2010-03-18

Banned in 160 Nations… Yet U.S. FDA Regards it as Safe?

Vatic Note:  One of the places where all of us are under attack, besides those that are obvious, is our very surivival needs in the area of Water, Food, and air.   All of these are under attack, through GMO's seeds, Chemtrail poisoning,  illegal and legal drugs in our water supply along with much much more, including chemical poisoning of our bodies.   Vatic has decided to start two programs this Friday, the first is a column on Social Credit to be run Friday, each week for our education and consideration for when we experience the coming collapse and the other is the attack on our health, bodies and our very lives.  So watch each day for something related to either food, water or air.   Feel free to comment and share any additional info you may have.

Source:  Dr. Mercola's Newsletter

Title:    Banned in 160 Nations… Yet U.S. FDA Regards it as Safe?

By:       by Dr. Mercola, provided to vatic by Jim Kirwan, contributor

Date:    March 06 2010
A livestock drug banned in 160 nations and responsible for hyperactivity, muscle breakdown and 10 percent mortality in pigs has been approved by the FDA.


The beta agonist ractopamine, a repartitioning agent that increases protein synthesis, was recruited for livestock use when researchers found the drug, used in asthma, made mice more muscular.

Ractopamine is started as the animal nears slaughter.

How does a drug marked, "Not for use in humans. Individuals with cardiovascular disease should exercise special caution to avoid exposure. Use protective clothing, impervious gloves, protective eye wear, and a NIOSH-approved dust mask" become "safe" in human food? With no washout period?

The drug is banned in Europe, Taiwan and China, and more than 1,700 people have been "poisoned" from eating pigs fed the drug since 1998, but ractopamine is used in 45 percent of U.S. pigs and 30 percent of ration-fed cattle.

Former head of CDC lands lucrative job as president of Merck vaccine division (opinion)

Source:    Natural News

Title:   Former head of CDC lands lucrative job as president of Merck vaccine division (opinion)

http://www.naturalnews.com/027789_Dr_Julie_Gerberding_Merck.html
By:    Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Date:    03/2010

(NaturalNews) You've heard it before, how the pharmaceutical industry has a giant "revolving door" through which corporations and government agencies frequently exchange key employees. That reality was driven home in a huge way today when news broke that Dr. Julie Gerberding, who headed the CDC from 2002 through 2009, landed a top job with Merck, one of the largest drug companies in the world. Her job there? She's the new president of the vaccine division.

How convenient. That means the former head of the CDC was very likely cultivating a relationship with Merck all these years, and now comes the big payoff: Heading up a $5 billion division that sells cervical cancer vaccines (like Gardasil), chickenpox vaccines and of course H1N1 swine flu vaccines, too.

Wow!!!!! The Serfs and Slaves are Restless, Something in the Air

Vatic Note:   This is presented, not for the fact that congress is being outed, since its always a horse race between horses owned by the same bankers/foreign interests.   but we are presenting it for the fact that THE PEOPLE DID IT THROUGH RECALL which can be done anywhere in the world that elections are held.   This is especially for those of you who have joined our People to People initiative.   We are working on various mechanisms to adopt for our mission and agenda, and this showed up to prove "we can take power back" and we must and we will.   Save this and watch for the list coming out for your input, changes or recommendations.  It will be along these very lines, actions by people at the grassroots that can be effective AND must be GLOBALLY to have any impact.  .  

Source:  WND  Provided by Fernwood.

Title:   Something In the Air: Tea parties win key victory in ousting Congress


http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=128385
By:   Drew Zahn


Date:  March 16, 2010


10:48 pm Eastern

Tea partiers in New Jersey have moved one step closer to ousting a sitting U.S. senator that they say has shown "a total disregard for the people's wishes."


New Jersey Tea Parties United and the Sussex County Tea Party have joined forces to try an unprecedented way of sending a message to Washington: removing a senator through a recall vote.

A three-judge appellate panel ruled today that the New Jersey secretary of state must accept the tea partiers' notice of intent to recall Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and allow their joint recall committee to begin collecting the voter signatures needed to put the senator's name back on the ballot, two years before his term is supposed to end.

New Jersey is one of a handful of states that allows for the recall of its congressmen, thanks to a constitutional amendment New Jersey voters approved by a 3-to-1 margin in 1993.

