The fall of the mighty greenback…

So now that the world’s darling fiat currency is taking hit after hit around the globe, what can we look forward to in the foreseeable future?

For starters, most economies are now switching to other currencies away from the US dollar – sadly, much of the chaos and disruption in the world, and many political and other assassinations that we have known in our time, were either a direct or indirect result of policies adopted by the great US of A in its quest to protect the ‘reserve currency‘ status of its (not so mighty anymore) dollar…

Turkey announced in late October that it would now deal in national currencies for the $ 65 billion a year it trades with Russia, China, and Iran…

According to Britain’s Independent newspaper, Russia, a bunch of Arab states, China, and France have held secret meetings recently to discuss transitioning away from the US Dollar in international oil trade. Rumor has it that the currencies of choice going forward will be the euro, the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, gold, and a new ‘unified‘ currency of leading Arab oil producing countries. If this is actually true, then it would be one of the final nails in the coffin for the power of the greenback…

Of course, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Ahmedinajad of Iran are feverishly forging ahead with flushing the US dollar out of their foreign revenues and reserves…for those who care to research, the primary reason why Chavez and the Iranian regime are made to look like villains in western propaganda is because of their continued refusal to accept the US dollar as the ‘only‘ currency they will accept for the oil they produce. Chavez is actually very lucky to be alive – he was in great turmoil when he first came out demanding to be paid in euros for Venezuelan oil…and Saddam paid the ultimate price for refusing to exchange Iraq’s oil for US dollars…I digress…

“The U.S. economy will deteriorate into 2011 as the effects of excess consumption and the financial bubble linger… The dollar’s fall won’t stop until there’s a change to the global currency system.” – Daisuke Uno, Chief Strategist, Sumitomo Mitsubishi Banking Corp.

According to Bloomberg, central banks across the globe are raking in the euro and the yen while flushing out the greenback from their systems…and if you follow Max Keiser’s work, he is convinced that Russia and China (which is the USA’s biggest creditor - owning over $ 800 billion of its debt) are rejecting the greenback with the sole intention of collapsing the US economy to a point of no return…and we know for a fact that all the dollars that the US has been printing over the years are not backed by any gold bullion reserves – so the only thing propping the currency up today is its status as the ‘petro-dollar‘…take away the ‘petro‘ and the dollar is practically worthless…

So what does all of this mean to the common American citizen?

In the worst case, it means that the great US of A declares force majeure (bankruptcy) - in which case, sorry common citizen…you’re technically screwed…I won’t dwell on this as I have already ranted enough about the possibility of the US declaring force majeure and adopting a North American currency with Canada and Mexico called the ‘amero‘ (CLICK HERE for some amero-chatter)…

But let’s work within the realm of hope and assume for everyone’s benefit that extreme measures are unnecessary and that the storm will pass…

In that case, the common-folk in the (slowly slipping away) US of A will have to face the ugly, ferocious monster known as hyper-inflation…

Basically, all the paper floating around the world will make its way back to the shores of the (now not so great anymore) US of A because that will be practically the only place on this planet where you can trade that paper for goods and services. Now this does not mean that the common American citizen will become more wealthy due to the excess influx of dollar bills in the system back at home…the amount of wealth does not change (if not reduced) but is now represented by a lot more paper than it used to be…

With more paper floating around, people start buying more…and prices start skyrocketing…

A good example I read somewhere explained it like this: let’s say that today there is one apple available to be bought for every dollar to buy it…tomorrow, the same apple will be available to be bought for every 10 or 20 or 30 dollars to buy it – simply because there are many more dollars floating around to purchase the same apple…in economic terms, this situation is called a ‘decrease in the purchasing power‘ of the currency…

Of course, the resulting skyrocketing cost of living, massive loss of jobs, and explosive increase in poverty levels within the US will affect economies around the globe – so I can completely relate to those who claim that the worst is yet to come – unfortunately, if countries like the US as much as sneeze, the bulk of the world’s poorest nations end up with pneumonia…so everyone will suffer from this fallout…

Sadly, we’re at a stage in this chaos and mess where most of us can only wait and watch…and hope for anything but the absolute worst…

