who asked detailed questions was told not to harass the parents because they needed time to mourn.
Every parent who lost a child in the incident was sequestered by specially-appointed state troopers so that they would not be ‘bothered’ by journalists and that any contact would be prosecuted as “criminal harassment.”
Another interesting twist is that not one grieving parent to my knowledge has stated to the media that gun control is NOT the answer.
Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott who was a victim of the Columbine shootings, told a Congressional committee that gun control is not the answer to violence. He said, “when something as terrible as Columbine’s tragedy occurs, politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that continue to erode away our personal and private liberties.”
During the 2006 Jewish Federation shooting in Seattle, Washington, Layla Bush was shot twice in the back and still has to walk with cane. She commented after the incident that gun control would not have stopped what happened.
Put that up against a Katie Couric interview with the parents of 6 year-old Daniel Barden, one of the victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Daniel’s father, John told Couric that their time spent with President Obama at a staged prayer vigil was “a little less fruitful than we were hoping.”
“Barden said that Daniel’s 12 year-old brother James, and 10 year-old sister Natalie, had some things to tell the President that they didn’t get to. He went on to say that Natalie was interested in asking him if he could pass some legislation so that the only people that had guns were military personnel and law enforcement,” Mr. Barden told Katie Couric, “And if people needed guns for sport, they could go to a range, and the guns would have to stay there. That was my 10-year-old daughter. That was all her own original thought.”

Sandy Hook - Barden Family - Interview - Katie - Katie Couric http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70v8we9ivIc&feature=player_embedded

I am glad he cleared that up otherwise I would have thought it was Diane Feinstein making the quote and not a 10 year old. It is statements like these made with a straight face by families who are supposed to be grieving that I am sure make people wonder if grieving families are being coached.

LiveLeak com Sandy Hook Victims Father Robbie Parker a Fraud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDvSUew9uys&feature=player_embedded

It is also interesting to note that Natalie seemed to be absent from the interview. Another point that I am sure needs to be addressed is that throughout the media coverage we became acquainted with the rather odd medical examiner Wayne Carver.
We had pointed out on an earlier Ground Zero how Carver seemed to be speaking out of turn with regard to the children’s bodies and the body of Adam Lanza. Carver acting like a goofy mad scientist stated to the press that clearly it was a “long rifle” and NOT “hand guns” that fired multiple shots into the bodies of the children. Even though NBC later reported that there was no long rifle or assault rifle found in the school. During the interview you can hear a reporter say that long rifle wounds are impossible because the gun was found in the suspect vehicle.

Medical Examiner FULL Press Conference - Sandy Hook School Mass Shooting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE0OT5od9DA&feature=player_embedded

When Carver was asked if Lanza killed himself with the “rifle,” Carver answered, “No. I don’t know yet. I’ll examine him tomorrow morning. But I don’t think so.” Yet, there has been NO subsequent press conference or statements regarding Carver’s autopsy on Lanza only to report that he had a perfect brain. If any of the autopsy records were made public we would know for sure if Lanza was on any kinds of medication. The unfortunate thing is that while the media were heavy on the gun control agenda with this case, gun advocates di some scapegoating of their own saying that Lanza had to be on some sort of drug in order to do this.
This became an unqualified cause of what happened at Sandy Hook. The harsh reality is that this type of stereotyping leads to witch hunts. It was also an issue with the 23 mandates that ensued now that Barack Obama is looking at the medical surveillance state to decide who owns guns and who doesn’t. Those that demanded a medical record of drugs in an autopsy instead were threatened with a “let he who is without sin turn in your gun.”
If you ever at any time took a prescription drug like Prozac, Zoloft. Paxil, Klonopin, sleeping pills, smoked Marijuana, taken Valium, or even a strong pain killer like Hydrocodone or oxycontin, your Concealed Weapon Permit will be revoked. And all future permits will be limited to a select few.
The mainstream media has all but kept quiet now about Sandy Hook. This is why I thought it would be the best time to look at the case objectively without all of the gun control propaganda getting in the way of some of the facts.
As History unfolds it becomes quite clear that how we interpret news events is based on quick glances at a newspaper, a magazine or news program that is either funded, owned and operated by a corporation that has a controlling political interest in what is being reported. This type of journalism is what you would expect in a country where the press is no longer objective. It usually turns up in countries that are highly controlled. Countries with State run newspapers and state run radio and TV stations. The state of the media has been declared dead by old timers who long for the days of real journalism, where hunting for the blockbuster story was as stimulating as delivering it. Now those days have long passed and no one stops to understand that sometimes it takes more than a television show or a newspaper columnist to get the whole story.
The Sandy Hook shooting has real victims and real tragedy, but does it have a factual narrative? It is obvious that the answer is no. This is not theory, or conspiracy it is obviously a tragedy that has been exploited and staged for an agenda.
So the truth that everyone is not speaking is that the shootings at Sandy Hook were nothing more than a campaign.

