US Government Finally Admits Agent Orange Poisoned Troops

 

By Carey Wedler
Decades after the Vietnam War, the Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged this week that Monsanto’s Agent Orange—a dangerous herbicide sprayed over 4.5 million acres across Vietnam during the  conflict—is responsible for health ailments in a group of as many as 2,100 veterans. It had previously denied such allegations.
The United States government will pay out $45 million in disability benefits over ten years to compensate Air Force reservists and active-duty forces who were exposed to Agent Orange left over from the Vietnam War. The exposure came from residue on Fairchild C-123 aircraft, which were used to spray millions of gallons of the chemical, and, evidently, affected soldiers in the United States who later handled the planes from 1969-1986. According to ABC, the VA’s decision to compensate the 2,100 veterans follows a January Institute of Medicine study that found “some C-123 reservists stationed in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts had been exposed to Agent Orange residues in the planes and suffered higher risks of health problems as a result.”
Further, “the VA said it subsequently determined that pilots, mechanics and medical personnel who served at seven other locations in the U.S. and abroad also were potentially affected – Florida, Virginia, and Arizona, as well as Taiwan, Panama, South Korea and the Philippines.”
The VA has previously acknowledged (and made compensations for) the chemical’s health effects on soldiers directly exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam and Korea. However, considering the 2,100 veterans did not even visit Vietnam but were merely exposed to planes that sprayed the chemical, the department’s decision to pay the new set of veterans is a silent admission of just how toxic the chemical is. This is a marked shift, as the VA previously refused to compensate certain naval veterans who claimed they suffered Agent Orange-inflicted health conditions because of their time stationed off the coast of Vietnam.
There is no doubt about the toxicity of Agent Orange. Even the government details a wide range of diseases caused by exposure to the herbicide, including (but not limited to) Parkinson’s Disease, prostate cancer, respiratory cancers of the lung, larynx, trachea, and bronchus, Hodgkin’s Disease, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Leukemia, Type 2 Diabetes and Ischemic Heart Disease. The effects of exposure to Agent Orange are also passed on to the children of victims.

While veteran exposure to Agent Orange is tragic and the compensation is warranted, the U.S. government has failed to make reparations for exposing countless Vietnamese civilians to the herbicide in its attempt to clear forest and crops during the war. According to the Vietnamese Red Cross, nearly one million Vietnamese were affected by the 19 million gallons sprayed—including generations of children born with debilitating birth defects.
Unfortunately, while the payout is the least the government can do, it constitutes yet another subsidy for the Monsanto corporation. As if the military had not done the company enough favors by buying millions of gallons of its herbicide during the Vietnam War, it now pays millions to deal with the devastating effects of those military-industrial purchases.
Between Congress passing legislation in favor of the conglomeration, its stranglehold on the FDA, and the justice system codifying its power, it is unsurprising that Monsanto has also used the military to reap profits and avoid accountability—a defining characteristic of the loathed corporation.
Such subservience to corporate interests has undermined any commitment to justice or rationality. As retired Air Force Major Wesley T. Carter (whose C-123 Veterans Association spearheaded the fight to attain compensation) said,

Every medical and scientific fact convincing the Institute of Medicine of our Agent Orange exposures had been presented years earlier to the VA but was simply ignored or dismissed. That was wrong.

As ABC detailed, other veterans groups “expressed tempered relief, expressing hope it would signal a new government willingness to acknowledge a wider range of toxic health risks undertaken by military personnel, such as Gulf War neurotoxins and burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Carey Wedler writes for theAntiMedia.org, where this article first appeared. Tune in! Anti-Media Radio airs Monday through Friday @ 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. Help us fix our typos: edits@theantimedia.org.

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Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:10:00 GMT

Forced Vaccination Violates Informed Consent

 

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By Catherine J. Frompovich
Everything has a season or its time, they say. Finally, it’s time for “Informed Consent Regulation” at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as a formal legal petition has been filed by Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation on June 11, 2015, and ALL citizens and others residing of the U.S. who value not being mandated to take vaccines or other pharmaceuticals, are asked to sign the petition here.
The Natural Solutions Foundation webpage discussing the Informed Consent Petition / FDA-2013-S-0610-0001 / Tracking No. 1jz-8jd8-sbi6 is here.
According to the Petition, “Informed Consent may not be assumed, deemed, or implied. Informed Consent must be actual and individual – and may be conveyed by a signed, notarized Advanced Medical Directive or any other verifiable written communication.” Therein is the crux of the entire vaccine issue!
Very few, if any, prospective vaccine recipients, or their natural guardians, know vaccine ingredient/content facts or are given valid factual information about a vaccine, especially the toxic ingredients, contraindications and adverse reactions for each vaccine as listed on its package insert, so as to make an intelligent informed consent before the injection of toxic chemicals, viruses, metals, foreign DNA, excipients, cell fragments, drugs, adjuvants, bacteria, fungi and nano-particles contained in vaccines, into one’s body or one’s children’s bodies.
Since vaccinations are both medical procedures [breaking the skin or otherwise inserting a foreign solution] and pharmaceutical drugs, there is “double-indemnity” of sorts involved, which healthcare consumers are not educated about and to which they are subjugated, unknowingly.

