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Guest Post: Decline, Decay, Denial, Delusion, And Despair
Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog,
The majority of Americans seem OK with just waddling through life, accepting the lies and misinformation blasted from the boob tube and their various iGadgets by their owners, gorging themselves to death on Twinkies and Cheetos, paying 15% interest on their $10,000 rolling credit card balance, and growing ever more dependent on the welfare/warfare state to provide and protect them from accepting personal responsibility for their lives. A minority of critical thinking people have chosen to question everything they see and hear being spewed at us by the propagandist mainstream media, the corporate fascist government, and the powerful banking cabal that has an iron grip upon our throats as they choke the life out of the global economy in their never ending desire for more riches and more power.
The decline of the Great American Empire cannot be attributed to one factor or one bogeyman. There are a multitude of factors, villains, and choices made by the American people that have led to our moral, civil, social, and economic decline. The kabuki theater that passes for our electoral process is little more than a diversion from our imminent fate. Neither candidate for President has any intention of changing the course of the U.S. Titanic. Our rendezvous with destiny has been charted, and there aren’t nearly enough lifeboats. Those who built the ship and recklessly navigated it into a sea of icebergs will be the 1st into the few lifeboats. The leaders we’ve chosen, the choices we’ve made, and our unwillingness to deal with facts and reality have set in motion a disaster that cannot be averted. It’s a shame the majority of Americans have the math aptitude of a 6th grader, because the unsustainability of our empire can be calculated quite easily. Math is hard for Americans, but denial and delusion are easy.
Oddly, a couple of late September days in Wildwood NJ were able to crystalize many of the aspects of our cultural and economic decline in my mind. I should have just enjoyed the 72 degree temperatures, a few beers, and the freedom to read a book on my deck. I wish I was just oblivious to my surroundings, but my weekend in Wildwood NJ was an eye opener.
Everywhere I turned I saw something that made me laugh, shake my head in disgust, or wonder how our government could have become so inane, incompetent and out of control. We all generalize based upon our preconceived beliefs, but sometimes what you see is what you get. The weekend started normally with a morning bike ride on the boardwalk with my wife and son to the Hereford lighthouse in North Wildwood. Along the way we passed the usual suspects on the boardwalk: the obese, the tattooed, the pierced, and the blue haired. I wish I was exaggerating, but I saw a dozen hoveround and rascal scooters carrying extremely obese Americans on par with this person:

If I wanted to be politically correct, I’d call the fat asses cruising on their “free” rascal scooters, the weight challenged disabled on their powered mobility enhancement vehicles. You know a trend has become a massive scam, when South Park dedicates an entire show to the shame of obesity and the scooter brigade. The majority of the scooter squad jamming up the boardwalk was less than 50 years old. They weren’t disabled. They were just too obese and lazy to wobble down the boardwalk to the next junk food joint. They were certainly in the right place. The Wildwood boardwalk is home to pizza topped with cheese fries, chocolate covered bacon, fried Oreos, funnel cake topped with powdered sugar, and 64 ounce sugar laced lemonade. The place would make Nanny Bloomberg’s head explode.

We’ve all seen the commercials for the Scooter store urging anyone on Medicare to rush in and get a power scooter or wheelchair “at little or no cost to you”. The entitlement “free shit” mentality permeates our culture. There is a cost and it is over $800 million per year, paid for by the 53% who pay Federal taxes. Records from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show that the cost of motorized scooters and wheelchairs to the government health service for senior citizens rose 179% between 1999 and 2009, the last year for which full records are available. This data is fascinating as the number of Americans over the age of 65 only increased by 18% over this same time frame. The bill in 1999 was $259 million; in 2009 it was $723 million – and is surely over $1 billion today. This is another billion dollar scam being funded by your tax dollars, but there are no spending cuts possible according to our beloved Congressmen.
A recent report by Medicare’s inspector general also showed that 61% of the motorized wheelchairs provided to Medicare recipients in the first half of 2007 went to people who didn’t qualify for them. (Only people who cannot get around without one are supposed to be eligible.) The inspector general found that Medicare is billed an average of $4,018 for a motorized wheelchair that normally sells for $1,048. As a taxpayer, you will be shocked to find out that people are selling their “no cost” Rascal 600 B mobility scooters on eBay. I’m sure the keen eyed government drones working in the Health & Human Services agency are policing the resale of taxpayer paid for scooters. I find it amusing that scooters have various naming classes, just like BMW and Mercedes. The vast majority of people I see tooling around on their “mobility scooters” are just plain fat. They aren’t over 65 years old. On my Sunday bike ride I was flabbergasted and amused by the sight of a 350 pound woman on a Rascal with the pedal to the metal pulling a 275 pound man in a wheelchair attached by rope. The plague of slow metabolism is sweeping the countryside.

While I was relaxing on my deck reading and trying to blot out the nightmare visions of obese boomers in Rascal formation like German panzers invading Poland, a brand new SUV pulled into the parking lot across the street. After five minutes, the driver’s side door opened and out sidled a four foot five, two hundred and fifty pound female senior citizen in all her girth. She waddled to the back of the SUV and opened the hatch to extract her walker with wheels. She began berating the three hundred pound dude that got out of the passenger side to come and get his walker. Then she motored off towards Laura’s Fudge, while her hubby conserved his energy waiting by the SUV. Minutes later she scooted her way back hauling a sack of fudge. They then trundled off towards the boardwalk, most likely headed for Kohrs Bros for a double dipped fudge ice cream cone or some Boardwalk fries smothered in cheese.

Based upon my unscientific assessment of the people walking on the Wildwood boardwalk, I would conclude that 35% of the people are obese, 40% are overweight by 20 or 30 pounds (myself included), and 25% are in relatively good shape. After checking the government statistics, my assessment appears to be accurate. Who is to blame? The easy answer is to just blame the individual for their lack of self-restraint and inability to contain their impulses. But when you consider that 160 million out of 232 million adults in this country are either overweight or obese, along with 11 million adolescents, there must be something more sinister behind the phenomenon. There is no doubt that a major portion of the blame must be laid at the fat feet of those who could have exercised restraint over their cravings, but the words of master propagandist Edward Bernays provides another factor in the equation:
“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.” – Edward Bernays
Bernays reveals a truth that is self-evident to those with critical thinking skills. Sadly, few Americans exhibit any thinking skills whatsoever. Our society has bifurcated into those who control and those who are controlled. The overlord Double Plus Alphas in our society consist of the Wall Street banker cabal, the executives of our mega-corporations, Federal Reserve governors, Washington DC politicians, Federal government apparatchiks, the propaganda experts in the mainstream corporate media, and the secretive billionaire set that manipulate and maneuver behind the scenes. The first step in controlling the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons, as Aldous Huxley knew in 1931, was to indoctrinate them with propaganda in our government run schools. This mission has been accomplished. The vast majority of school children graduate from the government school system with no ability to think critically or question what has been spoon fed to them as facts. The fascist alliance of corporations and the state begin in the public schools, with product advertisements by corporations now subsidizing school budgets. The road to obesity is paved with chicken nuggets, fries and pizza dispensed by the government schools on a daily basis.
Just as in Huxley’s Brave New World, America has been built upon the principles of Henry Ford’s assembly line—mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption of disposable consumer goods. In the dystopian novel, members of every class, from birth, are indoctrinated by recorded voices repeating slogans while they sleep. Huxley didn’t imagine the power of TV and other mass media outlets to do the same while we are awake. We are bombarded day and night by propaganda from mega-corporations to buy their products. Mass consumption of processed food sold by the likes of multi-billion dollar corporations Kraft, Pepsico, Coca Cola, General Mills, Nestle, and Unilever is the chief cause of the obesity epidemic in America. The few know how to manipulate the many through messaging, repetition and persistently molding the opinions of the feeble minded non-thinking masses. The billions spent by corporations on advertising to convince the masses that eating a Wendy’s Baconator, KFC extra crispy bucket, or Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, washed down with a two liter Mountain Dew or Cherry Coke, is a tribute to the invisible government running the show. Huxley and Bernays had it all figured out eighty years ago:
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
– Edward Bernays, Propaganda, 1928
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the masses by the invisible government Alphas has transmuted citizens into overweight, non-thinking, debt dependent, egocentric consumers. This was not a mistake. The powerful interests used their control over the banking system, media outlets, and political system to lure the willfully ignorant into a debt financed lifestyle through the Federal Reserve created inflation, Wall Street peddled credit cards, auto loans and “creative” mortgages. The manipulators convinced the manipulated that borrowing today to buy houses, cars, bling, tech gadgets, clothing, and fast food was preferable to what previous generations of Americans had done – save to buy things they wanted or needed. This behavior seems to be completely irrational as a people that once saved 12% of their income and carried a moderate amount of debt chose to reduce their savings to 0% and not worry about tomorrow.

It is easier to understand when you realize who benefitted from this purposeful shift in societal norms. The low debt, high savings, production era from 1950 through 1980 benefitted the working middle class, allowing millions to improve their standard of living. The rising debt, low savings, consumption era, from 1980 through today, benefits the 1% Alphas while impoverishing the middle class and sentencing the lower class to a lifetime of dependent servitude to the state. Who benefitted from debt fueled conspicuous consumption and continues to benefit today? The peddlers of consumer debt on Wall Street and the mega-corporations that convinced Americans they couldn’t live without that 5,500 square foot McMansion, BMW X5, stainless steel appliances, 84 inch 3D HDTV, iPhone 5, diamond encrusted Coach handbag, and thousands of other Chinese made trinkets that pile up in underwater homes across the land, benefitted tremendously. The proliferation of debt resulted in obscene profits for the financial sector, record profits for the mega-corporations that shipped production to Asia in order to take advantage of the slave labor, and three decades of wage stagnation and increasing debt for the average working middle class American.

