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by c w swanson

 


07 May 14:13

I Can't Believe It's Not Food!

by Good Citizen

Inside the empire of psychopathic killers:
Part 1: “Food”
Part 2: “Water”
Part 3: “Air”
Part 4: “Medicine”
Part 5: The Hidden and Forbidden


Like, Literal Poison Y’all

It’s not uncommon lately to watch a video confessional on attention networks of someone returning to the empire of elastic waistbands from a European holiday, raving about all the high-carb, high-caloric food they ate:

“Like, so I could never eat like that here in Texas on the Gulf of America, but like here’s the weird thing y’all, after all that pasta, gelato, and pizza, I didn’t gain a pound. I like, literally lost five pounds! I don’t know what it is over there, maybe it’s the walking around, but I play tennis and golf here, and take more steps here, according to my Apple Watch. You know what I think? I think maybe they’re poisoning us here, y’all. Like literally poisoning us.”

Where the confessionals lack eloquence, they compensate with honesty and literal semantic bleaching for hyperbolic filler.

Living in Europe for seventeen of the past twenty years and making the transatlantic journey west, I saw the culinary cultural contrasts up close, between healthy and fit people who value real food as part of daily life, and the ultra-processed gluttony on offer with fake foods inside the Empire of Elastic Waistbands.

For all the problems France has as a nation, ubiquitous toxic food is not one of them. Within Europe, nobody values cuisine more than the French, and they simply won’t tolerate Frankenfoods or chemical substitutes. You can taste it in every bite, from the supermarket to a cheap corner bistro.

In France, a baguette is fixed at under €1, and is real bread, not made with potassium bromate and azidinocarbamide, chemicals used to make “bread” for elastic waistband subjects that are also used to manufacture yoga mats, pesticides, and explosives. (seriously)

(L) Bread in France. (R) Bread in the Empire of Elastic Waistbands—classified under the FDA’s “generally recognized as safe for human consumption”

Processed foods still exist but carry warnings and are taxed higher than real foods. There are sugar or junk food taxes in countries like France, Hungary, Denmark, and Norway, which have had a tax on junk food since 1922. Instead of celebrating junk food as normal diet staples that can be purchased with government subsidies like food stamps, there’s a flavor of social disdain that marks obese gluttons.

One afternoon in the summer of 2018 I stopped by a grocery store in the small French city where I lived and filled a basket with hangover-induced crap: Oven pizza, haribo gummies, and those magnum almond ice cream bars which only came in boxes of four.

It was before self-checkout. One of the ladies who worked there knew my face and my usual (mostly healthy) shopping habits. She began mocking each item in my basket as she scanned it, to my face, really loudly, in French. She food shamed me to her colleagues and strangers in other checkout lanes, all of them smiling and looking at me and my small pile of shit.

This would have garnered a massive lawsuit in the Empire of Elastic Waistbands, although most bystanders would have had their shopping carts filled with shit too so nobody would have laughed. There would have been confusion. “What’s wrong with oven pizzas, candy, and ice cream for dinner?” In France, it’s public fodder for a Sunday afternoon. Obesity rates in France hover around 18%, compared to 45% in the empire. Over 70% of Americans are either overweight or obese.

Social shaming might be a good thing.


The Empire produces women so large that they now have “mega periods” and manufacture period pads that look like WWE championship belts.

Despite the lack of social shame on people pushing maximum density, eating garbage in portion sizes fit for large mammals, the absence of stringent (hell, even basic!) food regulations, or high expectations from the public for real food, there’s finally good news leaking out of the gut of the American slop industries.

Inside the empire of chemically engineered metabolic sabotage, enforced by corporate cartels and their captive government regulators, the empire's curious subjects are finally waking up to intentional government-corporate poisoning. They’ve finally stopped to look in the mirror buck naked, and ask questions about why they exert so much effort trying to “be healthy” and find it all such a Sisyphean task.

After the hoax pandemic engineered to get as many arms injected with a bioweapon, people are starting to ask: How else are they trying to kill me?

They still appear unsure of how it’s happening in their kitchens, of how they eat under a regime of recurring chemical warfare that doesn’t exist in other parts of the world. They’re interested in what landmines await inside every grocery aisle, on every restaurant platter, and why every children's snack functions as a slow, cumulative assault on human health, enriching monopolies while incapacitating the bodies and minds of the population.

Chemical warfare is a silent but deadly intentional epidemic, and nowhere is it more evident than in the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Food!” industries of Big Agra and their grocery store chain partners.

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Corpora Deleta

Food is health, and good health requires real food. Inside the empire, real food is becoming ever more difficult to source (skip to the last section for solutions). Most people are too lazy to do the work. The consequences on the average American body have been disastrous.

Endocrine systems fall first, disrupted by seed oils, plastics, pesticide residues, and synthetics that corrode the human body's chemical balance, turning young people into gender confused subjects to be exploited by devouring mothers.

Neurological dysfunction is skyrocketing, with Alzheimer's, Parkinson’s, and cognitive decay accumulating through relentless toxic exposure. Metabolic collapse is externally visible on the masses of the morbidly obese, where diabetes, thyroid dysfunction, and liver disease are silent but deadly epidemics.

Cancers proliferate quietly over the years, then exponentially, crowned in the post hoax-pandemic era by the grotesque phenomenon of turbo cancers, erupting in the wake of biotechnological experimentation, explained away by the corporate cover up artists as sudden coincidences caused by anything but the culprit that anyone with an IQ above room temperature can deduce.

Cardiovascular integrity degenerates under the weight of ultra-processed inflammation. As heart disease rises, the fiction of too much saturated fat or the scapegoat of genetic destiny replaces any examination of corporate-government chemical warfare in the form of trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, and processed chemical replacements.

Human agency is also ignored in recognizing the onslaught and having the discipline to employ self-control in the act of using one’s appendages to scoop food towards one’s pie hole.

"It’s engineered to be addictive!" those lacking self-control scream in unison from their mobility scooters at the Krusty Burger drive-thru.

Touché. The empire’s food engineers have chemically tailored these products to hijack dopamine systems, to exploit gut-brain feedback loops, to manufacture compulsive craving where none should exist. Michael Moss, in Salt Sugar Fat, exposes how corporations engineer hyper-palatable products using additives to maximize neuro "craveability," locking consumers into chemically induced eating habits.

Almost nothing that passes for food today, if it is not grown from clean soil or derived from healthy animals, is designed to nourish. It is designed to be addictive and to enrich Big Pharma over an addict’s lifetime, but only if the addict accepts his victim status.

Chemical engineering addiction does not absolve personal agency. Addiction explains the trap, but it does not excuse the decision to keep walking into it. How long does one binge on poisons before the mirror demands accountability? What stretch mark of time justifies surrendering the will to swipe another barcode of poison, or collect a hot bag of shit from a car window, each one another shovel of dirt for their coming grave?

There will be no pity section here for the morbidly obese, the “emotional eaters,” or the My 400-pound Life! slow-motion suicides of the processed food age. If a person believes they are powerless—and society, echoing their cowardice, affirms their helplessness—they become victims twice over: first to the food engineers who corrupted their biology, and second to a culture too gutless to empower individuals. A culture that whispers, "It’s not your fault," is working on behalf of the chemical engineers by adding learned helplessness to aid in their mass destruction.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

— Albert Ellis

The destruction of the American body is an intended outcome of a system that requires a population too sick to resist, too medicated to organize, too cognitively dulled to recognize its captivity. Those who endure slow biological sabotage find no salvation in the empire’s false solutions.

The overarching scams are recurring, but the pattern is consistent.

Low-Fat: The war on natural fats led to the mass adoption of industrial oils—chemical lubricants sold as food—that inflame the body, wreck the metabolism, and lay the groundwork for chronic disease. As Americans abandoned fat, butter, beef tallow, and lard, they embraced mass obesity.

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Over 70% of Americans are overweight, with over 45% obese. When butter and lard were used for cooking, only 11% were obese.

Low-Carb: The noble-sounding alternative is chemical warfare when replaced with synthetic sweeteners, chemical emulsifiers, fibrous substitutes, and seed oils.

Low-Cholesterol: A fabricated crisis manufactured to sell statins and marginalize the role of cholesterol, a molecule essential for brain health, hormone production, and cellular repair. Statins have dozens of life-threatening side effects. If people could read the package inserts (which Americans don’t get with their Big Pharma scam orange prescription bottles), no one in their right mind would take them.

  • Statins cause a 46% increase in new onset Type 2 Diabetes

  • Lowering LDL below <70 mg/dL causes 2.5X more strokes

  • Statins cause CoQ10 deficiency, resulting in muscle pain & mitochondrial dysfunction

  • Inhibit Heme A, a vital component of the electron transport chain for energy

  • Stop Dolichol, a crucial molecule in protein glycosylation in the brain, deficiency leads to Parkinson's & other brain disorders.

