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Myths and Facts: Study Verifies That There Is No Value In Any Flu Vaccine!

  • Are flu vaccines necessary? Are they effective? My conclusion is: they are unnecessary and a waste of money. They have many negative side effects too!
      
    Myths and Facts: Study Verifies That There Is No Value In Any Flu Vaccine
    A remarkable study published in the Cochrane Library found no evidence of benefit for influenza vaccinations and also noted that the vast majority of trials were inadequate.
     
    The authors stated that the only ones showing benefit were industry-funded. They also pointed out that the industry-funded studies were more likely to be published in the most prestigious journals…and one more thing: They found cases of severe harm caused by the vaccines, in spite of inadequate reporting of adverse effects.
     
    The study, “Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults”, is damning of the entire pharmaceutical industry and its minions, the drug testing industry and the medical system that relies on them. In the usual manner of understatement, the authors concluded:
     
    The results of this review seem to discourage the utilization of vaccination against influenza in healthy adults as a routine public health measure. As healthy adults have a low risk of complications due to respiratory disease, the use of the vaccine may be only advised as an individual protection measure against symptoms in specific cases.
     
    The Study
    The authors attempted to find and investigate every study that has evaluated the effects of flu vaccines in healthy adults aged 18-65. To this end, they “searched Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library, 2010, issue 2), MEDLINE (January 1966 to June 2010) and EMBASE (1990 to June 2010).” They included 50 reports. Forty of them were clinical trials adding up to over 70,000 people. Two reported only on harmful effects
    and were not included in this study.
     
    Studies of all types of influenza vaccines were included: live, attenuated, and killed – or fractions of killed – vaccines. The primary outcomes they looked for were numbers and seriousness of influenza and influenza-like illnesses. They also looked at the number and seriousness of harms from the vaccines. The authors attempted to collect missing data by writing to the authors. They describe the response as “disappointing”. In the end, they included 50 studies and refused to use 92, mostly because of highly significant flaws, such as using inappropriate controls, not being randomly controlled trials, inconsistencies in data presented, lack of study design, unclear definitions, poor reporting, lack of crude data, and lack of placebo.
     
    The authors found that vaccines administered parenterally, that is, outside the digestive tract, usually meaning by injection, reduced influenza-like symptoms by 4%. They found no evidence that vaccination prevents viral transmission! (There goes the whole herd immunity argument!) They also found no evidence that they prevent complications, either.
     
    They attempted to ascertain the degree of complications, and though they did report on some, most of the studies simply did not address the issue or did so inadequately.

     
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December 14, 2010 Posted by | Medicine & Health | | Comments Off

U.S. Military War Gaming for Large Scale Economic Breakdown And Civil Unrest!

“It was a carefully contrived occurrence. International bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair, so that they might emerge the rulers of us all.
Louis McFadden on 1929 Stock Market Crash. Louis McFadden died of poisoning shortly thereafter.

  • Do you believe all the happy talk in the MSM about America in a slow economic recovery and jobs are being created? Things are getting better. No worries. Why then is the military preparing for economic breakdown and social unrest?
      
    U.S. Military War Gaming for Large Scale Economic Breakdown and Civil Unrest
    The majority of Americans believe that recent government intervention into financial markets, the economy and corporate insolvency has reversed the economic downturn which was described by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson as being “on the brink” in 2008. The stimulus, bailouts and unrelenting quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve have thus far been perceived as having averted the further erosion of the U.S. real estate and equities markets. And though the Federal Reserve and economic analysts have recently readjusted their economic growth forecasts downward for the next six months, Americans no longer have to worry about, as Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) said on the house floor in October of 2008, the sky falling, multi-thousand point drops in stock markets and martial law in America.
      