“There are growing signs of a major shift in world currency alignments. Since March, the US dollar has steadily declined, depreciating by 13.3 percent on a trade-weighted basis. Last week the decline accelerated, driving gold prices to record levels and prompting a number of Asian central banks to intervene on currency markets to slow the dollar’s fall…The US is to become a low-cost producer of goods for the world market. The American working class is to experience levels of exploitation which it hasn’t faced in a century. Its wages and living standards are to be brought more closely in line with those faced by the super-exploited workers of Asia…The working class of the United States, however, has no intention of submitting to its own impoverishment. The stage is being set for a revival of the class struggle in the US and internationally on a colossal scale.” – Barry Grey (World Socialist Web Site)

- The Ranting Dream

…more H1N1 ranting…

…a continuation of the information I’ve been collecting about this ‘pandemic‘ that really isn’t…

What I have compiled today is a bunch of videos from a variety of sources talking about this. I don’t subscribe to ‘conspiracy theories‘ – but from what my research has dug up, I’m really disappointed to inform anyone that cares to listen that something very, very fishy is going on…I don’t quite know exactly what it is, but someone, somewhere, is trying extremely hard to get as many people inoculated as possible – in the shortest amount of time possible…this whole H1N1 scam is not sitting well with me…

Someone on FB asked me as to why it is that people continue lining up for the vaccine despite so much information available about how it may be prudent for most of us to not get inoculated…here’s my humble take on this:

1. Fear – the way this thing has been positioned and continues to be spun in the media, the masses are being terrorized into believing that this thing is going to kill them…

2. Manipulation – whoever it is that has planned this is (and this is a compliment) genius! – every human tendency and weakness has been exploited…and they have patiently been working on this for years (the first ‘testing‘ having been unleashed back in the 70s)…everything from holding back on the supply of vaccines to ensure that the ‘scarcity mentality‘ inherent in people that don’t think before they act will ensure a rise in demand, to the disinformation and propaganda campaign distributed via (blindly) trusted figures from within governments, the media, and the celeb community…

3. Exploitation – specifically of the inherent ‘lost herd of sheep‘ human psyche…a shortcoming that the businesses of religion have shamelessly exploited for eons…wherein the human being is conditioned into believing – without an iota of doubt – that she/he is incapable of making sound judgement and therefore needs someone else to research, interpret, and disseminate the information they need in every aspect of their existence – people are afraid of coming face to face with the bitter truth…because the truth is difficult to find, harsh to bear, and requires the stepping out of comfort zones into unknown, uncharted territory…it’s easier to follow the masses – because there is a (misplaced) sense of security in blindly doing what everyone else is doing with the foolish assumption that you’ll be in good company throughout the situation…

4. Chaos – it’s becoming more and more difficult to differentiate between the truth and the spin…neither those in favor, nor those against this campaign of fear and manipulation can tell, without doubt, that they know anything about what’s ‘really‘ going on…a sad failure on part of those who know but choose not to share because not telling the truth is more ‘profitable‘ than the concern for the rest of the species…what results is ‘chaos‘ – and when chaos reigns, you immediately have a split between those who care (and dare) and those who simply get ‘scared‘…neither of these camps know anything for sure – so those with the ‘influence‘ (money, power, reach) take advantage of the situation and continue pumping their agenda…the fear, confusion, and (self induced) helplessness never fails to deliver the critical masses that such campaigns typically need to be successful…

…this is not the first time this kind of thing is happening (and will definitely not be the last)…for as long as there are enough apathetic, fearful, and (please don’t take this literally as it will sound offensive if you do - and there is no offense intended) inherently stupid minds out there, there will always be confusion, discord, and chaos which will typically be engineered by the greedy, selfish, and corrupt from amongst us for their own profit…and they will be largely successful as there are many, many more people who choose to blindly follow than those who choose to step out of their comfort zones and try to make sense of things before acting on them…

…as far as this fiasco is concerned, there are people out there – with seriously compromised immune systems due to other medical issues and conditions – who are better off taking a chance with this vaccine than trying to fight this flu – but this applies to all the other flus as well – there’s nothing special about H1N1 – they should be taking flu shots every year…