  • Causes liver & pancreas damage, leading to insulin resistance & type 2 diabetes

  • Side Effects Buffet of Statins:

    Muscle Pain, Muscle Tearing, Weakness, Neuropathy, Heart Failure, Dizziness/Vertigo, Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, Cancer, Pancreatitis, Liver Damage, Kidney Failure, Diabetes, Depression, Parkinson's Disease, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Deficiency of all hormones Brain Damage, Multiple Sclerosis

Cholesterol is critical for Vitamin D and all hormones, digestion, every cell should be saturated with healthy cholesterol.

Low-Sugar: Another bait-and-switch. Sugar is demonized selectively, while corn syrup, chemical sweeteners, plant sweeteners, and ultra-processed sugar analogues flood every product. Fake sweeteners like sucralose and aspartame corrode neurological function, disrupt gut flora, and destabilize blood sugar regulation far worse than natural sugars ever did.

Gluten-Free: Another trick weaponized by industrial agriculture to cover up the CDC’s childhood vaccine crimes. Humans consumed gluten-rich grains for thousands of years without illness. What ancient civilizations did not consume was thimerosal, aluminum, dead monkey cells, glyphosate-soaked, hybridized, nutrient-dead GMO frankenwheat grown in chemically raped soil…or the aforementioned bread with chemcials also used in the manufacture of yoga mats, pesticides, and explosives. “Gluten Free!” is another overpriced diversion to get the gullible masses to ignore the real poisons in their food.

Veganism: A clever ideological trap rooted in scientism and corporate greenwashing for UN Agenda 2030, and the global prison planet carbon-neutral scam. Under the mask of “climate” and animal compassion, it funnels the population toward nutrient-deficient (no animal fats) food systems controlled by the same agribusiness giants responsible for metabolic disease.

Almost-Foods and Beyond Foods: Bill Gates’ funded factory-produced synthetic slurries posing as food. Chemically stabilized, color-corrected, "fortified" poisons designed for shelf-life, not sustenance—shoved onto plates as worse than pig slop under the glossy banners of “sustainability” and “climate-friendly” almost foods that reduce cow farts. A diabolical sequel to the “I can’t believe it’s not food!” scam.

Factory Bug Food: No longer theoretical. Assembly lines are being built to process crickets, mealworms, and maggot larvae into powders and patties, to be marketed as "sustainable protein" for populations too dense to read labels, and no longer permitted the dignity of real foods. Useless eaters vil eat ze bugs. They are already dumping this shit into processed food bags with no warning labels needed. Apps are popping up where consumers can scan products to see if they contain insects. Then again, anyone eating food from bags will likely end up in one sooner rather than later.

Staying healthy inside the Empire of Psychopathic Killers is a full-time job, and nowhere does it exact a heavier daily cost on the wallet than in battling Big Agra. On the spectrum of survival, nothing is more critical than food, except for maybe water (Part Deux). It is the first and most essential line of defense against illness—and the only real barrier between the individual and the deadliest industry the empire ever built: Rockefeller medicine’s Big Pharma.


No fasting, no low carb, no avoiding sugar or dessert, or avoiding animal fats/butter/lard, and if you asked them what a “health influencer” was, they’d reply, “Jack LaLanne?”

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Life before seed oils and chemical foods.

Banned Banquet

Walk into any American supermarket and look closely, and you’ll see a warehouse of 80% toxic chemicals and 20% foods fit for human consumption. Many of these toxic chemicals are banned abroad, but pumped into the American diet with no warning labels.

Food dyes like Red 40 (Allura Red), Yellow 5 (Tartrazine), Yellow 6 (Sunset Yellow), Blue 1 (Brilliant Blue), and Green 3 (Fast Green) are either banned or heavily restricted across the EU because of their documented links to ADHD in children, allergic reactions, and carcinogenic risks. In America, they remain standard ingredients in children's cereals, candies, and poisoned drinks. Red 3 (Erythrosine), banned from cosmetics in Europe, continues to appear in processed snacks and baked goods in U.S. markets.

Preservatives like BHA (Butylated Hydroxyanisole) and BHT (Butylated Hydroxytoluene) are outlawed in Europe as probable carcinogens but remain legal in America, lining the ingredients in everything from cereals to snack foods to processed meats. Potassium bromate, classified as a carcinogen and banned in over thirty countries, still saturates American baked goods.

As mentioned before, Azodicarbonamide (ADA), banned across Europe, used both in bread and in the manufacture of yoga mats, pesticides, and explosives, is still legal as a "dough conditioner" in the United States. Propylparaben, banned in European foods for its endocrine-disrupting properties, is routinely used in American tortillas, baked goods, and snack bars.

The hormone situation is another disaster. European dairy bans the use of rBST/rBGH—genetically engineered growth hormones linked to elevated cancer risks and reproductive disorders, but they are freely used in the Empire of Lies with no labels.

While Europe bans dyes, preservatives, and hormone-laced dairy, it also rejects another American export in ractopamine-tainted pork. Ractopamine is a beta-agonist drug originally developed to treat asthma in humans, now repurposed in the U.S. livestock industry to force pigs to grow leaner muscle mass at a faster rate. The faster the pigs grow, the fatter the other pigs grow.

It’s not just Europe. Ractopamine is also banned in China, Russia, and more than 150 other countries due to cardiovascular stress, behavioral changes, and toxicity in humans. In the U.S., however, ractopamine remains FDA-approved and unlabelled on store shelves—even though it’s never been proven safe for long-term human consumption.

The U.S. pork industry, dominated by firms like Smithfield Foods (now owned by China’s WH Group), has lobbied aggressively to keep ractopamine in use, defending it as an “efficiency enhancer” while ignoring the drug’s banned status around most of the world. Instead of regulating or labeling, American agencies insist the meat is safe, while quietly producing a product that much of the planet considers chemically toxic for human consumption.

Glyphosate, the world’s most ubiquitous herbicide and a human carcinogen (also known as Roundup), has been restricted or banned in many European nations. Meanwhile, it soaks the majority of American wheat, oats, corn, and soy, leaving measurable residues in everyday foods. Atrazine, (Alex Joens: “Turning the frickin’ frogs gay!”) another endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned across Europe, remains one of the most heavily used chemicals in American farming, saturating groundwater, rivers, and public water supplies, turning the frogs and children gay.

(Those propagandistic mantras like “Hug a farmer!” do not specify which kind of farmer. The masses are probably hugging those responsible for their biological dysfunction and early death.)

In the United States, most bags of shredded cheese are now laced with natamycin, an antifungal drug used for treating fungal eye infections in humans. In the European Union, natamycin is strictly prohibited inside cheese products. EU regulators classify it as a pharmaceutical agent, not a food additive.

Even “junk” beverages are made differently. Brominated vegetable oil (BVO), banned in Europe and Japan for its neurological toxins and accumulation in human tissues, remains in popular American sodas like Mountain Dew and other citrus-flavored soft drinks. A Fanta Orange drink in Europe, while still unhealthy, will contain different ingredients: orange juice concentrate, sugar, citric acid, ascorbic acid, etc., while in the Empire it’s made with high fructose corn syrup, Red 40, Yellow 7, and Sodium Benzoate.

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Chemical Warfare conglomerates posing as “food” manufacturers.

As Marion Nestle reveals in Food Politics, American food regulation is designed to safeguard public health to protect industrial profit margins, with food companies actively lobbying to maintain the legality of these substances despite overwhelming scientific evidence against them.

The result is a grotesque carnival of chemical warfare. The public health consequences—rising cancer rates, endocrine collapse, neurological degeneration—are blamed on genetics or individual lifestyle, rather than placed where they belong, at the feet of the food monopolies and their government partners.

The same brands that sell cleaner, simpler versions of their products in Europe flood the American market with poison because they know they can get away with it. The American supermarket is designed for one purpose: to physiologically and mentally degrade and destroy Americans to keep them diseased for life so Big Pharma can vacuum up the resultant profits by having Rockefeller white coat DICs (Death Industrial Complex) write prescriptions for petroleum poisons posing as medicine. Once on this doom loop roller coaster, Americans rarely make it off alive.

Then there are average portion sizes.

(L) Good Citizen favorite Le Central on Rue Cler in Paris. (R) An instashame performer with the average American burger.

And if you’re keeping score at home on the MAHA wins, new HHS secretary RFK Jr. hasn’t banned a damn thing on this list but recently announced that the food industry has “voluntarily agreed” to phase out Citrus Red No. 2 and Orange B, two toxic food dyes that are rarely still used anymore.

Can you see it yet, MIGA-MAHA supporters?