The financialization of America was a conscious decision by the oligarchs. They controlled the issuance of credit. They controlled the currency and level of inflation inflicted upon the masses. They controlled the corporations selling consumer goods on credit. They controlled the Congress, courts, and government agencies with their deep pocket lobbying and buying of influence. Lastly, they controlled the media messages and molded the opinions and tastes of the masses through their Bernaysian propaganda techniques perfected over the decades. In one of the boldest and most blatant acts of audacity in world history, the Wall Street/K Street oligarchs wrecked the world economy in their insatiable thirst for profits, shifted their worthless debt onto the backs of taxpayers and unborn generations, threw senior citizens and savers under the bus by stealing $400 billion per year of interest from them, and enriched themselves with bubble level profits and bonus payouts. Meanwhile, median household income continues to fall, real GDP is stagnant, true unemployment exceeds 22%, and 47 million people are living on food stamps.

The propaganda being flogged by the oligarchs since 2009 is the supposed deleveraging by the American consumer and trying to convince the ignorant masses to resume borrowing and spending. It’s working. Consumer credit outstanding is at an all-time high of $2.73 trillion as the Federal government has dished out billions in student loans to 50,000 University of Phoenix MBA aspirants sitting in their basements quivering with anticipation of on-line graduation and future six figure job with Goldman Sachs. The Feds have also added the impetus to the “strong” auto sales through their 85% TARP ownership of Ally Financial by doling out 7 year 0% auto loans to subprime borrowers in urban enclaves around the country. The oligarchs aren’t worried about these loans being paid back, because they are reaping the profits today. The future losses will just be foisted onto the taxpayer, as always. Total credit market debt of $55 trillion now exceeds 350% of GDP. The National Debt of $16.2 trillion will exceed $20 trillion in 2015 no matter who wins the Presidency in November. The oligarchs adapt and control whoever occupies the White House. It is essential for our owners to keep debt growing at an exponential rate or the Ponzi scheme collapses.
Narrow minded ideologues want a simple answer to a complex interaction of generational, cultural, economic, political, and criminal factors that have conspired to put the country into a predicament that, at this point, will inevitably lead to economic collapse. The truth is the American people have learned to love their servitude. They have willfully chosen ignorance over truth. They’ve chosen to believe what their keepers have instructed them. They’ve chosen to trust the storylines generated by the corporate media rather than think critically and question everything. They’ve chosen obesity and sickness over health. They’ve chosen debt financed faux wealth over savings based real wealth. They’ve chosen safety and security over liberty. They’ve chosen dependency over self-reliance. These choices were aided, abetted and promoted by the Alphas through their ability to manipulate and control the unthinking masses. Huxley understood the power of propaganda and brainwashing decades before it was perfected by our owners.
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
– Aldous Huxley
The saddest part of this episode of the Decline & Fall of the American Empire reality show is the continued delusion of the majority of the populace, as their desire for material goods and fair share of the entitlement pie outweighs their sense of obligation to their children and grandchildren. Their chosen ignorance is fulfilled through their attachment to their personal digital ignorance gadgets and supported by what passes for government education. The truth is obscured and hidden under waves of triviality, reality TV, and data manipulation by our government masters. The dystopian nightmare that engulfs our country has thus far resembled Huxley’s vision of a shallow populace easily distracted by consumerism, pleasure seeking, cultural trivialities, and a never ending ability to be distracted by meaningless minutia. Orwell’s darker vision of surveillance, captivity, information control, authoritarianism and pain will become the norm once the existing social order falls.
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.”
– Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves to Death
I despair for my country that has chosen to eat, amuse and borrow itself to death. But my despair is deepest for my children and their future. The greed, corruption, myopia, selfishness, and disregard for the well-being of future generations by current and past generations has left a barren and bleak landscape for my children. The Huxley vision of America consuming and amusing itself to death is coming to a painful conclusion, as the limits of a fiat currency and debt based lifestyle become evident. Those in power are preparing the masses for a more Orwellian vision of America when they are forced to pull the plug on the existing paradigm. The Patriot Act, NDAA, military exercises in our cities, militarization of local police forces, warrantless surveillance of our communications, searches and seizures in our airports and train stations, purchase of millions of rounds of ammo by government agencies, implementation of drone technology, camera surveillance, attempts to control the internet, manipulation of economic data, and executive orders allowing the President to take over all commerce while imprisoning citizens indefinitely without charges, are the next step in our descent into a dictatorship of tears.
The question is whether we will stand idly by, fiddling with our gadgets, tweeting about Honey Boo Boo, or will we regain our sense of duty to the future generations of this country. The manipulators are powerful, rich, connected and FEW. Those being manipulated, controlled, and abused are MANY. There will be a revolution in this country whether you like it or not. The existing social order will dissolve during the next fifteen years. What replaces it is up to us. George Carlin described what our owners want.
“Politicians are put there to give you that idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations, and they’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the State Houses, and the City Halls. They’ve got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear.
They’ve got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want—they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interest.”
What do “We the People” want?
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During the Reformation the rich took revenge on the poor when the poor became literate and more discriminate consumers after the invention of the printing press, with the Inquisition and burning witches. Same thing is happening now with the internet.
Why would any person except those that receive an actual paycheck from a corporation ever pay any taxes? If you are paying taxes because you work for a corporation then find a way to quit your job. Don't give money to the enemy. It is not the moral thing to do at this time. Quit. If I can do it you can do it too. In the case of your employment being a government job it is not immoral to take money from the beast but whatever you do for the government be sure to do it poorly.
Starve the Beast.
Right. And that would certainly include the beasts pictured at the top of the post, right?
Meanwhile, the true parasites, the banksters that force us to prop up their mechanisms for continued extraction of resources, while rule of law is tossed aside, make hay while the sun shines.
And the propaganda rolls on.
mock 'n' hate, it's the new bonding with friends, so-shill nets-work'g, even in the lofty ZH-land, idealised by all.
reality is a tough nut to crack, much easier to troll for lulz. . .
Rule 1 - Cardio
Rule 6 - Seat belts (without extensions)
More serious note, sick and tired of fat fucks who sit next to me on overbooked flights, then order two sodas/beers, and eat ten bags of snacks! Come on people...
Awful lot of fat travelling salesmen. I was squashed next to a 400-lb.'er-- his 300 lb. wife luckily sat across the aisle-- on a transcontinental flight this summer.
portable scales hm? you kindly requested their participation?
same story when "illegals" and "benefits" hate-threads happen, so many tell their story of seeing Hispanic folks buying cartloads of food on EBT cards - of course, anyone who speaks a second language in amrka must be illegal, and prolly commie to boot!!!
bitter.
I recently watched "Discovery Atlas, Explore Your World" on Netflix. Its a documentary that explores several countries including China. When I saw their expose on China the hairs on the back of my neck came to attention. That nation will eat us up and spit us out again...Too much GMO. Seriously, we need to be very very concerned. The status-quo is eroding and these near-humans will be the first tragedy. I think the elections will signal a major shift in our perceived reality.
I rarely post due to a lack having anything worth saying, but here goes:
I was working out last week at the gym on an eliptical machine and two "morbidly" (a medical term) obese women walked into the "cardio" room. Their walking pace seemed normal.
No joke, they got on the treadmill and set it for SLOWER that their walking pace. The machine was barely moving. Maybe they had some elevation on the machine, but it didn't look like it. They "exercised" for 15 minutes and then left at what was a normal walking pace.
I'm an OBGYN, and I can't tell you how many patients say "I can't lose weight." They want a pill, which I never prescribe. Finally I got tired of it all and insisted that I would prescribe them "a pill" IF they fill out a food and exercise diary for the next month and bring it to me. A "food diary" lists all you eat with the calories added up at each eating "event", exercise diary the same. I must have offered this to over 40 patients and NEVER had anyone follow through. Then, patients quit asking me for the "pill." I guess word got around.
I can not tell you how disheartening and difficult it is to do a C-section or Hysterectomy on someone significantly overweight. It is a flog. In our community, that is over 70% of our patients. I'm losing my love for my profession and Obamacare hasn't even started.
When I started practice in 1991, we would occassionally see a pateint start their pregnancy over 250 pounds. This is now VERY common. Over 300 pounds starting weight is common. Worse, 18 years old and over 300 pounds and first pregnancy. What will she weigh at age 40? How many of these patients will live to see their child graduate from high school? I'm not picking on the female gender, obesity seems worse with men. I just don't have men in my practice, obviously.
It could be worse, my father-in-law "can't lose weight," as if the rules of physics no longer apply- more energy ingested compared to energy expended = weight gain. He DID fill out a food diary, and a greater work of fiction has rarely been written. I watched him eat and he counted 6000 calories as 1200 calories. I hope he does his taxes better than he does a food diary.
OK, so maybe this isn't a comment as much as a rant. I can only keep my own diet and exercise "lifestyle" at a decent pace, and I have no other responsability but tell the truth to anyone that asks. "Education" of the patient is the big push now. What a joke.
Gross to consider how a 300+ pound 18 year old got pregnant.
You shouldn't worry about these people at 40--they may be dead long before that. You can only help those that want to be helped. I don't say write off the rest, because you never know, but it's something I struggle with daily in a whole different profession than yours. It's the children who end up suffering.
...well, since you ask what I want..how about some of those french fried cheeze nachos thingys with choko sauce?
