wakingtimes--2020-01-10--GMO Rice Coming to Your Plate Soon

GMO Rice Coming to Your Plate Soon

The Philippines Department of Agriculture , Bureau of Plant Industry has become the latest regulatory body to approve the use of genetically engineered ( GE ) “ Golden Rice ” for direct use as food or feed , as well as for processing .
The so-called FFP approval is being heralded as a solution to rising rates of vitamin A deficiency in the country , as the rice is engineered to produce beta-carotene .
However , serious questions remain about the GE rice ’ s safety , as well as its ability to actually increase vitamin A levels in those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outstanding questions , the U.S. , Canada , Australia and New Zealand have also given Golden Rice a green light , which suggests it could appear on your dinner plate soon .
After conducting a biosafety assessment , the Philippines Department of Agriculture announced that Golden Rice was as safe as conventional rice , granting it FFP approval .
In a news release , Philippine Rice Research Institute ( PhilRice ) executive director John de Leon stated , “ With this FFP approval , we bring forward a very accessible solution to our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deficiency that ’ s affecting many of our preschool children and pregnant women.
” Before the rice will be made available to the public , approval for commercial propagation will still be required .
However , PhilRice has already partnered with the International Rice Research Institute ( IRRI ) , the current makers of Golden Rice , to move forward with taste tests of the GE rice .
According to IRRI : It ’ s a major step forward for the GE rice , as it ’ s the first approval in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and vitamin A deficiency is also a significant problem .
In the Philippines , per capita white rice consumption is about 315 grams ( 0.69 pounds ) daily , which is fifteenfold higher than in the U.S. Providing a beta-carotene rich source of rice indeed sounds like a lifesaving solution , but the GE rice has repeatedly failed to deliver .
Golden Rice has been making headlines for two decades as a solution to vitamin A deficiency , a condition that affects 250 million preschool-aged children worldwide .
As the leading cause @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s estimated that up to 500,000 children become blind each year due to vitamin A deficiency , and half of them die within a year of losing their sight , according to the World Health Organization .
Golden Rice has already gone through multiple changes before its latest version — GR2E — received regulatory approval for use in food .
The first Golden Rice , GR1 , failed , as it contained too little beta-carotene to even make a dent in vitamin A deficiency .
The FDA approved Golden Rice , using @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that its beta-carotene content is too low to warrant a nutrient content claim .
Health Canada similarly wrote that even if all rice and rice products in the country were replaced with Golden Rice , it would result in only a very small ( 0.8 % to 8 % ) increase in beta-carotene intake daily .
IRRI is already countering the finding , essentially stating that it will work better in the Philippines simply because the average Filipino consumes much more rice than the average American : Controversy has surrounded Golden Rice since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s uncertain whether widespread planting of this GMO will benefit those who are vitamin A deficient .
IIRI ’ s Russell Reinke , a rice breeder , stated that eating about 1 cup of Golden Rice daily would supply 50 % of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin A for an adult .
This was in an article published by the Genetic Literacy Project , a well-known front group for the GMO industry , which also states : There is concern , however , that the beta-carotene in Golden Rice may degrade @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after three weeks of storage Golden Rice retained only 60 % of its beta-carotene and this dropped to 13 % after 10 weeks .
Further , there are concerns that even the GR2E rice may contain only negligible quantities of beta-carotene .
The FDA reported that the rice contained only 0.50 to 2.35 ug/g of beta-carotene compared to , say , the 111 ug/g found in spinach , although sometimes higher levels have been reported .
In cases where higher levels were reported , this was often the result of misleading or skewed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ total carotenoids instead of beta-carotene alone • Using non-AOAC ( Association of Official Analytical Chemists ) extraction methods • Growth under greenhouse rather than field conditions The conversion of beta-carotene to vitamin A is also questionable .
A 2009 study found Golden Rice is an effective source of vitamin A because it “ is effectively converted to vitamin A ” in healthy adult volunteers — but those who could theoretically be helped by the additional beta-carotene in Golden Rice are , for the most part , not healthy adults , nor would they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to absorb vitamin A , like fat .
Even the study that concluded Golden Rice is an effective source of vitamin A fed the rice to healthy adults along with 10 grams of butter , something that may not occur in a real-life setting .
There are fundamental questions that need to be asked , too , such as whether the answer to malnutrition lies in replacing one micronutrient at a time , instead of helping people to grow nutritionally balanced , healthy foods .
Greenpeace Southeast Asia-Philippines is among the NGOs that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s ( BPI ) approval , calling on the government to “ immediately reverse the faulty decision , which the environment group maintains is based on insufficient data.
” They said the approval processed did not take into account socio-economic impacts to farmers and indigenous peoples , or the rice ’ s effects on local culture , adding : Fighting back against vitamin A deficiency isn ’ t a matter of introducing GE rice into the environment but , rather , targeting the lack of healthy food spurring the deficiency in the first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has already implemented a campaign featuring a variety of non-GMO methods for combating vitamin A deficiency , such as : • Promoting breastfeeding as the best way to protect babies from vitamin A deficiency , since breastmilk is a natural source of vitamin A • Fortifying foods with vitamin A in certain areas , such as Guatemala , has helped to maintain vitamin A status for high-risk groups and needy families • Promoting home gardens for rural families , including in Africa and Southeast Asia .
According to WHO , “ [ G @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gardens complements dietary diversification and fortification and contributes to better lifelong health.
” High-dose vitamin A supplementation has also yielded improvements , reducing mortality by 23 % overall and by up to 50 % for those with measles .
Biotech giants like Syngenta are going to continue pushing for Golden Rice to gain approval worldwide , while GE rice varieties that contain additional iron and zinc , or have a low glycemic index , have also been developed .
Some have said that a “ Green Gene ” revolution — one that looks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world — is inevitable , but GMOs often create more problems than they solve .
“ The last Green Revolution produced more food , ” a Bulletin of the World Health Organization , stated , “ but much of it didn ’ t reach the people who most needed it.
” What ’ s more , in a survey of childhood nutrition in 63 developing countries , improving the level of women ’ s education was the most important factor related to better child nutrition .
Biotech Companies Gain Power by Taking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in my mind that GMOs and the toxic chemicals used along with them pose a serious threat to the environment and our health , yet government agencies turn a blind eye and refuse to act — and the reason is very clear : They are furthering the interests of the biotech giants .
It is well known that there is a revolving door between government agencies and biotech companies like Monsanto-now-Bayer .
Consider the hypocrisy of the FDA .
On paper , the U.S. may have the strictest food safety laws in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this agency has repeatedly allowed GMOs and their accompanying pesticides and herbicides like Roundup to evade these laws .
In fact , the only legal basis for allowing GE foods to be marketed in the U.S. is the FDA ’ s claim that these foods are inherently safe , a claim which is patently ridiculous .
Documents released as a result of a lawsuit against the FDA reveal that the agency ’ s own scientists warned their superiors about the detrimental risks of GE foods .
But their warnings fell on deaf ears @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not limited to the U.S .
In a June 2017 article , GMWatch revealed that 26 of the 34 members of the National Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology of Argentina ( CONABIA ) are either employed by chemical technology companies or have major conflicts of interest .
You may be aware that Argentina is one of the countries where single-crop fields of GE cotton , corn and soy dominate the countryside .
Argentina is also a country facing severe environmental destruction .
Argentines are plagued with health issues , including degenerative diseases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the rapid expansion of GE crops and the subsequent decline in national health indicators are intrinsically linked .
Biotech companies ’ outrageous attempts to push for their corporate interests extend far beyond the halls of government .
In a further effort to hoodwink the public , Monsanto/Bayer and their cohorts have been caught zealously spoon-feeding scientists , academics and journalists with questionable studies that depict them in a positive light .
By hiring “ third-party experts , ” biotech companies are able to take information of dubious validity and present it as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a shameful practice that is far more common than anyone would like to think .
One notorious example of this is Henry Miller , who was thoroughly outed as a Monsanto shill during the 2012 Proposition 37 GMO labeling campaign in California .
Miller , falsely posing as a Stanford professor , promoted GE foods during this campaign .
In 2015 , he published a paper in Forbes Magazine attacking the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer , a branch of the World Health Organization , after it classified glyphosate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was revealed that Miller ’ s work was in fact ghostwritten by Monsanto , Forbes not only fired him , but also removed all of his work from its site .
Industry front groups also abound .
The Genetic Literacy Project and the American Council on Science and Health were both Monsanto-funded before Bayer bought Monsanto .
Whether that funding continues under Bayer is left to be seen , but other “ trusted ” sources were also caught taking Monsanto money .
