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The Great Culling Begins Now via Widespread Glyphosate Contamination

By the year 2025: 1 out every 2 children will have autism; 1 out 2 males  and 1 out of 3 females are expected to have cancer in the U.S.

From today's post at the Moms Across America blog:
     "Now we know. The Samel and Seneff study on Glyphosate and Modern Diseases, a 43 page peer reviewed scientific MIT study shows that glyphosate has "insidious" effects on the American population. Especially our children...
     "Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, a registered trademark of Monsanto, the most widely used herbicide in the world. Hundreds of millions of pounds of this chemical are used each year on our food, parks, school yards and city landscaping. It is sprayed on the soil of the crops that are non organic and sprayed directly on GMO plants. GMO plants are genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate. The problem is people eat these crops that have absorbed glyphosate either through the soil or from being repeatedly sprayed with glyphosate, and we are not genetically engineered to withstand it.
     "We know glyphosate kills plants. It does this by chelating or "holding " the vital nutrients in any living thing. It holds onto iron, zinc, magnesioum, cobalt, manganese, calcium, potassium etc. and makes them unavailable to the plant. The plant then dies from a bacteria in the soil that normally wouldn't have killed it, because it essentially is weakened. As one scientist said "It basically gives the plant AIDS, weakens it's immune system...
     "We are now learning that glyphosate can do the same thing to us."  Read the entire article and link to the MIT study here.

Georgia Guidestones

                                              

Corporate Media Finally Reports Russian 'Combat Readiness' Drill...A Week After Alternative Media

Via Anthony Gucciardi at Storyleak:

The amassing of over 160,000 Russian troops, bombers, and naval ships under an emergency ‘combat readiness’ drill order is now making the rounds throughout mainstream media and talk radio after being blasted into the headlines...

     Amazingly, just a bit over on week ago I covered the Russian ‘combat readiness’ order while in amazement that no one was discussing it despite admissions that it really was going on...

     But the simple fact is that the mainstream media can be augmented if we force them to pick up the news, and this latest piece is of extreme importance when you understand that the combat readiness drill was called into effect following an Israeli strike on Russian missiles in Syria — a potential provocation in the eyes of Putin and the Russian government. This is, of course, analysis you also will not find in many of the newer media reports — but at least it’s being discussed on a basic level.

     See the whole article here.

                                                

What Every Student (and Citizen) in America Needs to Know About the Federal Reserve

Excerpts from on essay on Charles Hugh Smith's Of Two Minds blog:
Frequent contributor Jeff W. recently penned this succinct explanation of the Federal Reserve, and he did so with such clarity that in my view this is the essential primer on the Fed that every high school and college student in America should read. If they study this short essay, they will grasp the essence of the Fed and understand why the financial Status Quo is doomed.
     The Fed's main goal is to increase the profits of the big banks. That goal is consistent with increased profits for all firms and prosperity in general, so long as the banks and the elites grab the largest share of the profits. 
     But, that goal is also served in the long run by boom-and-bust cycles that have a ratcheting effect of concentrating wealth in the hands of the wealthy. The clued-in super-wealthy can profit both as bulls and as bears, and can purchase prized assets cheaply at the bottom of the cycle (on easy credit from their friends at the Fed).
      It is a Clausewitzian principle that individuals, organizations and nations will expand their power until some superior or equal power effectively opposes them and stops them. Because the Fed's power has no equal, we can expect the Fed's power to continue to increase indefinitely.
      At some point, however, history shows that the slaves and victims of oppressors gain strength and confidence when they feel a desperate determination to live.
      But that point is still far off. The numbers of the righteous are far exceeded by those who want freshly printed debt-money from Ben Bernanke. Things have not yet reached the desperate, life-threatening stage which is when most revolutions occur. 
Read the article here. 

Nothing Is Real: Obama Wins Back the Right to Indefinitely Detain Anyone

     Americans can once again “legally” be snatched off the street and detained without trial based on the mere claim that they provided aid or support to terrorists, despite this act being a total violation of habeas corpus.

     The Tenth Amendment Center has a detailed breakdown of the ruling:

“In layman’s terms, U.S. District Court judge Katherine Forrest put a stop to indefinite detention, and the Second Circuit overturned that. It also permanently prohibited Forrest from attempting to do so again, ordering her to proceed with the case consistent with their opinion. NDAA “indefinite detention” powers are alive and well.”