Several thoughts.
Even if you know what's going on like me, and have some degree of critical thinking.........you can still be waddling thru life because of the bullshit sitiuation we are in. I lost a $125k job, care to ask what it was like adjusting? It fucking sucked.
A big problem is all of us that do care are watered down with all the trash. We are nothing and could just as easily find ourselves in tent city with one mishap.
I'm technically obese myself but nothing like these people lol. I don't really take offense to the fat bashing though but I don't like the idea something should be done about it. Really? So it's ok to say this and that shouldn't be interferred with and being fat should? It's a personal choice and if we keep going at this rate you're going to be calling a number everday to see if you can have permission to live for one more day.
As far as im concerned, our species is failed. Time after time after time we end up in this situation. People worry about aliens coming here, I on the otherhand fear for the aliens. LMAO.
BTW after reading this im hungry now.
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well, if by "our species" you mean amrkUS boobiCuss, then you're most likely right - but travel outside of this sorry state and you'll find other flavours of humans, some of them co-operating and supporting themselves, albeit at a lesser consumptive level than is promoted in amrka.
getting away from the media also helps, as does reading articles that put forward workable solutions, encouraging community, instead of hate-mongering fer laffs.
Gee, isn't it nice to see a mother and daughter out and about together, getting fresh air and sunshine.
/barfs
Nothing says quality family time like two fat asses tag teaming each other with scooters. I'm surprised she's putting forth the effort to hold on. Why not just tie a rope and enjoy the ride?
Maybe that was her excercise for the day. God, I see stuff like that and it makes me laugh at the hawks who think America is in danger of being threatened from the outside.
Very true. Al least we can render the fat for soap and beauty products. If they're big enough we can use it for alternative energy.
While the alternative media like ZH are into deep introspection, as in this thread, the Political class is elsewhere; so far away from L.A....
Mitt Romney Foreign Policy Speech At VMI - Business Insider
It is time to change course in the Middle East. That course should be organized around these bedrock principles: America must have confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose and resolve in our might. No friend of America will question our commitment to support them… no enemy that attacks America will question our resolve to defeat them… and no one anywhere, friend or foe, will doubt America’s capability to back up our words....
He doesn't say how he will reconcile the Israeli friends of America with the Wahhabit friends of America; but whats new under the sun?
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-foreign-policy-speech-vmi-obama-virginia-military-institute-libya-2012-10#ixzz28iysMBAC
Two realities, 9/11 changed everything, knowing who was really behind 9/11 changes everything. Interesting http://my.firedoglake.com/markfromireland/2012/10/07/surprise/ see thread around comment 46
calories in - calories out = weight gain/loss
kept it simple.
how dare you be so heartless
The trick is to not carry the one...
Nothing underscores how bad the obesity epidemic is than going back on the dating market in your 40s. I think 25% being normal weight is a high-side estimate, realistically it's probably closer to 15%.
The article is spot on, as is the earlier article about elderly working. We're epically fucked and it's getting more obvious by the day -- which means the ignorant will be waking up to this soon.
WTF comes after the collapse? That's what I've been puzzling over.
A few weeks ago there was a interview with a Neurosurgeon about the new ObamaCare, where the rules say if you over 70 years old you will get Comfort Care (ie pain management) and not the needed surgery. That is probably what will happen with the mega-obese, the rules will be changed to weed them out (or perhaps experiment on them).
Additionally I read where the Central Government may change the CPI methodology again, so anyone on SS, Disability, Food Stamps etc.. will be squeezed even more.
Bah, all negative, look on the bright side, get a free government cell phone:
http://www.phone-bill-assistance.com/
Fucking nasty! The Wildwood boardwalk is home to pizza topped with cheese fries, chocolate covered bacon, fried Oreos, funnel cake topped with powdered sugar
The healthcare system has become socialized. These fat obese retards literally weigh on my healthcare expenses. I believe the end of the monetary system will rid the population of a lot of these misfits. In some ways the nation must bathe in fire to be reborn a greater nation.
Fuck you Jim Quinn!
Hey, Thats not nice. You left out his horse and cavalry
Addressing him, his cavalry, his archers, and his footman would have required lumping them all together and painting them with broad strokes. Instead I chose to just tell him to fuck off and keep it on a personal level.
You have a point. I love horses. My appologies to Sheik Ilderim of Ben hur fame
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Here in the UK a lot of us think Americans are like the characters in Friends/cheers/south park but after being privelaged to be a member of ZH for a few weeks I personally now believe that ZHedgers are quite different from that media stereotype.
So what percentage of you across the pond are fat wheelchair riding brainwashed automatons ? and what percentage are self reliant free thinking ready to put a line in the sand and never give an inch type of people ?
Im hoping that sanity has a chance over there! Maybe you could post some articles relating to some kind of structured game plan to move forward past this current consumerism paradigm of centralised control/manipulation/brainwashing ?
A little light at the end of the tunnel perhaps ?
I know its bad, but I need a spliff after readin a few posts on here my head is that battered ! More and more are realizing what is goin on but how about someone who has any idea of a way forward posting their ideas ? If they are at war with us, shouldnt we have a bit of a plan ? Silver/gold/land/dried food and water stashes seem to be items that will be usefull whilst moving toward a better future, but what is it ? what will it look like ? what will it feel like ?
Why, do you need a new 'leader'. You have been promoted, you are now your own new boss, enjoy.
cya
The plan to move past the American gluttonous consumer paradigm is peak oil and bankruptcy. We are well on our way to being much better people in the long run.
You'll appreciate this.
Alan Parsons - The Ignorance Is Bliss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=j5wkl7YWGsw
Stuckonarock,
"..how about someone who has any idea of way forward posting their ideas?"
A way forward? That's easy.....NO TV, as in none in the house. Make yourself over and learn to LOATHE it. That one decision is the beginning of driving a wooden stake through the heart of the State.....then never waste an opportunity to heap ridicule and scorn on TV as an institution, those who "watch" it, those who work in the medium and of course the TV maintained State itself. That would be a start.
That was really the beginning of my wake-up. I had always considered myself a critical thinking renegade sort, but I was a sheeple nonetheless. The first intrusion upon my grazing was long ago, when I realized that the first step to waking up was completely realizing, and accepting that I was a sheeple. The grass continued to be yummy though, until I ditched the TV about 4 years ago. What an awakening. My whole perception of reality started changing. And of course finding ZH a while back helped.
Now I cant even watch the damned thing if I try.
SMASH YOUR TELEVISION!!!!
p.s. - I still probably carry some wool and munch some grass, but not much.
now you can read ZH and hear what's on TeeeeVeeee via the pixelated werds, amongst friends!
honey boo boo, wassat?
Ok well, we know what to harpoon when we run out of oil. Every cloud has a silver lining. They aren't going to get away on a trolly.
How can someone be obese if they are not working, I don't get that part. If you had all day off, shouldn't you walk (a lot) at the very least.
Why go do things and experience life when the TV can tell you all about it while you're sitting on the couch eating Twinkies and pizza?
I realize it will not happen, but shouldn't they at least walk in their subsidized home/apt while watching TV. Anyone reading Zerohedge has a really difficult time getting a grasp on this level of inactivity & helplessness
people are obese because the are unhappy lost souls. They eat to feel better...which of course is part of the problem. The other problem is that obese people tend to make less in financially which forces them into lower quality foods full of calories and GMOs. The spiral accelerates as they look at what they've done to their bodies. Depression gets deeper, and the cycle worsens.
We use to pray as a nation, we use to honor our families, we use to be more then what we are today.
I'm depressed so I eat, I'm fat therefore depressed, wash, rinse, repeat cycle.
It is a vicious cycle to break, only choice is from within.
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22175/75405-surprising-products-contain-high-fructose
Their bodies are crying out for food because their nutritional needs have not been met. Consuming several thousand calories a day does not mean you have reached your needed intake of essential nutrients, especially protein and calcium.
This is why they are hungry all of the time. Americans are far to vain to allow themselves to be circus side shows. Knowing what it was like 25 years ago, when one could look around a crowd and see alert robust citizens who take care of themselves, who were proud and consciencious of their presentation on the stage of life, and seeing what today has brought about leads me to this conclusion. I only knew 1 grossly obese individual in my high school years. She may have had emotional issues but the point is, it is different now.
it's a health crisis. Food manufacturers hold responsibility and so does the FDA.
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22175/75405-surprising-products-contain-high-fructose
good post, noting that HFCS and GMO corn derivatives are in most supermarket foods. . . as is SOY.
http://woldfitness.com/2010/04/soy-my-nipples-and-your-health/
"super heavy powerlifter" dude tells all. . . soy is in over 70% of supermarket foods. intentionally.
back to your regularly scheduled hate-fest. . .
15% on a credit card? Try 22% or more.
I am 51 and my jeans waist size is 33, a little over what I would like.
A friends 12 yo daughter wears 35 waist, and eats twice what I eat.
WTF
Yeah, lets focus on demonizing fat people. Takes the heat off the fat cats.
Poor 12 year old. She probably drank her juice out of a BPA sippy cup for years and years. Good thing you didn't have to be a guinea pig, huh?
http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2012/09/19/bpa-associated-with-obesity-in-ch...
Obesity and diabetes (slow lingering metabolic disease) are caused by sugar and refined carbohydrate addiction. Obesity is a symptom not a moral failure. The processed food industry and big pharma/medicine have the same symbiotic relationship as GM/EXXON and Microsoft/Intel. They have brainwashed their co-conspirators, the gullible and the innocent into overconsumption and denial to the detriment of their health and productivity. Solution: eat only fresh food, avoid any prepackaged and processed food, educate your children.