Within days of the (s)election they were already rubbing your face in shit, and laughing at you.

McDonald’s Soylent Green? What happened to those 300,000 children who went missing under Biden’s open borders?

Eating Machine Lubricants

Before the 20th century, people cooked with tallow, lard, butter, and animal fats—the same fats that nourished every civilization that ever built anything of lasting value. But in 1911, a soap and candle company you might have heard of called Procter & Gamble, found itself with too much cottonseed oil, a byproduct of the cotton industry once considered unfit for human consumption and used primarily for machine lubricant and lamp fuel.

They solved their problem by chemically altering the oil through a process called hydrogenation, turning it into what we know today as Crisco. With no nutritional value behind it, Crisco has always been poison masquerading as some kind of culinary innovation. But it needed more than chemistry to enter the American kitchen—it needed what all poisons need…an endorsement from “the experts.”

Sound familiar?

In the 1940s, Procter & Gamble made a large donation to the American Heart Association, which was then a minor player in the Rockefeller-Rothschild population management scene. With this money, the AHA launched nationwide propaganda campaigns promoting "heart-healthy" vegetable oils, while loudly vilifying traditional animal fats. By the 1960s, the American Medical Association joined in, parroting the same claims, despite a lack of long-term human data and growing evidence that polyunsaturated vegetable oils oxidized easily and contributed to inflammation.

Butter was changed to “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!” and tallow and lard disappeared. Families across the U.S. substituted healthy fats with hydrogenated oils pumped out of factories. These oils are refined through chemical solvents, bleach, and deodorized—then declared healthy by heartless criminals who are probably half-lizard.

Heart disease rates in America exploded.

Before the 20th century, coronary heart disease was rare. By the 1960s, it was the leading cause of death in the United States. Instead of investigating this new source, health “experts” continued to blame saturated fat and cholesterol, launching a decades-long war against animal products—one heavily funded and steered by agriculture and seed oil lobbies, including Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, and the American Soybean Association.

The trans fat bans of the early 2000s came decades too late. Even as partially hydrogenated oils were phased out, seed oils remained, now hailed as the default cooking substance despite their links to oxidative stress, liver damage, gut permeability, and neuroinflammation.

The same old story reappears over and over. The institutions meant to protect public health were bribed into betraying the American people, bought off by corporate giants who learned that you don’t need a good product if you can own the “experts.”

The scam worked so well that millions still believe it. They look at butter with suspicion and reach for plastic bottles of industrial waste labeled "heart-healthy.”

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Sugar Daddy Lobby

In the early 1960s, American health authorities stood at a crossroads. Heart disease rates were climbing. Something in the modern diet had shifted, but no one could agree on the culprit everyone was paid off to ignore the culprits. The sugar industry made sure the blame went elsewhere.

In 1965, the Sugar Research Foundation (now part of the Sugar Association) paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of $50,000 in today’s money to write a review paper that downplayed sugar’s role in heart disease and shifted the blame to saturated fat. That paper, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, never disclosed the conflict of interest. One of the scientists, Dr. Mark Hegsted, later became head of nutrition at the USDA and helped craft federal dietary guidelines.

What followed was one of the most catastrophic acts of public health malpractice until the mRNA death jabs were unleashed—The Food Pyramid.

By the 1970s, Americans were told to build their diets on 6–11 servings of grains per day, with fat relegated to the top of the pyramid as something to consume “sparingly.” Meat, butter, and eggs became suspect. Sugary cereals, crackers, margarine, pasta, and fruit juice moved to the foundation of American “nutrition” just as processed food manufacturers wanted.

The USDA, in coordination with corporate agriculture, created nutritional guidelines that sold carbohydrate overload as healthy living. Schools taught it to trusting kids who had posters of the food pyramid on their cafeteria walls. Doctors repeated it, and whole aisles of poison were reborn as “breakfast.”

The consequences were devastating and lasting:

  • Obesity rates in America tripled within two decades

  • Type 2 diabetes has become a common childhood disease

  • Cancer rates climbed, as constant insulin stimulation and chronic inflammation turned organs into sugar-fed petri dishes

Lobbyists for the corn, wheat, and sugar industries ensured their commodities were framed as daily staples, while fat, long consumed by healthy populations for millennia, was scapegoated as “unhealthy.”

The American Heart Association still promotes low-fat diets. Schools still serve sugar-glazed wheat garbage labeled as "healthy whole grains," and the USDA remains a revolving door between food conglomerates and federal whores working for the food conglomerates.

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Agent Orange America

Before it soaked the wallets of Oncologists and hospital administrators, glyphosate was a military experiment. Monsanto, one of the chemical giants behind Agent Orange, supplied the U.S. government with defoliants for jungle warfare in Vietnam, causing cancer rates and birth deformities there to skyrocket among the population.

Not satisfied with poisoning only poor Vietnamese villagers for generations, they turned their post-war research into warfare to poison Americans, too. Glyphosate, introduced in the 1970s under the trade name Roundup, was sold as a ‘weed killer’ or herbicide. Today it kills everything green, except genetically modified crops engineered to withstand it.

Agent Orange “defoliage” operations over Vietnam.
Vietnamese children today thanks to the American chemical giants Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and the US Air Force.

By the early 2000s, Empire wheat, oats, corn, and soy were soaked in it, including just before harvest, where it’s sprayed directly onto crops to speed up drying. This practice, called desiccation, leaves residues behind on the grains used to make cereal, bread, snack bars, and baby food. Yes, baby food.

Glyphosate food poisoning is now standard grocery fare. A 2016 study found residues in nearly every batch of processed oat products they tested. The research group confirmed that popular products like Cheerios and Quaker oats contain glyphosate levels far exceeding what European regulators would ever permit.

Meanwhile, the European Union, Brazil, and over two dozen countries have imposed restrictions, warning that glyphosate is a human carcinogen and a chronic disruptor of endocrine and immune function.

Glyphosate also disrupts the gut microbiome, wiping out beneficial bacteria while leaving pathogens intact. When it infiltrates food at a mass scale, it leaves behind an invisible wake:

  • Leaky gut syndrome

  • Autoimmune flare-ups

  • Food allergies

  • Brain fog

  • Neurological inflammation in children

Children raised on glyphosate-saturated grains now carry digestive disorders, developmental delays, and chronic illness from eczemas to allergies. The immune system no longer recognizes food as nourishment and must divert energy and resources to counteracting its toxicity, resulting in perpetual detoxification or what we know as illness.

And as Monsanto—now owned by Bayer—fends off class action lawsuits, the American regulatory class maintains its silence. The EPA continues to greenlight glyphosate’s use, citing industry-funded studies, ignoring the wave of litigation and bans around the world.

But don’t worry, Americans, because RFK Jr. is on the case!

Just kidding.

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“Organic”

In the empire of managed perception, even “organic” is a language game. Produce labeled organic carries a PLU code starting with the number 9—a superficial signal of organic purity. Codes beginning with 3 or 4 indicate conventional produce—sprayed, irradiated, chemically fertilized, and laced with carcinogenic herbicides. But the “9” means less than most Americans understand. Unlike in France and the EU, where certified biologique carries stronger regulatory teeth, the Empire’s organic standard is so diluted and poorly enforced that it has become a marketing label surcharge for slightly less poisoned food.

The Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI)—touted as the “watchdog” of organic certification—functions more like a rubber stamp for corporate interests. Case in point: Apeel, a Bill Gates–funded startup that developed a chemical coating to “preserve” fruits and vegetables by sealing them in a thin layer of synthetic wax. OMRI approved Apeel’s “organic” version, despite its ingredient label reading 1% citric acid and 99% “other”—a convenient euphemism for “no difference at all from our non-organic shit.”

Apeel is now applied to avocados, cucumbers, apples, and citrus sold at national grocers under the guise of freshness and sustainability. No independent safety testing. No transparency on long-term ingestion. Just corporate PR wrapped in the word “organic,” sold to a population clinging to the belief that their overpriced groceries are at least maybe, probably, hopefully, (fingers crossed), poison-free.

29 Apr 23:22

Ukrainian Choir Sings 'Agnus Dei' Something uplifting on a Sunday morning.

by c w swanson
25 Apr 12:38

The door to the dining area of the Alcobaça Monastery in Portugal was made narrow so that monks who got too fat were forced to go into fasting

by c w swanson

 


01 Jun 12:50

The data is clear: the more vaccines you give your child, the more likely it is that they will develop chronic diseases including autism

by Administrator

Guest Post by Steve Kirsch

Here’s a quick summary of my survey of the parents of 10,000 kids. The results agree with other studies that have been done. The medical community refuses to do these studies. Why not prove us wrong?

Executive summary

I surveyed the parents of 10,000 kids on a variety of common chronic health conditions.