    The recovery – if our government, the Federal Reserve and mainstream media are to be believed – is on the road to recovery – albeit slowly and with some more pain ahead. If we’ve “prevented economic collapse” and “avoided the depression many feared,”
    according to President Obama, inquiring minds are asking why the Pentagon and US Military are actively and aggressively engaged in planning responsive action to large scale economic breakdown and civil unrest scenarios:
     
    Ever since the crash of 2008 the defense intelligence establishment has really been paying a lot of attention to global markets and how they can serve as a threat to U.S. national security interests. At one upcoming seminar next month they’re taking a look at a lot of the issues.
      
    According to the report, the Army has spent time on financial market trading floors with JP Morgan and others, in the hopes that they can learn more about how a financial and economic attack may occur, and what the ramifications of such attacks on US stocks and bonds may be. The Army, in a year-long war games series called Unified Quest 2011, is looking at a variety of possibilities and how to deal with them, including:
     
    - the implications of “large scale economic breakdown” inside of the United States
    - how to maintain “domestic order amid civil unrest”
    - and ways to deal with fragmented global power and drastically lower budgets
      
    Clearly, the U.S. government is making contingency plans to deal with a worst-case, all-out-collapse scenario of not only the economy, but our social and political systems.
     
    The war gaming, according to reports, began in 2008 at the onset of the economic crisis, but planners from not just the United States, but around the globe, may have been aware of the dire possibility of economic collapse even earlier. It’s well known that the U.S. government as well as foreign counterparts have been preparing bunkers and continuity of government for decades, but
    recent preparedness activities suggest that the planning in some aspects has been expedited. Anecdotal evidence indicates that the US government has been the leading buyer of freeze died foods for the last couple of years, and private emergency shelter contractors have reported a shortage in equipment and supplies for building personal-sized bunkers.
     
    In a previous report titled
    Homeland Security To “Regionalize” Emergency Supplies Over Next 90 Days, we pointed out that FEMA, headed by Department of Homeland Security, is decentralizing emergency supplies from one main distribution facility in Washington D.C. to fifteen regional facilities around the country. Even the Russians and the EU are in high gear. Russia has reportedly begun planning and development of 5,000 new underground bunkers for the city of Moscow scheduled for completion no later than 2012. The EU, in 2006, commissioned the building of a “Doomsday Seed Vault” in a mountainside several hundred metres above sea level. The facility was built and fully stocked with millions of seeds from around the world within 18 months.
     
    Though the activities of global governments in recent years could potentially be chalked up to standard national security preparedness and contingency planning, the most alarming indicator that the U.S. government is not just looking at one-in-a-million possibilities in terms of economic collapse is the
    training of several thousand U.S. Army soldiers to respond to domestic policing and enforcement issues that may include evacuation, detainment and riot response. The real possibility of the need to deploy U.S. military under martial law exists, and the U.S. government is spending millions of dollars training and equipping soldiers to do so if necessary.
     
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December 14, 2010 Posted by | Economics, Social Trends | , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America!

“The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down…but in the end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault.”
CFR member Richard Gardner, writing in the April 1974 issue of the CFR’s journal, Foreign Affairs.
 
“The Council on Foreign Relations is ‘the establishment’. Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship.”
Former Congressman John Rarick 1971

  • Why is America in such a bad state? Why are so many Americans so apathetic and willing slaves? Many seem to be 3/4 asleep and unaware of what is really happening. The sheeple description is apt not just for these Americans but for people all over the world.
     
  • America has been under constant assault by the Illuminati, by the Synagogue of Satan. (Both the CFR & TC are Illuminati organisations.) It is a deliberate multi-decades even centuries plan. All that has happened and will be happening is the execution of this plan to destroy America and remake/merge it into a Luciferian New World Order. This is the Mystery Babylon Whore of Revelation 17.
     
    Revelation 17:3-6 (New King James Version)
    3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.[a] 5 And on her forehead a name was written: 
      
    MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
     
     6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. 
     
