Western medicine has some good points, for sure, and is great in an emergency, but it’s high time people realized that today’s mainstream medicine (western medicine or allopathy), with its focus on drugs, radiation and surgery, is at its foundation a Rockefeller creation. The Rockefellers, of course, are one of the most rich and powerful families of the elite black nobility. Behind their spurious facade of philanthropy, they are power-hungry tyrants intent on owning the entire world, and depopulating it through eugenics-based programs like forced sterilization, water fluoridation, abortions and vaccinations. They have either majorly or fully created (and still dominate) the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, Planned Parenthood and many, many other organizations that either rule the world or influence culture to a large extent.
Despite the dominance of western medicine nowadays, even just 100 years ago the situation was very different, so it’s worthwhile casting our minds back to how the we got to this place. How did western medicine and the giant conglomerate of multinational pharmaceutical corporations (“Big Pharma”) become the mainstream medical system in the US and other first world nations? And what alternatives are there?
Petroleum Drugs
Let’s go back in time to the late 1800s. John D. Rockefeller, a man quoted to have said “competition is sin”, is the head of the Rockefeller family and has just become very rich through extracting oil from the ground. Now he is looking for ways to capitalize even further with his oil, and he comes across the idea of using coal tar – a petroleum derivative – to make substances that affect the human mind, body and nervous system. These are called drugs, and they are excellent at masking or stopping symptoms, but overall do not cure the underlying cause of a disease.
Like other elite leaders of the New World Order who fit the description of an “evil genius” – those high on intellect and low on compassion – Rockefeller used his oil money to buy out part of the massive German pharmaceutical cartel, I.G. Farben. This was the very same cartel that would later assist Hitler to implement his eugenics-based vision of a New World Order founded on racial supremacy, by manufacturing chemicals and poisons for war. With the control of drug manufacturing under his wings, Rockefeller then embarked on a decidedly wicked plan – wicked from the point of view of a free and healthy humanity, but brilliant from a business perspective.
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Western medicine relies on Big Pharma’s petroleum drugs, which the body can never ultimately assimilate. Meanwhile, it engages in biopiracy to steal Nature’s best compounds and patent them.
Destroying any Competition to Western Medicine
Rockefeller saw that there were many types of doctors and healing modalities in existence at that time, from chiropractic to naturopathy to homeopathy to holistic medicine to herbal medicine and more. He wanted to eliminate the competitors of western medicine (the only modality which would propose drugs and radiation as treatment, thus enriching Rockefeller who owned the means to produce these treatments), so he hired a man called Abraham Flexner to submit a report to Congress in 1910. This report “concluded” that there were too many doctors and medical schools in America, and that all the natural healing modalities which had existed for hundreds or thousands of years were unscientific quackery. It called for the standardization of medical education, whereby only the allopathic-based AMA be allowed to grant medical school licenses in the US.
Sadly, Congress acted upon the conclusions and made them law. Incredibly, allopathy became the standard mainstream modality, even though its 3 main methods of treatment in the 1800s had been blood-letting, surgery and the injection of toxic heavy metals like lead and mercury to supposedly displace disease! It should be noted that hemp was also demonized and criminalized not long after this, not because there is anything dangerous about it, but because it was a huge threat (as both medicine and fuel) to the Rockefeller drug and oil industries, respectively.
The Rockefeller and Carnegie Tax-Exempt Foundations for “Efficient” Philanthropy
The story doesn’t stop there. Rockefeller and another elite leader Carnegie used their tax-exempt Foundations, from 1913 on, to offer huge grants to the best medical schools all over America – on the proviso that only an allopathic-based curriculum be taught, and that some of their agents be allowed to sit on the Board of Directors. They called this “efficient” philanthropy, which, when through the Orwellian translation unit, means they wanted a return on their investment. They systematically dismantled the curricula of these schools by removing any mention of the natural healing power of herbs and plants, or of the importance of diet to health. The result is a system which to this day churns out doctors who are, almost always, utterly clueless about nutrition and disregard the idea that what you eat can actually heal or hurt you.
