THE REAL REASONS REPUBLICANS KEEP BUTTING THEIR HEADS AGAINST A BRICK WALL ON OBAMACARE?
[WELL BESIDES THE FACT THAT A "BLACK MAN" DEFEATED THEIR "WHITE-HORSE CANDIDATE" AND BECAUSE THEIR RICHEST CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS DEMAND THEY SAVE THEM FROM PAYING TAXES LIKE THE REST OF US DO...TO NAME JUST TWO OF HUNDREDS...]
THEY LIKE THEIR CURRENT INSURANCE AND DON'T WANT TO BE FORCED TO TAKE LESS. THEY WANT US TO CONTINUE TO FOOT THE BILL FOR THEIR VERY NICE HEALTH CARE INSURANCE!
THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INSURED LIKE MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICANS ARE INSURED AND HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT!
AND THEY DON'T WANT THEIR BEST CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS, THOSE BIG CORPORATIONS WHO HAVE BEEN "GANG-BANGING" CONGRESS FOR 100 YEARS OR MORE, THOSE "BASTIONS OF WALL STREET", THOSE WITH OVER 50 EMPLOYEES, TO HAVE THE EXPENSE OF HAVING TO OFFER HEALTH CARE TO THEIR EMPLOYEES. IF THEY FAIL TO SAVE THE "BIG BOYS" SOME $$$. IT WILL MEAN LESS $$$ IN CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS!
BUT LET'S GO AHEAD AND ADD TO THIS, THE GOP IS STILL RAW OVER THE MERE SUGGESTION THAT ALL AMERICAN TAXPAYERS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE...BECAUSE FEW OF THEM HAVE TO PAY INTO THE SYSTEM LIKE WE "98%" DO.
THEIR HIGH-PRICED ACCOUNTANTS CAN ALWAYS SHOW A LOSS FOR THEM, SOMEHOW, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
[THIS IS ALSO TRUE OF MANY DEMOCRATS, AND WE ALL KNOW THAT.]
CONGRESS HAS BEEN HOPING IT WILL BE EXEMPTED FROM THE AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE ACT IT VOTED ON AND PASSED.
NO, NOT SO FAST!
Claim: Congress is exempt from the law.
FactCheck.org says: False.
<<Several versions of this claim have been circulating since before the Affordable Care Act was passed. But no matter how many different ways the critics spin it, Congress isn’t exempt from the law. In fact, members and their staffs face additional requirements that other Americans don’t.
Beginning in 2014, they can no longer get insurance through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, as they and other federal employees have done. Instead, they are required to get insurance through the insurance exchanges.
The claim has persisted even after the provision requiring Congress to get insurance from the exchanges became part of the final law. Fast forward to spring 2013, and the assertion surfaced again when there was concern among lawmakers that the transition to exchange plans — particularly the transfer of the federal contribution toward premiums — wouldn’t go very smoothly. Politico published a piece on April 24 on lawmakers talking about changing the exchange requirement because of this. The headline on the story? “Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption.”
On Aug. 7, the Office of Personnel Management, which administers the FEHB Program, issued a proposed rule saying that the federal government could continue to make contributions toward the premiums of lawmakers and their staffs on the exchanges. The federal government has long made such premium contributions, as other employers do for their employees. OPM said the contribution couldn’t be more than what it is under the FEHB Program. That ruling, perhaps predictably, sparked new — and still bogus — claims from Republicans of Congress being “exempt” from the law.>>
http://www.factcheck.org/2013/09/obamacare-myths/
SO THEY NOW REALIZE THAT MAY NOT BE THE CASE AND ARE SCRAMBLING TO SAVE THEMSELVES (AND, AT THE SAME TIME, THEIR BIG BUSINESS BUDDIES) SOME CASH!
AND THE LIES TO RATTLE ALL OF US INTO HELPING THEM HELP THEMSELVES AND SCREW US OVER AGAIN JUST KEEP COMING!
[LET ME PAUSE HERE TO INFORM YOU THAT I DON'T LIKE 'OBAMACARE'. IT FALLS SHORT OF BEING A REAL SOLUTION FOR THE 47% OF OUR FELLOW CITIZENS WHO CANNOT AFFORD HEALTH INSURANCE. IT NEEDS SERIOUS REFORM, BUT THE GOP's, IDEA OF HEALTH CARE FOR THE LESS-THAN-RICH, AS REP. ALAN GRAYSON SO MAGNIFICENTLY POINTED OUT, IS (A) "DON'T GET SICK!" AND (B) "IF YOU DO GET SICK DIE QUICKLY!" EVEN 'OBAMACARE' BEATS THAT HANDS-DOWN!]
WARNING, WARNING! FACTS INCOMING! THOSE IN CONTINUAL DENIAL OF TRUTH, RUN AWAY!
THE SUPREME COURT UPHELD THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE ACT, THE ONE CONGRESS VOTE TO PASS.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/28/explaining-the-supreme-court-ruling-on-obamacare.html
<<By a 5–4 margin, in a decision (surprisingly) written by traditionally conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, the court ruled that the health-care law IS constitutional.
The law’s most controversial component, known as the “individual mandate,” requires all Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a “shared responsibility payment” to the government.
On the day the law was enacted, 26 states, several individuals, and others sued to have the law struck down as a violation of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, which gives the federal government the power to regulate commerce between the states.
In its ruling, the court held that the law could not be upheld under the Commerce Clause, which was the government’s primary argument in its support. “The Federal Government does not have the power to order people to buy health insurance,” Roberts wrote for the majority.
But wait—doesn’t that mean the law should’ve been struck down?
[NO.]
The Commerce Clause argument was only one of three the government made in support of the law. It also argued that the law could be considered a tax, and this is the argument the court bought.
Specifically, the court held that the individual mandate is not a “penalty,” as the health-care law identified it, but a tax, and therefore a constitutional application of Congress’s taxation power.
In accepting the tax argument, the court relied on the “well-established” principle that “if a statute has two possible meanings, one of which violates the Constitution, courts should adopt the meaning that does not do so.”
The court then noted that the government’s argument—that the mandate represented a tax on people who choose not to buy health insurance—“makes going without insurance just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earning income.”
The court acknowledged that the mandate “is plainly designed to expand health insurance coverage,” and noted that “taxes that seek to influence conduct are nothing new”—for example, the taxing of cigarettes to discourage smoking.
Finally, the court reasoned, the mandate does not make the failure to buy health insurance unlawful. Beyond the payment to the IRS, the court explains, “neither the Act nor any other law attaches negative legal consequences to not buying health insurance.”
BOTTOM LINE TRUTH?
Starting in 2016, when the “shared responsibility payment” is fully in place, the amount you would owe for not having health insurance is the greater of 2.5 percent of your income or $695. There is currently no means to criminally prosecute those who do not have health insurance and also refuse to pay the shared responsibility payment.
IT'S BECOME A BIG JOKE, THE 37 ATTEMPTS TO "DEFUND OBAMACARE"!
IT CANNOT BE DONE.
IT SIMPLY CANNOT BE DONE SINCE CONGRESS CAN ONLY DEFUND "DISCRETIONARY SPENDING" AND 'OBAMACARE IS 90% MANDATORY GOVERNMENT SPENDING!
THE REPUBLICANS KNOW IT'S HOPELESS, THE GOP KNOWS THE LAW ONLY TOO WELL, AND THEY'RE PULLING THE PARTY IN HALF OVER THIS JUST AS KNOWINGLY, BUT THEIR ANGER OVER THEIR "ULTIMATE WHITE HORSE WARRIOR" BEING DEFEATED JUST GROWS OVER TIME.
THEY ARE NOW RABID OVER THEIR LOSSES.
SUCH MENTAL ILLNESS IN CONGRESS CANNOT BE GOOD FOR "WE, THE PEOPLE"!
May 16, 2013
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/05/obamacare-repeal-votes/65301/
<<Later today, the House of Representatives will hold its 37th vote on curtailing the Affordable Care Act. A little clarification about what that means is in order.
The Washington Post compiled the focus and results of each of these votes. If you're interested in the details of what each of those votes has targeted, go take a look. {"Voting to repeal, over and over", May 15, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/15/voting-to-repeal-over-and-over/ ]
If you're wondering about data behind the votes, please allow us.
As soon as a Republican majority took control of the House in early 2011, the votes to stem the implementation of the ACA began. On February 19 of that year, a vote on a funding resolution included ten different attempts to restrict funding to components of Obamacare.
Few of the votes were actually votes to repeal Obamacare, as has been suggested. The vast majority were instead attempting to use Congress' preferred tool for blocking legislation: keeping it from being funded. The votes to block funding were rarely to cut all funding; most targeted specific implementations. One vote targeted the staffing needed to implement the policy, a slight variation on an attempt to cut funding.>>
OVER TO A WASHINGTON EXAMINER ARTICLE:July 26, 2013
http://washingtonexaminer.com/no-the-gop-is-not-going-to-defund-obamacare/article/2533518
<<Republicans will not stop Obamacare. They won't defund it. Their last chance to put an end to it was the 2012 election. They lost, and the chance is gone.
Money to fund Obamacare comes from two sources. A relatively small part of it, including some of the funds used to get the program going, comes from Congress' regular yearly appropriations. Congress could raise or lower the amounts without changing Obamacare itself. The defund-Obamacare Republicans in the Senate hope to strip out that discretionary funding from a continuing resolution needed to fund the government that Congress will debate in September.
They know they won't succeed. Democrats, with 54 votes, have enough to pass anything that requires a simple majority, and won't have much trouble getting to a filibuster-proof 60 votes, either. "I could count six or seven Republicans who would vote for full funding of the continuing resolution without breaking a sweat," says one Senate aide who supports defunding. "So they're going to get to 60."
But that's just the discretionary part of Obamacare. The far bigger portions of the program, including the billions and billions of dollars in subsidies that will start going to Americans on Jan. 1, are mandatory spending, an entitlement funded by an automatic appropriation which is written into law and runs without further congressional action. To change that, Congress would have to change Obamacare.
In the Senate, that would take 67 votes -- the amount needed to overcome a guaranteed presidential veto. If the 46 Senate Republicans voted unanimously to end the Obamacare entitlement, they would have to persuade 21 Democrats to go along.
The Senate Republicans advocating defunding know that's not going to happen. And since Senate Republicans are not even united themselves, they also don't have the power to shut down the government.
MANY IN THE GOP HAVE ADMITTED THIS IS ALL FOR SHOW THAT IT'S HOPELESS TO TURN BACK TIME AND ERASE THE HEALTH CARE ACT.
A shutdown would be "madness," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former head of the Congressional Budget Office who opposes Obamacare. "There is no exit strategy. It'll go on for a while, people will say Republicans shut down the government again, Republicans will cave, fund the government, and go on weakened and divided."
Some senators believe that if they could somehow shut off just the implementation funds, there would be no mechanism for the government to spend the mandatory money and, bingo, all of Obamacare would be effectively defunded. But Democrats thought of that back in 2009. A lot of Obamacare's implementation money comes from mandatory spending. It's going to flow no matter what, unless Republicans find those 67 votes.
Of course, just 11 SENATE Republicans -- Rubio, Cruz, Risch, Paul, Inhofe, Vitter, Thune, Chiesa, Enzi, Fischer, and Grassley -- signed Sen. Lee's defunding pledge. That's about one-quarter of the Senate's Republican caucus.
[SO, DID THE OTHER 3/4ths OF THE GOP SENATE DECIDE TO STOP LYING TO US? SURELY NOT!]
House members in the conservative faction say they have about 80 votes to support their position. But there are 233 Republicans in the House. What about the other 153?
There's a difference between killing proposed legislation and stopping a law that is already in effect. And Republicans have run out of ways to stop Obamacare. The only way that will happen now is if the law proves to be a disaster that even its supporters abandon. Like everyone else, Republicans will just have to wait to see what happens.>>
FROM THEIR OWN MOUTHS...
GOP REP. ROBERT PITTENGER OF NORTH CAROLINA TOLD THE TEA PARTY FOLKS HE WOULD NOT VOTE TO DEFUND 'OBAMACARE'...
"'While I support efforts to defund Obamacare, the political reality is that goal is not currently achievable. Senator Harry Reid would never let it pass the Senate, and President Obama would never sign it into law.'"
"'If we shut down the government, as some advocate, Obamacare remains in full force. Most of Obamacare is in the law as mandatory spending, which continues during a shutdown. What would not continue would be pay for our brave soldiers, treatment for our veterans, and funding for critical services for our seniors. Voting for this sort of collateral damage is irresponsible and a misguided effort to fight Obamacare.'"
[NOTE: ONE PERSON WHO COMMENTED ON THE REP.'S STATEMENT SAID BY WAY OF INTERPRETING FOR US WHAT THE REP. MEANT...
"I will not, let me repeat, will not give up my healthcare benefits you the Small People are forced to pay for!!"
EXACTLY!!!]
IN AN ARTICLE, "A Friendly Reminder That Defunding Obamacare Won’t Stop the Law", THE NATIONAL JOURNAL, September 17, 2013, http://mobile.nationaljournal.com/daily/a-friendly-reminder-that-defunding-obamacare-won-t-stop-the-law-20130917 WROTE:
<<With Capitol Hill wrapped up in a debate this week regarding looming fiscal fights and the possibility of a shutdown over the health care law, it’s worth remembering that shutting down the government would likely have little impact on the Affordable Care Act. According to a Congressional Research Service report released at the end of July, much of the law’s implementation is separate from annual discretionary appropriations. [SEE THE REPORT HERE: http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=0af8b42a-b2b9-484b-b0d4-9d27e2b690ac ]
The CRS report was issued at the request of Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who has not been shy about his opposition to the shutdown strategy. “[A government shutdown] would be committing ritual suicide on an altar of bad strategy,” Coburn’s communications director, John Hart, told National Journal Daily. “The idea that we can fully defund Obamacare through the continuing resolution is a Washington gimmick to advance political funding goals.”
The report substantiates the argument that a shutdown would not be an effective tool to stop the law. This is because much of the law relies on mandatory funding and multiple-year and no-year discretionary funds, which are not beholden to annual budget debates.
Even some Republicans supporting the strategy of tying Obamacare to the CR debate recognize that it would not have the practical effects they truly want.
“It’s mostly symbolic,” Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma said recently. “We want to have something out there so people continue to talk about it.... That’s a way of keeping the issue alive.... It is something you have to keep doing because you have strong beliefs, and even if logically it isn’t going to work out the way you want it, you still try.”
[BWAAAA-HAAAAA-HAAAA!
THAT'S RICH, SIN-ATOR!]
ANOTHER GOP NORTH CAROLINIAN HEARD FROM, A SENATOR...
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) slammed a proposal to block a continuing resolution on federal funding unless ObamaCare is defunded.
“I think it’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard,” Burr told journalist Todd Zwilich Thursday. Listen, as long as Barack Obama is president the Affordable Care Act is gonna be law.” …
Sen. Lee’s fellow Utahan GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch is all about the repeal efforts, but thinks that Lee’s “not going to win on that, and that will open the Republicans up to all kinds of false criticism.” Karl Rove, GOP DEMI-GOD, agrees that it’ll give Democrats another chance to tee off on Republican obstructionism.
Congressman Bob Gibbs (R-OH) is also not going to fall into the defunding trap.
"'Although it is common misconception there is no dedicated funding stream for Obamacare in a CR, CRs only address discretionary appropriations, not mandatory spending, which makes up the bulk of Obamacare spending. In fact a recent Congressional Research Service report determined a government shutdown would not stop Obamacare due to the large amount of discretion the Administration would have.
However, with a federal government shutdown our military members would not receive their pay and certain beneficiaries would experience delays in the processing and payment of their social security benefits. That is just not an acceptable option.'"
SEE ALSO MY PREVIOUS BLOGS...TO WHICH THIS IS AN UPDATE...for more Republicans including Boehner and McCain, who have said nothing can stop Obamacare now that it is LAW and to see what other lies they've told us.
http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2013/03/republicans-lie-raising-taxes-created.htmlAND
http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2013/09/government-shuts-down-in-october-we.html
AFTER HIS LAUGHABLE 'FILIBUSTER' RANT LAST WEEK, ON EVERY FACT-CHECK SITE THERE IS, ALL OF THEM, OLD TEDDY CRUZ WAS CALLED A LIAR AGAIN AND AGAIN. (See links below from factcheck.org)
EVEN 'CONSERVATIVE' WEBSITES WERE ADMITTING HE "EXAGGERATED"!
WHY ISN'T HE EMBARRASSED BY THAT?
WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR THE LIES TO SIMPLY STOP?
ROMNEY'S GROSS EXAGGERATION ON 'OBAMACARE'.
POOR OLD ROMULUS, STILL TRYING TO BE NOTICED, STILL HAS NO CLUE ABOUT REALITY!
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/05/romneys-gross-exaggeration-on-obamacare/
We asked Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom how his boss arrives at 50 percent. In an email, Fehrnstrom said: “The 50% includes total health care expenditures, which will be effectively under government control once Obamacare is fully implemented.”
That’s patently false and misleading. Total health care expenditures include public and private costs — everything from Medicare and Medicaid to private insurance and out-of-pocket expenses for copayments and deductibles. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says national health expenditures in 2009 reached $2.5 trillion — or 17.6 percent of GDP. About 43 percent of that was local, state and government spending. The rest was private.
It’s true that Obama’s health care law will increase the number of people covered by Medicaid, and it will set a minimum benefit standard for health care plans.
But that’s exactly what Massachusetts did under the health care law that Romney signed as governor. HYPOCRISY? FROM THE WHITE-HORSE DUDE?
MORE LIES
In his speech, Romney also restated the misleading Republican claim that taxes on the wealthy are taxes on small businesses.
Romney: President Obama proposes to raise the tax on small business. He wants to increase the marginal tax rate that the most successful small businesses pay from 35 percent to 40 percent. It’s a throwback to the discredited policies of the past, and it’ll kill jobs.
Romney misleads when he says Obama would raise taxes on “small businesses.” It’s true that Obama wants to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire for the top two brackets for individual taxpayers, eliminating the current 33 percent and 35 percent tax rates and restoring the 36 percent and 39.6 percent rates. And some of those individuals own small businesses. But the truth is that the vast majority of small-business owners wouldn’t be affected.
JUST CAN'T STOP GOP MOUTHS FROM LYING
Romney also recycles an old claim when attacking Obama’s health care law for creating “an unelected board [that] will tell seniors what treatments Medicare’s gonna cover.” The reference is to the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a 15-member panel of doctors and medical professionals, economists and health care management experts, and representatives for consumers and seniors established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Its purpose is to find ways to slow the growth in Medicare spending.
Though it feels like we are beating a dead horse with this one, we will continue to reiterate that IPAB is not going to “tell seniors what treatments Medicare’s gonna cover.” The health care law explicitly states that IPAB “shall not include any recommendation to ration health care, raise revenues or Medicare beneficiary premiums … increase Medicare beneficiary cost sharing (including deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments), or otherwise restrict benefits or modify eligibility criteria.” (See page 490.) The board’s recommendations, furthermore, will go before Congress, where they can be replaced with alternative cuts or rejected outright by a three-fifths majority.
And while the panel is unelected, the law says the president will appoint the members in consultation with Congress and with consent of the Senate. All three elected bodies of government will have a say in who is on the board.
POOR OLD MITTENS ROMULUS, HE STILL CAN'T JUST ACCEPT THAT HE WAS SEVERELY BEATEN, THAT HE WILL NEVER, EVER BE "THE PREZ", AND I'M SURE IT GALLS HIM AND ALL THE GOP THAT SOMEONE THEY SEE AS "BENEATH THEM" GOT ELECTED.
HAD RON PAUL WON, IT WOULD HAVE LIKELY BEEN JUST AS BAD.
R.P. ISN'T WHAT THE GOP SEES AS "THE WRONG RACE", HE'S JUST NOT ELITIST ENOUGH, HE'S NEVER RUN IN THE "RIGHT CIRCLES".
HE'S NEVER BEEN A WHORE TO WALL STREET NOR THE CENTRAL BANKS LIKE HIS 'ILLUSTRIOUS' COLLEAGUES IN CONGRESS.
SO, WITH THIS ABSOLUTELY STUPID MANEUVERING ON THE PART OF THE GOP THEY HAVE ASSURED THAT AMERICA WILL LIKELY NOT SEE ANOTHER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT FOR DECADES!
THEY'VE CUT THEIR OWN THROATS AND THEY DESERVE WHAT THEY GET.
I NEVER VOTE A "PARTY", BUT FOR THE INDIVIDUAL MAN OR WOMAN.
I WEIGH THEIR LIES AGAINST THEIR TRUTHS.
I LOOK AT THEIR HISTORY, THEIR "TRACK RECORD".
i HAVE NEVER CARED IF A CANDIDATE WAS GOP OR DEMOCRAT OR GREEN PARTY OR WHATEVER.
SHOW ME THE INTEGRITY THE HONOR, THE TRUTH!
YES, BOTH 'PARTIES' LIE, SO WHY 'PARTY' WITH LIARS?
BUT AFTER 50+ YEARS OF WATCHING FOR LIES, I CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT THE GOP IS, HANDS-DOWN, THE KING OF LIARS AMONG POLITICIANS, GLOBALLY AND NATIONALLY.
NOW THEY'LL PAY FOR THAT...THEY'VE KILLED THE REPUBLICAN HOPES FOR PRESIDENT AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOTICING THE LIES, THE DAMAGE THEY'RE DOING TO MIDDLE-CLASS CITIZENS AND TO THE POOR, AT LAST!
THE 'GRAND OLD PARTY' HAS LOOKED DOWN THEIR PATRICIAN NOSES AT "JOE Q. CITIZEN" FOR DECADES NOW AND OLD JOE HAS HAD ENOUGH.
THEY'VE SHOWN US AT THEIR LAST CONVENTION THAT THE GRASSROOTS REPUBLICANS GET THROWN OUT AND SHOUTED DOWN AND IGNORED, LITTLE REALIZING THAT THE GRASSROOTS MEMBERS ARE WHO GOT THEM ELECTED THE FIRST TIME.
