Are you prepared for the impending zombie invasion?
That's the question posed by the Centers for
Diseases Control and Prevention in a Monday blog posting gruesomely
titled, "Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse." And while it's no joke, CDC officials say it's all about emergency preparation.
"There are all kinds of emergencies out
there that we can prepare for," the posting reads. "Take a zombie
apocalypse for example. That's right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e
a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you'll be
happy you read this, and hey, maybe you'll even learn a thing or two
about how to prepare for a real emergency."
The post, written by Assistant Surgeon
General Ali Khan, instructs readers how to prepare for "flesh-eating
zombies" much like how they appeared in Hollywood hits like "Night of the Living Dead" and video games like Resident Evil.
Perhaps surprisingly, the same steps you'd take in preparation for an
onslaught of ravenous monsters are similar to those suggested in advance
of a hurricane or pandemic.
"First of all, you should have an emergency kit in your house,"
the posting continues. "This includes things like water, food, and
other supplies to get you through the first couple of days before you
can locate a zombie-free refugee camp (or in the event of a natural
disaster, it will buy you some time until you are able to make your way
to an evacuation shelter or utility lines are restored)."
Other items to be stashed in such a kit include medications, duct tape, a battery-powered radio, clothes, copies of important documents and first aid supplies.
"Once you've made your emergency kit, you
should sit down with your family and come up with an emergency plan,"
the posting continues. "This includes where you would go and who you
would call if zombies started appearing outside your doorstep. You can
also implement this plan if there is a flood, earthquake or other
emergency."
The idea behind the campaign stemmed from concerns of radiation fears following the earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan
in March. CDC spokesman Dave Daigle told FoxNews.com that someone had
asked CDC officials if zombies would be a concern due to radiation fears
in Japan and traffic spiked following that mention.
"It's kind of a tongue-in-cheek campaign,"
Daigle said Wednesday. "We were talking about hurricane preparedness and
someone bemoaned that we kept putting out the same messages."
While metrics for the post are not yet available, Daigle said it has become the most popular CDC blog entry in just two days.
"People are so tuned into zombies," he said.
"People are really dialed in on zombies. The idea is we're reaching an
audience or a segment we'd never reach with typical messages."
Editor's Note: The link to the posting at CDC.gov was not working as of Wednesday evening. Please check back for updates.
Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
May 18, 2011
Controversial publisher and outspoken critic Larry Flynt speaks with Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change.org,
touching upon a host of topics including the Rockefellers, Koch
Brothers, Bilderbergers and other “hugely powerful people” working
towards a New World Order, the Patriot Act, unanswered questions about
9/11, White House Information Czar Cass Sunstein’s calls to counter
conspiracy theorists online and more.
“We do have to watch, and guard against our privacy, and make sure we
have a free press, because it’s the only insurance we’ve got against
tyrants,” Flynt told WAC, moments after calling the Patriot Act an
“insult to every citizen in the country.”
Larry Flynt Huffington Post
August 20, 2009
The American government — which we once called our government — has
been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the
super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of
powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called
“economic royalists,” who choose our elected officials — indeed, our
very form of government. Both Democrats and Republicans dance to the
tune of their corporate masters. In America, corporations do not control
the government. In America, corporations are the government.
This was never more obvious than with the Wall Street bailout,
whereby the very corporations that caused the collapse of our economy
were rewarded with taxpayer dollars. So arrogant, so smug were they
that, without a moment’s hesitation, they took our money — yours and
mine — to pay their executives multimillion-dollar bonuses, something
they continue doing to this very day. They have no shame. They don’t
care what you and I think about them. Henry Kissinger refers to us as
“useless eaters.”
[...]
Consider what multibillionaire banker David Rockefeller wrote in his 2002 memoirs:
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal
working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing
my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others
around the world to build a more integrated global political and
economic structure — one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I
stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
Read Rockefeller’s words again. He actually admits to working against the “best interests of the United States.”
Need more? Here’s what Rockefeller said in 1994 at a U.N. dinner: “We
are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right
major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order.” They’re
gaming us. Our country has been stolen from us. Read full article
FULL ARTICLE BELOW
The American government -- which we once called our
government -- has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations
and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this
group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt
called "economic royalists," who choose our elected officials -- indeed,
our very form of government. Both Democrats and Republicans dance to
the tune of their corporate masters. In America, corporations do not
control the government. In America, corporations are the government.
This was never more obvious than with the Wall Street bailout,
whereby the very corporations that caused the collapse of our economy
were rewarded with taxpayer dollars. So arrogant, so smug were they
that, without a moment's hesitation, they took our money -- yours and
mine -- to pay their executives multimillion-dollar bonuses, something
they continue doing to this very day. They have no shame. They don't
care what you and I think about them. Henry Kissinger refers to us as
"useless eaters."
But, you say, we have elected a candidate of change. To which I respond: Do these words of President Obama sound like change?
"A culture of irresponsibility took root, from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street."
There it is. Right there. We are Main Street. We must, according to our
president, share the blame. He went on to say: "And a regulatory regime
basically crafted in the wake of a 20th-century economic crisis -- the
Great Depression -- was overwhelmed by the speed, scope and
sophistication of a 21st-century global economy."
This is nonsense.
The reason Wall Street was able to game the system the way it did --
knowing that they would become rich at the expense of the American
people (oh, yes, they most certainly knew that) -- was because the
financial elite had bribed our legislators to roll back the protections
enacted after the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Congress gutted the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial
lending banks from investment banks, and passed the Commodity Futures
Modernization Act, which allowed for self-regulation with no oversight.
The Securities and Exchange Commission subsequently revised its rules to
allow for even less oversight -- and we've all seen how well that
worked out. To date, no serious legislation has been offered by the
Obama administration to correct these problems.
Instead, Obama wants to increase the oversight power of the Federal
Reserve. Never mind that it already had significant oversight power
before our most recent economic meltdown, yet failed to take action.
Never mind that the Fed is not a government agency but a cartel of
private bankers that cannot be held accountable by Washington. Whatever
the Fed does with these supposed new oversight powers will be behind
closed doors.
Obama's failure to act sends one message loud and clear: He cannot
stand up to the powerful Wall Street interests that supplied the bulk of
his campaign money for the 2008 election. Nor, for that matter, can
Congress, for much the same reason.