…for the vast majority, however, careful consideration and research needs to be done by each individual before deciding whether they (and their families) should take or abstain from such vaccines…empirical proof exists that there is no benefit (and potential great harm) for the masses to pursue this inoculation path – and this proof is clearly documented by many reliable, credible, and trusted sources of information – even those pushing this agenda (governments, media, big pharma) have this information hidden here and there within their propaganda literature – as a safety net for them should something go awry – they’ll simply point to these hidden assertions within their documentation and say: ‘…but we did warn you…’…but no empiricial proof exists yet that this vaccine is even going to be effective or safe – NONE…even the most idiotic mind out there should be able to make a sensible decision with the amount of information available…

…remember, our beloved goons in government have passed a resolution wherein no one will be able to sue or challenge the pharmaceutical companies providing the vaccines in a court of law – this was the ONLY major condition imposed by the pharmaceutical companies before they agreed to pump the vaccines for consumption into the market…people – wake up! – this is not the ‘first‘ vaccine they have ever produced – why would they seek assurance from the law-makers that no one should be able to take ANY legal action against them specifically for this vaccine…do your research – and for crying out loud – WAKE UP!

I’ll let the videos do the rest of the ranting – feel free to do your own research on all of this…don’t take my (or anyone else‘s) word for this…and do share what you find with as many people as you can…and please don’t take the shot (if you are going to) until you have sufficient (factual) information from both sides of this divide - not propaganda and spin – to make an ‘informed‘ decision…and yes: your government, mass media, and health-care professionals are being very goofy about this – either someone is paying them extremely well or someone has scared the living daylights out of them – whatever the case, they are shamelessly dancing to someone else’s tune with complete disregard for your safety and well-being - I wouldn’t believe a thing they say and would demand they support their ‘propaganda‘ with facts…

Without further ado…

Some really bold assertions by Finland’s ex-Minister of Health:

Many, many verifiable facts about the very apparent ’scam’ in progress:

Some startling, and shocking assertions:

And CLICK HERE to read a daring expose by an Austrian investigative journalist, Jane Burgermeister - a very credible resource…

Think about this folks – think hard (and make sure you do extensive research) before you make any decisions about taking (or rejecting) the vaccine…

- The Ranting Dream

Stupid is, as stupid does…

I received a chain letter in my inbox filled with so much ignorance, propaganda, and spin that I couldn’t resist the temptation to rant about it…while I wouldn’t normally waste my time with nonsense chain letters, this one, I feel, needs to be spoken to – to help put things in perspective…so here goes…

(…my ranting is left aligned, and in blue. The original text – quoted here as received – is indented to the right, and in black…)

The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez and published in a Spanish newspaper on 5-22-07. It doesn’t take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe – and possibly to the rest of the world. 

By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

Whoa! Time Out!…this article was not published in any newspaper, it has only ever been published on the right-wing, pro-Israel, anti-Communist Spanish-language website Gentiuno and seems to have been first posted on that website in November 2004 – on the date of the 61st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (and not in 2007 as claimed in the chain letter)…also, google the author’s name and you’ll quickly find that no such person really exists…could be a pseudonym…but the only place this mythical ‘Spanish writer‘ seems to exist on this great planet of ours is on that pro-Israel website…and after this article, which seems to be his only contribution to our enlightenment as a species, he seems to have departed for his planet of origin and abandoned us mortals…I question the credibility and authenticity of the article and the content therein already…

I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

Aah! Mea Culpa already, dear Spanish writer who doesn’t really exist…when you say ‘we‘ in the context you present the assertion of killing Jews to replace them with Muslims, you insinuate a ‘European‘ connection to the conspiracy…while Europeans may not have taken Hitler as seriously as they should have back in the day, Europe (and especially Europeans) have nothing to do with the killing of the Jews…and as far as the many millions of Muslims in Europe are concerned, if you did a little more research, you would know that this influx is primarily due to the immigration of the previously colonized folks of this planet to countries of opportunity – and given their colonial past, and the language, culture, and identity stamped on the people by their colonial rulers, these immigrants choose to settle in the countries where they are comfortable with the language, culture, and identity…like it or not, this is the reality – and it is true for Muslims and non-Muslims alike – so your exaggerations and ‘insinuations‘ need to be reviewed – and until you can provide factual data proving your assumptions, they shall remain just that…and by the way – nice try with the use of the word ‘chosen‘ – I won’t dwell on that here, but will ask that you save the nonsense your dogma preaches for your own stupidity and ignorance – do your homework and you’ll quickly realize what a flawed and baseless concept this ‘chosen‘ idea that your dogma shoves down your throat really is…without insulting anyone or their belief system (or the atrocities of the past that their people have had to suffer through), I’d like to ask some silly little questions:

Have you ever given any thought to the fact that maybe this ‘God has chosen me to be better than the rest of you lesser people‘ attitude may be the reason why you continue to suffer?