Informed consent was highlighted in the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case of Missouri vs McNeely, where the warrantless extraction of blood was ruled illegal as the defendant “refused to consent.” However, had McNeely remained silent, the blood test would have been allowed, according to the court.
If that was the ruling for withdrawing blood, what can be said about injecting a vaccine ‘cocktail’ that has known contraindications and possible adverse reactions or events as per FDA-mandated information published on each vaccine package insert? How about nine or more vaccines at one time!
According to the Petition under “Defining Informed Consent,”

If the removal of blood “implicates significant, constitutionally protected privacy interests…” it is fair to assume that other invasive medical techniques including the introduction of vaccine toxins into the body that have been held to be “unavoidably safe”[1] will also give rise to such concerns.

According to the “Statement of Facts” in the Petition, item 7 states:

The Centers for Disease Control, under the aegis of the Food and Drug Administration, have failed the Public Trust and have lost public confidence. The agency, like so many other Federal agencies, is viewed by the public as serving the interest of politically connected “crony” corporations, but not the safety interests of the public. Under such circumstance, the urgency of the redress for which this Petition is submitted should be compelling. The Public will not trust the Federal Public Health Authorities without a clear Regulation faithfully implementing Informed Consent as the sine qua non [essential element or condition] of Public Health interventions. The Public Interest can only be met by imposing on the regulated drug companies the obligation to include in their Package Inserts strong acknowledgment of the Right to Informed Consent.

Counsel Fucetola asserted, “The Constitution for the United States of America requires the President, and all Executive Agencies, such as the FDA, to see to it that the laws be ‘faithfully executed…’(Article II, Section 2). This means that requirements of law, such as Informed Consent, are a proper subject for reasonably implementing regulations. We are asking FDA to implement Informed Consent to the fullest extent required by law. There are regulations and statutes covering the situation where there is a formal experiment with an Independent Review Board protecting Informed Consent, but no implementing regulations where there is no IRB. This includes all drugs and vaccines after they have been approved and released to the public.”
Something the CDC/FDA, medical profession and Big Pharma seem to ignore is that the United States is bound to observe the Nuremberg Code by virtue of the US having promulgated the Code in the first place! Furthermore, the Geneva Conventions, which form the core of international humanitarian law, are also binding upon the USA. Both bind the USA by treaty to implement fully Informed Consent, which does not happen regarding vaccinations in the USA!
The Petition states that

A key element in the international protections secured by the Allied Victory [of which the USA was a party] and subsequent codification of health-related international law was recognition that no person could be forced to accept any medical intervention that was contrary to conscience and that all medical interventions were to be carried out only with fully informed [and therefore meaningfully willing] consent. 

To which I would like to interject that, however, preceded Big Pharma’s strong arm (sic) “consensus science” and marketing strategies which, essentially, have been the vaccine industry’s “claim to fame.”
According to Counsel Fucetola, while Humanitarian Law was given great impetus by the horrors of World War II, these basic ideas have also been distorted to further an internationalist depopulation program, called Agenda 21, including the Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI) that perverts the meaning of fundamental human rights to further justify tyrannical globalist control. We need a clear regulation for Informed Consent to prevent “deemed” or “assumed” consent from being used to justify mass, involuntary vaccination or other “treatment” programs through aerial spraying, vaccine-bearing GMO vectors and other methodologies that do not include direct injection by needle.
The Petition to the FDA alleges an emergency situation, invoking provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act that lets FDA act expeditiously without first providing many months of fact-finding and public comment. This is to prevent delays in implementing the Informed Consent Regulation. Under emergency circumstances (such as the current clear and present threat to Informed Consent represented by various State enactments revoking religious and philosophical conscientious objections to vaccination) the public hearings can happen after the initial emergency regulation.
Interestingly, I found the Petition states that “The United States Government has no legitimate interest in promoting FDA-approved vaccination mandates in violation of Informed Consent.”
Counsel Fucetola explained this assertion is based on several Supreme Court cases cited in the Petition. The Court has held that the U.S. government has no “interest” in preventing the public from making what it considers bad decisions with truthful information. Thompson vs Western States, 2002.

The intent of the Petition is to clarify that Federal Law, which must implement the Right of Informed Consent, supersedes state-law restrictions on freedom of choice in vaccination. Even if state laws mandating vaccines are adopted, individuals retain their fundamental human rights which supersede state restrictions on conscientious objection.