Consider what multibillionaire banker David Rockefeller wrote in his 2002 memoirs:
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working
against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my
family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others
around the world to build a more integrated global political and
economic structure -- one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I
stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
Read Rockefeller's words again. He actually admits to working against the "best interests of the United States."
Need more? Here's what Rockefeller said in 1994 at a U.N. dinner: "We
are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right
major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order." They're
gaming us. Our country has been stolen from us.
Journalist Matt Taibbi, writing in Rolling Stone, notes that
esteemed economist John Kenneth Galbraith laid the 1929 crash at the
feet of banking giant Goldman Sachs. Taibbi goes on to say that Goldman
Sachs has been behind every other economic downturn as well, including
the most recent one. As if that wasn't enough, Goldman Sachs even had a
hand in pushing gas prices up to $4 a gallon.
The problem with bankers is longstanding. Here's what one of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, had to say about them:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to
control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by
deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them
will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up
homeless on the continent their father's conquered."
We all know that the first American Revolution officially began in 1776,
with the Declaration of Independence. Less well known is that the
single strongest motivating factor for revolution was the colonists'
attempt to free themselves from the Bank of England. But how many of you
know about the second revolution, referred to by historians as Shays'
Rebellion? It took place in 1786-87, and once again the banks were the
cause. This time they were putting the screws to America's farmers.
Daniel Shays was a farmer in western Massachusetts. Like many other
farmers of the day, he was being driven into bankruptcy by the banks'
predatory lending practices. (Sound familiar?) Rallying other farmers to
his side, Shays led his rebels in an attack on the courts and the local
armory. The rebellion itself failed, but a message had been sent: The
bankers (and the politicians who supported them) ultimately backed off.
As Thomas Jefferson famously quipped in regard to the insurrection: "A
little rebellion now and then is a good thing. The tree of liberty must
be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Perhaps it's time to consider that option once again.
I'm calling for a national strike, one designed to close the country
down for a day. The intent? Real campaign-finance reform and strong
restrictions on lobbying. Because nothing will change until we take
corporate money out of politics. Nothing will improve until our
politicians are once again answerable to their constituents, not the
rich and powerful.
Let's set a date. No one goes to work. No one buys anything. And if
that isn't effective -- if the politicians ignore us -- we do it again.
And again. And again.
The real war is not between the left and the right. It is between the
average American and the ruling class. If we come together on this
single issue, everything else will resolve itself. It's time we took
back our government from those who would make us their slaves.
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
May 18, 2011
Why doesn’t Janet Napolitano’s TSA just start using prison inmates to
conduct grope downs and naked porno scans of people traveling through
US airports? It would save a lot of time and money, and it wouldn’t
be a departure from the fact that TSA workers have worked hard to
maintain their reputation as thieves, perverts and criminals.
Yet another TSA agent has been caught engaging in criminal behavior.
The regularity with which this occurs makes it look like committing
felonies is a prerequisite to get a job in airport security.
“A Transportation Security Administration officer at LAX has been arrested for stealing from a traveler’s suitcase,” reports KABC.
“Ryan Driscoll, 31, was arrested on May 10 at Terminal 6. He faces a felony theft charge.”
The case is the 14th in just the last three years (which the TSA
admits to) of its workers stealing large amounts of cash and other
valuables from airport travelers. Back in February, TSA agents Persad Coumar and Davon Webb were arrested
for stealing $40,000 dollars from a check-in bag at John F. Kennedy
Airport. They were later discovered to have stolen an additional
$160,000 in valuables from people’s luggage, mostly laptops and
jewelry.
The
White House Press Office has refused to give the Boston Herald full
access to President Obama’s Boston fund-raiser today, in e-mails
objecting to the newspaper’s front page placement of a Mitt Romney op-ed, saying pool reporters are chosen based on whether they cover the news “fairly.”
“I tend to consider the degree to which papers have demonstrated to
covering the White House regularly and fairly in determining local pool
reporters,” White House spokesman Matt Lehrich wrote in response to a
Herald request for full access to the presidential visit. »Joe Battenfeld: Obama off the deep end
“My point about the op-ed was not that you ran it but that it was the
full front page, which excluded any coverage of the visit of a sitting
US President to Boston. I think that raises a fair question about
whether the paper is unbiased in its coverage of the President’s
visits,” Lehrich wrote.
But Lehrich said the Herald wasn’t purposefully barred from the press
pool, saying local pool duty by the Boston Globe was arranged earlier
with the White House Correspondents Association. And Lehrich insisted
the Herald may yet be allowed into Obama events.
“As we have in the past — including the multiple occasions on which
the Herald has supplied local pool reporters — we will continue to
consider the Herald for local pool duty for future visits,” Lehrich
wrote.
Obama is in town today to raise money for his 2012 re-election
campaign. His afternoon speech in the South End’s Cyclorama is open to
all media, but only a selected pool can attend other aspects of his
fund-raiser. Pool reporters must share all their material with other
press. The Herald has been bypassed for pool duty during Obama’s last
two visits despite asking the White House to be the local pool reporter.
“Newspapers don’t have to be unbiased to get access. You can’t just
let only the newspapers you want in,” said Boston University journalism
professor Fred Bayles.
Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom defended Romney’s March 8 opinion piece:
“That op-ed was about jobs, which apparently is a sensitive subject
for the thin-skinned people around the president. The White House may be
able to manipulate pool coverage, but they can’t manipulate the fact
that millions of Americans are out of work because of President Obama’s
failure to create jobs and get our economy moving,” Fehrnstrom said in a
statement yesterday.
The administration has a history of controversial clashes with the press.
The White House was seen to be at war with Fox News early in the
administration, with its communications director calling Fox an “arm” of
the Republican Party, while the president avoided Fox interviews until
his health reform proposal ran into trouble. Since losing control of
Congress, Obama has sat down with conservative Fox commentator Bill
O’Reilly.
In April 2010, Bloomberg’s Ed Chen, president of the White House
Correspondent’s Association, met with then-Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
to hash out complaints about limitations on the press, saying, “In my
10-plus years at the White House, rarely have I sensed such a level of
anger ... over White House practices and attitudes toward the press.”