For example , WebMD , a website that is often @ @ @ @ @ @ @ independent and objective ” health information , was exposed acting as a lackey for Monsanto by using its influence to promote corporate-backed health strategies and products , displaying advertisements and advertorials on Big Biotechs ’ behalf , furthering the biotech industry ’ s agenda — all for the sake of profit .
But even with underhanded tactics to peddle their toxic products , biotechs are now unable to hide the truth : Genetic engineering will in no way , shape or form make the world a better place .
It will not solve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ farmers ’ livelihoods .
And it most certainly will not do any good for your health — and may in fact prove to be detrimental .
There ’ s No Better Time to Act Than NOW — Here ’ s What to Do So now the question is : Will you continue supporting the corrupt , toxic and unsustainable food system that Big Biotech , Monsanto/Bayer and their industry shills and profit-hungry lackeys have painstakingly crafted ?
It is largely up to all of us , as consumers , to loosen and break @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The good news is that the tide has turned .
As consumers worldwide become increasingly aware of the problems linked to GE crops and the toxic chemicals , herbicides and pesticides used on them , more and more people are proactively refusing to eat these foods .
There ’ s also strong growth in the global organic and grass fed sectors .
This just proves one thing : We can make a difference if we steadily work toward the same goal .
One of the best things you can do is to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who runs a small business and uses diverse methods that promote regenerative agriculture .
You can also join a community supported agriculture ( CSA ) program , where you can buy a “ share ” of the vegetables produced by the farm , so you get a regular supply of fresh food .
I believe that joining a CSA is a powerful investment not only in your own health , but in that of your local community and economy as well .
In addition , you should also adopt preventive strategies that can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assaults your body .
I recommend visiting these trustworthy sites for non-GMO food resources in your country : Monsanto , Bayer and their allies want you to think that they control everything , but they do not .
It ’ s you , the masses , who hold the power in your hands .
Let ’ s all work together to topple the biotech industry ’ s house of cards .
Remember — it all starts with shopping smart and making the best food purchases for you and your family .

GMO Rice Coming to Your Plate Soon
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
The Philippines Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry has become the latest regulatory body to approve the use of genetically engineered (GE) “Golden Rice” for direct use as food or feed, as well as for processing. The so-called FFP approval is being heralded as a solution to rising rates of vitamin A deficiency in the country, as the rice is engineered to produce beta-carotene.
However, serious questions remain about the GE rice’s safety, as well as its ability to actually increase vitamin A levels in those who are deficient. Despite these key outstanding questions, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand have also given Golden Rice a green light, which suggests it could appear on your dinner plate soon.
Philippines Says Golden Rice Is Safe
After conducting a biosafety assessment, the Philippines Department of Agriculture announced that Golden Rice was as safe as conventional rice, granting it FFP approval.
In a news release, Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) executive director John de Leon stated, “With this FFP approval, we bring forward a very accessible solution to our country’s problem on vitamin A deficiency that’s affecting many of our preschool children and pregnant women.”
Before the rice will be made available to the public, approval for commercial propagation will still be required. However, PhilRice has already partnered with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the current makers of Golden Rice, to move forward with taste tests of the GE rice. According to IRRI:
“The FFP approval is the latest regulatory milestone in the journey to develop and deploy Golden Rice in the Philippines. With this approval, DA-PhilRice and IRRI will now proceed with sensory evaluations and finally answer the question that many Filipinos have been asking: What does Golden Rice taste like?”
It’s a major step forward for the GE rice, as it’s the first approval in a country where rice is a staple food, and vitamin A deficiency is also a significant problem.
In the Philippines, per capita white rice consumption is about 315 grams (0.69 pounds) daily, which is fifteenfold higher than in the U.S. Providing a beta-carotene rich source of rice indeed sounds like a lifesaving solution, but the GE rice has repeatedly failed to deliver.
FDA Refuses to Give Golden Rice a Nutrient Content Claim
Golden Rice has been making headlines for two decades as a solution to vitamin A deficiency, a condition that affects 250 million preschool-aged children worldwide. As the leading cause of preventable blindness in children, it’s estimated that up to 500,000 children become blind each year due to vitamin A deficiency, and half of them die within a year of losing their sight, according to the World Health Organization.
Golden Rice has already gone through multiple changes before its latest version — GR2E — received regulatory approval for use in food. The first Golden Rice, GR1, failed, as it contained too little beta-carotene to even make a dent in vitamin A deficiency.
The next version, GR2, was developed by biotech giant Syngenta, and the latest version, GR2E, contains three added genes. “Two specify enzymes in the β-carotene biosynthesis pathway, and are taken from bacteria and maize,” Independent Science News reported. “The third specifies a (nonantibiotic) selectable marker protein used in the modification process.”
The FDA approved Golden Rice, using data supplied by IRRI, but noted that its beta-carotene content is too low to warrant a nutrient content claim. Health Canada similarly wrote that even if all rice and rice products in the country were replaced with Golden Rice, it would result in only a very small (0.8% to 8%) increase in beta-carotene intake daily.
IRRI is already countering the finding, essentially stating that it will work better in the Philippines simply because the average Filipino consumes much more rice than the average American:
“On average, Americans eat very little rice, and therefore would receive only modest amounts of beta-carotene. However, Golden Rice is intended as a complementary, food based solution for Vitamin A-deficient communities who consume rice as a staple food, eating between 200 to 300 g per day, and at these levels Golden Rice provides significant provitamin A.”
Will Eating Golden Rice Alleviate Vitamin A Deficiency?
Controversy has surrounded Golden Rice since its creation, in part because it’s uncertain whether widespread planting of this GMO will benefit those who are vitamin A deficient. IIRI’s Russell Reinke, a rice breeder, stated that eating about 1 cup of Golden Rice daily would supply 50% of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin A for an adult.
This was in an article published by the Genetic Literacy Project, a well-known front group for the GMO industry, which also states:
“Golden Rice is meant to complement, not replace, other efforts to address VAD, according to the IRRI. Its goal in the Philippines is to supply 30-50 percent of the estimated average requirements for vitamin A for preschool age children and pregnant or lactating mothers, with vitamin A supplements and diet diversification providing the rest. … While many foods contain beta-carotene, they can be expensive to buy and difficult to grow in regions where VAD [vitamin A deficiency] is an issue. Rice is a staple crop in many countries in South and Southeast Asia, and is widely grown by smallholder farmers. Thus Golden Rice could be a cheap, wide-reaching, sustainable approach to fighting VAD.”
There is concern, however, that the beta-carotene in Golden Rice may degrade with storage. One study revealed that after three weeks of storage Golden Rice retained only 60% of its beta-carotene and this dropped to 13% after 10 weeks.
Further, there are concerns that even the GR2E rice may contain only negligible quantities of beta-carotene. The FDA reported that the rice contained only 0.50 to 2.35 ug/g of beta-carotene compared to, say, the 111 ug/g found in spinach, although sometimes higher levels have been reported. In cases where higher levels were reported, this was often the result of misleading or skewed statistics, such as:
Measuring total carotenoids instead of beta-carotene alone
Milling the rice
Using non-AOAC (Association of Official Analytical Chemists) extraction methods
Growth under greenhouse rather than field conditions
“In other words,” Independent Science News reported, “the low levels communicated to FDA seem to be the most accurate and realistic.”
Golden Rice Approval ‘Irresponsible and Completely Misguided’
The conversion of beta-carotene to vitamin A is also questionable. A 2009 study found Golden Rice is an effective source of vitamin A because it “is effectively converted to vitamin A” in healthy adult volunteers — but those who could theoretically be helped by the additional beta-carotene in Golden Rice are, for the most part, not healthy adults, nor would they have regular access to key nutrients needed to absorb vitamin A, like fat.
Even the study that concluded Golden Rice is an effective source of vitamin A fed the rice to healthy adults along with 10 grams of butter, something that may not occur in a real-life setting. There are fundamental questions that need to be asked, too, such as whether the answer to malnutrition lies in replacing one micronutrient at a time, instead of helping people to grow nutritionally balanced, healthy foods.
Greenpeace Southeast Asia-Philippines is among the NGOs that blasted the Bureau of Plant industry’s (BPI) approval, calling on the government to “immediately reverse the faulty decision, which the environment group maintains is based on insufficient data.”
They said the approval processed did not take into account socio-economic impacts to farmers and indigenous peoples, or the rice’s effects on local culture, adding:
“The BPI’s approval of so-called ‘golden rice’ is extremely irresponsible and completely misguided. We condemn the BPI’s systematic disregard of the precautionary principle and of robust data that clearly show that the safety assessments submitted by GR [Golden Rice] proponents are flawed. Rice is the Philippines’ primary staple; this is a foolish decision that will have far-reaching negative impacts on food and agriculture in the country … Genetically modified ‘golden rice’ neither addresses hunger nor malnutrition … the solution is resilient food and farm systems—diverse grains, fruits and vegetables for diverse diets and for food and nutrition security. Governments and philanthropists should be promoting programs that empower people to have access to and grow diverse fruit and vegetables, instead of listening to a few giant biotech corporations pushing unproven expensive techno-fixes and experimenting on the lives and livelihood of farmers, mothers and children.”