  • Am I off my rockers for suggesting this Luciferian conspiracy? Is there really a group of people intent on destroying America. Below are excerpts from the book : The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, first published in 1999. It is provided free in .pdf form. (emphasis mine)
      
    Anyone interested in the truth will be shocked by the way American social engineers have systematically gone about destroying the intellect of millions of American children for the purpose of leading the American people into a socialist world government controlled by behavioral and social scientists.
     
    Mrs. Iserbyt has also documented the gradual transformation of our once academically successful education system into one devoted to training children to become compliant human resources to be used by government and industry for their own purposes. This is how fascist-socialist societies train their children to become servants of their government masters.
      
    The successful implementation of this new philosophy of education will spell the end of the American dream of individual freedom and opportunity. The government will plan your life for you, and unless you comply with government restrictions and regulations your ability to pursue a career of your own choice will be severely limited.
     
    What is so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by the American people themselves through their own taxes. In other words, the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own freedom and way of life by lavishly financing through federal grants the very social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty and preparing our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new world order. It reminds one of how the Nazis charged their victims train fare to their own doom.
      ….
    This is the dialectical process at work, a process our behavioral engineers have learned to use very effectively. Its success depends on the ability of the “change agents” to continually deceive the public which tends to believe anything the experts tell them.
      …..
    The brainwashing for acceptance of the “system’s” control would take place in the school—through indoctrination and the use of behavior modification ….
     …..
    The reason Americans do not understand this war is because it has been fought in secret — in the schools of our nation, targeting our children who are captive in classrooms. The wagers of this war are using very sophisticated and effective tools:- Hegelian Dialectic (common ground, consensus and compromise)
    - Gradualism (two steps forward; one step backward)
    - Semantic deception (redefining terms to get agreement without understanding).
      ….
    Only when all children in public, private and home schools are robotized (ie brainwashed)—and believe as one—will World Government be acceptable to citizens and able to be implemented without firing a shot.

“The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nationstates involved. As managers and creators of the system, they will rule the future.”
U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater in his 1964 book: With No Apologies

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December 14, 2010 Posted by | EndTimes, GeoPolitics, Social Trends | , , , , | 1 Comment

A European Economic Tsunami?

“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.”
Strobe Talbot, President Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, 1992.
 
The most powerful clique in these (CFR) groups have one objective in common: they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S. They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace. What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people. The CFR was founded for “the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government.”
Harpers, July 1958

  • This is an engineered crisis by Illuminist banksters to conquer Europe via fraudulent finance. Their plan calls for the destruction of national sovereignties and the eventual merger between a North American Union (NAU) and a European Superstate. What is happening now is simply the slow boiling of the sheeple frog. The Illuminists are using the corporate MSM to sell the propaganda that there is slow economic recovery while the situation on the ground goes to hell !
     
    “In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press….They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers.
     
    “An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.”
    U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917
     
  • Sometime in the near future, possibly in 1H2011, they will pull the plug on both the Euro and USD. The Yen will also collapse in sympathy. The Eurozone, US, UK and Japan are bankrupt. The amount of sovereign debts are so much that it will never be paid back. Out of this coming economic, financial and monetary collapse, the snakes will introduce their pre-planned One World Currency, Global Supra-National Central Bank and World Government. These criminals will sell themselves as saviors of the world when in fact they are the cause of humanity’s problems!
     
    A European Economic Tsunami?
    In 2007, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, spent most of the year assuring markets that the U.S. sub-prime mortgage loan problem would be contained. In an all-too-similar manner, the European Central Bank president, Jean-Claude Trichet, now keeps asserting that Europe’s sovereign debt crisis does not pose a significant threat to the overall European economy, let alone to the global economy.
     
    American policymakers would do well to disregard Mr. Trichet’s sanguine remarks and brace themselves for a European economic tsunami that is all too likely to seriously derail the fragile U.S. economic recovery. Among the surer signs that a currency arrangement is approaching the end of its useful shelf life is when policymakers are forced to vehemently deny the possibility of any change in that arrangement.
     