NEXT ELECTION, REMEMBER THIS!
REMEMBER WHO SOLD OUT AN ENTIRE 'PARTY' JUST TO SERVE THEIR CAMPAIGN-FUNDING BIG BUSINESS BUDDIES AND KEEP THEIR CUSHY INSURANCE.
REMEMBER THAT, UNLESS YOU'RE A HUGE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTOR, YOU DON'T MEAN SQUAT TO THE BIG DOGS RUNNING AROUND UP ON "THE HILL".
JUST ONCE, AMERICA, REMEMBER THE LIES YOU WERE TOLD...
BY ALL THE LIARS...BY THE 'PARTY', 'RED' AND 'BLUE'.
'MYTHS' BECOME LIES, THEN MORE LIES
http://www.factcheck.org/2013/09/obamacare-myths/
Falsehoods about the Affordable Care Act are still swirling -- and the intensity of the claims is rising as the insurance exchanges are set to launch.
Posted on September 16, 2013
<<So, more than three years after our last health-care-whoppers piece (published just before the law was signed in 2010), we’re giving readers a rundown of the top claims.
Some have been around for years, and others are relatively new.
Most touch on three topics: jobs, premium costs and medical care.
CLAIM: Republicans have made the overblown claim that the law is a job-killer.
FACT: FALSE!
Experts predict a small impact on mainly low-wage jobs. The Republican National Committee says 8.2 million part-timers can’t find full-time work “partly” due to the law. NOT TRUE! That’s the TOTAL number of part-time workers who want FULL-time jobs, and there’s no evidence from official jobs figures that the law has had an impact.
Proponents say premiums will go down, while opponents say they’ll go up. In general, employer plans won’t be affected much, and a price change for individuals seeking their own insurance will vary from person to person. Obama claimed that all of the uninsured would see lower premiums than what they could get now (before accounting for federal subsidies), but that’s not the case.
Critics continue to make scary claims about the government coming between you and your doctor, but the law doesn’t set up a government-run system. If anything, the law comes between you and your insurance company, forbidding them from capping your coverage or charging you more based on health status. Meanwhile, Obama can’t promise you can keep your plan. Employers are free to switch coverage, just as they were before.
Claim: 8.2 million Americans can’t find full-time work partly due to Obamacare.
FactCheck.org says: False.
Claim: The law is a job-killer.
FactCheck.org says: Overblown.
This claim made our “Whoppers of 2011” list, and it has continued to be pushed in various forms — with the latest being the claims about part-time work. Mainly, the “job-killer” claims severely distort a 2010 nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office report that said the law would have a “small” impact on jobs
The CBO report said this decrease in the amount of labor in the economy would amount to one-half of 1 percent, which Republicans quickly translated into a loss of actual jobs. But, as we said, CBO clearly explained this would come about “primarily by reducing the amount of labor that workers choose to supply.”
In July, claims about the law killing jobs took the form of a “mis-tweet” from several congressional Republicans, who wrongly tweeted “74% of small businesses will fire workers, cut hours under #Obamacare.” But the online, opt-in survey from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which opposes the law, found no more than 13 percent of the small businesses that responded said that.
Claim: Premiums are going up because of the law.
Premiums are going down because of the law.
FactCheck.org says: It depends.
Politicians have been making these claims since before the law was passed — it was the first item on our list of whoppers back in 2010. Both sides have a penchant for misrepresenting studies on the matter to support their point. Our short answer — “it depends” — may be unsatisfactory to readers, but whether you’ll pay more or less than you would have without the law depends on your circumstances.Are you uninsured and have a preexisting condition? You’ll likely pay less than you would have otherwise. Are you uninsured but young and healthy? You’ll likely pay more (without accounting for any subsidies you may receive). Are you insured through your employer? You likely won’t see much change either way.
The growth in national health spending (that’s spending from the government, businesses and individuals) from 2009 to 2011 also has been at around 4 percent, the lowest level since such spending was first measured in 1960.
Claim: You won’t be able to choose your own doctor.
Claim: The government will be between you and your doctor.
FactCheck.org says: False.
These claims are variations on the fear that the government will be taking over health care — choosing your doctor, telling him or her what treatment to administer, etc. But the law doesn’t create a government-run system, as we’ve said many times. It actually greatly expands business for private insurance, by about 12 million new customers, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates. And individuals will choose their own doctors, just as they do now.
These type of fear-mongering claims appear to have quieted a bit in 2013 — along with the more extreme death-panel-type hysteria — but they’re still percolating.
As for the government-coming-between-you-and-your-doctor claim, the law’s regulatory provisions are more like putting the government between you and your insurance company — and in a way that brings added benefits to consumers. The law says insurers can’t have caps on coverage, turn down customers based on preexisting conditions (or charge them more), and can’t spend more than 15 percent or 20 percent on non-medical-related costs (see Obama’s rebate claim above).
Claim: Those applying for federal subsidies can lie about their income without facing verification.
FactCheck.org says: False.
The Obama administration gave the insurance exchanges some leeway in how they verify income eligibility for federal subsidies in the first year. That prompted Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt to claim that the administration had “waived the income verification requirement” and that applicants can “say what you think your income’s going to be with no way to verify that.” Not true. The exchanges will compare applications with federal information — such as previous tax returns — and ask for additional information if the person has no previous tax filings.
OTHER FACTS
http://www.factcheck.org/2013/09/warren-buffett-on-obamacare/
Lying about what Buffet said
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/29/fact-check-ted-cruz-obamacare-health-care/2890995/
Fact Check Cruz & Paul...LIARS, LIARS PANTS ON FIRE
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/25/cruz-fact-check/2873439/
CRUZ'S TALL TALES
OTHER FALSE CLAIMS PROVEN TO BE FALSE
~NO RFID CHIPS WILL BE IMPLANTED INTO HUMANS.
[NOTE: THAT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T NEED TO DO THAT! EVERYTHING FROM OUR DRIVERS LICENSES TO OUR CELLPHONES, "DISCOUNT GROCERY CARDS", AND PET "ID CHIPS", PLUS EVERY BAR CODE OUT THERE CAN TRACK US AND GATHER INFO QUITE NICELY AS THINGS ARE NOW.]
[THAT'S ALSO BECAUSE OUR 'PUBLICANS ADDED THAT TO 'IMMIGRATION REFORM' BILLS.]
~NO 'DEATH PANELS'.
UNLESS YOU COUNT CONGRESS, THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND THE SUPREME COURT. THEY'RE ALL KILLING US ALREADY!BOTH MEDICARE AND PRIVATE INSURANCE SINCE ABOUT 2 OR 3 YEARS BACK HAVE MADE "END OF LIFE COUNSELING MANDATORY (WELL YOU CAN OPT OUT, BUT THAT FLAGS YOU.)
BESIDES, ,WHO NEEDS DEATH PANELS WHEN 45,000 AT LEAST DIE EACH YEAR BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/17/us-usa-healthcare-deaths-idUSTRE58G6W520090917
http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/09/27/because-fox-asked-here-are-examples-of-people-w/196139
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/15/1144844/-CDC-Reports-45-000-Americans-Die-Each-Year-From-Lack-of-Health-Care~IRS WILL NOT PUT A LIEN ON YOUR BUSINESS OR PROPERTY IF YOU DON'T VOLUNTARILY BUY HEALTH INSURANCE.
THEY CAN WITHHOLD YOUR TAX REFUNDS TO COVER THAT COST.
~ Just tossing this link in so you can see that Boehner doesn't discipline racists in his Congress, no sir no way! He should explain that.
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/politicians-made-racist-remarks/story?id=18841740
AFTER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN OVER THIS UNCUT CRAPOLA THE CONGRESS HAS ORCHESTRATED, REMEMBER WHO DID IT WHEN YOU'RE PAYING BACK THE $2 BILLION+ IT WILL COST US TO RESTART THE BLOODY THING!
THANK A CONGRESSMAN...AT THE POLLS!
VOTE THE LIARS OUT!
Monday, September 30, 2013
Saturday, September 28, 2013
GOLD AND CURRENCY WORTHLESS IF DISASTER STRIKES.
PEOPLE OF THE PLANET EARTH, IF "ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE", IF WE FIND OURSELVES IN ANOTHER GLOBAL WAR, IF SOME UNIMAGINABLE NATURAL DISASTER AFFECTS OUR ENTIRE PLANET, IF WE ARE "ATTACKED BY ALIENS", IF OUR ELECTRONIC GRIDS GO DOWN, IF ANOTHER WORLDWIDE 'PANDEMIC' CAN BE PULLED OFF, IF CIVILIZATION CRUMBLES ABOUT US OVERNIGHT, IF ANY OF THESE THINGS OCCUR, DO YOU HONESTLY THINK GOLD OR OTHER 'PRECIOUS METALS', ANY CURRENCY, DIAMONDS AND SUCH, WILL REALLY BE OF VALUE?
THINK! THINK, BEFORE THAT'S A KILLING OFFENSE!
IF WE SEE THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION, FOR WHATEVER REASON, AND WE FIND OURSELVES WITHOUT THE MEANS TO GET FOOD, CLEAN WATER, MEDICAL ATTENTION, OR TO TRAVEL FROM 'POINT A TO POINT B' WITHOUT BEING ATTACKED AND/OR JAILED, DO YOU HONESTLY SEE THAT ANY OF THOSE THINGS IN THE TITLE OF THIS POST WILL BE OF ANY HELP AT ALL TO ANYONE?
WHEN THERE IS NO FOOD, FOOD ITSELF BECOMES 'CURRENCY'.
WHAT GOOD IS GOLD WHEN NATIONS ARE ON THEIR KNEES FROM A CATACLYSMIC DISASTER?
WILL ANYONE TRADE YOU FOOD ENOUGH FOR EVEN A DAY FOR ALL THE GOLD YOU HAVE?
BANKS WILL BE A THING OF THE PAST.
BANKING WILL END AND MAY NEVER RETURN IN A "POST-APOCALYPTIC" WORLD!
"AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT", GOLD WILL CEASE TO SHINE SO BRIGHTLY.
WHEN ONE IS STRUGGLING AGAINST ALL ODDS TO SIMPLY LIVE, TO SURVIVE, NO ONE WILL BE COUNTING THEIR "MONEY".
THEY WILL BE COUNTING THEIR FOOD SUPPLIES, THEIR WATER RESERVES, THEIR LIFE-SAVING MEDICAL SUPPLIES, AND LIKELY THEIR AMMUNITION, THEIR MEANS TO MAKE FIRE, THEIR ABILITY TO FIND SHELTER, SAFE LOCATIONS...
YOU SEE, MEDICINES WILL ALSO BE A HIGH-DEMAND "CURRENCY" SHOULD WE LOSE OUR ABILITY TO MANUFACTURE MORE.
PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON MEDICINES FOR LIFE ITSELF WILL NEED AND DESPERATELY WANT MEDICINES, NOT DIAMONDS, NOT CASH, JUST MEDICINES.
CLEAN WATER WILL BE WORTH MORE THAN ALL THE GOLD ANY NATION HAS.
WHAT WILL YOU OFFER FOR ENOUGH WATER TO SEE THAT YOU AND THOSE YOU LOVE DO NOT PERISH?
HOW LONG CAN A HUMAN SURVIVE WITHOUT CLEAN WATER?
WILL ANYONE PREFER A POUND OF GOLD TO A POUND OF FOOD, A GALLON OF WATER, A LIFE-SAVING DRUG?
YOU MAY THINK, WELL, AFTER THE CATASTROPHE PASSES, THEN GOLD AND MONEY AND PRECIOUS GEMS WILL BE IN DEMAND AGAIN.
YOU'D LIKELY BE WRONG.
WITH ALL THAT WE KNOW TODAY LYING IN RUIN ABOUT US, WITH NOTHING 'WORKING' THAT RUNS ON ELECTRICITY, AND THEREFORE OIL BEING EQUALLY OF LITTLE VALUE ANYMORE SINCE OUR 'INDUSTRIES' WILL ALL BE NULL AND VOID, WHEN WE'RE FORCED TO RESORT TO "ANCIENT METHODS" TO HEAT, COOK, LIVE, WHO WILL TRADE A DAY'S SUSTENANCE FOR AN OUNCE OF USELESS GOLD?
CERTAINLY WE CAN ASSUME THAT, AT FIRST, HUMANS BEING CREATURES OF HABIT, MANY WILL HANG ON TO THEIR GOLD, CURRENCIES, ETC. THEY WILL BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE REPAIRED, WILL RETURN TO "NORMAL".
THEY'LL BE WRONG.
"NORMAL" WILL BECOME SOMETHING THAT FEW WISH TO CONSIDER...SAVAGERY WILL SOON REIGN SUPREME AS HUMANS STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE.
NEIGHBOR WILL TURN AGAINST NEIGHBOR, KIN AGAINST KIN, AS ALL TRY TO EKE OUT AN EXISTENCE.
THOSE NATIONS WHO HAVE THE MOST USEABLE RESOURCES WILL SURELY BE ATTACKED BY THOSE WHO HAVE LESS.
PANICKED PEOPLE PEOPLE WITH LITTLE OR NO HOPE, DO DESPERATE THINGS.
IF ANY TECHNOLOGY SURVIVES THAT WILL ALLOW THE LAUNCH OF WEAPONS, MAD MEN WILL BE PUSHING BUTTONS FAST AND FURIOUSLY, TRYING TO GET THAT "FIRST STRIKE" IN.
ADD NUCLEAR WINTER TO THE MIX.
SO FEW OF US HAVE AN INKLING OF HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY, WITHOUT AUTOMOBILES, WITHOUT COZY HEATED/COOLED HOMES ABOUT US, WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO "SHOP" FOR WHAT WE NEED, THAT MOST COULDN'T SO MUCH AS FIND FOOD IN THE WILD AND COOK IT OVER AN OPEN FIRE.
HOW MANY COULD FORAGE FOR EDIBLE FOODS?
HOW MANY MIGHT DIE EATING THINGS THAT ARE TOXIC OR STARVE NOT EATING WHAT'S OUT THERE, BECAUSE THEY DON'T REALIZE WHAT IS EDIBLE?
HOW MANY WOULD SURVIVE THAT FIRST COLD, DARK WINTER, ESPECIALLY A 'NUCLEAR WINTER'?
CAN YOU SEE JOE Q. CITIZEN CROUCHED, SHIVERING AND DESPERATE FOR FOOD IN THE PATHETIC REMAINS OF HIS ONCE-COMFORTABLE HOME COUNTING OUT HIS MONEY OR HIS GOLD?
I SUBMIT THAT JOE Q. WILL BE FRANTIC TO FIND FUEL FOR A FIRE, FOOD TO EAT, WATER TO DRINK, SOMETHING TO KEEP HIM WARM AND DRY, MAYBE MEDICINES FOR HIS DIABETES, HEART CONDITION, ETC.
WHO WILL TRADE HIM THOSE THINGS FOR ANYTHING THAT RESEMBLES "MONEY"?
I WOULDN'T.
I WOULD KNOW THAT SURVIVAL WILL BE A LONG, SEEMINGLY INTERMINABLE STRUGGLE, FOR SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT WILL BE GONE.
LIKE IT OR NOT, ONLY THE STRONG, EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY, WILL SURVIVE, AND THOSE PREPARED FOR DISASTER WILL FARE THE BEST...THOSE WITH ENOUGH FOOD, WATER, MEDICINES, CLOTHING AND MEANS TO EKE OUT LIFE FROM THE RUINS.
IN THE PAST, NOT SO LONG AGO, RECOVERY FROM DISASTERS WAS NOT DEPENDENT ON AN ELECTRIC GRID, OR ON AUTOMOBILES, "CASH ON HAND", OR
HAVING A HIGH-PAYING JOB.
MEN AND WOMEN BUILT LIVES WITHIN A SMALL CIRCLE OF FAMILY AND TRUSTED FRIENDS.
THE MEN COULD GO OUT TO HUNT AND/OR TRAP, THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO GARDEN OR GATHER, AND EVEN A SIX-YEAR-OLD CHILD COULD BE TRUSTED TO "MAKE IT" ON HIS OWN SHOULD HE BECOME SEPARATED FROM THE SMALL CIRCLE FOR A TIME.
PEOPLE SELDOM SAT STILL FOR VERY LONG, ALWAYS BUSY MAKING PROVISION FOR LIVING, FOR HAVING ENOUGH. THEY ACCUSTOMED THEMSELVES TO THE ELEMENTS, TO THEIR SURROUNDINGS, TO EACH SEASON.
THEY HAD THE COMMON SENSE TO LAY IN RESERVES WHEN POSSIBLE, TO LOOK AT THE "LONG-RUN, NOT THE SHORT TERM, FOR THEY KNEW THINGS CAN CHANGE FROM GOOD TO BAD IN MINUTES.
PEOPLE WERE FAMILIAR WITH THEIR SURROUNDINGS, KNEW WHERE TO GO TO GET WHAT WAS NEEDED TO SURVIVE, EVEN IF BARELY, AND KNEW WHERE TO TAKE REFUGE FROM ENEMIES, FROM DANGER.
PEOPLE WITHIN THIS CIRCLE HAD LEARNED TO BE THEIR OWN DOCTORS, TO A POINT, TO KNOW THAT CERTAIN PLANTS WOULD HELP THEM LIVE OVER ILLNESSES OR DISEASE THAT STRUCK THEM. (AFTER ALL, WHERE DO THE MOST OF OUR PUREST MEDICINES COME FROM? PLANTS...EVEN ALGAE, MOLDS, FUNGI ARE PLANTS.)
IT WAS COMMON TO SHARE THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE WITH THOSE INSIDE THE CIRCLE. THOSE WHO HAD SHARED FREELY, THOSE WHO DIDN'T HAVE WORKED TO HAVE MORE, NOT EXPECTING TO ALWAYS BE WITHOUT, KNOWING THERE IS A LIMIT TO HOW MUCH A SMALL CIRCLE CAN PROVIDE TO THOSE WITHIN IT, ESPECIALLY IN TERRIBLE TIMES.
NOT ANYMORE.
WE HAVE BECOME SO DEPENDENT ON THINGS THAT RUN ON ELECTRICITY, AND ON OIL/GAS, THAT I OFTEN WONDER HOW MANY COULD EVEN MANAGE A 10-MILE HIKE TO GET A MEAL, OR A SUPPLY OF WATER.
HOW WOULD WE KEEP WHAT WE HAD, KEEP IT FROM ROTTING, SPOILING, "GOING BAD"?
DOES ANYONE KNOW THESE DAYS HOW TO STORE FRESH MEAT OR VEGETABLES SO THEY DON'T SPOIL, KEEP THEM FOR MONTHS AT A TIME, SANS ELECTRICITY?
THERE ARE WAYS TO KEEP SUCH THINGS FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME.
GOLD WOULDN'T BUY A STORAGE PLACE EVEN, IF WE LOSE OUR "MODERN SOCIETY", BUT COMMON SENSE "KNOW-HOW" WILL BE INVALUABLE, AND SOMETHING EVERYONE WILL LOOK TO IN OTHERS, FOR FEW IN AMERICA WILL HAVE SUCH SKILLS.
IF THE UNIMAGINABLE HAPPENS, IF WE ARE CAUGHT SUDDENLY IN AN "APOCALYPTIC SCENARIO", IF, SECONDS FROM DISASTER, WE FIND OURSELVES WITH NO SURVIVAL SKILLS, NO PLACE SAFE TO RUN TO, NO IDEA OF WHAT TO DO NEXT, WILL A TON OF GOLD BUY US A SAFE HAVEN?
WILL ALL THE DIAMONDS ON EARTH SECURE US A SPOT IN ANOTHER PERSON'S SHELTER FROM THE STORM?
WILL BE ABLE TO TRADE A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE MEANS TO SURVIVE A DAY, A WEEK, A MONTH, 10 YEARS?
PEOPLE CHANGE AFTER DISASTERS STRIKE.
THEY GO INTO SURVIVAL MODE, IF THEY HAVE ANY SENSES LEFT ABOUT THEM TO DO SO, AND ONCE IN SURVIVAL MODE, THE FIRST "LAW OF NATURE" APPLIES...SELF-SURVIVAL, WITH PRESERVATION OF SPECIES COMING IN AFTER THAT.
SO, NO, YOU WILL FIND LITTLE USE FOR ANY FORM OF CURRENCY SHOULD THINGS 'BLOW UP' ALL AROUND US.
PEOPLE WILL SEE LESS AND LESS USE FOR SUCH AS TIME GOES ON.
NO ONE WILL GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOUR STOCKPILES OF CASH OR METALS OR GEMS.
THEY WILL WANT FOOD, WATER, MEDICINES, MEANS TO SURVIVE.
EVER SINCE THE TEA ROOM OPENED, EACH WEEK, EACH MONTH, THE MOST-READ BLOGS HAVE BEEN ABOUT GOLD, ABOUT "MONEY".
YES, GOLD IS BETTER THAN FIAT MONEY, THAN ANY PAPER CURRENCY, THAT IS TRUE.
ANYTHING CONSIDERED "PRECIOUS" IS BETTER THAN WORTHLESS PAPER MONEY WHETHER "PRECIOUS METALS", "PRECIOUS GEMS", WHATEVER.
BUT, BE WARNED...PLEASE BE WARNED...WHEN GLOBAL DISASTER STRIKES, AND IT WILL, NOTHING BUT THAT WHICH ENSURES SURVIVAL WILL BE WORTH A HILL OF BEANS, AND THAT PROVERBIAL HILL OF BEANS, SEEDS, THE ASSURANCE OF FOOD AVAILABILITY IN THE FUTURE, IF WE GET A FUTURE, WILL BE FAR MORE VALUABLE TO US THAN ANY AMOUNT OF GOLD, WHICH WILL BE RENDERED USELESS BY THOSE SCRATCHING AND CLAWING TO SURVIVE.
BETTER TO SPEND THE GOLD ON THINGS WE CAN USE TO SUSTAIN LIFE, SHOULD "ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE" ACROSS THIS FRAGILE WORLD, SPEND SOME GOLD NOW IN ANTICIPATION OF BEING ABLE TO SURVIVE A GLOBAL CATASTROPHE, NOT JUST AN ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, BUT TOTAL COLLAPSE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY AND LIFESTYLE.