     The group points out that the new Second Circuit ruling is completely incorrect because it claims that Section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA says nothing about the government’s ability to detain citizens.

     In reality, section 1021 states, “Congress affirms that the authority of the President to use all necessary and appropriate force pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force . . . includes the authority for the Armed Forces of the United States to detain covered persons . . . pending disposition under the law of war.”

Read it all here and here.

                                      

African-American Leaders Ignore the Slow Mass Killing of Black Americans

From Mike Adams at Natural News:
     The African-American community is up in arms over a jury of six women finding George Zimmerman not guilty of the second degree murder of Trayvon Martin. That same community is SILENT on the routine killing of young black babies by GMOs, vaccines, and even the cancer-causing chemicals found in processed food.
     See, in this regard the black community is just like the white community: there is no universal call for justice; there's only selective justice in rare, isolated cases while ignoring the mass killings that takes place every day through GMOs, vaccines, fluoride, chemical food additives, pesticides and more.
     Black people are far more likely to die from cancer treatments than white people due to chronic vitamin D deficiencies. There is no call for justice for the African-America victims of the cancer industry. None whatsoever. Why aren't black Americans rioting outside the front doors of the American Cancer Society which continues to cover up the truth about why black people get more cancer than white people?
     Apparently black leadership is far too busy distracting people into the Trayvon Martin fiasco to focus on what's really killing everyone. This is further proof that black leadership doesn't really care about white people killing black people -- they will happily let them continue to die by the millions as long as it's white-run corporations doing the killing.

     If black moms and dads really wanted to protect their children, they would feed them all-organic, non-GMO diets. They would avoid vaccinations and instead give their children vitamin D supplements. But very few parents actually do that (no matter what their race). So while they may march for the death of some other couple's child, they outright refuse to protect the health of their own child.

     Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/041204_Justice_for_Trayvon_Monsanto_civil_rights.html#ixzz2ZBLNhQm0

                                           

The George Zimmerman Trial: Life and Death in the American PsyOp

From Jon Rappoport's blog, No More Fake News: 
     There were at least six extraordinary moves even before George Zimmerman was brought up on charges.

1.      An out-of-date photo, showing Trayvon Martin as a young innocent boy, flashed across television screens all over the world.
2.      News stories asserted that a white man named Zimmerman killed a black child.
3.      NBC-edited 911 audio between Zimmerman and a police dispatcher made it seem as if Zimmerman was voluntarily profiling Martin as black, when this was not the case. Several NBC employees were fired over the editing incident.
4.      In the same 911 audio, according to CNN and other media sources, Zimmerman said, “Fucking coons.” This was corrected to “fucking cold.” Finally, this became “fucking punks.”
5.      President Obama said if he had a son, that son would have looked like Trayvon Martin. 
6.      ABC obtained footage of Zimmerman at the police station on the night of the Martin killing. The network claimed there was no visible evidence Zimmerman had sustained head wounds.  They later admitted the footage had been "re-digitized."

     These actions, taken together, defined the case as a black-versus-white hate crime.
     The whole race issue was dealt a blow when it turned out that Zimmerman wasn’t white. His father was white. His mother was Peruvian. Her grandfather was African-Peruvian.
     But by then, it was too late. Media forces and politicians and hustlers and private citizens on both sides of the race issue had already shoved in their chips and rolled the dice. They couldn’t turn back.
     The primacy of the group over the individual is the true devastating operation in America.
     Individuals have freedom. Individuals have independence. Individuals have potential power. These elements are anathema to fascists.

     Read the article here.

Obama Conquers All Communications Systems in America Through an Executive Order

[Please click on the headline above to get a "clean" version of this entry and to access working links for the sources at the bottom of the page.]    
     Strangely, the corporate media is NOT discussing the fact that President Obama just gave himself control of the Internet and all communication systems in America.    
     President Obama’s latest executive order will allow for a future government takeover of the Internet, involving multiple agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, under the guise of “national security needs” and “crisis management.”
      In July 2012, Obama quietly released an executive order entitled Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions.
     Here are some highlights of the executive order, which is available in full:

Sec. 5.2. (Responsibilities of the DHS) (e) satisfy priority communications requirements through the use of commercial, Government, and privately owned communications resources, when appropriate; (f) maintain a joint industry-Government center that is capable of assisting in the initiation, coordination, restoration, and reconstitution of NS/EP communications services or   facilities under all conditions of emerging threats, crisis, or emergency;

