OBAMACARE II: THE FUTURE IS PARADISE

by Jon Rappoport

June 29, 2012

www.nomorefakenews.com

When you’re a professional gardener, you don’t just throw expensive plants into the ground, you prepare the soil.

If I’ve been observing soil-preparation in the field of social and political engineering, that doesn’t make me a conspiracy advocate; it merely means I’ve been watching professionals at work.

For a long time.

These pros have been stimulating and creating trends that dovetail with Obamacare and will carry this law into the future in certain unctuous and nasty ways.

For example, the growing emphasis on preventing illness is a trend. I’m not taking about sensible natural-health practitioners, who have it right. No, I’m talking about government, federal government getting into the act, as if it is a caring Daddy who wants nothing more than to watch over us and make sure we’re on the correct path.

When a government official tells me to cut down on sugar or stop drinking coffee, I reach for my handy-dandy flamethrower, just in case. Because I know something about government’s track record.

Get it? If Al Capone came to my house and said, “Look, you’ve got to eat your broccoli,” I would be justified in wondering what Big Al really had in mind. Broccoli might be code for, “Sell me your warehouse so I can store bootleg whiskey in it or my boys will kill you.”

In the same way, I wonder what the federal government has in mind when they send out caring and sharing officials to give America public health advice.

Well, here is what’s actually going on, just in case you care. The government has been on a long ramp-up to national health insurance, which means it has been planning to pay for everyone’s medical treatment for along time. Well, actually, the “paying” is all coming from tax dollars and invented money that Goldman Sachs generously conjures, but we’ll ignore that for now.

So the government has been building up to stating the obvious, which is: WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. WE WILL BE PAYING FOR EVERYBODY’S MEDICAL TREATMENT, FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE.

THEREFORE, WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DECIDE HOW YOU LIVE AND BEHAVE, BECAUSE IT’S VERY EXPENSIVE TO TREAT YOU FOR DISEASES AFTER THE FACT.

WE INTEND TO RUN YOUR LIFE SO YOU WON’T GET SO SICK SO FAST. WE INTEND TO KEEP YOU HEALTHY. DON’T SCREW WITH US.

WE WILL TELL YOU WHAT HEALTH MEANS, AND WE WILL TELL YOU HOW TO LIVE HEALTHY—WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT TO DO, SO WE CAN AVOID PAYING FOR YOUR DISEASES.

DON’T EAT CAKE. DON’T EAT MORE THAN 1200 CALORIES A DAY. WE CAN TRACK IT.

DON’T EAT THAT CHOCOLATE BAR. IT HAS CAFFEINE IN IT. DON’T SMOKE. WE CAN TELL IF YOU’RE SMOKING, EVEN IF YOU’RE GRABBING A FEW PUFFS IN THAT LITTLE LAUNDRY ROOM IN YOUR CELLAR.

IF YOU BREAK OUR RULES FOR GOOD HEALTH, WE CAN KICK YOU OUT OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN, AND THEN WHERE WILL YOU BE? YOU’LL BE IN THE OUTER DARKNESS, BECAUSE EVERYBODY ELSE IS IN THE PLAN. YOU’LL BE A PARIAH. YOU’LL END UP HAVING TO DO BRAIN SURGERY ON YOURSELF. YOU’LL BE A CERTIFIED CRIMINAL.

YOU DIDN’T EXERCISE LAST WEEK. INSTEAD YOU OPTED FOR THE SAUNA AND MASTURBATION. AT YOUR AGE, YOU SHOULDN’T BE INDUCING ORGASMS. IT COULD IMPACT YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE.

“Oh no,” you say. “Oh no, no, no. no! That’s absurd. That’s ridiculous. It would never ever happen, no matter how far you’re predicting the future. The government could never become so invasive. Well, now that I think of it, the government COULD decide to mandate chemotherapy for all cancers, that’s possible. They could kill me with poisonous chemo, but they would never tell me I can’t eat a candy bar.”

I’m not talking about tomorrow or next week or next month. I’m talking about up the line, as Obamacare begins to spread its wings and become the program IT REALLY IS.

Here’s a twist that might make you think twice. There are a whole lot of people out there who would LOVE to have the government run a mandatory exercise program for them, because they believe they don’t have the will power to do it on their own every day. Yes, that’s right.

“Hi, I’m Beverly, from the Department of Homeland Security. We’re turning up the volume on your TV set a little, for the hearing-impaired. Now today we’re going to begin with those awful squat thrusts. But don’t worry. You only have to do four. I’m happy to announce that the median weight-loss for the nation, last month, was a whole ounce! That’s called progress. If you dream it, you can do it. Let’s begin.”

And 300,000 people gladly join in. They post video testimonials on YouTube detailing their triumphs. Then, later, it’s 800,000 people. And so on.

Because if you get sick, the government has to pay for your treatment, and as it turns out, the administration of Obamacare is so fraught with screw-ups and lies and theft, the program is costing 80 times more than predicted, and the debt being incurred is way past insupportable.

Which was the whole idea from the beginning.

Americans have a real taste for corruption, and Obamacare is like a hand-engraved invitation to criminals inside and outside of government. “Hi. Steal us blind.”

People will be saying to each other, “You know, the regulation about our kids wearing helmets to school? It’s really a good thing. I like it. Last month’s CDC report showed ambulatory accidental head injuries dropped by .026 percent. I can’t remember what that means. If it’s a fraction, what fraction is it? Anyway, it’s progress.”

It’s operant conditioning.