For every single condition in my survey, vaccination raised the odds that the child would develop the condition; the more vaccines, the higher the risk.

My survey confirms the results of other research that has been done showing similar risk elevations for chronic neurological diseases (ND).

This is devastating for our kids. Vaccines are literally poisoning them. This is why the health authorities will never conduct such a study such as the ones I point out below.

In fact, in 2009, 10 members of Congress including Rand Paul, tried to pass a bill forcing NIH to do a study, but the bill never made it out of the first committee because they don’t want you to ever find out that they’ve been poisoning our kids for decades.

Anyone can replicate the study I did. It took me just 24 hours to run. I invite any mainstream “fact checker” in the world to validate the results; I have the contact info for all the parents.

If the CDC wants to resolve the question quickly, all they have to do is give Professor Brian Hooker access to the VSD and Medicaid databases. Why not do that? Don’t they want people to know the truth?

Finally, the most important thing is that none of the vaccines have been needed in America for the last 25 years. Pediatric clinics which eschew vaccines have uniformly better clinical outcomes than their peers who vaccinate in the same population of kids.

This is a long but very important article.

The results graphically

This graph was done by Matt Briggs, an independent statistician. It’s crystal clear: kids with more vaccines are more likely to suffer from chronic conditions.

The more vaccine shots, the more likely it is that your child will experience a chronic neurological disease such as autism. Graph was done by independent statistician William Briggs.

Odds ratio for each condition

Here is the summary of the survey. The right column is the odd-ratio for kids getting the condition with 10-15 vaccines compared with kids with no vaccines or Vitamin K shots. So if you got 10-15 vaccines, you are 4.5X more likely to develop autism than an unvaccinated child.

And we know from other studies (pediatric clinics with thousands of unvaccinated kids), that when you eliminate vaccination and the use of Tylenol, the autism rates drop to near zero. So this result isn’t a surprise.

Here’s the table:

You can download the survey, the record-level data and the analysis.

These results shouldn’t be a surprise at all. They are similar to other studies comparing vaccinated with FULLY unvaccinated kids (see the next section).

The bottom line: Kids with more vaccines are much more likely, not less likely, to have a large number of chronic neurological conditions.

For example, from the table above:

  • ADHD: 7x
  • Autoimmune disorders: 21x
  • Autism: 5x
  • Asthma: 9.3x
  • Epilepsy: 4x
  • Sinusitis: 33x

The largest signal was for sinusitis (33X more likely than fully unvaccinated); this basically is so rare in the fully unvaccinated that it causes the number to be high.

The vitamin K shot should always be refused

It is as devastating as giving your child a vaccine at birth as has been clearly pointed out in the Control Group study

In short, listening to your doctor was a huge mistake that your child will likely never recover from.

Check this out:

You shouldn’t be surprised by this; other studies found similar numbers

Here are other studies you should look at, all showing that the vaccines are significantly elevating the chance your child will get a chronic disease.

These are all published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. None of these studies have been retracted (even though Gorski would lie and claim they are retracted). I show the odds ratio for autism for comparison with my survey.

  1. Hooker: 5.03
  2. Mawson: 4.2
  3. Control group: Infinite. “For those with zero exposures to post-birth vaccines, pre-birth vaccines, or the K shot, the total rate of autism in the entire CGS is 0% (0 of 1,024)”
  4. Lyons-Weiler: The study was too small to assess autism risk, but showed better health outcomes among the unvaccinated than the vaccinated in other conditions. See this article which notes that the unvaccinated had better compliance to their wellness checks than the vaccinated which eliminates a common argument that anti-anti-vaxxers use. It says, “the unvaccinated families made their well-child visits with greater frequency than the vaccinated families.”

The Thomas study shows similar results. The study was unethically retracted by the journal over the objection of the authors, i.e., the journal didn’t follow the COPE guidelines. They said that “the conclusions were not supported by strong scientific data” which is NOT a valid reason to retract a study once it is published. The journal retracted the paper after an anonymous person claimed (without any evidence) that the results could be due to fewer office visits by the unvaxxed. The author provided evidence that this was not the case, but the journal ignored the evidence. Why? Because the paper got 250,000 views, it had to be retracted because it was counter-narrative and too popular. Later, a new paper showed proof that the reason the journal gave for retracting the paper was clearly false. The journal decided not to admit they were wrong and did not reverse the retraction of the Thomas paper. This is corruption of the highest magnitude. Please complain here using DOI:10.3390/ijerph17228674. The authors of that study would love to debate anyone on the ethics of this retraction. Any takers?

  1. Paul Thomas: Showed generally consistent results overall. The study showed a RIOV of “developing autism” of 4.0 which dropped lower for more vaccines because kids are more likely to develop autism when they are younger and have had fewer vaccines.

Note: it’s possible that vaccines may be causing transgenderism, homosexuality, and many other conditions. I didn’t even think of that when I drafted the survey

Another Internet survey of 13,000 people showed a similar result, the unvaccinated were much better off in all areas measured in the survey (red bars always dramatically smaller):

Comparison unvaccinated-vaccinated

We’ve even known about the link for nearly 100 years!!

The controls on my survey

There were controls to detect bias (birth defects, genetic disorders) which were not elevated proving that the survey was not biased. The OR for these conditions were both close to 1 exactly as we predicted.

The survey is analyzed using odds-ratios so the mix of vaxxed vs. unvaxxed is completely irrelevant.

So it doesn’t matter that 12% of the kids in my survey were unvaccinated. It simply means that I only had to survey 10,000 kids to get a decent comparison group; if others did their survey, they’d have to survey nearly 1M kids to find the same number of unvaccinated kids as I did. So I am able to do studies that are impractical for most other people to do.

The only way to attack my survey is to show that the parents all colluded and lied about their kids.

To defend against this attack, I have the contact info for each respondent and invite any fact checker to verify all the entries are accurate provided if you check, you have to publish the results.

The survey took 2 hours to write and was fully executed in 24 hours. The results were not shown to the public until after the survey was completed, making it impossible to game the results. All the data was collected on Airtable so that there would be a record of any data manipulation.

It is astonishing to me that none of the people who argue that vaccines don’t cause neurological diseases (ND) will do such a survey and show that the data I collected is inaccurate. Why won’t they do that?

Stopping the misinformation spreaders is easy! The CDC could have done this anytime in the last 25 years if they wanted to show people the truth.

Why won’t the CDC simply open up access to the VSD and CMS databases so we validate the results ourselves? Why hasn’t the CDC ever used VSD to do the same study? They’ve had 25 years to do that and never did. Why?

Are there any other studies?

We aren’t aware of any study, comparing the fully unvaccinated vs. partially or fully vaccinated kids that doesn’t have similar numbers.

When you read the peer-review literature carefully, you’ll find that they always consider the “unvaccinated” group to have kids without the particular vaccine under study.

So when they compare the MMR vaccine, they compare it to the kids who didn’t get the MMR vaccine. So it’s like comparing the autism rates of kids who got 28 vaccines with the rates of kids who got 27 vaccines. This is how they hide the signal. They design studies which are designed to fail.

Just because they don’t find a signal, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t there. It just means their study design didn’t find the signal.

They will NEVER compare the chronic disease rates in kids who got all recommended vaccines (well over 50 shots, many with multiple vaccines) vs. completely unvaccinated kids. It simply has never happened.

The excuse that unvaccinated kids are too hard to find is ridiculous. The Amish have thousands of such kids and there are hundreds of such kids that can be located in a heartbeat. All they have to do is call me and I’ll be happy to help.

A new study will be coming out soon

There is another study with around 50,000 kids that was done. It’s not published yet, but the results confirm the studies that were done above: the more you vaccinate kids the greater the difference in chronic diseases vs. the unvaccinated.

The medical journals will likely reject the study because it goes against the narrative. The study was done by a well known researcher.

Do vaccines cause autism?

Yes. More on that in an upcoming article. If you remove the vaccines and Tylenol, the rates of autism drop to near zero.

The 2007 Generation Rescue survey

In 2007, Generation Rescue (GR), an organization that is trying to alert Americans that vaccines cause autism, hired a third party polling firm (SurveyUSA) and paid them $200,000 to do a survey. The advantage to using a third party to do the survey is that GR cannot manipulate the results.

Like my survey, the GR survey found significant elevations for all diseases and conditions.

In the summary report, GR noted the following lack of interest by the CDC in doing any studies comparing vaccinated to unvaccinated kids:

No studies have ever been done to compare ND rates of children who received vaccines with those who received no vaccines, which is what our survey accomplished. Moreover, no studies have ever explored a link between vaccines and ADHD, despite the fact that 1 in 13 U.S. children have this diagnosis (versus 1 in 150 for autism).