Okay, "doc", ignore all recent evidence that points at environmental contributions. Its all about self control. Which you, being a superior unit, have mastered. The weaker units are not worth saving.
It's about addiction...not unlike tobacco addiction. Treat it the same way.
The food you eat is the most immediate part of your environment..."doc".
it's both.
it's about deliberate altering of commercial fud-stuffs, it's about the revolving door between FDA & Monsanto, it's about growth hormones in meat, it's about toxins in the packaging, in the soil, in the air, in the meds, in everything. . .
it's about life in the corporate nationstate feedlot.
stoopid post Curt. You might be 5' nothin' and she might be 6' and somethin'. If you want to make a point at least offer a modicum of evidence, so all don't think of you as a fat assed, non critical thinker.
when is the last time you saw a 6ft 12 year old?
you picked the right name moron.
She is 4ft something, I am 5'11"
So, for us Americans, where is the next Great Frontier, where we can migrate to, to avoid being crushed by the coming totalitarianism?
The next great frontier, you ask? Going by this article, possibly an American orbiting the sun with its own lunar system ... although you're quite likely to be crushed a stray American too.
There is no migration...it'll be decidied on US soil.
why would those who are obese or under mountains of debt change? that's just way too much work.
i fear for my children and the world they are foing to have to live in when they are my age. i'm working hard to prepare them for such a world, but it breaks my heart....
I recently was married - and we have decided not to have children - one of the main reasons is we feel that the world is on the precipice of some sort of 'dark age' - and we feel it would be selfish to bring a child into such a world.
- there will be no fish within a generation if not less
- the arctic seas will be completely free of ice within the next few years during summer
- I had a meeting with a UN person who lives in Beijing - he says they are selling 700k new cars per year there
- we have reached Peak CHEAP Oil - which probably means we have reached the end of growth
- we have 7 billion hungry mouths to feed - and without cheap oil they will not be fed
- we have acheived growth over the past 4 decades only through debt - that is over - and now we print for growth
I could go on and on but essentially, we believe a cataclysm like no other is imminent. We put a lot of cash into physical gold in 2007 and we are hoping that will allow us to have some sort of protection from what is coming. But who knows....
Jim, very informed, and heartfelt, article
my only concern is the lack of hope and any fight-back in your words!
do the clued-up cookies on ZH not give you hope? I read the bloggers words on British newspapers and in the main, they know exactly what the fuck is up
you show concern for your childrens future, you've taken positive steps to address those concerns and mitigate those issues yes?
well that's all you can do is look after yourself and your immediate circle and if you have done so your article would not be so negative
nothing you can do about Fatty Arbuckle and his snail scooter ...nothing you can do about the US Govt patronising the fat on one hand and giving them handouts to ensure their dependency on the other
the elite scum will weave their webbs, weave your own out of their sphere of influence (they have zero power over you if you make it so)
Stop Paying Your Taxes: be ready to bring the suckers down by cutting them off. This human scum need you more than you need them, you can take that to the bank ;)
So do the human scum include the kids whose parents can't earn a living wage or are unemployed? How do you rationalize that? Do you give them a certain skin color or accent in your minds eye to make it all good?
the human scum to which i refer are those amassed around the parasites table and feeding frenzy of Govt
the members of the Parasite Club are an uneasy mix of parasitic bwankers and scum families that game/cheat society and others who have 'earned' their right to the top table such as Unionists through their voting base onto seats in Govt
all of whom live off and thieve from productive society: the farmers, miners, industrialists and small/medium sized businesses who create the real wealth, real jobs and real progress of society
regards parents who can't earn a living wage wise up. Govt has destroyed your job prospects by consuming too much productive wealth down the decades. You wanna cheer up, stick a knife into the No.1 enemy of prosperity and a civil society, Govt
if you can't do/see that, go to hell, that's where Govt is taking you
So do the "scum" families include their innocent children? I'm trying to understand how they somehow have obtained the "top table".
"So do the "scum" families include their innocent children? "
you've answered that one yourself with the word "innocent"
regards getting to the top table, is your question loaded up with children again?
you appear fixated with concern for others children, me not so much
As another non-American, I think we underestimate the power of the tentacles that strangle the people of the US.
Media is controlled in all countries as is education but so far - the indoctrination is not so deep (so far...)
But I can see it happening - they keep trying to crack Canada - the Harper government is basically America light... they are trying to bust Canada but finding great resistance.
That is why I am actually hopeful America will collapse - it will not reform - and it is spreading this file disease around the world - to it needs to be put out of its misery before it infects us all.
Gold bitchez?
FAT, bitchez. Or is that, Fat bitchez?
Multinationals are doing their stuffing job very well. And the people that cannot work anymore are joining Medicare, also a good job from the multi's. They even make money on foodstamps. In my view large corporations with several 'owners' on a thusfar distance that they cannot see nor feel the misery they invest in, coordinated by narcist ceo's and their ambitious close assistants, are the couse. Supported by the infiltrated government, which is also a good job from the multi's. Feed them and suck their blood. Vampire's, all of them.
This article is depressing.
my thoughts too
maybe Jim Quinn could give us a run-down of all the pro-active positive steps he's taken to address, mitigate, minimise and even prosper from the ensuing carnage he lists in gory detail
have you got a constructive side Jim?
Yes it is depressing. But let's be fair - the glass is not half full - it is not half empty - it is EMPTY.
We ask the author to come up with some solutions - instead why don't we post solutions?
We don't because there are none - the apple is rotten to the core - the US has 16 TRILLION dollars of debt. 50 million people on food stamps.
The nail was put in the coffin when the bill to try to control election donations was defeated some years ago - and the coffin was lowered into the ground when corporations were given same status as people unleashing unlimited bribery.
The only solution take the diseased carcass and burn it - at very high heat. America is toxic - and it is spreading its vile disease around the world.
Tommy Gunner posted - ""We ask the author to come up with some solutions - instead why don't we post solutions?"
Indeed. A company called UKACO, among others, came up with a machine some decades ago. It is called a Radionics device. Another was invented by a man called T. Galen Hieronymus. I have invented such a machine myself. They affect living organisms remotely.
The UKACO device was used in agriculture. An aerial photograph of an insect-infested crop field was placed in the machine, after being painted with insecticide. In three days, all the insects perished. If one row of crops was left unpainted, those insects survived. UKACO did not charge the farmers anything until the machine had already worked. And they were wildly successful. The painting with in secticide was less effective than another method of "aiming" the device called "Radionic tuning".
Hieronymus claimed that he left out parts in his patent which would have allowed his machine to be used to harm human beings. Which is BS. I'm sure of that.
There would be no way to tell where a Radionic attack came from, or any way to stop them, in my opinion.
Get the picture? There would also be no way to prosecute anyone for such use of Radionic devices.
There is a lot of BS nowadays in the field of Radionics, false machines being sold, which do nothing, usually computer-based. In my opinion, a Radionic militia is our only hope. The usual means of dealing with tyranny, they have us hopelessly outgunned now. The only thing left would be, for them, in the event of Radionic warfare, is a "Samson Option", in which they take the whole world down with them. I believe Radionics would work if the target were on the Moon or a mile or two underground. A lot of people will say that it is all BS, but they had better hope it's not. I know it's not from personal experience, but my device, while it exerts robust effects, I am only one man working on this. There needs to be hundreds, or thousands.
Grab a twinkie you will feel much better
comfort eating Twinkies won't help
How about on of these guys who turns automatic weapons on innocent people instead turn them on those who are deserving?
The system will collapse under its own weight.
LOL, super size me. From injesting garbage to buying garbage.Take out loans top buy Apple products made in Foxconn slave labor camps.
The US has gone from a can-do to a can't do. Get the masses more dependent on socialization. Food stamps and welfare to the moon.
Bernanke and the fed will just turn whatever the currency is worth to garbage.,
Right. Better to cut those masses off at the knees. Survival of the fittest, baby.
Yeah, sure. They're all just victims, and need government help. /s
JQ!
you killed it with this post, and to add:
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ? George Orwell
god bless you
no better way to do that than a State education
...staffed by Krugmanites with a curriculum of absolute garbage
Chocolate covered, bacon filled Twinkies? Amazing what food stamps will get ya nowadays.
Only four states allow food stamps to be used for fast food, and in those states only the elderly, disabled or homeless qualify.
Jim Quinn spends an inordinate amount of time addressing the symptom instead of the cause.
I'd like to hear Jim's take on the artificial food stuffs introduced to the human diet like msg, aspartame, sucralose. These are addictive substances.
What about GMO grains and obesity?
What about the prescription drug industry and it's effect of not only the obese?
These are crimes against humanity and those responsible should be prosecuted, convicted and ______________. Your preference.
nah, that would require some critical thinking skills, and a deep questioning of the false reality that most prefer to live in. . .
like nine-eleven truth, y'know, that kind of thinking. . .
much easier to point the finger at people, and scream.
There's an ad for the "American Giving Awards" presented by Chase. "A celebrity tribute to community heroes"
Alright sheeple so are you starting to put two and two together? They want you to spread your wealth around and pat yourself on the back for it, even as JP Morgan Chase runs away with billions in undeserved fiat.
JPMorgan chases the SNAP card, and USBank relies on the ReliaCard for EBT, only $1.50 to check the balance, first two peeks are fee!!
That which cannot be sustained, won't be. Get in shape, hone your skills, it's coming.
Do you believe in genetic evil?