WHO Promotes Gardens, Breastfeeding for Vitamin A Deficiency
Fighting back against vitamin A deficiency isn’t a matter of introducing GE rice into the environment but, rather, targeting the lack of healthy food spurring the deficiency in the first place. Toward this end, WHO has already implemented a campaign featuring a variety of non-GMO methods for combating vitamin A deficiency, such as:
Promoting breastfeeding as the best way to protect babies from vitamin A deficiency, since breastmilk is a natural source of vitamin A
Fortifying foods with vitamin A in certain areas, such as Guatemala, has helped to maintain vitamin A status for high-risk groups and needy families
Promoting home gardens for rural families, including in Africa and Southeast Asia. According to WHO, “[G]rowing fruits and vegetables in home gardens complements dietary diversification and fortification and contributes to better lifelong health.”
High-dose vitamin A supplementation has also yielded improvements, reducing mortality by 23% overall and by up to 50% for those with measles. Biotech giants like Syngenta are going to continue pushing for Golden Rice to gain approval worldwide, while GE rice varieties that contain additional iron and zinc, or have a low glycemic index, have also been developed.
Some have said that a “Green Gene” revolution — one that looks at GMOs as the solution to feeding the world — is inevitable, but GMOs often create more problems than they solve. “The last Green Revolution produced more food,” a Bulletin of the World Health Organization, stated, “but much of it didn’t reach the people who most needed it.”
What’s more, in a survey of childhood nutrition in 63 developing countries, improving the level of women’s education was the most important factor related to better child nutrition.
“According to these figures, if improving rice productivity affected food availability it would contribute to 26% of the causes of improvement in child nutrition, whereas improving the status and education of women would more than double that effect,” the Bulletin noted.
Biotech Companies Gain Power by Taking Over the Government
There is no doubt in my mind that GMOs and the toxic chemicals used along with them pose a serious threat to the environment and our health, yet government agencies turn a blind eye and refuse to act — and the reason is very clear: They are furthering the interests of the biotech giants.
It is well known that there is a revolving door between government agencies and biotech companies like Monsanto-now-Bayer. Consider the hypocrisy of the FDA. On paper, the U.S. may have the strictest food safety laws in the world governing new food additives, but this agency has repeatedly allowed GMOs and their accompanying pesticides and herbicides like Roundup to evade these laws.
In fact, the only legal basis for allowing GE foods to be marketed in the U.S. is the FDA’s claim that these foods are inherently safe, a claim which is patently ridiculous. Documents released as a result of a lawsuit against the FDA reveal that the agency’s own scientists warned their superiors about the detrimental risks of GE foods. But their warnings fell on deaf ears.
The influence of the biotech giants is not limited to the U.S. In a June 2017 article, GMWatch revealed that 26 of the 34 members of the National Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology of Argentina (CONABIA) are either employed by chemical technology companies or have major conflicts of interest.
You may be aware that Argentina is one of the countries where single-crop fields of GE cotton, corn and soy dominate the countryside. Argentina is also a country facing severe environmental destruction. Argentines are plagued with health issues, including degenerative diseases and physical deformities. It would appear that the rapid expansion of GE crops and the subsequent decline in national health indicators are intrinsically linked.
Don’t Be Duped by Industry Shills!
Biotech companies’ outrageous attempts to push for their corporate interests extend far beyond the halls of government. In a further effort to hoodwink the public, Monsanto/Bayer and their cohorts have been caught zealously spoon-feeding scientists, academics and journalists with questionable studies that depict them in a positive light.
By hiring “third-party experts,” biotech companies are able to take information of dubious validity and present it as independent and authoritative. It’s a shameful practice that is far more common than anyone would like to think. One notorious example of this is Henry Miller, who was thoroughly outed as a Monsanto shill during the 2012 Proposition 37 GMO labeling campaign in California.
Miller, falsely posing as a Stanford professor, promoted GE foods during this campaign. In 2015, he published a paper in Forbes Magazine attacking the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, after it classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen. After it was revealed that Miller’s work was in fact ghostwritten by Monsanto, Forbes not only fired him, but also removed all of his work from its site.
Industry front groups also abound. The Genetic Literacy Project and the American Council on Science and Health were both Monsanto-funded before Bayer bought Monsanto. Whether that funding continues under Bayer is left to be seen, but other “trusted” sources were also caught taking Monsanto money.
For example, WebMD, a website that is often presented as a trustworthy source of “independent and objective” health information, was exposed acting as a lackey for Monsanto by using its influence to promote corporate-backed health strategies and products, displaying advertisements and advertorials on Big Biotechs’ behalf, furthering the biotech industry’s agenda — all for the sake of profit.
But even with underhanded tactics to peddle their toxic products, biotechs are now unable to hide the truth: Genetic engineering will in no way, shape or form make the world a better place. It will not solve world hunger. It will not increase farmers’ livelihoods. And it most certainly will not do any good for your health — and may in fact prove to be detrimental.
There’s No Better Time to Act Than NOW — Here’s What to Do
So now the question is: Will you continue supporting the corrupt, toxic and unsustainable food system that Big Biotech, Monsanto/Bayer and their industry shills and profit-hungry lackeys have painstakingly crafted? It is largely up to all of us, as consumers, to loosen and break their tight hold on our food supply. The good news is that the tide has turned.
As consumers worldwide become increasingly aware of the problems linked to GE crops and the toxic chemicals, herbicides and pesticides used on them, more and more people are proactively refusing to eat these foods. There’s also strong growth in the global organic and grass fed sectors. This just proves one thing: We can make a difference if we steadily work toward the same goal.
One of the best things you can do is to buy your foods from a local farmer who runs a small business and uses diverse methods that promote regenerative agriculture. You can also join a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, where you can buy a “share” of the vegetables produced by the farm, so you get a regular supply of fresh food. I believe that joining a CSA is a powerful investment not only in your own health, but in that of your local community and economy as well.
In addition, you should also adopt preventive strategies that can help reduce the toxic chemical pollution that assaults your body. I recommend visiting these trustworthy sites for non-GMO food resources in your country:
Monsanto, Bayer and their allies want you to think that they control everything, but they do not. It’s you, the masses, who hold the power in your hands. Let’s all work together to topple the biotech industry’s house of cards. Remember — it all starts with shopping smart and making the best food purchases for you and your family.


wakingtimes--2020-01-10--From Armageddon to Pharmageddon

From Armageddon to Pharmageddon

How the use of violence to teach lessons has outlived its authority For years I had been working on a book on how earth-shattering catastrophes had birthed our religious and political order , and how we can heal our wounded species by reparenting ourselves with our birthright of unconditional love .
A year before finishing it , I decided to experiment with Twitter .
Trying my hand at various topics , I stumbled on the subject of vaccines and discovered that the mainstream campaign to censor the truth about them left me with a lot to say .
So there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ different strands of thought .
The first had to do with a religious and political structure forged in a cauldron of catastrophes , ten or fifteen thousand years ago .
It was traditionally designed to be supported by three pillars .
A body of laws enforced by punitive judgments .
A penal system based on hell and damnation , torture , imprisonment and social death .
And an infrastructure of war built for mass murder and mayhem .
And then there was the second strand that had to do with one of ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – vaccines .
When I was contacted for an interview by Demand the Truth , I hadn ’ t quite figured out how , or even if , these disparate strands of thought fit together .
In the few days I had to prepare for the interview , I discovered what they have in common .
They are both founded on the same teaching principle .
And this teaching principle may just help us unravel the mystery of history .
Let ’ s take it step by step .
Vaccines work on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – along with neurotoxic adjuvants and preservatives that would make a health inspector blanch – to teach the immune system to protect itself from disease .
The problem , as we ’ ve discovered to our horror , is that vaccines instruct the immune system by catastrophically damaging it .
In the course of training the body to fight disease , vaccines wage war on the immune system and wreak havoc on it with a range of afflictions – brain inflammation , cardiac arrest , central nervous system breakdowns , bowel disorders , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are being vaccinated for .
All this is not in dispute .
Anyone who has studied vaccines will attest to the truth of it .
The evil of vaccines can be summed up in two words : toxic teaching .
The method of teaching employed by vaccines is to inflict all sorts of toxic violence on the body .
Since the formal word for a teaching method is pedagogy , we could say vaccines represent a system of toxic pedagogy .
Toxic pedagogy is nothing new .
For millennia the accepted method of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hit children in the name of disciplining them .
