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Another Angle On The Batman Murders

by Jon Rappoport

July 21, 2012

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Mike Adams and Alex Jones are covering the Batman shooting with very good reports. No need for me to recycle their insights and evidence.

I want to make a few points.

Once law enforcement has satisfied itself that James Holmes acted alone, the case will be pushed along to a disposition: a confession or a trial or a plea. And with minimal fuss, the media will fall into line.

However, independent journalists like Alex and Mike will continue to look at the situation from many sides, because there are unanswered questions, contradictions, and political consequences. Front and center is the question: was the Denver attack in some way staged?

They will get flack for their continuing investigation. As usual, they will be called conspiracy theorists. Mainstream media professionals will express impatience and outrage.

However, realize there is no government agency whose ordinary function is to stand back and look at standard law-enforcement work.

The general public has been conditioned to expect nothing more than an arrest, a trial or a confession, and a verdict. When more is brought to the table by Web journalists or private citizens who aren’t satisfied with the law-enforcement work in the case, it is automatically looked upon as weird, unnecessary, and disruptive.

Particularly when the crime is horrific enough to jump the fence and attract 24/7 coverage for days on end, there is a schedule of events that runs by the book: interviews with the victims’ families, witnesses, and acquaintances of the accused; vigils; funerals; memorials; calls for healing; statements from politicians recommending new gun-control legislation; journalistic “heavyweights” assessing “what it all really means.”

This schedule runs. Outsiders who want people to stop, back up, and listen to unresolved questions about the crime and the case are viewed as rank intruders on the ceremonial march of the Ritual.

Cops and district attorneys don’t do Odd. They don’t consider nagging doubts. They don’t work issues that stand beyond their basic evidence and their confirmed perpetrator. No one in government does. (Although government agents are known to rig, obscure, twist, pervert, and invent cases to suit their designs.)

Who then should examine cases from a wider and more free-ranging perspective? Essentially, the rest of us. You can, for instance, find several brilliant private investigations of the Oklahoma City Bombing: a citizen-group effort led by Representative Charles Key; a 17-year deep probe by Patrick Briley that calls into question covert US foreign policy in the Middle East; a documentary overview by the producers of A Noble Lie; the book, Oklahoma City: Day One, by Michele Marie Moore, an extraordinary accomplishment—beyond what most journalists would dare to attempt.

In my experience, when informal “citizen grand juries” are voluntarily assembled to investigate a crime, they shed crucial light on areas where law-enforcement agents refuse to tread.

So when viewed from a proper perspective, it’s a very good and natural thing that citizens and Web journalists ransack every possibility to solve and resolve a case. Who in his right mind would want to rely on bodies like the Warren Commission and the 9/11 Commission?

I call your attention, as others already have, to the potential psychiatric drug angle in the Batman murders. My white paper, published after the 1999 Columbine killings, “Why Did They Do It,” makes the point that when the psychiatric establishment seeds the society with drugs known to cause violence, like the SSRI antidepressants (e.g., Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox), and ADHD drugs (Ritalin, Adderall), it is setting the stage for murders that come out of nowhere.

That these murders would occur is to be expected. Eric Harris, one of the two boys who committed mass murder at Columbine, had been taking Luvox. The manufacturer, Solvay, removed the drug from the market in 2002. However, by 2007, it was back.

Here is an excerpt from my white paper, Why Did They Do It? An Inquiry into the school shootings in America (1999). Click here for the full whitepaper.

Dr. Peter Breggin, the eminent psychiatrist and author (Toxic Psychiatry, Talking Back to Prozac, Talking Back to Ritalin), told me, “With Luvox there is some evidence of a four-percent rate for mania in adolescents. Mania, for certain individuals, could be a component in grandiose plans to destroy large numbers of other people. Mania can go over the hill to psychosis.”

Dr. Joseph Tarantolo is a psychiatrist in private practice in Washington DC. He is the president of the Washington chapter of the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians. Tarantolo states that “all the SSRIs [including Prozac and Luvox] relieve the patient of feeling. He becomes less empathic, as in ‘I don’t care as much,’ which means ‘It’s easier for me to harm you.’ If a doctor treats someone who needs a great deal of strength just to think straight, and gives him one of these drugs, that could push him over the edge into violent behavior.”

In Arianna Huffington’s syndicated newspaper column of July 9, 1998, Dr. Breggin states, “I have no doubt that Prozac can cause or contribute to violence and suicide. I’ve seen many cases. In a recent clinical trial, 6 percent of the children became psychotic on Prozac. And manic psychosis can lead to violence.”

Huffington follows up on this: “In addition to the case of Kip Kinkel, who had been a user of Prozac [Kinkel was the shooter in the May 21, 1998, Springfield, Oregon, school massacre], there are much less publicized instances where teenagers on Prozac or similar antidepressants have exploded into murderous rages: teenagers like Julie Marie Meade from Maryland who was shot to death by the police when they found her waving a gun at them. Or Ben Garris, a 16-year old in Baltimore who stabbed his counselor to death. Or Kristina Fetters, a 14-year old from Des Moines, Iowa, who stabbed her favorite great aunt in a rage that landed her a life sentence.”

Dr. Tarantolo has written about Julie Marie Meade. In a column for the ICSPP (International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology) News, “Children and Prozac: First Do No Harm,” Tarantolo describes how Julie Meade, in November of 1996, called 911, “begging the cops to come and shoot her. And if they didn’t do it quickly, she would do it to herself. There was also the threat that she would shoot them as well.”

The police came within a few minutes, “5 of them to be exact, pumping at least 10 bullets into her head and torso.”

Tarantolo remarks that a friend of Julie said Julie “had plans to make the honor roll and go to college. He [the friend] had also observed her taking all those pills.” What pills? Tarantolo called the Baltimore medical examiner, and spoke with Dr. Martin Bullock, who was on a fellowship at that office. Bullock said, “She had been taking Prozac for four years.”

Tarantolo asked Bullock, “Did you know that Prozac has been implicated in impulsive de novo violence and suicidalness?” Bullock said he was not aware of this.

End excerpt.

Put the drugs out into society; expect killings.

I’ve observed that, in the years since the Columbine massacre, the press is paying less attention to psychiatric-drug link when bizarre murders occur. This is an important fact. We need to break it down.

First, cops and DAs don’t want to get involved, for reasons stated above. They also don’t want to tangle with psychiatrists, whom they use as expert (friendly) witnesses in prosecuting cases. How would it look if a city attorney, who had been relentlessly making connections between murders and psychiatric drugs, called on a shrink to testify for the prosecution on a wholly unrelated matter? The shrink would view this city attorney as a decidedly unfriendly foe who’d been trashing his profession. In fact, you can assume that such a DA would have already run into trouble from the American Psychiatric Association.

The press frequently uses psychiatrists as sources for stories and doesn’t want to endanger that connection. Of course, the press practically runs on pharmaceutical advertising, and has no intention of biting the hand that feeds it. In other words, the press is biased away from making the murder-drug link.

The drug companies themselves have a huge stake in stories like the Batman murders. They want a blanket thrown over whatever drug connection may exist. And they have resources to make that happen.

We come to the courts. How is it we haven’t seen more law suits leveled at drug companies who make these killer medicines?

Actually, there have been cases. The following summaries of court cases are offered by David Healy. Healy is a British psycho-pharmacologist and the author of the definitive work on the history of antidepressants. He is also the author of Let Them Eat Prozac.

Fentress et al v Shea Communications et al: This was the trial following the murder spree of Joseph Wesbecker at his place of work in Louisville, Kentucky, which led to the death of 8 employees at the Standard Gravure plant there followed by his own suicide. Wesbecker had been on Prozac.

Forsyth v Eli Lilly and Company: After 10 days on Prozac, William Forsyth stabbed his wife, June, 15 times before impaling himself on a serrated kitchen knife up on a chair. The remaining Forsyth family took out an action against Eli Lilly, the makers of Prozac.

Tobin v SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals: With a prior history of a poor response to an SSRI, Don Schell was put on Paxil. Forty-eight hours later he put three bullets from two different guns through his wife, Rita’s, head, as well as through his daughter, Deborah’s, head and through his granddaughter, Alyssa’s, head before shooting himself through the head.

The most important of these court cases illuminates reasons why there haven’t been more suits brought against drug manufacturers. It is the astonishing Fentress trial. I have a full summary in my white paper.

Essentially, the family of a murdered victim sued Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac. The killer had been on Prozac. A number of similar cases against Lilly were waiting in the wings. If Lilly could escape a costly judgment and win exoneration, the other cases would go away.

At some point during the Fentress trial, the judge suspected a secret deal had been made. He asked the lawyer for the murdered victim’s family whether he had accepted money to put on a weak case and let Lilly win. (Lilly was, in fact, exonerated.) The judge became convinced that a quid pro quo had taken place. The lawyer had obtained a huge cash “settlement” from Lilly (part of which was paid to his clients) and THEN he put on such a weak attack that Lilly was guaranteed a victory, thus closing the books on those other lawsuits against Lilly waiting in the wings.