Senator Christopher Dodd's financial reform bill to give huge powers to Federal Reserve

Vatic Note:   Many of you have been with me for years and have memories of some of the experiences I have shared.  Remember the first bail out when I called Dodds office and faxed over to his staff proof of fraud through lehman bros, the fed res, and US treasury paulson?   The staffer took the info and passed it around, I called back and asked what they thought of the proof and it ws the first time he was not very open while before he was enthusaistic about getting such proof.   I asked what the agenda on the bail "really" was, and he would not answer (at least he didn't lie) and finally, knowing he would not answer, I asked point blank "IS THIS ABOUT GLOBALIZING?)  and he said "YES"  and ended the conversation. 
This bill must be fought with every ounce of our energy, since this will place our entire financial system economically,  digitially, chipping in lieu of currency, etc, in the hands FULLY AND PERMANENTLY OF THE ROTHSCHILD BANKING CONSORTIUM and remember they are the real crown of britian, so we are then back under Empire once again.  THIS MUST BE FOUGHT.   Dodd is leaving as the traitor he is. 

Source:   Reuters,  NY Daily News,  provided by Jim Kirwan

Title:   Senator Christopher Dodd's financial reform bill to give huge powers to Federal Reserve


http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2010/03/15/2010-03-15_senator_christopher_dodds_financial_reform_bill_to_give_huge_powers_to_federal_r.html?print=1&page=all


By:    staff
Date:       3/15/2010

The Federal Reserve would gain new powers over non-bank financial firms and keep much of its authority over banks under a new bill to be unveiled on Monday by the Senate's architect of financial reform.


In a turnaround for the central bank after months of public criticism, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd was poised to release a bill that leans heavily on the Fed to fix the U.S. financial system, sources said on Sunday.

Not only would a new government watchdog for financial consumers be housed within the Fed, it would also retain much of its present authority over large bank holding companies and gain new authority over selected non-bank financial firms.

Sources said the Fed would also continue supervising smaller, state-chartered banks now in the Fed system -- a change from an earlier proposal that would have transferred those banks to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. supervision.

The plans could yet change, sources said, with weeks to go before Congress completes its long debate on regulatory reform after the worst U.S. financial crisis in generations tipped the economy into recession and shook markets worldwide.

With Republicans and bank lobbyists working to weaken and block new rules, the push for reform could fail in the Senate. That would hurt Democrats and President Barack Obama as they head into November elections already short on achievements.

But the release on Monday of Dodd's bill will move the Senate closer to a decisive vote.

2010-03-17

Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’

Source:  Information clearinghouse

Title:   Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25008.htm
By:    By Sahil Kapur, Raw Story


Date:  03-17-2010

March 17, 2010 "Raw Story" -- Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU.


The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet. The ACLU described it as a fax sent by David Addington, then-counsel to former vice president Dick Cheney.

In the message, the officials denied the bipartisan commission's request to question terrorist detainees, informing its two senior-most members that doing so would "cross" a "line" and obstruct the administration's ability to protect the nation.

"In response to the Commission's expansive requests for access to secrets, the executive branch has provided such access in full cooperation," the letter read. "There is, however, a line that the Commission should not cross -- the line separating the Commission's proper inquiry into the September 11, 2001 attacks from interference with the Government's ability to safeguard the national security, including protection of Americans from future terrorist attacks."

Is an in theatre US soldier an Enemy Combatant based on a song he wrote?

Vatic Note:  Please click on the VAIW link below title and help the IVAW to help mark now.  Thanks.   My question is, how many more are out there like that.  WE MUST BRING THESE MEN HOME NOW.   Non cooperation is the only way.   

Source:  VAIW

Title:   Is an in-theatre US soldier an Enemy Combatant based on a song he wrote?
http://www.ivaw.org/node/5851
By:      Vets against the Iraq War
Date:     03-2010

After filing an official complaint over inadequate mental health services at Ft. Stewart, Georgia, Army SPC Marc Hall was jailed on December 12, 2009 on the pretext of an angry song about “Stop-loss” he produced in July 2009. The Army has recently shipped SPC Hall to Kuwait where he remains jailed awaiting a virtually secret trial.


Marc needs our help if he is going to have adequate legal representation and mental health support in Kuwait.
IVAW is partnering with Courage to Resist to raise awareness and funds for Marc Hall.

https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d1/default.aspx?wid=30624  

   
Letter from Army SPC Marc Hall, February 20, 1010:

I never thought that I would join the Army only to one day be incarcerated by the Army. I have never been to jail in my life, until now. The Army is charging me with Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, “communicating threats” towards my chain of command. Yet I was only communicating how I felt about what I have experienced in the Army and how I felt about the Army’s “Stop-loss” policy. That policy meant that I could not leave the Army when I was supposed to, and after I had already served in Iraq for 14 months.