Teachers cane children in the name of instructing them .
Does all this violence make children better ?
Not in a million years !
It traumatizes them .
The scars on their bodies heal in a few days , the damage to their psyches lasts a lifetime .
All this is common knowledge .
Swiss psychologist Alice Miller helped pioneer the study of toxic pedagogy decades ago .
All that remained was to trace its origins to a series of earth-battering catastrophes that decimated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ago .
Anthropological records are abuzz with stories of gods almost annihilating the human race .
Geological records abound with evidence of interplanetary comets and asteroids colliding with earth and laying waste to it .
The problem is not with falling solar system debris per se .
It is with the few who survived and went on to repopulate the species .
They were so traumatized that they came to terms with these cataclysmic forces by personifying them as angry gods that passed a sentence of mass death on man .
Infernal fire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ random outcome of astrophysical forces .
They were symptomatic of gods of wrath , determined to teach an errant species the lesson of its life .
And voila !
We have the origin of toxic pedagogy – the grotesque idea that the way to teach man to behave properly is through violence and destruction of a literally cosmic order .
Gods modeled this toxic pedagogy for man .
Man in turn modeled it for his children .
He unleashed thousands of years of violence and aggression against his own flesh and blood under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them , teaching them a lesson .
Now psychologists know how children cope with corporal punishment .
Typically , they split off from the victimized part of themselves and learn to identify with their victimizers .
Thus the violent things parents did to their children , their children grow up to do to their children .
It is how violence cycles from generation to generation .
But in the big picture , it is the so-called gods who got the cycle of generational abuse rolling .
They are the originators of abuse on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ usual coping mechanism by which the child breaks his sympathetic connection with the victimized self , and goes over to the side of the victimizing parent , is now replayed in a religious dimension between gods and humans .
As man disowns his victimized self , he learns to treat human nature as an object of shame , contempt and mortification .
And the gods – who are , after all , what we might call doomsday gods – are exalted as objects of reverence and veneration .
Counterintuitive as this seems , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children divorce their abused selves and espouse the cause of their abusers .
But when it happens in a collective arena , the consequences are far more extreme than when an abused child grows up to dominate a household as an abusive parent .
By framing dreaded gods of destruction as objects of worship and devotion , religion gives birth to a class of institutional guardians who presume to rule over society as the incarnation of Doomsday Gods .
These quasi-divine rulers exercise their authority by passing violent judgments on mankind .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up elaborate penal systems to crack down on man for an endless litany of sins and crimes .
From ancient kings to modern commanders-in-chief , the primary function of these leaders is to wage war .
To this end , they literally weaponize cosmic fireballs and celestial barrages of fire and brimstone – at least , as far as the state of technology enables them to do from age to age – and then they deploy these super-weapons to inflict death and destruction on errant members of the human race .
This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Humans are hardwired for unconditional love .
Being nurtured and cherished is how we grow and thrive .
But now we have a class of rulers that trade in the love that is man ’ s birthright for the death-dealing wrath of Doomsday Gods .
Their function is to maintain social control and serve as bastions of law and order .
But their mission is to do so by following in the toxic steps of the Doomsday Gods .
They keep humanity in line by handing down a battery of punitive judgments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ humans by impersonating Doomsday Gods and hurling doom and perdition from on high .
First , as flaming arrows shot from bows and fiery boulders flung from trebuchets .
Then , over the course of time , as cannonballs and cluster bombs and ballistic missiles raining down from the heavens .
Thus the arsenals of war are not born of human aggression .
They are born of human beings coping with their terror of monster gods as children do , by trying to imitate them and instrumentalize their fiery wrath .
The whole @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tool – of capital punishment and warfare as methods of chastisement and correction – is not inborn in humanity .
It is born of a faulty , utterly fallacious interpretation of cosmic catastrophes .
Thus the gods did in the beginning .
And thus humans ( as quasi-gods ) do over the course of history .
For millennia we put our health , wealth and welfare in the hands of these psychotic specimens of divinity .
Thanks to the better angels of our nature , we are finally coming to our senses .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ our trust is completely misplaced in a class of pseudo-divine rulers who are more bound to grandiose delusions of godhead than bonded to the reality of their own flesh and blood .
How can we entrust the administration of our laws , the governance of our lives , to those who channel the brute insentient forces of the universe , laboring under a delusion of being doom-dispensing gods ?
How can we delegate the burden of upholding social order to those who embody the forces responsible for a breakdown of cosmic order .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ was lost when the human spirit was acculturated to imitate the gods .
We lost that loving feeling that is our main reason for being .
We lost that integral connection with our inner child that is the mainspring of our empathic identification with the weak and small among us .
That is what the Reparenting Movement sets out to recover .
Our civilization went off the rails when , under the hammer blows of celestial catastrophes , our leaders split off from their humanity to identify with a syndicate of wrath-crazed gods @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this mad misalliance .
It creates havens of unconditional love where , by reconnecting with the violated self – the innocent victim of childhood abuse – we quit aligning with heavenly and/or earthly Father Figures that cycle and recycle the brute forces of cosmic violence and destruction .
In reparenting , we conjure up the Good Parent – the Loving Mother/Father we were always meant to have .
We envision who we would have liked our Good Parent to be .
We focus on what we would have liked our Good Parents to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we would have liked our Good Parent to relate to us as children .
We experience the grief , anger and anguish of never being treated that way – and by virtue of experiencing it all , we ’ re able to get it out of our system .
Deep in our DNA is an infallible blueprint of our birthright of love .
Even if the Good Mother or Good Father is conjured up in our minds , our bodies respond as if they are actually present .
We get to cry , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do all the things we never got to do with our real parents .
By modeling the Good Parent for each other , we deprogram ourselves from a cult of the Bad Parent that enslaved , exploited and exterminated us for ages .
We refuse to embrace the various forms of toxic pedagogy that a majority of authority figures still practice to this day .
We are now at a crossroads of history .
By realizing that violence against children is bad , we are ready to withdraw our trust from authority figures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us a lesson .
And nothing brings this lesson home to us like vaccines .
It turns out the pedagogy of the Needle is as toxic as that of the Rod .
An entire book has been written on how the medical assault on the American brain has spawned an epidemic of social violence and criminality .
[ 1 ] The poisoned needle destroys our emotional intelligence , our capacity for prosocial interaction , by creating a raging inferno of inflammation in our brains .
And the punitive rod destroys our capacity for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cooperate , by stimulating a cauldron of rage and aggression in our psyches .
It is no wonder , then , that guardians of public health , armed with the needle , have failed us as miserably as guardians of public order armed with the rod ?
It ’ s about time we come together to declare the age of institutional guardians over .
Can we trust guardians of public order to save the world , when under the pretext of safeguarding it , they give ample proof of their compulsion to build @ @ @ @ @ @ @ No more than we can trust guardians of public health to protect future generations , when under the guise of immunizing them , they give us abundant proof of their obsession to do our children a world of harm .
The thrust of progress from the Renaissance and Age of Enlightenment is towards greater autonomy , greater democratization .
We abolished the Divine Right of Kings .
Next up is to abrogate the Divine Right of Capital .
But to truly emerge from our nonage – to genuinely co-create a world that works @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have to undergo two seminal shifts .
One is to be disabused of our faith in truncheons and tanks as pedagogical tools to teach a lesson .
Two is to realize the religion of power is as much a superstitious cult as the power of religion .
Those playing god over us have always derived their power and authority from an irrational , nay , insane misreading of cosmic cataclysms !
Because it is so alien to our psychobiology , the cult of authority only succeeds by brainwashing the mind and bulldozing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we are all on the same side .
Love advocates for us .
It empowers us to give voice to what ails the body and assails the soul .
By definition , love is not something we fight .
That which is imposed from above us can never be congruent with that which rises up within us – which is why it has to be rammed through with coercion and force .
You want to stick it to me , better bring a Big Stick .
As it turns out , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the toxic pedagogy of vaccines couldn ’ t come at a better time in our history .
It ’ s just what the doctor ordered to give us the final push to topple an ideology of dominance and violence .
For the idea of gods battering an evil species to death isn ’ t merely the template for corporal punishment .
It is also the template for racism and genocide .
Gods cleansing the earth of a polluted race is the model for Kurtz in the novel Heart of Darkness , and his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When they cry , Exterminate all the brutes , they follow in the steps of the Doomsday Gods who did exactly that .
In this sense , it can be said that vaccines are a veiled form of imperialism .
The poor immune system is looked on as a benighted entity to be instructed and improved .
That ’ s the excuse for the needle going in to disrupt its intricate workings and ravage it with chronic ills .
And that ’ s the way the body is exploited in perpetuity by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is no appreciation that humans are designed to thrive as a communal body , there is none that the body flourishes from coexisting with trillions of bacteria and viruses .