The judge kicked the case up to the Kentucky Supreme Court, where a wrangle ensued. The Court sent the case back down the line for further adjudication. The whole mess sat and stewed, and was finally allowed to remain a victory for Lilly.

Will we see a real probe of James Holmes’ medical/psychiatric history in the Batman murders. I wouldn’t hold your breath.

The Matrix Revealed

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Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

I AM one of those people you were lying about in Roanoke, Mr. Obama

I AM One of Those People You Lied About in Roanoke, Mr. Obama

By Jon Rappoport

July 19, 2012

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On July 13, 2012, President Obama made a speech in Roanoke, Virginia, that will live in infamy. He said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Media outlets criticized those who “put such a narrow interpretation on the president’s words.”

Here is my proud confession.

I am one of those people Obama talked about in his speech in Roanoke. I AM one of those people.

Obama claimed I didn’t create my own business. I am one of those people Obama claimed wasn’t really there at all as a prime mover in his own enterprise. I am one of those people Obama claims is eternally beholden to the system, the public sector, the government, which is his business.

His business, as with the parade of our fake presidents, is stealing everything he can. That’s what knows how to do and that’s what he wants to do. He never invented a business. He never created an ongoing enterprise in the private sector.

I am one of those people he thinks “wasn’t there” and “didn’t do it.” He is making a religion out of that intentionally perverse and foul perception. I never imagined I would see the day when a US president came right out and said, “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

Those were his catastrophic words. That is his tool for dragging in more support from the expanding impoverished underclass his own administration is creating.

I’m one of those people he was talking about in Roanoke, and I won’t forget it.

He is saying, as sub-text: “We, the government, will give you what you need. We just need to rein in those horrible people who are making their own money and keeping too much of it. Help us rob them, and then we will give you what we steal.”

Since I’ve gone this far, let me take one more step. I’m not rich from the sale of my products. I’m not even close to being rich. But I would gladly be very rich if I could sell enough of those products, and I would not feel a shred of guilt if that happened.

Okay? Have I made myself clear? If I could make a billion dollars selling my products, which products I believe to be of the highest quality, I would gladly take the billion dollars. And I would say I EARNED THEM.

Does that sound like a sin to you? Have we reached the point where THE EXCHANGE OF MONEY FOR FAIR VALUE, FOR GOOD VALUE, FOR EXCELLENT VALUE is no longer acceptable? Have we reached that stage in our moral decline?

Yes, I use the word MORAL. Because that’s what we’re talking about. The parade of fake presidents we have seen in this country are IMMORAL. They steal. They take what is not theirs to take. They spin lies and fantasies about altruism and humanity and “we are all in this together” to promote their evil designs of theft.

But you see, it all comes down to the individual human being. We tend to forget that. And when we forget it, we lose track of what this country is supposed to be all about: the so-called public sector exists to enable the individual. For God’s sakes, do we really now believe it’s the other way around? Have we sunk that far? Are we that stupid?

I am one of those people Obama talked about in his speech in Roanoke—a day I say should live in infamy forever. (And in case you don’t know anything about my work, I am no supporter of Mitt Romney.)

I’m one of those people who invest their own sweat, energy, emotion, intellect, creative power, and commitment to inventing an enterprise I can be proud of, come hell or high water. I do it every day. I write articles by the ton. I cover stories people in the mainstream won’t cover. I expose crimes. I expose what goes on behind the scenes of these crimes. I present a philosophy of the free individual and I present the vision of what the free individual can really do and accomplish. That’s my self-chosen work and my job and, yes, my business. MY BUSINESS.

I’m proud of every penny I earn. I don’t automatically owe those pennies to some cause a president promotes through his lying teeth. I don’t bow to the altar of the public sector. I never will.

Is this getting through to you? Does what I’m writing here sound like the expression of an extinct species? I’ll tell you a secret. Are you ready? I believe there are millions of people like me. They invented and they run their own businesses. They offer a service and a product and they are proud to offer them. They make as much money as they can by those sales. They aren’t gouging customers, and they certainly aren’t stealing from them, as the government does.

They know what it’s like to get up in the morning and re-create their enterprises and make them work every day. They know how much energy it takes. They know it isn’t the easiest thing in the world, but they value the FREEDOM it brings. They know how it feels to follow their own desires. These people are real. They exist.

THEY OWN THEIR BUSINESSES. THEY OWN THEIR PRIVATE PROPERTY.

They experience frustrating days when their business isn’t going well. On those days, they feel trapped in the very universe they created. They wonder how it might be to give up and go to work for someone else. They even wonder how it might be to get a desk job in government and feel the protection of government. But they don’t give in.

They’re too damn stubborn to give in. They show up every day and they do what they can to push their enterprise forward.

And these are the people about whom Obama says: “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

Sure, Mr. President. We weren’t there at all. We’re fictions. We don’t exist. Other people are always standing in for us. It’s not our sweat, it’s not our power, it’s not our imagination, it’s not our vision, it’s not our commitment that invented and sustained our businesses. It’s all done by remote control from Washington. I’m glad you finally clarified this mystery for us. You’re a genius.

A few moments later in his Roanoke speech, Obama tried to qualify his disastrous words a bit, as if he was throwing a dog a bone. He praised entrepreneurial “initiative.” Thanks, Barack, but we don’t need that. We don’t need it. And we don’t need those delusional followers of yours who want to slam every person who owns his own business.

And make sure you understand this. Just because some businessmen are corrupt, we don’t accept the repulsive slimy equation that tries, by extension, to make all independent businesspeople corrupt. That’s an argument that’s nothing but propaganda in the phony class war you’re promoting.

We see what you’re doing. Okay? We’re not falling for the stage magic. You’re doing everything you can to erase the idea of the FREE INDIVIDUAL. We’ve seen your game.

You’re trying to eradicate the entire reason this Republic was created in the first place. It was created, despite the corrupt intentions of aristocrats of that time, FOR THE INDIVIDUAL. Somehow, the words of the Constitution were written on paper and somehow they were signed, and they were ratified. You want to talk about magic? THAT was magic. It was a miracle. But it happened. And it wasn’t perfect. We all understand that. We’re not idiots.

You’re trying to erase the whole concept of the FREE AND POWERFUL INDIVIDUAL—when in fact it was the centerpiece of the Constitution. These are the words that have endured. Slavery didn’t endure. Tom Paine wanted slavery outlawed from the beginning, but his colleagues had no stomach for that battle. There were other sins of omission and commission involved in the Constitution.

But the words that limited the power of the central government and elevated the free individual survived.

I am one of those individuals and I feel no shred of shame. Why the hell should I? I am proud of it. I LIVE on that basis of freedom every day, and I know there are many other Americans who do, too. I’ll never meet them, but I salute them.

It’s time we stopped screwing around here. It’s time we defined the terms of this war we’re in. It has everything to do with the government trying to impose a completely different set of values on us. The government wants to make THE GROUP the primary unit of existence in this country. Get it? Everything must be about THE GROUP. THE COLLECTIVE. THE HIVE.

It’s a clever and appealing way to destroy the country. But we don’t want to destroy the country and what it means. We’re crazy enough to believe that, however many crimes the government has committed, at home and abroad, and however many crimes its corporate partners have committed, under the cover of lies, there is still something alive here on this soil. Alive and good. And it all starts with THE INDIVIDUAL.

How dare you try to demean and finagle and lie and pervert that, Mr. President. How dare you stand up on a platform and tell us we weren’t there, we had nothing to do with taking our destiny in our own hands. How dare you claim somebody else did it for us. How dare you lie.

It would be easy to say you lied because you simply never had experience launching your own business enterprise and you don’t know what it really means. You don’t know what the sweat means and the struggle means and the vision means and the power to keep doing it every day means, and you don’t know what the satisfaction of making money means and victory means. It would be easy to say that and it would be true. All too true.

But that’s not what is at the bottom of this campaign of yours. You do have some idea about what a FREE INDIVIDUAL is. You do. And you don’t like it. You just don’t like it. You want a world of Central Planning. That’s where you’re heading. You feel a welter of emotions, all negative, when you contemplate that glorious fact: THE FREE INDIVIDUAL. You’re against it.

And you and I both know that if you’re against that, it’s obvious what you’re for. It’s no secret, is it, Mr. President?

I am one of those people you were talking about in Roanoke. I’m one of those people who “didn’t do it,” who wasn’t there. Well, I’m here. I was never anywhere else. I built the substance of my own vision. It’s a lot of things, but one of them is a business. It’s mine. I own it and I stand on it.

I hope and believe there are a lot of other people out there who share my stand and who will speak up about it in their own terms.

We’re not gone. We’re not erased. We feel pride in our businesses, big and small. We should. WE BUILT THEM.

We are FREE INDIVIDUALS, and we never stop.

No matter what you say, what you do, what people like you do, Mr. Obama, freedom never dies. The individual remains.

Money is not inherently evil. Profit is not inherently evil.

What is evil is trying to melt the individual into the collective. That has always been evil. If you want to forward that goal, that is your business.

It’s not mine.