I guess this all started with a hardcore “rap” song I made about the Army’s very unpopular “Stop-loss” policy back in July 2009. Like any “rap” or rock song, I was expressing my freedom of expression under the US Constitution. Being that the Army’s “Stop-loss” policy was a Pentagon decision from what I had heard on the news, I decided to send a copy of my song directly to the Pentagon.

“This is Starting to Get Dangerous”

Source:       Harpers

Title:    “This is Starting to Get Dangerous”

( US soldiers can't win in Iraq, Afghanistan thanks in part to Israeli intransigence )

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/03/hbc-90006710
By:    Scott Horton
Date:

Last week, Vice President Joe Biden was publicly slapped in the face by the Netanyahu government during his trip to Jerusalem. The Israeli government used the occasion to announce the settlement of 1,600 Israelis in Arab East Jerusalem, in defiance of America’s calls for a freeze on settlements. According to a report in Yedioth Ahronoth, Biden responded: “This is starting to get dangerous for us. What you’re doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional peace.”


Now in a fascinating briefing note at Foreign Policy, Mark Perry gives us a clearer sense of what Biden was thinking:

On Jan. 16… a team of senior military officers from the U.S. Central Command (responsible for overseeing American security interests in the Middle East), arrived at the Pentagon to brief Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The team had been dispatched by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus to underline his growing worries at the lack of progress in resolving the issue. The 33-slide, 45-minute PowerPoint briefing stunned Mullen. The briefers reported that there was a growing perception among Arab leaders that the U.S. was incapable of standing up to Israel, that CENTCOM’s mostly Arab constituency was losing faith in American promises, that Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing U.S. standing in the region, and that Mitchell himself was (as a senior Pentagon officer later bluntly described it) “too old, too slow … and too late.”

2010-03-16

Sen. John McCain wants to allow U.S. citizens to be arrested, held indefinitely

Source:   Virginia Beach Conservative Examiner

Title:    Sen. John McCain wants to allow U.S. citizens to be arrested, held indefinitely


By:   Dave Gibson
Date:   03-12-2010

Last week, John McCain introduced a bill into the U.S. Senate which, if passed, would actually allow U.S. citizens to be arrested and detained indefinitely, all without Miranda rights or ever being charged with a crime.


The stated purpose of S. 3081 (The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act) reads: “To provide for the interrogation and detention of enemy belligerents who commit hostile acts against the United States, to establish certain limitations on the prosecution of such belligerents for such acts, and for
other purposes.”

The bill has nine co-sponsors including Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA).

Section 5 of S. 3081 states:

“An individual, including a citizen of the United
States, determined to be an unprivileged enemy belligerent
under section 3(c)(2) in a manner which satisfies Article
5 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of
Prisoners of War may be detained without criminal
charges and without trial for the duration of hostilities
against the United States or its coalition partners in which
the individual has engaged, or which the individual has
purposely and materially supported, consistent with the
law of war and any authorization for the use of military
force provided by Congress pertaining to such hostilities.”

This bill, introduced by McCain, who despite overwhelming evidence, claims to be a “conservative,” would not only take away our right to a trial, but would also allow the federal government to arrest and imprison anyone the current administration deems hostile.

Of course, that would be the same administration whose Homeland Security Secretary has classified veterans, retired law enforcement, Ron Paul supporters, and conservatives as “terrorists.”

If it was not clear before, it should be now that John McCain has as little respect for the Constitution as he does for our borders.




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Rebellion in America heats up as 5th state exempts guns

Source:   World Net Daily

Title:    Rebellion in America heats up as 5th state exempts guns
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=128035
By:   Bob Unruh
Date:     March 15, 2010


9:11 pm Eastern

A fifth state – South Dakota – has decided that guns made, sold and used within its borders no longer are subject to the whims of the federal government through its rule-making arm in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and two supporters of the growing groundswell say they hope Washington soon will be taking note.

South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds has signed into law his state's version of a Firearms Freedom Act that first was launched in Montana. It already is law there, in Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming, which took the unusual step of specifying criminal penalties – including both fines and jail time – for federal agents attempting to enforce a federal law on a "personal firearm" in the Cowboy State.

The Rothschilds and their 200 years of political influence

Vatic Note: As you can see from the article "What You Didn't Know About Taxes & The 'Crown'", the deep tie in with England has its roots other than what we the people imagined, and thus the explanation for the deep unreasoning tie in with Israel and the Zionists, its all through the Rothschild blood line.   Remember as you read this that Bush Sr, Bush Jr, and 20 other Presidents were and currently are tied in to the royal family through blood relations.  

Why else should we care??? For contemporary reasons such as this past election cycle for President.  Here is an account of what occurred with one of our candidates and the Rothschilds.