The glaring absence of a study to compare vaccinated and unvaccinated children for ND rates caused Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) to introduce this bill to compel the National Institutes of Health to do such a study.

Those statements are as true today as they were 16 years ago.

No public health authority has ever done such a survey. Ever.

I predict that such a survey will never be done because they don’t want the truth to be known.

Members of Congress tried to get a bill to force the NIH to do just **ONE** study. The bill was immediately killed in committee.

The bill, H.R.3069 — 111th Congress (2009-2010), was introduced on June 26, 2009 with 9 co-sponsors including Ron Paul. It never made it out of committee.

Here’s the summary:

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to conduct a comprehensive study to: (1) compare total health outcomes, including the risk of autism, between vaccinated and unvaccinated U.S. populations; and (2) determine whether vaccines or vaccine components play a role in the development of autism spectrum or other neurological conditions.

The bill would have forced the NIH to do just ONE study.

Why would anyone be opposed to finding the truth?

The answer is simple: because our government simply does not want anyone to know the truth.

People would go nuts if they found out that the CDC has been harming our kids for decades with these vaccines and not telling anyone. It would destroy all faith in the mainstream press, the medical community, Congress, and US government agencies. So they killed the bill and there is no press about it. All silenced by the mainstream media.

Some people will gaslight you into believing that surveys are not “science.” That is false.

In fact, Professor Anders Hviid, an author of the highly cited Denmark study which claims that vaccines don’t cause autism, was so proud of his nationwide questionnaire study on COVID that was published in Nature that he pinned it to his Twitter profile; he’s the senior author on that study!

Professor Hviid then blocked everyone from viewing his tweets within 24 hours after I emailed him to ask him for his data.

If these surveys are all wrong, where are their surveys done by a reputable independent polling firm with no conflicts of interest showing the “correct” numbers?

The silence and lack of interest tells you everything.

In 2005, here’s what the CDC Director Judy Gerberding said about doing surveys comparing vaccinated vs. fully unvaccinated

Here’s what Judy Gerberding, the CDC Director said in 2005:

I think those kinds of studies could be done and should be done.

Let’s speed this up. Let’s look for the early studies that could give us at least some hypotheses to test and evaluate and get information flowing through the research pipeline as quickly as we can. So we are committed to doing that/

We think we will be able to provide more accurate information in the next year or so than we’ve been able to do up to this point. And I know that is our responsibility.

Guess what happened? They did nothing.

Why didn’t they just run exactly the same poll that Generation Rescue did in 2007? Just employ a different third party respected research firm to replicate their study and see if they get similar results. That would have been easy and a great start. Total cost: $200,000.

Instead they did nothing…. nothing!

It reminds me of Sgt Schultz:

When An AM or PA see something they know is wrong, or against the rules. :  r/AmazonFC
The CDC doesn’t want to know what is going on. If they were honest, why not run exactly the same poll that GR did and show the results are different? Why not give Professor Brian Hooker and Dr. James Lyons-Weiler full access to VSD and Medicaid to do their research? I’ll pay for their time. It would cost the CDC nothing, nothing!

Is the CDC hiding the data? Absolutely! Here’s proof.

If the CDC was honest and had nothing to hide, they would give researchers such as Professor Brian Hooker, James Lyons-Weiler, and other scientists who have published papers on autism in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, free, full, unfettered access to the VSD and Medicaid databases to do research.

But they won’t.

They never will.

Because hiding the data is critical.

And that tells you everything you need to know, doesn’t it?

A few other things you should know

Here’s my handy list of other things you should know:

  1. Here is a complete list of necessary vaccines: <this space intentionally left blank>
  2. Have you ever wondered why vaccines work so well? Check out the graphs here. You’ll find this most interesting.
  3. None of the vaccines used in America today were ever tested against a true placebo (saline shot). This was noted in Turtles all the way down and has never been disproven.
  4. There are no post-marketing studies of vaccine safety for any vaccine in America that prove the vaccines are safe. Only the states have the data and they aren’t sharing the data or doing the studies. See my article on data transparency for details and also my article “Is it safe?” for details on why that is.
  5. Did you know CDC doesn’t have the vaccination record-level data for any vaccine from any state? So the CDC can’t know if the vaccines are safe. They could ask the states to provide these records, but they are too shy to ask the states for the data. I got this directly from the head of Media Relations at the CDC. I was floored.
  6. The states aren’t doing the safety analysis either. When I contacted California State Epidemiologist Erica Pan, she ghosted me immediately after I asked her, “Do you believe in data transparency?”
  7. None of the states make record-level public health data public. If they do that, we’d improve clinical outcomes. There’s no study showing keeping this data secret improves clinical outcomes. I believe that they keep this data hidden to cover the harms caused by vaccines. I’d love to be proven wrong. Simply open up the records.
  8. A lot of people believe that vaccines have eliminated many diseases and are a net benefit to society. I’ve yet to see the proof of any of that today. While it “sounds” plausible, the risk benefits of each vaccine are dynamic and depend on the current morbidity and mortality of the disease relative to that of the vaccine. Where is the data on that? I haven’t seen it. Have you? There should be an on-going annual evaluation of risk vs. benefit for each vaccine. This has never been done. Why not let us into the VSD to make these assessments instead of blindly assuming vaccines have no risks?
  9. If your child has autism, you can reverse it in some cases. Here’s what Scott Shoemaker did to cure his son. Unfortunately, doctors who know how to treat your child have to keep a low profile or they will have their license revoked. The medical community doesn’t want it known that autism can be reversed at all.

Reader comments

Colleen Gaffney wrote:

One other thing that I found alarming, my daughter came home from school last year and said that in health class they were all talking about things that they were allergic to. Out of 24 students, my unvaccinated daughter was the only one that wasn’t allergic to anything. So ironic.

22 May 22:39

Vaccines cause autism

by Administrator

Guest Post by Steve Kirsch

Nearly all the world’s autism experts know it. They just can’t talk about it.

Vaccines Don't Cause Autism: Healthcare Triage #12 - YouTube

Executive summary

According to one of the world’s most respected authorities on autism, all, or nearly all, of the world’s top 100 scientists in the autism field know that vaccines are the primary driver behind the autism crisis in America. They just aren’t allowed to talk about it in public. If they did that, they would lose their funding, their job, and be the subject of intimidation techniques from their peers. So they keep quiet and nobody knows what they really think.

Did you know that there are large pediatric practices in America located in high autism areas that have ZERO kids with autism? Normally, we’d simply study what these practices have in common that are different from their peers. It’s called “copying what works.” Showcasing these best practices would dramatically improve the health of kids in the US and reverse the staggering rise in autism rates which are now nearly 5% of people under 40 (per my survey of 10,000 kids).

Note: I make my 10,000 children survey record-level data public for everyone to see. The CDC doesn’t.

If these “best practices” were adopted and encouraged by the CDC, FDA, and NIH, we’d be the healthiest nation on earth and autism rates would drop to insignificant levels.

The reasons there are no studies examining these best practices include:

  1. Almost nobody knows these practices exist and who they are. They keep a low profile. Otherwise, the health authorities would shut them down.
  2. A common key strategy used in these practices is to avoid vaccination entirely and avoid the use of acetaminophen entirely. The drug companies would not allow a study like this to be published. The journal wouldn’t believe it either; it’s so counter narrative.
  3. Another key strategy is if giving a vaccine, give them one at a time rather than multiple vaccines at once. If they admitted this, the CDC credibility would go way down.
  4. Clinical outcomes simply don’t matter if you don’t follow the narrative.
  5. If it became known that the CDC, FDA, and NIH have been giving advice that made Americans chronically ill, it would tarnish their reputation and nobody would trust them in the future.

The bottom line is that the experts know how to solve the chronic disease crisis in America, but they are not allowed to talk about it. And even if they did, no one would listen or believe them. They would be labeled as liars and misinformation spreaders. Trust me, I know something about that.

In my case, I’m not afraid of having my medical license revoked because I don’t have a medical license. And I’m not afraid of any reputational damage because I’m already disrespected by the mainstream community and banned for life on Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Medium, and so on. Google rates me as the world’s #1 misinformation superspreader. Most of my former friends won’t talk to me. So I have nothing to lose!

I will fund a study to identify the common unique practices of clinics with superior health outcomes (including zero autism). And I’m also going to fund a robust statistical analysis on my survey data to prove that it shows a causal link between vaccines and a variety of chronic diseases in a way that is impervious to attack.

The bottom line is that the mainstream medical community and CDC will never do these studies. And if they did, they’d never publicly release the underlying data.

But I will do these studies and release the data. And America will finally learn the truth about the incalculable damage that the CDC, FDA, and NIH have done.

