StopTheLie.com News update 08-27-2012
CIA �Manages� Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says (Recommended)
Source: TheNewAmerican.com
The Central Intelligence Agency�s involvement in drug trafficking is back in the media spotlight after a spokesman for the violence-plagued Mexican state of Chihuahua became the latest high-profile individual to accuse the CIA, which has been linked to narcotics trafficking for decades, of ongoing efforts to �manage the drug trade.� The infamous American spy agency refused to comment.
In a recent interview, Chihuahua state spokesman Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva told Al Jazeera that the CIA and other international �security� outfits "don't fight drug traffickers." Instead, Villanueva argued, they try to control and manage the illegal drug market for their own benefit.
Read full article at:http://www.infowars.com/cia-manages-drug-trade-mexican-official-says/
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Is "The Government" the Country?
Source: DownsizeDC.org
Some think that America�s "government" IS America. Must you love your government if you love your country?
Think about places like the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Red China. Millions who lived under those criminal regimes hated their "governments" yet still loved their countries. From these cases, can you see how "the government" is NOT the same thing as the country?
The Zero Aggression Project wants to promote the following concept . . .
The government is NOT the society, the nation, the culture, the people, the traditions, or the land.
Instead, government is merely an institution, like Exxon, Microsoft, or the Boy Scouts.
Stated differently, the government is merely a service provider, like other institutions. And . . .Service providers are supposed to serve, not rule.
Read full article at:http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/is-the-government-the-country
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Boycott These Organic Brands
Source: OrganicConsumers.org
In recent weeks, several public interest groups, including the Organic Consumers Association, Cornucopia Institute,Mercola.com, and Natural News, have pointed out the gross hypocrisy and greed of large food and beverage corporations which profit from the sale of billions of dollars of their proprietary organic and "natural" food brands while at the same time funneling large sums of money to the Monsanto-led campaign to defeat theNovember 6th GMO labeling ballot initiative (Proposition 37) in California. These organic and "natural" traitor companies and brands include: Kellogg's (Kashi, Bear Naked, Morningstar Farms); General Mills (Muir Glen, Cascadian Farm, Larabar); Dean Foods (Horizon, Silk, White Wave); Smucker's (R.W. Knudsen, Santa Cruz Organic); Coca-Cola (Honest Tea, Odwalla); Safeway ("O" Organics); Kraft (Boca Burgers and Back to Nature); Con-Agra (Orville Redenbacher's Organic, Hunt's Organic, Lightlife); and PepsiCo (Naked Juice, Tostito's Organic, Tropicana Organic).
Read full article at:http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_26121.cfm
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Why a Shingles Epidemic is Bolting Straight at the U.S.
Source: Mercola.com
--The incidence of adult shingles has increased by 90 percent from 1998 to 2003, following the release of the chickenpox vaccine for mass use. Shingles results in three times as many deaths and five times as many hospitalizations as chickenpox, and accounts for 75 percent of all medical costs associated with the varicella zoster virus.
Even children are beginning to come down with shingles, as evidenced by school nurse reports since 2000, which wasone of the concerns prompting Dr. Goldman to warn the CDC that it may be bringing about a shingles epidemic.
Prior to chickenpox vaccination, shingles was seen only in adults.
All evidence points to the fact that we have traded a relatively mild illness (chickenpox), which does NOT involve complications for 99.9 percent of healthy children, for a more serious illness in our elderly (shingles) that has the potential for compromising the health of an entire population.
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/11/02/chicken-pox-vaccine-creates-shingles-epidemic.aspx
COMMENT: I saw a Merck advertisement today for its "shingles vaccine." I figured I'd post the article above...it provides some info that I don't imagine Merck is likely to disclose.
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State-directed Terrorism
Source: BusinessInsider.com
--Those killed by US drone attacks in Pakistan are more or less automatically deemed "militants" by unnamed "officials", and then uncritically called such by most of the western press � a practice that inexcusably continues despite revelations that the Obama administration has redefined "militants" to mean "all military-age males in a strike zone".