Vaccination is based on a militaristic model of medicine .
Viruses are stigmatized as the enemy .
Zap the virus , cure the disease .
Many biologists don ’ t even believe in the existence of viruses ( which are free-floating bits of RNA ) .
They believe a virus is only able to invade a cell and take it over because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , stress , lack of sleep , lack of exercise and of course , the chronic lack of love .
The same thing is true of the bad guys .
There are no human enemies , just unloving attitudes that can be changed .
You don ’ t want flesh-eating bacteria ?
Fine , just change the biological terrain .
You don ’ t want mean , angry people preying on their kind ?
Fine , just change the psychosocial environment .
Don ’ t abuse children .
Don ’ t abandon or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs , understand and empathize with them , free them to find the joy in existence .
That ’ s the way to rule out antisocial behavior and make it impossible for evildoing to gain any traction .
The bottom line is humans are good .
If it weren ’ t for being terrorized out of their wits by celestial catastrophes , personified as imaginary gods of wrath , humans would be happy to be led by the loving kindness of their nature .
Give the body the kind of nourishment it needs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Needle to protect society from various sorts of pathology .
Give the psyche the kind of nurture it needs , and there is no need for all those extension of the Rod – like spears and arrows , assault rifles and missiles – to safeguard society from various forms of psychopathology .
In the end , the iconic image of Napalm Girl , running down the street , flailing outstretched arms , merges into the autistic boy , running around flapping his arms .
Both are the casualties of a militaristic mindset @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a war the gods waged on our species .
Sooner or later we have to remember our religion and politics still bears the imprint of a Day of Doom when gods destroyed the world to save it .
Only then will we no longer be doomed to go on mindlessly destroying the global village to save it – or wrecking the human body to protect it .
Neville Raymond is the author of The Reparenting Revolution – From a Power-Based to a Love Based Society ( 2018 ) and The Genesis of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Holocaust ( 2001 ) .
His latest book , The Hand to Heart Book of Reparenting – Co-creating a World where the Human Race Falls in Love with Itself is due out in November 2019 .
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From Armageddon to Pharmageddon
Neville Raymond, GreenMedinfo
Waking Times
How the use of violence to teach lessons has outlived its authority
For years I had been working on a book on how earth-shattering catastrophes had birthed our religious and political order, and how we can heal our wounded species by reparenting ourselves with our birthright of unconditional love. A year before finishing it, I decided to experiment with Twitter. Trying my hand at various topics, I stumbled on the subject of vaccines and discovered that the mainstream campaign to censor the truth about them left me with a lot to say.
So there I was, caught up in two different strands of thought. The first had to do with a religious and political structure forged in a cauldron of catastrophes, ten or fifteen thousand years ago. It was traditionally designed to be supported by three pillars. A body of laws enforced by punitive judgments. A penal system based on hell and damnation, torture, imprisonment and social death. And an infrastructure of war built for mass murder and mayhem. And then there was the second strand that had to do with one of ‘the great triumphs of modern medicine’ – vaccines.
When I was contacted for an interview by Demand the Truth, I hadn’t quite figured out how, or even if, these disparate strands of thought fit together. In the few days I had to prepare for the interview, I discovered what they have in common. They are both founded on the same teaching principle. And this teaching principle may just help us unravel the mystery of history.
Let’s take it step by step. Vaccines work on the theory of using dead or inactivated viruses – along with neurotoxic adjuvants and preservatives that would make a health inspector blanch – to teach the immune system to protect itself from disease. The problem, as we’ve discovered to our horror, is that vaccines instruct the immune system by catastrophically damaging it. In the course of training the body to fight disease, vaccines wage war on the immune system and wreak havoc on it with a range of afflictions – brain inflammation, cardiac arrest, central nervous system breakdowns, bowel disorders, and of course the very diseases we are being vaccinated for.
All this is not in dispute. Anyone who has studied vaccines will attest to the truth of it. The evil of vaccines can be summed up in two words: toxic teaching. The method of teaching employed by vaccines is to inflict all sorts of toxic violence on the body. Since the formal word for a teaching method is pedagogy, we could say vaccines represent a system of toxic pedagogy.
Toxic pedagogy is nothing new. For millennia the accepted method of teaching children was through violence. Parents hit children in the name of disciplining them. Teachers cane children in the name of instructing them. Does all this violence make children better? Not in a million years! It traumatizes them. The scars on their bodies heal in a few days, the damage to their psyches lasts a lifetime. All this is common knowledge. Swiss psychologist Alice Miller helped pioneer the study of toxic pedagogy decades ago. All that remained was to trace its origins to a series of earth-battering catastrophes that decimated life on this planet thousands of years ago.
Anthropological records are abuzz with stories of gods almost annihilating the human race. Geological records abound with evidence of interplanetary comets and asteroids colliding with earth and laying waste to it. The problem is not with falling solar system debris per se. It is with the few who survived and went on to repopulate the species. They were so traumatized that they came to terms with these cataclysmic forces by personifying them as angry gods that passed a sentence of mass death on man. Infernal fire and brimstone from heaven were not the random outcome of astrophysical forces. They were symptomatic of gods of wrath, determined to teach an errant species the lesson of its life. And voila! We have the origin of toxic pedagogy – the grotesque idea that the way to teach man to behave properly is through violence and destruction of a literally cosmic order. Gods modeled this toxic pedagogy for man. Man in turn modeled it for his children. He unleashed thousands of years of violence and aggression against his own flesh and blood under the guise of punishing them, disciplining them, teaching them a lesson.
Now psychologists know how children cope with corporal punishment. Typically, they split off from the victimized part of themselves and learn to identify with their victimizers. Thus the violent things parents did to their children, their children grow up to do to their children. It is how violence cycles from generation to generation. But in the big picture, it is the so-called gods who got the cycle of generational abuse rolling. They are the originators of abuse on a cosmic scale. And so the usual coping mechanism by which the child breaks his sympathetic connection with the victimized self, and goes over to the side of the victimizing parent, is now replayed in a religious dimension between gods and humans. As man disowns his victimized self, he learns to treat human nature as an object of shame, contempt and mortification. And the gods – who are, after all, what we might call doomsday gods – are exalted as objects of reverence and veneration.
Counterintuitive as this seems, it reprises the process by which battered children divorce their abused selves and espouse the cause of their abusers. But when it happens in a collective arena, the consequences are far more extreme than when an abused child grows up to dominate a household as an abusive parent. By framing dreaded gods of destruction as objects of worship and devotion, religion gives birth to a class of institutional guardians who presume to rule over society as the incarnation of Doomsday Gods. These quasi-divine rulers exercise their authority by passing violent judgments on mankind. They gather the reins of power by setting up elaborate penal systems to crack down on man for an endless litany of sins and crimes. From ancient kings to modern commanders-in-chief, the primary function of these leaders is to wage war. To this end, they literally weaponize cosmic fireballs and celestial barrages of fire and brimstone – at least, as far as the state of technology enables them to do from age to age – and then they deploy these super-weapons to inflict death and destruction on errant members of the human race.
This is where we went wrong as a species. Humans are hardwired for unconditional love. Being nurtured and cherished is how we grow and thrive. But now we have a class of rulers that trade in the love that is man’s birthright for the death-dealing wrath of Doomsday Gods. Their function is to maintain social control and serve as bastions of law and order. But their mission is to do so by following in the toxic steps of the Doomsday Gods. They keep humanity in line by handing down a battery of punitive judgments. They correct the transgressions of fellow humans by impersonating Doomsday Gods and hurling doom and perdition from on high. First, as flaming arrows shot from bows and fiery boulders flung from trebuchets. Then, over the course of time, as cannonballs and cluster bombs and ballistic missiles raining down from the heavens.
Thus the arsenals of war are not born of human aggression. They are born of human beings coping with their terror of monster gods as children do, by trying to imitate them and instrumentalize their fiery wrath. The whole system of corporal punishment as a disciplinary tool – of capital punishment and warfare as methods of chastisement and correction – is not inborn in humanity. It is born of a faulty, utterly fallacious interpretation of cosmic catastrophes. Thus the gods did in the beginning. And thus humans (as quasi-gods) do over the course of history.
For millennia we put our health, wealth and welfare in the hands of these psychotic specimens of divinity. Thanks to the better angels of our nature, we are finally coming to our senses. We’re beginning to understand that our trust is completely misplaced in a class of pseudo-divine rulers who are more bound to grandiose delusions of godhead than bonded to the reality of their own flesh and blood. How can we entrust the administration of our laws, the governance of our lives, to those who channel the brute insentient forces of the universe, laboring under a delusion of being doom-dispensing gods? How can we delegate the burden of upholding social order to those who embody the forces responsible for a breakdown of cosmic order. How absurd is that?