Last month, a San Francisco Chronicle editor reported the White House
threatened to bar Hearst reporters from pool duty after a Chronicle
reporter shot video of protestors mocking Obama at a fund-raiser.
Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor who has
followed White House-press relations at right-leaning Instapundit.com,
said a pattern appears to be developing.
“It’s all about control,” Reynolds said. “At some point this will
blow back on them. Most presidents behave in a more refined fashion.
Experience has shown that acting presidential is good politics and to
their advantage.”
Strauss-Kahn faces HIV test as 60 per cent in France believe he is victim of plot
Rashid Razaq and Peter Allen in Paris
18 May 2011
A majority of French people believe presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of sexually assaulting a chambermaid, is the victim of a plot.
Almost 60 per cent feel the International Monetary Fund chief is innocent and has been framed in a conspiracy.
Straus-Kahn, 62, is being held in Riker Island prison in New York. He denies a string of charges including criminal sex acts, attempted rape and illegal imprisonment.
Former
French culture minister Jack Lang described the treatment of
Strauss-Kahn as a "lynching" that had "provoked horror and aroused
disgust". Liberation, a Left-wing daily newspaper, has published details
of off-the-record comments made by Strauss-Kahn as recently as April
28, in which he said he feared a plot.
Discussing his plans to challenge Nicolas Sarkozy
as Socialist candidate for the presidency next year, he said he
imagined "a woman who had been raped in a car park and who was offered
between 500,000 and a million euros to make up such a story".
It
emerged today that Strauss-Kahn may have to undergo an HIV test
following claims his alleged victim could be a carrier. The hotel
chambermaid who is accusing the IMF chief of rape is reported to have
been under the care of a charity helping people with HIV and Aids.
It has emerged the 32-year-old and her 15-year-old daughter were being housed in a Bronx apartment block by Harlem Community Aids United. The charity has not revealed the medical status of the maid, who is a migrant from Guinea, west Africa, but did confirm it only rents apartments for adults with either HIV or Aids.
The
woman has accused Strauss-Kahn of forcing her to perform oral sex on
him twice and then trying to rape her as she cleaned his Sofitel hotel room in Times Square on Saturday. He denies all charges.
Investigators
are looking at why hotel staff failed to alert police until almost
three hours later, allowing Strauss-Kahn time to leave. The IMF chief
was arrested as he boarded an Air France
plane. The maid's lawyer, Jeffrey Shapiro, a close family friend, said
she was a widow. Strauss-Kahn remains under suicide watch at the prison
and is due back in court on Friday.
It comes as a European
journalist, named only as Martina, alleged that Strauss-Kahn offered her
an exclusive interview in exchange for sex.
She said: "He was incredibly insistent ... He made it almost explicit that I had to sleep with him for the interview."
Economist
Piroska Nagy, who worked at the IMF, warned the organisation about
Strauss-Kahn's behaviour towards women in a letter in 2008 after they
had an affair.
French author Tristane Banon, 31, has accused
Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her a decade ago and is considering
reporting him to the police in Paris.
Brandon Smith Alt-Market.com
May 18, 2011 There
is a mysterious, devious, and violent movement out there on the fringe
of American society. Its tendencies are destructive, its theories and
ideologies are absurd and unfounded, and its influence is growing to
the point of cultural eruption. Its goal is to destabilize the legal
constructs and philosophical principles which founded this country and
replace them with a new social model so far outside rational guidelines
it can only be described as “fantasy land on PCP.”
Now, if you are one of the random indoctrinated idiots out there
that has already assumed I am describing the Sovereign Citizens
Movement, Constitutionalists, or so called “right wing extremists”,
then you have answered incorrectly, you receive no consolation prize,
and you go home empty handed on top of being completely inept. Hang
your head in shame…
I am certainly not describing Constitutionalists, who have never been
a “fringe movement”, and never will be. I am not talking about
Sovereign Citizens, who, thanks to a recent and very poorly executed 60
Minutes hit piece, are now superficially lumped in with every
conceivable villain known to man, including Terry Nichols, Jerry and
Joseph Kane, racism in general, and the ever nefarious Wesley Snipes
(who did, I admit, play a villain in the movie ‘Demolition Man’).
This rancid piece of festering half-assed journalism is a laughable
example of a clueless and outdated mainstream media desperately trying
to tap the propaganda vein of the average American dupe. Luckily, the
only people left on the planet that actually watch ‘60 Minutes’ for
news value are all senile geriatrics who are about 60 minutes from
death anyway. However, the hit piece does represent very well the
particular movement I am describing.
Some call them “Statists”, others call them “Globalists”, or
“Collectivists”. I usually call them all of the above. They represent a
much smaller portion of the U.S. population than is often imagined,
but like the venomous blowfish of the ocean deep, they have the ability
to “puff up”, giving the illusion that they are ten times their actual
size, as well as having a propensity for poison. Collectivist rhetoric
is enjoying a considerable foothold in the U.S., building over several
decades to culminate in what amounts to a slow motion Chinese-style
“Cultural Revolution”. A complete disintegration of traditional social
principles, the destruction of philosophical and political checks and
balances, the total rewriting of historical fact to suit the
supplanting agenda, as well as the rampant and fanatical demonization
of anyone who supports and defends the “old way”.
Such a movement has no boundaries. It only stops when it has
assimilated EVERYTHING, and never before. It is used as a tool by
oligarchy (fascist, communist, corporatist; their attributes are all
essentially the same) to mold nations and manipulate civilizations to
follow a single directive, a single path, a single historical
narrative. The collectivist methodology is one of centralization,
fealty, and feudalism. The most prominent monsters in the history of man
have all been collectivists, or at least public proponents of
collectivism.
So, how do we go about identifying one of these creatures, or their
drooling disciples, and root them out? Well, since establishment shills
like those featured on 60 Minutes seem perfectly at ease with the idea
of making generalizations to pigeonhole entire subsections of the
citizenry, I feel quite comfortable targeting them with the same brand
of fire. At least I will have the decency to be a little more specific
in my descriptions, and far more accurate. Here are some sure signs of a
collectivist extremist… 1) Maligned and ridiculed during most of childhood
and adolescence. Felt powerless for most of life and probably still
feels powerless in adulthood. Discovered the effectiveness of single
minded groups very early, and has been a “joiner” ever since. Feels a
rush when immersed in a mob, and thirsts for the control, dominance, and
acceptance that the mob commands. Certain types become absolutely
addicted to law, legal structures, and the bureaucratic machine, to the
point that they are unable to discern between a just law, and an
unjust law. To them, ALL law instituted by a power structure such as
government is “just”, regardless of moral conflict. This leads to a
worshipful attitude towards mainstream designated leadership figures.