Now here’s another trend that’s been in the works for some time. Mental disorders. The trend is all about public acceptance of these invented constructs. Yes, Hillary showed the way on that one. This bloated tool of the Psychiatric State has been playing with her own little version of Soviet Gulag Nicey-Nice. She demanded that we remove, what was it, The Stigma attached to the diagnosis of a mental disease because, after all, it’s no different from having diabetes. Right. We must become accepting, caring, and sharing people, just like Hillary is. That wonderful woman who would have done a better job as president, if only her supporters could have bolted her past Obama. If only Oprah hadn’t told America to go for Barack. Oh well.

As I’ve demonstrated (and I mean DEMONSTRATED) several times in these pages, there is no such thing as a discrete mental disorder. People suffer, they have pain, they have problems and troubles and weaknesses and so on, but the chopping up of behavior and thought and emotion into labeled disorders has the scientific basis of asserting that a rocket ship on the edge of Andromeda, staffed by aliens, is using two-ply paper in their bathrooms. To put it another way, it’s scientific bullshit of the highest order.

But it’s a great way to put populations into pigeonholes, dose them with dangerously toxic drugs, and convince them to think of themselves as living lives within an official spectrum of disability. It works. It makes victims. Victims who use their fictional disorder-labels as badges of honor. Which is perfect mind control of a certain kind.

Now, when you have government regulating behavior to make people “live healthy lives”—just another form of control and conditioning—and when you have, at your disposal, a whole arsenal of mental-disorder labels, you have a highly workable mixture.

“Mr. Jones, you’re just not living a healthy life. As your doctor, I can see that. And video surveillance reports also indicate the same thing. You’re frankly costing the Health Plan money, money that could be spent helping people who are too far gone, who are bed-ridden. You’re endangering the whole herd by your actions. I see you’ve had several warnings, and it’s obvious to me you’re suffering from Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Category Four, Resistance to Authority in the Area of Optimum Living. I’m entering that diagnosis in your records, and I’m giving you a prescription for Zosterol. Since the drug induces fatigue, disorientation, and spotty amnesia, I’m also issuing an order against operating a motor vehicle. From now on, you’ll have to commute to work on the bus. I advise bringing an i-Phone 24 with you every morning. It’s automatically keyed to local police for rapid 9/11 response. Whatever you do, don’t take a book with you on the bus. Studies show people reading books are subject to random attacks at an eight-percent rate above average.”

The doctor goes on to tell Mr. Jones that acceptance of his psychiatric condition could open doors to a whole new life for him. Once Jones realizes he has a disorder, he’s half-way home. And guess what? There’s no stigma! Everybody has some disorder or another. Everybody is in the same boat.

You’re walking down the street and your i-Phone (and the phones of 2,345,896 other other people) sends you a blast of high-irritant sound waves. You look at the screen. A talking head says, “You’re being contacted because your vaccination booster for Hepatitis G is due. You are to report to your Health Plan Clinic within two days for a shot. We advise arriving shortly before dawn. The lines will be long.”

If you don’t report, an entry will be made in your file. Your universal medical ID package will reflect “an incident of absence.” By regulation, this means your government allocation of six milligrams of Vitamin C a day will be cut to four.

When I say “future,” I mean, yes, somewhere out there in the unspecified distance, but I also mean the playing out of domino consequences already implied in the Obamacare law just upheld by the US Supreme Court.

We’re on that road.

It’s a toxic road, and when it becomes mandatory, there will be hell to pay.

For example, here’s one little crime that’s occurring now, before our eyes. It’s just a hint of what’s to come:

358,000 BABIES OPEN TO DAMAGE BY ACID REFLUX DRUG

Love your baby, love your doctor.

Reuters (June 18) is reporting that, even though the acid-reflex drug Prevacid is not recommended for infants under one year of age, and even though there are no studies that show benefit for the drug in babies that young, US doctors targeted these infants for 358,000 prescriptions of Prevacid in 2010.

Dr. Eric Hassall, a pediatric gastroenterologist at the California Medical Center, told Reuters that Prevacid, by blocking stomach acid in these babies, increases the risk of pneumonia and stomach infections.

Doctors have gone off the reservation. They are engaging in wildcat practices, and there is no law-enforcement action to curtail their actions. Why? Because a doctor is permitted to “use judgment” in writing drug scripts.

Common sense (for any normal non-medical person) would dictate avoiding the chance of causing pneumonia or stomach infection in a baby under a year old. But doctors aren’t normal. Frankly, they’re drug dealers. They think like drug dealers who actually believe in their product. That makes them doubly dangerous.

Lansoprazole is the generic term for Prevacid, and is sold around the world under two dozen different trade names.

The practice of prescribing drugs for “off-label” uses, unsupported by any sort of science, is widespread. More importantly, the medical cartel is determined to initiate very young children into the world of toxic drug treatment and keep them there. In Australia, children as young as three are now being screened for “mental illnesses.” That means dosing with highly dangerous medications like Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil, and even more destructive drugs in the class of so-called major tranquilizers.

A lifetime of suffering awaits countless numbers of children who are corralled into the twilight zone of medical-drug effects.

Now that Obamacare has been upheld by the Supreme Court, the US Dept. of Health and Human Services will surge forward in its appointed task of assembling a list of all official diseases and mental disorders. American parents can look forward to the inclusion of more than 300 of these mental disorders, any of which can be diagnostically imposed on their children, all of which lead to drugging with toxic compounds.