You knocked another one out of the ball park with this one, Jim. Thanks.
As late as the 1950's, a lot of food calories in places that could support small farms was obtained locally. Eggs, milk, butter, cream, etc. Enter big Agra and a bunch of money directed to the Harvard School of Public Health. A complete misunderstanding of both human physiology and biochemistry and the data from the Framingham study targeted cholesterol as the bad actor in heart disease. Not just for the small <10% group that had genetic issues with handling cholesterol, but for 100% of the population.
Margarine had been introduced during WWII as a stopgap measure, but based on an endless agra-funded dribble of bogus studies, the naive populace was convinced, in spite of 1 billion years of evolution, that their diet promoted heart disease, not the AMOUNT they ate. The scare away from dairy fed right into the vegetable oil big agra scam. Fast forward to 2012 - the small family farms are gone, the vegetable oils are from GMO crops grown in the mid-west, and a reanalysis of the original Framingham Heart Health data showed that the single biggest predictor of cardiovascular disease was body mass index (weight). Not cholesterol. That study was buried. Much of the population is using fungal toxins (statins) to "prolong life."
And so it goes. Cui bono?
Agreed on a few basic points but the Framingham study is irrevelant and cholesterol levels (HDL/LDL for starters) doesn't matter in cardiovascular health and is irrevelant?
This is why the Internet sucks. You have conspiracy-based nonsense that people who are prone to believe will buy into it.
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/67/5/968
From 1983. 2012 - Fast-forward to metabolic syndrome caused by insulin resistance due to increased carb intake and genetics.
http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v25/n7/full/0801596a.html
CONCLUSIONS: Non-diabetic subjects with BMI>35 kg/m2 carry a burden of common coronary risk factors which appears to increase with greater obesity. The risk factor pattern observed echoes that described in insulin resistance syndromes. Plasma cholesterol concentration appears not to be related to BMI.
International Journal of Obesity (2001) 25, 1042-1046
excellent work, thanks for the links. . .
following in that vein, the great "saturated fat" scam, food lobby to scare people into 'lo fat' foods like margarine, and certainly away from evil coconut oil, palm oil, butter, etc.
http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2012/03/31/coconut-oil-and-alzhei...
all the food fads of Science that were supposed to "save" us, when in fact it was all a deliberate scam to destroy health, pushing folks toward huge profits in pharma, a vicious death spiral.
Excellant essay. I have little to add, other than to note on the topic of debt. The TPTB through their mechanisms of economic control have turned the activity of saving into an act of personal destruction. When the banking system pays interest at a rate below inflation, saving money is nothing but watching your wealth swirl around the toilet bowl. Taking into account the real rate of inflation as opposed to the official scam rate, a dollar saved today is worthless in less then ten. Its hard to justify saving for a rainy day, when everyday its drizzling.
What you are seeing is Weimar in slow motion. Left out of the analogy of wheelburrows of money for bread is the entire cabaret culture of irrelevant diversions, drink, drugs, and sex, that grew up from people who had no future, and acted accordingly. The only reason there wasn't an obesity problem was because there was no food.
Your choices today are to hand your money to the market casino, drop it into the inflation shredder, or blow it on useless diversions while it still has purchasing power. Having fun now is the option more and more are taking, even if they don't realize it.
Wait - sooo if you`re on "obese disability" you don't need to go to war right?
Hehe homer... personifies the lost American generations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ZcZ2h4Ths&feature=related
I'd think there is counter culture growing... things like running, crossfit, insanity, p90x... maybe fads - but people are pickign them up. Once I was in a gym at a hotel and these two strangers had a laptop and were doing an insanity workout. Then again it was their first time and who knows if they'd keep doing it.
One more countercultural trend - the paleo movement, exemplified by the "Mark's Daily Apple" website. It is said that people go mad in herds, but come to their senses one by one. Same thing no doubt applies to being in an obese stupor brought about by the cheap "cattle feed" foods - sugar, grains and seed oils. People can and do leave these behind. Every Friday, there's an individual success story on the Daily Apple that always make me think, "One more in the sane column."
Yes. Walls tumble all the time.
These kind of blog postings are too much ranting and all over the place. If you want to post on obesity rates and look at how it has increased in time in the US and globally, its cost to society, and some ways to change/address it, I am all for it.
If you want to talk about why we need to increase savings rates and some of the policies that should be addressed, I would love read it.
Instead this devolves into a 'we are all doomed' mish-mash while the author makes himself feel superior to morbidly obese people. Good for him. Personally I think it kind of a dick move. Almost reminds me of something you would see from the Anti-Saloon League hundred years ago where they demonized alcohol consumption with similiar types of visuals.
If you think there are solutions then why don't you post them smart guy?
Yes I thought so - because you realize there are none.
The whole point of the article is that there are NO solutions (and this is not only relevant to the obesity epidemic... the article is not about obesity) - and the author has done a fantastic job of explaining how we got into this mess and how it is virtually impossible to get out.
Clearly you have not read the entire article - only the first bit about the slobs - typical of America - if it's longer than a commerical break on Dancing with Stars - off you go to your drivel.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE - THEN COME BACK AND TRY TO MAKE A SENSIBLE COMMENT
"I despair for my country that has chosen to eat, amuse and borrow itself to death. But my despair is deepest for my children and their future."
- I have to ask why.
I REJOICE for my children - that they will never have to pay one iota of this magical "debt burden" that "we" are supposedly racking up for them.
My children will never know what their social security numbers are. They will learn at least two regional languages, and they will never attend a government funded center of daily indoctrination.
If all of this means that one day they will have to bypass "systemic" government or corporate employment in order to earn a living, then so be it. I will teach them how to run a business.
I hear you but unfortunatley I don't see this working out well no matter what you do. The world is collapsing - economically, environmentally, and morally.
We have 7 billion people - we are out of Cheap Oil - and the only reason we have gotten to 7B is because of cheap oil - and there is no going back.
Suffering and death on a scale never seen is on the way.
Whatever, Malthus.
I know times are kinda tough in New Jersey....
- but what the hell is Gov Chris Christe (1st photo above) doin' trolling for votes on that Rascal Scooter???
Might be a tight fit - but, in the interests of dignity, surely they coulda squeezed the fat b@strd into a stretch-limo (used) that had had the middle-row seats ripped out?
Monday is.....defeatist libertarian whiner day on ZH? Eh. I enjoyed the cow milking discussion though. Been some time since my ranch days.
Frankly if we dealt with the systemic corruption at the top and stopped all this distortionary interest rate manipulation a lot of social problems would change to a surprising degree. You know, more savings....less consumption! Wow!
See, Ben is FORCING people to eat instead of plant seeds. Well, yeah, kind of. All in the interest of paying off scumbags and criminals.
It starts at the top. Just like in all groups. Focus, people!
The tree of Liberty must be watered from time to time with warm, delicious fudge. --Homer J. Jeffersonian
I wonder why anyone wonders why people are fat. How about the simple reason? People are fat because they can be. Why are banksters greedy? Same reason.
People who expect a fair shake in the future will store their wealth to spend in it. People who either do not expect a future or do not expect a fair shake in it will not.
The problem is not obesity nor lack of savings, those are symptoms of fatalism.
After reading this article, I see that there are quite a few people who engage in the futile process of trying to explain things as they are, to those completely unaware of the world they live in.
On Friday, when I was out for drinks with a group of around 10-12 people, I found myself replying to something someone said with an incessant oration, regarding the very things mentioned above, when I realized that ten full minutes into my preachment I had everyone's absolute attention, only to realize again, that it was only because everyone was looking at my semi-inebriated self without knowing what the fuck I was talking about.
Barring an almost insignificant percentage of the population who are genuinely shocked upon realization, people either don't care, or don't want to care. This is how things are, this is how things have always been, and I'm quite confident that this is how things will be in the future.
That said, although I find the act futile, I commend those who keep trying to make any, and much needed, difference.
Just my opinion but when government replaced god the only endgame was serfdome.
If american cannot find spirituallity we are doomed
I cant predict when the fiat system will collapse but i believe when it does the one place that will be standing room only is places of worship
Yes Mr 'hawk nation'.
It's amazing how so many people can avoid that elephant in such a small room.
Why would they want to live and be free anyway? If you are an evolved ape what is freedom? What is the difference between you and a chimp? 2% DNA?
That hardly seems worth worrying about. Certainly not fighting for.
Going to steal a line from good 'ole Spiro T. Agnex (one of my favorite politicians only because even among crooks he stands out both for his gaul and the fact that he climbed so high given several factors):
"Hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history"
What these threads devolve into. Yeah things appear shitty and I have taken some preparations accordingly. If things can really bad, then yeah I am probably up shit's creek along with 95% of the other posters on here but man people need to enjoy life a little bit.
Forum with terminal cancer patients is somewhat more uplifting.
Two things......
1) getting into 'Zerohedge' is a BORING and FRUSTRATING experience if you have joined recently.
You need a complex password by definition hard to remember.
BORING.
2) this article has much to recommend it however I think the crucial question it raises can be expressed thus; 'God or Man'
If our existence on earth (important) or the survival of your United States (less so for foreigners; whatever you may honestly believe) can be understood without God then....
TPTB have obviously won and :self loathing, death from legal chemicals, a 'life' of pornography or sports or trinkets or whatever is the 'manifest destiny' of humankind.
Or......
the current 'power authority' is only the latest 'unstoppable force' against which 'ressistance is useless' because they 'own the future' and all of that.
The above analysis seems to hand the main part of the field to the enemy when it asks 'what do we the People want?'
If that really is the question 'we' would still be in caves keeping warm.