Becoming an appendage of the state gives them the petty authority
over others that they never had when they were young, and they love it.
They despise anyone who questions the legitimacy of their authority, or
authority in general. They have handed over everything to the
collective, including their identity, and their soul. To come across
someone who is not weak like them, who has the strength of character to
make their own way, on their own terms, and who is fearless in the
face of overwhelming opposition, forces them to acknowledge their own
cowardice and deeply buried regrets. This, of course, infuriates them… 2) See themselves as “intellectual”, or rather, far
more ingenious than the majority of people. This would be fine if they
actually were intelligent, but in fact, this is rarely the case. Average
collectivists tend to be undereducated, slow witted, and easily
manipulated, but because they have conformed to the establishment social
model so thoroughly, they still find themselves climbing the ladder of
“success” (success in today’s typical business environment usually
includes backstabbing and/or shameless butt kissing). This gives them
severe delusions of grandeur. It is common to hear them rant about
overpopulation, and the need to “weed out the inferiors”, of which they
obviously do not include themselves, but should.
Their world view has been entirely scripted for them, and rarely is
an original thought ever uttered from their lips. Anyone who presents a
view outside of the mainstream script is automatically and viciously
attacked. A very common collectivist reaction to any opposing view is
to use Ad hominem tactics to disparage the person presenting the view,
instead of confronting their view directly. The 60 Minute segment
above is simply one long Ad hominem attack linking anyone who promotes
Constitutionalist ideals or anti-establishment arguments with killers,
racists, and terrorists (The father of one of the police officers slain
by the Kane’s claims that if his son had know they were “Sovereign
Citizens”, he would still be alive today; insinuating that ANYONE who
makes sovereignty arguments should be considered armed and dangerous by
police, and treated as guilty before proven innocent). Collectivists
use these kinds of tactics for the most part because they do not have
the mental capacity to defend their twisted ideals with any vigor, and
would surely lose a fair debate on neutral ground. 3) Constantly pushing a new angle; a “magic bullet”
solution to all the problems of the world, which usually seems to
include more centralization, more government micromanagement of our
resources, our economy, our education, and our lives. Certain types
believe that technology will somehow undo all the failings of humanity
in one fell swoop. Tales of floating cities, infinite energy, unlimited
abundance, and a labor-free society, are spun by collectivists with
much excitement but with no practical concrete planning as to how to
reach such a Utopia. “If only everyone realized how brilliant they are,
how fantastic their ideas are. If only everyone thought exactly as they
do, the Earth would truly be a better place…” they think to themselves.
“If only everyone would shut up and do as they’re told…” 4) Attacks tradition with a cultish fervor. Preaches
ad nauseam about the need for social evolution, but fails to
acknowledge that one of the primary fundamentals of evolution is to hold
onto that which makes an organism stronger, and outgrow that which
makes it weaker. Just because a concept is “new”, it does not
necessarily make it superior to concepts that are supposedly old.
Collectivists regularly undercut the values of the Constitution, or
free markets, for example, as being outdated and obsolete, even though
they have rarely if ever actually experienced a constitutionally
regulated environment, or commerce that is truly free from subversion.
Because collectivists are weak people, the idea of legitimate strength
is foreign to them. Therefore, they fill the void with whatever
“appears” strong, or trailblazing, and leave behind all ideas they do
not understand, which is a considerable number. 5) Believe the family is subject to the whims of
the state, and that parents are not to be trusted with the development
of their children. Now, certainly, there are plenty of terrible parents
in the world, and some of them don’t deserve the families that they
have, however, as far as the education of children is concerned, the
state is hardly a better teacher. Attributes most often given to
governments through the ages include: lying, cheating, stealing, murder,
subjugation, and remorselessness. Is this really who we want raising
our children? “Yes”, say collectivists.
Ever wonder why the rather harmless institution of homeschooling is
brought up so frequently in MSM hit pieces like the one above, or in
DHS official releases like the MIAC report on domestic terrorism?
Because it represents independence from the system. It is an avenue by
which any family can decouple, at least partially, from the
establishment and make their own decisions. This kind of activity is an
affront to the collectivist ideology. Hell, if our government is
willing to set its sights on a group as passive and non-threatening as
the Amish, of course they are willing to go after homeshoolers! 6) Has the ability to rationalize almost anything in
the name of the system. Always proclaiming the necessity of peace, but
insist peace only on their terms. Abhor violence in words, but in
action, they bathe in it. Ultimately, they see the “group” as a single
entity whose survival is paramount over all other concerns, including
individual freedom. To protect this entity, they will forgo any
obstacles of conscience, even, ironically, to the point that the group
self destructs. Without a healthy appreciation of the vitality of the
individual, all “groups” revert to chaos and self mutilation. Without
the individual, the group cannot function. It cannot exist. New Cultural Revolution To Destroy America?
The psychologist Carl Jung, overwhelmed by the ignorance of
communist and collectivist movements given birth in his lifetime, often
stated that if a man thinks he can abandon history, if he thinks he
can exist without the teachings of the past, without connections to
that which came before him, without individual relationships to
cultural memory, then he is literally diseased. He is insane. Not
surprisingly, most collectivists hate Jung. For, through his studies,
he exposed the undeniable madness of centralization; a methodology that
thrives on amnesia, reaps only catastrophe, and hurtles societies into
the abyss.
For a collectivist movement to take hold, it MUST erase root values,
not to mention as much of the past as possible from the minds of the
masses, and replace it with distraction. Sometimes its war, sometimes
its poverty or famine, sometimes it’s another segment of the population
that is villainized on the sacrificial alter of “progress”. In China,
this kind of restructuring of the public mind has been going on for
decades, but nothing quite compares to the Cultural Revolution
triggered by Mao in 1966.