Pharmaceutical profits will soar, government control over children will tighten, doctors will continue to write prescriptions in ever-increasing numbers, the FDA will turn a blind eye, and families will be left to pick up the pieces.

This is a new chapter in legal chemical warfare against the citizenry.

Prevacid? Babies? Pneumonia? Stomach infections? That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

In the march along this heinous road, the first step of which is Obamacare, the medical cartel will have free rein. It will become another government, with the full powers of government.

When freedom of choice about health is removed, when yes or no is a thing of the past, your children and grandchildren will live in a tight net. They will probably not remember you as the passive guardians who were derelict in your duty, because they will not have the time to remember. They will be too busy dealing with the Medical State and its legalized ubiquitous operations targeting them.

But: “WAH WAH WAH, I WANT MY OBAMACARE! I WANT IT NOW! IT’S MEDICAL, AND MEDICAL ANYTHING IS GOOD! I WANT MY DOCTOR! I WANT MORE TREATMENT AND MORE RESEARCH! WAH WAH WAH! DIAGNOSE ME! TREAT ME! LABEL ME! GIVE ME DRUGS!

“GIVE ME OBAMACARE AND I’LL GIVE YOU ANYTHING YOU WANT!”

Yes, exactly.

And what they want is everything you’ve got. Mind, body, and soul.

Welcome to paradise. First door on the left. Take off your clothes and put on the gown. The doctor will be with you in a little while.

Don’t worry. Pay no attention to the fools who are warning you to stay outside the gates of Utopia. They’re mentally ill. You’re with us now. We care. We love all our patients. You’re in the system. You’re safe. It’s a dark world out there, but you’re here, in the light. You won’t feel a thing.

Jon Rappoport

The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th 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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by Jon Rappoport

June 28, 2012

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I want my Obamacare! I want my Obamacare!

Well, you’ve got it. The US Supreme Court just upheld it by calling the individual mandate a tax.

Those who shout victory to the rooftops have no idea what’s in store for them. No idea at all.

It’s vital to look at the real effects of this sinister plan. It’s all about the effects of mainstream medicine. That’s what the sold-out press is refusing to examine.

Several months ago, guest-hosting The Alex Jones Radio Show, I discussed the case of a young Michigan boy — Jacob Stieler, whose parents had been taken to court three times to force them to submit their child to intensely toxic chemo treatments—despite these facts:

The boy’s latest scans revealed no sign of cancer; the drugs that would be forced on him can cause cancer; the drugs have not been approved to treat children.

And I warned: this is what waits for you and your children, up the line, if the Supreme Court allows Obamacare to stand as law.

The “share and care” humanitarian mask will be peeled away. The US Dept. of Health and Human Services will create, as ordered, a complete list of approved treatments for every disease-label under the sun. And everyone in the insurance plan (everyone in America) will be forced to take what the doctor tells them to take.

For a bonus, unapproved treatments will be banned. People and practitioners who try to use alternative treatments will find themselves in trouble.

This is the hidden agenda of Obamacare. This is what it will morph into in the future—unless it is repealed by the Congress.

I’m not dreaming or fantasizing. I’ve been following and reporting on the medical cartel for 30 years, and I know the mindset of these people, these doctors, these bureaucrats, these pharmaceutical string-pullers behind the scenes. Obamacare is right up their alley. It’s about control, so it’s an answer to their prayers.

So what do we know about their mainstream medicine, the hospital-based drug-addled modern version?

On July 26, 2000, the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association published a landmark paper by Dr. Barbara Starfield (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health), “Is US health really the best in the world?” In it, Starfield revealed what many people inside the medical establishment already knew: every year, like clockwork, the medical system was killing huge numbers of people.

Each year in the US, as Dr. Starfield reported, there are:

12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries;

7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals;

20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals;

80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals;

106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines.

The total of medically-caused deaths in the US every year is 225,000.

This makes the medical system the third leading cause of death in America, behind heart disease and cancer.

In the wake of Starfield’s devastating report, other facts came to light: 2.1 million people in America, every year, are hospitalized as a result of reactions to FDA-approved medicines. Annually, 36 million serious adverse reactions to those drugs occur.

So, inclusive health coverage for many more Americans under the Obama Plan means these horrendous figures will rise.

This is the dirty secret.

Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It’s that stark and it’s that simple.

The Obama Plan involves appointing an “expert panel” to decide what treatments Americans should be given for what diseases, under the new regime.

Only a certified idiot would assume that, over time, alternative non-mainstream therapies would survive such an ongoing vetting. Hope may spring eternal, but common sense makes it easy to grasp the realities on the ground.

In the long run, alternative therapies will be edged out. Those that remain will be permitted for a narrow range of conditions, or as adjuncts to standard drug treatments and surgery.

Chiropractors and acupuncturists, who are temporarily basking in the notion that Obama “really cares,” are in for a very rude awakening. Their careers and practices will be significantly reduced. Not today, not tomorrow, but it will happen.

Doctors, under the Plan, will be telling patients they may not take nutritional supplements while in treatment. This will assume the status of an irreversible edict. In many cases, “while in treatment” will mean years.

What happens to a person, conscripted into the mandated Insurance Plan, who is told by his doctor that he should/must receive a vaccine? Suppose this person says no? What are the consequences? Will he then be labeled a defector? What penalties will he suffer?

Does a diagnosis of cancer imply a patient must submit to chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery? Can these treatments be forced upon him?

Perhaps, in the early days of the Plan, nothing untoward will happen. But then, as time passes, and the system assumes tighter and tighter controls, the hand of government will close around the recalcitrant patient’s neck.