Maybe other human beings don’t appreciate being treated like the insignificant trash that you continue trampling upon in your misguided beliefs about the ‘superiority‘ of your people…Have you bothered telling the world why folks like Hitler went to such extremes to articulate their hatred for a particular ‘wealthy elite‘ class that was well known for its atrocities against the lesser people around them?

Sure, Hitler was no angel – and what he did was despicable – but read more fact and less fiction and you’ll see a bulk of the burden of the responsibility for what happened slowly shifting the other way…and all because of manipulative ‘dogma‘ that conquers by division…manipulative dogma that preaches the superiority of one people over another…how are you, the ‘chosen‘ folk, different from Hitler, your tormentor? Did he not unleash terror on innocent people in part due to his misguided beliefs about the superiority of the Aryan race over all others?…think about it for a bit…

The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina, universally known as Avicenna (980-1037), alone wrote 246 books, including Kitab-al Shifa (The Book of Healing) consisting of 20 volumes and Al-Qanun fit Tibb (The Canons of Medicine) . The Qanun was the chief guide for medical science in the West from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.  Dr. William Osler, who wrote The Evolution of Modern Science, once  remarked: “The Qanun has remained a medical Bible for a longer period than any other work“. 

Avicenna was a Muslim…

Hunayn ibn Ishaq, a philosopher and physician who made advances in Medicine, Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy, Veterinary Science, and Ophthalmology.  He wrote the first systematic text book on Opthalmology – the first ever.

Hunayn was a Muslim…

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865-925 AD) , known as Rhazes in the West, was one of the most prolific doctors of his time and probably second only to Ibn Sina in his accomplishments.  He wrote over 200 books, including Kitab al-Mansuri, ten volumes on Greek medicine, and  al-Hawi, an encyclopedia of medicine in 20 volumes. He was the first to figure out how to cure kidney and bladder stones, and to explain the nature of various infectious diseases. He also conducted research on smallpox and measles and was the first to introduce the use of alcohol for medical purposes. A unique feature of his methodology was that he greatly favored cure through correct and regulated food intake.  This was combined with his emphasis on the influence of psychological factors on health.  He was also an expert surgeon and the first to use opium for anesthesia.

Rhazes was a Muslim…

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, born in 780 A.D., was the founder of modern Algebra.  He developed sine, cosine, and trigonometrical tables, which were later translated for the West.  His book on Algebra – Hisab al-Jabr waal-Muqabalah (The Calculation of Integration and Equation) was used until the 16th century as the principal textbook of European universities.

al-Khwarizmi was  a Muslim…

Abu Abdullah al-Battani (862-929 A.D.) was a famous astronomer, mathematician and astrologer.  He is considered one of the greatest astronomers of his time.  His career of 42 years included a number of important discoveries, including the accurate determination of the solar year as 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes, and 24 seconds, which is very close to modern estimates.  He also determined with accuracy the obliquity of the ecliptic, the length of the seasons, and the true and mean orbit of the sun. His observations of lunar and solar eclipses were used by Dunthorne in 1749 to determine the secular acceleration of motion of the moon.

al-Battani was a Muslim…

Abu al-Hassan al Haitham (965-1039 AD)  was one of the most eminent physicists of his time. He wrote treatises such as Kital al-Manzir on light, and worked with mirrors and lenses, reflection, refraction, and magnifying and burning glasses. He discussed the propagation of light and colors, optic illusions, and opposed the view of Euclid and Ptolemy that the eye sent out visual rays.  From studying motion, he discovered the principle of inertia. He contradicted Ptolemy’s and Euclid’s theory of vision that objects are seen by rays of light emanating from the eyes. According to Haitham,  the rays originated in the object of vision and not in the eye.  Due to his extensive research on optics, he is considered the father of modern optics.  Roger Bacon and all medieval Western writers on optics based their work largely on his Opticae Thesaurus and it even influenced Leonardo da Vinci, Johann Kepler and Newton…yes, Isaac Newton…