Even before the communist revolution in 1949, China was a globalist
experiment; a Petri dish where international players could create one
social virus after another and let them loose to play. During the
Cultural Revolution, China saw the radicalization first of the
country’s youth in the name of the state, then most others followed. The
promise of change gave the Chinese a false impression of rebellion. A
fake rebellion driven by a fake agenda and a fake enemy. Mobilized by
ignorance and the need for identity, the Chinese people were used by
Mao as weapon to destroy his political rivals, as well as anyone who
dared question the righteousness of the state. For ten years, anyone
with enough common sense to see the hypocrisy and the lunacy of the
Chinese communist system lived in fear for their lives. One misspoken
word, one slip of the tongue, and millions of ears would be listening.
Even those who had served the government without question would
sometimes be singled out for persecution, for a statist religion needs a
constant flow of enemies to destroy, to keep the people enraptured,
and keep them in line. Watch the short documentary on the Cultural
Revolution below very carefully, and ask yourself how far down this path
has America gone?
ome might say that this kind of swing of the pendulum is not
possible in the U.S., but look at the lines we have crossed so far! Our
educational system has been revamped to misinform the next generation
and even remove entire chunks of important history from their
curriculum. The Constitution was once considered one of the most
important living documents in history by many peoples, not just
Americans. Now, owning one is listed as a possible sign of “homegrown
extremism” by the Department of Homeland Security and the same
government that is tasked with defending the liberties described within
it. At every turn we hear arguments that our principles must be
abandoned to make way for better, more “globally conscious”
alternatives. That we must “forget the past”. And, those of us who
refuse to forget the past are hoisted up on the vile stage of the MSM,
forced to wear signs (labels) and paraded as criminal malcontents out
to maim and kill poor unsuspecting collectivists and undermine the
“legitimacy” of the government. In my opinion, we are not far off at all
from the depravity of Mao’s China.
I leave you with a video of the post-Bin Laden Seal Team 6 action
death (still without any concrete independently corroborated evidence
that it ever actually occurred) celebration, and the unfortunate
mindless drones who came out en masse without even knowing why. Compare
with the documentary on China above, and then decide how far some
Americans have gone down the endless well of the hive mind:
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 18, 2011
Professor Christopher Busby, who sits on the European Committee on
Radiation Risks, told RT yesterday that the reactors at Fukushima are a
raging nuclear inferno and he believes at least one of the reactors is
now outside its containment structure and emitting vast amounts of
radiation into the atmosphere.
The Japanese newspaper Asahi
reports today that data reveals meltdowns occurred at the No. 2 and No.
3 reactors. Goshi Hosono, special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan,
acknowledged the likelihood of meltdowns. “We have to assume that
meltdowns have taken place,” Hosono said at a news conference May 16.
Infowars.com and other alternative news sources reported the
probability of a nuclear meltdown at the plant, but this was virtually
ignored by the corporate media.
Soon after an earthquake and tsunami crippled the plant, nuclear
experts said meltdowns occurred at all three reactors. TEPCO and the
corporate media downplayed the possibility of nuclear meltdown. On April
17, TEPCO released a schedule to reach a cold shutdown at the Fukushima
plant within six to nine months, but eventually had to revise the
schedule.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Nuclear experts indicate more than a decade will be required to
remove the melted fuel, eliminate the contamination, and dismantle the
reactors.
Public release of data on the situation at the plant, which had been
kept at the central control room, was delayed because it took time to
restore power and remove radioactive materials attached to the papers,
according to TEPCO. According to the data, the pressure in the pressure
vessel of the No. 2 reactor dropped at 6:43 p.m. on March 15. A similar
drop in pressure also took place at the No. 3 reactor at 11:50 p.m. on
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“We have yet to be able to grasp the entire situation at the plant,” a TEPCO official said on May 16.
Radioactive technetium was discovered in water in the No. 3 reactor
building. The discovery raised speculation that the melted nuclear fuel
has breached the pressure vessel and landed in the containment vessel.
Technetium is produced when nuclear fuel rods are damaged.
THERE is nothing to indicate we should be reducing our commitment in
Afghanistan. The level of violence is still extremely high.
If this withdrawal is being done for purely political reasons, I would
question the judgment of anyone who would do that.
If our troops are reduced, the message is sent both to the people of
Afghanistan, who we are still trying to win over, and to the Taliban. If
we're not around for the long term it seriously undermines the progress
we've made.
It is said the troops being withdrawn are support troops, not combat troops.
But we're either leaving combat troops with inadequate support, or we didn't
need that number there in the first place.
PM: 450 troops to withdraw from Afghanistan
By TOM NEWTON DUNN, Political Editor, and VIRGINIA WHEELER
DAVID Cameron yesterday announced the start of Britain's withdrawal from
Afghanistan.
The PM revealed the first 450 troops will be brought home this year.
But the move is bitterly opposed by military chiefs, who claim it risks
throwing away the gains made by British forces.
Colonel Stuart Tootal, ex-commander of 3 Para, said: "We should only get out
when the job is done properly.
Promise ... PM David Cameron
"We are on the right track, but if we take our foot off the gas now, we risk
all the success and investment we have achieved so far."
Mr Cameron's order fulfils a long-standing promise to President Barack Obama
to bring the war to an end in step with the US. And the announcement comes
just days before the President's visit to Britain next week.
Mr Cameron yesterday told MPs: "There will be around 400 troops, perhaps
slightly more, coming out of Afghanistan in the coming year."
In a bid to soften the blow, he added: "Our enduring force level remains at
9,500. I'm sure the Americans understand that it's less than the reductions
they are planning."
The MoD insisted that none of the troops coming home early will be infantry
stationed in Helmand. Instead, most will come from the RAF Regiment
defending Kandahar airfield and the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps at Nato's HQ
in Kabul.
An MoD spokesman said: "These were time-limited, task-specific roles which
have now come to an end."
Afghanistan will be top of the list of subjects at President Obama's talks
with the PM. The President was also opposed by his generals when he vowed to
start bringing home some of America's 90,000 troops from July.
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
May 18, 2011
Amidst reports that Saif al-Adel, otherwise known as Muhammad
Ibrahim Makkawi, has been appointed the new al Qaeda leader, a man
claiming to be the real Makkawi insists that he has nothing to do with
al Qaeda and describes 9/11 as a “fabrication”.