     This allows the DHS, working jointly and directly with private Internet Service Providers, to easily take over the Internet by claiming priority over private communication lines in the name of “national security.”
     In the future, the DHS and other federal agencies can respond to whistleblower leaks, such as Edward’s Snowden’s revelation that the NSA has direct access to major Internet servers, by claiming they are “emerging threats” and “violations of National Security communications" by censoring Internet sites carrying those stories.
     Unconstitutional abuses leaked to media outlets can be suppressed by the government with this framework created through Obama’s executive orders.
      Internet censorship will be brought to you by “national security needs” and “crisis management.”
Read more about it at these sources: Kit Daniels at InfoWars, The Activist Post, and RT News.

Is the NSA Blackmailing Obama? Interview with Original NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice

     Abby Martin of Russia Today talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how the recent NSA scandal only scratches the surface of a massive surveillance apparatus, citing specific targets the he saw spying orders for including former senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.

 

From the Breaking the Set show at rt.com.

 

GMO Engineer Converts to Organic Devotee

      The “conversion” of for­mer anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas to GMO promoter has gar­nered huge media atten­tion, but Thierry Vrain, Ph.D., a for­mer genetic engineer who speaks out against the risks of genetically engi­neered foods, has far more credibility—and a far more impor­tant story to tell the public.
      Thierry Vrain’s career has spanned the full range of agriculture—from being a proponent of “chemical” agriculture and genetic engineering to being an advo­cate for organic farming and an oppo­nent of GMOs.
      "Research scientists from the US Food & Drug Administration made it clear in the early 1990s that there could be indirect effects from eat­ing GM crops, such as tox­ins, allergens, and nutritional deficiencies. Those warn­ings were ignored. Now a good num­ber of publications are confirming the predictions of the FDA scientists...
      "It trou­bles me that money and the bot­tom line are at the root of the use of the technology...
     "When we started with genetic engi­neer­ing in the 1980s, the sci­ence was based on the the­ory that one gene pro­duces one pro­tein. But we now know, since the human genome project, that a gene can cre­ate more than one pro­tein. The inser­tion of genes in the genome through genetic engi­neer­ing inter­rupts the cod­ing sequence of the DNA, creating truncated, rogue pro­teins, which can cause unin­tended effects. It’s an inva­sive technology...
      "When I hear we need genetic engi­neer­ing to feed the world, I cringe. It turns out that there is no increase in yield, no decrease use of pes­ti­cides, and the process is of highly questioned safety."
     Read the entire article and interview here.

                                          

50 Years of The Feminine Mystique

From Nicole Kooistra's excellent article at The Family in America, regarding the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan's The Feminist Mystique:
 
      The problems that Betty Friedan outlined were real. Industrialization and the consumerism of the 1950s meant that the American household was reduced to little more than a comfortable hotel, where people slept and perhaps ate a meal or two while conducting their real work elsewhere. Little surprise that women felt stifled and unfulfilled by the role of glorified purchaser. And for Friedan, self-fulfillment was paramount. Women could not be “fulfilled,” she believed, unless they held meaningful paid employment. The home was no longer enough to provide fulfillment. But what do these women who have followed Friedan’s advice—divorced, childless, grandchildless—have to show for their “self-fulfillment”?
      The only way for both sexes to be fulfilled in their work is for work to become human again, for the home to reclaim its authority in American society, and for Americans—men and women—to resume the roles that are rightfully theirs. For that transition to happen, men and women both must make choices that go against the grain. Growing a household garden, homeschooling the children, a small home business, a home office— all these would help. There are signs that we may be moving in the right direction—David Houle’s The Shift Age argues that Americans are changing the way that they work, foregoing a structured office environment and hierarchical system in which they do not see the end results of their labor for more
project-based work that is also more likely to be amenable to flexible hours and home life.<sup>24

Read the article here.</sup> 
                     

After Friedan

After Friedan

The problems that Betty Friedan outlined were real. Industrialization and the consumerism of the 1950s meant that the American household was reduced to little more than a comfortable hotel, where people slept and perhaps ate a meal or two while conducting their real work elsewhere. - See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/feminism_through_the_life_cycle#sthash.ZuUyB6ER.dpuf