'We' are not all that makes up the equasion.
Thank God.
John Richardson (Essex England)
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2008/dec2008_Metabolic-Dangers-of-High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup_01.htm
The Dangers of FructoseHigh dietary intake of fructose is problematic because fructose is metabolized differently from glucose. Like fructose, glucose is a simple sugar. Derived from the breakdown of carbohydrates, glucose is a primary source of ready energy. Sucrose (table sugar) comprises one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose. Thus, excessive sucrose intake also contributes to the rise in overall daily fructose consumption. Glucose can be metabolized and converted to ATP, which is readily “burned” for energy by the cells’ mitochondria. Alternatively, glucose can be stored in the liver as a carbohydrate for later conversion to energy. Fructose, on the other hand, is more rapidly metabolized in the liver, flooding metabolic pathways and leading to increased triglyceride synthesis and fat storage in the liver. This can cause a rise in serum triglycerides, promoting an atherogenic lipid profile and elevating cardiovascular risk. Increased fat storage in the liver may lead to an increased incidence in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and this is one of several links between HFCS consumption and obesity as well as the metabolic syndrome.7
Fructose may have less impact on appetite than glucose, so processed foods rich in fructose can contribute to weight gain, obesity, and its related consequences by failing to manage appetite.20 Additionally, loading of the liver with large amounts of fructose leads to increased uric acid formation, which may contribute to gout in susceptible individuals.
I do believe US citizens are under attack by the food industry and rather than lying in the fields and on the sides of the road, bleeding and dying, they have been decommisioned, turned into a population easily to manipulate only because they do not feel well. These people are gross to observe but also they feel unwell and are limited in their ability to function.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oq0_n7ZBX_c#!
Estace Mullins (author of The World Order) -
Replying to comments on ZH is work. I'd agree with that.
'I do believe US citizens are under attack by the food industry....'
Yes indeed.
When Huxley spoke about chemicals it wasn't just 'Soma/E' or Sodium Flouride he was talking about.
ps the author of the article & the quotes he uses seem to let Huxley off IMHO. His brother was the first Head of UNESCO. They've culled more human beings than the SS or NKVD.
Huxley knew what was going on.
When Huxley spoke about chemicals it wasn't just 'Soma/E' or Sodium Flouride he was talking about.
yup, i thought the same thing when i read the article. on that tangent, wonder if anyone has done a study seeing if there's a link between antidepressant use and obesity rates?
good question, one I've been looking into for a while, as the pharma is so ubiquitous now. . . you might find this article of interest?
http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2011/03/16/antidepressants-stress...
I like to read the commentary as it often contains lived realities, shared - this post,
is one that gets mentioned in some form, often. . . and given the prevalence of cultural mocking has ramped up with the size of peoples, and it's sooo kool to mock teh fatties, even supposed adults indulge in the game, I'm sure the stress is a major component of weight gain/retention.
armkn culture, working as intended, fuck yeah!
I didn't think anyone who posted on this forum would believe in God. I thought we were all rational people - apparently not.
The moment someone tells me they believe in God - I lose all respect for their intelligence.
Anyway - George Carline discusses the aburdity of religion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPOfurmrjxo
The main problem I see is, we've gone from a farming and manufacturing society to a digital one. Most young people today can't even cook, let alone garden. As a young boy my parents taught me how to cook, garden, do laundry, change the oil, make a fire, cut firewood, mow lawns with a push mower, walk to school 2 miles each way. We have gone from a society largely built on self reliance to government dependence.
'We have gone from a society largely built on self reliance to government dependence'
Nope.
Firstly, say 500 years ago no cooper would know a thing about farming. No farmer would know a thing about weaving clothers and no butcher would know about trading anything at market except meat.
The Guilds would kill you to stop you learning how to make a wheel for example.
Humans always specialise and fight to protect market share.
As for (evil) Government/Welfare systems....the Church did that job for centuries. Cheaper and with less noxious social consequences yes; but still a welfare provision.
The real problem is that we are simply further down the road.
The elites are more powerful and better organsied.
The Third Force is technology.
Nothing else has altered about the human condition.
Amen brother. The end is near!
Wait till or children have children - they will be blobs.
I bet you'll miss that fucking delicious looking cheese fry pizza at the FEMA camp ya gotdaym ingrate.
More observations:
1. Credit should be given where credit is due: The Marketing & Advertising industry has been fabulously successful in getting customers to buy all their clients products.
2. Empires come and go. Our empire has come, peaked and is going.
3. To manufacturers; a product is a product. If they make and sell you a product that you put in your mouth and swallow, but is not really "food" (in the classic sense of the word), too bad for you.
4. When the food supply stops, the obese will be the last to starve.
This excellent rant by economist Carlo Cipolla might be relevant here.
http://searchlores.org/realicra/basiclawsofhumanstupidity.htm
The author isn't exactly lean and mean himself.
Yo!
WhaddamI missin' all this free shit?
Well, now we have some idea how Obama can be even or ahead with a month to go... in a different era, this sad clown would not be allowed to clean the sewers.
Funny how in the old days the rich were fat and the poor thin. These days it is the other way round...
in olden days wealth was displayed by the abundence of food consumed, today by leisure time devoted to keeping fit
the future will probably see the immaciated rich-look showing off how many weeks you've holidayed in space and your bones and muscle waisted away without the pull of gravity
a crutch for every limb studded with bing-bling ...can't wait!
The only problem I see with this article is that all of society's ills--and ill--are blamed on external, manipulative forces, and no blame placed on the families and subculture that perpetuates this unthinking, uncritical population. It is precisely this increasing externalization of locus of control that has led us into this state of affairs. Families are to blame for allowing themselves and their children to be manipulated, this is not the fault of the manipulators.
Where are the parents? They are not doing their job, that is quite clear. They and their children are fat because they are buying prepared foods or calliing out for deliveries because it is easy rather than actually cooking at home and teaching their children to make healthy food choices. They are purchasing newer and better phones, game boxes and tvs so that everyone can live in their own isolated spaces and thus have no need to negotiate, talk, interact or, dare I say it?--take part in critical thinking and discussion. The parents and families and then the individuals who come from such families are to blame for being manipulated, not the manipulators for serving their own best interests.
These parents put it all off on someone or something else--schools, advertisers, vending machines or the government; anyone but themselves. This is perfect, because when something goes wrong, Jimmy doesn't get a job, or Suzie gets diabetes it is all someone else's fault. Guess what! it is not someone else's fault. People allow themselves to be manipulated because they want someone else to tell them what to do. It is easier. They don't want to think because it is easier not to. And so it goes, perpetuation of what I refer to as "blue-collar bondage." (unfair as a term, I suppose, but as our elite colleges increasingly draw students from the population that attended elite colleges and the socio-cultural divide increases it is useful, if not literal)
Culture is increasingly what separates socio-economic groups in American society, and one of the main divisions is between those segements of society who impress their children with an external locus of control and those who impress their children with an internal locus of control. The latter will rule the former, I agree with the author on that. But is that a bad thing? Not if you are part of the critical thinking group, the group that believes that they are, in fact, in control of their personal choices and destiny, the group that knows how to make intelligent decisions and is willing to make that effort.
As for me, I am fine with it. I don't really want masses of people all wanting to analyse everything. I have friends, and various outlets in which to engage in discussion and analysis. Any society needs more workers than bosses, and if all it takes to keep the workers on track is the latest chain restaurant and new shoes from the mall who cares?
Just please don't make me pay for their insulin.
It's the modern day Don Drapers that are to blame for this - they and those who instruct them.
Think about it - these professional ad people are paid big dollars to manipulate us - and if their campaigns fail they are fired - and someone else gets their shot.
They are relentless.
So even the strongest willed amongst us will have a hard time resisting their messages to eat more - buy more.
The deck is stacked and we are but amateurs against pros with science and psychology on their side
gotta pull out the drip-feed tube dangling from the picture box with the subliminal messaging about how to think/be/act properly. . .
get out of their imposed reality, get yer own! or just be part of their system, endlessly pointing at each other'd.
Great article but they got the Fat Map wrong. Ohio obesity is not correct. It's much closer to 40percent probably higher.
These are government numbers... Do you really think CDC is trotting out (or in this case, waddling out) the whole story?
Probably depends on the definition of obesity. I am pretty sure that VT is not between 25 and 30 %, or not in my area where 9/10 people in the grocery store---of course--are giganticos. Besides, these are aggregate numbers. County by county would be quite different, and probably interesting.
Good article but people who allow themselves to be 'manipulated' deserve what they get.
I am tired of hearing the 'but they don't know any better' excuse. Nearly everyone here on ZH started off by thinking independently...and eventually found ZH, alternative news and eventually the truth.
But that all started with making an effort and thinking about how our actions effect ourselves, others around us and the future.
Others chose to watch Dancing with the Stars to avoid the effort of facing uncomfortable truths......especially the bankruptcy of future generations.
The fact is, we still live by the law of the jungle......Darwin is correct when he talks about human beings competing for food, land, air, resources, mates and big screen TVs.
The fact is many people don't like to be reminded that they are parasites living off the future income of their kids.
That is not 'manipulation', that’s just evil, plain and simple. .....I have no pity for them.
So you are saying that you have resisted the professional marketing men who manipulate? Really?
What kind of vehicle do you drive? Do you have any luxury brand items? Do you have a lot of 'stuff' that you don't need?
Let's face it - we are ALL sucked in - I bought a bloody Rolex watch when I made my first million.... I know realize how much of an idiot I was and it never comes out of the drawer (my wife chides me for that) - I now where a Timex sports watch that cost 80 bucks.