Abu al-Hassan al Haitham was a Muslim…

I’ll stop here – but do your homework and you’ll find many contributions by Muslims (and non-Muslims alike) that make this planet a better place for you and me to this day - some of the world’s most prominent scientists, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers, and doctors TODAY are Muslim - to insinuate that the Muslims of the world are largely ignorant, stupid, and extremist is not only misleading but also an outright LIE…

If we are going to play the numbers game, then by way of percentages alone, the non-muslim population of this world make up a higher percentage of the ignorant, stupid, fanatic, zealous, crooked, and lazy people on this planet…ditto for the marginalized and the poor…do the math if you dare…

If you dig deep enough, you’ll also realize that to this day we’re burning intelligent and educated people - primarily in the ‘Muslim‘ world – because certain fear-driven dogmata out there are insecure about the growing access that the rest of the world has to knowledge and information – and to let the world know that Muslims aren’t the ‘real‘ terrorists in the world and are actually very intelligent people contributing to the world’s economy in many positive and profitable ways, would throw off the plans that certain entities have for the planet…

The organized businesses of religion jailed the Galileos of the world back in the day, and we burn Iraq today – Iraq: the 1982 recipient of UNESCO’s prize for ERADICATING ILLITERACY – Iraq: where less than 2 decades ago, literacy rates for women were among the highest of all Islamic nations, and where unlike most Middle East school systems, the Iraqi education system under Saddam’s regime was largely secular – shocked, eh? SECULAR – NOT RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALIST…sorry for shouting - but I had to scream that out for all the thick-skulled idiots out there who still believe that Iraq had a master-plan to suicide bomb America out of existence…a UNESCO estimate today pegs Iraq’s literacy rate at less than 60%…in less than 2 decades, we took some of the most intelligent and educated people of this planet and made them as stupid and ignorant as we are…yep…that’s exactly what we did…

They have turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.

Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs. What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.

I chuckle at this conclusion – sad that people actually consume this crap…I won’t dwell on this last piece, but would like to note that this article and its pro-Israel sponsors have overlooked one very fundamental flaw in their presentation. They sound just like the ‘Church‘ and Hitler – two of the biggest and most powerful tormentors that their people have had to endure…read this article one more time and then read my assertions below…

Anyone who has even an ounce of intelligence will know, from historical fact, that Christianity had traditionally blamed the death of Christ on the Jews. The Bible asserts that the Jews demanded the death of Jesus, and said, “let it be upon our heads and that of our children“. This became an excuse to abuse Jews for more than a thousand years…it was not until the 1960s that the Catholic Church stated that the Jews were NOT to blame for the death of Jesus. Anti-Semitism, by then, was deeply embedded in European and American culture…

Anti-Semitism has been rife throughout European history, largely because the Jews were a distinct, identifiable group, who did not integrate. Of course, many now see pluralism as a virtue, and a variety of ethnicities and religions as a positive thing. However, back then, the Jews lived their ‘chosen people‘ dogma literally – people around them had no value whatsoever…

From a speech by Hitler in Munich – July 1922: 

“His is no master people; he is an exploiter: the Jews are a people of robbers. He has never founded any civilization, though he has destroyed civilizations by the hundred…everything he has stolen. Foreign people, foreign workmen build him his temples, it is foreigners who create and work for him, it is foreigners who shed their blood for him.“

Now, having read the article and my assertions; do you see what I see? This article, its author, sponsors, and all those who subscribe to the propaganda are doing exactly what was done to them by their tormentors…there is no difference between what I see articulated here by the mythical Spanish writer and the words of Hitler…the only difference is the target of the attack…

And then, a greater idiot in denial (from whose writing and chants for people to ’support the troops’ it is evident that she/he is from the great US of A) decided to add to this chain letter with a few multiple choice questions of her/his own…I’m going to humor the moron by taking a stab at the quiz…again – verbatim chain letter contents in black and indented to the right, my rant in blue and left aligned…

This is a translation of an article from a Spanish newspaper. Please send this article to as many people as possible, with a request to forward it on.