A couple of decades after this, another law was passed that further entrenched western medicine in America. The Hill-Burton Act of 1946 gave hospitals grants for construction and modernization, on the condition they provide free healthcare to anyone in need, without discrimination of any kind. Although there were good sides to this, the downside was that once people had become dependent on this system for their healthcare needs – especially those on pharmaceutical pills which need to be taken day after day without end – the system switched into a paid system, and the Rockefellers found themselves with new lifelong customers.
The bitter truth is that, in general, when you go to your Western doctor, you are seen as a potential market for the medical factory’s products. For Big Pharma, there is no financial incentive to heal you, because a patient cured is a customer lost. Even if you are not sick, Big Pharma is still targeting you, trying to convince you that you are ill (e.g. with psychiatry’s ridiculous list of fictitious diseases, many of them fake) so that you will try its latest pill. Pregnant women who go to the doctor are treated like this, and peddled intravenous fluid bags, fetal monitors, ultrasound (radiation for a vulnerable baby), a host of drugs, the totally unnecessary episiotomy, and – to top it all off – the Caesarean delivery!
Bio-Piracy: The Business Model of Western Medicine’s Big Pharma Cartel
Remember, all these synthetic drugs are isolates. Many are derived from plant compounds, but because Nature cannot be patented and sold, Big Pharma has no interest in natural cures. What they do instead is engage in bio-piracy – research natural compounds, copy them (or modify them slightly) in a lab, then try to steal and patent them. If they get a patent, they then market their pill as a wonder drug while simultaneously (through fake scientific research) suppress and criticize the original plant as being worthless, so you won’t go to the source of the cure. Ironically, guess what type of medicine John D. Rockefeller used and the British Royal Family still uses? Homeopathy!
Modern western medicine seems to have lost the supposed point of its existence: healing people. In his revealing book “Confessions of a Medical Heretic“, Dr. Robert Mendolsohn quotes an article entitled “Cleveland’s Marvelous Medical Factory” which boasted of the Cleveland Clinic’s “accomplishments last year: 2,980 open-heart operations, 1.3 million laboratory tests, 73,320 electrocardiograms, 7,770 full-body x-ray scans, 24,368 surgical procedures.” Seems fancy, yet none of these procedures has been proven to have anything to do with maintaining or restoring health. When people get screened for a disease, they are being subjected to dangerous radiation (more money for the Rockefellers) which harms tissue and can end up causing the exact disease it is supposed to be protecting against – as happens daily with the mammogram scam, designed to drum up new breast cancer clients.
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John D. Rockefeller, the oil tycoon who helped create Big Pharma and Western Medicine.
Rockefeller Philanthropy is Social Control
The Rockefellers and other elites use philanthropy as a tool for control. It’s social engineering with a nice PR sheen. A free lunch is not really free, whether private (Rockefeller-style western medicine) or public/governmental (Obama-style socialized medicine), because even if you get something at no cost, you are required to give up your data and your privacy. They want you dependent on their system – then they’ll raise the rates once you’re trapped.
This is big business – and it’s also a big killer. Dr. Barbara Starfield published a study in the year 2000 that found that there were 225,000 iatrogenic (allopathic doctor caused) deaths in the US every year. However, this was only counting direct deaths; when you factor in all indirect deaths, as Dr. Gary Null did in 2011 in his report Death by Medicine, the figure is closer to 784,000 per year! That’s 7.8 million people dead from western medicine every 10 years!
Null concluded: “It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States …”
Whenever a lot of people die in a staged false flag attack (like 3000 people on 9/11) or in a staged mind control shooting (like 50 or so people) we hear all about it on the media. Yet between 616 and 2147 Americans are dying every day from Rockefeller Western medicine, and we don’t hear a thing!