BETTER TO HAVE SAFE HAVEN, FOOD, WATER, MEDICINES ENOUGH FOR US AND THOSE WE LOVE THAN A PILE OF GOLD THAT WE CAN NEVER EAT, DRINK WEAR, NOR LIVE BENEATH.
BETTER TO KNOW WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO DO, HOW TO SURVIVE THAN TO KNOW THE STOCK MARKET OR THE PRICE OF GOLD TODAY.
IF DISASTER STRIKES TODAY, WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR, WHICH DO YOU THINK THOSE WHO DEPEND ON YOU WILL BE MOST GLAD FOR... A NICE PORTFOLIO AND GOOD SUPPLY OF CURRENCY/GOLD, OR THE MEANS FOR THEIR CONTINUED SURVIVAL?
CERTAINLY NOTHING IS WRONG WITH "FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY", WITH "SOUND FINANCIAL PLANNING" , BUT WHEN WE LOSE THE VERY SOCIETY, THE MODERN LIFESTYLE IN WHICH THAT IS CURRENTLY IMPORTANT AND ENTER INTO A SOCIETY THAT IS SIMPLY STRUGGLING TO LIVE, WHAT YOU TAKE INTO THAT NEW LIFESTYLE WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.
IF YOU THINK GOLD OR 'MONEY' WILL SAVE YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES, THEN BY ALL MEANS KEEP SAVING THAT.
BUT IF YOU CAN SOMEHOW SEE THAT SURVIVAL SKILLS, FOOD, WATER, THINGS THAT WILL MAINTAIN LIFE ARE MORE IMPORTANT, PERHAPS YOU CAN TURN LOOSE SOME OF THAT GOLD NOW, TODAY RATHER THAN WISH YOU HAD WHEN DISASTER STRIKES.
SURE, WE MAY NEVER SEE A DAY WHEN ALL THIS WE KNOW NOW IS GONE, BUT THAT'S LIKE BETTING ON A HORSE THAT CAN DROP DEAD ON ITS WAY TO THE RACE TRACK, ISN'T IT?
YOU MAY CALL SUCH A "GOOD BET"...I CALL EVEN A "SURE THING" RISKY!
THINGS CAN AND HAVE CHANGED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, ALWAYS HAVE, ALWAYS WILL.
THINK ABOUT IT...
FROM ONE OF MY FAVORITE POEMS, BY ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE:
"This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain:
"Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane --
Strong for the red rage of battle; sane for I harry them sore;
Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core;
Swift as the panther in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat,
Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat.
Send me the best of your breeding, lend me your chosen ones;
Them will I take to my bosom, them will I call my sons;"
"Wild and wide are my borders, stern as death is my sway;
From my ruthless throne I have ruled alone for a million years and a day;"
"Staggering blind through the storm-whirl, stumbling mad through the snow,
Frozen stiff in the ice-pack, brittle and bent like a bow;
Featureless, formless, forsaken, scented by wolves in their flight,
Left for the wind to make music through ribs that are glittering white;
Gnawing the black crust of failure, searching the pit of despair..."
"This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive;
That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive.
Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain,
This is the Will of the Yukon, -- Lo, how she makes it plain!"
MAY YOU BE WELL, MAY YOU TAKE HEED, MAY YOU PREPARE YOUR WAY SHOULD ALL AROUND US CRUMBLE.
The following short film, The Shelter, was an episode of the Twilight Zone which first aired in 1961, written and directed by the show host, Rod Serling. Serling wanted to bring public awareness to the growing threat of nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union, the need to make preparations, and the probable human physical and mental responses to such a disaster. It was a landmark episode for not dwelling in the supernatural or paranormal events typically associated with the series, because Serling felt the need to focus more on the moral and ethical situations and decision making processes the common man must endure should the worst happen. The Shelter provoked an immediate response from its viewing audiences as it struck a new, uncomfortable chord by "waking up" the public.
YOU MAY FIND IT "HOKIE", OLD-FASHIONED, WHATEVER, BUT THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IF DISASTER STRIKES, BELIEVE ME.
http://youtu.be/4TqOu4r1KQA
http://youtu.be/IU7v1Cs-Bc4
http://youtu.be/zSwrIy4IwoU
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
THINK! THINK, BEFORE THAT'S A KILLING OFFENSE!
IF WE SEE THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION, FOR WHATEVER REASON, AND WE FIND OURSELVES WITHOUT THE MEANS TO GET FOOD, CLEAN WATER, MEDICAL ATTENTION, OR TO TRAVEL FROM 'POINT A TO POINT B' WITHOUT BEING ATTACKED AND/OR JAILED, DO YOU HONESTLY SEE THAT ANY OF THOSE THINGS IN THE TITLE OF THIS POST WILL BE OF ANY HELP AT ALL TO ANYONE?
WHEN THERE IS NO FOOD, FOOD ITSELF BECOMES 'CURRENCY'.
WHAT GOOD IS GOLD WHEN NATIONS ARE ON THEIR KNEES FROM A CATACLYSMIC DISASTER?
WILL ANYONE TRADE YOU FOOD ENOUGH FOR EVEN A DAY FOR ALL THE GOLD YOU HAVE?
BANKS WILL BE A THING OF THE PAST.
BANKING WILL END AND MAY NEVER RETURN IN A "POST-APOCALYPTIC" WORLD!
"AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT", GOLD WILL CEASE TO SHINE SO BRIGHTLY.
WHEN ONE IS STRUGGLING AGAINST ALL ODDS TO SIMPLY LIVE, TO SURVIVE, NO ONE WILL BE COUNTING THEIR "MONEY".
THEY WILL BE COUNTING THEIR FOOD SUPPLIES, THEIR WATER RESERVES, THEIR LIFE-SAVING MEDICAL SUPPLIES, AND LIKELY THEIR AMMUNITION, THEIR MEANS TO MAKE FIRE, THEIR ABILITY TO FIND SHELTER, SAFE LOCATIONS...
YOU SEE, MEDICINES WILL ALSO BE A HIGH-DEMAND "CURRENCY" SHOULD WE LOSE OUR ABILITY TO MANUFACTURE MORE.
PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON MEDICINES FOR LIFE ITSELF WILL NEED AND DESPERATELY WANT MEDICINES, NOT DIAMONDS, NOT CASH, JUST MEDICINES.
CLEAN WATER WILL BE WORTH MORE THAN ALL THE GOLD ANY NATION HAS.
WHAT WILL YOU OFFER FOR ENOUGH WATER TO SEE THAT YOU AND THOSE YOU LOVE DO NOT PERISH?
HOW LONG CAN A HUMAN SURVIVE WITHOUT CLEAN WATER?
WILL ANYONE PREFER A POUND OF GOLD TO A POUND OF FOOD, A GALLON OF WATER, A LIFE-SAVING DRUG?
YOU MAY THINK, WELL, AFTER THE CATASTROPHE PASSES, THEN GOLD AND MONEY AND PRECIOUS GEMS WILL BE IN DEMAND AGAIN.
YOU'D LIKELY BE WRONG.
WITH ALL THAT WE KNOW TODAY LYING IN RUIN ABOUT US, WITH NOTHING 'WORKING' THAT RUNS ON ELECTRICITY, AND THEREFORE OIL BEING EQUALLY OF LITTLE VALUE ANYMORE SINCE OUR 'INDUSTRIES' WILL ALL BE NULL AND VOID, WHEN WE'RE FORCED TO RESORT TO "ANCIENT METHODS" TO HEAT, COOK, LIVE, WHO WILL TRADE A DAY'S SUSTENANCE FOR AN OUNCE OF USELESS GOLD?
CERTAINLY WE CAN ASSUME THAT, AT FIRST, HUMANS BEING CREATURES OF HABIT, MANY WILL HANG ON TO THEIR GOLD, CURRENCIES, ETC. THEY WILL BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE REPAIRED, WILL RETURN TO "NORMAL".
THEY'LL BE WRONG.
"NORMAL" WILL BECOME SOMETHING THAT FEW WISH TO CONSIDER...SAVAGERY WILL SOON REIGN SUPREME AS HUMANS STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE.
NEIGHBOR WILL TURN AGAINST NEIGHBOR, KIN AGAINST KIN, AS ALL TRY TO EKE OUT AN EXISTENCE.
THOSE NATIONS WHO HAVE THE MOST USEABLE RESOURCES WILL SURELY BE ATTACKED BY THOSE WHO HAVE LESS.
PANICKED PEOPLE PEOPLE WITH LITTLE OR NO HOPE, DO DESPERATE THINGS.
IF ANY TECHNOLOGY SURVIVES THAT WILL ALLOW THE LAUNCH OF WEAPONS, MAD MEN WILL BE PUSHING BUTTONS FAST AND FURIOUSLY, TRYING TO GET THAT "FIRST STRIKE" IN.
ADD NUCLEAR WINTER TO THE MIX.
SO FEW OF US HAVE AN INKLING OF HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY, WITHOUT AUTOMOBILES, WITHOUT COZY HEATED/COOLED HOMES ABOUT US, WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO "SHOP" FOR WHAT WE NEED, THAT MOST COULDN'T SO MUCH AS FIND FOOD IN THE WILD AND COOK IT OVER AN OPEN FIRE.
HOW MANY COULD FORAGE FOR EDIBLE FOODS?
HOW MANY MIGHT DIE EATING THINGS THAT ARE TOXIC OR STARVE NOT EATING WHAT'S OUT THERE, BECAUSE THEY DON'T REALIZE WHAT IS EDIBLE?
HOW MANY WOULD SURVIVE THAT FIRST COLD, DARK WINTER, ESPECIALLY A 'NUCLEAR WINTER'?
CAN YOU SEE JOE Q. CITIZEN CROUCHED, SHIVERING AND DESPERATE FOR FOOD IN THE PATHETIC REMAINS OF HIS ONCE-COMFORTABLE HOME COUNTING OUT HIS MONEY OR HIS GOLD?
I SUBMIT THAT JOE Q. WILL BE FRANTIC TO FIND FUEL FOR A FIRE, FOOD TO EAT, WATER TO DRINK, SOMETHING TO KEEP HIM WARM AND DRY, MAYBE MEDICINES FOR HIS DIABETES, HEART CONDITION, ETC.
WHO WILL TRADE HIM THOSE THINGS FOR ANYTHING THAT RESEMBLES "MONEY"?
I WOULDN'T.
I WOULD KNOW THAT SURVIVAL WILL BE A LONG, SEEMINGLY INTERMINABLE STRUGGLE, FOR SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT WILL BE GONE.
LIKE IT OR NOT, ONLY THE STRONG, EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY, WILL SURVIVE, AND THOSE PREPARED FOR DISASTER WILL FARE THE BEST...THOSE WITH ENOUGH FOOD, WATER, MEDICINES, CLOTHING AND MEANS TO EKE OUT LIFE FROM THE RUINS.
IN THE PAST, NOT SO LONG AGO, RECOVERY FROM DISASTERS WAS NOT DEPENDENT ON AN ELECTRIC GRID, OR ON AUTOMOBILES, "CASH ON HAND", OR
HAVING A HIGH-PAYING JOB.
MEN AND WOMEN BUILT LIVES WITHIN A SMALL CIRCLE OF FAMILY AND TRUSTED FRIENDS.
THE MEN COULD GO OUT TO HUNT AND/OR TRAP, THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO GARDEN OR GATHER, AND EVEN A SIX-YEAR-OLD CHILD COULD BE TRUSTED TO "MAKE IT" ON HIS OWN SHOULD HE BECOME SEPARATED FROM THE SMALL CIRCLE FOR A TIME.
PEOPLE SELDOM SAT STILL FOR VERY LONG, ALWAYS BUSY MAKING PROVISION FOR LIVING, FOR HAVING ENOUGH. THEY ACCUSTOMED THEMSELVES TO THE ELEMENTS, TO THEIR SURROUNDINGS, TO EACH SEASON.
THEY HAD THE COMMON SENSE TO LAY IN RESERVES WHEN POSSIBLE, TO LOOK AT THE "LONG-RUN, NOT THE SHORT TERM, FOR THEY KNEW THINGS CAN CHANGE FROM GOOD TO BAD IN MINUTES.
PEOPLE WERE FAMILIAR WITH THEIR SURROUNDINGS, KNEW WHERE TO GO TO GET WHAT WAS NEEDED TO SURVIVE, EVEN IF BARELY, AND KNEW WHERE TO TAKE REFUGE FROM ENEMIES, FROM DANGER.
PEOPLE WITHIN THIS CIRCLE HAD LEARNED TO BE THEIR OWN DOCTORS, TO A POINT, TO KNOW THAT CERTAIN PLANTS WOULD HELP THEM LIVE OVER ILLNESSES OR DISEASE THAT STRUCK THEM. (AFTER ALL, WHERE DO THE MOST OF OUR PUREST MEDICINES COME FROM? PLANTS...EVEN ALGAE, MOLDS, FUNGI ARE PLANTS.)
IT WAS COMMON TO SHARE THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE WITH THOSE INSIDE THE CIRCLE. THOSE WHO HAD SHARED FREELY, THOSE WHO DIDN'T HAVE WORKED TO HAVE MORE, NOT EXPECTING TO ALWAYS BE WITHOUT, KNOWING THERE IS A LIMIT TO HOW MUCH A SMALL CIRCLE CAN PROVIDE TO THOSE WITHIN IT, ESPECIALLY IN TERRIBLE TIMES.
NOT ANYMORE.
WE HAVE BECOME SO DEPENDENT ON THINGS THAT RUN ON ELECTRICITY, AND ON OIL/GAS, THAT I OFTEN WONDER HOW MANY COULD EVEN MANAGE A 10-MILE HIKE TO GET A MEAL, OR A SUPPLY OF WATER.
HOW WOULD WE KEEP WHAT WE HAD, KEEP IT FROM ROTTING, SPOILING, "GOING BAD"?
DOES ANYONE KNOW THESE DAYS HOW TO STORE FRESH MEAT OR VEGETABLES SO THEY DON'T SPOIL, KEEP THEM FOR MONTHS AT A TIME, SANS ELECTRICITY?
THERE ARE WAYS TO KEEP SUCH THINGS FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME.
GOLD WOULDN'T BUY A STORAGE PLACE EVEN, IF WE LOSE OUR "MODERN SOCIETY", BUT COMMON SENSE "KNOW-HOW" WILL BE INVALUABLE, AND SOMETHING EVERYONE WILL LOOK TO IN OTHERS, FOR FEW IN AMERICA WILL HAVE SUCH SKILLS.
IF THE UNIMAGINABLE HAPPENS, IF WE ARE CAUGHT SUDDENLY IN AN "APOCALYPTIC SCENARIO", IF, SECONDS FROM DISASTER, WE FIND OURSELVES WITH NO SURVIVAL SKILLS, NO PLACE SAFE TO RUN TO, NO IDEA OF WHAT TO DO NEXT, WILL A TON OF GOLD BUY US A SAFE HAVEN?
WILL ALL THE DIAMONDS ON EARTH SECURE US A SPOT IN ANOTHER PERSON'S SHELTER FROM THE STORM?
WILL BE ABLE TO TRADE A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE MEANS TO SURVIVE A DAY, A WEEK, A MONTH, 10 YEARS?
PEOPLE CHANGE AFTER DISASTERS STRIKE.
THEY GO INTO SURVIVAL MODE, IF THEY HAVE ANY SENSES LEFT ABOUT THEM TO DO SO, AND ONCE IN SURVIVAL MODE, THE FIRST "LAW OF NATURE" APPLIES...SELF-SURVIVAL, WITH PRESERVATION OF SPECIES COMING IN AFTER THAT.
SO, NO, YOU WILL FIND LITTLE USE FOR ANY FORM OF CURRENCY SHOULD THINGS 'BLOW UP' ALL AROUND US.
PEOPLE WILL SEE LESS AND LESS USE FOR SUCH AS TIME GOES ON.
NO ONE WILL GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOUR STOCKPILES OF CASH OR METALS OR GEMS.
THEY WILL WANT FOOD, WATER, MEDICINES, MEANS TO SURVIVE.
EVER SINCE THE TEA ROOM OPENED, EACH WEEK, EACH MONTH, THE MOST-READ BLOGS HAVE BEEN ABOUT GOLD, ABOUT "MONEY".
YES, GOLD IS BETTER THAN FIAT MONEY, THAN ANY PAPER CURRENCY, THAT IS TRUE.
ANYTHING CONSIDERED "PRECIOUS" IS BETTER THAN WORTHLESS PAPER MONEY WHETHER "PRECIOUS METALS", "PRECIOUS GEMS", WHATEVER.
BUT, BE WARNED...PLEASE BE WARNED...WHEN GLOBAL DISASTER STRIKES, AND IT WILL, NOTHING BUT THAT WHICH ENSURES SURVIVAL WILL BE WORTH A HILL OF BEANS, AND THAT PROVERBIAL HILL OF BEANS, SEEDS, THE ASSURANCE OF FOOD AVAILABILITY IN THE FUTURE, IF WE GET A FUTURE, WILL BE FAR MORE VALUABLE TO US THAN ANY AMOUNT OF GOLD, WHICH WILL BE RENDERED USELESS BY THOSE SCRATCHING AND CLAWING TO SURVIVE.
BETTER TO SPEND THE GOLD ON THINGS WE CAN USE TO SUSTAIN LIFE, SHOULD "ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE" ACROSS THIS FRAGILE WORLD, SPEND SOME GOLD NOW IN ANTICIPATION OF BEING ABLE TO SURVIVE A GLOBAL CATASTROPHE, NOT JUST AN ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, BUT TOTAL COLLAPSE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY AND LIFESTYLE.
BETTER TO HAVE SAFE HAVEN, FOOD, WATER, MEDICINES ENOUGH FOR US AND THOSE WE LOVE THAN A PILE OF GOLD THAT WE CAN NEVER EAT, DRINK WEAR, NOR LIVE BENEATH.
BETTER TO KNOW WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO DO, HOW TO SURVIVE THAN TO KNOW THE STOCK MARKET OR THE PRICE OF GOLD TODAY.
IF DISASTER STRIKES TODAY, WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR, WHICH DO YOU THINK THOSE WHO DEPEND ON YOU WILL BE MOST GLAD FOR... A NICE PORTFOLIO AND GOOD SUPPLY OF CURRENCY/GOLD, OR THE MEANS FOR THEIR CONTINUED SURVIVAL?
CERTAINLY NOTHING IS WRONG WITH "FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY", WITH "SOUND FINANCIAL PLANNING" , BUT WHEN WE LOSE THE VERY SOCIETY, THE MODERN LIFESTYLE IN WHICH THAT IS CURRENTLY IMPORTANT AND ENTER INTO A SOCIETY THAT IS SIMPLY STRUGGLING TO LIVE, WHAT YOU TAKE INTO THAT NEW LIFESTYLE WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.
IF YOU THINK GOLD OR 'MONEY' WILL SAVE YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES, THEN BY ALL MEANS KEEP SAVING THAT.
BUT IF YOU CAN SOMEHOW SEE THAT SURVIVAL SKILLS, FOOD, WATER, THINGS THAT WILL MAINTAIN LIFE ARE MORE IMPORTANT, PERHAPS YOU CAN TURN LOOSE SOME OF THAT GOLD NOW, TODAY RATHER THAN WISH YOU HAD WHEN DISASTER STRIKES.
SURE, WE MAY NEVER SEE A DAY WHEN ALL THIS WE KNOW NOW IS GONE, BUT THAT'S LIKE BETTING ON A HORSE THAT CAN DROP DEAD ON ITS WAY TO THE RACE TRACK, ISN'T IT?
YOU MAY CALL SUCH A "GOOD BET"...I CALL EVEN A "SURE THING" RISKY!
THINGS CAN AND HAVE CHANGED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, ALWAYS HAVE, ALWAYS WILL.
THINK ABOUT IT...
FROM ONE OF MY FAVORITE POEMS, BY ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE:
"This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain:
"Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane --
Strong for the red rage of battle; sane for I harry them sore;
Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core;
Swift as the panther in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat,
Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat.
Send me the best of your breeding, lend me your chosen ones;
Them will I take to my bosom, them will I call my sons;"
"Wild and wide are my borders, stern as death is my sway;
From my ruthless throne I have ruled alone for a million years and a day;"
"Staggering blind through the storm-whirl, stumbling mad through the snow,
Frozen stiff in the ice-pack, brittle and bent like a bow;
Featureless, formless, forsaken, scented by wolves in their flight,
Left for the wind to make music through ribs that are glittering white;
Gnawing the black crust of failure, searching the pit of despair..."
"This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive;
That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive.
Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain,
This is the Will of the Yukon, -- Lo, how she makes it plain!"
MAY YOU BE WELL, MAY YOU TAKE HEED, MAY YOU PREPARE YOUR WAY SHOULD ALL AROUND US CRUMBLE.
The following short film, The Shelter, was an episode of the Twilight Zone which first aired in 1961, written and directed by the show host, Rod Serling. Serling wanted to bring public awareness to the growing threat of nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union, the need to make preparations, and the probable human physical and mental responses to such a disaster. It was a landmark episode for not dwelling in the supernatural or paranormal events typically associated with the series, because Serling felt the need to focus more on the moral and ethical situations and decision making processes the common man must endure should the worst happen. The Shelter provoked an immediate response from its viewing audiences as it struck a new, uncomfortable chord by "waking up" the public.
YOU MAY FIND IT "HOKIE", OLD-FASHIONED, WHATEVER, BUT THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IF DISASTER STRIKES, BELIEVE ME.
http://youtu.be/4TqOu4r1KQA
http://youtu.be/IU7v1Cs-Bc4
http://youtu.be/zSwrIy4IwoU
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
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AT LEAST A FEW DOZEN TIMES A DAY, I AM FACED WITH MODERATING COMMENTS TO THE TEA ROOM.