“Take this vaccine. Take this chemo drug. If you don’t, you’re out of the system, and that makes you a criminal, because everyone has to be in the system.”

Doctors, who are an integral part of the Plan, will surely be punished if they give unapproved (alternative) treatments to patients.

And in order to make the Plan operate on a day-to-day basis, the records and bookkeeping data of every health-care practitioner in America will eventually be tracked on government computer networks.

Every person in America will have a traceable and trackable medical ID package. Government-issued. There is no way around it. The monitoring apparatus can’t work without it.

Orwellian consequences lie up the road in the field of psychiatric practice. In case you hadn’t noticed, the invention of “disorders” by committee is the preferred method for “discovering” more and more mental illnesses.

Yet, the science is completely fraudulent. For evidence, consult the many works of psychiatrist Peter Breggin, who has done more than any other person to expose the guts of his own profession. (www.breggin.com) Breggin establishes that mental disorders are not authoritatively diagnosed by a chemical or biological test. Conclusive tests do not exist. And worse, in this undefined and arbitrary territory, the drugs that follow diagnoses are killers: for example, 300,000 cases of motor brain damage, as a result of the administration of major tranquilizers.

Under the Obama Plan, you can bet your bottom dollar that psychiatric care will eventually become mandatory. A patient suddenly diagnosed with clinical depression or bipolar disease will be told he must take the drugs—and suffer their adverse effects.

Very young children will be given more and more debilitating and dangerous brain drugs.

Under the Obama Plan, it will be very convenient to declare new pandemics every few seasons, because these phony non-epidemics provide an opportunity to herd the sheep into clinics and remind them who is running the show. Go here, take this vaccine; go there, take that drug; the epidemic is endangering the herd, and you must help your brothers and sisters.

These are the figures on the last several “epidemics.” They are not yearly; they are grand totals, to date; global totals, except in the case of West Nile (US only):

SARS: 774 deaths.

WEST NILE: 1159 deaths.

BIRD FLU: 262 deaths.

SMALLPOX: (terrorist threat): 0 deaths.

SWINE FLU: 18,500 deaths.

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here.)

To give perspective, globally, 250 thousand to 500 thousand people die of ordinary flu-like illness every year. Yet this higher death rate accrues no interest as an epidemic. It is only the “teaching (brainwashing) moments” of the phony epidemics that are promoted by health agencies (e.g., CDC and WHO) and their pharmaceutical allies, who rake in billions by manufacturing new vaccines.

Yes, under the Obama Plan, there will be more declared health emergencies, and they will serve to cement the citizen to his new role as eternal patient in the medical march along bleak streets of the future.

Can you perceive the loss of individual freedom implicit in this universal system of health control?

You see, the widespread (and false) assumption is that more medical care for more people is a good thing. That’s what the politicians and the press tell us. That’s what the medical bureaucrats and the drug companies tell us. This is the central piece of brainwashing.

It’s a baldfaced lie. It’s a death-dealing lie.

And now the American people are saddled with it.

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 29^th 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.

NANCY PELOSI EXPOSES OBAMACARE

by Jon Rappoport

May 13, 2012

www.nomorefakenews.com

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Jon Rappoport

The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th 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, and creative action to audiences around the world.

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TEXAS NULLIFICATION OF OBAMACARE

DECEMBER 19, 2010. The 10^th Amendment Center is a group that is campaigning to nullify illegal federal laws. It’s also resuscitating the right of states to exercise their basic power in this regard.

Here is a brief excerpt from a piece at their site, “The Lone Star State’s Opportunity,” by Michael Maharrey:

On Nov. 16, Texas Representative Leo Berman (R-Tyler) filed a bill in the Texas House of Representatives that would nullify federal health care legislation in the the Lone Star State. HB-297 asserts:

The federal Act [ObamaCare] is not authorized by the United States Constitution and violates the Constitution’s true meaning and intent as expressed by the founders of this country and the ratifiers of the Constitution.

The federal Act:
(1) is invalid in this state;
(2) is not recognized by this state;
(3) is specifically rejected by this state; and
(4) is null and void and of no effect in this state.

The bill takes things a step further, making it a crime for any official, agent, or employee of the United States or an employee of any corporation to enforce any part of the health care act in Texas, and imposes fines up to $5,000 and/or five years in prison for anyone convicted of doing so.

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The point of this Texas bill, which faces a struggle to get out of committee, is that the federal government has exceeded its constitutional authority by passing ObamaCare. That power is not given to the federal government by the Constitution—and is therefore reserved for the individual states and the people.

Understand this: the US Constitution was originally ratified by state legislatures, and therefore, a pact was made, in which the states delegated some powers to the newly created federal government.

The Constitution didn’t spring out of thin air. It wasn’t written by members of the federal government. In the truest sense, there was no federal government at the time.

And the Constitution wasn’t some all-embracing gift given by the states, after which they disappeared back into the shadows, leaving the new central government to pass any laws it wanted to.

There was a pact: “We will give you certain powers, and we the states will retain all other powers.”

Implicit in this arrangement was a vital proviso: any individual state could nullify a federal law or regulation, if that state decided the fundamental pact had been violated by the federal law.

It’s really quite simple. Suppose you and your neighbors create a watch group, and you elect John Jones to run this group, in order to protect the neighborhood from criminals. You grant Jones certain specific powers. But then Jones decides to import 100 free-roaming rattlesnakes as protection, and he claims he can do this because you ceded your power to him. What do you do? You probably fire him. At the very least you nullify his plan for the snakes. And you can do this, BECAUSE YOU HAVE A CONTRACT WITH JONES.