The siren song of the ad man is difficult to resist...
I posted this below in case you missed:
It's the modern day Don Drapers that are to blame for this - they and those who instruct them.
Think about it - these professional ad people are paid big dollars to manipulate us - and if their campaigns fail they are fired - and someone else gets their shot.
They are relentless.
So even the strongest willed amongst us will have a hard time resisting their messages to eat more - buy more.
The deck is stacked and we are but amateurs against pros with science and psychology on their side
>So you are saying that you have resisted the professional marketing men who manipulate?
Yes.
>What kind of vehicle do you drive?
I don't have one.
>Do you have any luxury brand items?
No.
>Do you have a lot of 'stuff' that you don't need?
No.
> Let's face it - we are ALL sucked in
No, not all of us
>The siren song of the ad man is difficult to resist...
No, it actually quite easy; people like to say it is hard or impossible. That is lie to justify the very ills reported in the article. You choose what you read, watch and listen to; no one is putting a gun to your head.
'That is lie to justify the very ills reported in the article.'
Presumptive. However probably correct nevertheless.
'You choose what you read, watch and listen to; no one is putting a gun to your head.'
Yes.
I've not had a television since 2003. I've avoided driving. I've gotten rid of nearly all my useless junk.
It can be done. Personal sovereignty is the beginning.
Hey Jim,
Ditch Wildwood,shoot down to Cape May,you will have a better time in Sept.Stripe Bass season will heat up soon.What happens when all go's belly up and those hummer,hover what ever the hell there called break down.Wheres the waffles and ice cream?
It's the modern day Don Drapers that are to blame for this - they and those who instruct them.
Think about it - these professional ad people are paid big dollars to manipulate us - and if their campaigns fail they are fired - and someone else gets their shot.
They are relentless.
So even the strongest willed amongst us will have a hard time resisting their messages to eat more - buy more.
The deck is stacked and we are but amateurs against pros with science and psychology on their side
Excellent article, about what we all see, IF we look. However, I would throw in my usual caveat when talking about the apparent "stupidity" and wilful blindness of people. I believe I am somewhat of a specialist in that, having worked since 1984 on a more than ten billion dollar per year loophole in the political contribution tax credit available in the Canadian income tax law, of which less that 0.3% per year has ever been used, since 99% of the population is NOT interested in participating in registered politics, even though I have developed a way that they can make an after-tax personal profit from doing so:
http://www.marijuanaparty.ca/article.php3?id_article=215
Of course, that is not directly relevant to the majority of readers here, since ONLY Canadian taxpayers could benefit. But nevertheless, after working on that issue for a few decades, speaking face to face with tens of thousands of different people about those issues, and two long court cases against the Canadian government over the laws that control the funding of politics in Canada, I consider myself something of an "expert" on the problems surrounding the funding of politics, which are where the maximum leverage in the political process exists! I believe I have better than average insight, due to my experiences, about the reasons regarding the ways that 99% of the people always act like political idiots, as their well-established social habits, that they DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE.
I raise all of that because of this statement in the article above:
"They have willfully chosen ignorance over truth."
Although I agreed with the article that there are lots of different reasons, which form an overall complicated pattern, there is no doubt in my mind regarding the central problem behind the decline and fall of the American state. THAT IS THAT EVERY TIME A POLITICIAN AROSE, WHO WAS ABLE AND WILLING TO DO SOMETHING REAL TO STOP THAT, HE WAS ASSASSINATED!
Usually, the funding of politics worked more indirectly. Those politicians who advanced the interests the fascist plutocracy were funded, while those who did not were not, but their opponents were funded instead. Thus, there was the relentless grinding down of the opposition, to turn what was left into controlled puppets. Those who could be bribed or intimidated had their careers advance, and they ended up being successful and promoted. Those who could not be bribed or intimidated tended to end up being defeated, and their careers destroyed, in one way or another. THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORICAL EVENTS WERE WHEN CHAMPIONS OF THE PEOPLE, WHO COULD NOT BE BRIBED OR INTIMIDATED, THAT HAD SUCCESSFUL POLITICAL CAREERS, ENDED UP BEING ASSASSINATED.
THAT is the primary reason why America has fallen! Everything else rippled out from those murders. The triumph of the propaganda is the triumph of lies. However, lies alone are NOT enough, they MUST be backed by violence. The long history of the decline and fall of America has been carved into the flesh of the American people, whereby every aspect of the profit from junk food, and profit from disease systems, and the deliberate destruction and dumbing down of the people, to make it consistently possible to fool enough of them, enough of the time, was crucially reinforced by the assassination of any practical politicians who would not go along with that, and were otherwise able enough to have changed things.
The LAST President who lived long enough, by miraculously surviving assassination attempts, to achieve significant things was Andrew Jackson. Since then, there is a long list of Presidents, and Congressmen, and Senators, that were assassinated, or died in mysterious accidents, over, and over, and over ...
The government of the USA today is the result of the triumph of the methods of organized crime by the shadow government. The people portrayed in this article are some downstream victims of the triumph of lies, backed by violence, setting up the conditions into which they were born, and lived their whole lives.
The military-industrial-Congress complex, and all of its related facets, branching out from the banksters, through all of their corporations, did NOT happen because people were simply stupid, or deliberately ignorant, although many are that way now, and have been conditioned to feel that they should stay that way. It happened due to the relentless and ruthless application of the principles of organized crime, to take control of the government, and thereby thereafter RIG EVERYTHING! The most important historical reasons were the assassinations of politicians who could have, and would have, changed that.
THAT is also the primary reason why we are deeply doomed, and there are no practical and realistic solutions to our political problems. We are forced to watch and wait as things get worse, faster. The psychotic madness that is the result of the prolonged triumph of huge lies taking control of our society continues being more and more overtly backed up with violence. The crucial historical episodes where Presidents were successfully assassinated, and those doing that got away with it, and had practical impunity, has been multiplied and multiplied in the ramifying effects, so that, NOW virtually all Americans are trapped inside the system that was made and maintained in that way. Thus, the individual tragedy of particular heroes, like assassinated Presidents, has been astronomically amplified to become the total tragedy of all of America ... Too bad, so sad, but that is the way it is, and I am not aware of any way to fix that now, since the process is already way too far gone!
The banksters and their corporations are too triumphant. Their ability to control civilization with huge lies is too much of a runaway. I can not see any way to stop those forces from destroying us, since being controlled by lies, which we are forced to adopt or accept because they are backed by violence, drives EVERYONE INSANE. America is now in a state of psychotic breakdown, as the final result of the shadow government being too successful. Being ruled by Fraud Kings creates the kinds of people this article described, in the ways it outlined. All that I am adding is my view that the murder system, and especially the assassination of politicians, was the most essential aspect of that entire process.
another good post, RM, one that correctly (in my opinion, yes) identifies a concerted effort over time, by many co-conspirators, leading to a compliant peoples.
it is an important "aha!" moment when one realises the inter-connectedness of most systems at work in amrka (and many other nationstates), all of them profit-takers at some level, all of them needing to be believed in as the only reality in order to function properly. . . if one begins to question any individual leg on the cultural table, it starts to wobble, and if questioned thoroughly, topples. of course, there's a pill to prevent this catastrophe!!
it has been pointed out many times in previous threads that JQuinn has yet to acknowledge the truth behind "nine-eleven" - this and his endless mocking of "other people" in virtually all of his blog-posts, is a tell for some people. . .
Thanks, Carhartes Aura.
Although I have been reading the main articles on ZeroHedge since back in June, 2009, I did not register to post comments until only a few weeks ago, and before that, I did not read the comments. Therefore, I was NOT aware that it has been pointed out many times in previous threads that JQuinn has yet to acknowledge the truth behind "nine-eleven" - this and his endless mocking of "other people" in virtually all of his blog-posts, is a tell for some people.
Of course, I agree that one's opinion about the events on 9/11/2001 are a LITMUS TEST, which tell us a lot about somebody. And, of course, those 9/11 events were the most extreme expression yet of exactly what my previous comment was talking about! After the criminals get enough control over the government to be able to control the investigation of crimes, and therefore, the criminals, who actually run the government, can get away with destroying evidence, and preventing any proper investigations from happening, then it is EASY for those criminals to get away with their crimes, because they control the policing, and prevent the proper investigations and prosecutions from ever happening.
Clearly, that process has become a runaway spiral of psychotic insanities inside the USA today! Since no proper investigations ever happen, since the criminals control the government, it becomes extremely difficult to discover the truth. However, it is sufficiently obvious that the "official stories" are absurdities, full of blatant contradictions, which means that the official story is obviously LIES. Therefore, as my previous comment stated, there is a long history of organized crime, directing a shadow government, that took over control of the official government of the USA. The single greatest achievement that the FRAUD KINGS accomplished was way back in 1913, with the institution of the Federal Reserve Board, and it has been obviously downhill since then! As I wrote in my previous comment, it is obvious to anyone who looks that the official story about the assassination of President Kennedy is bogus. (However, like I said, since no proper investigation was ever done, it is extremely difficult to discover what actually happened, and who did that.) However, the effects of getting away with the assassination of a President are HORRIBLY OBVIOUS! Indeed, there appears to be a continuous historical trend from being able to get away with the murder of Kennedy, to being able to get away with the mass murders on 9/11.