It may seem outlandish to say this, but it is my absolute bottom line: Each truly free individual is more powerful than all the force of collectivism taken together, and some day, in some way, there will transpire on this continent a vindication of that, and we will fully see, for the first time, by contrast, what foul, despicable, and slimy crimes the leaders of collectivism have committed, to keep their monstrous control intact.

That’s my bet, and I have shoved in all my chips on it every day for the last thirty years.

I am one of the people you were talking about in Roanoke, Mr. President.

I caught the drift of your message. I caught the stench and the decay. I know the agenda. People like me have been fighting against it all our lives. We’ve heard that tune played a thousand different ways—you must surrender and give in to The Group. We’ve logged a lot of time rejecting that message. We’re veterans in this war.

I’m one of the people you were talking about in Roanoke, Mr. President. I’m talking back. I’m talking to you and your allies.

Since the early days of ancient Egypt and India, and earlier still, the high priests have tried to sell your message. They were the original masters of collectivism and the phony “we’re all in this together.” You’re just the latest in a long line of suits that are blowing the same PR. You’re nothing new.

The pyramids and temples you want us to build “all together” are a bit more subtle, but they amount to the same kind of slavery. You want us to be joyful in sacrifice to your version of “the greater good.”

I know how evil that plan is.

I was one of the people you were talking about in Roanoke. I got the message.

You tried to defame the very essence of what free individuals are and do. The thing is, you can’t defame it. That essence is forever. You would never understand it. You missed that boat. You were schooled in a different world. What you speak about as your privation was really the absence of something called your own essence as an individual.

You chose, all the way along the line, to avoid your own essence. You had to live with that disastrous decision. And now you think you can outlaw the essence of freedom and power from every individual.

You lose.

That’s the end-game.

You will lose.

I ought to know. I was one of the people you were talking about in Roanoke. I heard you. I saw through your front. I was not alone.

In the truest sense, you stand clueless in the Oval Office.

Our freedom will not vanish.

This is about so much more than you imagine.

What the free and powerful individual IS is something you have to LIVE AND CREATE, in order to understand.

You’re living on the spur line, Barack. And no matter how good things look to you now, your empire of dreams will eventually collapse in heap of garbage.

I know. Others know. We were the people you were talking about in Roanoke. We’re here.

We live lives you will never comprehend.

To us, you are just the latest con man working his pitch, mugging for the mob, shaking down the rubes, promising what you don’t have but are trying to steal. It’s a hell of business, pal.

We are the people you were talking about in Roanoke. Hello.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

OBAMA EXPOSES THE STENCH OF HIS CORRUPTION

 

OBAMA EXPOSES THE STENCH OF HIS CORRUPTION IN VIRGINIA

by Jon Rappoport

July 17, 2012

www.nomorefakenews.com

 

To a crowd of supporters in Roanoke, the president of the United States finally came out in the open and said, “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

 

He put the plastic cherry on the cake for an adoring audience, with his favorite generality: “You’re not in this alone, we’re in this together.”

 

How are we in this together? By forcing a federal health insurance plan down everyone’s throat, whether they want it or not? By bailing out Obama’s biggest financial supporters on Wall Street, as opposed to putting them in jail? By invading Libya without Congressional approval? By helping to destabilize the Middle East and calling it “Arab spring?” By protecting the opium poppies in Afghanistan? By appointing strong advocates for GMO food to positions of importance in his administration, while pretending to favor a healthy diet for all Americans? By continuing the Globalist policies and insupportable debt structure of former presidents from both parties?

 

And as for his heinous trashing of all entrepreneurs, we see a president turning the meaning of The Individual on its head. Instead of stating that the public sector was created to enable individuals to forge ahead and fulfill their dreams, he proposes a vague all-encompassing Group as the beginning and end of the Republic.

 

Obama’s perverted reading of the Constitution ranks on the level of a clueless high school freshman’s, except he knows better and doesn’t care.

 

(In case you wonder, I’m not a Romney supporter. I won’t vote for either of these con men.)

 

“If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that,” Obama said.

 

He’s a rank liar.

 

I’ve seen what it takes for individuals to launch and sustain and expand enterprises. I’ve seen the sweat and the intelligence and the drive at work. I’ve seen the imagination.

 

These are not group qualities. These aren’t “we’re all together” qualities.

 

Obama has a dream, and it’s collectivism. It stinks like a rotting corpse from top to bottom.

 

He’s just played his hole card. Look at it. Understand what it means.

 

The president of the United States is attacking the foundation of the American Republic. He never believed in the Republic. He believes in selling a story dressed up like a quasi-religious sermon. His dream of control involves inexorably linking every citizen to the central government (“all of us together”) so tightly, the remaining wall between the private sector and the public sector will dissolve into nothing. His mission is to hasten the melting of America into one giant interdependent glob.

 

Obama is the current leading edge of the historical campaign to eradicate the meaning, memory, and existence of the free and powerful individual.

 

To glimpse the success of the campaign, imagine a newly minted PhD trying to gain employment at a US college teaching a course called: THE FREE, POWERFUL, AND CREATIVE INDIVIDUAL.

 

Collectivism, the underlying philosophy of Globalism, is a direct attack against the individual. It promises a spiritual and political destiny of illumination for everyone who exchanges his honor and his vision for membership in The Group. When you strip it bare, such membership promotes the joy of slavery over freedom.

 

It may take a village to sell a book and a perverse idea, but without free and powerful individuals, the thing we call civilization will morph into a vast re-education camp in which we are all ciphers.

 

And above us, a small number of rulers will celebrate their joke and their con. They sold; we bought. What sounded like unity was really a hypnotic trance.

 

DON’T BUY IT.

 

THERE ARE MILES TO GO.

 

The game isn’t over. It’s never over.

 

Jon Rappoport

The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.

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PART 2, SEPARATING FROM THE MATRIX

 

PART 2, SEPARATING FROM THE MATRIX

by Jon Rappoport

July 14, 2012

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This is a backgrounder. It is not a canned list of instructions. Its purpose is to stimulate your own thinking on the subject of separating from The Matrix.

 

ONE: IMAGINATION AND THE FIRE

 

Once upon a time, human beings lived in cultures where images were alive. What we now call superstitions were, to them, gods and demons and intermediary entities that transmitted or stole the juice and the energy and the power of life.

 

It’s nearly impossible to project ourselves into such an environment and experience the burgeoning passions that infused experience—because a great shift has occurred.

 

The West entered, with anticipation, a temple of the bald Sampson, where images disappeared, were swallowed up, were replaced by so-called rational faith.

 

This eventually precipitated a crisis. If you don’t have, or believe in, images that live and breathe and are intimately connected with life-force, how do you replace them? How do you avoid becoming pallid skeletons of science, whose productions never impart that same fire?

 

This crisis is reflected all around us every day.

 

We have become liberated, and in this liberation we are left with emptiness. On top of that, we have decided to assume that passions of the soul should be modulated, like elevator music, to somehow join with our advanced knowledge, in harmonic balance.

 

It’s no balance; it’s timidity, and this attitude makes us prey to an eerie tolerance of all opinion and custom and point of view and aspiration and stretched-out egalitarianism and even criminal action. Giving no offense, under any circumstances, for any reason, is now the coin of the realm.

 

You might say, with accurate assessment, that these are qualities of the successful salesman. And that is what so many of us have become: ambassadors of the vague and dessicated pulse of our “rational culture.”

 

We even think of it in religious terms. The message of this church is the honed and blown-dry embrace of Anything. As if this was the message of Jesus and Buddha and Krishna and other teachers of our blurry past.

 

To counterbalance this bleached present, many of us are drawn into dark theaters to watch suburban humans turned into bloodsucking harpooned-tooth neck fetishists and genetic mistakes and hair-sprouting wolves and irradiated monsters or heroes.

 

It’s the instant-coffee version of ancient Dionysian adventure. And the accompanying depiction of gym-sex on the screen wouldn’t stir the interest of a mouse in a barn.

 

Was this why and for what we abandoned the mysteries of the epoch of magic?

 

For freckled children in a British academy laboring through a paranormal costume drama, tricked out with the accoutrement of grottoes and dark halls?

 

The crisis on our hands now is not one that is going to go away. It is not going to recede as magic once receded. Because there WAS a reason we liberated ourselves from the Middle Ages and even the Renaissance—a reason beyond technology—and until we find it and face it and deeply accept the new struggle, we are going to see this simulacrum culture of ours make endless cartoons of itself in dried out oceans of concrete.

 

For what we need to do now, pharmaceuticals and brain research and genetic manipulation and cyber-affectation and instant global communication and worship (or desecration) of profit-making idols hold no answers.

 

Suppose what took us into the age of rationality was, in some way, connected to the realization that we were, all along, inventing our own demons and gods and demigods and entities of great life-force—and although that knowledge has been shoved into the background, as trivial and passe, while technology has soared, it is still with us, and it overshadows all our machines and their power.

 

Suppose this is the message: we are the majestic and wild creatures we built the temples to.