You don’t disappear because you granted Jones a few powers. A contract implies two parties. They both live on, after the contract is signed. Otherwise, there is no contract.

This point, vis-a-vis the states and the federal government, has been lost. It was lost a long time ago.

To restore it requires actions by the states, because no branch or agency of the federal government is going to cut back federal power. It won’t happen. To imagine it could happen at the level of the Supreme Court, for example, is a bet you’d be ill-advised to make.

In his article, Maharrey quotes James Madison, from Federalist 46:

“Should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States, which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure be so, which may sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand. The disquietude of the people; their repugnance and, perhaps refusal to cooperate with officers of the Union, the frowns of the executive magistracy of the State; the embarrassment created by legislative devices, which would often be added on such occasions, would oppose, in any State, very serious impediments; and were the sentiments of several adjoining States happen to be in Union, would present obstructions which the federal government would hardly be willing to encounter.”

So if you had any doubt that the strategy of nullification was real, from the beginning of the Republic, this should clear things up.

Delegating someone to “run things” for you is a myth. Think about it. There is always a contract, and the contract spells out what you are allowing the other party to do. How could it be otherwise, unless you were interested in appointing a king? When one party in the contract violates it by overstepping his mandate, you can legally rein him in. You’d be a fool not to.

There is a point, however, where things get tricky. Suppose the other party is showering you with gifts, with money? Suppose he is attaching conditions to these gifts? In order to take them, you have to fall in line with a whole host of regulations. If you cave in, you’re in a tough spot. You’re selling out. And if you try to nullify some law he just passed, he tells you the money will stop flowing. You then take a step back and realize the gifts were always coming out of your own pocket, because you were paying taxes to the Man. Wow. What a set-up. How did you become so deluded? How did you fall for this shell game? What you gave him he gave back to you. (Well, part of what you gave him.) He used the money you gave him to buy the snakes he set loose in the neighborhood, and he kept some of the money, too. And now he says he wants to give you money so you can install better sprinkler systems on your lawns, but he’ll hold that back from you—he’ll hold back your own money unless you allow him to set loose the snakes.

When people in Texas try to nullify ObamaCare, they need to think about that. I’m sure they are. They’re paying taxes to the federal government so it can put in place the whole ObamaCare program. Somewhere along the line, this issue is going to come up. What do you think the Founders would say about it? Taxation to pay for enforcing and administering a law that is unconstitutional to begin with? Are you kidding?

Well, one step at a time.

If enough illegal federal laws are nullified by enough states, the emperor is going to look naked, because he is. He’s taxing people to pay for a whole host of laws that are unconstitutional. He keeps saying he needs more money, and it’s obvious this is a lie. What he really needs is less power. What he really needs is honest adherence to the Constitution. He gave all that up a long time ago.

Every state in the Union runs, to a considerable degree, on federal money. Which means taxes and money invented out of thin air by the central government. If you think the money crunch in state capitols is serious now, what do you think would happen if states started telling the federal government they don’t want that funding from Washington?

I’ll tell you exactly what would happen. State governments would have to reassess their whole modus operandi. They would be forced to realize they’ve been operating on a bloated dream of credit, endless credit, and they would also have to realize that a great number of government contracts they award to the private sector are paid for by funny money.

And the private sector would have to wake up, too. Wake up to something called the free market.

This is how far off the track we’ve wandered.

This is how deeply the Constitution has been shredded.

It’s not that we’re opening a can of worms here or raising the lid on Pandora’s box. The can and the box were opened decades ago. We’re trying to remember how it was supposed to be before the box and the can were blasted apart.

The whole national economy has essentially been bought off and bribed by federal money and state-government money, and the real operating social contract is: take the money and forget about the Constitution. That’s the deal we’re making now. Let’s not pretend it’s different. Walk into any big-company office and look around and find out where they’re working this government-money angle, and you’ll see the reluctance to opt out of the arrangement. The teat is warm. The teat is good. The teat is essential.

But again, one step at a time.

The states have to expose the naked emperor. Step one.

JON RAPPOPORT

www.nomorefakenews.com

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HOW POWER CORRUPTS:

OBAMACARE

By Jon Rappoport

www.nomorefakenews.com

Why is the Obama legislation double-barreled?  Why does it offer both a private and public option?

Why are we hearing relatively few howls of protest from the private insurance industry?

What happened to the Democrats’ single-payer program, in which Medicare would be expanded to include all Americans under one roof?

The answers to these questions yield up the same result: the private insurance mammoth so far supports the Obama Plan.  The private (and possibly the public) option will be priced by the insurance companies, to ensure profits, and since all 300 million Americans will be forced to sign on to one option or the other, these insurance companies will handle some of the large spillover.  New customers.   

In other words, the Obama Plan is a government-corporate partnership from top to bottom.  It always was. 

The insurance companies agreed to call in their markers on Congressional legislators and get the necessary votes to pass the Plan.

Think of the amount of force present in this arrangement.  Insurance giants, pharmaceutical corporations, the federal government—all working together to control medical treatment for Americans.  And the hidden secret is: many of these treatments are fraught with danger.  They injure people.  They kill them.  225,000 of them a year. 

All this power funnels down into the doctor’s office where the patient is handed his diagnosis and drug prescription. 

Here is the breakdown of medically-caused deaths in the US:

Each year in the US there are:

12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries; 

7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals; 

20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals; 

80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals; 

106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines.