Introduction

On May 19, 2023, I did a survey of parents who described the health challenges of their kids. The data showed a huge signal that vaccines in general increase your likelihood of various chronic diseases including autism. For autism, ADHD, food allergies, etc. it was a 5X signal; for autoimmune diseases, the risk was elevated by around 25X. More on the results in a subsequent article.

I called up my friend Dr. James Lyons-Weiler. James is an expert on autism; he read over 2,000 autism papers and wrote a highly-rated book about it: The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism. He told me that he believed at the time he wrote the book that if you could eliminate vaccines from the US, the rate of autism would drop by around 4X. In other words, vaccines are the single largest factor causing autism. Knowing what he knows now, he’d have declined all vaccines and would never have vaccinated his kids.

James also noted that using Tylenol (aka Acetaminophen or Paracetamol) around vaccination time will significantly increase the likelihood that a child will develop autism from a vaccine shot.

This explains why medical practices that avoid vaccination (combined with other healthy practices) have near zero rates of autism (0 in 500 kids vs. around 25 in 500 in the surrounding community). So that’s a 5-sigma event which means either the practice is super lucky (way less than 1 in 1 million), or they are doing something right.

The staggering growth of autism

Do you see a problem? The Vaccine Injury Act was passed in 1986 that protected the drug companies from liability. Check out the graph. And it isn’t genetics because genes don’t change that fast. It wasn’t a change in the definition of autism either (DSM-III-R): that would show as a step function, and level off asymptotically.

This is just in California:

California's Autism Explosion: An Eyewitness Perspective — NCSA
Autism rates (California)

As you can see, when acetaminophen use tapers off, the autism rates decrease:

Fig. 2.AMR.acetaminophen

The pediatric practice with “off the charts” health outcomes eschews the use of all vaccines, vitamin-K shots, and acetaminophen. No acetaminophen period. Ever.

Why didn’t my doctor tell me about this?

You never hear about these practices because the doctors know that if they talk about it publicly, they will have their license to practice medicine revoked for life.

The most stunning thing James told me in our call today is that after he wrote the book, he was contacted by one of the most senior scientists in the autism field who told him straight up:

“We all know vaccines cause autism. We just aren’t allowed to talk about it.”

James told me if you got the top 100 autism scientists in a room and they took a poll that could not be traced back to them as to whether vaccines were the major driver of autism, the vote would either be 100% YES, or very close to that.

Bottom line: Neither the doctors nor the scientists are allowed to question the narrative. This is why healthcare is so messed up today.

Did you know that Congress knows vaccines cause autism?

Check out this comment from Kenneth Stoller, MD:

In 2004, I testified at a Congressional reform and oversight committee meeting about new developments in treating autism. Everyone was excited about what would happen next because we were hoping for legislation that would give autistic children access to off label treatments. There are no off-label treatments, but 3rd party payers don’t cover off label as a rule.

A sober congressional aide pulled me aside and told me the inconvenient truth. Every person in the upper tier in government already knew vaccines cause autism and were never going to do anything about it. There would be no legislation with the words autism and treatment found together.

Or this comment from Maui Freedom Fighter:

Because I am a recently retired teacher. These parents have technology, and they have “ receipts” !!! One parent showed me VIDEO of her son at a young age, speaking, clearly intelligibly and way beyond his years (mom was an eye surgeon, dad, multiple doctorates in IT)! … The next day after vaccines he lost ALL speech, gross motor and fine motor we’re extremely diminished = SEVERE Autism!!! They were devastated!! I heard similar stories from all my parents!!! Autism is 100% EPIDEMIC!!! Well the car I am currently consulting Catholic schools in Vietnam. What is the rate of autism they are saying currently??? ONE in 10

Did you know that SIDS is caused by vaccination? They are not allowed to talk about that either!

They gaslight parents into believing SIDS is caused by a baby sleeping on their stomach.

Are you kidding me?!?!?!

Let’s examine how silly that is. Babies have been around for …. How many years now?? It’s around 192,000 years.

It wasn’t until 1969 that SIDS was significant enough to merit a name.

It wasn’t until 25 years later that in1994, NICHD launched the “Back to Sleep” campaign.

In my survey there were 7 cases of SIDS. In two cases, the reporter didn’t remember the timing. Leaving 5 cases. 3 of the 5 were within 1 week of a shot. 1 of those 3 cases of SIDS was immediately after the shot. So data is consistent with the bulk happening right after the shot. If someone else has access to a larger dataset, I’d love to see it! This is just a quick sanity check with small numbers. It doesn’t “prove” anything but it is consistent with the hypothesis of harm.

I’m drafting a separate article about SIDS. There is no question it is caused by vaccines. I verified the data directly myself and found the same association that the papers wrote about.

SIDS is also vaccine dependent. Some vaccines have a higher rate than others. This is crystal clear from the VAERS data.

Check this out. This is direct observation:

ER nurse sees SIDS after well baby visits.

In other words, virtually all the SIDS deaths happened shortly after vaccination and some vaccines have higher SIDS death rates than others.

You’d have to be very blind not to see causality here. If you don’t see the causality, you should probably not be in medicine.

I’ll be expanding on this in my next post dedicated to SIDS.

How can hundreds of papers in the medical journals that claim vaccines don’t cause autism or SIDS be wrong? Is science that corrupt?!?!

In a word, yes. I never would have believed this myself two years ago.

But look at COVID. All those safe and effective studies? They were all wrong! All the papers showing it reduced the rate of infection: wrong. These vaccines have nearly no adverse events and no deaths if you read the papers. If you read the post-marketing VSD study on the COVID vaccines, you’ll see your all-cause mortality is cut in half after the shot. In short, nearly all the papers showing harm seem to either never get accepted or are retracted for reasons that don’t satisfy the COPE guidelines.

And these people still have never acknowledged a death from the mRNA vaccine yet in the US.

What makes me different

What makes me different is that I’m not afraid to speak out and tell people the truth.

I’m also not afraid to ask for data transparency when no one else will.

Next steps

The survey I did shows very clearly what is really going on.

But in order to be able to publish this in a medical journal in a way that will survive calls for retraction, we have to do about 3 months worth of analysis on the data. James Lyons-Weiler will be doing this. This is his forte. He knows all the ways to block the data to make the analysis bulletproof. I agreed to fund James for the next three months to do that.

If you’d like to play a role in supporting this research, please consider becoming a paid subscriber to my Substack if you are not already a paying subscriber.

The autism rate among those under 40 years old is close to 5%. This is a train wreck. There are only a small handful of researchers who were brave enough to write papers and fortunate enough to get them published. The more we can add confirmatory studies like this that are relatively “bulletproof,” the harder it will be for doctors to cling to their belief systems.

Summary

It’s not like we don’t know what the major drivers of a large number of chronic diseases are in America today. Some doctors do know. They are just not allowed to talk about it.

Making it safe for doctors and scientists to be able to speak the truth without intimidation is a much harder problem and that may take decades to solve.

So our best move is simply to educate the public directly. The more evidence we can get published in medical journals, the easier it will be to educate the public ASAP on the truth about the harms of vaccines and other drugs.

26 Apr 19:58

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Test triggers nuclear disaster at Chernobyl – 1986

by Administrator

Via History.com

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

Hoover Acquires New Papers on the Chernobyl Disaster | Hoover Institution

Chernobyl disaster 30 years on: lessons not learned - The Lancet

Firefighters and volunteers, the real heroes of the Chernobyl disaster

Chernobyl, Remembering Brave Firefighters and Forgotten Heroes

How Many People Died In Chernobyl? Is Chernobyl Reactor 4 Still Burning?  Who Caused The Chernobyl Disaster? - ABTC

Chernobyl Disaster (1986) | PreventionWeb

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. Thirty-two people died and dozens more suffered radiation burns in the opening days of the crisis, but only after Swedish authorities reported the fallout did Soviet authorities reluctantly admit that an accident had occurred.

The Chernobyl station was situated at the settlement of Pripyat, about 65 miles north of Kiev in the Ukraine. Built in the late 1970s on the banks of the Pripyat River, Chernobyl had four reactors, each capable of producing 1,000 megawatts of electric power. On the evening of April 25, 1986, a group of engineers began an electrical-engineering experiment on the Number 4 reactor. The engineers, who had little knowledge of reactor physics, wanted to see if the reactor’s turbine could run emergency water pumps on inertial power.

As part of their poorly designed experiment, the engineers disconnected the reactor’s emergency safety systems and its power-regulating system. Next, they compounded this recklessness with a series of mistakes: They ran the reactor at a power level so low that the reaction became unstable, and then removed too many of the reactor’s control rods in an attempt to power it up again. The reactor’s output rose to more than 200 megawatts but was proving increasingly difficult to control. Nevertheless, at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, the engineers continued with their experiment and shut down the turbine generator to see if its inertial spinning would power the reactor’s water pumps. In fact, it did not adequately power the water pumps, and without cooling water the power level in the reactor surged.