 

We are the makers; we are the architects of all the dreams—and not through some compensatory impulse, but because WE CREATE. That is our natural inclination and the source of our ecstasy. It is only civilization that seems to cast us in other roles.

 

Our societies and civilizations are arranged to make it seem as if imagination is a preposterous choice—when, in fact, that is what we are here for. That is what got us here.

 

Societies are actually in a satellite universe, and the prime universe is all imagination.

 

The underlying hidden and deeply buried cry of our age is: HOW CAN I CREATE?

 

The conclusion is: we will do anything to avoid it.

 

And the universal compliant is: I DON’T UNDERSTAND.

 

NEVERLESS, WE ARE THE ARTISTS AND THERE ARE NO LIMITS.

 

While, in the deep past, we sucked the marrow out of the bones of the gods we invented and thereby felt enormous passions, we knew there was a missing piece, and that piece was an abyss over which we were hanging. So we came all this way to find out that we authored the labyrinth. We built the paths that gave us joy and terror, and now we can consciously and spontaneously make new worlds without end. Not simply as engineers, but as artists.

 

Swallowing that stark truth may be hard, may be upsetting, but it IS why we made the voyage.

 

And then pulled our punches.

 

This is no archaic revival. It’s now, today and tomorrow.

 

The universe is waiting for imagination for revolutionize it down to its core.

 

 

TWO: THE REALITY SALESMAN CALLS

 

Step right up, folks. This is a deal you can’t afford to miss. You know that thing you cling to like a drowning man in a turbulent sea?

 

It’s called reality, and I represent the company that manufactures it. I’m proud to say I’ve held this job for over a hundred thousand years. So as far as product knowledge is concerned, you just aren’t going to find anybody like me.

 

Some folks believe reality is rocks and trees and desert and sun and rain, and brick and concrete and steel and glass, and the mountain ranges, the sky, the moon and the stars. They believe reality is a house and all the things in it, and the mementos you hold on to, to remind you of the past.

 

But I’m really selling…guess what? A little thing called perception. It sounds odd, but that’s what it is:

 

How you see things, and what you think about what you see.

 

Because to tell you the truth, no matter what time period you live in, whether on Earth or another planet, it all comes down to that. How you see what’s in front of you.

 

And believe it or not, perception comes in different forms. My company makes the perception that endures. It’s the package you’re living with right now. It’s the down-to-earth here-it-is straight-ahead common-sense type. We call it: IT IS WHAT IT IS. That’s trademarked, by the way. ISWIS. It is what it is.

 

ISWIS was invented by a very smart guy whose name has been long forgotten. He was a flaming genius, and he realized something great. People would go for ISWIS because it would lock them in.

 

People didn’t want a wobbling here-and-there kind of perception. Who wants to wake up on a Tuesday morning and suddenly see life in a completely different way? Who wants that kind of shock to the system?

 

ISWIS is the most popular perception package in the universe, bar none. Reliability. Consistency.

 

All those centuries and epochs ago, when I was a rookie training for this job, the guys let me try on a whole bunch of different perception packages, so I could see what kind of competition I was up against.

I saw things I wouldn’t want to describe to you. Horrible things. And when I was given ISWIS, our product, I felt like I was home.

 

ISWIS gives you the kind of stability you can count on for your whole life. And, believe me, that’s no small feat. We’ve built slow decay (SD) into the package, so things gradually deteriorate—because, think about it, do you really want that tree in your back yard to stay at one stage of growth forever? Do you? It might seem like a nice idea, but it would screw up the need for replacement, and then you’d get into the whole conundrum of THE BODY, too, and how long it should last. People like to think they want physical immortality, but if you give it to them (via some other package), they go crazy after a while. Because their problems, as well as their triumphs, never go away. I could show you a little planet where the inhabitants went for one of our competitor’s products. The suicide rate is over seventy percent! The place is a nuthouse!

 

ISWIS is time-tested. It’s as solid as solid can be made. It doesn’t break down.

 

But it does need boosters from time to time, and that’s why I’m here today talking to you.

 

Every twenty thousand years, we institute a planet-wide upgrade, just to make sure nothing goes wrong. And you’re all due.

 

Now, you could refuse, in which case you’ll have to take full responsibility for the ugly consequences, or you could do the right thing and just re-up. I have to tell you, our re-up rate is 99.859 percent. I’m proud of that figure.

 

By the way, the holdouts, the deniers, and the self-styled rebels? The governments of your planet keep track of you. I feel obligated to let you know that. They assume they need to. Without boosters, when your ISWIS breaks down, you’re going to fail to fit in. Most definitely you’re going to experience some things other people just won’t understand. And your governments will hunt you down and lock you up, or worse.

 

That’s not my doing, because I believe in the free market, but it’s part of my service to clue you into the whole picture.

 

But here is the good part. You can get your booster now, during our pre-op special, by simply signing for it and taking the pledge, and continuing to pay a mere sixty percent of of your annual income for the rest of your lives. Which when you think about it, is nothing for what you’re getting. Again, reliability, and consistency.

 

In the small print, the pledge lays out a few details concerning IMAGINATION. This is for your own protection—because if you take imagination too far (and who knows how far that is, until it’s too late), you’ll set up what we call an interference field, which means ISWIS will tend to malfunction. You don’t want that.

 

So here’s the contract and the pledge. Sign on the dotted line, and pay the fee, and we’re done.

 

Thank you very much.

 

I love you guys. Really, I do. I admire your tenacity and your willingness to stay with our perception package. Our company continues to prosper because of you. Visit the ISWIS website and Facebook page and find out about upcoming picnics and vacation tours. We’re hosting booster events at thousands of locations.

 

If you don’t come to us, we’ll come to you.

 

We’ve got you on our list.

 

 

THREE: BEYOND STRUCTURES

 

We are fascinated with structures and systems because they work, and because some of us feel an aesthetic attraction to them.

 

They work until you want to do something different.

 

Like magic.

 

Magic is non-system.

 

Which puts it out of the reach of most people.

 

Because most people want to grab a structure and pull it around them and sit there like a bird in a cage. They want to go from A to B to C and feel the satisfaction of knowing it works every time.

 

Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong at all.

 

But go into a corporation and say you want to teach them creativity and they’ll say, “What’s the system?”

 

Once I told a personnel chief at a big company, “The system is to stand on your head.”

 

“Literally?” he said.

 

“No. That would be too easy. People would find a system for that. But figuratively, that’s what you want to get people to do.”

 

He scratched his head.

 

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said.

 

“Exactly,” I said. “That’s where we start. I say something and you don’t understand. Then we have a chance.”

 

“What are you?” he said. “Some kind of zen teacher?”

 

“No,” I said. “If I said I was, you’d pigeonhole me. I teach non-systems.”

 

He laughed in an uncomfortable way.

 

“We don’t operate on non-systems here.”

 

“No, but if you let three or four people do that, they might come up with a product you never dreamed of.”

 

That he could understand. Vaguely.

 

Here’s how things work at some very big corporations. The second-tier honchos decide it’s time for a new product. They call in the chief of production and ask him what could be done. He suggests a whiz-it 4, which is basically a whiz-it 3 with a few more bells and whistles.

 

The honchos give him the green light, and he goes to work. He sets up a structure, which means he basically triggers the structure he already has. He gets underlings to make sketches of whiz 4, and with those he assigns compartmentalized tasks to various departments under him. The timetable is eighteen months.

 

He appoints a project supervisor to oversee the whole thing.

 

The project supervisor pretty much knows what’s going to happen. The six departments in charge of bringing in the whiz 4 on time will do okay—except one key department will fail miserably, because three guys in that dept. are lazy bums. They find ways to delay operations. They ask meaningless questions. They let work pile up on their desks. They meddle in other people’s business.

 

Twelve times, the production supervisor has tried to get these idiots fired. No go.

 

So everybody settles down to grind of bringing in whiz 4 on time.

 

Structure.

 

Manuals, rules and regs.

 

DMV, IRS. Play it by the book.

 

This can make magic the way an ant can fly to the moon.

 

So long ago it was in another life, I taught private school in New York. There were six kids in my class, all boys. I was supposed to teach them math. They were all at different levels. They had no ambition to learn math. No matter what I did, they performed miserably. Add, subtract, multiply, divide, decimals, fractions—it didn’t matter. If they managed to learn something on Monday, they forgot it by Tuesday. It was rather extraordinary.

 

So I took them to an art museum one morning. They were as lost there as they were in the classroom. But I wasn’t. That was the key. I was already painting in a little studio downtown, and I was on fire.

 

So I began to talk about the paintings. The Raphael, the Vermeer, the Rembrandt. The De Kooning, the Pollock, the Gorky. I had no plan, no idea. I just talked about what they could see if they looked.

 

And then we walked back to school and I set them up with paints and paper and brushes and told them to go to work. I said I didn’t care what they painted. Just have a good time. Do something you like.

 

All of a sudden, they weren’t making trouble. They were painting. No more whining and complaining.

 

I walked around and watched them go at it. I pointed to this or that area and mentioned what I liked.

 

There was no way to measure or quantify or systematize what the kids were doing that day, but they were coming alive, out of their sloth and resentment.