As many other people have said, there are de facto groups controlling the USA, and thereby almost the whole world, that have effective impunity to commit murders, since they already control the governments. As one traces that back in time, the CRUCIAL EVENTS were the assassination of politicians in the past. That then enabled the established systems to continue to spiral out of control, and for the whole civilization to become more and more controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, operating a shadow government, pulling the strings of the puppet politicians allowed to perform in public, on the mass media, which were also being similarly controlled. That process of the triumph of bigger lies, backed by more violence, drives society INSANE, and the USA is the "leading" power driving the psychotic breakdown of Neolithic civilization as a whole.
One of the ripple effects of that history of the triumph of Huge Lies has been the most troubling of all, which is FRAUDULENT SCIENCE, directing the decisions made by the governmental organizations that were supposed to control food and drugs, so that those organizations end up totally dominated by huge lies, and therefore, doing everything utterly BACKWARDS to what they should do. Again, the history of those developments goes through the murder system. A crucial historical phase of that started in 1947, with the creation of PSYCHOTIC NATIONAL SECURITY. "National security" became one of the most important ways that the shadow government could get away with taking over the public government, and thereby, end up with the situation where the shadow government has effective impunity to murder other Americans, and get away with it! This whole process is an automatically accelerating spiral of insanity, since the real world ends up more and more being controlled by huge lies, and therefore, EVERYTHING is driven to become crazier and crazier, since people ARE being controlled by huge lies, backed by violence, in every area.
As I said, the central core frauds, operated for the short-term benefit of the FRAUD KINGS AND THEIR FRIENDS, spread out to influence the lives of everybody else, such as through the laws controlling food and drugs. The profit from junk food, and the profit from disease systems, are driving Americans to become obese. All of the things reviewed in this article by Jim Quinn are correct. However, the DEEPER REASONS are not as hard to understand as this article pretends. Those peculiarities of asserting that the whole situation too complicated to understand HOW it happened, and to therefore tend to blame individuals for their fate, makes way more sense after realizing that the author of that article REFUSES to understand 9/11 MUST HAVE BEEN AN INSIDE JOB.
As I said, individuals whose entire lives, throughout their schooling, and under the constant bombardment of the mass media, was one long indoctrination to believe in bullshit, get BURIED SO DEEP UNDER BULLSHIT, that they have no reasonable chances to ever dig themselves out. They were already born in a cesspit of corruption, and their little lives are surrounded by bigger and bigger, deeper and deeper, cesspits of corruption, going on and on, like Chinese boxes, or Russian dolls, nested inside each other. They live their entire lives inside of circumstances whereby they will be rewarded for agreeing with bullshit, but will be punished, if they do not. They will enjoy short-term success, if they agree with LIES, but that will eventually, in the longer term, destroy them, and their whole society.
When it comes to the question of food and drugs, and the control of society by the best organized criminals, the single simplest symbol, and most extreme example is, of course, hemp. Hemp seeds are the best plant source of food for human beings, and most other animals, because hemp seeds have more and better protein and oil than any other plant source. However, all cannabis cultivation was completely criminalized, on the basis of the laws asserting that "marijuana is almost as bad as murder" The FACT that marijuana has NEVER killed anyone was NOT relevant, except in the sense that huge lies work better as propaganda than smaller lies. THAT illustrates the nature of the profit from junk food, and profit from disease systems, whereby enormous corporations control Americans. Since the whole world is dominated by LIES, everything is BACKWARDS. The worst foods and drugs are massively subsidized, while the best foods and drugs are not subsidized, but rather suppressed. Behind those LIES are law enforcement powers, funded to the tune of tens of billions of dollars, year after year, to make sure that those LIES continue to be triumphant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VibVIRsHnI0
WAR ON HEALTH - The FDA's Cult of TyrannyTherefore, when Americans make "choices" to eat junk that makes them obese, and so forth, the entire history of those things always tracks back to the triumph of organized crime taking control of the Federal Government of the USA, and thereafter using those powers to brainwash Americans to believe in bullshit, and back that bullshit up with violence. Even the strongest characters have an extremely difficult time resisting that, and often suffer personal tragedies when they try. Meanwhile, most of the weaker characters are effectively destroyed by believing in bullshit too totally, so that they never question it. Therefore, their personal lives end up based on making "choices" to eat junk food, and then be treated for the diseases that result in ways the backfire against them, but which do make more profit for the evil Fraud Kings, and their Friends, the banksters, and their corporations.
THE PERPETUAL PROBLEM IS THAT THERE WILL BE FINAL FAILURE FROM TOO MUCH "SUCCESS" AT CONTROLLING CIVILIZATION WITH HUGE LIES. Inside that overall context, the individual tragedies of each person that gets obese, and gets sick, and suffers, and dies prematurely, is one more small bit, adding to the mountains of social insanity and suffering, building and building inside of America today! A world in which one billion people are obese, while one billion are starving, is obviously an insane world, controlled by HUGE LIES. Unfortunately, the almost total triumph of those LIES make deeper truths about human ecology practically impossible to publicly discuss. The runaway triumph of the Fraud Kings running the REAL human ecology makes saner discussions of human ecology become impossible. The paradox of all of medicine being secretly situated INSIDE of militarism enables impossible ideals to be promoted, which inevitably backfire, and make the opposite happen. Thus, the obese get the government to pay private corporations to supply them with electric chairs, and every aspect of the situation sickens more over time. The Fraud Kings and their Friends are making profit from selling junk food, at high prices, through fantasy cultures, and then make more profit from treating the resulting sicknesses.
However, I again point out the obvious, that we should NOT go through the process of understanding that reality IS controlled by the murder system, and then collapse back the same old bullshit that there should not be any murder system at all. IF we have a "real world," then, by definition, there must be some murder system. Therefore, IF we want to talk about medicine, and the ways that our food should be our medicine, and that junk food is often the root source of diseases, then we MUST put medicine inside the context of militarism, where it ALREADY IS!!!
Brainwashed Americans need to overcome many, many levels of their brainwashing. They need to overcome level after level of their indoctrination, through an apparently infinite tunnel of deceits. What we have today is the hyper-bizarre manifestation of BUSINESS in the food and medical areas, where the basic fundamentals of the ways that we understand that BUSINESS is profoundly wrong. America is operated through a secret and denied money/murder system, which makes insane "profits" by destroying itself! The genuine resolutions should not be, and could not be, contunuing to say that no such system should exist! We should admit that medicine IS inside militarism, and thereby understand the BUISNESS MODEL that is actually directing the enormous agribusiness and medical industries. Those things all need radical paradigm shifts, to do what they do better!
heyas RadMaryJ,
here's hoping my highlighted words in your post weren't taken as pointed (at you, or anyone), they were merely used as a baseline.
this post above is an excellent rant that I wish you'd consider tweaking for submission here - the whole "financial" side of the cube has been poked 'n' prodded with intent, but I agree with you, there's more to research, more aspects to point to, and from. understanding just how pervasive the mind-fuck actually is, definitely leads to a type of insanity merely trying to navigate the system, let alone try to understand it (not possible, IMHO). your posts always mention the backstory, which shows you've a mind that can deal with seemingly random outliers, and know the importance along a timeline.
you'd generate a great comment thread, and I daresay you'd be willing to jump in and referee - which would be hella entertaining, if nothing else. I hope you consider it.
meantime, I'll continue to scroll to thread end & see if you're around.
peace.
"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from its profits or so dependent on it s favors, that there will be no opposition from that class." Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863
The reasons for obesity in the US are mostly chemical. Iodine is part of a group of chemical elements called "halogens". The rest of these are chlorine, fluorine and bromine. Another is astatine, but this is a short-lived radioactive isotope, and is not relevent. We are not made to ingest much chlorine, fluorine, or bromine, as our natural environment does not contain much of any of them. But of course, our tap water has much chlorine in it, and fluoride (a salt of fluorine). Bromate (a salt of bromine) is used as a preservative in processed foods. All processed foods are made with chlorinated and fluoridate water, and I have heard they are going to eliminate iodized salt, the only source of iodine for many people. As these elements are lighter than iodine, they displace iodine from the body. Which interferes with thyroid function. Iodine is also a co-factor for various proteins in the body which regulate metabolism, and when we ingest the other halogens, they take the place of iodine as co-factors. Which causes the proteins to malfunction in their role as regulators of metabolism. We absorb much chlorine and fluoride from showering or bathing also.
In addition, there are endocrine disruptor chemicals such as tert-butyl phenol and bisphenol-A which cause obesity, among other problems. These are platic compounds used in most food container linings and many fluid containers for things people consume internally. These are a prime cause of diabetes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor
Then there are Aspartame, MSG and glutamate, all pof which cause a variety of disease, but especially metabolism disorders. They overstimulate the nervouse system, which is a problem. They also make processed food taste much better than it would otherwise, which keeps people coming back for more. Thus people aalso ingest more chlorine and fluoride. http://aspartame.tripod.com/alexfear.htm These chemicals also damage the mind, making people the couch potato idiots we know so well today.
And, after my comments on the halogens and endocrine disruptor chemicals and glutamate analogs, yes, I do believe their use is purposeful. I strongly believe, very much so, that those in power knew, years in advance, what these chemicals would do to people, and did this all on purpose. To make a populace of fat, stupid people that would be pushovers for a global dictatorship. One popular myth that should be corrected: the primary organization that campaigns against fluoride states that, while the Nazis might have known what fluoride does to the brain and mind, they did NOT emloy it anywhere, even in concentration camps. That was left to "democracies" and communist countries to institute. Some of us are somewhat immune to this chemical warfare. Not enough, unfortunately. We're f***ed, just on this basis alone.
Huuum.
How interesting about the Nazis. I had failed to find any refs to them using Sod.Flu, now I see why.