Here’s another question that both the Petition and I ask, “How is one to effectively assert the Right to Informed Consent, enshrined in International Humanitarian Law, for oneself and those over whom one has guardianship?”
Dr. Rima reminds us that Advanced Care Directives and similar documents should always reference Informed Consent and can include statements such as “I do not give informed consent to any vaccinations.”
Counsel Fucetola explained, “Without clear regulations protecting Informed Consent, people will have to litigate, on a case-by-case basis, how the right is to be enforced, greatly burdening the exercise of that right. Since the law is settled, that the Right to Informed Consent is a fundamental human right, it is a waste of judicial resources to have to litigate case after case to vindicate the right. This is what we expect the regulation we’ve requested will prevent. The FDA simply has to require that all drug (including vaccine) ‘package inserts’ clearly explain the Right to Informed Consent.”
I’d like to end this interview with reminding readers of the Hippocratic Oath most physicians take where in part they say, “Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone.” I guess either the medical professions disregard and don’t read vaccine package inserts, or somehow they’ve convince themselves that injecting poisons into infants and children is permissible. Is it possible that it's because it is so profitable?
References:
[1] Justice Sotomayor’s 2011 dissent in Bruesewitz vs Wyeth, where she discusses the history of “unavoidably unsafe.” https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/09-152.ZD.html
Catherine J Frompovich (website) is a retired natural nutritionist who earned advanced degrees in Nutrition and Holistic Health Sciences, Certification in Orthomolecular Theory and Practice plus Paralegal Studies. Her work has been published in national and airline magazines since the early 1980s. Catherine authored numerous books on health issues along with co-authoring papers and monographs with physicians, nurses, and holistic healthcare professionals. She has been a consumer healthcare researcher 35 years and counting.
Catherine’s latest book, published October 4, 2013, is Vaccination Voodoo, What YOU Don’t Know About Vaccines, available on Amazon.com.
Her 2012 book A Cancer Answer, Holistic BREAST Cancer Management, A Guide to Effective & Non-Toxic Treatments, is available on Amazon.com and as a Kindle eBook.
Two of Catherine’s more recent books on Amazon.com are Our Chemical Lives And The Hijacking Of Our DNA, A Probe Into What’s Probably Making Us Sick (2009) and Lord, How Can I Make It Through Grieving My Loss, An Inspirational Guide Through the Grieving Process (2008)

Forced Vaccination Violates Informed Consent
Activist
Tue, 23 Jun 2015 01:46:00 GMT

US WILL PROVIDE WEAPONS FOR NATO COMMANDOS TO ATTACK UKRAINIAN SEPARATISTS

Effort to bolster failed bid to defeat resistance in Eastern Ukraine

by KURT NIMMO | INFOWARS.COM | JUNE 22, 2015

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Pentagon boss Ashton Carter has announced the United States “will contribute weapons, aircraft and forces, including commandos, for NATO’s rapid reaction force” to defend against “Russia from the east and violent extremists from the south,” according to the Associated Press.

Carter did not specify who the “extremists from the south” are, but a recent NATO military exercise in Poland left little doubt.

During the largest maneuver by NATO since the end of the Cold War, a rapid reaction force in Poland staged a mock raid in the fictional country of Botnia.

From Deutsche Welle:

“Birdman” is the name that maneuver planners have given the opponent in the Bothnian enemy camp. He must be retrieved from a wooden house in the middle of the military training grounds in the forest. Stationed in the nearby village of “Alpha” are his followers, armed militiamen, who have begun to destabilize the region in southwestern Poland.

The scene is recognizable as it is loosely based on the situation in eastern Ukraine, except this time, a NATO member has been threatened by “little green men”. After all, the planners want to make the situation as lifelike as possible.

On Sunday a senior Pentagon official told the media Carter and the United States will urge NATO allies to “dispose of the Cold War playbook” in an effort to counter “hybrid warfare,” in short the ongoing effort in Eastern Ukraine to resist the coup government in Kiev.

“Carter … will really push the alliance to think about new threats, new techniques, urge them to kind of dispose of the Cold War playbook and think about new ways to counter new threats,” the official said.

On Monday in Munster, Germany, Carter said the United States “will contribute intelligence and surveillance capabilities, special operations forces, logistics, transport aircraft, and a range of weapons support that could include bombers, fighters and ship-based missiles” for the effort.

The Pentagon has yet to reveal the number of troops that will participate in the battle against “extremists.”

The announcement coincides with the defection of a onetime aide to the Ukrainian defense minister to the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. Alexander Kolomiyets took a wealth of classified intelligence information along with his family, according to the Sputnik News.

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The US-installed coup government in Kiev has suffered a number of humiliating defeats in Eastern Ukraine as it attempts to assert its control over the area.

“The initial attempts of the Kiev regime and its CIA backers to subjugate east Ukraine by sheer military terror, relying on fascist militias and select units of the Ukraine army that it considered to be reliable, have failed. Popular opposition and covert Kremlin support for east Ukrainian forces has sufficed to defeat those units that Kiev could throw against the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” Alex Lantier wrote in February.

COLLAPSE, PART 1: GREECE

Europe's financial Aristocracy has an unsolvable dilemma

by CHARLES HUGH SMITH | OF TWO MINDS | JUNE 22, 2015

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When systems are broke and broken, collapse is the only way forward.