--It is telling indeed that the Obama administration now routinely uses tactics in Pakistan long denounced as terrorism when used by others, and does so with so little controversy. Just in the past several months, attacks on funerals of victims have taken place in Yemen (purportedly by al-Qaida) and in Syria (purportedly, though without evidence, by the Assad regime), and such attacks � understandably � sparked outrage. Yet, in the west, the silence about the Obama administration's attacks on funerals and rescuers is deafening.
Read full article at:http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-is-now-attacking-rescuers-that-come-to-the-aid-of-drone-strike-victims-2012-8
COMMENT: It's only a "terrorist tactic" when somebody else does it. It's only "torture" when somebody else does it. It's only "Soviet-Union-style spying" when another country engages in it.
In other words the actual SUBSTANCE of an act means nothing anymore. Only the euphemisms used to describe it, the "special circumstances" used to justify it, and the nationality of those who engage in it, are relevant when it comes to determining whether an act is "honorable" or "evil."
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�Fast and Furious� Is Not What You Think It Is
Source: TheBlaze.com
A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative currently in U.S. custody is making startling allegations that the failed federal gun-walking operation known as �Fast and Furious� isn�t what you think it is.
It wasn�t about tracking guns, it was about supplying them � all part of an elaborate agreement between the U.S. government and Mexico�s powerful Sinaloa Cartel to take down rival cartels.
--Zambada-Niebla claims that under a �divide and conquer� strategy, the U.S. helped finance and arm the Sinaloa Cartel through Operation Fast and Furious in exchange for information that allowed the DEA, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies to take down rival drug cartels. The Sinaloa Cartel was allegedly permitted to traffic massive amounts of drugs across the U.S. border from 2004 to 2009 � during both Fast and Furious and Bush-era gunrunning operations � as long as the intel kept coming.
Read full article at:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/high-ranking-mexican-drug-cartel-member-makes-explosive-allegation-fast-and-furious-is-not-what-
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Previous Week's News 08-20-2012
Are Central Banks And Wall Street Insiders Preparing For Something BIG?
Source:TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com
If you want to figure out what is going to happen next in the financial markets, carefully watch what the insiders are doing. Those that are "connected" have access to far better sources of information than the rest of us have, and if they hear that something big is coming up they will often make very significant moves with their money in anticipation of what is about to happen. Right now, Wall Street insiders and central banks all around the globe are making some very unusual moves. In fact, they appear to be rapidly preparing for something really big. So exactly what are they up to? In a previous article entitled "Are The Government And The Big Banks Quietly Preparing For An Imminent Financial Collapse?", I speculated that they may be preparing for a financial meltdown of some sort. As I noted in that article, more than 600 banking executives have resigned from their positions over the past 12 months, and I have been personally told that a substantial number of Wall Street
bankers have been shopping for "prepper properties" this summer. But now even more evidence has emerged that quiet preparations are being made for an imminent financial collapse. That doesn't guarantee that something will happen or won't happen. Like any good detective, we are gathering clues and trying to figure out what the evidence is telling us.
Read full article at:http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/startling-evidence-that-central-banks-and-wall-street-insiders-are-rapidly-preparing
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Taking on the IRS ( Video - Recommended)
Source: PrisonPlanet.com
Alex welcomes former special agent of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service Joseph Banister. Also joining the show is Mr. Banister's attorney Robert Bernhoft who has successfully defended two of the most significant federal tax/conspiracy prosecutions in the past several decades, obtaining acquittals on all federal felony counts for Mr. Bannister.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/GHzUCbetaro
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Then They Came For Me (2012)
Source: DailyPaul.com
--Then, under the new �National Defense Authorization Act� (NDAA) they took away the First Amendment �Right of the people to petition the government for redress of grievances,� and began arresting American Citizens, and detaining them as enemy combatants, and terrorist sympathizers who openly spoke out against any government mandates or policy, again I said nothing, because I wasn't some kind of 60's type hippy radical who marches on Washington DC, protesting, toting signs and singing Kum Ba Yah songs, so this would never effect me!
Then they came for me. Being falsely accused, I was thrown into jail without a trial, I was never given the right to speak with an attorney, never given the opportunity to face my accusers, or defend myself of the false allegations against me. All I could do was wait, wait for someone to come to my rescue, someone to stand up for my rights, someone to protest my innocence, and false imprisonment.......But by then, there was no one left!