Processed Food Manager: ‘Our Biggest Fear is the Health Activists’

By Anthony Gucciardi
Natural Society
January 28, 2013
What keeps processed food producers up at night? Dreaded health activists like you and me, with our pesky knack for exposing the GMO-containing processed junk that mega corporations have pushed on the public.
It may come as no surprise to you, but in an open interview of sorts on the massive community website Reddit, one anonymous processed food manufacturing manager explained how the biggest fear of the industry is health activists.
In a response to a question posed by a user regarding new regulations on processed foods, the anonymous manager explained how an increasing effort by consumers to know what’s in their food is the #1 fear of the industry.
While the question has to do with calorie contents on the packaging, which is drastically less significant than labeling items like GMO labeling (or imagine labeling products that contain HFCS), it touches on the subject at large.
If the mere act of labeling calories and some other minor factors troubles the processed food industry, imagine what GMO labeling means for their CEOs.
You can see for yourself the question and response below. The user asks:

“What’s the inside buzz about posting calorie contents on the outside of packages? From what I understand, the industry decided to do this to avoid regulation–have consumers responded positively? Are companies afraid of a coming health conscious effort?”

To which the processed food factory manager responds:

“Yes, our biggest fear is the health activists, but then we also need to change our paradigms and adapt. We now have one line dedicated to protein bars and two others dedicated to fruit and nut based bars.”

Health Activism Shaping the Food Industry
In other words, individuals who are reading ingredients and spreading the word about problematic substances typically found inside many junk food products are shaping the very marketplace when it comes to food distribution.
Voting with your dollar has always been highly effective, and corporations are forced to respond or simply lose revenue streams.
It is for this reason we have seen companies over the past few years begin dropping high-fructose corn syrup and advertising the change on their labels.
We’ve been hitting the processed food industry hard for years, exposing everything from the ignored presence of mercury in much of the high-fructose corn syrup supply (which is also almost entirely if not completely genetically modified) to the affects on mental health.
It’s been this constant push for quality food met with serious activism and sharing by readers of alternative news that has made the difference.
This push needs to continue of course, but it’s also now important to be sure that we don’t settle for counterfeit ‘health’ products on the shelves of our local grocery and health food stores.
Always remember to read the ingredients list and look for the organic content % on the items that you do buy.
It is also especially important to watch out for ‘natural’ labels that may mislead you. Natural does not mean organic. In fact, it means virtually nothing. ‘Natural’ products can even still contain GMOs.
Our actions are shaping what millions of individuals put into their mouths on a daily basis, and stopping the onset of an unknown number of diseases and conditions throughout the lifetime of these individuals.
The admittance from a processed food manufacturer head that we are a real thorn in their side that invokes a real feeling of effective change. After all, the last thing we want is to be on the side of mega corporations that have zero regard for public health and safety.

Set for take-off: Britain's deadly superdrone that picks its own targets but experts warn plane could mark the start of 'robot wars'

• Revolutionary superdrone could spearhead fight against terrorism in Africa
• Experts warned it raised nightmare of out-of-control robots waging war on humans

By Robert Verkaik
PUBLISHED: 18:59 EST, 26 January 2013 | UPDATED: 04:39 EST, 28 January 2013

It is named after the Celtic god of thunder, can fly faster than the speed of sound and evades enemy radar with its single-wing stealth design.
This is Taranis, Britain’s latest pilotless combat aircraft, which is even capable of selecting its own targets.
The revolutionary superdrone is due to make its maiden flight in the next few weeks and could spearhead the fight against  terrorism in Africa.

Revolutionary: Taranis, Britain's latest pilotless combat aircraft, will make is maiden flight in the next few weeks

Military chiefs believe Taranis’s ground-breaking technology will allow a powerful new generation of drones equipped with deadly payloads to fly from British bases to attack targets worldwide.
But the new developments in pilotless aircraft are controversial as they allow the possibility of autonomous computers  targeting and killing enemy combatants outside human  control.