The theme this week is collapse. It’s a big, complex topic because there are as many types of collapse as there are systems. Some systems appear stable on the surface but collapse suddenly; others visibly decay for decades before finally slipping beneath the waves of history, and some go through stages of collapse.

The taxonomy of collapse is broad, and each unsustainable system (i.e. a system that will fail despite claims to the contrary) has its unique characteristics.

Which brings us to Greece.

I have written extensively about Greece and the doomed financial arrangement known as the euro for many years–for example: Greece, Please Do The Right Thing: Default Now (June 1, 2011).

When Debt is More Important Than People, The System Is Evil (February 18, 2012)

Greece at the Crossroads: the Oligarchs Blew It(January 27, 2015)

Greece and the Endgame of the Neocolonial Model of Exploitation(February 19, 2015)

When Europe Gets Greece’s Jingle Mail: Dealing with Default (May 15, 2015)

With the bankruptcy of Greece now undeniable, we’ve finally reached the endgame of the Neocolonial-Financialization Model. There are no more markets in Greece to exploit with financialization, and the fact that the mountains of debt are unpayable can no longer be masked.

Europe’s financial Aristocracy has an unsolvable dilemma: writing off defaulted debt also writes off assets and income streams, for every debt is somebody else’s asset and income stream. When all those phantom assets are recognized as worthless, collateral vanishes and the system implodes.

The peripheral nations of the EU are effectively neocolonial debtors of the core, and the taxpayers of the core nations are now feudal serfs whose labor is devoted to making good on any loans to the periphery that go bad. (see chart of Greece’s debtors below)

Greece’s financial/political Elites milked the entry into the EU for all it was worth, effectively destroying the Greek economy in their limitless looting: Misrule of the Few: How the Oligarchs Ruined Greece.

What has already collapsed is the faith that institutions within Greece and the European Union can effectively manage the inevitable Greek default. As noted in the essay linked above, Greece’s power structure is designed to do one thing: protect vested interests and dissipate accountability.

The same can be said of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Union (EU).Both were sold as abstract financial magic: the Elitist power structures of every nation in the union–the ultimate source of the rot that is now emitting the foul stench of collapse–would be left intact while the economies of all member nations would magically produce more goods and services based on ever-expanding debt and leverage.

This leads to the critical question of the hour: who’s saving whom? Are last-ditch bailouts saving the Greek people and the integrity of their nation, or are they simply saving the political/financial Elites who benefited from EU membership and the systemic expansion of debt?

Here’s another key question: who’s being punished by the Troika’s “nobody defaults and gets away with it” policy? Clearly, the Greek people are being punished–but to what end? What about punishing the political/financial Elites who benefited from Greece’s entry into the EU and the banking Elites who profited from the irresponsible expansion of loans to Greece?

If Greece had defaulted four years ago when default was already visibly inevitable, the Greek citizenry would already have worked through the painful crisis of adjusting to a dearth of external credit and perhaps a new currency, and maybe they would have jettisoned their corrupt and self-serving Elites, clearing the way for sustainable growth and governance.

Instead, the Greek people have suffered for nothing. Default is still inevitable, as is the resulting EU-wide currency-political crises.

When systems are broke and broken, collapse is the only way forward. Only collapse breaks the grip of vested interests and opens the political process to non-Elite participation. By pushing default/collapse forward for four long years, the Greek Elites have punished their citizens for absolutely no yield on their immense suffering. Greece can no more escape the black hole of default than it could four years ago.

Central and private banking magic has failed. The idea that corrupt, self-serving Elites would magically create widespread prosperity by borrowing money that could never be paid back has collapsed, though the Power Elites of the Troika cling to this foolish fantasy because they have no other choice if they want to retain power.

The only faith remaining in the EU Elite is belief in the goddess TINA–there is no alternative. But there is always another alternative: collapse of the status quo and the assembly of an alternative arrangement that doesn’t concentrate power in the hands of a few at the expense of the many.

NEW JAMA STUDY CONFIRMS NURSE WHISTLEBLOWER: ROUTINE HOSPITAL VACCINE DAMAGE HAPPENING TO INFANTS

Journal of the American Medical Association study confirms whistleblower's testimony that hospitals are covering up infant vaccine injury

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by JEFFEREY JAXEN | JEFFEREY JAXEN.COM | JUNE 22, 2015

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Update: Nurse Michelle Rowton will be a guest on the Infowars Nightly News tonight. The interview will be uploaded to Youtube tomorrow.

It was not long ago that headlines were made by Michelle Rowton of Nurses Against Mandatory Vaccines during a live interview with David Knight ofinfowars.com. The nurse turned whistleblower spoke of the callous, daily operating procedure she witnessed happening in the hospital she worked at. Her admissions were yet another log on a fire lit long ago burning for people’s right to have medical freedom and choice. In that viral interview, Rowton went on record to state:

“I think what a lot of people don’t realize in a closed space like NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) is that they’ve decided that we need to vaccinate these babies on-time. Two months after they’re born…bam, there it goes. This baby could be four months early and still supposed to be inside their mother, weighting three or four pounds and getting the same amount of vaccines as a 200 pound man.”