Natural Solutions that Surpass Rockefeller-Created Western Medicine
At this point let us turn from the problem to the solutions – and fortunately there are many. The famous ancient Greek physician Hippocrates wrote:
“Nature heals. The doctor’s task consists in strengthening the natural healing powers, to direct them, and especially not to interfere with them.”
The immune system is your number one defense against any disease – not a vaccine. Most natural medicine is designed to treat the body holistically, not to “cure” one disease only to have it transform and mutate into another ailment. When you takes plants and herbs as medicine, you normally take the whole food, not an isolate, because it is based on a holistic understanding. Likewise, Traditional Chinese Medicine defines all disease as stagnation and treats sickness as an imbalance to be brought back into balance. What is the point of transferring an imbalance in one area into an imbalance in another area? None, unless you are trying to profit off disease like Big Pharma. It is not real healing.
There are so many natural cures and remedies out there, if you take the time to look. Two examples among thousands are turmeric which will do more for your blood pressure and diabetes than any drug can, and apricot kernels (rich in laetrile which selectively kills cancer cells and leaves healthy ones intact) which will handle cancer better than chemotherapy. The Gerson Therapy has also healed thousands of “terminal” cancer patients who were told by doctors of western medicine, “there’s nothing more we can do for you.”
Western medicine has its time and place, and its strengths and weaknesses. Western medicine may be a good system in a critical emergency and for complicated surgical procedures, but for general conditions, there are so many better alternatives. Time to start exploring them!
Thursday, June 30, 2016
- Written by Sarah C. Corriher
- Category: Reports
- Published: May 30, 2009
"The F.D.A. protects the big drug
companies, and is subsequently rewarded, and using the government's
police powers, they attack those who threaten the big drug companies.
People think that the F.D.A. is protecting them. It isn't. What the
F.D.A. is doing, and what the public thinks it is doing are as different
as night and day."
-- Dr. Herbert Ley, former Commissioner of the U.S. F.D.A.
Those partnering with, or actively participating in the pervasive
allopathic medical industry have long and boldly proclaimed that
alternative medicine is somehow dangerous, despite its avoidance of
dangerous chemicals in favor of natural substances. This sort of
politics is what many industries have participated in, due to their fear
of open competition from innovative newcomers. This phenomena in
medicine has occurred since Rockefeller hijacked the U.S. medical
schools in the depression of the 1930's, by offering funding to
submissive medical schools, which eventually allowed Rockefeller (and
his F.D.A. cronies) to redefine medicine to mean only treating the symptoms
of diseases (no curing) using only invasive surgeries combined with
expensive patented pharmaceuticals (i.e. allopathy). It is unfortunate
that most of the world followed this despicable corruption that was born
in the United States.Rockefeller proved that if one can influence both the educational system and the media, then one can effectively alter the public's reality by rewriting history. The new-age medical industry was marketed as being more scientific than the old school medicine. This new age version of science was... well... unique. Working in tandem with the F.D.A., and the newly purchased medical school programs, the wealthy Big Pharma (big chemical companies) partners would be allowed to decide which scientific studies were actually valid, and which of their own cherry-picked studies would be publicly distributed in "approved" publications, and they would set-up a system in which only their corporate partners could afford the studies, and only they would ultimately be allowed to get 'approval' for medicines, which by the way, were suddenly required to be only pharmaceutical drugs. It is, in fact, illegal to practice medicine with anything except official pharmaceuticals that have been industry "approved" -- if you know what I mean.
It is obvious that it was all much more a matter of instituting a political system of corporate control than an adherence to scientific principles. Furthermore, the corruption of this beast is so bad that curing any disease is also illegal in the United States, and doctors have actually gone to prison for curing diseases after finding themselves criminally charged for providing an "unapproved treatment", under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The F.D.A. claims that this behavior is "protecting consumers", and their persistent use of the word 'consumer', instead of 'citizen', is very telling. Furthermore, anyone who accurately describes the biochemical effects of his herbal or nutritional products is immediately branded a criminal by the F.D.A., and is subject to immediate arrest at gunpoint by Federal Marshals, who they always bring with them. This latter situation is to prevent the makers of alternative treatments from marketing their products with meaningful labeling, and is a matter of aggressive repression of alternative health information. In fact, anytime they tell the truth about their products exposes them to arrest for making "unapproved medical claims".