The total of medically-caused deaths in the US every year is 225,000.

This makes the medical system the third leading cause of death in America, behind heart disease and cancer.

Source:  July 26, 2000, Journal of the American Medical Association, Barbara Starfield (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health), “Is US health really the best in the world?”

 Up the road from here, carrying the banner of  ObamaCare, there will be a gaggle of vultures descending on the decaying landscape.

Pharmaceutical creatures will be the most powerful of the invaders.

To understand their influence: Consider these winged goblins’ entrance into the arena of psychiatric practice.  Thirty-five years ago, the whole profession was sinking under the waves.  Americans were showing less and less interest in what psychiatry had to offer.

The psychiatric journals were going broke.  Even the funding for conferences was drying up.

There was one unlikely upside.  The “discovery” and definition of mental disorders had no true scientific foundation.  Definitive biological tests for psychiatric conditions didn’t exist.  These mental disorders were named and labeled by committees, which met and discussed lists of symptoms (behaviors) and hashed out conclusions.

There was a holy text, the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual), and the ruling committees engraved new mental disorders and their descriptions on stone tablets.

Into this ludicrous situation flew and flapped the pharmaceutical industry.  It saw the possibilities.  Markets could be created.  For each new invented and labeled mental condition, there would be a new

market.  It was that simple.

Since no diagnostic tests were necessary, since none existed, the arbitrary nature of the whole game was a magnificent boon.

The psychiatrists would roll out new disorders, and the drug companies would supply the drugs.

So pharma essentially made a pact.  It would resuscitate psychiatry with money.  It would fund conferences and back the professional journals.  It would help re-float the whole profession.

And that is exactly what happened.  Outlandish PR was launched to explain that many millions of Americans were suffering from undiagnosed psychiatric disorders.

Talk therapy was no longer the preferred route for alleviating or curing these disorders.  No, all mental conditions, across the board and without exception, were said to result from brain malfunction.  Voila.  It was a chemistry problem—and researchers were on the case.

Their answers naturally led to chemical (drug) strategies.

Studies which called into the question the safety of the drugs were shunted into the background.

Politicians were enlisted in the PR campaign.  The humanitarian levers were pulled.  “We can’t let so many Americans live in silence with their mental disorders.  Drug treatment is available.  The breakthroughs are extraordinary.  Today, we are seeing miracles.  It’s science at work.”

Dissenters from within the psychiatric profession, people who saw through this ruse, were attacked.  They were called Neanderthals.  They were banished from the top journals.  Anyone who suggested that unhappy and troubled patients might really need nutritional help, or might be experiencing problems associated with myriad chemicals in processed foods, or might need a way to realize they were uniquely themselves in a society increasingly bent on conformity—this was slammed as scientific nonsense, clap-trap, idiocy of the first order.

Instead, millions of children were really suffering from a deficit of Ritalin.  Millions of Americans were suffering from a deficit of Prozac or Depakote.    

The job description of psychiatrists changed.  Talk in the office with patients was, more and more, about confirming a list of symptoms/behaviors and writing drug prescriptions.

The new alliance between the American Psychiatric Association and the pharmaceutical companies was strong.

This is how vultures operate when they see an opportunity.

Americans under ObamaCare will be “served” by a wide-ranging medical panel.  The panel, over time, will determine which diseases and disorders are covered by insurance, and which are not.

But where does that stop?  A patient under the Plan is told by his doctor that he has a mental disorder.  A diagnosis is made.  A drug is prescribed.  Can the patient refuse?

Of course he can.  At first. 

But what about ten years, 20 years up the road?  Do you seriously think pharma and organized psychiatry are going to curtail their efforts at the golden gate?

If the insurance is compulsory, the treatment at some point is going to be compulsory. 

Oh, it’ll be a struggle to enact such draconian rules, but the chances of success, when the government is the ruling entity and is working hand in glove with Big Pharma and insurance companies, will dramatically increase.

And when drugs are involved, and when the prescribed treatment is compulsory or coerced through pressure, the drugs’ dangerous effects are ignored, because the treatment cannot be refused. Do you believe the government is going to assume and admit liability for a damaging drug the patient must take?

The pharmaceutical companies will have a field day.

Take a case described by psychiatrist, Peter Breggin, in his landmark 1991 classic, Toxic Psychiatry.  A young patient, Roberta, had been treated with a host of so-called major tranquilizers [AKA neuroleptics].  Peer-reviewed published studies support the use of these drugs: Haldol, Mellaril, Prolixin, Thorazine.

Breggin writes: “Roberta was a college student, getting good grades, mostly A’s, when she first became depressed and sought psychiatric help at the recommendation of her university health service.  She was eighteen at the time, bright and well motivated, and a very good candidate for psychotherapy.  She was going through a sophomore-year identity crisis about dating men, succeeding in school, and planning a future.  She could have thrived with a sensitive therapist who had an awareness of women’s issues.

“Instead of moral support and insight, her doctor gave her Haldol.  Over the next four years, six different physicians watched her deteriorate neurologically without warning her or her family about tardive dyskinesia [motor brain damage] and without making the [tardive dyskinesia] diagnosis, even when she was overtly twitching in her arms and legs.  Instead they switched her from one neuroleptic to another, including Navane, Stelazine, and Thorazine.  Eventually a rehabilitation therapist became concerned enough to send her to a general physician, who made the diagnosis [of medical drug damage].  By then she was permanently physically disabled, with a loss of 30 percent of her IQ.