Rowton then went further to break bombshell news at the time by saying:

“I’ve sat in a room with our on-call staff of physicians and practitioners (when they say) “Oh wow, this is so embarrassing this 25 weeker never actually required a breathing tube and going on the vent after he was born, he was so strong. But we gave him his two month vaccinations and he got intubated last night ha ha, oops how embarrassing. The step-down units are calling the NICU’s and saying “hey we’re going to go ahead and give these four babies their two month shots today, make sure you have beds ready because we all know they’re going to have increased breathing difficulties, feeding and digestion difficulties, apnea, and bradycardia. This is what goes on.”

It appears the dominos are continuing to fall in favor of common sense, informed consent and medical ethics. New research from the JAMA Pediatrics journal titled Adverse Events After Routine Immunization of Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants now confirms essential 100 percent of Rowton’s whistleblowing statements which, just a month ago, seemed almost surreal. Drug companies, politicians and a misguided medical community are now faced with the uncomfortable position of withdrawing their PR campaigns and daily operating procedures in favor of hard data and daily evidence. Humanity has reached the point where denying reality in the face of such evidence borders on insanity and high ignorance. It appears to be clear that when a medical community, its regulations and the health of a people are driven by profits, what is revealed equates to nothing more than a slippery slope towards systemic damage and destruction.

When highly profitable agendas are in play, listening to public demand typically isn’t the strong suit of politicians. As people take back their medical freedom in state houses across the United States, an integrity-strained governmental body is testing the extreme realms of political misrepresentation. It makes no difference now if the original roots attempting to remove medical freedom and choice were laid by ignorance, corruption, financial reward or a combination of all three. Authors of forced vaccination bills and doctors quoting outdated information are laughably seen for what they are. The only control left for them are social media censorship and paid astroturfing firms. Opposition is now trying desperately to keep up with the daily mass awakening towards free medical and health choice in opposition to pharmaceutical influenced control. Senate and Congress members are now being made personally liable for their bills and votes after being served the Official Complaint of Research Fraud papers/report prepared by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Dr. Brian Hooker Ph. D. and James Moody. Lawsuits are lined up ready to commence at the first sign of vaccine-induced damage from their bills. Doctors and nurses are also still on the chopping block as their perceived insulation and useful ignorance is being removed by whistleblowers admissions and mounting scientific evidence. The Nuremberg codes wait patiently to be weirded once again on a medical community that has strayed from their ideals, code of ethics and common sense.

References:
Official Complaint of Research Fraud
New JAMA Pediatrics Study

Biohackers: “Future generations are going to grow up tinkering not with computers, but with life itself”

 

By Melissa Dykes
I received a promo postcard the other day for a cool new conference headed our way. It has to do with trendy futuristic, transhumanist topics like the “global cities of the future” and “biohacking.”
I thought, “Biohacking? Seriously?”
Yes, seriously.
According to Sputnik News and Foreign Policy, biohacking is no longer a science fiction concept, and Google Director and transhumanist Ray Kurzweil claims it will be an everyday reality for us all real soon.
I’ll admit, initially my only reference to biohacking prior to looking into this (and I obviously have a lot to learn here) came from a video game I once played called Bioshock which allowed a gamer to, “Biologically mod your body with plasmids – genetic augmentations that empower you with dozens of fantastic abilities!”
That game came out in 2007, nearly a decade ago. Even then, I wondered to myself what it would be like to live in a world where only rich elites could afford such things. Talk about a literal breakaway civilization!

Now the term is everywhere. Read what is being reported on biohacking these days (via Sputnik):

“Future generations are going to grow up tinkering not with computers, but with life itself,” Anthes wrote. “There is a growing community of ‘biohackers,’ science enthusiasts who are experimenting with genes, brains, and bodies outside the confines of traditional laboratories, working on shoestring budgets in their garages and attics, or joining the community labs that are springing up around the globe.”

The cool new edgy thing isn’t hacking servers. It’s hacking life.
In fact, that article isn’t even really about us hacking ourselves in a Bioshock way to begin with. That’s just the period on the end of a very long sentence titled, “Scientists Plan to Genetically Engineer Animals to be Used by US Military.” It’s about the Secret of NIMH-esque horrors ongoing at DARPA for our burgeoning military-industrial complex.

In real life, scientists are already well on their way toward genetically modifying animals for military use, writes Benjamin Soloway, of Foreign Policy:

As the limitations of robotics become increasingly apparent, the United States’ military – in a high-tech extension of a tradition that stretches from George Washington’s cavalry to the dogs, dolphins, and rats of the modern battlefield – has already set off down the road toward genetically engineering animals for war.