The modern medical industry is a business of stifling competition, creating dependence, and perpetuating illness to maximize profits. Very seldom does true science intersect with it. This industry has transformed doctors from being healers, into treaters, because its drugs are designed to perpetuate illness for increased dependence, in much the same way that illegal narcotics are used to foster addictions in users. How many times have you been lectured that a person may never stop his medication for high blood pressure, for diabetes, or epilepsy without suffering the dire consequences of his disease returning far worse than it was originally? These pharmaceutical problems are terribly convenient for business, aren't they? Have they convinced you that these "side-effects" are accidental, in case after case -- you know coincidentally?
The most notorious example of the industry's fear games would be its condemnations of Ephedra. Marketed as a weight loss aid, Ephedra is an all-natural stimulant. It speeds up the metabolism, and thereby helps one to lose weight. Unfortunately, it was linked to around 100 deaths. These deaths occurred when people with blood pressure problems took the stimulant in ultra concentrated doses, so there is an equally high chance that a large portion of the deaths were produced as a side-effect of their pharmaceutical hypertension medications. As far as we know, Ephedra is the most "dangerous" herbal product ever recorded. Of course, if those same people had taken equivalent doses of caffeine, then it is likely that they would have met with the same demise. Nevertheless, Ephedra was made illegal.
Imagine if a herbal supplement started making the skin fall off of people. A Singapore man who recently came to the U.S. was detained at entry because he had no fingerprints. Of course, it was no herb that had caused his skin to melt off. In fact, this is a known side-effect of the cancer drug that he had been taking. The condition is so common that it has its own official name: hand-foot syndrome. With time, the drug may actually obliterate a person's fingerprints by destroying his skin, so it is prudent to take a moment to consider what is happening to the victim's internal organs, and perhaps browse the long-term implications.
What is even more shocking is the media reaction. Instead of being appalled that a drug could do this to somebody, mainstream reporters made jokes about this incident to protect their corporate partners -- the ones you saw advertisements for immediately after that news segment. Would their reactions have been the same if this had been the effect of a vitamin, mineral, or supplement? Would they still be telling us that "the benefits are worth the risks"? Would people still be given their right to choose it as a treatment, or would the supplement be banned? We already know the answers to these questions. In contrast to Ephedra, how many millions of people has chemotherapy killed? People rarely die from cancer. It is the "treatments" that finish them off.
In 1986, McGill
Cancer Center scientists sent a questionnaire to 118 doctors who
treated non-small-cell lung cancer. Sixty-four of the 79 doctors (81%)
stated that they would refuse to consent to be in a trial containing
Cisplatin, which is a common chemotherapy drug, if they had cancer
themselves.
How about Vioxx? Vioxx was never banned
by the F.D.A., and Merck could continue selling it today if they did
not fear the lawsuits. All the same, the F.D.A. itself admits that Vioxx caused over 28,000 deaths. Do you see something wrong with this picture? Can you spot the pattern?In the case of Ephedra, it should never have been banned. However, something did need to be done. Ideally, they would have forced manufacturers to place warning labels on their products telling people to avoid it if they were being pharmaceutically treated for high blood pressure. Alternatively, they could have mandated that manufacturers did not use extremely high concentrations of Ephedra in their weight loss products.
In the case of Vioxx, the F.D.A. did not step in at all, and class action lawsuits against Merck, the makers of Vioxx, are still ongoing. This is due in part to the fact that Merck went through extraordinary steps to ensure that the unapproved studies never made it out to the public. After over 28,000 deaths, Merck's public relations minions had the audacity to claim that they were removing Vioxx because they were "putting patient safety first". This doesn't explain their hit list that they created to "destroy, discredit, and neutralize" (their words) all doctors and scientists who reported anything negative about Vioxx, which had made Merck $2.5 billion annually in sales.