 

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Experts even warned last night that the new technology raised the nightmare spectre of out-of-control robots waging war on humans – and called for a global ban on autonomous technology.
Britain’s armed drones are currently piloted remotely by aircrews on the ground. But Taranis will follow a set flightpath using on-board computers to perform manoeuvres, avoid threats and identify targets. Only when it needs to attack a target will it seek authorisation from a human controller.
Professor Noel Sharkey, a robotics engineer specialising in autonomous military systems at Sheffield University, said last night:  ‘This is a very dangerous move. Once it has been developed, who knows what new governments who inherit the technology will do with it.’
Last week, Prime Minister David Cameron warned that the fight against terrorism in North Africa could last decades, meaning futuristic drones could dominate counter-terrorism strategy in the region.

Military technology: A US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone takes off from Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan. A proliferation in mainly US military technology has sparked a drone arms race

The controversy surrounding their use was highlighted last week when the United Nations launched an investigation into the deaths caused by conventional drone attacks.
British Forces currently operate armed drones only in Afghanistan, where they target Taliban insurgents. However, a proliferation in mainly US military technology has sparked a drone arms race. To compete, the UK Government has committed itself to a new generation of pilotless aircraft which can fly distances of more than  2,000 miles.
A defence source said that Taranis’s long-anticipated maiden test flight has been delayed by technological setbacks as well as UK aviation safety laws which restrict the flight of drones in this country.
But the source added that the aircraft, which weighs eight tons and is about the size of an RAF Hawk jet, will make its first flight in Australia in the next few weeks, where its progress will be closely monitored by  Ministry of Defence chiefs.
Prof Sharkey said: ‘Taranis is a concept prototype – so it is really the beta version of an intercontinental attack plane. With the proliferation of pilotless combat aircraft that is certainly going to happen, it wasn’t going to be long before the person was taken out of the loop.

Competition: A US K-MAX pilotless freight helicopter in Helmand province in Afghanistan. To compete, the UK Government has committed itself to a new generation of pilotless aircraft

‘It would be very difficult for a human to keep control of teams of these moving at such speed. It could put ours at a disadvantage to others that did not have a human supervisor. This is why we need a global ban on autonomous drones before proliferation begins in earnest.’
But the MoD says the programme is designed so that a human will make the final decision on the firing of weapons and that as a ‘demonstrator’ it was far too early to say what role Taranis would have in future combat missions.
The superdrone, manufactured by BAE, is the product of a 2006 MoD decision to develop and fly an uncrewed aircraft that goes one better than current US systems by using a customised Rolls-Royce jet engine rather than a propeller.
When its sleek design was first unveiled in 2010 at an  airfield in Warton, Lancashire, it was accompanied by boasts from its designers that Taranis could strike at the heart of  Britain’s enemies without risking British lives.
BAE chiefs said Taranis would be an ‘autonomous stealthy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle [UCAV] ultimately capable of precisely striking targets at long range, even in another continent’.
An MoD spokesman said: ‘Taranis is a trailblazing project that reflects the very best of our nation’s advanced design and technology skills and is  a leading programme on the global stage.
‘Unmanned Air Vehicles play an important role in operations, helping reduce the risks faced by military personnel on the front line.
‘Forthcoming Taranis trials will provide further information about the potential capabilities of Unmanned Combat Air Systems.’
A spokesman for BAE said: ‘Taranis is a joint BAE-MoD programme and we are not at liberty to confirm any details of the forthcoming flight, including the location, timing or who may be present.’

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POWERFUL: Belgian MP Exposes War on Terror Lie and 9/11 False Flag

POWERFUL: Belgian MP Exposes War on Terror Lie and 9/11 False Flag

Activist Post

On January the 17th, 32-year-old Belgium MP Laurent Louis, considered one of the most controversial and demonized national political figures, delivered the most powerful truth ever told in a political arena.

First, he explained why he voted against the Belgian support to war in Mali, that it was based on lies and rooted in neo-colonialism. Then he expressed his disgust and wrath against the criminal foreign policies of the Western elite and its submission to foreign financial and interests groups, before scolding his colleagues who voted for interventionist war with "fuck you's".  Finally, he says that the war on terror is a lie and that 9/11 was a false flag to justify aggressive military action in the Muslim world.

Click on the "Captions" icon to get the English subtitles. You won't be disappointed.

Belgian MP LAURENT LOUIS stands against war in Mali and exposes the international neo-colonial plot http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WkzXTgslFNE#!