So robots, which aren’t even fully implemented yet, are already so obsolete our government just has to “hack” and genetically engineer animals now? (Foreign Policy, just by the way, was owned for quite some time by the NWO Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.)
Let’s continue:

In 2006, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) asked scientists “to develop technology to create insect-cyborgs” capable of carrying surveillance equipment or weapons, journalist Emily Anthes wrote in her 2013 book, “Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts.”
After realizing that it was too challenging to build aircraft that were that tiny and reliable, DARPA turned its attention to insects, which are already abundant and engineered by nature to be better than anything humans could make.
DARPA has spent the past decade researching how humans can control insects and mammals through electronic impulses to the brain, as well as through genetic modifications to the nervous systems of insects, Foreign Policy reports.
The results have been surprisingly successful: Scientists can now hijack the brains of beetles and order them to stop, start, and turn, and are working on more advanced directions. Scientists also are looking to create tech-integrated insects that can be controlled by drone operators.

If government scientists at DARPA are hijacking the brains of beetles for literal mind control, you can rest assured it is not for some happy smiley sunshine-y purpose, and it isn’t even remotely far-fetched or paranoid to make a jump from beetles to people.

Biohacking life… in the interest of “national security”.
Humans controlling insects and mammals through electronic impulses to the brain… sounds a lot like a modern-day MKUltra program, doesn’t it? Oh, but they’d never do that, would they? Because they’re running such an ethical operation?
Worse, everyone is apparently going to jump on the Dr. Frankenstein bandwagon.
Gee, sounds fun. Doesn’t anyone see a huge problem with this?
Ironically, just last night we watched an episode of X-files where a genetic engineer who worked with reptile DNA transformed himself into a deadly, shapeshifting half-human, half-reptile who could climb walls and spit a blinding venom that slowly liquified his victims.
Normally I’d watch that as fiction… but…
Melissa Dykes (formerly Melton) is a co-founder of TruthstreamMedia.com, where this article first appeared. She is an experienced researcher, graphic artist and investigative journalist with a passion for liberty and a dedication to truth. Her aim is to expose the New World Order for what it is — a prison for the human soul from which we must break free.

Biohackers: “Future generations are going to grow up tinkering not with computers, but with life itself”
Activist
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 23:33:00 GMT

Senator Richard Pan Caught Lying About Aborted Fetal Cells in Vaccines!

 

By Experimental Vaccines
Kenny Valenzuela counters Senator Richard Pan who said that aborted fetal cells in vaccines is a "myth." 

Research links posted below:
CDC Vaccine Excipient & Media Summary
87% Vaccinated Involved In Whooping Cough Outbreak
WI-38 is a diploid human cell culture line from female fetus

Measles Outbreak Patient Zero Fully Vaccinated
MRC-5 cell line was developed in September 1966 from a 14 week fetus
87% Vaccinated Involved In Whooping Cough Outbreak
Recommended Immunization Schedules for Persons Aged 0 Through 18 Years
Weaponizing the Mosquito Bill Gates & The Nazis
Aborted Fetal Cells Used In Vaccines?
You can find more of Kenny Valenzuela's informative videos at ExperimentalVaccines.org

Senator Richard Pan Caught Lying About Aborted Fetal Cells in Vaccines!
Activist
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 18:59:00 GMT

Charleston Shooting Staged Perfectly To Advance Admitted Agendas

 

By Redsilverj
YouTube reporter Redsilverj breaks down how the mainstream media stories surrounding the alleged Charleston shooting are tailor made to drive a long-sought-after and multifaceted agenda to stoke racial division, increase gun control, and to justify war-on-terror surveillance measures domestically.

Charleston Shooting Staged Perfectly To Advance Admitted Agendas
Activist Post
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:08:00 GMT

Charleston Massacre: Racial Tension Ploy to Conceal TPP Deal and Derail Mass Strike Momentum

 

By Brian McIntyre
On Wednesday evening, a brutal massacre was perpetrated against nine black Americans, including several clergy and a State Senator, who were attending a Christian education class at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina. A suspect, Dylann Roof, now in custody, is a white male who was allegedly being prescribed antidepressants and was found in possession of weapons.
The mainstream and pseudo-alternative media have predictably gone into overdrive, pushing the story into whichever direction suits their single-issue agendas: pro- or anti-Second Amendment rights, the dangers of psychotropic pharmaceuticals, and the threat of domestic or “homegrown” terrorism. Instead, this can be seen as a potentially manufactured event designed to displace attention from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) opposition movement, as well as the ongoing worldwide mass strike upsurge, highlighted this week by a powerful intervention against the nefarious Whirlpool Corporation in Caserta, Italy.
We know from patterns of past events that the events in South Carolina have the stink of an intelligence operation: a troubled individual with a convoluted past appearing out of nowhere; a highly manicured and social media presence; early reports of multiple shooters; and the quickness with which Roof was fingered for the crime and apprehended.
Just one day prior, the New York Times published an editorial about the pivot by local and metropolitan police departments away from radicalized foreigners towards domestic “right-wing extremists” (i.e., the white working class). The Southern Poverty Law Center, a well-known foundation funded by leftist oligarch George Soros, was among the first to push the narrative of Roof as a neo-Confederate dupe with a “recent history of anti-black” sentiments, congruent with the fishy origins of the suspect’s Facebook account.
We seek to draw attention to the fact that, regardless of its realities, this tragedy is being used by the controlled media to hide the successful passage by of the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) by the House of Representatives, a standalone version of Trans-Pacific Partnership’s controversial “Fast Track” provision. It gives the President greater unilateral power in pushing secretive deals and is not linked to any other legislation, including TPP.