I CHOSE TO MODERATE ALL COMMENTS BECAUSE, FROM THE BEGINNING, I SAW THAT THE VAST MAJORITY WHO WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SUBMITTING COMMENTS ALSO INCLUDED SUBTLE OR BLATANT LINKS TO WEBSITES ADVERTISING EVERYTHING FROM BREAST AUGMENTATION TO "BELLY RUBS"...NO, LITERALLY, THERE WAS ONE COMMENT IN WHICH THE LINK DID INDEED LEAD ONE TO AN OFFER OF "BELLY RUBS"!!!
THIS WEBSITE ALLOWS NO ADVERTISING AND CERTAINLY I SHALL NEVER ALLOW LINKS TO MUCH OF ANYTHING THAT RESEMBLES ADVERTISING.
AS COMMENTS COME IN, I "ARMOR UP" AND DIVE INTO LINKS , SOME THAT HAVE TAKEN MY COMPUTER DOWN FOR DAYS, INFECTED IT WITH TROJANS, ETC, JUST SO MY READERS WILL NOT SUFFER THESE THINGS.
I HAVE INVESTED IN BETTER VIRUS PROTECTION SOFTWARE BECAUSE OF THESE IDIOTIC ATTEMPTS BY FAKE "COMMENTS" TO LURE READERS HERE INTO MALICIOUS SITES OR TO FAKE "BUSINESSES".
SO HERE'S THE BOTTOM LINE...
COMMENTS, ALL COMMENTS ARE STRICTLY MODERATED, AND I ALONE DECIDE WHAT GOES INTO AN ONLINE COMMENT.
I CAREFULLY CHECK OUT ALL LINKS, EVEN THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR "SCREEN NAME".
I WILL NEVER ALLOW LINKS TO APPEAR HERE UNLESS THEY APPLY TO THE POST AS IN , PERHAPS, A VIDEO OR WEBSITE WITH FURTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION.
THERE HAVE BEEN A VERY RARE FEW WHOSE BLOGS I VISITED AND FOUND TO BE (1) HARMLESS, AND (2) INFORMATIVE.
IF THE LINK YOU DROP IN YOUR COMMENTS LEADS TO YOUR MASSAGE PARLOR, "CHARM STUDIO", OR SOME OTHER QUESTIONABLE ENTERPRISE, OR YOUR OFFER OF MARRIAGE TO BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, OR YOUR SMUT/PORN PAGES, OR SOME SCHEME, BE ASSURED IT WILL NEVER SEE LIGHT OF DAY HERE.
THE TEA ROOM WAS NOT CREATED FOR "POPULARITY'S SAKE".
I DON'T CARE IF ANYONE READS HERE OR NOT, AND I CERTAINLY DON'T CARE IF EVER ONE COMMENT IS LEFT.
I HAVE DISABLED EVERYTHING I CAN THAT APPLIES TO THIS SITE'S POPULARITY, EVEN DOWN TO HOW MANY READ HERE IN A DAY/WEEK/MONTH.
NONE OF THAT IS IMPORTANT...ONLY TRUTH IS IMPORTANT.
I AM ALMOST TO THE POINT OF DISABLING ALL COMMENTS, BUT WE'LL SEE IF THIS STATEMENT STOPS THE REQUESTS I GET EACH DAY TO PUBLISH COMMENTS THAT INCLUDE RIDICULOUS OR DAMAGING LINKS.
NOW YOU KNOW WHY LEAVING A COMMENT HERE IS SO "DIFFICULT"...IT'S TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF MY BLOG, TO SAFEGUARD MY READERS.
AND TO THOSE SEVERAL COMMENTS THAT INCLUDED "THE TEA ROOM DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE REALLY CLOSED"...
YOU'RE RIGHT.
THE TEA ROOM IS NOT 'TECHNICALLY' CLOSED.
IT IS SIMPLY ON "UPDATES ONLY"... UNTIL/UNLESS I SAY OTHERWISE.
HOWEVER, IT'S MY TEA ROOM, AND IF I SAY IT'S CLOSED OR ANYTHING ELSE, WHO CAN ARGUE WITH THAT?
MY BLOG, MY CALL.
NOW STOP TRYING TO LEAVE LINKS TO YOUR SITES HERE.
IT'S A WASTE OF YOUR TIME.
WASTE YOUR TIME SOMEWHERE ELSE.
"LEARN, OR PERISH."
I CHOSE TO MODERATE ALL COMMENTS BECAUSE, FROM THE BEGINNING, I SAW THAT THE VAST MAJORITY WHO WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SUBMITTING COMMENTS ALSO INCLUDED SUBTLE OR BLATANT LINKS TO WEBSITES ADVERTISING EVERYTHING FROM BREAST AUGMENTATION TO "BELLY RUBS"...NO, LITERALLY, THERE WAS ONE COMMENT IN WHICH THE LINK DID INDEED LEAD ONE TO AN OFFER OF "BELLY RUBS"!!!
THIS WEBSITE ALLOWS NO ADVERTISING AND CERTAINLY I SHALL NEVER ALLOW LINKS TO MUCH OF ANYTHING THAT RESEMBLES ADVERTISING.
AS COMMENTS COME IN, I "ARMOR UP" AND DIVE INTO LINKS , SOME THAT HAVE TAKEN MY COMPUTER DOWN FOR DAYS, INFECTED IT WITH TROJANS, ETC, JUST SO MY READERS WILL NOT SUFFER THESE THINGS.
I HAVE INVESTED IN BETTER VIRUS PROTECTION SOFTWARE BECAUSE OF THESE IDIOTIC ATTEMPTS BY FAKE "COMMENTS" TO LURE READERS HERE INTO MALICIOUS SITES OR TO FAKE "BUSINESSES".
SO HERE'S THE BOTTOM LINE...
COMMENTS, ALL COMMENTS ARE STRICTLY MODERATED, AND I ALONE DECIDE WHAT GOES INTO AN ONLINE COMMENT.
I CAREFULLY CHECK OUT ALL LINKS, EVEN THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR "SCREEN NAME".
I WILL NEVER ALLOW LINKS TO APPEAR HERE UNLESS THEY APPLY TO THE POST AS IN , PERHAPS, A VIDEO OR WEBSITE WITH FURTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION.
THERE HAVE BEEN A VERY RARE FEW WHOSE BLOGS I VISITED AND FOUND TO BE (1) HARMLESS, AND (2) INFORMATIVE.
IF THE LINK YOU DROP IN YOUR COMMENTS LEADS TO YOUR MASSAGE PARLOR, "CHARM STUDIO", OR SOME OTHER QUESTIONABLE ENTERPRISE, OR YOUR OFFER OF MARRIAGE TO BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, OR YOUR SMUT/PORN PAGES, OR SOME SCHEME, BE ASSURED IT WILL NEVER SEE LIGHT OF DAY HERE.
THE TEA ROOM WAS NOT CREATED FOR "POPULARITY'S SAKE".
I DON'T CARE IF ANYONE READS HERE OR NOT, AND I CERTAINLY DON'T CARE IF EVER ONE COMMENT IS LEFT.
I HAVE DISABLED EVERYTHING I CAN THAT APPLIES TO THIS SITE'S POPULARITY, EVEN DOWN TO HOW MANY READ HERE IN A DAY/WEEK/MONTH.
NONE OF THAT IS IMPORTANT...ONLY TRUTH IS IMPORTANT.
I AM ALMOST TO THE POINT OF DISABLING ALL COMMENTS, BUT WE'LL SEE IF THIS STATEMENT STOPS THE REQUESTS I GET EACH DAY TO PUBLISH COMMENTS THAT INCLUDE RIDICULOUS OR DAMAGING LINKS.
NOW YOU KNOW WHY LEAVING A COMMENT HERE IS SO "DIFFICULT"...IT'S TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF MY BLOG, TO SAFEGUARD MY READERS.
AND TO THOSE SEVERAL COMMENTS THAT INCLUDED "THE TEA ROOM DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE REALLY CLOSED"...
YOU'RE RIGHT.
THE TEA ROOM IS NOT 'TECHNICALLY' CLOSED.
IT IS SIMPLY ON "UPDATES ONLY"... UNTIL/UNLESS I SAY OTHERWISE.
HOWEVER, IT'S MY TEA ROOM, AND IF I SAY IT'S CLOSED OR ANYTHING ELSE, WHO CAN ARGUE WITH THAT?
MY BLOG, MY CALL.
NOW STOP TRYING TO LEAVE LINKS TO YOUR SITES HERE.
IT'S A WASTE OF YOUR TIME.
WASTE YOUR TIME SOMEWHERE ELSE.
"LEARN, OR PERISH."
Friday, September 27, 2013
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN AMERCA! TARGET CITIZENS !
THEIR NUMBERS CANNOT BE COUNTED, THEY EXIST IN EVERY STATE IN THE UNION.
THEY VARY IN TYPE: CHEMICAL WEAPONS, BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, WEAPONS THAT PRODUCE RADIATION, SONIC WEAPONS, ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS, DIRECTED-BEAM/DIRECTED-WAVE WEAPONS, MICROWAVE WEAPONRY, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, "CALMATIVE" WEAPONS...AMERICA IS OVERRUN WITH THEM, MORE THAN ENOUGH TO KILL EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD WITHIN OUR BORDERS A THOUSAND TIMES OVER!
WE HAVE BEEN UNWITTING VICTIMS OF THEM ALL OUR LIVES, TARGETS, HUMAN GUINEA PIGS.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS, OUR GOVERNMENT HAS ADMITTED THIS TIME AFTER TIME, ISSUED APOLOGIES FOR DEATHS CAUSED "INADVERTENTLY" ,"ACCIDENTALLY".
THEY PERFORMED LUDICROUS 'STUDIES' TO STUDY WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO US, WHAT THEY CONTINUE TO DO, PROMISING US TO STOP DOING WHAT THEY HAVE ALWAYS DONE...VOWING 'REFORM'.
I OFFER YOU THOSE APOLOGIES AND CONFESSIONS THROUGHOUT THIS LONG, EXHAUSTIVE AND EXHAUSTING POST, THOSE STUDIES, THEIR OWN DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE OF THEIR AIMING ALL THEIR ARSENAL AGAINST US FOR DECADES NOW, BUT INTENSIFYING THEIR ATTACKS MORE EACH YEAR.
I'VE NEVER SPENT AS MUCH NON-STOP TIME ON A SUBJECT BEFORE IN MY LIFE.
THIS IS NO JOKE, NO "CONSPIRACY THEORY", IT IS JUST SAD, COLD FACTS.
AS BAD AS THINGS HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST, THEY ARE WORSE TODAY.
IF YOU WILL BUT READ, YOU CAN SEE THE ADMISSIONS BY THOSE WE TRUSTED, THOSE WE ELECTED, THOSE WE DEPEND ON FOR OUR "SECURITY AND DEFENSE".
IT'S WORSE THAN I KNEW, AND, I MUST SAY, I SEE NO WAY THAT WE CAN SURVIVE THE ONSLAUGHT, BUT MAYBE...AS LONG AS WE HAVE BREATH, WE MUST TAKE HOPE.
I TELL MYSELF THIS BUT IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE THE WORDS.
I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE AFRAID, FOR FEAR IS THE MAJOR WEAPON IN THE HANDS OF TYRANTS EVERYWHERE.
WE MUSTN'T OFFER ANYONE THE WEAPON OF FEAR TO USE AGAINST US, NOR SHOULD WE EVER TRAIN THAT WEAPON ON EACH OTHER OR ON OURSELVES!
NO, NO FEAR, BUT DO LEARN, LEST WE PERISH!
IF YOU LOOK UP "biological warfare laboratories in America", PLACES LIKE WIKIPEDIA WILL TELL YOU:
THEY VARY IN TYPE: CHEMICAL WEAPONS, BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, WEAPONS THAT PRODUCE RADIATION, SONIC WEAPONS, ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS, DIRECTED-BEAM/DIRECTED-WAVE WEAPONS, MICROWAVE WEAPONRY, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, "CALMATIVE" WEAPONS...AMERICA IS OVERRUN WITH THEM, MORE THAN ENOUGH TO KILL EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD WITHIN OUR BORDERS A THOUSAND TIMES OVER!
WE HAVE BEEN UNWITTING VICTIMS OF THEM ALL OUR LIVES, TARGETS, HUMAN GUINEA PIGS.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS, OUR GOVERNMENT HAS ADMITTED THIS TIME AFTER TIME, ISSUED APOLOGIES FOR DEATHS CAUSED "INADVERTENTLY" ,"ACCIDENTALLY".
THEY PERFORMED LUDICROUS 'STUDIES' TO STUDY WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO US, WHAT THEY CONTINUE TO DO, PROMISING US TO STOP DOING WHAT THEY HAVE ALWAYS DONE...VOWING 'REFORM'.
I OFFER YOU THOSE APOLOGIES AND CONFESSIONS THROUGHOUT THIS LONG, EXHAUSTIVE AND EXHAUSTING POST, THOSE STUDIES, THEIR OWN DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE OF THEIR AIMING ALL THEIR ARSENAL AGAINST US FOR DECADES NOW, BUT INTENSIFYING THEIR ATTACKS MORE EACH YEAR.
I'VE NEVER SPENT AS MUCH NON-STOP TIME ON A SUBJECT BEFORE IN MY LIFE.
THIS IS NO JOKE, NO "CONSPIRACY THEORY", IT IS JUST SAD, COLD FACTS.
AS BAD AS THINGS HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST, THEY ARE WORSE TODAY.
IF YOU WILL BUT READ, YOU CAN SEE THE ADMISSIONS BY THOSE WE TRUSTED, THOSE WE ELECTED, THOSE WE DEPEND ON FOR OUR "SECURITY AND DEFENSE".
IT'S WORSE THAN I KNEW, AND, I MUST SAY, I SEE NO WAY THAT WE CAN SURVIVE THE ONSLAUGHT, BUT MAYBE...AS LONG AS WE HAVE BREATH, WE MUST TAKE HOPE.
I TELL MYSELF THIS BUT IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE THE WORDS.
I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE AFRAID, FOR FEAR IS THE MAJOR WEAPON IN THE HANDS OF TYRANTS EVERYWHERE.
WE MUSTN'T OFFER ANYONE THE WEAPON OF FEAR TO USE AGAINST US, NOR SHOULD WE EVER TRAIN THAT WEAPON ON EACH OTHER OR ON OURSELVES!
NO, NO FEAR, BUT DO LEARN, LEST WE PERISH!
IF YOU LOOK UP "biological warfare laboratories in America", PLACES LIKE WIKIPEDIA WILL TELL YOU:
"In 1969, the USBWL (U.S. BIOLOGICAL WARFARE LABORATORIES) ceased to exist when President Richard Nixon [stopped] all offensive BW studies and directed the destruction of all stock piles of BW agents and munitions."
ON PAPER, HE DID. ONLY ON PAPER DID THOSE THINGS 'DISAPPEAR'.
TO SAY WE HAVE NO LABORATORIES SCURRYING ABOUT TO KEEP AHEAD OF AMERICA'S REAL OR IMAGINED ENEMIES IN THAT FIELD IS A BLATANT LIE!
FOR JUST ANTHRAX ALONE, OVER 200 LABS CURRENTLY EXIST THAT HANDLES THAT TOXIN!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/washington/10germs.html?ref=biologicalandchemicalwarfare&_r=0
February 9, 2009 <<Before 2001, only a few dozen such facilities worked with anthrax. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has registered 219 laboratories to do so, said an agency spokesman, Von Roebuck. He said 10,474 people had been cleared to work with dangerous pathogens and toxins nationwide after background checks by the Justice Department.>>
YOU SEE, THEY CALL THE BIO-WEAPONS LABS "BIO-DEFENSE LABS" THESE DAYS, BUT THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO...THEY ALL PLAY WITH BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS THAT ARE KNOWN TO CAUSE MASS DEATH, DEATHS IN THE MILLIONS,AND THEY ARE IN IT TO WIN IT. AMERICA MUST HAVE MORE TERRIBLE BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL, NUCLEAR, AND OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION THAN ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH! THEY ARE DRIVEN TO BE #1 !
FOR JUST ANTHRAX ALONE, OVER 200 LABS CURRENTLY EXIST THAT HANDLES THAT TOXIN!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/washington/10germs.html?ref=biologicalandchemicalwarfare&_r=0
February 9, 2009 <<Before 2001, only a few dozen such facilities worked with anthrax. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has registered 219 laboratories to do so, said an agency spokesman, Von Roebuck. He said 10,474 people had been cleared to work with dangerous pathogens and toxins nationwide after background checks by the Justice Department.>>
YOU SEE, THEY CALL THE BIO-WEAPONS LABS "BIO-DEFENSE LABS" THESE DAYS, BUT THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO...THEY ALL PLAY WITH BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS THAT ARE KNOWN TO CAUSE MASS DEATH, DEATHS IN THE MILLIONS,AND THEY ARE IN IT TO WIN IT. AMERICA MUST HAVE MORE TERRIBLE BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL, NUCLEAR, AND OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION THAN ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH! THEY ARE DRIVEN TO BE #1 !
YOU CAN PICK UP THE NEWS MOST WEEKS AND READ ARTICLES ABOUT WHAT WENT WRONG IN A CERTAIN LAB HERE OR THERE (See the section "Biological Weapons, Labs & Their RECENT 'Mistakes' in the News" far below), READ WHAT "STUDIES" HAVE LED TO "MAJOR FINDINGS", AND CERTAINLY THOSE LABS MADE NEWS WHEN A FEW IN OUR CONGRESS POINTED TO SOME (LIKE THE CDC IN GEORGIA) AND SAID, "THAT'S WHO SENT SADDAM HUSSEIN HIS BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS!" THAT WAS IN 1990-2001.
LABORATORIES THAT CREATE NEW AND "IMPROVED" BIO-WARFARE AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS ARE ALIVE AND WELL, IT'S ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING 'BUSINESSES' WE HAVE HERE, AND IF YOUR CHILDREN GO TO COLLEGE, THEY MAY JUST BE PARTICIPANTS IN SOME OF THESE "DEFENSE TESTING SITES" BECAUSE SEVERAL MAJOR UNIVERSITIES HOUSE "FEDERAL TESTING LABS"!
SOME HAVE RECENTLY HAD SOME ACCIDENTS, WHICH IS HOW WE LEARN ABOUT THEM...THEY HAVE ACCIDENTS...SOMETHING "ESCAPES" FROM A LAB, SOMEONE SCREWS UP, PEOPLE GET CONTAMINATED, IT MAKES THE NEWS, BUT DO AMERICANS REALLY "GET" WHAT'S GOING ON?
NO, OBVIOUSLY NOT.
THE SWINE FLU, THAT FIASCO HAS BEEN ONGOING SINCE THE 1960s, H1N1 AND ALL ITS RELATIVES, THE GOOD OLD STANDBY, ANTHRAX, AS POPULAR TODAY AS IT WAS WHEN WE FIRST NOTICED IT AS A GREAT METHOD FOR MASS EXTERMINATION OF POPULATIONS. (See "Lists of known biological and chemical weapons owned by the United States" again far below in this post.)
AS AN EXAMPLE: "In June 2001, several collaborative groups staged
an exercise entitled Dark Winter, which simulated a covert smallpox attack on the United States.
This exercise offered insights and lessons for those with responsibility for biological warfare
preparedness. Dark Winter also demonstrated the ease with which a motivated group could launch
a biological attack."
"Even more unsettling was the research performed
at Fort Detrick, Maryland, another major site of biological weapons research. To test the
dispersal of bacterial spores on human populations, harmless bacterial spores that mimicked
anthrax in size and shape were covertly dispersed in the Pentagon ventilation system, over
the bay of San Francisco, and in the subways of New York. Results from these experiments
revealed not only the difficulty of delivering anthrax to a populace, but also the deadly
consequences of a successful distribution.
The existence of these experiments was unknown to the public ...and the
actual results were not revealed until 1999, when some of the data was declassified by
the Department of Defense. Most of the details about the U.S. offensive biological
weapons program still remain secret."
[Both above quotes come from the University of Utah , http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/archive/biowarfare/]
PROOF POSITIVE HAS BEEN OFFERED BY EVEN OUR GOVERNMENT ITSELF THAT THOUSANDS, EVEN MILLIONS OF US HAVE UNKNOWINGLY BEEN USED AS HUMAN GUINEA PIGS SINCE AT LEAST THE EARLY 1800s. [See "Government Documents" below under other sources.]
AMERICAN INDIANS, KNOWN AS 'SAVAGES' BACK THEN, WERE USED AS UNWITTING TARGETS FOR 200 YEARS BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT TRAINED ON WHITE CITIZENS, BTW.
YES, AMERICA, THESE WEAPONS WERE USED AGAINST YOU, ME, ALL OF US, "IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL SECURITY", WHAT WE NOW CALL "HOMELAND SECURITY", BECAUSE THAT WORD NATIONAL IMPLIES GOVERNMENT, WHILE THE WORD HOMELAND LULLS US INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY.
WE ARE NOT SECURE!
WE ARE EXPENDABLE TEST SUBJECTS!
[SEE MY PREVIOUS BLOG, "AMERICANS WERE GUINEA PIGS IN DEADLY EXPERIMENTS FOR 60 YEARS", http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2013/06/americans-used-as-guinea-pigs-in.html, AND BELOW UNDER "Unethical human experimentation in the United States" ]
WERE YOU AWARE THAT THERE IS A"PUBLIC LAW" THAT ALLOWS FOR HUMAN SACRIFICE IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE AND "NATIONAL/HOMELAND SECURITY"?