 

Then we got back to math, and it was as if they’d all experienced an upward shift in IQ.

 

That night, back in my studio, I made a note in my notebook. It went something like this: Give them a non-structure, and then follow that with a structure, it works.

 

So that was that.

 

There used to be something in this culture called improvisation. People understood what it was, even if they wouldn’t do it themselves. Now the word has almost vanished. Same with the word spontaneity. The moment when eye, mind, and brush meet canvas. When mind meets the new. When the inventor suddenly gets up from his chair and trots over to his workbench and starts putting pieces together.

 

The old zen guys called it no-mind. That didn’t mean you were a robot, it meant you had a very sharp mind, actually, but you just transcended it, you skipped through it like a flat stone on water. Structureless.

 

This becomes magic when imagination jumps into the fray. When the inventive urge takes the foreground.

 

The trouble with all these Asian spiritual practices now is that they have a long and distinguished history, and the history tends to infiltrate everything that’s happening. It’s venerated. That’s like throwing a heavy wrench into an engine. You need a clean slate, a wide open space. You need Now.

 

You need Now, which is dry tinder to the spark of imagination.

 

Levitation now isn’t what it was six or 12 or 20 centuries ago. Magic isn’t a return to the mystical past. Alchemy was what people did in the Middle Ages to give themselves a Now, on which they could inject the flame of their imagination.

 

It wasn’t a system. Not really.

 

But if you have enough history at your back and you stand away far enough, everything looks like pattern and structure and system. That’s the illusion. That’s the deception.

 

Magic doesn’t work that way.

 

The only problem magic has is: if you create it, who else will see it? That’s the only glitch—and that can be worked with.

 

You see, systems make people blind. If they can’t fold an event into a structure, then for them it isn’t there. This is very interesting. This is where all the myths of Hermes (aka Mercury) sprang from. He was the figure who flew and passed through walls and had no barriers in the space-time continuum—the tin can we call universe. So people pretended, at a deep level, that they were unable to comprehend him. In a real sense, he was invisible. His response to all this was to become a supreme joker. A trickster. He toppled idols of the hidebound, rule-bound, system-bound society.

 

If you read the myths of ancient Greece, you begin to see he ranked very high in the pantheon of the gods. There really was no reason he couldn’t be considered the king of the Olympians.

 

But he didn’t want the throne or the lineage. That was just another system, erected by his god-colleagues, who were bored out of their minds and desperately needed the entertainment and distraction it could provide.

 

Hermes was deep in the fire of his own imagination and speed and improvisation and spontaneous action.

 

Magic.

 

He didn’t need or want metaphysics, cosmology, ultimate truth, illumination, enlightenment, or Oneness and Bliss. He already embodied of all those things and much, much, much more.

 

The notion of shared, consonant, and structured reality as the final goal became an enormous joke.

 

The structure and system of life and society, from a certain live perspective, is a joke.

 

Many marriages become impossible because husband and wife find themselves trapped in a system, and they don’t know what to do. That’s the beginning and end of their problem. If they could move in and out of the system, while remaining married and loyal, they would realize everything is wonderful. It’s a magic trick.

 

To make it work, you need imagination, which is the thing that allows you to see structure as putty that can be moved around and reshaped at will. Imagination has all the creativity there is, and yet it is non-material, it’s outside the shapes people build to run their lives.

 

From the point of view of civilization, structure should be a sturdy platform, from which people can take off and create.

 

When I was 19, people thought I had a few problems, so I was sent to an office in New York to take a Rorschach Test. The specialist opened up a large notebook to a page of inkblots. He was a technician who did one thing in his job. He interpreted what people told him about those inkblots. He had a complex system that enabled him to categorize people according to various subtle shades and types of neuroses.

 

So he showed me an inkblot and said, “Tell me everything you see in it.”

 

“Everything?” I said.

 

“Yes.”

 

He was a stern neutral android, and he followed his playbook to the letter.

 

“Okay,” I said.

 

So 20 minutes later, I was still talking about that first inkblot. I think he had a dozen of those blots in his notebook, and he was supposed to show me every one.

 

But I was still chirping away on the first one. Birds, animals, planes, kitchen utensils, ancient symbols, articles of clothing, wars, interstellar collisions, underground caves, noses, beaches, leaves, insects, clouds, forests, gnomes, ships, streams, rivers, idols, chewing gum, coins…

 

I was cheating, of course. Which is to say, I was using my imagination. This was outside the rules, really.

 

The technician was sweating. He was squirming in his chair. Contemplating how many hours it would take to get through all the inkblots. We’d take a supper break and then come back for more, far into the night.

 

Finally he said, “That’s enough.”

 

“But there’s more,” I said.

 

“No,” he said. “That’s all right.”

 

He stared at me.

 

I stared at him.

 

Standoff at OK Corral.

 

In his system of universe, you could have two things. Normal and neurotic. I didn’t fit into either slot. He didn’t understand that. So to him, I was invisible.

 

As I left his office, I thought about my favorite radio show, The Shadow. Lamont Cranston renders himself invisible to the bad guys, and proceeds to torment them.

 

It was a good day.

 

Jon Rappoport

The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

WATCH OUT, AFRICA! MELINDA’S COMING FOR YOU!

 

WATCH OUT, AFRICA! MELINDA’S COMING FOR YOU!

By Jon Rappoport

July 13, 2012

www.nomorefakenews.com

 

Melinda Gates has just unrolled her new program to reduce population in Africa and South Asia. Speaking at the Family Planning Summit in London, the other half of the Gates-Messiah operation pledged to bring contraception to millions of women and girls in the Third World.

 

Flying under the radar, however, is the partnership between The Gates Foundation and drug giant, Pfizer, and therein lies the dirty little secret.

 

The method of choice to prevent births? Injectable Depo-Provera (Medroxyprogesterone), long known as a highly dangerous drug. It actually carries a black-box warning on its label, stating that severe bone loss is a consequence of its use. It also thins the vaginal lining, and research is ongoing to investigate the possibility that it increases the risk of breast cancer.

 

Here is the relevant black-box quote: “Women who use Depro-Provera Contraceptive Injection may lose significant bone mineral density. Bone loss is greater with increased duration of use and may not be completely reversible.”

 

Change.org and several other groups are petitioning the US Congress to cut all federal funding for Depo-Provera.

 

Despite cheerful PR about education of women on the benefits of contraception, and the need for informed consent, these programs have a way of turning into something else out in the field, where the needle meets the body.

 

Depo-Provera also happens to be a drug of choice for the “chemical castration” of male sex offenders. That fact testifies to its powerful impact on the body.

 

Nobody at the London Family Planning Summit was talking about Depo-Provera and its severe effects. The conference sponsors, the UN Population Fund, the USAID, and The Gates Foundation, are far more interested in population control.

 

If millions of girls and women in Africa and South Asia are crippled by the Depo-Provera injections, well, that’s just collateral damage. Several years from now, we’ll no doubt see studies claiming an unexplained epidemic of osteoporosis in the Third World, which will lead to the application of some other highly toxic drug as the treatment of choice.

 

Pfizer, the maker of Depo-Provera, happens to make such a drug: Fablyn (Lasofoxifene). So far, the FDA has withheld approval, but the EU gave it the green light in 2009. Fablyn has a serious problem. It causes blood clots in veins, which can be life-threatening.

 

Watch out, Africa. Melinda’s coming with Pfizer. You should ask her why she doesn’t supply money to clean up contaminated water supplies, install rudimentary sanitation, provide real nutrition, and help restore stolen fertile land to local farmers.

 

But you see, those actions aren’t in line with the elite agenda. They make things better. The agenda is dedicated to Worse.

 

Jon Rappoport

The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

YOUR PLANE’S LATE? YOU’RE A TERRORIST!

 

YOUR PLANE’S DELAYED FOR FOUR HOURS? YOU’RE A TERRORIST!

By Jon Rappoport

July 12, 2012

www.nomorefakenews.com

 

Picture this. You’re sitting in an airport and they’ve just announced your plane’s departure has been delayed for the third time. You feel your blood boil. You want to strangle somebody. Of course, you’re not going to do that, but your adrenaline is spiking big-time.

 

You feel a gloved hand on your shoulder. You look up. Three DHS agents are surrounding you.

 

“Come with us, sir. We need to put you in a holding room. Now.”

 

Boom. You’re a potential terrorist.

 

In a year or two, airports will be deploying small, mobile, laser-based, molecular scanners. Developed by Genia Photonics, which in turn was funded by In-Q-Tel, the notorious CIA company that invests in cutting-edge technologies, this device measures, well, everything, including your adrenaline levels. And it does it in real time.

 

The scanner can read a tiny grain of marijuana on your person (even if you stepped on a roach in the airport bathroom). It can read what you ate at your last meal. It can read gunpowder residue, so don’t drive to the airport right after practicing at the range.

 

These scanners don’t touch you. They operate from 164 feet away.

 

DHS is drooling.