This lurid story is also part of an ongoing counterinsurgency effort against the poor and working classes, designed to divide white and black Americans and to prevent them from uniting around mass traction demands. These demands include opposition to the TPP with protective tariffs for American producers, and the strengthening of labor against predatory mega-corporations like Whirlpool. Rather than building mass movements and capitalizing on mass strike trends worldwide, what we see between these groups—egged on by incompetent cultural and institutional leadership— is labeling one another as anti-law enforcement thugs and racist murderers.
This does not mean we are excusing the alleged actions of provocateurs or their handlers. Instead, we have to keep our eyes on the political football. We can do so by analyzing this from a higher level of organizing that seeks out the political reasons for such potentially staged events, rather than getting bogged down in the technical obscurities of the crimes.
The events in the Palmetto State also come on the heels of a blown synthetic terror operation in Garland, Texas, by “Islamophobia” network operative Pamela Geller, and the general failure of the public to respond to ever-increasing doses of provocations perpetrated by ostensibly Muslim fanatics in Massachusetts, Kansas, and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, flagging campaigns of imperialist aggression against sovereign states such as the Donbass Peoples Republic, Iraq, and Syria, along with nuclear deal favorable to Iran and a walkout by the International Monetary Fund in the eleventh hour of Greek debt negotiations, indicate the growing desperation of the international ruling class and banking cartels. The apparent lack of enthusiasm for these subversive campaigns on the part of President Obama, who is also facing a spree of new security threats within the Secret Service, has caused these cliques to turn up the heat. This change of tone signified by the events in Charleston potentially signal a new cycle of the “strategy of tension” first pioneered in Operation Gladio in Cold War-era Italy and Western Europe. The ruling class reliably stages atrocities against populations in order to distract them as well as to shore up their political weakness.
In addressing Wednesday’s events, President Obama characteristically embraced the media’s tropes instead of issuing a strong rebuff to the blind alley of wedge issues and the incompetence of his closest advisors. It should also be noted that Obama knew the pastor of the Charleston church who was killed, State senator Rev. Clementa Pinckney. While the deceased’s surname is spelled differently than that of imprisoned anti-Whirlpool Corp. crusader Rev. Edward Pinkney, and presumably of no relation, this is a chilling coincidence.
The grisly events of Charleston should be investigated to their fullest extent and the truth of the allegations sought out by the appropriate parties, but this writer must implore you to ignore the banal sensationalism of the media and concentrate on agitating against the monstrosity of the Trans-Pacific Partnership legislation, as well as the entry of Donald Trump into the presidential nominee circus, whose aim is to dragoon moderate American voters from buying into the GOP quest for the presidency. With practical political demands, we can break the power of the Wall Street networks who facilitate these crimes and discredited politicians and achieve justice on all fronts.

Charleston Massacre: Racial Tension Ploy to Conceal TPP Deal and Derail Mass Strike Momentum
Activist
Sat, 20 Jun 2015 22:57:00 GMT

What’s the deal with the TPP?

 

By Jeb Kicker
Many Americans have heard of this giant trade deal known as the TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership. Most don’t have a clue what the agreement actually contains or what effects it will have on our situation in America. All citizens should at least know what is being discussed; this pact will have enormous implications and the widespread ignorance of its provisions is by design. Let’s dive in.
One of the largest areas of contention with the TPP lie within the provisions strengthening copyright rules. Here are some of the most dangerous provisions:
The criminalization of the misuse of trade secrets
Under current U.S. law, trade secret misappropriation is only a criminal offense when harm is done to the owner or the action benefits someone else. No longer. Any unauthorized access to trade secrets on a computer system is illegal, even when no copy or disclosure is made, and even when the access neither harms nor benefits anyone. As a deeper concern, there are no safeguards included for the protection of investigative journalists, security researchers or whistleblowers, potentially criminalizing anyone who obtains access to secret information online.
ISP / Content Provider Liability
According to a leaked February 2011 draft, Article 16 of the Intellectual Property chapter insists that signatory nations provide legal incentives for internet service and content providers to police copyright infringement themselves, pushing the financial and administrative burden of copyright enforcement onto the ISPs and intermediaries. Put simply, this provision forces ISPs (Comcast, Verizon, SuddenLink) and content providers (Facebook, Google, Reddit) to police their customers for copyright infringement. Setting aside the implausibility of these providers to enforce draconian copyright measures 24/7, these rules also undermine due process protections by forcing providers to cut service to repeat offenders.