Someday it will once again be classified as self-evident that any drug which makes your skin melt (and requires a chemical crew in space suits to clean it up) should not be injected into even the worst criminals. Chemotherapy.com matter-of-factly explains that the side-effects of chemo can cause "inconvenience, discomfort, and even death". Notice that it is supposedly the side-effects that are causing deaths, but not the drug itself. Huh? Oh yeah, that's the new and improved F.D.A. science again. We are expected to believe that it is not the poisons being intentionally inserted into the blood that causes the recipient to die a slow, agonizing death. We are expected to believe that the deaths are instead merely a "side-effect" of the drugs, because the drugs themselves are innocent. Are you confused yet? This slight-of-hand would be the envy of any magician.
In Nazi Germany, was it just a side effect of Zyklon B gas that caused the skin of victims to be colored pink with red and green spots, with some foaming at the mouth and bleeding from the ears? It all sounds so much nicer when the effects of poisoning people are referred to as just "side-effects", as if they were just unexpected accidents devoid of all evil intent.
Chemotherapy is specifically designed to attack the body, so poisoning is actually its intended use; and therefore, the horrific destruction of its victims is certainly not just an unintended side-effect. The allopathic medical industry claims that if a body is attacked with a poison, then the cancer cells (which are said to be weaker) will die first. However, chemotherapy does not discriminate, and it weakens the healthy cells to such a point that the victim is almost certain to become cancerous again in the future, even when the treatments appear to work. In some cases, a body will simply shutdown as a side-effect of such poisoning. These are iatrogenic deaths (caused by physicians). Yes, it is so common that they actually have a word for it. We call it genocide.
To truly grasp what happens during chemotherapy, read this article by parents who lost their son to treatments which were known to be completely ineffective against his form of cancer. There is something terribly wrong with our current system of medicine, or should we call it "science"?
A partial list of products made from
Petroleum (144 of 6000 items)
One 42-gallon barrel of oil creates
19.4 gallons of gasoline. The rest (over half) is used to make things like:
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Diesel
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Motor Oil
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Bearing Grease
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Ink
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Floor Wax
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Ballpoint Pens
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Football Cleats
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Upholstery
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Sweaters
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Boats
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Insecticides
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Bicycle Tires
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Sports Car Bodies
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Nail Polish
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Fishing lures
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Dresses
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Tires
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Golf Bags
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Perfumes
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Cassettes
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Dishwasher
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Tool Boxes
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Shoe Polish
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Motorcycle Helmet
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Caulking
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Petroleum Jelly
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Transparent Tape
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CD Player
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Faucet Washers
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Antiseptics
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Clothesline
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Curtains
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Food Preservatives
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Basketballs
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Soap
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Vitamin Capsules
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Antihistamines
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Purses
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Shoes
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Dashboards
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Cortisone
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Deodorant
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Footballs
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Putty
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Dyes
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Panty Hose
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Refrigerant
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Percolators
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Life Jackets
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Rubbing Alcohol
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Linings
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Skis
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TV Cabinets
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Shag Rugs
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Electrician's Tape
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Tool Racks
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Car Battery Cases
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Epoxy
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Paint
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Mops
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Slacks
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Insect Repellent
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Oil Filters
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Umbrellas
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Yarn
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Fertilizers
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Hair Coloring
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Roofing
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Toilet Seats
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Fishing Rods
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Lipstick
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Denture Adhesive
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Linoleum
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Ice Cube Trays
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Synthetic Rubber
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Speakers
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Plastic Wood
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Electric Blankets
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Glycerin
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Tennis Rackets
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Rubber Cement
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Fishing Boots
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Dice
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Nylon Rope
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Candles
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Trash Bags
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House Paint
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Water Pipes
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Hand Lotion
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Roller Skates
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Surf Boards
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Shampoo
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Wheels
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Paint Rollers
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Shower Curtains
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Guitar Strings
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Luggage
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Aspirin
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Safety Glasses
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Antifreeze
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Football Helmets
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Awnings
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Eyeglasses
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Clothes
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Toothbrushes
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Ice Chests
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Footballs
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Combs
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CD's
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Paint Brushes
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Detergents
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Vaporizers
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Balloons
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Sun Glasses
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Tents
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Heart Valves
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Crayons
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Parachutes
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Telephones
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Enamel
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Pillows
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Dishes
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Cameras
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Anesthetics
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Artificial Turf
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Artificial limbs
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Bandages
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Dentures
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Model Cars
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Folding Doors
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Hair Curlers
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Cold cream
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Movie film
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Soft Contact lenses
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Drinking Cups
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Fan Belts
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Car Enamel
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Shaving Cream
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Ammonia
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Refrigerators
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Golf Balls
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Toothpaste
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Gasoline
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250 cubic feet of natural gas per day each! But, as shown here petroleum is not just used for fuel.