 

The comedy version of this technological breakthrough is that, at any given moment, half the people at any airport in the world are experiencing elevated adrenaline levels, for one reason or another—including the invasive actions of TSA employees. The serious version is if it’s you, you could wind up having to explain yourself to a DHS/TSA agent who’s several sandwiches short of a picnic.

 

Your feelings and your endocrine levels are now part of the “official record.” This makes Orwell’s 1984 look like Sunday school.

 

Obviously, the DHS won’t stop at using these portable scanners in airports. Think roving cars and vans, traffic stops, shopping malls, parks, hotels, community meetings, sports events, concerts…

 

This is the heaven the surveillance state has been waiting for.

 

It’s also a significant prelude to Brave New World, where all citizens are expected to be happy and nice and polite all the time in their genetically modified utopia. Grievances against the government or predatory corporations? Arguments with friends and family? Simply having a bad day? Blogging with a sense of outrage? NOT PERMITTED. Your adrenaline indicators are over the permitted threshold. You need “treatment.”

 

Studies will be done to redefine Oppositional Defiance Disorder, linking it to endocrine output, and depending on the government’s disfavored groups of the moment, remedial steps will be taken.

 

The only silver lining in all this is: heralded technological breakthroughs often don’t work. The manufacturers hype them as they test them, but when they leave the lab and go into the field, sudden problems arise. Let’s hope that’s the case here.

 

The other prospect involves the true number of disgruntled and angry people walking around in the world. The scanners might be overwhelmed.

 

If you thought simple x-ray scanners in airports were invasive, now they’re going after your internal processes. The obvious step is to deploy these laser devices along with the grope-and-scope as you head through security to your gate.

 

“Sorry, sir. You can’t fly today. You’re a bit too…edgy. An agent will take you to Room 101 for questioning.”

 

Scan this!!

 

See, they’ve got me already.

 

Jon Rappoport

The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

A MESSAGE TO MY READERS

 

A MESSAGE TO MY READERS

(SURPASSING THE MATRIX, PART 1)

by Jon Rappoport

July 10, 2012

www.nomorefakenews.com

 

Ultimately, why do I write these articles? Why do I maintain my site?

 

My plan has always involved breaking out of The Matrix on every level. This is not an avoidance of reality; quite to the contrary, it has everything to do with what consensus reality is and how to establish a stable beachhead beyond it.

 

And when I say “consensus reality,” I’m not only taking about social, political, economic, and cultural spheres.

 

Physics has been nibbling at the edges of the space-time continuum, speculating that it has certain illusory aspects, speculating that there are other universes, speculating that this universe is actually a hologram, a projection of information inscribed on a two-dimensional surface.

 

Lab researchers have conducted paranormal experiments which show that certain volunteers can violate the accepted rules of physical reality.

 

These are merely preludes to the main event. They are dabblings and close-to-the-vest explorations within a context of what I would call armchair entertainment. Interesting to contemplate, stimulating, but so what?

 

There is so much more to discover and experience.

 

Cultural norms and ideas have caused most people to place themselves within a ridiculously narrow context. Within those walls, they look and peer at What Might Be True

 

But eventually, unless people actually break through the walls, their “far-out” musings become masturbatory.

 

The more physics analyzes each of its primary concepts—space, time, energy, and matter—the more illusory each one of them appears. Yet, for us, who are not analyzing, but living, the continuum is as real as real gets.

 

Why is there a disconnect between the analysis of physics and the experience of humankind?

 

The answer lies in our minds and bodies. We perceive and contact the world as a key enters a lock. The fit is perfect. There are no rough edges or fuzzy borders. There are no mistakes. We don’t wake up on a Saturday morning and find the bureau in the corner of the bedroom turned upside down or fading away. We exist in a steady state.

 

This perfect fit is a cardinal aspect of The Matrix.

 

To guarantee the interlock and the steady-state perception, there is the grim prospect of being called insane if we did suddenly see the bureau floating upside down in the bedroom.

 

If we shifted gears and used the bureau as a metaphor, we could apply this “standard of insanity” to other areas of life. For example, what happens to a person who grows up in a bedrock family that has voted straight Republican or Democrat for a century, when he announces at dinner that the two-party system of politics is a racket created to foster an illusory difference between conspiring mobsters and thieves?

 

What happens is some form of excommunication.

 

On the stark level of physical reality, however, the penalty is much more severe. Whereas you might not mind the occasional singularity of an upside down bureau, you would certainly object to many, many objects in the landscape fading out without prior notice. You would object to your perception of one hour turning out to be three days for everyone else. You would object to exerting the usual amount of energetic pressure on your doorknob, only to find that the whole door smashes through its frame and falls to pieces on the front walk.

 

We would all prefer to maintain the consensus effect of predictable living. In this venue, the answer to “can’t we all just get along” is a resounding yes. “Do you see that hole in space where the shopping mall used to be” isn’t a question we want to pose to friends and neighbors, when what they see is a one-block tower of concrete, glass, and steel.

 

No one is looking forward to unhinging his own perception when the result is sheer disorientation and a padded cell.

 

Although the prospect of levitating a hundred feet in the air might be appealing, you would probably have second thoughts if you were doing it at high noon in Times Square or on the lawn of the White House.

 

I bring all this up, because there is a confusion about what it would mean to break through the inhibiting limits of the PHYSICAL Matrix. In some ways we want to say yes, and in other ways we want to say no.

 

It’s interesting to observe two concurrent trends vis-a-vis the space-time continuum. While physics has been breaking down the reliable density of matter, the authority of time measured by clocks, and the geometric shape of space, a whole new secular pop-religion has been gaining power.

 

The religion of The Universe. As if to counter the discoveries of physicists and bolster our metaphysical comfort level, wise and smiling academic baby-boomers teach us a whole list of scriptural slogans:

 

The Universe is good. The Universe wants us to be happy. The Universe is the source of our very existence and consciousness. The Universe is there to fulfill our desires. If we pursue a goal and don’t arrive at our hoped-for destination, it’s all right, because the Universe decided it wasn’t meant to be.

 

And more vaguely: The Universe speaks through us; The Universe is waiting for us; The Universe is our home; The Universe is the ultimate spiritual master; The Universe is Life.

 

I’ll stop there. If I went on to consider the sub-category of Universe known as Nature, we could be here for three weeks reciting all the religious catch-phrases

 

As physics has forwarded ideas that challenge the security and the reliability of The Matrix, humans have filled in the blanks with quasi-religious language and thought, whose effect has been to re-define the same old Matrix and re-establish the Troops of Consensus Reality.

 

We are also told, by many scholars, that Events are on the horizon, transforming events that, without any effort on our part, herald a new existence for all of us. These coming happenings are further proof that life and Matrix are out of our hands, and our only job is to understand the forces that will bring us closer to illuminated spiritual communion with our destiny.

 

In show-biz terms, this used to be called Fill. When you have blanks in a story, you fill. You insert plot line. You work on the gaps in the machine so new parts appear and mesh with the overall design.

 

In the Matrix movie franchise, the endless flying combat scenes obscured the need to determine just how reality would look and feel once the grid pattern was destroyed. When the master computer that spooled out consensus was shut down, how would the population experience experience? What would change?

 

This is the subject I want to approach now in a series of articles.

 

My work of the past ten years has been collected and expanded greatly in the collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED. I hope you will consider ordering it. Your purchases support my research and writing. THE MATRIX REVEALED lays out the nuts and bolts and the layers and bridgework and struts and foundations of key aspects of the created Matrix.

 

Jon Rappoport

The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

COLLECTIVISM AND THE LIMITS OF UNDERSTANDING IN THE MATRIX

 

COLLECTIVISM, AND THE LIMITS OF UNDERSTANDING IN THE MATRIX

THE TWO-PARTY NIGHTMARE

by Jon Rappoport

July 6, 2012

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Fifty years from now, if nothing is done to stop it, all food grown on planet Earth will be genetically modified. And children growing up in that era won’t be able to imagine food ever existed in another form.

 

In America, people think of the two-party system of politics in the same way. How else can you do business? It has to be candidate A versus candidate B. Sure, you can spin off small parties and people can run as Independents, but it never works, so why try? Get real. It’s Democrat or Republican. Choose one side. If you have to, hold your nose and pick the lesser of two evils. That’s life. That’s reality.

 

Even if choosing A or B is like choosing between the Corleone and the Barzini crime families, it’s all we have. Get used to it. Nothing else works. Nothing else stands a chance.

 

The inevitable is the inevitable.

 

However, suppose voting for Obama or Romney AND THE POLITICAL PARTIES THEY REPRESENT really IS like choosing between Corleone and Barzini. Is that choice, by any reasonable measure, sane?

 

Actually, it’s madness, and once you can accept that, certain strategies open up and become available.

 

If Ron Paul had been fully willing to look at the two dominant political parties FOR WHAT THEY ARE, he could have, as a maneuver, begun his run for the presidency as a Republican, and then, when it became apparent the GOP was trying to steal Iowa and Maine from him, he could have used that occasion to bolt and declare himself an Independent candidate.