The source for the reports that al-Adel has become the al Qaeda number one,
in the wake of the demise of Osama Bin Laden, is one time Libyan
militant Noman Benotman, a former jihadi who renounced the ideology in
2002 and has since often been cited as a reliable source on al Qaeda
activity by Western media and governments.
The case of al-Adel/Makkawi, however, raises significant questions
and will only serve to create more mythology and suspicion concerning
the real origins and objectives of the terror group.
Saif al-Adel, literally meaning “sword of justice,” was supposedly
the “nom-de-guerre” adopted by a former Egyptian special forces colonel
known as Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi. Makkawi was accused of
masterminding the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat in
1988, before joining up with the mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight
the Soviet invasion.
He is under indictment for
participation in the 1998 African embassy bombings and for
establishing Al Qaeda training facilities in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Sudan and Somalia. He is also rumoured to have been involved in the USS
Cole bombing in 2000. At some point he is said to have become a
bodyguard to Osama bin Laden.
So far al-Adel/Makkawi’s reported history fits the bill of radical jihadi fighter. However, here’s where it gets strange.
After 9/11, al-Adel/Makkawi vanished from the face of the earth for nine years.
In 2003, it was reported that al-Adel/Makkawi had been captured in Iran,
of all places. The story goes that Iranian authorities had held
al-Adel/Makkawi under house arrest since he was detained along with
other al Qaeda figures, including Saad bin Laden, son of Osama in 2001.
The Iranian government has denied the claims.
“U.S. intelligence officials said the group was detained when
crossing into Iran from Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
to avoid capture by U.S. forces.” reported the Washington Post.
“The question is, what does house arrest mean in the Iranian
context?” said Michael Scheuer, a former CIA analyst who led the
agency’s unit dedicated to tracking Osama bin Laden. Scheuer and other
analysts said it was likely that Adel and the others were being held by
the Iranian government as a bargaining chip as well as a deterrent in
its strained dealings with the U.S. government.
“Iran appears to be hoping to exchange al-Adel with Washington, in
return for the handover of senior leaders in the anti-Iranian terrorist
group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK),” reported The Age in 2003.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
According to senior investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, and others, US intelligence has been training and funding the MEK to foment unrest inside Iran for years.
In July 2010, journalist Camille Tawil of the leading daily pan-Arab
newspaper Al-Hayat published a report detailing two letters that had
been sent purportedly by Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi, via a third party,
to the newspaper.
In the letters, which were also sent to the UN in Pakistan, the man
claiming to be Makkawi, outlined in detail that he has no connection
to al Qaeda and that his identity is being used synonymously by
Western intelligence with the Saif al-Adel figure.
Camille Tawil’s report can be found on the Al Hayat website here. Translating them into English via the web browser reveals some interesting details.
Makkawi, who claims to live in Islamabad, says he fled Egypt after
being linked to the attempt to topple the government there in the late
80s. In the letters he says that in 2005 he requested that US
authorities receive him and allow him access to a fair trial, following
the assertions that he was involved with al Qaeda.
Makkawi wrote that for years after 9/11 the US and Pakistan, which
he describes as “puppets in her hand”, as well as al Qaeda and even
Iran, pressured him to work with them to “maximize the alleged role the
sword of justice, (Saif al-Adel) ” and to be “used as a tool and a
client” in the so called war against terrorism.
Furthermore, in the letters Makkawi writes that he was surprised to
be linked with al Qaeda and 9/11, given that those investigating the
plot, ie the 9/11 Commission, knew it “was a drama”.
Makkawi said that he refused to co-operate as a tool and wished to
reveal how “Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders are living a
comfortable life under protection in order to blackmail the
international community”, and how “the September 11 incident is
fabricated”.
Makkawi also wrote that since he refused to “accept the counterfeit
identity of the al Qaeda number 3, and the big lie of September 11th”,
there have been attempts on his life and the lives of his family. He
contends that his name is now “being exploited for hidden motives”.
He also says he has requested aid from the Qatari authorities, and from Saudi Arabia, but has received no response.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organisation riddled with neocons, responded to the publication of this information by writing:
“The strange letters make clear that Makkawi is a 9/11 conspiracy
theorist, and that he likewise believes that the U.S., Iran, and others
have been trying to force him to assume the identity of Saif Al-’Adl
for nefarious ends…”
Camille Tawil is no conspiracy theorist, however. Rather he is a respected investigative journalist and
expert on Arab Jihadists, having had first hand contact with many key
players. This gives the report legitimacy and raises some extremely
weighty questions.
In October 2010, Spiegal published a report
claiming that al-Adel/Makkawi had suddenly reappeared in Waziristan,
in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and was “operating
as al-Qaida’s military chief”. The source of this information was…
you guessed it, Noman Benotman. The same Western backed source who now
claims that al-Adel/Makkawi has become the leader of al Qaeda. Stock up with Fresh Food that lasts with eFoodsDirect (Ad)
So who really is Saif al-Adel? The so called new al Qaeda leader has
all the hall marks of another Goldstein figure in the mould of bin
Laden and the former al Qaeda in Iraq figurehead al Zarqawi. The man has
not been seen or heard of for close to ten years, his past is shadowy
and undocumented, and we have a report from a legitimate
investigative journalist documenting claims from Muhammad Ibrahim
Makkawi that his identity was stolen and molded into the “sword of
justice” by Western intelligence as part of a “big lie” that is the
war on terror.
— Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
A hole in the front yard of a Basking Ridge, N.J. home is several
feet long and wide and deep enough to swallow a 30 gallon trash can
(credit: Steve Sandberg/1010 WINS)
BERNARDS TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) – A Basking Ridge homeowner would really like to know why there’s a crater in her front yard.
“To me it looked like something blew out of the ground because the
grass was folded back, the rocks and dirt were all spewn out into the
cul-de-sac and across the driveway,” Sue, who asked not to be identified
out of concern that the hole may draw unwanted onlookers and
crowds, said. 1010 WINS’ Steve Sandberg reports: Mystery In Basking Ridge
Her son, Jeff, believes something fell from the heavens.
“Something clearly came out of the sky and just hit it from an angle and then it all shot up the other way,” he said.