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How the Establishment Uses Pain and Addiction as Tools to Keep Us Compliant
The "Dangerous" Opium Poppy Flower. This plant is a threat to the powers-that-be.
On occasion, we are asked about all-natural pain neutralizers, which brings us to the disgusting position that all of us are in. All of the powerful pain-killing herbs have been outlawed amongst the general population, for the sake of maintaining Big Medica's stranglehold on emergency medicine. In this era, only members of the establishment are allowed access to natural herbs that effectively neutralize extreme pain.
Pain is one of the surest ways to ensure that we comply with their system, and sooner or later, our pain will make certain that we become "consumers" of it; whether we like it or not. We get educated about being good consumers through our pain, of which we are not allowed to remedy ourselves. The doctors and pharmacists play heroes by giving us the same medicines that are our God-given right to have in the first place. Most people buy into this fraudulent side-show, and they will never realize that all of the high-potency pain-killers are merely extracts of opium, or that our hallowed science does not even have the capability to do it without the natural compounds from this herb. This herb, is of course, illegal for the rest of us. These God-given medicinal plants are called "dangerous drugs" in our hands; but don't worry, for they have plenty of chemically-enhanced and chemically-laced opium extracts (heroin, morphine, codeine) that are expensive, dangerous, and intentionally addictive to be used in opium's place. Pure, organic opium is neither addictive nor dangerous -- until it is "enhanced" in a chemical laboratory. Ah, the miracles of science! I think not. The more educated a person becomes about Big Medica's pain-killing con-job, the less grateful he tends to be about these "miracle" drugs that "science" gave us. The dangerous and addictive drugs that are substituted for natural opium are more like dealing with the devil than any miracle, and there are hidden prices to be paid for their use.
We previously wrote the article, The History of Opium and The History of How the Pharmaceutical Industry Intentionally Created Drug Addictions. There is a noticeable pattern in which natural substances are often made dangerous and addictive when chemists 'improve' upon them. Now, opium, coca, and cannabis are all 'controlled substances'. An individual who wishes to control chronic pain can not legally grow the opium poppy for medicinal extraction, the coca plant, or cannabis, or use any of them in their safe, natural, nonaddictive, unrefined state. To use them or similar substances, one is required to make his pharmacist his state-mandated drug dealer, and he is required to use chemically tainted forms that cause addictions, organ damage, and various other unnecessary horrors. Did we mention that these will cost as much, or more, than one would pay for their equivalent potencies from alternative drug dealers? Legislators have made many medicinal substances illegal because they supposedly have the potential to be abused, but somehow when their partners are reaping top-dollar for versions of these substances, which are considerably more dangerous, then it's no longer dangerous "drug abuse" -- it's "legitimate medicine" then. (wink)
The arrogance of legislators really defies the imagination, because they apparently believe that God did not know what he was doing. Instead, these legislators believe that he made mistakes by creating plants that can cause people to have an altered sense of reality; and moreover, he made plants which could allow people to stop conforming to their lucrative system.