Read full article at:http://www.dailypaul.com/249534/then-they-came-for-me-2012
COMMENT: Flashback: Taken from the letter I sent to my "representative" regarding NDAA:
"It amazes me that U.S. representatives don't even possess this basic understanding of the American justice system...You are not authorized to strip an individual of their rights based on �charges� alone. Evidence must be presented and an individual must be permitted to defend his or herself. Prior to this �due process� a person is merely an ACCUSED criminal. (Thief, rapist, murderer or terrorist�the crime that an individual is accused of does not alter the process by which guilt is determined.) Nobody opposes this law because they want to protect 'terrorists,' they oppose it because they want to protect people who are FALSELY ACCUSED of being terrorists or �associated� with terrorists."
Full letter here:
http://stopthelie.com/challenging-my-senator-on-ndaa.html
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Biotech Roars, $25 Million Dumped into Campaign to Stop GMO Labeling
Source: OrganicConsumers.org
Yesterday it was revealed that the biotech industry and Big Ag have already dumped $25 million - $4.2 million from chemical and seed giant Monsanto alone - into the campaign to defeat Proposition 37 in California, the November 6citizens ballot initiative that will require genetically engineered foods to be labeled and put an end to the deceptive industry practice of marketing GMO-tainted foods as �natural� or �all natural.�
--Who are the top donors on our side, calling for truthful labels on GMOs? The top two donors areMercola.com, the nation�s largest network of natural health consumers, and the Organic Consumers Fund (OCF), the allied grassroots lobbying arm of the Organic Consumers Association. Mercola.com has already donated $800,000 to the cause, while the OCF has donated approximately $700,000 so far, almost all of which has come in the form of small donations from organic food consumers. Other large donors to the YES on 37 campaign so far include Nature�s Path, Dr. Bronner�s, Lundberg Family Farms, Eden Foods, and Organic Valley, leading brands in the organic industry.
Read full article at:http://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/ob342.htm
COMMENT: Not sure why you should care about whether or not you're eating GMO's? Visitwww.AvoidGMO.com for a few short videos.
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The Mammogram Debate: When Politics Trounces Science
Source: Mercola.com
--The data Komen uses�the five-year survival data�presents a dramatically distorted picture. (Furthermore, the advertisement makes no mention of any of the harms clearly associated with the screening at all.) The authors go on to explain why survival data cannot be used to make a case for or against mammography:
"To see how much lead time can distort five year survival data, imagine a group of 100 women who received diagnoses of breast cancer because they felt a breast lump at age 67, all of whom die at age 70. Five year survival for this group is 0%. Now imagine the women were screened, given their diagnosis three years earlier, at age 64, but still die at age 70. Five year survival is now 100%, even though no one lived a second longer."
Overdiagnosis also distorts survival statistics because women who receive false positives are counted as having survived the cancer! As mentioned earlier, for every woman saved, 10 women are misdiagnosed and treated unnecessarily, so the distortion due to overdiagnosis is massive. And, as the authors explain, the more women are overdiagnosed, the more the survival statistics are skewed.
"If there were an Oscar for misleading statistics, using survival statistics to judge the benefit of screening would win a lifetime achievement award hands down. There is no way to disentangle lead time and overdiagnosis biases from screening survival data," the authors state.
The only statistic that matters is how many deaths are prevented. And the only way to determine whether a screening test works in that regard or not is to evaluate how many cancer deaths are eliminated in a randomized trial. Shockingly, according to a recent survey10, most primary care physicians in the US mistakenly interpret survival data as evidence that mammography saves lives, so if you have been similarly duped, you're in good company...
In terms of actual benefit, the authors point out, mammography can reduce a woman in her 50's chances of dying from breast cancer sometime over the next decade by 0.07 percent. Again, the reduction in actual risk is so negligible as to be nonexistent... and that, of course, does not make for compelling advertising. In fact, it undermines the entire cancer industry, which is built around expensive cancer screening tests and drug treatments. In conclusion, the authors state:
"The Komen advertisement campaign failed to provide the facts. Worse, it undermined decision making by misusing statistics to generate false hope about the benefit of mammography screening. That kind of behavior is not very charitable."