<<PUBLIC LAW 95-79 [P.L. 95-79] TITLE 50, CHAPTER 32, SECTION 1520 “CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAM” “The use of human subjects will be allowed for the testing of chemical and biological agents by the U.S. Department of Defense, accounting to Congressional committees with respect to the experiments and studies. The Secretary of Defense [may] conduct tests and experiments involving the use of chemical and biological [warfare] agents on civilian populations [within the United States].” -SOURCE- Public Law 95-79, Title VIII, Sec. 808, July 30, 1977, 91 Stat. 334. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 91, page 334, you will find Public Law 95-79. Public Law 97-375, title II, Sec. 203(a)(1), Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1882. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 96, page 1882, you will find Public Law 97-375>>
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/50/32
1977 WAS AFTER NIXON SAID THE PROGRAM HAD BEEN SCRAPPED!
<<Much information about these programs was classified and kept secret. In 1986 the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a report entitled "American nuclear guinea pigs : three decades of radiation experiments on U.S. citizens".>>
AMERICAN INDIANS, KNOWN AS 'SAVAGES' BACK THEN, WERE USED AS UNWITTING TARGETS FOR 200 YEARS BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT TRAINED ON WHITE CITIZENS, BTW.
YES, AMERICA, THESE WEAPONS WERE USED AGAINST YOU, ME, ALL OF US, "IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL SECURITY", WHAT WE NOW CALL "HOMELAND SECURITY", BECAUSE THAT WORD NATIONAL IMPLIES GOVERNMENT, WHILE THE WORD HOMELAND LULLS US INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY.
WE ARE NOT SECURE!
WE ARE EXPENDABLE TEST SUBJECTS!
[SEE MY PREVIOUS BLOG, "AMERICANS WERE GUINEA PIGS IN DEADLY EXPERIMENTS FOR 60 YEARS", http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2013/06/americans-used-as-guinea-pigs-in.html, AND BELOW UNDER "Unethical human experimentation in the United States" ]
WERE YOU AWARE THAT THERE IS A"PUBLIC LAW" THAT ALLOWS FOR HUMAN SACRIFICE IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE AND "NATIONAL/HOMELAND SECURITY"?
<<PUBLIC LAW 95-79 [P.L. 95-79] TITLE 50, CHAPTER 32, SECTION 1520 “CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAM” “The use of human subjects will be allowed for the testing of chemical and biological agents by the U.S. Department of Defense, accounting to Congressional committees with respect to the experiments and studies. The Secretary of Defense [may] conduct tests and experiments involving the use of chemical and biological [warfare] agents on civilian populations [within the United States].” -SOURCE- Public Law 95-79, Title VIII, Sec. 808, July 30, 1977, 91 Stat. 334. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 91, page 334, you will find Public Law 95-79. Public Law 97-375, title II, Sec. 203(a)(1), Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1882. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 96, page 1882, you will find Public Law 97-375>>
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/50/32
1977 WAS AFTER NIXON SAID THE PROGRAM HAD BEEN SCRAPPED!
<<Much information about these programs was classified and kept secret. In 1986 the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a report entitled "American nuclear guinea pigs : three decades of radiation experiments on U.S. citizens".>>
BUT IT ISN'T JUST BIO-WARFARE, OR CHEMICAL WARFARE, OR NUCLEAR/RADIOACTIVE WARFARE, THOUGH THERE'S BEEN PLENTY OF THAT CARRIED OUT AGAINST "WE, THE PEOPLE".
WE NOW HAVE A WHOLE NEW ARSENAL OF WEAPONRY THAT OLD NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV COULDN'T HELP BUT BRAG ABOUT BACK IN 1960 WHEN HE SAID,
"'We have a new weapon, just within the portfolio of our scientists, so to speak, which is so powerful that, if unrestrainedly used, it could wipe out all life on earth. It is a fantastic weapon.'"
WHETHER HE WAS SPEAKING OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE WEAPON OR OF VARIOUS OTHER "DIRECTED WAVE" WEAPONRY, OR OF A WEAPON RATHER LIKE CERN'S "LARGE HADRON COLLIDER", WITH THE ABILITY TO CREATE 'BLACK HOLES', PERHAPS OPEN 'OTHER DIMENSIONS', RIP THE EARTH APART, WE MAY NEVER KNOW, BUT IT GOT THE ATTENTION OF OUR GOVERNMENT AND THE MAD SCRAMBLE WAS ON TO CATCH UP!
WE NOW HAVE A WHOLE NEW ARSENAL OF WEAPONRY THAT OLD NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV COULDN'T HELP BUT BRAG ABOUT BACK IN 1960 WHEN HE SAID,
"'We have a new weapon, just within the portfolio of our scientists, so to speak, which is so powerful that, if unrestrainedly used, it could wipe out all life on earth. It is a fantastic weapon.'"
WHETHER HE WAS SPEAKING OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE WEAPON OR OF VARIOUS OTHER "DIRECTED WAVE" WEAPONRY, OR OF A WEAPON RATHER LIKE CERN'S "LARGE HADRON COLLIDER", WITH THE ABILITY TO CREATE 'BLACK HOLES', PERHAPS OPEN 'OTHER DIMENSIONS', RIP THE EARTH APART, WE MAY NEVER KNOW, BUT IT GOT THE ATTENTION OF OUR GOVERNMENT AND THE MAD SCRAMBLE WAS ON TO CATCH UP!
The Navy Times has called electromagnetic pulse weapons (E.M.Ps) 'the most feared and controversial weapons of the modern age. '
[Mar. 27, 2010, http://www.navytimes.com/article/20100327/NEWS/3270318/Electromagnetic-pulse-threat-analyzed
YES, IT IS A FANTASTIC WEAPON. IT'S BASED ON TESLA TECHNOLOGY, SOMETHING NIKOLAI TESLA CAME UP WITH OVER 100 YEARS AGO, SOMETHING AMERICA'S 'COVERT OPERATIONS", ET AL, DIDN'T MUCH APPRECIATE EVEN BACK THEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY, WHICH LEFT OUR RUSSIAN COUNTERPARTS AS THE PRIME BIDDERS FOR THAT ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, THOUGH TESLA NEVER INTENDED, AND WAS AFRAID FOR IT TO BE USED AS A WEAPON.
THE RUSSIANS ACQUIRED THEN WHAT WE HAVE BEGUN TO CATCH UP TO.
RUSSIA BELIEVED IN WHAT LOOKED LIKE SCIENCE FICTION AND MADE IT A REALITY. TESLA WAS RIGHT...KHRUSHCHEV WAS RIGHT...IT SCARED THE HELL OUT OF AMERICA SO WE BEGAN ACQUIRING THE SAME!
THE RUSSIANS ACQUIRED THEN WHAT WE HAVE BEGUN TO CATCH UP TO.
RUSSIA BELIEVED IN WHAT LOOKED LIKE SCIENCE FICTION AND MADE IT A REALITY. TESLA WAS RIGHT...KHRUSHCHEV WAS RIGHT...IT SCARED THE HELL OUT OF AMERICA SO WE BEGAN ACQUIRING THE SAME!
FOR THOSE OF YOU UNFAMILIAR WITH THE AMAZING MIND OF TESLA OR HIS INCREDIBLE INVENTIONS:"Tesla's 'death ray':
Tesla described the weapon as being able to be used against ground-based infantry or for antiaircraft purposes.
Tesla described the weapon as being able to be used against ground-based infantry or for antiaircraft purposes.
Tesla gives the following description concerning the particle gun's operation:
"'[The nozzle would] send concentrated beams of
particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will
bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles
from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in
their tracks.
Tesla claimed to have worked on plans for a directed-energy weapon from the early 1900s until his death in 1943.
Tesla claimed to have worked on plans for a directed-energy weapon from the early 1900s until his death in 1943.
In 1937, at a luncheon in his honor, concerning the death ray, Tesla
stated, "But it is not an experiment ... I have built, demonstrated and
used it. Only a little time will pass before I can give it to the
world." His records indicate that the device is based on a narrow stream
of small tungsten pellets that are accelerated via high voltage (by means akin to his magnifying transformer).
During the same year, Tesla wrote a treatise, "The Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy through the Natural Media," concerning charged particle beam weapons.
Tesla tried to interest the U.S. War Department, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia in the device.
RUSSIA WAS THE ONLY REALLY INTERESTED PARTY.
On 9 January, 1943, after learning of Tesla's death, the FBI ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize all of Tesla's belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen.
Tesla's entire estate from the Hotel New Yorker and other New York City hotels was transported to the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company under Office of Alien Property seal.
There are a minimum of 278 patents issued to Tesla in 26 countries, that have been accounted for, but many inventions developed by Tesla were not put into patent protection.
WHO HAS THOSE AND WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
RUSSIA WAS THE ONLY REALLY INTERESTED PARTY.
On 9 January, 1943, after learning of Tesla's death, the FBI ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize all of Tesla's belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen.
Tesla's entire estate from the Hotel New Yorker and other New York City hotels was transported to the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company under Office of Alien Property seal.
There are a minimum of 278 patents issued to Tesla in 26 countries, that have been accounted for, but many inventions developed by Tesla were not put into patent protection.
WHO HAS THOSE AND WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
PANDORA'S BOX HAS BEEN OPENED, PEOPLE OF EARTH, AND WHAT IS ESCAPING FROM THAT IS ALMOST UNIMAGINABLE.
What got me started thinking more than ever before about all this was this article:
Gunman Said Electronic Brain Attacks Drove Him to Violence, F.B.I. Says
“Ultra low frequency attack is what I’ve been subject to for the last three months,” Mr. Alexis wrote in one document found by investigators, Valerie Parlave, the assistant director in charge of the F.B.I.’s Washington field office, said at a news conference Wednesday.
“And to be perfectly honest, that is what has driven me to this,” Mr. Alexis wrote.
Mr. Alexis also said “he was prepared to die in the attack and accepted death as the inevitable consequence of his actions,” Ms. Parlave said. It is not clear whether he sent the documents to anyone.
"ULTRA LOW FREQUENCY"...ALSO KNOWN AS "EXTRA LOW FREQUENCY" (E.L.F.) which is one of the things Alexis carved into his SHOTGUN before he used it at the Naval shipyard is an up-and-coming weapon that we and Russia (as well as other major players in global wars) have been developing for decades.
September 26, 2013
“There is an abundance of evidence proving the existence that ELF and microwave signal technology and weapons that deliver voice-to-skull transmissions to unwitting victims is wide spread and pervasive, according to government scientific reports,” states Derrick Robinson.
EXTRA LOW FREQUENCY or ELF waves are electromagnetic
radiation with frequencies from 3 to 300 Hz and include alternating
current (AC) fields and other electromagnetic, non-ionizing radiation
from 1 Hz to 300 Hz. Some studies indicate increased cancer risk;
cardiovascular, brain, behavior, hormonal and immune system changes are
associated with magnetic field exposures.
Recent research points to the fact that these
frequencies, when shaped and transferred to humans, cause significant reactions. The military has developed smaller weapon systems for use in battlefield applications.
These new weapons were disclosed in documents authored and compiled by the United States
Air Force. The Air Force documents indicate that these weapons can be used for mind
control, inducing heart attacks, causing electronic failures and creating computer
malfunctions. More recently these new weapons have been revealed in International Red
Cross documents and in other press reports. In a CBS - 60 Minutes broadcast on February
11, 1996, a report on some of these new systems was shown. The program discussed some of
the effects of these new weapons which included disorientation and "flu-like
symptoms".
MORE RECENTLY IN THE NEWS DURING THE OCCUPY WALL STREET CONFRONTATIONS, POLICE AND NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYED SOME AMAZING WEAPONS AGAINST THE PROTESTORS.
WEAPONS THAT MAKE USE OF SONIC WAVES, MICROWAVES, DISRUPTING "MOBS" BY "DIRECTIONAL WAVES" THAT FORCE THEM TO FLEE OR BE DEAFENED, OR IRRADIATED.
August 1, 2011
<<From microwave energy blasters and blinding laser beams, to chemical
agents and deafening sonic blasters, these weapons are at the cutting
edge of crowd control.
The Pentagon's approved term for these weapons is "non-lethal" or
"less-lethal" and they are intended for use against the unarmed . Designed
to "control crowds, clear streets, subdue and restrain individuals and
secure borders," they are the 21st century's version of the police
baton, pepper spray and tear gas. As journalist Ando Arike puts it, "The result is what appears to be the first arms race in which the opponent is the general population."
The following are six of the most outrageous "non-lethal" weapons that will define the future of crowd control.
1. The Invisible Pain Ray: The 'Holy Grail of Crowd Control'
The Active Denial System, or ADS, works like an open-air microwave oven, projecting a focused beam of electromagnetic radiation to heat the skin of its targets to 130 degrees. This creates an intolerable burning sensation forcing those in its path to instinctively flee (a response the Air Force dubs the " goodbye effect").
The Pentagon's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program (JNLWP) says, "This capability will add to the ability to stop, deter and turn back an advancing adversary, providing an alternative to lethal force." Although ADS is described as non-lethal, a 2008 report by physicist and less-lethal weapons expert Dr. Jürgen Altmann suggests otherwise:
" ... the ADS provides the technical possibility to produce burns of second and third degree. Because the beam of diameter 2 m and above is wider than human size, such burns would occur over considerable parts of the body, up to 50% of its surface. Second- and third-degree burns covering more than 20% of the body surface are potentially life-threatening – due to toxic tissue-decay products and increased sensitivity to infection – and require intensive care in a specialized unit. Without a technical device that reliably prevents re-triggering on the same target subject, the ADS has a potential to produce permanent injury or death. "
The weapon was initially tested in Afghanistan, but later recalled due to a combination of technical difficulties and political concerns, including the fear that ADS would be used as a torture tool making it " not politically tenable," according to a Defense Science Board report.
While the weapon may be too controversial for use on the battlefield, it appears that nothing is too sadistic for use on U.S. prisoners [OR U.S. FREE CITIZENS! THIS WAS USED ON OWS PROTESTERS!], so the ADS has since been modified into a smaller version by Raytheon, for use in law enforcement. Former LASD Commander, Charles “Sid” Heal had been lobbying for the pain ray for years, calling it the " Holy Grail of Crowd Control," due to "its ability to make people scatter, almost instantly."
2. The Laser Blinding 'Dazzler'
The Personal Halting and Stimulation Response rifle, or PHaSR, is a massive laser shooter. PHaSR technology is being co-funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program (JNLWP), and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and is being developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory. While JNLWP is interested in the technology for military applications, NIJ is focusing on its law enforcement use.
So what is the purpose of this light-shooting toy? Well, it won't kill you, but it will temporarily blind you — or as the NIJ prefers to say, it will "dazzle" you into disorientation — by shooting you with two low-power diode-pumped lasers.
1. The Invisible Pain Ray: The 'Holy Grail of Crowd Control'
The Active Denial System, or ADS, works like an open-air microwave oven, projecting a focused beam of electromagnetic radiation to heat the skin of its targets to 130 degrees. This creates an intolerable burning sensation forcing those in its path to instinctively flee (a response the Air Force dubs the " goodbye effect").
The Pentagon's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program (JNLWP) says, "This capability will add to the ability to stop, deter and turn back an advancing adversary, providing an alternative to lethal force." Although ADS is described as non-lethal, a 2008 report by physicist and less-lethal weapons expert Dr. Jürgen Altmann suggests otherwise:
" ... the ADS provides the technical possibility to produce burns of second and third degree. Because the beam of diameter 2 m and above is wider than human size, such burns would occur over considerable parts of the body, up to 50% of its surface. Second- and third-degree burns covering more than 20% of the body surface are potentially life-threatening – due to toxic tissue-decay products and increased sensitivity to infection – and require intensive care in a specialized unit. Without a technical device that reliably prevents re-triggering on the same target subject, the ADS has a potential to produce permanent injury or death. "
The weapon was initially tested in Afghanistan, but later recalled due to a combination of technical difficulties and political concerns, including the fear that ADS would be used as a torture tool making it " not politically tenable," according to a Defense Science Board report.
While the weapon may be too controversial for use on the battlefield, it appears that nothing is too sadistic for use on U.S. prisoners [OR U.S. FREE CITIZENS! THIS WAS USED ON OWS PROTESTERS!], so the ADS has since been modified into a smaller version by Raytheon, for use in law enforcement. Former LASD Commander, Charles “Sid” Heal had been lobbying for the pain ray for years, calling it the " Holy Grail of Crowd Control," due to "its ability to make people scatter, almost instantly."
2. The Laser Blinding 'Dazzler'
The Personal Halting and Stimulation Response rifle, or PHaSR, is a massive laser shooter. PHaSR technology is being co-funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program (JNLWP), and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and is being developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory. While JNLWP is interested in the technology for military applications, NIJ is focusing on its law enforcement use.
So what is the purpose of this light-shooting toy? Well, it won't kill you, but it will temporarily blind you — or as the NIJ prefers to say, it will "dazzle" you into disorientation — by shooting you with two low-power diode-pumped lasers.
After the US agreed to the Blinding Laser Protocol in 1995 under
President Clinton, the Pentagon was forced to cancel several blinding
laser weapon programs that were in the works. But the PHaSR rifle can
skirt this regulation because the blinding effect is apparently
temporary due to its low-intensity laser.
According to a U.S. Air Force fact sheet,
"The laser light from PHaSR temporarily impairs aggressors by dazzling
them with one wavelength. The second wavelength causes a repel effect
that discourages advancing aggressors.
3. Tasers on Steroids
Taser has developed the Taser X12, a 12-gauge shotgun that instead of firing lethal bullet rounds, is designed to fire Taser projectile rounds. Known as Extended Range Electronic Projectiles (XREP),
the XREP cartridge, as defined by the Taser website, is a
"self-contained, wireless projectile that delivers the same
neuro-muscular incapacitation bio-effect [a fancy way of saying electric
shock] as the handheld Taser, but up to 100 feet."
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ACROSS THE NATION NOW HAVE THESE IN THEIR ARSENALS.
In September 2010 Raw Story reported that the rate of Taser-related deaths were on the rise. The story cited an Amnesty International report from 2008 that found "351 Taser-related deaths in the US between June 2001 and August 2008, a rate of just slightly above four deaths per month."
Another project of Taser International described by Ando Arike is the Shockwave Area-Denial System, "which blankets a large area with electrified darts, and a wireless Taser projectile with a 100-meter range, helpful for picking off “ringleaders” in unruly crowds," In 2007, Taser's French distributor announced plans for a stun-gun-equipped flying saucer that shoots stun darts at "criminal suspects or rioting crowds"; however, it has yet to be unveiled. Clearly there is no limit to Taser International’s capacity for creativity.
4. Calmative Agents for Riot Control
The Sunshine Project, a transparency and accountability organization, defines calmatives as "chemical or biological agents with sedative, sleep-inducing or similar psychoactive effects." Although the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the use of riot control agents in warfare, JNWLP and NIJ have long considered calmatives for both military and law enforcement applications, such as dispersing a crowd, controlling a riot or calming a noncompliant offender.
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ACROSS THE NATION NOW HAVE THESE IN THEIR ARSENALS.
In September 2010 Raw Story reported that the rate of Taser-related deaths were on the rise. The story cited an Amnesty International report from 2008 that found "351 Taser-related deaths in the US between June 2001 and August 2008, a rate of just slightly above four deaths per month."
Another project of Taser International described by Ando Arike is the Shockwave Area-Denial System, "which blankets a large area with electrified darts, and a wireless Taser projectile with a 100-meter range, helpful for picking off “ringleaders” in unruly crowds," In 2007, Taser's French distributor announced plans for a stun-gun-equipped flying saucer that shoots stun darts at "criminal suspects or rioting crowds"; however, it has yet to be unveiled. Clearly there is no limit to Taser International’s capacity for creativity.
4. Calmative Agents for Riot Control
The Sunshine Project, a transparency and accountability organization, defines calmatives as "chemical or biological agents with sedative, sleep-inducing or similar psychoactive effects." Although the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the use of riot control agents in warfare, JNWLP and NIJ have long considered calmatives for both military and law enforcement applications, such as dispersing a crowd, controlling a riot or calming a noncompliant offender.
The most well-known and widely used riot-control agents are tear gas
(CS) and chloroacetophenone (CN), also known as mace. A few ways that
more advanced non-lethal calmatives might be administered,
depending on the law enforcement environment, would include "a topical
or transdermal skin application, an aerosol spray, an intramuscular
dart, or a rubber bullet filled with an inhalable agent," according to
NIJ research.
In the March 2010 issue of Harper's magazine, Ando Arike gives an extensive overview of riot control technology in his article " The Soft Kill: New Frontiers in Pain Compliance."
Quoted from that article: <<Pentagon interest in “advanced riot-control agents” has long been an
open secret, but just how close we are to seeing these agents in action
was revealed in 2002, when the Sunshine Project, an arms-control group
based in Austin, Texas, posted on the Internet a trove of Pentagon
documents uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act. Among these
was a fifty-page study titled “The Advantages and Limitations of
Calmatives for Use as a Non-Lethal Technique,” conducted by Penn State’s
Applied Research Laboratory, home of the JNLWD-sponsored Institute for
Non-Lethal Defense Technologies.
Penn State’s College of Medicine researchers agreed, contrary to
accepted principles of medical ethics, that “the development and use of
non-lethal calmative techniques is both achievable and desirable,”
and identified a large number of promising drug candidates, including
benzodiazepines like Valium, serotonin-reuptake inhibitors like Prozac,
and opiate derivatives like morphine, fentanyl, and carfentanyl,
the last commonly used by veterinarians to sedate large animals. The
only problems they saw were in developing effective delivery vehicles
and regulating dosages, but these problems could be solved readily, they
recommended... July 2008, the Army announced that production was scheduled for its
XM1063 “non-lethal personal suppression projectile,” an artillery shell
that bursts in midair over its target, scattering 152 canisters over a
100,000-square-foot area, each dispersing a chemical agent as it
parachutes down. There are many indications that a calmative, such as
fentanyl, is the intended payload—a literal opiate of the masses.>>
5. Screaming Microwaves That Pierce the Skull
Meet the Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio or MEDUSA (that's right, from Greek mythology), which uses "a beam of microwaves to induce uncomfortable auditory sensations in the skull." The device " exploits the microwave audio effect, in which short microwave pulses rapidly heat tissue, causing a shockwave inside the skull that can be detected by the ears," explains David Hambling in the New Scientist. MEDUSA’s audio effect is loud enough to cause discomfort or even incapacitation. It may also cause a little brain damage from the high-intensity shockwave created by the microwave pulse.