"... and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for healing."
-- Ezekiel 47:12
These plants have been used for centuries to provide pain relief. They only became harmful and addictive after they were refined by pharmaceutical chemists. Instead of restricting access to the new-age toxin-laden extracts, and legislating them; all medicinal uses of the plants were made illegal. The idea of illegalizing nature would seem fitting in a dystopian horror movie, but it can be seen in the present day. The government has been granted the right to effectively say, "God was wrong". Such madness is akin to trying to legislate the air (which they are implementing now), and the water (which they do with water privatization). In truth, nobody owns any of these things. Our God-fearing forefathers would not have tolerated any of this, and their inherent goodness caused them to love freedom on a level that most modern Americans cannot hope to comprehend. We are quickly losing the inheritance that they left us.
Sadly, only approved doctors (licensed drug dealers for the state) are allowed access to opium, and its refined extract; morphine. In other words, you must submit to the system before you are granted the 'privilege' of pain relief. When nature is shamelessly controlled by government regulators, for the sole benefit of the chemical industry, then it is a clear indication that we live in a tyrannical state. Once again, in the name of safety and security, we have lost our priceless freedoms. The Health Wyze Report Staff encourage readers to campaign for the rights of the people to have access to all plants, as nature itself should never be regulated.
Poisonous Tylenol Again
Remember that even 'safe' pharmaceuticals are dangerous. NSAIDs like Ibuprofen kill 16,500 people each year, and hospitalize over 100,000. In addition, Tylenol is known for causing permanent organ failure and sudden death. The so-called "safe and effective" Tylenol is extremely poisonous when combined with alcohol. In fact, it is likely to have killed a large number of college kids who were recovering from hang-overs, and then their deaths were blamed on their "binge drinking"; not the fact that the alcohol turned the Tylenol into a poison. (Note this parents.) Accidental overdoses are common, and when people do die, the death is slow and agonizing. While these numbers seem fairly small when compared to the number of people using them, they do become significant whenever one's relatives become a part of the statistics.
There are still some natural anti-inflammatory options in existence, which can be used to alleviate certain types of pain.
Curcumin is an extract of turmeric, and is believed to be one of the most powerful natural anti-inflammatories in existence. In fact, Dr. Russel Blaylock announced that he feels it is more powerful than some steroid medications. It should not be confused with the spice, cumin.
Cherries have a long history with the F.D.A., which sent out warning letters to all cherry farmers warning them to stop quoting scientific studies ("making medical claims") about their "unapproved drugs". Cherries are natural COX-2 inhibitors, which means that they specifically target inflammation in the body. Unlike pharmaceutical COX-2 inhibitors (Vioxx and Celebrex), cherries don't cause heart attacks, and tend to be more powerful too. Numerous studies have been done on the effects of cherries upon arthritis pain, showing very positive results. You can purchase concentrate cherry extract pills from health food stores.
A 2003 study showed that Devil's Claw extract was more effective for treating lower back pain than Vioxx. Devil's Claw is known for its pain relieving properties, and is therefore used for carpal tunnel, as well as arthritis. It is also a powerful anti-inflammatory agent.
White Willow Bark is a pain-reliever and blood thinner. You probably know its modern name: aspirin. Aspirin is the extract of White Willow bark. Although in the modern age, it is been created synthetically. You can buy White Willow bark at some health food stores. (You thought aspirin was another one of those "miracles of science", didn't you?)
The biggest difference between your doctor and the local drug dealer is that the drug dealer is much more honest about how he makes his money.
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Protect Us From Our Friends
For many people I know -- especially many young people, Native Americans, and others alienated from American dominant culture -- the difference between liberals and conservatives is only in the technique used to coerce conformity and gain control.