“…my medical evaluation described her condition:  Roberta is a grossly disfigured and severely disabled human being who can no longer control her body.  She suffers from extreme writhing movements and spasms involving the face, head, neck, shoulders, limbs, extremities, torso, and back—nearly the entire body.  She had difficulty standing, sitting, or lying down, and the difficulties worsen as she attempts to carry out voluntary actions.  At one point she could not prevent her head from banging against nearby furniture.  She could hold a cup to her lip only with great difficulty.  Even her respiratory movements are seriously afflicted so that her speech comes out in grunts and gasps amid spasms of her respiratory muscles…Roberta may improve somewhat after several months off the neuroleptic drugs, but she will never again have anything remotely resembling a normal life.”   

Under a government no-way-out Plan, it could start this way:

Patient:  “Doctor, I really don’t think I want to take this medicine.”

Doctor:  “Believe me, I understand your apprehension.  But it’s a good drug, and we’ll be monitoring the effects all the way.”

Patient:  “I know, but still…I’ve read about the side effects.”

Doctor:  “I’m starting you out on a small dose.  You tell me if you’re uncomfortable.”

Patient:  “I’m not sure…”

Doctor:  “Listen.  Perhaps you don’t understand what’s happening here.  You’re covered.  You have insurance under the Government Plan.  Now, if you decline treatment, what are we supposed to do?  You want the coverage, but you don’t want the treatment.  It’s like saying you want to buy the car, but you don’t want to drive it.”

Or the doctor might say, “I’m seeing fifty patients a day.  They want my help.  I’m giving them the best available medical advice in the world, based on the best science we have.  Don’t you want to take advantage of that?”

Many variations on the same theme.

“I’m telling you, you need chemotherapy right away.  We can’t wait.  This is your optimal chance for survival.”

Pressure.

“As I’m sure you’re aware, there is a list of patients on the Government Plan who refuse treatment.  I don’t think you want to be on that refusenik list.  It’ll mean your waiting times for appointments will stretch out.  You’ll go to the back of the line.  We have to serve the people who are willing to take advantage of what we give.”

The road continues through twists and turns until treatment is compulsory.  If you’re under the Plan, you take your medicine.  You don’t ask about the science.  You don’t demand evidence the drugs are safe.  You don’t discuss other options.  You don’t buck the system.  The system is huge.  Everyone says it is there for your own good.  It’s based on a fundamental humanitarianism.  Share and care. 

“I see on your chart you’ve refused three vaccines in the last six years.  You have two children.  You tried to obtain a waiver for them so they don’t have to receive vaccinations.  I’ve notified Child Protective Services.  I’m sorry, but we can’t allow this to go on.  I know you don’t want CPS to take your children from the house.  What parent would?  But if we can’t reach an understanding here, you’re going to encounter serious trouble.”

Let’s imagine a doctor is handling a cancer patient, a young boy, whose mother is quite educated.

The mother says, “Doctor, are you familiar with the work of Ulrich Abel?  A German biostatistician.  Very fine international reputation.  In 1990, after reviewing thousands of studies on chemotherapy, he came to a conclusion.  Here is the quote.  ‘Success of most chemotherapies is appalling…There is no scientific evidence for its ability to extend in any appreciable way the lives of patients suffering from the most common organic cancer…Chemotherapy for malignancies too advanced for surgery, which accounts for 80% of all cancers, is a scientific wasteland.’”

The doctor smiles and says, “We’ve heard all the objections.  But chemotherapy is your son’s best option, I assure you.”

“I know you assure me, but I’m presenting evidence that contradicts your opinion, Doctor.”

“Madam, this situation is far more complex than you realize.  Believe me, I’ve looked at all the possibilities.  You’re not a physician.  Cancer is my specialty.  You boy needs chemo, and he needs it now.”

“Doctor, I’m going to decline.”

“It’s not that easy, I’m afraid. In the old days, you could take this case to court.  Lawyers could argue both sides before a judge.  But now, under the Government Plan, we have the right to insist on treatment.  We’re not trying to be coercive.  We’re only concerned with the best interests of the patients.  That’s why the Plan exists.”

“Doctor, chemo will not extend my son’s life.  And it will make him suffer terribly.”

“It’s our best hope, and I’m going to go ahead with it.  I’ll note your objections.  I’m happy to have you meet with one of our counselors.  Perhaps she can alleviate your concerns.  That’s all I can do.”

This is where the rubber will meet the road, and the powers-that-be will dictate the results.  Even pointing out a number of qualified studies that indicate a specific medical treatment is ineffective and dangerous won’t save the day.

To some, all this sounds like a paranoid fantasy.  But only the most naïve imagine that an enormous increase in centralized power will somehow enhance personal freedom or maintain it in its present state.  The major players want more.  They always want more.  They have the time and the means and the power and the connections.  They see the goal.  They see the rewards.

We may want to extend the benefit of the doubt to those who say they are looking out for our best interests, but then we are the fantasizers.  We are the fools.  More power means more control.  It always does.

What is starting out now as a “public option” in the Healthcare Plan is the wedge in the door.  If joining the Plan, in one form or another, is no longer a choice, then someone has just gained the power that formerly resided in us.

What do you think will happen to the whole issue of medical liability under the Obama Plan?  What will eventually happen to a private citizen who tries to sue a drug company, doctor, or hospital for damages?

“You say this drug injured your health in a permanent way?  Go home.  There is no case.  The Plan is the best structure we have.  Occasionally, a mistake occurs, but we all have to live with that.  If we permit huge lawsuits to move forward, we won’t be able to pay for the Plan anymore.  Greatest good for the greatest number of people is the watchword.”