MEDUSA's intended purpose is deterring crowds from entering a
protected perimeter, like a nuclear site, and temporarily incapacitating
unruly individuals. So far the weapon remains in development and is
funded by the Navy.
6. Ear-Splitting Siren
The Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, developed by American Technology Corporation, "focuses and broadcasts sound over ranges of up to hundreds of yards," according to David Axe in Wired's Danger Room. LRAD has been around for years, but Americans first took notice when police used it in Pittsburgh to ward off protesters at the 2009 G-20 summit. David Hambling says it is generally used in two ways: "as a megaphone to order protesters to disperse; or, if they disobey, as an “ear-splitting siren” to drive them away." While LRAD may not be deadly, it can cause permanent hearing damage.
The Impact on those against whom these may be deployed...
The application of pain to control, to coerce people into submission helps achieve the desired aims of perception management, while sheltering the public from the brutality of such devices.
MANY STUDIES HAVE PROVEN THESE CAN BE AND HAVE BEEN LETHAL DESPITE THEIR LABEL AS NON-LETHAL.
THEY HAVE CAUSED AND DO CAUSE PERMANENT, IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE TO SOME.
Perhaps these less-lethal tactics for crowd control do result in
fewer injuries. But they also severely weaken our capacity to enact
political change. Authorities have ever more creative ways to manage
dissent, at a time when the need for change by popular demand is vital
to the future of our society and the planet.>>
[SOURCE: http://www.alternet.org/story/151864/6_creepy_new_weapons_the_police_and_military_use_to_subdue_unarmed_people?page=0%2C4]
TRACKING AND WATCHING
<<Tools for detecting and measuring heat flows using Focal Plane Arrays can now be bought in U.S. stores, and they are increasingly used in security cameras.
[SOURCE: http://www.alternet.org/story/151864/6_creepy_new_weapons_the_police_and_military_use_to_subdue_unarmed_people?page=0%2C4]
TRACKING AND WATCHING
<<Tools for detecting and measuring heat flows using Focal Plane Arrays can now be bought in U.S. stores, and they are increasingly used in security cameras.
Focal plane arrays — uncooled ones, to be precise. FPA’s are
sensor/processor components as small as a nickel that detect the
infrared energy emitted by objects and convert it into electrical
charges suitable for forming an image. Their best-known military uses
are in thermal weapons sights and systems for enhancing driver vision,
particularly at night. Infrared energy is a form of light, but its
frequency is lower than that of visible light, so humans can’t see it
without the aid of FPA’s. A few animals, such as vampire bats,
apparently can.
The focal plane array in this picture (below) converts infrared energy generated by people and objects into electrical charges that can then be digitized for display as an image. The technology was used mainly by the military for targeting and vision enhancement until the 1990s, but now is finding numerous commercial applications -- which is why companies in countries like China and South Korea have begun producing the arrays. (Image: www.ll.mit.edu)
DHS WILL WATCH YOUR BUSINESS!
WHEN THEY SAY "CYBER SECURITY", THEY MEAN THEY INTEND TO SECURE YOUR BUSINESS...FOR THEMSELVES!
Homeland Security Department To Help Protect Business Websites
LOLITA C. BALDOR 06/27/11
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/28/homeland-security-hackers-cyberattacks-business-website_n_885833.html
WASHINGTON -- Businesses facing a growing threat of cyberattacks against their websites will now have more tools to protect themselves and harden their Internet sites against hackers.
The Homeland Security Department will help small companies and nonprofit groups avoid programming problems that allow hackers to get into the businesses' websites.
The government's latest cybersecurity effort follows a series of high-profile hacking attacks against corporate and federal websites, including one that shut down the CIA's site for several hours last week.
WHEN THEY SAY "CYBER SECURITY", THEY MEAN THEY INTEND TO SECURE YOUR BUSINESS...FOR THEMSELVES!
Homeland Security Department To Help Protect Business Websites
LOLITA C. BALDOR 06/27/11
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/28/homeland-security-hackers-cyberattacks-business-website_n_885833.html
WASHINGTON -- Businesses facing a growing threat of cyberattacks against their websites will now have more tools to protect themselves and harden their Internet sites against hackers.
The Homeland Security Department will help small companies and nonprofit groups avoid programming problems that allow hackers to get into the businesses' websites.
The government's latest cybersecurity effort follows a series of high-profile hacking attacks against corporate and federal websites, including one that shut down the CIA's site for several hours last week.
DID YOU EVER DISCOVER SOMETHING AND LATER WISH YOU HADN'T?
THAT'S HOW I FEEL RIGHT NOW.
AS ANYONE WHO READS THE TEA ROOM CAN EASILY SEE, I HAVE OFTEN GONE OFF THE BEATEN PATH AND WRITTEN ENTRIES ABOUT THINGS THAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SELDOM TOUCHES ON, THINGS THAT SOME WILL TRY TO CONVINCE YOU ARE "CONSPIRACY THEORIES", THINGS THAT A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN WHO LOVES HIS COUNTRY MIGHT SEE AS IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE, TOO INCREDIBLY TERRIBLE TO BE TRUE.
I'VE TOLD YOU TO NEVER TRUST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR THEIR REPORTING TO "WE, THE PEOPLE" BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN CAUGHT TELLING US TOO MANY LIES. I'VE SAID THAT WE NEED TO QUESTION EVERYTHING WE READ IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA BECAUSE WALL STREET OWNS THOSE "NEWS AGENCIES" AND BUSINESS (ADVERTISEMENTS) DRIVES THEIR "NEWS".
I'VE POINTED OUT HOW OUR OWN GOVERNMENT HAS USED US ALL AS HUMAN GUINEA PIGS WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT.
I'VE OFFERED PROOF OF GOVERNMENT COVER-UPS, MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION, STUPID LIES.
THOSE "CONSPIRACY THEORIES", AS ANYONE CAN SEE LOOKING BACK ON JUST A FEW, HAVE ALMOST ALL PROVEN TO BE TRUE...TO BE REALITY.
RECENTLY, I'VE BEEN A BIT OVER-CONCERNED ABOUT AMERICA'S DEVELOPMENT OF INCREDIBLE NEW WEAPONRY.
SURE, WE ALL READ ABOUT "DEATH RAYS" ABOUT "SCALAR TECHNOLOGY", ABOUT HAARP, ABOUT SONIC WEAPONS TO DISRUPT CROWDS, MICROWAVE WEAPONRY THAT MELTS HUMAN FLESH, DIRECT-ENERGY WEAPONS THAT OUTSTRIP THE OLD LASER BEAM WEAPONS 10 TO 1.
I READ ABOUT THEM, BUT DIDN'T DO A LOT OF RESEARCH.
NOW I HAVE AND I WISH I HADN'T.
TWO COMMON PHRASES COME TO MIND TO DESCRIBE HOW THE DISCOVERIES I MADE HAVE AFFECTED ME: "MIND-BLOWING", "IT BLEW MY MIND!"
The Depleted Uranium Threat
DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) THREATENS AMERICANS IN ALL U.S. STATES AND TERRITORIES!
DRINKING WATER, CROPLANDS, AREAS NEAR SCHOOLS AND HOMES CONTAMINATED, SOME WILL BE HAZARDOUS FOR UP TO 4.5 BILLION YEARS!EPA and NRC Leave Cleanup and Burial to the Army BUT NO COMPLIANCE, AND NO PROSECUTIONS!
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-depleted-uranium-threat/9847
FROM 2008, THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: ”The DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DoD), the nation’s biggest polluter, is now cleaning up 29,500 currently or formerly contaminated sites in every state and territory.
California alone has 3,912 contaminated sites on 441 current and former DoD installations. Many of DoD’s facilities have already contaminated groundwater sources of drinking water….
The cost to clean up toxic munitions contamination and unexploded ordnance at active and former military installations around the country may reach $200 billion.” – The National Resources Defense Council, April 21, 2004.
THAT'S HOW I FEEL RIGHT NOW.
AS ANYONE WHO READS THE TEA ROOM CAN EASILY SEE, I HAVE OFTEN GONE OFF THE BEATEN PATH AND WRITTEN ENTRIES ABOUT THINGS THAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SELDOM TOUCHES ON, THINGS THAT SOME WILL TRY TO CONVINCE YOU ARE "CONSPIRACY THEORIES", THINGS THAT A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN WHO LOVES HIS COUNTRY MIGHT SEE AS IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE, TOO INCREDIBLY TERRIBLE TO BE TRUE.
I'VE TOLD YOU TO NEVER TRUST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR THEIR REPORTING TO "WE, THE PEOPLE" BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN CAUGHT TELLING US TOO MANY LIES. I'VE SAID THAT WE NEED TO QUESTION EVERYTHING WE READ IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA BECAUSE WALL STREET OWNS THOSE "NEWS AGENCIES" AND BUSINESS (ADVERTISEMENTS) DRIVES THEIR "NEWS".
I'VE POINTED OUT HOW OUR OWN GOVERNMENT HAS USED US ALL AS HUMAN GUINEA PIGS WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT.
I'VE OFFERED PROOF OF GOVERNMENT COVER-UPS, MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION, STUPID LIES.
THOSE "CONSPIRACY THEORIES", AS ANYONE CAN SEE LOOKING BACK ON JUST A FEW, HAVE ALMOST ALL PROVEN TO BE TRUE...TO BE REALITY.
RECENTLY, I'VE BEEN A BIT OVER-CONCERNED ABOUT AMERICA'S DEVELOPMENT OF INCREDIBLE NEW WEAPONRY.
SURE, WE ALL READ ABOUT "DEATH RAYS" ABOUT "SCALAR TECHNOLOGY", ABOUT HAARP, ABOUT SONIC WEAPONS TO DISRUPT CROWDS, MICROWAVE WEAPONRY THAT MELTS HUMAN FLESH, DIRECT-ENERGY WEAPONS THAT OUTSTRIP THE OLD LASER BEAM WEAPONS 10 TO 1.
I READ ABOUT THEM, BUT DIDN'T DO A LOT OF RESEARCH.
NOW I HAVE AND I WISH I HADN'T.
TWO COMMON PHRASES COME TO MIND TO DESCRIBE HOW THE DISCOVERIES I MADE HAVE AFFECTED ME: "MIND-BLOWING", "IT BLEW MY MIND!"
The Depleted Uranium Threat
DEPLETED URANIUM (DU) THREATENS AMERICANS IN ALL U.S. STATES AND TERRITORIES!
DRINKING WATER, CROPLANDS, AREAS NEAR SCHOOLS AND HOMES CONTAMINATED, SOME WILL BE HAZARDOUS FOR UP TO 4.5 BILLION YEARS!EPA and NRC Leave Cleanup and Burial to the Army BUT NO COMPLIANCE, AND NO PROSECUTIONS!
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-depleted-uranium-threat/9847
FROM 2008, THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE: ”The DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DoD), the nation’s biggest polluter, is now cleaning up 29,500 currently or formerly contaminated sites in every state and territory.
California alone has 3,912 contaminated sites on 441 current and former DoD installations. Many of DoD’s facilities have already contaminated groundwater sources of drinking water….
The cost to clean up toxic munitions contamination and unexploded ordnance at active and former military installations around the country may reach $200 billion.” – The National Resources Defense Council, April 21, 2004.
“The Defense Department is refusing to comply with orders or sign contracts to clean up 11 hazardous waste sites, including one in Hawaii, and has asked the White House and Justice Department to intervene on its behalf.” – The Associated Press, July 1, 2008Dangerous DU debris is credited by some with creating higher child cancer and other illness rates in Europe and the Middle East. DU’s fine particles can be harmful as well to the kidneys, skin and the lenses of the eyes. And, when inhaled or swallowed by humans, animals or fish, that dust can create serious and permanent health hazards. Expended DU is a permanent terrain contaminant with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. Uranium dust can linger in the lungs, the blood and other organs for years. It is reported to have caused some of the so-called mysterious ailments among the more than 350,000 US service members, many of whom unsuccessfully sought medical treatment after the first Gulf War.
At least four states – New York, California, Louisiana and Connecticut – passed bills in an unsuccessful attempt to force the Department of Defense to better test and care for war veterans for DU exposures. Their legislatures and governors were all concerned about sick service members exposed to DU wartime dust.
Retired Army Maj. Doug Rokke, who has a Ph.D. in education – physics and technology – from the University of Illinois, fought the use of DU for years through the Internet and other means. He believes this current Doha DU waste-disposal operation violates safe guidelines. He worked with the special operations team, the 3rd U.S. Army captured equipment project team, and with the 3rd U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Assessment team during Gulf War One. As a result of his DU cleanup work, Rokke says he is ill with radiation damage to his lungs and kidneys. He also has radiation cataracts, fibromyalgia, rash, hearing loss, diarrhea, reactive airway disease, brain lesions, teeth breaking off and falling out, and neurological abnormalities.
It is ludicrous, said Rokke, for the NRC, the EPA and the Army to deny the Doha depleted uranium’s dangers. They are doing this, he said, even as the U.S. government is mandating a huge cleanup of the Concord, Massachusetts, depleted uranium munitions manufacturer Starmet’s Superfund site.>>[SEE ONE OF ROKKE'S ARTICLES HERE, http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=662 ]
IN IRAQ, KUWAIT, AFGHANISTAN, THE SUDAN, MALAYSIA, CHAD, LIBYA, THE BALKANS, EVERYWHERE OUR TROOPS HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST 20-30 YEARS, THEY WERE EXPOSED TO DU AND LEFT DU BEHIND IN THOSE NATIONS!
A VERY WOEFUL ARTICLE THAT BEGS FOR INTERNATIONAL HELP:
A VERY WOEFUL ARTICLE THAT BEGS FOR INTERNATIONAL HELP:
YES, THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION STREWN ALL ACROSS AMERICA AND WE ARE SUFFERING FROM THEM EVERY DAY.
WE ARE STILL USED AS HUMAN GUINEA PIGS, TARGETED BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT.
I KNEW IT WAS BAD, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS UTTERLY HOPELESS...
I HONESTLY DON'T HAVE ANY HOPE TO OFFER ANY OF US.
IT'S SIMPLY GONE TOO FAR.
PROOF, SOMETHING WE CAN HAVE , IF WE WANT IT...
I SINCERELY HOPE ALL OF YOU AMERICANS WILL CAREFULLY READ THE SUPPLEMENTARY Unethical human experimentation in the United States BELOW AND SEE IF YOU OR YOUR FAMILIES WERE POSSIBLY AFFECTED BY ANY OF THOSE.
A FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE YEARS AGO DISCOVERED THAT THE CAUSE OF HER CANCER AND THAT OF ALL 7 OF HER SIBLINGS WAS CAUSED FROM THEIR LIVING IN A STONE HOUSE IN NEVADA THAT WAS CONSTRUCTED USING STONES PILED UP OUTSIDE AN ABANDONED URANIUM MINE NEARBY. ONLY SHE AND ONE SIBLING SURVIVED MORE THAN 35 YEARS.
I HAVE A VERY DEAR FRIEND WHOM I CALL A BROTHER WHOSE FAMILY IN OREGON WAS DOWNWIND FROM THE HANFORD SUPER-NUCLEAR SITE. HE HAS ALSO LOST A PRECIOUS FAMILY MEMBER TO CANCER, LIKELY CONTRACTED AFTER THE "GREEN RUN" INCIDENT.
I AND MY ONLY SIBLING WERE BOTH "INNOCULATED" WITH THE CONTAMINATED POLIO VACCINE AS WAS MY SPOUSE. WE ALL HAD CANCERS AND I ALONE SURVIVE. SO LOOK CAREFULLY, PLEASE DO.
~"Biological Weapons Labs & Their Recent 'Mistakes' in the News"
~Jan. 23, 2013, the BBC World News Service :
Controversial bird flu work resumes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21165288
Research was stopped amid fierce debate including concerns about modified viruses escaping the laboratory or being used for terrorism.
Scientists at the Erasmus University in the Netherlands and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US discovered it would take [ONLY] between five and nine mutations in the virus' genetic code to allow it to start a deadly pandemic.
It provoked outcry among some scientists who said their academic freedom was being restricted. Other scientists said the risk of the virus spreading was too great for such research to take place and described it as a folly.
. 'Because H5N1 virus transmission studies are essential for pandemic preparedness and understanding the adaptation of influenza viruses to mammals, researchers who have approval from their governments and institutions to conduct this research safely, under appropriate biosafety and biosecurity conditions, have a public-health responsibility to resume this important work. Scientists should not restart their work in countries where, as yet, no decision has been reached on the conditions for H5N1 virus transmission research. At this time, this includes the United States and U.S.-funded research conducted in other countries.'
Oxford University's Prof. Robert May (former President of the Royal Society) has said that the risks hugely outweigh the benefits calling their plans 'stupidly dangerous'. He states that these facilities always over estimate the efficacy of their safety procedures and that over 1000 people have been infected from labs 'with the highest standards'.
~Government Scientists Will Experiment With H7N9 in Bio-Weapons Labs
August 8, 2013
http://www.occupycorporatism.com/gov-scientists-will-experiment-with-h7n9-in-bio-weapons-labs/
Scientists are experimenting with the H7N9 bird flu virus in high-security laboratories with the accord of the US government.
James Rudge and Richard Coker of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (HTM) declared that “the threat posed by H7N9 has by no means passed.”
Scientists are warning that this endeavor would pose more of a problem and there should be preparations made for a “worst-case scenario”.
The Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS) concluded that with the controls in place, the experiments on H7N9 were worth the risk.
If the H7N9 virus turns out like the H5N1 strain, it will become quite clear that this is an engineered bioweapon.
In June of this year, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) identified the cause of the ease by which recent strains of bird flu are transmitted from person to person – genes.
http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674%2813%2900641-7
Analysis of the H5N1 and the H7N9 flu strains were published in two studies that is expected to assist in the manufacturing of a vaccine.
~Please Don't Panic, BUT... A Texas "Biodefense" Lab Lost A Vial Of Virus
03.27.2013
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/25/virus-sample-missing-from-galveston-national-laboratory/2018887/
The same day the Government Accountability Office called for stricter standards at biological threat defense labs, a biodefense lab in Galveston, Texas, lost a vial of virus.
The incident, voluntarily disclosed by the Galveston National Laboratory, comes amid growing concerns about security and safety risks at labs researching germs and toxins that could be used as bioterror weapons.
Scott Weaver, the Galveston lab's scientific director, said Monday that a routine check last week led to the discovery that one of five small plastic vials of an obscure virus called Guanarito was missing from a locked freezer.
~Tragic Mistake Or Deliberate Plan? 30 Million People Injected with Mandatory POLIO Vaccination Containing Live SV40 Cancer Virus -
July 17, 2013
A polio vaccine injection that was given to people between 1955-1963 contained a live cancer virus. Here is a cached copy of the CDC document.
<<Cancer, Simian Virus 40 (SV40), and Polio Vaccine Fact Sheet
SV40 is a virus found in some species of monkey.
SV40 was discovered in 1960. Soon afterward, the virus was found in polio vaccine.
More than 98 million Americans received one or more doses of polio vaccine from 1955 to 1963 when a proportion of vaccine was contaminated with SV40; it has been estimated that 10–30 million Americans could have received an SV40 contaminated dose of vaccine.
SV40 virus has been found in certain types of cancer in humans, but it has not been determined that SV40 causes these cancers.
The majority of scientific evidence suggests that SV40-contaminated vaccine did not cause cancer; however, some research results are conflicting and more studies are needed.
Polio vaccines being used today do not contain SV40. All of the current evidence indicates that polio vaccines have been free of SV40 since 1963.>>
A peer reviewed paper from the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center at Loyola University confirms this. According to the research, the procedure used to inactivate the virus was not effective. - <<We determined that the procedure used by this manufacturer to inactivate SV40 in oral poliovirus vaccine seed stocks based on heat inactivation in the presence of MgCl2 did not completely inactivate SV40. These SV40-contaminated vaccines were produced from early 1960s to about 1978 and were used throughout the world. Our findings underscore the potential risks of using primary monkey cells for preparing polio virus vaccines, because of the possible contamination with SV40 or other monkey viruses, and emphasize the importance of using well-characterized cell substrates that are free from adventitious agents.>>
[see this site for one (only because I LIKE her site), that reported these "findings". http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/tragic-mistake-or-deliberate-plan-30-million-people-injected-with-mandatory-vaccination-containing-live-sv40-cancer-virus-07172013]
[also see http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/another-antivaccine-zombie-meme-sv40-and-cancer-and-polio-oh-my/ AND http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/17/1286.full ]
~New Bioweapons Risk Is Nothing Bureaucracy Can't Solve
A report on the state of biological defense research finds lots of problems.
GAO ADMITS IT HAS MANY BIO-WEAPONS "STUDY" LABS, NO STANDARD SAFETY PROTOCOL
03.25.2013
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/new-bioweapons-risk-nothing-bureacuracy-cant-solve
According to a report that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released today, there is no universal standard for conducting or overseeing biodefense research in the United States. This is partly a problem of ricebowling, where various agencies maintain separate programs to meet their own needs, and these programs are both jealously guarded and kept apart from other, similar programs. The upshot? Researchers don't always know what other researchers are working on and run the risk of needlessly repeating each other's work.
A related problem: the labs don't have standard construction guidelines and operating procedures. For instance: locking the door might be SOP at one lab, and not at another. Disparate rules open the flood gates for human error--and make that error harder to track.
~Nov.16,2010
DHS: 70% Chance Disease Will Escape Proposed Bioweapons Lab in Tornado Alley
Global Security Newswire
A rendering of the U.S. National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility planned for Manhattan, Kansas.
WASHINGTON — An expert panel said yesterday the U.S. Homeland Security Department has not adequately gauged the potential risks associated with a proposed multimillion-dollar infectious-disease research laboratory in Kansas (see GSN, May 20 ).
In a report issued yesterday, the National Research Council said a government safety evaluation for the proposed facility contained “several major shortcomings”.
There are “several major shortcomings” in a department risk assessment of its planned National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility near Manhattan, Kansas, according to a report by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences. The proposed site is roughly 120 miles west of Kansas City.