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.

Absolutely No Profiling! Pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.

These events are actual events from history. They really happened!  Do you remember?

1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
a. Superman
b. Jay Leno
c. Harry  Potter
d. a Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and  40

NONE OF THE ABOVE, you ignoramus - the person still serving a life sentence for this crime – Sirhan Sirhan - is a Palestinian CHRISTIAN…while Sirhan was conveniently framed for the assassination, on April 19, 1988 - a bunch of researchers at the California State archives were finally able to access the previously ‘classified‘ documents and uncovered a MASSIVE cover-up…a glimpse of which is as follows:

- The ‘official story‘ was that Sirhan approached Kennedy for what seemed like a ‘handshake‘ and instead took out a gun and bang, bang…autopsy reports showed that all bullets that hit Kennedy entered from the right rear, at fairly steep upward angles and in a slightly right-to-left direction – there were three gunshot wounds - one behind the right ear, a second near the right armpit and a third 1.5 inches below the armpit wound. A fourth bullet missed his body but pierced the right rear shoulder of his suit coat. At no time did Kennedy turn his back to Sirhan…yet Sirhan was magically able to pump those bullets into Kennedy’s back while facing him…wow! and I thought Dubya was a crappy liar…
- The results of the 1968 test firing of Sirhan’s gun were missing.
- The test gun used for ballistics comparison and identification was destroyed.
- Over 90% of the audiotaped witness testimony was lost or destroyed. Of the 3470 interviews the LAPD conducted, only 301 were preserved. Key testimony – like 29 witness accounts that suggested conspiracy – was missing, while less important interviews – like that of Sirhan’s Bible teacher – remained.
- On August 21, 1968, less than two months after the assassination, 2400 photographs from the original investigation were burned, in the medical-waste incinerator at LA County General Hospital. The LAPD claimed that the photos were duplicates, but there weren’t any known logs or inventories of photos that could verify that. Moreover, Scott Enyart, an amateur photographer who’d been taking pictures the night of the assassination and whose film had been confiscated by police, has never been given back all his photos. His pictures, the only ones that might have captured the actual shooting, weren’t in the files.
- It’s never been shown that it was possible for Sirhan to have fired the fatal shots at RFK. And if he didn’t, there must have been a second gunman.

Despite the evidence we now have, Sirhan continues to rot in prison – possibly for a crime he never committed – because no one dares re-open that can of worms…and even if Sirhan was involved in the assassination in any capacity, he has never been - since his birth to this day – a ‘Muslim male‘…

I just wish that this moron had done some research before putting the quiz together…but then we’re talking about a population where a good chunk of its people have been so easily scammed by strangers claiming to be wealthy Nigerians with millions of dollars to give away…talk about being stupid and ignorant, eh?

I’m tired of ranting now – and this idiot has obviously got no clue of what she/he has written – so I’ll end my responses to the quiz right here and let the stupid be…the rest of the quiz continues to insinuate that ‘Muslim male extremists‘ between the ages of 17 and 40 are responsible for the mayhem in the world today with a little pitch at the end supporting the racial profiling of ‘Muslim males‘ between the ages of 17 and 40…the author quotes, in conclusion, from the movie Forrest Gump: “Stupid is, as stupid does“…

The author of the original article, the author of the chain letter, and those who feverishly forward the crap and keep it alive in cyberspace have surely proven, by their own doing, that stupid really is, as stupid does…

Enough said…

- The Ranting Dream

The H1N1 Rant…

There’s a lot of confusion, misleading information, and fiction out there about the 2009-H1N1 flu strain – and a lot of people are being fed horror stories about this so-called ‘pandemic‘ to a point where they are incapable of making informed choices when it comes to taking (or rejecting) the untested, unreliable vaccine that our beloved goons in government seem to want to shove down everyone’s throats whether they need (or should be having) it or not…

I’ve ranted on this goofy ‘pandemic‘ before - but feel that it is time to rant again and present some more factual information about H1N1 and its payload…

I think it’s important to start with something that the WHO (World Health Organization) did earlier this year…and, of course, since it was never publicized (…gee, I wonder why none of our beloved greedy slaves of sponsor dollars serving us all that spin on TV all day never bothered passing on this tidbit to us when it happened…), you probably don’t know anything about it…

So what did the WHO do earlier this year that has so much relevance to the H1N1 pandemic?