 

Then he could have gone on the attack, full-bore, by which I mean he could have begun talking to the American people about the deep and intrinsic and terminal corruption of the Democratic and the Republican parties.

 

Then, instead of talking to crowds of five or 10 thousand people, he would have ended up in stadiums talking to 50,000 people.

 

Some analysts and historians actually presume that the checks and balances instituted in the Constitution, to keep the central government weak, were also supported, for the same checks-and-balance purpose, by the evolution of the two dominant political parties.

 

Nothing could be further from the truth.

 

These two parties do NOT have the primary function of creating gridlock or canceling out each other’s excesses. That’s not the game.

 

The Republican and Democratic parties, as they have existed for a very long time, actually ensure the prolongation of a vast criminal enterprise, in which the creation of an illusion of difference is foisted on the American people.

 

It’s rather easy to see how that happened. The generations of leaders of both parties quickly realized that this illusion of difference could define, in the public’s mind, what Democracy was supposed to be all about. And under that cover, money, property, freedom, and lives could be stolen.

 

And the size of government itself could expand voraciously, because when you own a criminal organization, don’t you want to rule more territory? Isn’t that your objective?

 

Ask Al Capone. Ask Meyer Lansky or Sam Giancana or Santo Trafficante.

 

When you own the whole game through a phony two-party apparatus, you have a license to steal.

 

Now, the bigger this two-party mob becomes, the more obvious it is that a line of propaganda is needed to explain the bigness. You have to explain that BIGNESS OF GOVERNMENT is a good thing. You must. Otherwise, people will catch on. So you say: “the greatest good for the greatest number.” You say: “We’re helping everybody.” You say: “We’re fulfilling needs.” You say: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

 

Now you have Collectivism.

 

THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM WAS ALWAYS POINTED TOWARD COLLECTIVISM, FROM THE BEGINNING.

 

COLLECTIVISM WAS ITS DESTINY.

 

COLLECTIVISM WAS ITS NECESSITY.

 

THE COLLECTIVIST PROPAGANDA WAS THE MEANS BY WHICH THE MOB GAINED CREDIBILITY, SUPPORT, AND SYMPATHY.

 

THE FREEDOM OF THE INDIVIDUAL WAS ALWAYS THE TARGET THAT NEEDED TO BE DESTROYED.

 

The two-party system as “the lifeblood of politics?” A giant steaming pile of propaganda.

 

The two-party system as “the only way to get things done in this country?” Another giant steaming pile.

 

The two-party system as “a proper reflection of the conscience of the people?” One more pile.

 

Whenever someone challenges the two-party apparatus, he is told about governments that have sixteen parties and the unworkability and corruption of that system. As if anyone in his right mind would suggest that more parties is the solution to two parties. It isn’t.

 

The solution to the two-party Collectivist concept is:

 

INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES RUNNING ON WHAT THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVE.

 

INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES OPENLY AND HONESTLY DECLARING WHAT THEY BELIEVE.

 

CANDIDATES AFFILIATED WITH NO PARTIES.

 

INDIVIDUALS.

 

And the whole reason know-it-all high-IQ idiots will tell you this won’t ever work is because they no longer know what a free individual is. And when they vaguely sniff out a free individual, they recoil in horror.

 

That’s the bottom line.

 

If what I’m proposing seems unworkable or absurd or naïve, it’s because the two-party system has buried the American people under a low ceiling of Collectivist thought.

 

“In order to run for office and win, you have to be affiliated with one of the two political parties.”

 

Translation: “You have to pledge allegiance to the political mafia, not the United States.”

 

If Ron Paul had declared himself a total and complete and absolute Independent, and if he had exposed to the hilt both parties, and explained what their game really is, he would have acquired at least 20 times the number of supporters he presently has.

 

But Ron thought he could be in and be out at the same time.

 

That was his problem. It still is his problem.

 

Imagine what America would have been like if, after the Constitution was ratified, NO POLITICAL PARTIES EMERGED AND ONLY INDIVIDUALS EMERGED AS CANDIDATES.

 

THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM WAS NEVER REALLY HEADING TOWARD INCREASED COMPETITION. IT WAS ALWAYS HEADING TOWARD COLLECTIVISM.

 

John Adams, in the early days of the Republic, saw it correctly and saw it exactly:

 

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting [organizing] measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble opinion, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”

 

Even more tellingly, George Washington laid the system bare as he struggled to extricate himself from it: “…party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation, that it is extremely difficult to know through which channel to seek it [truth]. This difficulty, to one [a person], who is of no party, and whose sole wish is to pursue with undeviating steps a path which would lead this country to respectability, wealth, and happiness, is exceedingly to be lamented.”

 

Thomas Jefferson, who on a number of occasions registered his acceptance of political parties as inevitable and natural, broke ranks in this very personal assessment: “I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men…where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction [to a party] is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go at all.”

 

Here is another myth: if all candidates for the presidency and the Congress were individuals and there were no parties, the range of opinion would be so great that nothing would ever get done in government.

 

I suppose that’s true IF the reference point of the Constitution is ignored. But it’s far more likely that 535 independent representatives and an an independent president would remember the Constitution.

 

Assessing the damage to liberty, private property, individual security, the honest prosecution of criminals at all levels, how has the two-party system fared? How has that system performed?

 

All major media outlets, and a surprising number of alternative outlets, will not declare the two-party system a hoax. People want to hold on hard to “reality.”

 

The philosophical underpinning of this “reality” is Collectivism itself. Specifically, it is collectivist perception, the means by which “everybody knows” becomes the consensus.

 

The primary feature of The Group is: its members look at events indirectly; they look at events in accordance with what they think other members are seeing; they don’t look at or judge an event through their own eyes or minds.

 

This method of seeing is, in fact, empty. It’s a fantasy. It’s like passing around an unknown object, from hand to hand, and describing it as you believe everyone else will describe it.

 

You are always listening for “an echo effect” before it happens.

 

And you claim the echo effect is what you perceive.

 

It’s a rank absurdity.

 

On the basis of this absurdity, people say the two-party system of politics is unshakable.

 

What they really mean, or should mean, is: the two-party system is an illusion, a zero.

 

Living on the foundation of such zeroes, in all areas of human life, and asserting they are obvious and factual, is the hallmark of The Matrix.

 

Jon Rappoport

The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

QUOTES FROM A VICIOUS TERRORIST

 

QUOTES FROM A VICIOUS TERRORIST

NUMBER ONE ON THE MOST-WANTED LIST

by Jon Rappoport

July 4, 2012

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Paul Watson, writing at Infowars, cites a new DHS-sponsored that profiles homegrown terrorists as “suspicious of centralized federal authority” and “reverent of individual liberty.”

 

This seems reasonable and right, doesn’t it? Therefore, to do my duty and say something after seeing something, I’m presenting quotes from a wanton thug who has, for a long time, escaped the clutches of authorities.

 

Warrants are unnecessary. Just raid his home. Put him in chains. Beyond all doubt, he’s a dangerous terrorist, and he incites others to his cause. Here is the volatile evidence, from his own writings. His words should never have seen the light of day. Shield your mind from them:

 

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness…The first a patron, the last a punisher.”

 

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil…”

 

“Freedom hath been hunted around the globe…Europe regards her like a stranger and England hath given her warning to depart.”

 

“…though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”

 

“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live.”

 

“Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.”

 

“Men who are sincere in defending their freedom will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them…But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.”

 

“Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

 

Arrest this man, take him into custody, and find out where he obtained his pernicious ideas! Shut his mouth! He is a threat to the Homeland! Arrest Thomas Paine!

 

Jon Rappoport

The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

OBAMACAREIFICATION

 

OBAMACAREIFICATION

NOTES ON THE BUILDING CRISIS

by Jon Rappoport

July 3, 2012

www.nomorefakenews.com

 

My recent notes are burgeoning. Here they are…

 

Yes, the nullification of Obamacare is possible. The states can do it. Several state governments (e.g., Missouri and Louisiana) are trying to move in that direction.

 

The 10th Amendment Center works toward nullification of federal law that violates the Reserve Clause of the Constitution (powers not specifically enumerated as federal are reserved for the states and the people).

 

You can volunteer and help them.

 

The idea isn’t to parse sections of Obamacare and keep certain clauses. The goal is to throw the whole 2000-page stinking mess in the ocean.

 

Volunteer for the 10th Amendment Center. If you don’t like them, start your own nullification group.

 

Nothing in the Constitution gave the federal gov the power to create a national health insurance program. It’s illegal. The Supreme Court is thinking and deciding within an already bloated grotesque horrific distorted federal fungus.

 

Violating the 10th Amendment once or twice? Okay, mistakes. The central government violating it hundreds of times, thousands of times? Then you have a criminal organization posing as a legitimate constitutional authority. Justice Roberts was simply continuing a grand Mafia tradition.

 

Was Roberts brain-addled by his use of anti-epilepsy medication? Was he blackmailed? Threatened? Was he scared of the public reaction to a ruling against Obamacare? Was he trying to “preserve the reputation of the High Court?” He’s just another functionary of the Mob. A water carrier.