Officials and experts are also scratching their heads. For now, it
appears the small crater that splayed debris across a 100-foot area
wasn’t caused by a meteorite. Beyond that, it’s a mystery.
“It’s just really, really weird,” said Jerry Vinski, director of
nearby Raritan Valley Community College’s planetarium, who conducted
tests on the site. “We dug around and couldn’t find anything. We used
metal detectors because all meteors have metal in them, and we couldn’t
find anything, large or small.”
Bernards Township Police Capt. Edward Byrnes said whatever hit the
front yard left a crater about 18 inches deep and roughly the size of a
coffee table.
A State Police bomb squad ruled out explosives, Byrnes said.
According to Byrnes, no one in the neighborhood heard or saw anything
at the time of the May 6 incident. The homeowner called police upon
arriving home.
“The weather was clear, there were no reports of lightning strikes;
nobody reported seeing anything,” Byrnes said. “I’ve never seen anything
like this in 23 years.”
Vinski said that the hole could have been caused by an object falling
from a plane. He said if the object was a meteorite, the impact would
have been significant and would have been felt nearby.
“When you see meteor showers in the upper atmosphere, they’re
traveling 50 miles a second,” he said. “Even if it’s slowing down
through the atmosphere, you’re still going to have a sonic boom. And it
would have left something behind, it wouldn’t have completely
disintegrated.” What do you think created the hole? Let us know below
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Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
May 18, 2011
The International Monetary Fund’s director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn,
was arrested last Sunday in New York City on the allegation of an
immigrant hotel maid that he attempted to rape her in his hotel room. A
New York judge has denied Strauss-Kahn bail on the grounds that he
might flee to France. President
Bill Clinton survived his sexual escapades, because he was a servant
to the system, not a threat. But Strauss-Kahn, like former New York
Governor Eliot Spitzer, was a threat to the system, and, like Eliot
Spitzer, Strass-Kahn has been deleted from the power ranks.
Strauss-Kahn was the first IMF director in my lifetime, if memory
serves, who disavowed the traditional IMF policy of imposing on the
poor and ordinary people the cost of bailing out Wall Street and the
Western banks. Strauss-Kahn said that regulation had to be reimposed on
the greed-driven, fraud-prone financial sector, which, unregulated,
destroyed the lives of ordinary people. Strauss-Kahn listened to Nobel
economist Joseph Stiglitz, one of a handful of economists who has a
social conscience.
Perhaps the most dangerous black mark in Strauss-Kahn’s book is that
he was far ahead of America’s French puppet, President Sarkozy, in the
upcoming French elections. Strauss-Kahn simply had to be eliminated.
It is possible that Strauss-Kahn eliminated himself and saved
Washington the trouble. However, as a well-travelled person who has
often stayed in New York hotels and in hotels in cities around the
world, I have never experienced a maid entering unannounced into my
room, much less when I was in the shower.
In the spun story, Strauss-Kahn is portrayed as so deprived of sex
that he attempted to rape a hotel maid. Anyone who ever served on the
staff of a powerful public figure knows that this is unlikely. On a
senator’s staff on which I served, there were two aides whose job was
to make certain that no woman, with the exception of his wife, was ever
alone with the senator. This was done to protect the senator both from
female power groupies, who lust after celebrities and powerful men,
and from women sent by a rival on missions to compromise an opponent. A
powerful man such as Strauss-Kahn would not have been starved for
women, and as a multi-millionaire he could certainly afford to make his
own discreet arrangements.
As Henry Kissinger said, “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” In
politics, sex is handed out as favors and payoffs, and it is used as a
honey trap. Some Americans will remember that Senator Packwood’s long
career (1969-1995) was destroyed by a female lobbyist, suspected,
according to rumors, of sexual conquests of Senators, who charged that
Packwood propositioned her in his office. Perhaps what inspired the
charge was that Packwood was in the way of her employer’s legislative
agenda.
Even those who exercise care can be framed by allegations of an
event to which there are no witnesses. On May 16 the British Daily Mail
reported that prior to Strauss-Kahn’s fateful departure for New York,
the French newspaper, Liberation, published comments he made while
discussing his plans to challenge Sarkozy for the presidency of France.
Strauss-Kahn said that as he was the clear favorite to beat Sarkozy,
he would be subjected to a smear campaign by Sarkozy and his interior
minister, Glaude Gueant. Strauss-Kahn predicted that a woman would be
offered between 500,000 and 1,000,000 euros (more than $1,000,000) to
make up a story that he raped her.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387625/IMF-chief-Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-feared-political-enemy-pay-woman-allege-rape.html
The Daily Mail reports that Strauss-Kahn’s suspicions are supported
by the fact that the first person to break the news of Strauss-Kahn’s
arrest was an activist in Mr Sarkozy’s UMP party – who apparently knew
about the scandal before it happened. Jonathan Pinet, a politics
student, tweeted the news just before the New York Police Department
made it public, although he said that he simply had a ‘friend’ working
at the Sofitel where the attack was said to have happened. The first
person to re-tweet Mr Pinet was Arnaud Dassier, a spin doctor who had
previously publicised details of multi-millionaire Strauss-Kahn’s
luxurious lifestyle in a bid to dent his left wing credentials.
Strauss-Kahn could just as easily been set up by rivals inside the
IMF, as well as by rivals within the French political establishment.
Michelle Sabban, a senior councillor for the greater Paris region
and a Strauss-Kahn loyalist said: ‘I am convinced it is an
international conspiracy.’
She added: ‘It’s the IMF they wanted to decapitate, not so much the Socialist primary candidate.
‘It’s not like him. Everyone knows that his weakness is seduction, women. That’s how they got him.’
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Even some of Strauss-Kahn’s rivals said they could not believe the
news. ‘It is totally hallucinatory,’ said centrist Dominique Paille.
‘If it is true, this would be a historic moment, but in the negative
sense, for French political life. I hope that everyone respects the
presumption of innocence. I cannot manage to believe this affair.’
And Henri de Raincourt, minister for overseas co-operation in
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government, added: ‘We cannot rule out the
thought of a trap.’