Copyright Term Extension & Criminal Enforcement
The current international copyright terms (as established by the Berne Convention) are 50 years after the author’s death for individual works and 50 years after creation for corporate works. The TPP would bind signatories to the current U.S. copyright term lengths: 70 years after author’s death and 120 years after the creation of a corporate work. Copyright was initially proposed to incentivize the creation of new forms of art; why create if someone else gets all the profits? However, terms that last for several generations are counter-intuitive to the initial purpose. Creativity and innovation are often made possible by building off previous works and the cost of making new works could become a huge entry barrier for smaller operations. This letter from 22 digital rights advocacy groups calls such copyright terms a “transfer of wealth in favor of large corporate copyright holders”, as they harm those who rely on the public domain (i.e. libraries, students, artists and writers) and further the likelihood of “orphan works”, those whose author is long gone and cannot be found to seek permission, rendering several works as “likely deadweight loss to the economy”. Due to the heavy price of royalties related to an extension of this size, one scholar estimated that copyright extension has cost Australia $88 million per year in royalties. Another concern is that such heavy copyright restrictions imposed under a trade deal of this magnitude could make it much more difficult for the United States to change our copyright policy down the road.
The U.S. is also pushing for a broad definition for criminal violation of copyright, including infringement for non-commercial purposes. The TPP would criminalize anyone who shares or otherwise makes available copyrighted works “on a commercial scale”, which, given how quickly memes can go viral, is quite a loose definition. The pact also requires that judges be authorized to order the seizure, destruction, or forfeiture of anything “traceable to infringement activity”. This clause further empowers law enforcement to take laptops and hard drives from suspects and even allows for the state seizure of internet domain names. Here’s the kicker: under the new terms, the government can act without a formal complaint from the copyright owner, meaning the government can take down internet content it doesn’t like, given it can be construed to have violated vast copyright restrictions. Censorship, anyone?
Another major concern for opponents of the deal is called Investor-State Dispute Settlement, a form of neutral, international arbitration. Break it down:
ISDS is a form of arbitration designed to resolve international conflicts without becoming a state-to-state conflict, protect citizens abroad and signal to potential investors that the rule of law will be respected. The United States is currently party to 50 agreements that contain ISDS provisions, including six of the TPP signatory nations. This sounds like a reasonable thing; it protects foreign investors from the corrupt laws of rogue states, is typically used as a last resort, and the U.S. has never lost a case. Here’s the problem: ISDS has been increasingly used by foreign corporations to dodge domestic courts and it may even be unconstitutional.
Here’s how it works: a foreign investor takes issue with a United States law, whether it be local, state or federal, claiming it violates their minimum protections under the trade agreement. The case is brought before a tribunal consisting of three attorneys; one picked by the investor, one by the U.S., and one is chosen by the first two attorneys. These attorneys are not appointed by any federal court, do not have to be U.S. citizens and often serve as arbitrators while also representing investors in other cases. Their decisions are final and not subject to judicial review, with the only solution being money damages based on expected future income ‘lost’ due to the regulation. The federal government is the sole defendant, even when the cases are levied against state or local laws, raising the issue of federalism. Alan Morrison, a respected law professor who has presented more than 20 cases to the Supreme Court, penned a letter to Congress, writing that the ISDS protections in the TPP “improperly removes a core judicial function from the federal courts and therefore violates Article III of the Constitution.” Morrison argues that ISDS outsources the resolution of challenges to U.S. law to private arbitrators, completely bypassing the judiciary. To further illustrate how this could be disastrous under TPP, Morrison provides this example: a foreign firm could challenge California’s water-restriction laws due to the drought, claiming it violates their minimum protections under the TPP. Now, these tribunals do not have the power to directly change domestic laws, but even through the threat of litigation can influence governments to proactively remove regulations, as Germany and Canada have done.
Lack of Transparency
Though these areas are rife with potential weapons for abuse, the most outrageous of the issues with the TPP is the complete and utter lack of transparency. No full text has been issued to the public; our only knowledge of this pact comes from leaked texts. Even members of Congress (after just recently getting access) have to go read the deal one chapter at a time in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center, being watched over as they read and being allowed to take no notes with them. On the contrary, over 500 ‘industry advisors’ [lobbyists] from the MPAA and RIAA have been granted online access to the deal they helped write.
These are just a few of the points of contention the Diurna has with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, though they certainly cause serious concern on their own. With Congress set to vote on separate fast-track bills next week, this time is crucial to call your representatives and tell them what’s up. We’ve seen a trade deal favored by the President, the controlling party and corporate America beaten back by grassroots activism and old-fashioned public participation. Fight the current. You may complain about a rigged system all you want, but when the cog that dismantles it is out in the open, it’s your duty to expose it. Stand up for our democracy.
To read more from Jeb Kicker, please visit his site the Diurna where this article first appeared. 

What’s the deal with the TPP?
Activist
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 18:59:00 GMT