Earlier this year, the World Health Organization changed the definition of pandemic.

The earlier WHO definition reads: “An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus appears against which the human population has no immunity, resulting in epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness.”

The revised definition removes this phrase: “with enormous numbers of deaths and illness” – which significantly lowers the bar for defining a pandemic.

…and what that means is that, by the original definition of a ‘pandemic‘, there is no way – if you understand the facts – that the H1N1 strain of 2009 could ever make it into the history books as a pandemic…BUT: going by the new and revised definition, the ’swine flu’ now becomes a horrific, tragic, and deadly pandemic…be scared people, be very, very scared…

Here are some known facts about this ‘pandemic‘ and the vaccine that someone, somewhere is trying very hard to shove down as many peoples’ throats as they can (…and our current batch of medical professionals – who seem to be a bit more concerned about their own bottom-lines than about the health and welfare of the people who trust them – insist on advocating the ‘shot‘ rather than getting off their lazy butts and researching this phenomenon before injecting their patients with the vaccine…):

The Cochrane Collaboration has reviewed every influenza vaccine study conducted between 1948 and 2007. The result: “There is no evidence whatsoever that seasonal influenza vaccines have any effect, especially in the elderly and young children. No evidence of reduced cases, deaths, complications.”

“There is no problem with the H1N1 virus. It’s no different from any other seasonal virus. In fact, it looks – from the Australian experience – like it’s going to be milder and it can be handled with public health measures, such as hand washing.” – Dr. Tom Jefferson (...for 15 years, Dr. Jefferson has been studying the nature of influenza and vaccines with the Cochrane Collaboration – a non-profit, independent organization that reviews a wide variety of health care research…)

In an interview last month with the Center for Medical Consumers, associate director of the CMC, Maryann Napoli, noted that during the recent Australian winter there were no H1N1 vaccines available. The result: 131 H1N1 deaths in a population of 22 million. That’s it…hardly a pandemic, eh?

My sources for this first glimpse at the ‘facts’:

“Physical Interventions to Interrupt or Reduce the Spread of Respiratory Viruses: Systematic Review” British Medical Journal, Vol. 399, 9/22/09, bmj.com
“A Whole Industry Is Waiting for a Pandemic” Johann Grolle and Veronika Hackenbroch, Der Spiegel, 7/21/09, spiegel.de
“Why the H1N1 Virus is Not a Major Threat” Maryann Napoli, Center for Medical Consumers, 9/24/09, medicalconsumers.org

Feel free to do your own research…now for some more facts about H1N1:

For the longest time – in fact, from information dating back as far as FIVE years ago, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the corrupt, greedy, selfish puppets who pretend to be doing a public service by manipulating the information fed to the masses by media channels, have been documenting the number of deaths caused by influenza as being at 36,000 deaths per year…

What is ridiculous (and really weird) is that the magic number – 36,000 deaths – has remained the same all these years…the bloody flu bug is much smarter than we think…this terrorist bug unleashes its wrath on us each year – and the moment it claims victim # 36,000; it heads back to its cave and celebrates until the next flu season – when it comes out again to kill another 36,000…it’s been at least FIVE years now that it seems to be doing just that…at least that’s what the spin doctors want us to believe…how weird it is, that it knows to stop at victim # 36,000…and has never made the mistake of claiming any more (or any less) for the past FIVE consecutive years…

Anyway, if you dig a little deeper, the same organization (the CDC, that is) makes the assertion that less than 1,000 people actually died from type A or type B influenza. The other 35,000 died from pneumonia…and they’ve not buried this information in a hard to find spot folks…it’s right there on their website – very close to where they scream out that 36,000 magic number…

Now there’s a HUGE difference between dying from ‘influenza’ and dying from ‘pneumonia’…HUGE…

“Most of these so-called influenza deaths are in fact bacterial pneumonias — not even viral pneumonias — and secondary infections. Furthermore, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Academy shows that many of these deaths are a result of pneumonias acquired by patients taking stomach acid suppressing drugs.