 

When the Constitution was written and ratified, it was the States (former Colonies) who ceded certain powers to the new federal government. The conditions of that compromise have been smashed over and over. The States taking back power and nullifying federal laws is not only legal, it’s required.

 

But the States accept payoffs. Bagmen from Washington deliver $$ to the States every day. Grants. Pork. In return, the Mafia leaders in the nation’s capitol demand acquiescence. In other words, the States are complicit. They’re criminal organizations, too.

 

It’s no accident, for example, that Obama, the current puppet front man for the Mob, was heavily supported by Goldman Sachs in his 2008 campaign for president. If you look at the debt accumulated by the State of California, you’ll discover that continued State borrowing has been underwritten (repayment guaranteed) by Goldman Sachs. GS plays the game at all levels. If California dared to start nullifying federal laws, GS would hold some heavy private meetings with State officials.

 

“Look, Governor Puppet, if you try nullification, you’re essentially saying you don’t want to accept federal payoffs anymore, and that’s not permitted. GS underwrites your debt because we know money keeps flowing into the California state government. Get it?”

 

So no, nullification isn’t an easy road. But if enormous pressure were exerted by regular people, things could get very interesting.

 

State governors are important lieutenants in the Washington DC Mob operation. They receive federal $$ and they’re expected to perform. Which means maintaining their State’s status as a sub-department of the central government. When governors act up and defy Washington, people get a little nervous.

 

If you’re familiar with The Godfather film saga, at first glance it might seem as if Obama and Romney are the Corleone and Barzini crime families, dueling it out. But Obama and Romney are PR agents for these families, who in turn are both controlled at a distance by Hyman Roth. When Roth is killed, there is someone else to take his place. The vacuum is filled.

 

Roth is a front for huge banks, who essentially invent money out of thin air. When the Great Depression of 1929 was engineered, about 1500 private currencies were invented in America. Communities got together, looked around and saw that they possessed resources that were independent of Washington’s pronouncements of bankruptcy and money troubles.

 

There are a number of private money systems operating in the US right now. You might like to start one. Check into Ithaca Hours. It’s been around for years. Any of these private currencies can be adapted to your needs and objectives.

 

DON’T VOTE FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012 needs a push. I’m sure some of you know how to use Photoshop. Make up some posters and post them online. Put together a whole string of posters and assemble a video and throw it on YouTube or Vimeo.

 

If you haven’t already, go to www.youtube.com/jonrappoport and take a look at our animated videos, parts 1 and 2, of the Obama-Romney debates.

 

Obamacare and one drug and one invented “mental disorder” — a case study to think about:

Recent reports that ADHD diagnoses are increasing in the US (along with prescriptions for Ritalin) illustrate one small aspect of Obamacare as it moves up the road into the future. Conditions like ADHD will eventually gain the power of mandatory assessments—in the sense that parents will be forced to accept them AND the toxic drugs for their children. Coercion is, in fact, the whole point of Obamacare, as it evolves.

So here is some very relevant information on ADHD and Ritalin.

In 1986, The International Journal of the Addictions published a most important literature review by Richard Scarnati. It was called “An Outline of Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate)” [v.21(7), pp. 837-841].

Scarnati listed a large number of adverse affects of Ritalin and cited published journal articles which reported each of these symptoms.

For every one of the following (selected and quoted verbatim) Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literature:

. Paranoid delusions
· Paranoid psychosis
· Hypomanic and manic symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
· Activation of psychotic symptoms
· Toxic psychosis
· Visual hallucinations
· Auditory hallucinations
· Can surpass LSD in producing bizarre experiences
· Effects pathological thought processes
· Extreme withdrawal
· Terrified affect
· Started screaming
· Aggressiveness
· Insomnia
· Since Ritalin is considered an amphetamine-type drug, expect amphetamine-like effects
· Psychic dependence
· High-abuse potential DEA Schedule II Drug
· Decreased REM sleep
· When used with antidepressants one may see dangerous reactions including hypertension, seizures and hypothermia
· Convulsions
· Brain damage may be seen with amphetamine abuse.

Many parents around the country have discovered that Ritalin has become a condition for their children continuing in school. There are even reports, by parents, of threats from social agencies: “If you don’t allow us to prescribe Ritalin for your ADD child, we may decide that you are an unfit parent. We may decide to take your child away.”

This mind-boggling state of affairs is fueled by teachers, principals, and school counselors, none of whom have medical training. Yet even if they did…

The very definition of the “illness” for which Ritalin is prescribed is in doubt (is completely bogus), especially at the highest levels of the medical profession. This doubt, however, has not filtered down to most public schools.

In commenting on Dr. Lawrence Diller’s book, Running on Ritalin, Dr. William Carey, Director of Behavioral Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has written, “Dr. Diller has correctly described… the disturbing trend of blaming children’s social, behavioral, and academic performance problems entirely on an unproven brain deficit [ADHD]…”

On November 16-18, 1998, the National Institute of Mental Health held the prestigious “NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD].” The conference was explicitly aimed at ending all debate about the diagnoses of ADD, ADHD, and about the prescription of Ritalin. It was hoped that at the highest levels of medical research and bureaucracy, a clear position would be taken: this is what ADHD is, this is where it comes from, and these are the drugs it should be treated with. That didn’t happen, amazingly. Instead, the official panel responsible for drawing conclusions from the conference threw cold water on the whole attempt to reach a comfortable consensus.

Panel member Mark Vonnegut, a Massachusetts pediatrician, said, “The diagnosis [of ADHD] is a mess.”

The panel essentially said it was not sure ADHD was even a “valid” diagnosis. In other words, ADD and ADHD might be nothing more than attempts to categorize certain children’s behaviors – with no organic cause, no clear-cut biological basis, no provable reason for even using the ADD or ADHD labels.

The panel found “no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction [which malfunction had been the whole psychiatric assumption].”

The panel found that Ritalin has not been shown to have long-term benefits. In fact, the panel stated that Ritalin has resulted in “little improvement on academic achievement or social skills.”

Panel chairman, David Kupfer, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, said, “There is no current validated diagnostic test [for ADHD].”

Yet at every level of public education in America, there remains what can only be called a voracious desire to give children Ritalin (or other similar drugs) for ADD or ADHD.

The 1994 Textbook of Psychiatry, published by the American Psychiatric Press, contains this review (Popper and Steingard): “Stimulants [such as Ritalin] do not produce lasting improvements in aggressivity, conduct disorder, criminality, education achievement, job functioning, marital relationships, or long-term adjustment.”

Parents should also wake up to the fact that, in the aftermath of the Littleton, Colorado, school-shooting tragedy, pundits and doctors began urging much more extensive “mental health” services for children. Whether you have noticed it or not, this no longer means, for the most part, therapy with a caring professional. It means drugs. Drugs like Ritalin.

In December 1996, the US Drug Enforcement Agency held a conference on ADHD and Ritalin. Surprisingly, it issued a sensible statement about drugs being a bad substitute for the presence of caring parents: “[T]he use of stimulants [such as Ritalin] for the short-term improvement of behavior and underachievement may be thwarting efforts to address the children’s real issues, both on an individual and societal level. The lack of long-term positive results with the use of stimulants and the specter of previous and potential stimulant abuse epidemics, give cause to worry about the future. The dramatic increase in the use of methylphenidate [Ritalin] in the 1990s should be viewed as a marker or warning to society about the problems children are having and how we view and address them.”

In his book, Talking Back to Ritalin, Dr. Peter Breggin expands on the drug’s effects: “Stimulants such as Ritalin and amphetamine… have grossly harmful impacts on the brain — reducing overall blood flow, disturbing glucose metabolism, and possibly causing permanent shrinkage or atrophy of the brain.”

In the American press, although many articles have appeared covering “the debate” about Ritalin and ADHD, no newspaper or TV network has taken it upon itself to hammer on all the lies, day after day, month after month. That kind of campaign could turn around the whole nation on this vital subject—but of course, pharmaceutical advertising is a more powerful force.

And one should not forget that Ritalin came out of a Swiss drug giant called Ciba Geigy (now Novartis) fifty years ago. That company once had very close business ties with the infamous Nazi cartel, IG Farben. Farben stood for inhuman experiments on human beings. Read the adverse effects of Ritalin again, and consider that millions of little kids take those pills every day.

So that’s just one drug and one invented “mental disorder.” The whole vector of Obamacare is to cement in these diagnoses and false diseases and toxic drugs, for both psychiatric and ordinary physical problems. This is the op. List and label all the official diseases and disorders, and then the permitted (toxic) drugs to treat them, and then put everybody in that cage and hammer them from cradle to grave.

When I say cradle, I mean it. In 2010, US doctors dispensed 358,000 prescriptions for Prevacid, for babies under one year of age, for “acid reflux.” This, despite the fact there are no studies that show the drug is useful in babies that young, and despite the fact that the drug can cause severe stomach problems and pneumonia. And Australia has now started screening kids as young as three for “mental illnesses.”

This is the Nazi program reborn. It’s nothing short of that.

Jon Rappoport

The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com