Something profound was lost when the human spirit was acculturated to imitate the gods. We lost that loving feeling that is our main reason for being. We lost that integral connection with our inner child that is the mainspring of our empathic identification with the weak and small among us. That is what the Reparenting Movement sets out to recover. Our civilization went off the rails when, under the hammer blows of celestial catastrophes, our leaders split off from their humanity to identify with a syndicate of wrath-crazed gods. A Reparenting Revolution frees us from this mad misalliance. It creates havens of unconditional love where, by reconnecting with the violated self – the innocent victim of childhood abuse – we quit aligning with heavenly and/or earthly Father Figures that cycle and recycle the brute forces of cosmic violence and destruction.
In reparenting, we conjure up the Good Parent – the Loving Mother/Father we were always meant to have. We envision who we would have liked our Good Parent to be. We focus on what we would have liked our Good Parents to say. We call to mind how we would have liked our Good Parent to relate to us as children. We experience the grief, anger and anguish of never being treated that way – and by virtue of experiencing it all, we’re able to get it out of our system.
Deep in our DNA is an infallible blueprint of our birthright of love. Even if the Good Mother or Good Father is conjured up in our minds, our bodies respond as if they are actually present. We get to cry, scream, yell, and rage and do all the things we never got to do with our real parents. By modeling the Good Parent for each other, we deprogram ourselves from a cult of the Bad Parent that enslaved, exploited and exterminated us for ages. We refuse to embrace the various forms of toxic pedagogy that a majority of authority figures still practice to this day.
We are now at a crossroads of history. By realizing that violence against children is bad, we are ready to withdraw our trust from authority figures who have always used violence to teach us a lesson. And nothing brings this lesson home to us like vaccines. It turns out the pedagogy of the Needle is as toxic as that of the Rod. An entire book has been written on how the medical assault on the American brain has spawned an epidemic of social violence and criminality.[1] The poisoned needle destroys our emotional intelligence, our capacity for prosocial interaction, by creating a raging inferno of inflammation in our brains. And the punitive rod destroys our capacity for fellow feeling, our ability to peacefully cooperate, by stimulating a cauldron of rage and aggression in our psyches. It is no wonder, then, that guardians of public health, armed with the needle, have failed us as miserably as guardians of public order armed with the rod?
It’s about time we come together to declare the age of institutional guardians over. Can we trust guardians of public order to save the world, when under the pretext of safeguarding it, they give ample proof of their compulsion to build up the means to destroy it? No more than we can trust guardians of public health to protect future generations, when under the guise of immunizing them, they give us abundant proof of their obsession to do our children a world of harm.
The thrust of progress from the Renaissance and Age of Enlightenment is towards greater autonomy, greater democratization. We abolished the Divine Right of Kings. Next up is to abrogate the Divine Right of Capital. But to truly emerge from our nonage – to genuinely co-create a world that works equally well for us all – we have to undergo two seminal shifts. One is to be disabused of our faith in truncheons and tanks as pedagogical tools to teach a lesson. Two is to realize the religion of power is as much a superstitious cult as the power of religion. Those playing god over us have always derived their power and authority from an irrational, nay, insane misreading of cosmic cataclysms! Because it is so alien to our psychobiology, the cult of authority only succeeds by brainwashing the mind and bulldozing the body. When we come from love, we are all on the same side. Love advocates for us. It empowers us to give voice to what ails the body and assails the soul. By definition, love is not something we fight. That which is imposed from above us can never be congruent with that which rises up within us – which is why it has to be rammed through with coercion and force. You want to stick it to me, better bring a Big Stick.
As it turns out, the sweeping distrust in authority figures caused by the toxic pedagogy of vaccines couldn’t come at a better time in our history. It’s just what the doctor ordered to give us the final push to topple an ideology of dominance and violence. For the idea of gods battering an evil species to death isn’t merely the template for corporal punishment. It is also the template for racism and genocide. Gods cleansing the earth of a polluted race is the model for Kurtz in the novel Heart of Darkness, and his demented clone in the film Apocalypse Now. When they cry, Exterminate all the brutes, they follow in the steps of the Doomsday Gods who did exactly that.
In this sense, it can be said that vaccines are a veiled form of imperialism. The poor immune system is looked on as a benighted entity to be instructed and improved. That’s the excuse for the needle going in to disrupt its intricate workings and ravage it with chronic ills. And that’s the way the body is exploited in perpetuity by the medical industrial complex. Just as there is no appreciation that humans are designed to thrive as a communal body, there is none that the body flourishes from coexisting with trillions of bacteria and viruses. Vaccination is based on a militaristic model of medicine. Viruses are stigmatized as the enemy. Zap the virus, cure the disease. Many biologists don’t even believe in the existence of viruses (which are free-floating bits of RNA). They believe a virus is only able to invade a cell and take it over because the cell is weakened by faulty diet, stress, lack of sleep, lack of exercise and of course, the chronic lack of love.
The same thing is true of the bad guys. There are no human enemies, just unloving attitudes that can be changed. You don’t want flesh-eating bacteria? Fine, just change the biological terrain. You don’t want mean, angry people preying on their kind? Fine, just change the psychosocial environment. Don’t abuse children. Don’t abandon or neglect them. Attend to all their needs, understand and empathize with them, free them to find the joy in existence. That’s the way to rule out antisocial behavior and make it impossible for evildoing to gain any traction.
The bottom line is humans are good. If it weren’t for being terrorized out of their wits by celestial catastrophes, personified as imaginary gods of wrath, humans would be happy to be led by the loving kindness of their nature. Give the body the kind of nourishment it needs, and there is no need for the Needle to protect society from various sorts of pathology. Give the psyche the kind of nurture it needs, and there is no need for all those extension of the Rod – like spears and arrows, assault rifles and missiles – to safeguard society from various forms of psychopathology.
In the end, the iconic image of Napalm Girl, running down the street, flailing outstretched arms, merges into the autistic boy, running around flapping his arms. Both are the casualties of a militaristic mindset, harking back to the brutal absurdity of a war the gods waged on our species. Sooner or later we have to remember our religion and politics still bears the imprint of a Day of Doom when gods destroyed the world to save it. Only then will we no longer be doomed to go on mindlessly destroying the global village to save it – or wrecking the human body to protect it.
About the Author
Neville Raymond is the author of The Reparenting Revolution – From a Power-Based to a Love Based Society (2018) and The Genesis of Genocide – Breaking Through to the Heart of the Holocaust (2001). His latest book, The Hand to Heart Book of Reparenting – Co-creating a World where the Human Race Falls in Love with Itself is due out in November 2019.
References
[1] Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality, Harris L. Coulter
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wakingtimes--2020-01-11--Footage Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Jail Cell “Accidentally” Deleted, Including Backups

According to federal prosecutors who have been investigating the case of Jeffrey Epstein , the surveillance footage that should have captured the moments in which his alleged suicide occurred was accidentally deleted by the staff at Manhattan ’ s Metropolitan Correctional Center ( MCC ) .
The prison claims that the footage was accidentally taped over as the result of a clerical error , adding to the intrigue and suspicion surrounding Epstein ’ s death .
To make matters even more suspicious , the prison keeps back up videos for all of their surveillance cameras , but the back ups @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well .
The prison claims that this was also due to a technical error , but did not give any details about the nature of the error .
The MCC , where Epstein was being held , is home to about 750 inmates , but only has about 110 officers on staff , and only 18 were on duty at the time of his alleged suicide .
Two of the prison guards who were responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein at the time of his alleged suicide were taken into federal custody on charges @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The official medical examiner report concluded that Epstein died by hanging himself , but many experts have been skeptical of the official report .
The autopsy found that Epstein suffered from multiple broken neck bones , which is not common in cases of suicide .
In fact , there were breaks to Epstein ’ s hyoid bone , which is an injury that experts say is more commonly seen in homicide victims .
Jonathan Arden , president of the National Association of Medical Examiners , told the Washington Post that the hyoid bone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and it is most common to see these types of breaks in cases of homicide .
Studies have also shown that it is incredibly uncommon to break the hyoid bone in a hanging suicide .
One study that examined hanging suicides in India between 2010 and 2013 found that hyoid damage occurred in only 16 of 264 cases , which is about 6 % .
Epstein was a very controversial figure for many years before his death , as he essentially pled guilty to sexual assault charges in 2008 , in exchange @ @ @ @ @ @ @ avoid serious prison time .
Epstein was a prominent banker and financier who has been long time friends with people like Bill Clinton , Donald Trump and Prince Andrew .
John Vibes is an author and journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture , and focuses solutions-oriented approaches to social problems .
He is also a host of The Free Your Mind Conference and The Free Thought Project Podcast .