The problems that Betty Friedan outlined were real. Industrialization and the consumerism of the 1950s meant that the American household was reduced to little more than a comfortable hotel, where people slept and perhaps ate a meal or two while conducting their real work elsewhere. - See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/feminism_through_the_life_cycle#sthash.ZuUyB6ER.dpuf

The problems that Betty Friedan outlined were real. Industrialization and the consumerism of the 1950s meant that the American household was reduced to little more than a comfortable hotel, where people slept and perhaps ate a meal or two while conducting their real work elsewhere. Little surprise that women felt stifled and unfulfilled by the role of glorified purchaser. And for Friedan, self-fulfillment was paramount. Women could not be “fulfilled,” she believed, unless they held meaningful paid employment. The home was no longer enough to provide fulfillment. But what do these women who have followed Friedan’s advice—divorced, childless, grandchildless—have to show for their “self-fulfillment”? - See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/feminism_through_the_life_cycle#sthash.j60Paxp2.dpuf

The problems that Betty Friedan outlined were real. Industrialization and the consumerism of the 1950s meant that the American household was reduced to little more than a comfortable hotel, where people slept and perhaps ate a meal or two while conducting their real work elsewhere. Little surprise that women felt stifled and unfulfilled by the role of glorified purchaser. And for Friedan, self-fulfillment was paramount. Women could not be “fulfilled,” she believed, unless they held meaningful paid employment. The home was no longer enough to provide fulfillment. But what do these women who have followed Friedan’s advice—divorced, childless, grandchildless—have to show for their “self-fulfillment”?
The modern American woman who has tried to follow Friedan’s command to pursue a career and raise a family on the side finds herself in constant conflict with her own nature. For inside most if not all women lies a powerful desire to have some children and take care of them. In trying to straddle the worlds of career and homemaker, today’s woman finds stressed, tired, and, according to most studies, wanting to return home to be with the children. In her later years, she is more likely to be alone and separated from her children and husband.
- See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/feminism_through_the_life_cycle#sthash.j60Paxp2.dpuf

The problems that Betty Friedan outlined were real. Industrialization and the consumerism of the 1950s meant that the American household was reduced to little more than a comfortable hotel, where people slept and perhaps ate a meal or two while conducting their real work elsewhere. Little surprise that women felt stifled and unfulfilled by the role of glorified purchaser. And for Friedan, self-fulfillment was paramount. Women could not be “fulfilled,” she believed, unless they held meaningful paid employment. The home was no longer enough to provide fulfillment. But what do these women who have followed Friedan’s advice—divorced, childless, grandchildless—have to show for their “self-fulfillment”?
The modern American woman who has tried to follow Friedan’s command to pursue a career and raise a family on the side finds herself in constant conflict with her own nature. For inside most if not all women lies a powerful desire to have some children and take care of them. In trying to straddle the worlds of career and homemaker, today’s woman finds stressed, tired, and, according to most studies, wanting to return home to be with the children. In her later years, she is more likely to be alone and separated from her children and husband.
- See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/feminism_through_the_life_cycle#sthash.j60Paxp2.dpuf

The problems that Betty Friedan outlined were real. Industrialization and the consumerism of the 1950s meant that the American household was reduced to little more than a comfortable hotel, where people slept and perhaps ate a meal or two while conducting their real work elsewhere. Little surprise that women felt stifled and unfulfilled by the role of glorified purchaser. And for Friedan, self-fulfillment was paramount. Women could not be “fulfilled,” she believed, unless they held meaningful paid employment. The home was no longer enough to provide fulfillment. But what do these women who have followed Friedan’s advice—divorced, childless, grandchildless—have to show for their “self-fulfillment”?
The modern American woman who has tried to follow Friedan’s command to pursue a career and raise a family on the side finds herself in constant conflict with her own nature. For inside most if not all women lies a powerful desire to have some children and take care of them. In trying to straddle the worlds of career and homemaker, today’s woman finds stressed, tired, and, according to most studies, wanting to return home to be with the children. In her later years, she is more likely to be alone and separated from her children and husband.
- See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/feminism_through_the_life_cycle#sthash.j60Paxp2.dpuf

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Cherubikon: Cherubic Hymn from The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

 

From Joel J. Miller's Patheos blog entry "The Unity of Heaven and Earth in Worship."