So the freedom to obtain justice, too, will disappear in time as well.  (It already has, in so-called pandemic seasons, as drug companies promise delivery of vaccines to governments if and only if no liability is attached when a patient is injured by the vaccine.)

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Who benefits from all this?  Obviously, Big Pharma.  Compulsory or coerced drug treatment for all Americans, in every area of medical practice; greater and greater legal protection against claims for damage; an insider’s place at the table where an official panel decides what diseases and disorders and drug treatments will be covered and paid for under the Government Plan.

Instead of having to swoop down on a whole profession, like psychiatry, and bankroll it, the pharmaceutical industry can rely on the federal government to carry the burden.

I cited above the quintessential study that established a death toll of 106,000 Americans, every year, as the direct result of FDA-approved, correctly prescribed medicines.

Under the Obama Plan, and its succeeding incarnations, Big Pharma will be slipping out from beneath that shadow of liability, as it walks, hand in hand with its partner, the federal government of the United States, into the sunrise of official absolution.

JON RAPPOPORT  

www.nomorefakenews.com

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MARCH 27, 2010. Now that the Obama Plan has passed, we can all rest in peace, because the new religion called government has finally sealed Teddy Kennedy’s dream and made it Scripture. Amen.

Still not sure what happens when millions of people decide to pay the fine for not having insurance, until a catastrophic illness overtakes them, at which point they sign on to the Plan. Seems like it would bankrupt every insurance company in the US, since these companies exist on the basis of collecting premiums from healthy people. But, well, that’s a small issue, isn’t it? I’m sure the gods of the Left have it all figured out. They’re in Heaven, and we’re down here on Earth.

I have a painting of Pelosi’s face on velvet, on an altar in my living room, with candles and day-glo backdrops, and bottle caps and tinfoil strewn around. Plastic flowers, incense sticks, gaggles of sage. I have demon skulls and skeletons on the periphery. I’ve got Bach organ music going 24/7. It’s a party.

I’m praying that unlimited medical care will soon be extended to any human on the face of the Earth who can row, swim, fly, crawl, drive to a US hospital or doctor’s office.

I’m also fervently wishing that, in order to experience the revelations of medical treatment, Americans will continue to eat the very worst of the fast food for sale at emporiums of Delicacy across the land.

Eventually, the nation will become one vast Hospital, and we can then rejoice that the new religion has assumed correct proportions.

No one will escape a diagnosis. No one will evade treatment with drugs or surgery.

And the government will pay. The taxpayer will be on the hook for at least 60% of every paycheck.

This is a dream worth having, is it not?

Mandatory diagnosis, compulsory treatment. Fifty vaccines given at birth. Hundreds of pharmaceuticals doled out to every person during the course of a lifetime. Exclusion of nutritional supplements. Destruction of alternative practitioners. It’s catechism, baby.

All through the run-up to the passage of the health bill, nary a word from supplement companies or their trade groups or the larger citizen health-freedom organizations. Nary a peep.

They knew Pelosi and Reid and the prophet Obama were on the side of the angels. They knew. O joy.

Have the people who want health freedom in this country become too old to fight? Are they too tired? Are they finally caving in to Prozac and Zoloft and Paxil and tranquilizers?

I don’t know. I haven’t seen many of them around.

Actually, since the early 1990s, when I began writing damning articles about the medical establishment, I’ve seen alternative-health advocates figuring out how to back away from the struggle. Many of these people have a religion of their own, which involves the idea that by passively loving their enemies in Congress and the White House, they can tease a wonderful compromise out of the Universe, and all will be well.

It hasn’t happened.

On March 24, I did an episode of my radio show on: medically caused death in America. It was, if I do say so myself, and I do, a brilliant expose of facts and a stunning indictment of the FDA—you know, those guys who keep coming after nutritional supplements.

I suggest you pick up the show and let your friends know. If you still care. Click here.

JON RAPPOPORT
www.nomorefakenews.com

A Reporter Responds: Arianna Huffington’s Dec. 26 Blog

by Jon Rappoport

December 28, 2009

Arianna Huffington points out that the president hasn’t yet broken the stranglehold insurance and drug companies have over the US healthcare market.

That was one of his promises, but now—“Christmas came a day early for health insurance and drug companies when the Senate passed a health care bill crammed with more industry-friendly gifts than Santa’s sleigh.”

Ms. Huffington’s right, of course, but the situation is a lot worse than money and goodies can make it. I refer to the suppressed statistics on medically caused deaths in the US.

The landmark study was done by Dr. Barbara Starfield (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health) and published on July 26, 2000, in the Journal of the American Association: “Is US health really the best in the world?”

Dr. Starfield’s staggering findings confirmed what some insiders already knew, but were afraid to report. Every year in the US there are:

* 12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries;

* 7000 deaths from medication error in hospitals;

* 20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals;

* 80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals;

* 106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines.

The total of medically-caused deaths in the US every year is 225,000.

This makes the medical system the third leading cause of death in the US, behind heart disease and cancer.

In a recent interview I did with Dr. Starfield, she stated that no federal agency has contacted her, for purposes of consultation, in the nine years since her study was published.

Under a new national health plan, with millions more Americans covered and receiving across-the-board care, medically-caused deaths will soar to new heights.

This is the secret, and this is the crime.

A study, written by an author with impeccable credentials, and published by one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world—and the government has remained silent.

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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 29^th 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.