~ February 9, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/washington/10germs.html?ref=biologicalandchemicalwarfare&_r=0
WASHINGTON — Army officials have suspended most research involving dangerous germs at the biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., which the F.B.I. has linked to the anthrax attacks of 2001, after discovering that some pathogens stored there were not listed in a laboratory database.
The suspension, which began Friday and could last three months, is intended to allow a complete inventory of hazardous bacteria, viruses and toxins stored in refrigerators, freezers and cabinets in the facility, the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
One scientist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment, said samples from completed projects were not always destroyed, and departing scientists sometimes left behind vials whose contents were unknown to colleagues. He said the Army’s recordkeeping and security were imperfect but better than procedures at most universities, where research on biological pathogens has expanded rapidly since 2001.
~Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Materials Sent to 18 Countries
Mar.03,2009
Deerfield, Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc. has just been caught shipping live avian flu viruses mixed with vaccine material to medical distributors in 18 countries. The "mistake" (if you can call it that, see below...) was discovered by the National Microbiology Laboratory in Canada. The World Health Organization was alerted and panic spread throughout the vaccine community as health experts asked the obvious question: How could this have happened?
"Baxter International Inc. in Austria 'unintentionally contaminated samples with the bird flu virus that were used in laboratories in 3 neighbouring countries, raising concern about the potential spread of the deadly disease'. Austria, Germany, Slowenia and the Czech Republic - these are the countries in which labs were hit with dangerous viruses. Not by bioterrorist commandos, but by Baxter. In other words: One of the major global pharmaceutical players seems to have lost control over a virus which is considered by many virologists to be one of the components leading some day to a new pandemic."
This couldn't have been an accident. Why? Because Baxter International adheres to something called BSL3 (Biosafety Level 3) - a set of laboratory safety protocols that prevent the cross-contamination of materials.
This leaves only two possibilities that explain these events:
Possibility #1: Baxter isn't following BSL3 safety guidelines or is so sloppy in following them that it can make monumental mistakes that threaten the safety of the entire human race. And if that's the case, then why are we injecting our children with vaccines made from Baxter's materials?
Possibility #2: A rogue employee (or some plot from higher up) is present at Baxter, whereby live avian flu viruses were intentionally placed into the vaccine materials in the hope that such materials might be injected into humans and set off a global bird flu pandemic.
[REPORTED IN March, 2009, The Canadian Press, Bloomberg.com, and LifeGen.de to name a few.]
~Aug 29, 2013 1:20 PM UTC
The US is building a bioweapons lab in Kazakhstan
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/29/the_us_is_building_a_bioweapons_lab_in_kazakhstan_newscred/
Like the stockpiles of nuclear weapons left in the dust of the Soviet Union, the materials and the expertise needed to make a bioweapon—anthrax, smallpox, cholera, plague, hemorrhagic fevers, and so on—could still be lying about, for sale to the highest bidder. Of those scientists, Dr. Ken Alibek (previously known as Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, a biologist from the Soviet Union), told the Times in 1998, ”We have lost control of them.”
This explains the hulking concrete structure I recently visited at a construction site on the outskirts of Almaty. Set behind trees and concrete and barbed-wire, Kazakhstan’s new Central Reference Laboratory will partly replace the aging buildings nearby where the USSR kept some of its finest potential bioweapons—and where scientists study those powerful pathogens today. When it opens in September 2015, the $102-million project laboratory is meant to serve as a Central Asian way station.
Plague is already a focus of work at the existing lab in Almaty.
~ "Lists of KNOWN biological and chemical weapons owned by the United States"
The United States biological weapons program officially began in spring 1943 on orders from U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. Research continued following World War II as the U.S. built up a large stockpile of biological agents and weapons. Over the course of its 26 year history, the program weaponized and stockpiled the following seven bio-agents (and pursued basic research on many more):
Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)
Francisella tularensis (tularemia)
Brucella spp (brucellosis)
Coxiella burnetii (Q-fever)
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE)
Botulinum toxin (botulism)
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B
Francisella tularensis (tularemia)
Brucella spp (brucellosis)
Coxiella burnetii (Q-fever)
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE)
Botulinum toxin (botulism)
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B
Throughout its history the US bioweapons program was secret.
The WRS did, however, contract several universities to participate in the U.S. biological weapons program.
After Nixon promised to destroy the bio-weapons and end the program, a $12 million disposal plan was SUPPOSEDLY undertaken at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, where U.S. "anti-personnel biological agents" were stored.
America had developed seven mass-produced, battle-ready biological weapons in the form of agents that cause: anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, Q-fever, VEE, and botulism. In addition staphylococcal enterotoxin B was produced as an incapacitating agent. In addition to the agents that were ready to be used, the U.S. program conducted research into the weaponization of more than 20 other agents. They included: smallpox, EEE and WEE, AHF, Hantavirus, BHF, Lassa fever, glanders, melioidosis, plague, yellow fever, psittacosis, typhus, dengue fever, Rift Valley fever (RVF), CHIKV, late blight of potato, rinderpest, Newcastle disease, bird flu, and the toxin ricin.
[ "Chemical and Biological Weapons: Possession and Programs Past and Present", James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury College, April 9, 2002.]
Besides the numerous pathogens that afflict human beings, the U.S. had developed an arsenal of anti-agriculture biological agents. These included rye stem rust spores (stored at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. 1951–1975), wheat stem rust spores (stored at the same facility 1962–1975), and the causative agent of rice blast (stored at Fort Detrick, Maryland 1965–1966).
In the mid-1970s, in the wake of many health claims made from exposure to such agents, including psychotropic and hallucinogenic drugs administered in later experiments, the U.S. Congress began investigations of misuse of such experiments, and inadequate informed consent given by the soldiers and civilians involved.
Between 1950 and 1975, about 6,720 soldiers took part in experiments involving exposures to 254 different chemicals, conducted at U.S. Army Laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal, MD (NRC 1982, NRC 1984, NAS 1993). Congressional hearings into these experiments in 1974 and 1975 resulted in disclosures, notification of subjects as to the nature of their chemical exposures, and ultimately to compensation for a few families of subjects who had died during the experiments (NAS 1993).
These experiments were conducted primarily to learn how various agents would affect humans (NRC 1982). Other agencies including the CIA and the Special Operations Division of the Department of the Army were also reportedly involved in these studies (NAS 1993).
Eight German scientists worked at Edgewood, under Project Paperclip. Journalist Linda Hunt, citing records from the U.S. National Archives, used this finding to assert that in this collaboration, US and former Nazi scientists "used Nazi science as a basis for Dachau-like experiments on over 7,000 U.S. soldiers."[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. September 1992. p. 43.]
A Government Accounting Office May 2004 report, "Chemical and Biological Defense", [Chemical and Biological Defense, GAO.gov, May 2004, p. 24.] states CLEARLY that there were even more victims of the experimental programs, a number that may never be completely known
GAO explains at the outset of their report the rationale for the study:
<<In the 1962-74 time period, the Department of Defense (DOD) conducted a classified chemical and biological warfare test program —- Project 112 —- that might have exposed service members and civilian personnel to chemical or biological agents. In 2000 the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) began obtaining information from DOD about the program. Concerned that veterans and others might have health problems from exposure during Project 112 and similar DOD tests, Congress required DOD in the 2003 Defense Authorization Act to identify Project 112 tests and personnel potentially exposed—service members and the number of civilian personnel—and other chemical and biological tests that might have exposed service members.>>
Between 1950 and 1975, about 6,720 soldiers took part in experiments involving exposures to 254 different chemicals, conducted at U.S. Army Laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal, MD (NRC 1982, NRC 1984, NAS 1993). Congressional hearings into these experiments in 1974 and 1975 resulted in disclosures, notification of subjects as to the nature of their chemical exposures, and ultimately to compensation for a few families of subjects who had died during the experiments (NAS 1993).
These experiments were conducted primarily to learn how various agents would affect humans (NRC 1982). Other agencies including the CIA and the Special Operations Division of the Department of the Army were also reportedly involved in these studies (NAS 1993).
Eight German scientists worked at Edgewood, under Project Paperclip. Journalist Linda Hunt, citing records from the U.S. National Archives, used this finding to assert that in this collaboration, US and former Nazi scientists "used Nazi science as a basis for Dachau-like experiments on over 7,000 U.S. soldiers."[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. September 1992. p. 43.]
A Government Accounting Office May 2004 report, "Chemical and Biological Defense", [Chemical and Biological Defense, GAO.gov, May 2004, p. 24.] states CLEARLY that there were even more victims of the experimental programs, a number that may never be completely known
GAO explains at the outset of their report the rationale for the study:
<<In the 1962-74 time period, the Department of Defense (DOD) conducted a classified chemical and biological warfare test program —- Project 112 —- that might have exposed service members and civilian personnel to chemical or biological agents. In 2000 the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) began obtaining information from DOD about the program. Concerned that veterans and others might have health problems from exposure during Project 112 and similar DOD tests, Congress required DOD in the 2003 Defense Authorization Act to identify Project 112 tests and personnel potentially exposed—service members and the number of civilian personnel—and other chemical and biological tests that might have exposed service members.>>
A U.S. facility at Fort Terry,PLUM ISLAND NEW YORK, focused primarily on anti-animal biological agents. The first agent that was a candidate for development was foot and mouth disease (FMD).
Besides FMD, five other top-secret biological weapons projects were commissioned on Plum Island. The other four programs researched included RVF, rinderpest, African swine fever, plus eleven miscellaneous exotic animal diseases. The eleven miscellaneous pathogens were: Blue tongue virus, bovine influenza, bovine virus diarrhea (BVD), fowl plague, goat pneumonitis, mycobacteria, "N" virus, Newcastle disease, sheep pox, Teschers disease, and vesicular stomatitis.
~ Unethical human experimentation in the United States
TROOPS AND CITIZENS ARE EXPENDABLE FOR USE AS HUMAN GUINEA PIGS!
There have been numerous experiments performed on human test subjects in the United States that have been considered unethical, and were often performed illegally, without the knowledge, consent, or informed consent of the test subjects.
The experiments include: the deliberate infection of people with deadly or debilitating diseases, exposure of people to biological and chemical weapons, human radiation experiments, injection of people with toxic and radioactive chemicals, surgical experiments, interrogation/torture experiments, tests involving mind-altering substances, and a wide variety of others. Many of these tests were performed on children, the sick, and mentally disabled individuals, often under the guise of "medical treatment". In many of the studies, a large portion of the subjects were poor, racial minorities or prisoners.
Funding for many of the experiments was provided by United States government, especially the Central Intelligence Agency, United States military, or private corporations involved with military activities. The human research programs were usually highly secretive.
~In a 1946 to 1948 study in Guatemala, U.S. researchers used prostitutes to infect prison inmates, insane asylum patients, and Guatemalan soldiers with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, in order to test the effectiveness of penicillin in treating sexually transmitted diseases. They later tried infecting people with "direct inoculations made from syphilis bacteria poured into the men's penises and on forearms and faces that were slightly abraded . . . or in a few cases through spinal punctures". Approximately 700 people were infected as part of the study (including orphan children).
~In 1950, in order to conduct a simulation of a biological warfare attack, the U.S. Navy used airplanes to spray large quantities of the bacteria Serratia marcescens – considered harmless at this time – over the city of San Francisco, which caused numerous citizens to contract pneumonia-like illnesses, and killed at least one person. The family of the man who was killed sued for gross negligence, but a federal judge ruled in favor of the government in 1981.
Serratia tests were continued until at least 1969
~From the 1950s to 1972, mentally disabled children at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York were intentionally infected with viral hepatitis, in research whose purpose was to help discover a vaccine. From 1963 to 1966, Saul Krugman of New York University promised the parents of mentally disabled children that their children would be enrolled into Willowbrook in exchange for signing a consent form for procedures that he claimed were "vaccinations." In reality, the procedures involved deliberately infecting children with viral hepatitis by feeding them an extract made from the feces of patients infected with the disease.
~In 1952, Sloan-Kettering Institute researcher Chester M. Southam injected live cancer cells into prisoners at the Ohio State Prison. Half of the prisoners in this NIH-sponsored study were black. Also at Sloan-Kettering, 300 healthy women were injected with live cancer cells without being told. The doctors stated that they knew at the time that it might cause cancer.[43]
~In 1955, the CIA conducted a biological warfare experiment where they released whooping cough bacteria from boats outside of Tampa Bay, Florida, causing a whooping cough epidemic in the city, and killing at least 12 people.
~~In 1956 and 1957, several U.S. Army biological warfare experiments were conducted on the cities of Savannah, Georgia and Avon Park, Florida. In the experiments, Army bio-warfare researchers released millions of infected mosquitoes on the two towns, in order to see if the insects could potentially spread yellow fever and dengue fever. Hundreds of residents contracted a wide array of illnesses, including fevers, respiratory problems, stillbirths, encephalitis, and typhoid. Army researchers pretended to be public health workers, so that they could photograph and perform medical tests on the victims. Several people died as a result of the experiments.
~In 1962, twenty-two elderly patients at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn, New York were injected with live cancer cells by Chester M. Southam, who in 1952 had done the same to prisoners at the Ohio State Prison, in order to "discover the secret of how healthy bodies fight the invasion of malignant cells". The administration of the hospital attempted to cover the study up, but the New York State medical licensing board ultimately placed Southam on probation for one year. Two years later, the American Cancer Society elected him as their Vice President.
~In 1966, the U.S. Army released WHAT WE ARE TOLD was "the harmless Bacillus globigii" into the tunnels of the New York subway system as part of a field study called "A Study of the Vulnerability of Subway Passengers in New York City to Covert Attack with Biological Agents".
The Chicago subway system was also subject to a similar experiment by the Army.
~1990 - More than 1,500 six-month old African-American and Hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an experimental measles vaccine that has never been licensed for use in the United States. The CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental. (Los Angeles Times, New Scientist)
~1994 - U.S. Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least
50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military
personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances.
Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals,
hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War. (Rockefeller Report)
~1994 to 1995 - Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD
Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm
veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe
commonly used in the production of biological weapons. He then uncovers evidence that biological agents used
during the Gulf War were manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl
and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections. (Journal of the American Medical Association, Capt. Joyce Riley, USAF)
~1996 - The U.S. Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed to chemical agents. A scientific review finds a strong association between exposure to certain chemicals and the Gulf War illness suffered by many veterans. (CNN News, CNN 2nd article, Washington Post, New York Times)
1999 -
Jesse Gelsinger dies as a result of a University of Pennsylvania's
gene-therapy trial. The principal investigator in the study, James
Wilson holds a 30% equity stake in Genovo, which owned the rights to
license the drug being studied; the university owned 3.2% of the
company. When Targeted Genetics Corp. later acquires Genovo, Wilson
reportedly earns $13.5 million and Penn $1.4 million. (Time Magazine)
~2002 -
North Carolina's Shearon Harris nuclear plant contains the largest
radioactive waste storage pools in the US. If the cooling system
malfunctions, the resulting fire could trigger a nuclear meltdown. In
2002, plant managers are forced to manually shut down the reactors four
times. Between 1999 and 2003, there are twelve major problems
requiring the shutdown of the plant. Yet the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission ignores the potential risks. (Counterpunch, ABC affiliate, Associated Press)
~2007 -
Texas governor Rick Perry makes the vaccine Gardasil mandatory for all
Texan schoolgirls. The vaccine is designed to prevent the sexually
transmitted cervical-cancer virus, yet even girls not sexually active
are forced to take the new vaccine. Perry defends his relationship with
Merck & Co., makers of the vaccine. The safety of the vaccine is
also increasingly questioned. (MSNBC/AP, Los Angeles Times)
~2008 - Nanotechnology, with risks to health still unknown, is being widely used in consumer products. Some experts say the microtubules which can easily enter our bodies may pose health and environmental risks. Researchers in Scotland say we may be facing the same health risks as asbestos. Yet industry is rapidly embracing this risky technology with little oversight. (New York Times, Project Censored, Science News)
~2009 -
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine calls for a moratorium on
genetically modified foods. Their report states, "GM foods pose a
serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune
function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic
health." Yet the US threatens a trade war against any country which
opposes these frankenfoods. The US media fail miserably to even present a
debate on this crucial health topic. (American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Guardian, Scientific Summary)
~2011 -
Researchers suspect the military's High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program (HAARP), which frequently disturbs the ionosphere
using powerful directed energy beams, is placing humanity at high risk
due to unintended consequences. Some believe HAARP may even be
influencing some natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes. (CBC documentary [Canada's PBS], Prof. Michel Chossudovsky)
~2011 -
Three nuclear design specialists employed by General Electric come
forward stating that they resigned in 1976 after becoming convinced
that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing -- the Mark 1 -- was
so flawed that it could lead to a devastating accident. Five of the six
reactors at the Japan's nuclear facility which experiences a melt down
in March 2011 are Mark 1s. (CBS News)
From
1988 to 2008, the number of overseas clinical trials for drugs increases
by 2,000%, to approximately 6,500 trials. These trials are often
conducted in areas with large numbers of poor and illiterate people who
grant their consent by signing an "X" or making a thumb print on a form.
The tests are rarely monitored by the FDA, and have in some cases
proved deadly. 49 babies die in New Delhi, India during a 30-month
trial. The cost of testing in countries without safety regulations is
much lower; and, due to lax or nonexistent oversight, pharmaceutical
corporations (or research companies they've contracted out to) are able
to more easily suppress research that demonstrates harmful effects and
only report positive results. (Vanity Fair)
RADIATION/URANIUM/PLUTONIUM AS WEAPONS
USED AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS FOR DECADES!
~In 1953, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) ran several studies on the health effects of radioactive iodine in newborns and pregnant women at the University of Iowa. In one study, researchers gave pregnant women from 100 to 200 microcuries (3.7 to 7.4 MBq) of iodine-131, in order to study the women's aborted embryos in an attempt to discover at what stage, and to what extent, radioactive iodine crosses the placental barrier. In another study, they gave 25 newborn babies (who were under 36 hours old and weighed from 5.5 to 8.5 pounds (2.5 to 3.9 kg)) iodine-131, either by oral administration or through an injection, so that they could measure the amount of iodine in their thyroid glands.
In another AEC study, researchers at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine fed iodine-131 to 28 healthy infants through a gastric tube to test the concentration of iodine in the infants' thyroid glands.
In an experiment in the 1960's, over 100 Alaskan citizens were continually exposed to radioactive iodine.
~PRIOR TO THESE ATROCITIES, in a 1949 operation called the "Green Run," the AEC released iodine-131 and xenon-133 to the atmosphere which contaminated a 500,000-acre (2,000 km2) area containing three small towns near the Hanford "SUPER NUCLEAR SITE" in Washington state and everything downstream and downwind, into Oregon, and out into the Pacific Ocean.
~In 1953, the AEC sponsored a study to discover if radioactive iodine affected premature
babies differently from full-term babies. In the experiment,
researchers from Harper Hospital in Detroit orally administered
iodine-131 to 65 premature and full-term infants who weighed from 2.1 to
5.5 pounds (0.95 to 2.5 kg).
~From 1955 to 1960 Sonoma State Hospital in northern California served as a permanent drop off location for mentally handicapped children diagnosed with cerebral palsy or lesser disorders. The children subsequently underwent painful experimentation without adult consent. Many were given irradiated milk, some spinal taps "for which they received no direct benefit." 60 Minutes learned that in these fifteen years, the brain of every cerebral palsy child who died at Sonoma State was removed and studied without parental consent. According to the CBS story, over 1,400 patients died at the clinic.[Rebecca Leung. "A Dark Chapter In Medical History". CBS News, February 11, 2009. ]
~In 1962, the Hanford site again released Iodine-131, stationing test
subjects along its path to record its effect on them. The AEC also
recruited Hanford volunteers to ingest milk contaminated with I-131
during this time.
AGAIN, everything downwind and downstream from Hanford, all humans, plants/crops, and animals all water supplies, EVERYTHING, was once again contaminated.
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body, generally on people who were poor, sick, or powerless.
Most of these tests were performed, funded, or supervised by the United States military, Atomic Energy Commission, or various other US federal government agencies.
The experiments included a wide array of studies, involving things like feeding radioactive food to mentally disabled children or conscientious objectors, inserting radium rods into the noses of schoolchildren, deliberately releasing radioactive chemicals over U.S. and Canadian cities, measuring the health effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb tests, injecting pregnant women and babies with radioactive chemicals, and irradiating the testicles of prison inmates, amongst other things.
Much information about these programs was classified and kept secret. In 1986 the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a report entitled "American nuclear guinea pigs : three decades of radiation experiments on U.S. citizens".
~Between 1946 and 1947, researchers at the University of Rochester injected uranium-234 and uranium-235 in dosages ranging from 6.4 to 70.7 micrograms per kilogram of body weight into six people to study how much uranium their kidneys could tolerate before becoming damaged.[60]
~Between 1953 and 1957, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. William Sweet injected eleven terminally ill, comatose and semi-comatose patients with uranium in an experiment to determine, among other things, its viability as a chemotherapy treatment against brain tumors, which all but one of the patients had (one being a mis-diagnosis). Dr. Sweet, who died in 2001, maintained that consent had been obtained from the patients and next of kin.
PLUTONIUM and other "EXPERIMENTS"
~In 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project, three patients at Billings Hospital at the University of Chicago were injected with plutonium.
~In 1946, six employees of a Chicago metallurgical lab were given water that was contaminated with plutonium-239, so that researchers could study how plutonium is absorbed into the digestive tract.
~An eighteen-year-old woman at an upstate New York hospital, expecting to be treated for a pituitary gland disorder, was injected with plutonium.
~Immediately after World War II, researchers at Vanderbilt University gave 829 pregnant mothers in Tennessee what they were told were "vitamin drinks" that would improve the health of their babies, but were, in fact, mixtures containing radioactive iron, to determine how fast the radioisotope crossed into the placenta. At least three children are known to have died from the experiments, from cancers and leukemias. Four of the women's babies died from cancers as a result of the experiments, and the women experienced rashes, bruises, anemia, hair/tooth loss, and cancer.