My friend Roland Chrisjohn is a psychologist and a professor in the Native Studies Department at St. Thomas University, and he is also an Oneida of the Iroquois Nation. Roland says, "Protect me from my friends". While his enemies on the right murdered indigenous Americans to steal their land, Indians' so-called liberal "friends" forced assimilation through boarding schools that prohibited the use of tribal languages and customs, which made them easier to divide and conquer, and then "legally" rip them off. While the right favored massacres, the liberals preferred "curing" indigenous Americans and came up with sayings like, "Kill the Indian to save the child."
I spend a good deal of time with non-Indian kids who are also not fitting into American society, specifically its schools. A few of these kids are manipulative, exploitative caricatures of a manipulative, exploitative society. But most of the kids I see are a pleasure to hang out with precisely because they don't fit into their schools and society; and for these kids, liberals and conservatives are also two sides of the same oppressive coin.
When I write articles or give talks questioning the wisdom of prescribing kids speed in order to get them to shut up in a classroom, pay attention to a boring teacher, and do their meaningless homework, I get superficially different -- but essentially the same -- reactions from self-identified conservatives and liberals.
The conservative reacts, "Yeah, these kids don't need medication. They need their parents to get tough with them and show them whose boss. These teachers have their hands tied by liberals. Too much coddling has ruined America."
The liberal reacts, "While I agree that some children are incorrectly diagnosed and improperly medicated, my son was getting F's in school until he was prescribed Ritalin, and now he is going to college next fall, every parent's dream."
Similar to America's liberal-conservative "Indian problem" debate, something is missing from the liberal-conservative "problem child" debate. What's missing is the possibility that nothing is essentially wrong with these kids. What's missing is the possibility that they simply don't fit into the dominant culture that has opted for efficiency, bureaucracy, and corporate feudalism at the expense of meaningfulness, diversity, and genuine democracy. What's missing is the possibility that perhaps there is something admirable about their rebellion against authoritarian hierarchies and manipulative relationships.
The liberal-conservative media parades ex-maladaptives who are now grateful that authorities have modified them to fit in. Conservatives prefer ex-maladaptives who straightened out after their mother kicked them out of the house or father took the belt to them. Liberals prefer the ex-maladaptives who have been transformed through medical treatments.
Conservatives who have had an easy time fitting into society believe that those people who cannot fit in are lazy, stupid, or undisciplined. Liberals who easily fit into society believe that those people who cannot fit in are diseased or disordered. It is difficult for either of these -- conservatives or liberals -- to imagine that their view of progress is another group's view of insanity.
When a society worships itself, there is bigotry not only against those societies that don't share its values, but also against individuals within that society who don't buy in. And so "progress", as defined in modernity, means that personalities that don't buy into modernity need to be modified.
Do young people who don't comply with authorities for whom they do not respect have oppositional defiant disorder? Do kids who don't pay attention to boring authorities have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? Do kids who feel threatened by an aggressive and competitive society have social anxiety disorder? Do these young people need to be reformed by behavior modifications and medications?
Conservative-liberal American society is sure of itself. It is sure of which cultures are backwards and which personalities need to be modified. And it is sure of its technologies for transforming other cultures and the problematic individuals within it. The goal of genocide and personality-cide is essentially the same: elimination of that aspect of humanity which gets in the way of the dominant culture's view of progress.
The price for all of this arrogance and bigotry is a certain kind of karma. For genocidal practices and stolen land, Indians have certainly not received political, legal, or economic justice. However, there is a justice being meted out for forcing Indians into becoming something they are not. Because of American society's denial and its failure to make amends for this violence, American society's karma is to repeat such coercions with its own children.
American society's karma for ignoring the resentment of Native Americans for forced conformity is that it now ignores its own children's resentment over similar coercion. And American's society is being severely punished for ignoring this resentment. A society's foundation is its families, and in the United States, familial relationships are being destroyed by children's resentment, which acts like a slow-killing poison.
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