Michelle Sabban is on to something when she says the IMF was the
target. Strauss-Kahn is the first IMF director who is not lined up on
the side of the rich against the poor. Strauss-Kahn’s suspicions were
of Sarkozy, but Wall Street and the US government also had strong
reasons to eliminate him. Wall Street is terrified by the prospect of
regulation, and Washington was embarrassed by the recent IMF report
that China’s economy would surpass the US economy within five years. An
international conspiracy is not out of the question.
Indeed, the plot is unfolding as a conspiracy. Authorities have
produced a French woman who claims she was a near rape victim of
Strauss-Kahn a decade ago. It would be interesting to know whether this
allegation is the result of a threat or a bribe. As in the case of
Julian Assange, there are now two women to accuse Strauss-Kahn. Once
the prosecutors get the odds of two females against one male, they win
in the media.
It has not been revealed how the authorities knew Strauss-Kahn was
on a flight to France. However, by arresting him aboard his scheduled
flight just as it was to depart, the authorities created the image of a
man fleeing from a crime.
The way Amerikan justice (sic) works is that prosecutors in about 96
percent of the cases get a plea bargain. US prosecutors are permitted
by judges and the public to pay for testimony against the defendant and
to put sufficient pressure on innocent defendants to coerce them into
making a guilty plea in exchange for lesser charges and a lighter
sentence. Unless the hotel maid has a spell of bad conscience and
admits she was paid to lie, or gets cold feet about perjuring herself,
Strauss-Kahn is likely to find that Amerikan criminal justice (sic) is
organized to produce conviction regardless of innocence or guilt.
On May 16, the day following Strauss-Kahn’s arrest, the US Supreme
Court threw its weight behind the Amerikan police state by destroying
the remains of the Fourth Amendment with an 8-1 ruling that, the U.S.
Constitution notwithstanding, Amerika’s police do not need warrants to
invade homes and search persons. Stock up with Fresh Food that lasts with eFoodsDirect (Ad)
This ruling is more evidence that every American is regarded as a
potential enemy of the state, not only by Airport Security but also by
the high muckety-mucks in Washington. The conservatives’ “war on crime”
has created a police state, and conservatives, who originally stood
for limited government and civil liberty, are euphoric over the
expanded and unaccountable powers that a conservative Supreme Court has
handed to the police.
On the same day the federal government reached the $14.3 trillion
debt ceiling, which forced the Treasury to “borrow” money from federal
employee pensions in order to continue funding Amerika’s illegal wars
and crimes against humanity. The breached debt ceiling serves as an
appropriate marker for a country that has squandered its constitutional
heritage and has arrived at moral as well as fiscal bankruptcy.
— Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the father of Reaganomics and the former head of policy at the Department of Treasury. He is a columnist and was previously an editor for the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, “How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds,” details why America is disintegrating.
Ron Paul
Infowars.com
May 18, 2011 On
April 20th, after a year-long undercover sting operation, armed federal
agents acting on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
raided the business of Pennsylvanian Amish farmer Dan Allgyer to prevent
him from selling his unpasteurized milk to willing, fully-informed
customers in Maryland. Federal agents wasted a whole year and who knows
how many of our tax dollars posing as customers in order to catch
Allgyer committing the “crime” of selling his milk. He was not tricking
people into buying it, he was not forcing people to purchase it, and
there had been no complaints about his product. These were completely
voluntary transactions, but ones that our nanny-state federal government
did not approve of, and so they shut down his business. The arrogance
of the FDA and so many other federal agencies is simply appalling. These
types of police state raids on peaceful businessmen, so reminiscent of
our tyrannical federal drug war, have no place in a free society.
The FDA claims its regulatory powers over food safety give it the
authority to ban the interstate sales of raw milk, but this is an
unconstitutional misapplication of the commerce clause for legislative
ends. As we have seen, if the executive branch feels hamstrung by the
fact that our framers placed lawmaking authority in the Legislative
Branch, they simply make their own laws and call them “regulations.” We
all know how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses such bogus
regulation authority to harass, hinder, and shut down countless other
legitimate businesses. Sadly, Congress has been far too lax for far too
long as the executive branch continues to encroach on its areas of
responsibility and thereby undermines our system of government.
Most Americans understand that if you don’t want to drink
unpasteurized milk you simply do not buy it. But the federal government
solution is pre-dawn raids which destroy the livelihoods of honest,
hardworking families in this time of continued economic hardship.
I am outraged by this raid and the many others like it, and that is
why last week I introduced HR 1830, a bill to allow the shipment and
distribution of unpasteurized milk and milk products for human
consumption across state lines. This legislation removes the
unconstitutional restraint on farmers who wish to sell or otherwise
distribute, and people who wish to consume, unpasteurized milk and milk
products.
Many Americans have done their own research and come to the
conclusion that unpasteurized milk is healthier than pasteurized milk.
These Americans have the right to consume these products without having
the federal government second-guess their judgment or thwart their
wishes. If there are legitimate concerns about the safety of
unpasteurized milk, those concerns should be addressed at the state and
local level.
I am hoping my colleagues in the House will join me in promoting
individual rights, the original intent of the Constitution, and
federalism by cosponsoring this legislation to allow the interstate
shipment of unpasteurized milk and milk products for human consumption.
If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what
we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left? This post taken from Ron Paul’s House website.
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is a mysterious, devious, and violent movement out there on the fringe
of American society. Its tendencies are destructive, its theories and
ideologies are absurd and unfounded, and its influence is growing to
the point of cultural eruption. Its goal is to destabilize the legal
constructs and philosophical principles which founded this country and
replace them with a new social model so far outside rational guidelines
it can only be described as “fantasy land on PCP.”
On
April 20th, after a year-long undercover sting operation, armed federal
agents acting on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
raided the business of Pennsylvanian Amish farmer Dan Allgyer to prevent
him from selling his unpasteurized milk to willing, fully-informed
customers in Maryland. Federal agents wasted a whole year and who knows
how many of our tax dollars posing as customers in order to catch
Allgyer committing the “crime” of selling his milk. He was not tricking
people into buying it, he was not forcing people to purchase it, and
there had been no complaints about his product. These were completely
voluntary transactions, but ones that our nanny-state federal government
did not approve of, and so they shut down his business. The arrogance
of the FDA and so many other federal agencies is simply appalling. These
types of police state raids on peaceful businessmen, so reminiscent of
our tyrannical federal drug war, have no place in a free society.