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/08/15/politics-behind-mammography.aspx?e_cid=20120815_DNL_artNew_1
COMMENT: Not charitable? That depends on what side of the equation you're on. Misleading statistics can be very "charitable" to an industry that relies on overdiagnosis and exaggerated survival rates to generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Here is an article on the huge profits that other forms of unnecessary screening generate for the "healthcare" industry.
http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/10/07/6898/forty-percent-medicare-spending-common-cancer-screenings-unnecessary-probe-suggests
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Lew Rockwell discusses the Romney-Ryan Ticket (Video)
Source: PrisonPlanet.com
Regarding Ryan: "The fact that he uses tricky rhetoric, that he uses Libertarian or Ayn Randian rhetoric, to disguise his devotion to the total central state and the global empire, well, it's just another political trick."
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/70ucMDXMKx8
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Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ
Source: Mercola.com
--There are so many scientific studies showing the direct, toxic effects of fluoride on your body, it's truly remarkable that it's NOT considered a scientific consensus by now. Despite the evidence against it, fluoride is still added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water supplies.
It amazes me that the medical (and dental) communities are so stubbornly resistant to connect the dots when it comes to the skyrocketing increase of cognitive decline in adults, and behavioral issues in children (ADD, ADHD, depression and learning disabilities of all kinds). In fact, there have been over 23 human studies and 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage3. Fluoride can also increase manganese absorption, compounding problems since manganese in drinking water has also been linked to lower IQ in children.
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/08/14/fluoride-effects-in-children.aspx?e_cid=20120814_DNL_artNew_1
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FDA And "Drug Safety"
Source: Mercola.com
In the wake of shocking reports on how the FDA, terrified of being outed for its questionable practices, spied on its own employees in the hopes of rooting them out before they could become whistleblowers, a new story has emerged on how deep the deceit goes. From marginalizing safety reports to not reading them at all - and then going ahead and approving the drugs in question - the FDA once more stands accused of being little more than a rubber-stamping agency for Big Pharma.
Explosive revelations of an intensive spy operation by the FDA on its own scientists emerged last month. Using sophisticated spy software, the agency tracked and logged every move made by the targeted individuals. The program even intercepted personal emails and copied documents on their personal thumb drives.
The targeted scientists had expressed concern over the agency�s approval of dangerous medical imaging devices for mammograms and colonoscopies, which they believe expose patients to dangerous levels of radiation. Now, another whistleblower has stepped forward, and what he has to say about the agency�s drug safety reviews is shocking even to the jaded...
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/08/13/drug-safety-whistleblower.aspx?e_cid=20120813_DNL_artNew_1
COMMENT: Check out the video link below to see how far the FDA went to spy on those who "blew the whistle" on the agency's wrongdoing.
http://youtu.be/wtQDf8t9Hy0
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The State is NOT a Government
Source: DownsizeDC.org
--An institution that commits crimes is NOT a government.
Honesty requires a more accurate label, such as �criminal gang,� though many will find that shocking due to the Stockholm Syndrome.
So I suggest we call our criminal �government� The State. It�s technically accurate and sounds appropriately ominous.
But what is crime? If you or I assault, steal, or defraud, we are criminals. The same moral standards must apply to government. After all, it�s merely a group of people, and no group is so large or so special that it can magically turn wrong into right.
Read full article at:http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/the-state-is-not-a-government
COMMENT: My favorite book on this topic is "Our Enemy, The State" by Albert Jay Nock.
A few good quotes from the book (ISBN 0-87319-051-3)
"A man is in slavery when all his rights lie at the arbitrary discretion of some agency other than himself; when his life, liberty, property, and the whole direction of his activities are liable to arbitrary and irresponsible confiscation at any time...this appeared to be the exact relation that I saw...between the individual and the state." page 17
"The nature and intention of government...are social. Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual...The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social...Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime." page 53
"The State is not...a social institution administered in an anti-social way. It is an anti-social institution, administered in the only way an anti-social institution can be administered, and by the kind of person who, in the nature of things, is best adapted to such service." page 131
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