    This week, as Ireland embarked on a highly unpopular austerity program, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany provided such a clear signal for the European Monetary Union. She did so when she led a chorus of European policymakers in asserting that it was impossible to conceive that any member country would ever exit the euro. Despite her assurances, markets remain singularly unconvinced that outsized I.M.F. and E.U. bailout packages for politically troubled Ireland and Greece will prevent those countries from eventually defaulting on their sovereign debts.
     
    Contrary to what European policymakers would have us believe, events in Europe’s periphery over the past year are vindicating Milton Friedman’s deep skepticism about the euro, which he expressed at the time of its 1999 launch. He believed that given its flawed structure, the euro would not survive its first major economic recession.
     
    What makes it all too likely that Friedman’s misgivings will be proved correct is that over the past decade countries in Europe’s periphery have consistently not managed their public finances according to the arrangement’s rules. As a result, outsized budget and balance-of-payment deficits do not now simply characterize the Greek, Irish and Portuguese economies. Rather, more ominously, they also characterize Spain, which is aptly being described on Wall Street as being too big to fail yet also too big to save.
     
    In a recent major shift in thinking, European policymakers now recognize that debt restructuring, albeit only beginning in 2013, will need to be part of a solution for addressing the periphery’s large fiscal imbalances. However, they are yet to recognize that the major part of the periphery’s budget deficits constitute “primary” or non-interest payment transactions. As a result, even were they to succeed in substantially writing down their debts, these countries would still be left with very sizeable budget deficits that would be extraordinarily difficult to correct in a fixed exchange rate arrangement.
     
    The late American economist Herb Stein was fond of observing that if something cannot go on forever, it will stop. This aphorism appears particularly apt for the current state of the euro area. It seems unreasonable to expect that voters in Europe’s north, and especially in Germany, will indefinitely acquiesce to the transfer of large amounts of bailout money to the south in an effort to keep those countries afloat.
     
    And it seems even more unreasonable to expect voters in the south to indefinitely endure the severe economic and social pain associated with continued euro membership and the I.M.F. austerity measures attached to the financing they receive from the north.
     
    European policymakers understand full well that a wave of sovereign debt defaults in Europe’s periphery would more than likely precipitate a full-blown European banking crisis, since European banks are the main holders of the $2 trillion in the periphery’s sovereign debt.
     
    This suggests that European policy makers in the north will not lightly turn off the financing spigot that presently keeps the periphery afloat. However, judging by the crushing defeat handed Ms. Merkel in the May 2010 Westphalia state election, electoral considerations will likely make it all but impossible to indefinitely continue such financing.
     
    The more likely trigger for the euro’s eventual unraveling will be in the periphery itself. The Greek, Irish, Portuguese and Spanish governments all have tenuous holds on political power. And as recent events in Ireland seem to be bearing out, a deepening in the periphery’s economic and financial crises could very well result in the ascent of more populist governments, which might be less willing to hew to the hair-shirt austerity programs dictated by the I.M.F. Recall the spectacular demise of Argentina’s “immutable” currency peg to the U.S. dollar in 2001 after a futile attempt to effect a large-scale I.M.F.-imposed budget deficit adjustment in defense of that peg.
     
    An escalation of the European debt crisis would pose a real threat to U.S. economic recovery. A weakened euro would seriously dent U.S. export prospects. Of greater concern, a European banking crisis would threaten to contaminate the rest of the global financial system in much the same way as the Lehman Brothers fiasco did in 2008. With the darkest of economic storm clouds gathering in Europe, this is no time for U.S. policymakers to be thinking of cutting back on policies to support the U.S. economy.

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December 14, 2010 Posted by | Economics | Comments Off

Alex Jones: TSA, The New Federal Police!

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Alex Jones: We Have A Hardcore, Murderous, Population Reduction Tyranny!

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It Costs British Taxpayers US$76M/day Just to be in EU. Euro Is Crashing And Burning, Portugal And Spain Will Go!

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Ron Paul: Bailout Helped Those Who Caused The Crisis!

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