To prevent meltdown, the operators reinserted all the 200-some control rods into the reactor at once. The control rods were meant to reduce the reaction but had a design flaw: graphite tips. So, before the control rod’s five meters of absorbent material could penetrate the core, 200 graphite tips simultaneously entered, thus facilitating the reaction and causing an explosion that blew off the heavy steel and concrete lid of the reactor. It was not a nuclear explosion, as nuclear power plants are incapable of producing such a reaction, but was chemical, driven by the ignition of gases and steam that were generated by the runaway reaction. In the explosion and ensuing fire, more than 50 tons of radioactive material were released into the atmosphere, where it was carried by air currents.

On April 27, Soviet authorities began an evacuation of the 30,000 inhabitants of Pripyat. A cover-up was attempted, but on April 28 Swedish radiation monitoring stations, more than 800 miles to the northwest of Chernobyl, reported radiation levels 40 percent higher than normal. Later that day, the Soviet news agency acknowledged that a major nuclear accident had occurred at Chernobyl.

In the opening days of the crisis, 32 people died at Chernobyl and dozens more suffered radiation burns. The radiation that escaped into the atmosphere, which was several times that produced by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was spread by the wind over Northern and Eastern Europe, contaminating millions of acres of forest and farmland. An estimated 5,000 Soviet citizens eventually died from cancer and other radiation-induced illnesses caused by their exposure to the Chernobyl radiation, and millions more had their health adversely affected. In 2000, the last working reactors at Chernobyl were shut down and the plant was officially closed.

31 Oct 01:25

The Good News is that We Now Know Our Enemies

by matthew archbold

 The good news about 2020 is that at least are out in the open now. They've all outed themselves. The masks are off.

And now we know that it's just the Democrats, most Republicans in power, Big Tech, the deep state, the intelligence community, mainstream media, much of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, most of your mainline Christian denominations, virtually all the news outlets, the entertainment community, CCP, Antifa, Wall Street billionaires, George Soros, and Planned Parenthood who oppose us.

OK. Where do we start?

Step 1) Pray like never before.
Step 2) Vote Trump.

Sure, it's a rogues gallery from Hell but I truly do believe this helps. For so long, so many good people labored under the delusion that those who opposed us were people of good will who simply disagreed with us on some fundamental issues. That can no longer be argued.

They do not like us. In fact, they hate us. 

They seek to silence us, shun us, re-educate us. Or worse. 

This is good news.

Fr. Richard Heilman posted on FB that "God is answering your prayers. He is exposing evil."

Agreed.

In my opinion, that has been one of the great benefits of Trump's 2016 victory. I think he was even surprised at the depth of evil he was facing. But now he knows. If he gets in again, I suspect his second term will be much stronger. Now, it's clear who opposes us.

This will be a massive undertaking which will challenge all who are willing to stand up or kneel down in defense of faith, love, and life. God help us all.




20 Oct 17:44

Classic Workspace

by c w swanson
Cliff Towle

Nice.

 


05 Jun 23:39

Baby is metal

by c w swanson

08 Aug 12:53

The Laity Demand Justice and Action

By Katrina Fernandez | “Now will you finally leave the Catholic Church?” What do you do when there’s an intruder in your home? You defend yourself, your family, and your property. You call the police. Someone is in your home when they ought not...
05 Mar 13:56

Despite the talk of the "deconstruction" of the administrative state....

by noreply@blogger.com (Ann Althouse)
15 Feb 19:30

Let us help you pack

by JeremyR
23 Jan 15:18

Women Making History

by noreply@blogger.com (mrsdarwin)
Well, it's not the first time a women's protest has been about sex. In 411 BC, Aristophanes's play Lysistrata involved the women of Athens and surrounding city-states going on sex strike until their long-suffering husbands signed a peace treaty and ended war. And certainly throughout history women have been demanding their sexual rights. Lysistrata complains that while the men are off waging war, young women are languishing at home, only getting older. It's not fair, because while old men can still marry and have children, women have a definite window of opportunity. The men at war are depriving the women of their right to marriage and children.

There's a rich Biblical tradition of sexual protest as well: Genesis 19 recounts how Lot's daughters, cut off from civilization, get their father drunk and have sex with him so that they may bear children by hook or by crook. Genesis 38 tells the story of Tamar, whose first two husbands refuse to give her children through primitive forms of birth control. And since her father-in-law Judah (the ancestor of Jesus) won't marry her to his third son and give her the right of having children, she disguises herself as a prostitute, has sex with Judah himself, and conceives that way. Ruth demands her right of marriage (and children) from Boaz by making herself attractive and laying down near him as he sleeps, and then making her request when he startles awake. (Ruth is praised for her initiative by the elders of the city, who compare her to Tamar in her audacity.)

So, two thousand years later, women are still protesting and demanding their sexual rights, wearing pink pussy hats in lieu of rich robes and perfumes of Araby, and those rights are still centered around children. In this particular culture, however, women aren't demanding that men stop withholding children from them. The explicit demand, the entire official purpose of this modern protest is the right to kill the child. Sex is not connected with the stability and the relative immortality of bearing children to perpetuate a name and a family, but with immediate gratification, with expressing oneself, with reducing the richness of womanhood to nothing more than a vagina.

Two thousand years from now, who will be making history? What will sexual protest be about in 4017? Probably something as inconceivable to modern women as abortion on demand would have been to the ancients. We're constantly lectured by bumper stickers that "Well Behaved Women Don't Make History" -- because only women who make noise, who make love, who dare to wear pussy hats have any chance of carpe diem-ing, while the meek inherit the housework. And yet, what woman has had a more outsized impact on history than the Blessed Virgin Mary? Her sexual protest involved questioning even an angel itself: "How can this be, since I do not know man?" She stands -- alone, not amidst a supportive mob of you-go girls -- and asserts her virginity against God Himself offering her the gift of being the mother of the Messiah. And God honors her courage, granting her both the child and the virginity.

Throughout her life, Mary stands not amidst, but against the crowd. She stands at the foot of Jesus's cross, quiet against the howling of the mob. (Every mob demanding its own will ends, in effect, by shouting, "Crucify him!" -- a good reason why the assembly at Mass faces the image of the crucified Christ, to remind them that they come to serve his will, not their own.) Her protest is silent and internal, unless she is addressing God Himself. There she is not shy about making demands: "Son, why have you done this to us? Don't you know your father and I have been looking for you?" "They have no wine." She makes no waves. She makes no splashy headlines. She makes no strategic alliances with evil. And yet she has changed the lot of more women for the better, has garnered more sexual respect and rights for women, than any other woman in history. Perhaps the key is in the only recorded bit of advice she utters: "Do whatever he tells you." In that is contained the key to sexual freedom, and every freedom.
06 Jan 23:56

Senior Citizen Humor...!

by HermitJim
Here is a little something sent to me by Baby Sis, who just had a birthday, BTW.

THERE IS NO SENIOR DISCOUNT FOR READING THIS!!!

LYING AROUND, PONDERING THE PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD, I REALIZED THAT AT MY AGE I DON'T REALLY GIVE A RAT'S ASS ANYMORE.

IF WALKING IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH, THE POSTMAN WOULD BE IMMORTAL.

A WHALE SWIMS ALL DAY, ONLY EATS FISH, AND DRINKS WATER, BUT IS STILL FAT.

A RABBIT RUNS AND HOPS AND ONLY LIVES 15 YEARS, WHILE A TORTOISE DOESN'T RUN AND DOES MOSTLY NOTHING, YET IT LIVES FOR 150 YEARS. AND THEY TELL US TO EXERCISE? I DON'T THINK SO.

NOW THAT I'M OLDER, HERE'S WHAT I'VE DISCOVERED:

1. I STARTED OUT WITH NOTHING, AND I STILL HAVE MOST OF IT.

2. MY WILD OATS ARE MOSTLY ENJOYED WITH PRUNES AND ALL-BRAN.

3. FUNNY, I DON'T REMEMBER BEING ABSENT-MINDED.

4. FUNNY, I DON'T REMEMBER BEING ABSENT-MINDED.

5. IF ALL IS NOT LOST, THEN WHERE THE HECK IS IT?

6. IT WAS A WHOLE LOT EASIER TO GET OLDER THAN IT WAS TO GET WISER.

7. SOME DAYS, YOU'RE THE TOP DOG, SOME DAYS YOU'RE THE HYDRANT.

8. I WISH THE BUCK REALLY DID STOP HERE, I SURE COULD USE A FEW OF THEM.

9. KIDS IN THE BACKSEAT CAUSE ACCIDENTS.

10. ACCIDENTS IN THE BACK SEAT CAUSE KIDS.

11. IT IS HARD TO MAKE A COMEBACK WHEN YOU HAVEN'T BEEN ANYWHERE.

12. THE WORLD ONLY BEATS A PATH TO YOUR DOOR WHEN YOU'RE IN THE BATHROOM.

13. IF GOD WANTED ME TO TOUCH MY TOES, HE'D HAVE PUT THEM ON MY KNEES.

14. WHEN I'M FINALLY HOLDING ALL THE RIGHT CARDS, EVERYONE WANTS TO PLAY CHESS.

15. IT IS NOT HARD TO MEET EXPENSES...THEY'RE EVERYWHERE.

16. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A RUT AND A GRAVE IS THE DEPTH.