Footage Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Jail Cell “Accidentally” Deleted, Including Backups
John Vibes, Truth Theory
Waking Times
According to federal prosecutors who have been investigating the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the surveillance footage that should have captured the moments in which his alleged suicide occurred was accidentally deleted by the staff at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). The prison claims that the footage was accidentally taped over as the result of a clerical error, adding to the intrigue and suspicion surrounding Epstein’s death.
To make matters even more suspicious, the prison keeps back up videos for all of their surveillance cameras, but the back ups for the important locations are missing as well. The prison claims that this was also due to a technical error, but did not give any details about the nature of the error.
The MCC, where Epstein was being held, is home to about 750 inmates, but only has about 110 officers on staff, and only 18 were on duty at the time of his alleged suicide.
Two of the prison guards who were responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein at the time of his alleged suicide were taken into federal custody on charges related to the case in November.
The official medical examiner report concluded that Epstein died by hanging himself, but many experts have been skeptical of the official report. The autopsy found that Epstein suffered from multiple broken neck bones, which is not common in cases of suicide. In fact, there were breaks to Epstein’s hyoid bone, which is an injury that experts say is more commonly seen in homicide victims.
Jonathan Arden, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, told the Washington Post that the hyoid bone is near the Adam’s apple, and it is most common to see these types of breaks in cases of homicide.
Studies have also shown that it is incredibly uncommon to break the hyoid bone in a hanging suicide. One study that examined hanging suicides in India between 2010 and 2013 found that hyoid damage occurred in only 16 of 264 cases, which is about 6%.
Epstein was a very controversial figure for many years before his death, as he essentially pled guilty to sexual assault charges in 2008, in exchange for a deal that allowed him to avoid serious prison time. Epstein was a prominent banker and financier who has been long time friends with people like Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew.
About the Author
John Vibes is an author and journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture, and focuses solutions-oriented approaches to social problems. He is also a host of The Free Your Mind Conference and The Free Thought Project Podcast.


wakingtimes--2020-01-11--Sanctuary Cities: A Battle Over the Second Amendment is Unfolding Across America

As Virginia ’ s new Democratic legislature promises gun control measures , the wives of National Guardsman are warning that impending gun legislation threatens to turn neighbor against neighbor .
As the 2020 Virginia legislative session began , Democratic Governor Ralph Northam and fellow Democrats continued their push for new gun control bills .
In the months since a May 2019 shooting left 12 people dead and four others injured at a Virginia Beach municipal building , Democratic politicians have repeatedly expressed their desire to implement new restrictions such as universal background checks , a ban on certain weapons , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the calls for gun restrictions have not been welcomed by all Virginians .
Instead , the push for more gun control has sparked a movement that has expanded across Virginia and continues to grow in other states including California , Illinois , Colorado , New Mexico , and Florida .
The so-called Second Amendment “ sanctuary city ” movement takes it ’ s name from previous resolutions introduced by opponents of hard line immigration policies .
These sanctuary cities are defined as a city ( or a county , or a state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigration enforcement agents in order to protect low-priority immigrants from deportation , while still turning over those who have committed serious crimes .
In a similar fashion , supporters of Second Amendment sanctuary cities are now asking local law enforcement to refuse to comply with orders from the state regarding gun control .
In Virginia , home to the National Rifle Association headquarters , the sanctuary city movement came as a response to Democrats promising new gun laws after they took control of both chambers of the Virginia Legislature in the 2019 election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recently introduced House Bill 567 , which would prohibit indoor shooting ranges in any building not owned or leased by the Commonwealth of Virginia or the federal government .
To be exempt from the bill a range would need to have fewer than 50 employees working in the building or 90 % of users must be law enforcement employees .
The bill would also require users to present a government photo identification card , and ranges must maintain a log of each user ’ s name , phone number , address , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If passed , the bill could lead to the closing of a number of indoor shooting ranges across the state , with government and law enforcement employees being the only legal users of indoor ranges .
The Virginia Citizens Defense League has been leading the fight to introduce resolutions that declare local officials will oppose any “ unconstitutional restrictions ” on the Second Amendment right to bear arms .
So far 86 of Virginia ’ s 95 counties have passed sanctuary city measures .
In late December , Virginia Attorney General Mark @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the resolutions are “ part of an effort by the gun lobby to stoke fear ” and will “ have no legal effect.
” Democratic Virginia Rep. Donald McEachin told the Washington Examiner that Governor Northam could cut off state funds to local bodies that refuse to comply to new gun control laws and could call in the National Guard to enforce the laws , if necessary .
Although Northam has said he has no plans to call in the National Guard , the statement by McEachin has already caused backlash .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ LaRock sent a letter to Governor Northam asking him to deescalate the situation after LaRock received a letter from Michaela Claywell , a Virginian and wife of an active-duty Virginia Guardsman .
Claywell told LaRock that she has witnessed threats of violence being made against Guardsman on social media .
The social media threats come as a direct response to the notion that Guardsman would be called upon to enforce gun control laws being proposed in the 2020 session .
Mrs. Claywell and a number of wives of high-level officers in the Virginia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other state and federal officials to calm the situation .
While the state of Virginia grapples with how to move forward during these challenging times , the Second Amendment sanctuary city movement is only growing .
The movement started to pick up pace in April 2018 after one of the first resolutions was passed in Effingham County , Illinois .
David Campbell , a member of the Effingham County Board , told the Epoch Times that his county ’ s state attorney and sheriff have said they will not prosecute law-abiding citizens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s 102 counties have passed some form of Second Amendment sanctuary resolution .
The movement is showing no signs of slowing down as it spreads across the states of Kansas , California , Colorado , New Mexico , Illinois , and Virginia .
Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist , activist , and author from Houston , Texas .
He is the founder of The Houston Free Thinkers , and The Conscious Resistance Network .
His writing can be found on TheConsciousResistance.com , Truth In Media , the Anti-Media , Activist Post , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mind Unleashed .
Follow him on Steemit : www.Steemit.com/ @ dbroze **This article ( Sanctuary Cities : A Battle Over the Second Amendment is Unfolding Across America ) was originally published at The Mind Unleashed and is re-posted here with permission .
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Sanctuary Cities: A Battle Over the Second Amendment is Unfolding Across America
Derrick Broze, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
As Virginia’s new Democratic legislature promises gun control measures, the wives of National Guardsman are warning that impending gun legislation threatens to turn neighbor against neighbor.
As the 2020 Virginia legislative session began, Democratic Governor Ralph Northam and fellow Democrats continued their push for new gun control bills. In the months since a May 2019 shooting left 12 people dead and four others injured at a Virginia Beach municipal building, Democratic politicians have repeatedly expressed their desire to implement new restrictions such as universal background checks, a ban on certain weapons, and controversial red flag laws.
However, the calls for gun restrictions have not been welcomed by all Virginians. Instead, the push for more gun control has sparked a movement that has expanded across Virginia and continues to grow in other states including California, Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico, and Florida.
The so-called Second Amendment “sanctuary city” movement takes it’s name from previous resolutions introduced by opponents of hard line immigration policies. These sanctuary cities are defined as a city (or a county, or a state) that limits its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agents in order to protect low-priority immigrants from deportation, while still turning over those who have committed serious crimes.
In a similar fashion, supporters of Second Amendment sanctuary cities are now asking local law enforcement to refuse to comply with orders from the state regarding gun control.
In Virginia, home to the National Rifle Association headquarters, the sanctuary city movement came as a response to Democrats promising new gun laws after they took control of both chambers of the Virginia Legislature in the 2019 election. For example, Delegate Dan Helmer recently introduced House Bill 567, which would prohibit indoor shooting ranges in any building not owned or leased by the Commonwealth of Virginia or the federal government. To be exempt from the bill a range would need to have fewer than 50 employees working in the building or 90% of users must be law enforcement employees. The bill would also require users to present a government photo identification card, and ranges must maintain a log of each user’s name, phone number, address, and the law-enforcement agency where users are employed.
If passed, the bill could lead to the closing of a number of indoor shooting ranges across the state, with government and law enforcement employees being the only legal users of indoor ranges.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League has been leading the fight to introduce resolutions that declare local officials will oppose any “unconstitutional restrictions” on the Second Amendment right to bear arms. So far 86 of Virginia’s 95 counties have passed sanctuary city measures. In late December, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring issued an opinion statement, alleging that the resolutions are “part of an effort by the gun lobby to stoke fear” and will “have no legal effect.”
Democratic Virginia Rep. Donald McEachin told the Washington Examiner that Governor Northam could cut off state funds to local bodies that refuse to comply to new gun control laws and could call in the National Guard to enforce the laws, if necessary. Although Northam has said he has no plans to call in the National Guard, the statement by McEachin has already caused backlash.