~From 1946 to 1953, at the Walter E. Fernald State School in Massachusetts, in an experiment sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Quaker Oats corporation, 73 mentally disabled children were fed oatmeal containing radioactive calcium and other radioisotopes, in order to track "how nutrients were digested". The children were not told that they were being fed radioactive chemicals and were told by hospital staff and researchers that they were joining a "science club".
~The University of California Hospital in San Francisco exposed 29 patients, some with rheumatoid arthritis, to total body irradiation (100-300 rad dose) to obtain data for the military.
~In the 1950s, researchers at the Medical College of Virginia performed experiments on severe burn victims, most of them poor and black, without their knowledge or consent, with funding from the Army and in collaboration with the AEC. In the experiments, the subjects were exposed to additional burning, experimental antibiotic treatment, and injections of radioactive isotopes. The amount of radioactive phosphorus-32 injected into some of the patients, 500 microcuries (19 MBq), was 50 times the "acceptable" dose for a healthy individual; for people with severe burns, this likely led to significantly increased death rates.
~In 1961 and 1962, ten Utah State Prison inmates had blood samples taken which were then mixed with radioactive chemicals and reinjected back into their bodies.
~The Atomic Energy Commission funded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to administer radium-224 and thorium-234 to 20 people between 1961 and 1965. Many were chosen from the Age Center of New England and had volunteered for "research projects on aging". Doses were 0.2–2.4 microcuries (7.4–89 kBq) for radium and 1.2–120 microcuries (44–4,400 kBq) for thorium.
~In a 1967 study that was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, pregnant women were injected with radioactive cortisol to see if it would cross the placental barrier and affect the fetuses.
FALLOUT "RESEARCH"
CITIZENS AS EXPENDABLE GUINEA PIGS YET AGAIN!
~In 1957, atmospheric nuclear explosions in Nevada, which were part of "Operation Plumbbob", were later determined to have released enough radiation to have caused from 11,000 to 212,000 excess cases of thyroid cancer amongst U.S. citizens who were exposed to fallout from the explosions, leading to between 1,100 and 21,000 deaths.
~Early in the Cold War, in studies known as Project GABRIEL and Project SUNSHINE, researchers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia attempted to determine just how much nuclear fallout would be required to make the Earth uninhabitable.
Such tests had dispersed radioactive contamination worldwide, and examination of human bodies could reveal how readily it was taken up and hence how much damage it caused. Of particular interest was strontium-90 in the bones. Infants were the primary focus, as they would have had a full opportunity to absorb the new contaminants.
As a result of this conclusion, researchers began a program to collect human bodies and bones from all over the world, with a particular focus on infants. The bones were cremated and the ashes analyzed for radioisotopes. This project was kept secret primarily because it would be a public relations disaster; as a result parents and family were not told what was being done with the body parts of their relatives.
IRRADIATION "EXPERIMENTS"
Between 1960 and 1971, the Department of Defense funded non-consensual whole body radiation experiments on poor, black cancer patients, who were not told what was being done to them. Patients were told that they were receiving a "treatment" that might cure their cancer, but in reality the Pentagon was attempting to determine the effects of high levels of radiation on the human body. One of the doctors involved in the experiments, Robert Stone, was worried about litigation by the patients, so he only referred to them by their initials on the medical reports. He did this so that, in his words, "there will be no means by which the patients can ever connect themselves up with the report", in order to prevent "either adverse publicity or litigation".
~From 1960 to 1971, Dr. Eugene Saenger, funded by the Defense Atomic Support Agency, performed whole body radiation experiments on more than 90 poor, black, terminally ill cancer patients with inoperable tumors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. He forged consent forms, and did not inform them of the risks of irradiation. The patients were given 100 or more rads (1 Gy) of whole-body radiation, which in many caused intense pain and vomiting. Critics have questioned the medical rationale for this study, and contend that the main purpose of the research was to study the acute effects of radiation exposure.
~From 1963 to 1973, a leading endocrinologist, Dr. Carl Heller, irradiated the testicles of Oregon and Washington prisoners. In return for their participation, he gave them $5 a month, and $100 when they had to receive a vasectomy upon conclusion of the trial. The surgeon who sterilized the men said that it was necessary to "keep from contaminating the general population with radiation-induced mutants". One of the researchers who had worked with Heller on the experiments, Dr. Joseph Hamilton, said that the experiments "had a little of the Buchenwald touch".
~In 1963, University of Washington researchers irradiated the testes of 232 prisoners to determine the effects of radiation on testicular function. When these inmates later left prison and had children, at least four of them had offspring born with birth defects. The exact number is unknown because researchers never followed up on the status of the subjects.
CHEMICALS AS WEAPONS
THE "EXPERIMENTS" CONTINUE TODAY!
READ THE NAMES OF SOME OF THE CHEMICALS, AS SOME ARE FOUND IN EVERYDAY FOOD ITEMS WE ALL CONSUME RIGHT NOW!
~From 1950 through 1953, the U.S. Army sprayed toxic chemicals over six cities in the United States and Canada, in order to test dispersal patterns of chemical weapons. Army records stated that the chemicals which were sprayed on the city of Winnipeg, Canada, included zinc cadmium sulfide.
~A 1953 article in the medical/scientific journal Clinical Science described a medical experiment in which researchers intentionally blistered the skin on the abdomens of 41 children, who ranged in age from 8 to 14, using cantharide. The study was performed to determine how severely the substance injures/irritates the skin of children. After the studies, the children's blistered skin was removed with scissors and swabbed with peroxide.
~From approximately 1951 to 1974, the Holmesburg Prison in Pennsylvania was the site of extensive dermatological research operations, using prisoners as subjects. Led by Dr. Albert M. Kligman of the University of Pennsylvania, the studies were performed on behalf of Dow Chemical Company, the U.S. Army, and Johnson & Johnson.
In one of the studies, for which Dow Chemical paid Kligman $10,000, Kligman injected dioxin — a highly toxic, carcinogenic compound found in Agent Orange, which Dow was manufacturing for use in Vietnam at the time — into 70 prisoners (most of them black). The prisoners developed severe lesions which went untreated for seven months.
Dow Chemical wanted to study the health effects of dioxin and other herbicides, and how they affect human skin, because workers at their chemical plants were developing chloracne. In the study, Kligman applied roughly the amount of dioxin Dow employees were being exposed to. In 1980 and 1981, some of the people who were used in this study sued Professor Kligman for a variety of health problems, including lupus and psychological damage.
It was reported in a 1964 issue of Medical News that 9 out of 10 prisoners at Holmesburg Prison were medical test subjects.
~At Harvard University, in the late 1940s, researchers began performing experiments where they tested diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogen, on pregnant women at the Lying-In Hospital of the University of Chicago. The women experienced an abnormally high number of miscarriages and babies with low birth weight. None of the women were told that they were being experimented on.
~From 1963 to 1969 as part of Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD), the U.S. Army performed tests which involved spraying several U.S. ships with various biological and chemical warfare agents, while thousands of U.S. military personnel were aboard the ships. The personnel were not notified of the tests, and were not given any protective clothing. Chemicals tested on the U.S. military personnel included the nerve gases VX and Sarin, toxic chemicals such as zinc cadmium sulfide and sulfur dioxide, and a variety of biological agents.
~In the 2000s (entire decade), artificial blood was transfused into research subjects across the United States without their consent by Northfield Labs.[ Brian Ross (May 23, 2007). "Test of Controversial Artificial Blood Product a Failure". ABC News, "The Blotter".] Later studies showed the artificial blood caused a significant increase in the risk of heart attacks and death.[Ed Edelson (April 28, 2008). "Experimental Blood Substitutes Unsafe, Study Finds". ABC News.]
THAT IS BY NO MEANS ALL OF THE "EXPERIMENTS" OR "PROJECTS" CONDUCTED IN UNETHICAL MANNER BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, NOR IS IT AN ENTIRE LIST OF KNOWN "TESTS", BUT JUST MAYBE YOU CAN SEE NOW WHAT THE TITLE OF THIS BLOG MEANS...AND MAYBE YOU WILL LET YOUR CONGRESSMEN KNOW THAT YOU ARE INFORMED NOW?
AT LEAST SOME OF YOU MAY FIND AN EXPLANATION IN THE ABOVE "TESTS" THAT TELL YOU WHY YOU LOST LOVED ONES, WHY YOU ARE ILL, WHY YOUR CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN ARE.
I WISH YOU ALL WELL, AND HOPE WE CAN SURVIVE THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AMASSED AGAINST US ALL.
OTHER SOURCES LINKS OFTEN DISAPPEAR OVERNIGHT, BUT OFTEN THEY HAVE BEEN ARCHIVED BY "THE WAYBACK MACHINE". YOU CAN TRY THAT RESOURCE IF ANY OF THE LINKS HERE FAIL TO OPEN. ALL WERE VALID LINKS WHEN DROPPED HERE.
AGAIN, everything downwind and downstream from Hanford, all humans, plants/crops, and animals all water supplies, EVERYTHING, was once again contaminated.
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body, generally on people who were poor, sick, or powerless.
Most of these tests were performed, funded, or supervised by the United States military, Atomic Energy Commission, or various other US federal government agencies.
The experiments included a wide array of studies, involving things like feeding radioactive food to mentally disabled children or conscientious objectors, inserting radium rods into the noses of schoolchildren, deliberately releasing radioactive chemicals over U.S. and Canadian cities, measuring the health effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb tests, injecting pregnant women and babies with radioactive chemicals, and irradiating the testicles of prison inmates, amongst other things.
Much information about these programs was classified and kept secret. In 1986 the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a report entitled "American nuclear guinea pigs : three decades of radiation experiments on U.S. citizens".
~Between 1946 and 1947, researchers at the University of Rochester injected uranium-234 and uranium-235 in dosages ranging from 6.4 to 70.7 micrograms per kilogram of body weight into six people to study how much uranium their kidneys could tolerate before becoming damaged.[60]
~Between 1953 and 1957, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. William Sweet injected eleven terminally ill, comatose and semi-comatose patients with uranium in an experiment to determine, among other things, its viability as a chemotherapy treatment against brain tumors, which all but one of the patients had (one being a mis-diagnosis). Dr. Sweet, who died in 2001, maintained that consent had been obtained from the patients and next of kin.
PLUTONIUM and other "EXPERIMENTS"
~In 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project, three patients at Billings Hospital at the University of Chicago were injected with plutonium.
~In 1946, six employees of a Chicago metallurgical lab were given water that was contaminated with plutonium-239, so that researchers could study how plutonium is absorbed into the digestive tract.
~An eighteen-year-old woman at an upstate New York hospital, expecting to be treated for a pituitary gland disorder, was injected with plutonium.
~Immediately after World War II, researchers at Vanderbilt University gave 829 pregnant mothers in Tennessee what they were told were "vitamin drinks" that would improve the health of their babies, but were, in fact, mixtures containing radioactive iron, to determine how fast the radioisotope crossed into the placenta. At least three children are known to have died from the experiments, from cancers and leukemias. Four of the women's babies died from cancers as a result of the experiments, and the women experienced rashes, bruises, anemia, hair/tooth loss, and cancer.
~From 1946 to 1953, at the Walter E. Fernald State School in Massachusetts, in an experiment sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Quaker Oats corporation, 73 mentally disabled children were fed oatmeal containing radioactive calcium and other radioisotopes, in order to track "how nutrients were digested". The children were not told that they were being fed radioactive chemicals and were told by hospital staff and researchers that they were joining a "science club".
~The University of California Hospital in San Francisco exposed 29 patients, some with rheumatoid arthritis, to total body irradiation (100-300 rad dose) to obtain data for the military.
~In the 1950s, researchers at the Medical College of Virginia performed experiments on severe burn victims, most of them poor and black, without their knowledge or consent, with funding from the Army and in collaboration with the AEC. In the experiments, the subjects were exposed to additional burning, experimental antibiotic treatment, and injections of radioactive isotopes. The amount of radioactive phosphorus-32 injected into some of the patients, 500 microcuries (19 MBq), was 50 times the "acceptable" dose for a healthy individual; for people with severe burns, this likely led to significantly increased death rates.
~In 1961 and 1962, ten Utah State Prison inmates had blood samples taken which were then mixed with radioactive chemicals and reinjected back into their bodies.
~The Atomic Energy Commission funded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to administer radium-224 and thorium-234 to 20 people between 1961 and 1965. Many were chosen from the Age Center of New England and had volunteered for "research projects on aging". Doses were 0.2–2.4 microcuries (7.4–89 kBq) for radium and 1.2–120 microcuries (44–4,400 kBq) for thorium.
~In a 1967 study that was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, pregnant women were injected with radioactive cortisol to see if it would cross the placental barrier and affect the fetuses.
FALLOUT "RESEARCH"
CITIZENS AS EXPENDABLE GUINEA PIGS YET AGAIN!
~In 1957, atmospheric nuclear explosions in Nevada, which were part of "Operation Plumbbob", were later determined to have released enough radiation to have caused from 11,000 to 212,000 excess cases of thyroid cancer amongst U.S. citizens who were exposed to fallout from the explosions, leading to between 1,100 and 21,000 deaths.
~Early in the Cold War, in studies known as Project GABRIEL and Project SUNSHINE, researchers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia attempted to determine just how much nuclear fallout would be required to make the Earth uninhabitable.
Such tests had dispersed radioactive contamination worldwide, and examination of human bodies could reveal how readily it was taken up and hence how much damage it caused. Of particular interest was strontium-90 in the bones. Infants were the primary focus, as they would have had a full opportunity to absorb the new contaminants.
As a result of this conclusion, researchers began a program to collect human bodies and bones from all over the world, with a particular focus on infants. The bones were cremated and the ashes analyzed for radioisotopes. This project was kept secret primarily because it would be a public relations disaster; as a result parents and family were not told what was being done with the body parts of their relatives.
IRRADIATION "EXPERIMENTS"
Between 1960 and 1971, the Department of Defense funded non-consensual whole body radiation experiments on poor, black cancer patients, who were not told what was being done to them. Patients were told that they were receiving a "treatment" that might cure their cancer, but in reality the Pentagon was attempting to determine the effects of high levels of radiation on the human body. One of the doctors involved in the experiments, Robert Stone, was worried about litigation by the patients, so he only referred to them by their initials on the medical reports. He did this so that, in his words, "there will be no means by which the patients can ever connect themselves up with the report", in order to prevent "either adverse publicity or litigation".
~From 1960 to 1971, Dr. Eugene Saenger, funded by the Defense Atomic Support Agency, performed whole body radiation experiments on more than 90 poor, black, terminally ill cancer patients with inoperable tumors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. He forged consent forms, and did not inform them of the risks of irradiation. The patients were given 100 or more rads (1 Gy) of whole-body radiation, which in many caused intense pain and vomiting. Critics have questioned the medical rationale for this study, and contend that the main purpose of the research was to study the acute effects of radiation exposure.
~From 1963 to 1973, a leading endocrinologist, Dr. Carl Heller, irradiated the testicles of Oregon and Washington prisoners. In return for their participation, he gave them $5 a month, and $100 when they had to receive a vasectomy upon conclusion of the trial. The surgeon who sterilized the men said that it was necessary to "keep from contaminating the general population with radiation-induced mutants". One of the researchers who had worked with Heller on the experiments, Dr. Joseph Hamilton, said that the experiments "had a little of the Buchenwald touch".
~In 1963, University of Washington researchers irradiated the testes of 232 prisoners to determine the effects of radiation on testicular function. When these inmates later left prison and had children, at least four of them had offspring born with birth defects. The exact number is unknown because researchers never followed up on the status of the subjects.
CHEMICALS AS WEAPONS
THE "EXPERIMENTS" CONTINUE TODAY!
READ THE NAMES OF SOME OF THE CHEMICALS, AS SOME ARE FOUND IN EVERYDAY FOOD ITEMS WE ALL CONSUME RIGHT NOW!
~From 1950 through 1953, the U.S. Army sprayed toxic chemicals over six cities in the United States and Canada, in order to test dispersal patterns of chemical weapons. Army records stated that the chemicals which were sprayed on the city of Winnipeg, Canada, included zinc cadmium sulfide.
~A 1953 article in the medical/scientific journal Clinical Science described a medical experiment in which researchers intentionally blistered the skin on the abdomens of 41 children, who ranged in age from 8 to 14, using cantharide. The study was performed to determine how severely the substance injures/irritates the skin of children. After the studies, the children's blistered skin was removed with scissors and swabbed with peroxide.
~From approximately 1951 to 1974, the Holmesburg Prison in Pennsylvania was the site of extensive dermatological research operations, using prisoners as subjects. Led by Dr. Albert M. Kligman of the University of Pennsylvania, the studies were performed on behalf of Dow Chemical Company, the U.S. Army, and Johnson & Johnson.
In one of the studies, for which Dow Chemical paid Kligman $10,000, Kligman injected dioxin — a highly toxic, carcinogenic compound found in Agent Orange, which Dow was manufacturing for use in Vietnam at the time — into 70 prisoners (most of them black). The prisoners developed severe lesions which went untreated for seven months.
Dow Chemical wanted to study the health effects of dioxin and other herbicides, and how they affect human skin, because workers at their chemical plants were developing chloracne. In the study, Kligman applied roughly the amount of dioxin Dow employees were being exposed to. In 1980 and 1981, some of the people who were used in this study sued Professor Kligman for a variety of health problems, including lupus and psychological damage.
It was reported in a 1964 issue of Medical News that 9 out of 10 prisoners at Holmesburg Prison were medical test subjects.
~At Harvard University, in the late 1940s, researchers began performing experiments where they tested diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogen, on pregnant women at the Lying-In Hospital of the University of Chicago. The women experienced an abnormally high number of miscarriages and babies with low birth weight. None of the women were told that they were being experimented on.
~From 1963 to 1969 as part of Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD), the U.S. Army performed tests which involved spraying several U.S. ships with various biological and chemical warfare agents, while thousands of U.S. military personnel were aboard the ships. The personnel were not notified of the tests, and were not given any protective clothing. Chemicals tested on the U.S. military personnel included the nerve gases VX and Sarin, toxic chemicals such as zinc cadmium sulfide and sulfur dioxide, and a variety of biological agents.
~In the 2000s (entire decade), artificial blood was transfused into research subjects across the United States without their consent by Northfield Labs.[ Brian Ross (May 23, 2007). "Test of Controversial Artificial Blood Product a Failure". ABC News, "The Blotter".] Later studies showed the artificial blood caused a significant increase in the risk of heart attacks and death.[Ed Edelson (April 28, 2008). "Experimental Blood Substitutes Unsafe, Study Finds". ABC News.]
THAT IS BY NO MEANS ALL OF THE "EXPERIMENTS" OR "PROJECTS" CONDUCTED IN UNETHICAL MANNER BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, NOR IS IT AN ENTIRE LIST OF KNOWN "TESTS", BUT JUST MAYBE YOU CAN SEE NOW WHAT THE TITLE OF THIS BLOG MEANS...AND MAYBE YOU WILL LET YOUR CONGRESSMEN KNOW THAT YOU ARE INFORMED NOW?
AT LEAST SOME OF YOU MAY FIND AN EXPLANATION IN THE ABOVE "TESTS" THAT TELL YOU WHY YOU LOST LOVED ONES, WHY YOU ARE ILL, WHY YOUR CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN ARE.
I WISH YOU ALL WELL, AND HOPE WE CAN SURVIVE THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AMASSED AGAINST US ALL.
OTHER SOURCES LINKS OFTEN DISAPPEAR OVERNIGHT, BUT OFTEN THEY HAVE BEEN ARCHIVED BY "THE WAYBACK MACHINE". YOU CAN TRY THAT RESOURCE IF ANY OF THE LINKS HERE FAIL TO OPEN. ALL WERE VALID LINKS WHEN DROPPED HERE.
Government documents
- Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE) – National Security Archives
- Exposure of the American population to radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests: a review of the CDC-NCI draft report on a feasibility study of the health consequences to the American population from nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States and other nations, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Review the CDC-NCI Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences from Nuclear Weapons Tests, National Academies Press, 2003 ISBN 978-0-309-08713-1
Journals
- "'A Little Touch of Buchenwald': America's Secret Radiation Experiments", Reviews in American History – Volume 28, Number 4, December 2000, pp. 601–606
- Chair's Perspective on the Work of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments by Ruth Faden
Psychological/torture/interrogation experiments
- Bibliography of U.S. interrogation/torture research
- Truth, torture, and the American way, Jennifer Harbury
- Biderman, A. Social-Psychological Needs and "Involuntary" Behavior as Illustrated by Compliance in Interrogation, Sociometry, Vol. 23, No. 2 (June, 1960), pp. 120–147
- The CIA: Mind-Bending Disclosures – Time Magazine, Monday, August 15, 1977 (Retrieved February 18, 2010)
- Resources on Drug Experimentation and Related Mind Control Experiments by the U.S. Government
- Khatchadourian, Raffi (December 7, 2012) "Operation Delirium", The New Yorker
Video
- MKULTRA Victim Testimony A – 1977 MKULTRA Congressional Hearings
- MKULTRA Victim Testimony B – 1977 MKULTRA Congressional Hearings
- MKULTRA Victim Testimony C – 1977 MKULTRA Congressional Hearings
- President Clinton apologizes for Human Radiation Experiments
- Complete transcript of Clinton's apology for Human Radiation Experiments
- Physicians for Human Rights Accuses CIA of Carrying Out Illegal Human Experimentation – video report by Democracy Now!
- The Dark History of Medical Experimentation from the Nazis to Tuskegee to Puerto Rico – video report by Democracy Now!
See also
- Building 470 ("Hotel Anthrax")
- Project MKUltra
- Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
- Human experimentation in the United States
- Swords to Plowshares
- United States v. Stanley
- Secrets of Edgewood, The New Yorker, December 26, 2012
- Edgewood/Aberdeen Experiments, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- David S. Martin, Vets feel abandoned after secret drug experiments, CNN, March 1, 2012
- Tom Bowman, Former sergeant seeks compensation for LSD testing at Edgewood Arsenal, July 11, 1991, Baltimore Sun