So, for example, if we are to take the combined figure of influenza and pneumonia deaths during the flu season of 2001, and add a bit of spin to the figures, we are left believing that 62,034 people died from influenza.

The actual figures are 61,777 died from pneumonia and only 257 from influenza.

Even more amazing, in those 257 cases, only 18 were lab confirmed as positive for the influenza virus!

In my opinion, there’s a vast difference between 257 deaths and 36,000 deaths from influenza.“

- Dr. David Rosenthal, Director, Harvard University’s Health Services

A separate study conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics for seasonal influenza seasons between 1979 and 2002 reveals that the range of annual influenza deaths were between 257 and 3,006, for an average of 1,348 influenza deaths per year.

Now here are some very interesting statements from the CDC that everyone seems to ignore:

“Typically, influenza causes death when the infection leads to severe medical complications… [and as most such cases] are never tested for virus infection…

…CDC considers these figures to be very substantial undercounting of the true number of deaths from influenza. Therefore, the CDC uses indirect modeling methods to estimate the number of deaths associated with influenza.”

In an earlier 2003 article JAMA, William Thompson from the CDC’s National Immunization Program attempted to explain “influenza-associated mortality.” He wrote,

“Based on modeling, we think it’s associated. I don’t know that we would say that it’s the underlying cause of death.”

Essentially, what the CDC is saying is that:

• The deceased are not tested to determine the presence of the flu virus, and
• They do not directly perform any direct testing to determine the exact cause of death. “Indirect modeling methods” is a professional way of saying they use subjective mathematical equations to arrive at their figures.

The 36,000 mortality figure is nothing more than a mathematical model. The British Journal concluded that the only possible rationale for the CDC’s complete disregard for scientific fact, even in face of independent research to discredit its statistics, is a public relations effort between the CDC and the vaccine manufacturer’s campaigns to increase flu vaccination.

Now for some even more fascinating facts – this directly from the WHO (World Health Organization) weekly H1N1 pandemic update of October 11, 2009 (CLICK HERE for the update):

“As of 11 October 2009, worldwide there have been more than 399232 laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 and over 4735 deaths reported to WHO“

People! – that is 4,735 deaths in the ENTIRE world…and dig further into the report to know that most all of these deaths occurred in immuno-compromised individuals.

Malaria kills ONE MILLION people EVERY YEAR, worldwide – where their death is a DIRECT RESULT of the malaria infection.

So, essentially, each DAY 2,740 people are dropping dead from malaria, whereas less than 13 people per day died from the swine flu in the past year, worldwide (if you disregard that most died not as a direct result of the swine flu virus, but from having poor immune function which led to serious secondary infections and complications).

Hmmm…

So why doesn’t malaria get as much (if not more) press coverage? Doesn’t it strike you as odd that more isn’t done to clamp down on such a deadly disease if governments are talking about quarantine centers at airports and suspending personal choice and freedom over the swine flu?

(…thank you, Dr. Mercola, for this…)

Think about this for a bit…

CLICK HERE for a British Medical Journal article that asserts that the H1N1 swine flu is of “the same subtype as seasonal H1N1 that has been circulating since 1977” – the author points out the substantial confusion between the high public attention the present H1N1 scare is receiving and the very low level of scientific certainty that H1N1 is more severe than other seasonal influenza…

…trust your doctor? – okay, stupid question – many of them today can’t even spell ‘trust’ properly…regardless, ask your doctor to come clean and tell this story to you like it is (or what her/his perception of/information about is)…if your doctor is the commercial-type (like most of ours are) and puts the health of her/his yacht, mansion, and lifestyle before yours; then take the advice with a pinch of salt and ask them to provide documented facts about their assertions (which may not be a bad idea to demand regardless)…

…you may not like what you hear…and may have to make some tough decisions – but at least you will have made those decisions as an informed individual…

…at the end of the day, everything you read and hear (for and against) this pandemic and its ‘magic’ vaccine is provided by folks who know as much as (or lesser than) you do…none of us have the answers we all want to hear…and none of us can be trusted with the information we have – because, at best, we can only speculate…

- The Ranting Dream