17. THESE DAYS, I SPEND A LOT OF TIME THINKING ABOUT THE HEREAFTER. . .
17A. I GO SOMEWHERE TO GET SOMETHING, AND THEN WONDER WHAT I'M "HERE AFTER".

18. FUNNY, I DON'T REMEMBER BEING ABSENT-MINDED.

19. IT IS A LOT BETTER TO BE SEEN THAN VIEWED.

20. HAVE I SENT THIS MESSAGE TO YOU BEFORE???...OR DID I GET IT FROM YOU?

Now this may not apply to some of you, but I can relate to nearly everything here, know what I mean ?

Coffee in the cozy kitchen this morning!
30 Dec 17:49

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16 Feb 15:54

Bring Back DDT! Fast!

by noreply@blogger.com (Mike Smith)
Between 600,000 dead children in Africa each year and the new Zika virus, it is time to declare war on mosquitoes. Now. Today. Before another state follows Hawaii's lead and has to declare a state of emergency.

For those too young, DDT was an incredibly effective tool against mosquitoes that was thought to harm birds. We now know it does not.

Environmentalists hate to admit they are wrong to the extent that children are expendable. While some contend, perhaps correctly, the mass fumigation was a problem, the judicious use of DDT under the present circumstances should be immediately considered.
16 Dec 11:51

The Great Thing about Getting to be Catholic…

by Mark Shea

…is that even our statues worship statues:

06 Dec 13:07

The Day I Divorced Facebook the Hussy

by Kevin O'Brien


"Doctor, I'm in a dysfunctional relationship."

"Tell me about it."

"She's abusive to me and I can't trust her."

"What's the woman's name?"

"Facebook."


"Facebook?  Facebook is the woman's name?"

"Facebook.  She's a hussy.  I've written about her before, Facebook the Hussy."

"So what is the nature of the relationship?"

"She lies, she cheats on me, she hits me, I blow up at her.  And then I leave her and she woos me back again and tells me she's sorry and she'll never do it again.  And for a month or so everything's perfect.  And the sex is great.  And then I notice she's been lying, she's been cheating on me.  I confront her, she hits me, I blow up at her.  And we start the cycle all over again."

"But ... Facebook is not a woman.  Facebook is a thing."

"Look, Doc.  She's a woman, and a shallow and bitter one at that."

"Perhaps I should prescribe some ... medication?"

"No, listen!  When I first joined Facebook, I had a few friends, actors who worked for me.  Facebook looked at her algorithm and decided that I ought be be friends with my friends' friends.  But my friends' friends were all losers and drug addicts.  She kept throwing pictures up at me of losers and drug addicts.  She wanted me to "friend" these people, to have relationships with them.  I should have known then that she didn't care for me.  She did not have my best interests at heart."

"You actually had actors as friends?"

"It was foolish, I know.  And then one of them publicly complained about me (by posting on Facebook) and all of our mutual actor friends left comments consoling her and agreeing with her, so I unfriended the whole damn lot of them then and there."

"I see.  So this rage of yours ... "

"I'm not finished.  I swore off the Hussy at that point.  But we worked out our differences and got back together - or so I thought.  We had a deal.  No more actor friends.  Only Super-Catholic friends."

"Oh, my."

"I know!  I know!  That also had disaster written all over it!  Posts on novenas and devotions and all that Catholic stuff - I had hundreds of friends, and they were all Super-Catholics, fans of my EWTN work, fans of theology and saints.  Then one day I put up a post quoting from the Catechism and I got over 140 comments - all disagreeing with the Catechism.  With the freaking Catechism of the Catholic Church!  A ton of Super-Catholic friends were furious that I had quoted from it because they disagreed with it."

"So ... "

"So I broke up with Facebook again.  But I began to miss her - the smile, the laugh, the great sex."

"Continue."

"Then I compromised.  We'd get back together, but I would 'unfollow' all but about a dozen of my friends.  I simply would not see the posts of all of these whackos who were bringing me down.  And I'd do my best to ignore their comments on my posts."

"How did that go?"

"Fine for a month or two.  It was our second honeymoon.  But then I noticed something."

"What?"

"I couldn't keep my promise to stay out of the fray.  I started getting sucked in to pointless arguments in the comments to posts that I was putting up, posts that linked to my blog.  People wouldn't comment on my blog posts at my blog site, they'd comment on Facebook.  I'd respond to their comments, and then they'd rip into me and lecture me about how judgmental I am or how naive I am or how arrogant I am."

"But you really are all those things."

"I know, but that was beside the point!  I was trying to discuss issues or insights I'd had about spiritual matters or stuff like that.  I'd be attacked personally as a way to discredit the argument I'd be making, as a way of short circuiting any genuine intellectual engagement."

"Did you say, 'genuine intellectual engagement'?  This is the internet, you fool!  You really are nuts!"

"So finally, after about a dozen times back and forth, I've had it.  I'm giving her up for Advent - and for good."

"That's a bit extreme, wouldn't you say?"

"No, Facebook the Hussy is extreme.  Maybe not for everyone - though I've seen her hurt many of my friends, who not only become addicted to her, but who form intensely intimate so-called relationships with members of the opposite sex who are not their husbands or wives.  That sort of thing has happened to me as well, and it's devastating in every conceivable way.  It's a trap, you know."

"It's not a trap.  It's technology.  Technology is neutral."

"Technology is far from neutral, doctor.  Take the microphone, for example.  The microphone changed singing from stage-singing to crooner-singing, bringing in a whole different kind of music, revolutionizing the culture, for better or worse.  The automobile brings the benefits of quick transportation along with the burden of suburban sprawl and a kind of isolationism.  No technology is neutral."

"But it's not the technology's fault.  It's our fault."

"I agree.  But certain kinds of technology facilitate certain kinds of reactions.  The internet allows us to connect instantaneously with far away friends, but it also allows us to access unlimited pornography in the privacy of our bedrooms, the kind of pornography that only the most degraded of perverts were aware of fifty years ago.  Humans have always had the potential to find soul mates in far flung places, and humans have always had the potential to give themselves over to hard core porn.  The internet has facilitated both by the very nature of what the internet is.  Certain kinds of technology facilitate certain kinds of responses in us.  So perhaps you could say technology is neutral, but our use of technology never is.  Technology provides grooves that are more conducive to certain kinds of behavior and not conducive to others."

"But getting back to Facebook ... "

"The Hussy provides a false sense of intimacy.  Facebook friends are not real friends, as a rule.  Oh, maybe if you stick with sharing photos and videos of kittens, you're OK.  But beyond that, you'll find that Facebook friends will drive you crazy."

"Real friends can drive you crazy, too.  In the real world."

"Yes, but there's a humanity there that's lacking in Facebook.  For one thing, no real friend in real life would say the kinds of things many Facebook false friends are emboldened to say with their keyboards.  And for another, things like smiles, laughter (not LOL cyber laughter, but real laughter), tone of voice - all of the give and take you get when you're with a real friend in real life - these things bring warmth and context, these things convey humanity and real affection, or sometimes real frustration.  That's because real friendships exist in a real web - not a "world wide web", but the kind of web that's like a fine silk or a gauze, connecting people in a frail and fine and delicate way, just like a spider's web.  There's a finesse to real life relationships, a give and take, a kind of gauze that cushions much of what we do with one another and that operates on many levels in many subtle ways at once."

"So, to use an analogy ... "

"To use an analogy, Facebook is like a garish daytime talk show with celebrity hosts and insipid guests - too loud, too stupid, too contrived, too self-absorbed.  Real life is like the novels of Henry James."

"Well, maybe you've made the right decision - at least for you, at least for now."

"It's not a decision, doctor.  It's a deliverance."


13 Apr 12:03

Reason #9834749872 to Homeschool

by Mark Shea

27 Oct 00:10

A Lovely Moment from “America’s Got Talent”

by Mark Shea

24 Aug 11:58

Sayings 2.1

by DOGHOUSE DIARIES

Sayings 2.1

These were so fun to think up. If you wanna share any of your own, you can do so here!