On December 30, Virginia Delegate Dave LaRock sent a letter to Governor Northam asking him to deescalate the situation after LaRock received a letter from Michaela Claywell, a Virginian and wife of an active-duty Virginia Guardsman. Claywell told LaRock that she has witnessed threats of violence being made against Guardsman on social media.
“I have written a letter to Governor Northam asking him to meet with the wives of the Virginia Guard officers to explain how he specifically plans to take immediate action to deescalate this situation,” LaRock stated. “I have been told by Michaela that this situation is harming careers and undermining the safety and peace-of-mind of families across Virginia.”
The social media threats come as a direct response to the notion that Guardsman would be called upon to enforce gun control laws being proposed in the 2020 session. Mrs. Claywell and a number of wives of high-level officers in the Virginia National Guard are calling on Governor Northam and other state and federal officials to calm the situation.
“Please use your collective influence to protect our soldiers and our families,” Claywell wrote.
While the state of Virginia grapples with how to move forward during these challenging times, the Second Amendment sanctuary city movement is only growing. The movement started to pick up pace in April 2018 after one of the first resolutions was passed in Effingham County, Illinois. David Campbell, a member of the Effingham County Board, told the Epoch Times that his county’s state attorney and sheriff have said they will not prosecute law-abiding citizens.
“It all started right there, and then it just blossomed. I think we are into 15 states now,” Campbell stated. “I get calls constantly from other states and from other counties wanting a copy of our resolution and a map of how we did it.”
So far 70 of Illinois’s 102 counties have passed some form of Second Amendment sanctuary resolution. The movement is showing no signs of slowing down as it spreads across the states of Kansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois, and Virginia.
About the Author
Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist, activist, and author from Houston, Texas. He is the founder of The Houston Free Thinkers, and The Conscious Resistance Network. His writing can be found on TheConsciousResistance.com , Truth In Media, the Anti-Media, Activist Post, and Mint Press News, and The Mind Unleashed. Follow him on Steemit: www.Steemit.com/@dbroze
**This article (Sanctuary Cities: A Battle Over the Second Amendment is Unfolding Across America) was originally published at The Mind Unleashed and is re-posted here with permission.**


wakingtimes--2020-01-11--‘No Other President Has Had the Gall’: Environmental Groups Balk as Trump Proposes Major Rollback of

President Donald Trump proposed one of his most aggressive environmental rollbacks yet on Thursday , announcing a change that would exempt federal agencies from considering the climate impacts of pipelines and other infrastructure projects .
The president ’ s proposal would significantly limit enforcement of the National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ) , which mandates that federal agencies consider how proposed construction projects like pipelines , highways and dams would impact land , air , water and wildlife , The Associated Press explained .
NEPA also gives the public a say in the review process .
The law was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ national outrage over the 1969 oil spill off Santa Barbara , California .
Along with the Clean Air and Water Acts , it is one of the bedrock environmental laws of the last half century .
Trump , who announced the proposed changes Thursday at the White House surrounded by men in hard hats and safety vests , argued that the law as currently enforced delays important projects with needless bureaucracy .
However , conservation groups warn the changes will benefit fossil fuel companies and other polluting industries at the expense of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most at risk from the fallout .
So what exactly is Trump proposing to change ?
The new regulations would set deadlines for how long a review of a project can take : one year for smaller projects and two years for larger ones , The New York Times explained .
White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Mary Neumayr told NPR that the average environmental impact statement currently takes four and a half years to complete , and the average for highways takes seven years , a delay that “ deprives Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ roads that enable them to get home to their families , ” she said .
But environmental groups argue that two years is too tight for a thorough review .
The regulations get rid of the requirement that agencies consider the cumulative impact of new projects .
This is the requirement courts have pointed to in mandating that agency reviews include an assessment of how a project will contribute to the climate crisis , The New York Times explained .
Neumayr said the new rules would not prevent agencies from considering the impacts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also would not require them to do so .
Under the new regulations , NPR explained , agencies would have to consider the impacts of building a pipeline , but not the impacts of the oil or gas it would transport .
The new regulations would also decrease the number of projects subject to review altogether , NPR reported .
“ Non-federal ” projects receiving limited government money would be exempt , for example .
The changes would also let private companies conduct their own reviews .
Indeed , legal experts agree it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attempted almost 100 environmental rollbacks since taking office , according to The New York Times .
But it has also been sued almost 70 times to stop attempts at deregulation and only won four times .
Legal scholars agree there is a good chance Trump ’ s changes to how NEPA is applied won ’ t stand up in court .
The proposed changes will be published on the federal register Friday and will be followed by a 60-day public comment period , according to The New York Times .
There will also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ changes are enshrined , probably in the fall .

‘No Other President Has Had the Gall’: Environmental Groups Balk as Trump Proposes Major Rollback of Infrastructure Review Process
Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch
Waking Times
President Donald Trump proposed one of his most aggressive environmental rollbacks yet on Thursday, announcing a change that would exempt federal agencies from considering the climate impacts of pipelines and other infrastructure projects.
The president’s proposal would significantly limit enforcement of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which mandates that federal agencies consider how proposed construction projects like pipelines, highways and dams would impact land, air, water and wildlife, The Associated Press explained. NEPA also gives the public a say in the review process. The law was signed by Richard Nixon in 1971 following national outrage over the 1969 oil spill off Santa Barbara, California. Along with the Clean Air and Water Acts, it is one of the bedrock environmental laws of the last half century.
“No other president has had the gall to try to back polluters and turn back the clock to pre-Santa Barbara,” Rice University presidential historian Douglas Brinkley told The New York Times. “Nothing compares to what Donald Trump is doing.”
Trump, who announced the proposed changes Thursday at the White House surrounded by men in hard hats and safety vests, argued that the law as currently enforced delays important projects with needless bureaucracy.
“America’s most critical infrastructure projects have been tied up and bogged down by an outrageously slow and burdensome federal approval process,″ he said, according to The Associated Press. “The builders are not happy. Nobody’s happy.″
However, conservation groups warn the changes will benefit fossil fuel companies and other polluting industries at the expense of the environment, the climate and the communities most at risk from the fallout.
“The implications for access to clean air and clean water and for public input, especially among the low-income communities and communities of color most impacted by climate change and toxic pollution, could be dire,” League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski told USA Today.
So what exactly is Trump proposing to change?
1. Faster Reviews
The new regulations would set deadlines for how long a review of a project can take: one year for smaller projects and two years for larger ones, The New York Times explained.
White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Mary Neumayr told NPR that the average environmental impact statement currently takes four and a half years to complete, and the average for highways takes seven years, a delay that “deprives Americans of the benefits of modernized bridges and roads that enable them to get home to their families,” she said. But environmental groups argue that two years is too tight for a thorough review.
2. Cumulative Impacts
The regulations get rid of the requirement that agencies consider the cumulative impact of new projects. This is the requirement courts have pointed to in mandating that agency reviews include an assessment of how a project will contribute to the climate crisis, The New York Times explained. Neumayr said the new rules would not prevent agencies from considering the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions, but they also would not require them to do so. Under the new regulations, NPR explained, agencies would have to consider the impacts of building a pipeline, but not the impacts of the oil or gas it would transport.
“Ignoring the future impact of climate change as part of the nation’s core environmental review law will only increase costs of development and future disaster recovery on taxpayers and communities, while making us all more vulnerable to its already apparent effects,″ the American Planning Association and the Association of State Floodplain Managers said in a statement reported by The Associated Press.
3. Less Government Oversight
The new regulations would also decrease the number of projects subject to review altogether, NPR reported. “Non-federal” projects receiving limited government money would be exempt, for example. The changes would also let private companies conduct their own reviews.
“This is a clearly a conflict of interest,” Center for American Progress Senior Vice President Christy Goldfuss told NPR. “It’s baffling that the Trump administration thinks handing the keys of environmental review to big polluters is going to pass muster.”
Indeed, legal experts agree it may not. The Trump administration has attempted almost 100 environmental rollbacks since taking office, according to The New York Times. But it has also been sued almost 70 times to stop attempts at deregulation and only won four times.
Legal scholars agree there is a good chance Trump’s changes to how NEPA is applied won’t stand up in court.
“The law require federal agencies to report the environmental impacts of their actions that significantly affect ‘the quality of the human environment,'” Bruce Huber of Notre Dame Law School told NPR. “If the regulations announced today drive agencies to diminish the extent or quality of their reporting, federal courts may very well conclude that their reports do not comply with the law.”
The proposed changes will be published on the federal register Friday and will be followed by a 60-day public comment period, according to The New York Times. There will also be two public hearings before the final changes are enshrined, probably in the fall.
About the Author
Olivia is a freelance reporter for EcoWatch.