Title: The Rothschilds and their 200 years of political influence
By: Andy McSmith
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-rothschilds-and-their-200-years-of-political-influence-969772.html

Nat Rothschild, the financier at the centre of allegations that threaten to engulf the shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, is no stranger to laws which forbid politicians from accepting donations from abroad.

What You Didn't Know About Taxes & The 'Crown'

Vatic Note: The following article explains it fully and I was shocked to find out just how we have not been as free as we thought.   In fact, the fraud perpetrated upon us by the Bank of London and the Queen as been impressive in its intricacy and its success.  This explains it fully.  Thus our enemy is not just the Rothschilds after all.


Title: What You Didn't Know About Taxes & The 'Crown'
By: Mark Owen
Source: http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/taxesandcrown.html

There are two Crowns operant in England, one being Queen Elizabeth II. Although extremely wealthy, the Queen functions largely in a ceremonial capacity and serves to deflect attention away from the other Crown, who issues her marching orders through their control of the English Parliament. This other Crown is comprised of a committee of 12 banks headed by the Bank of England (House of Rothschild). They rule the world from the 677-acre, independent sovereign state known as The City of London, or simply 'The City.'

Born Again American

Vatic Note:   The third part of the Queen of England is still in research, but will be up today,  so please enjoy this interlude as the "uplifting" that we all can use right now and consider having something like this done in your own country, and in every nation on earth.  Contact your artists within your nation and show them this video and every nation produce one for massive distribution to your people and have them see the hope that we can experience WHEN WE ALL COME TOGETHER NATIONALLY, REGIONALLY AND GLOBALLY AS "PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE".    We CAN change the world.   The input on the mission statements are starting to come in, and they look great.  Strategy and tactics will be out next for input.  Sign up now to help within your own country.  The email for sign up is at the top to the right of the screen.   Thank you all who have responded to our request for involvment... its happening and even I can't believe the level of response we have gotten.... THIS IS GOING TO WORK.  

Source:   Provided by Reclusive - Montana

Title:     Born Again American
            http://content.bornagainamerican.org/baa_video.swf
By:       Various Americans from every race, religion, and walk of life and culture
Date:    Received 3/16/2010

Click on the link and listen and read.   
http://content.bornagainamerican.org/baa_video.swf




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The Murderous Mossad and 9-11

Title: The Murderous Mossad and 9-11
By: Christopher Bollyn
Date: Mar 4, 2010

The Israeli Mossad murder of a commander of the military wing of the Hamas (the democratically elected government of Palestine) is just one more provocation by the right-wing Zionist extremist government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu.  The Israeli provocations on the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem are designed to foment a conflict in which the Israelis will escalate the violence.  This is an extremely dangerous and illegal strategy which the United States and world should use every effort to arrest and prevent.  Newspapers from the region are in agreement that Israel is acting to escalate the conflict and foment a war in the region:

Israel's plan to swallow Palestine has reached a peak... its project is to wipe Palestine from the map... an escalation rather than a settlement is looming in the region.
Al-Vefagh editorial (Iran)

The fresh Israeli aggression against the sanctity of the al-Aqsa mosque, and the attacks on worshippers by the Israeli security apparatus, represent the latest in a series of Israeli escalations over the past few weeks... they show that [Israel] is determined to escalate and even expand the conflict.
Al-Quds editorial (Palestine)

The US silence shows that ongoing attempts to resume negotiations have stalled and that those might have to wait until after a new Palestinian intifadah or even war.
– Talal Akwal in Al-Ayyam (Palestine)

America's Secret Prisons

Title: America's Secret Prisons
By: Stephen Lendman
Date: 3-16-10

On January 28 in TomDispatch.com, Anand Gopal headlined, "Night Raids, Hidden Detention Centers, the 'Black Jail,' and the Dogs of War in Afghanistan," recounting unreported US media stories about killings, abductions, detentions, interrogations, and torture in "a series of prisons on US military bases around the country." Bagram prison, for example, is "a facility with a notorious reputation for abusive behavior," including brutalizing torture and cold-blooded murder.

Even worse is the "Black Jail," a facility consisting of individual windowless concrete cells with bright 24-hour lighting, described by one former detainee as "the most dangerous and fearful place" in which prisoners endure appalling treatment.

The pattern is predictable. US/NATO convoys are attacked or reports of Taliban forces are received. Americans respond accordingly, rounding up suspects, mostly innocent civilians, and detaining them for interrogations, torture, abuse and degrading treatment - not just in Afghanistan but in secret black sites globally, according to a January 26 UN Human Rights Council (HRC) report detailing practices engaged in by various countries including America, by far the world's worst offender in its war on terror - one waged against humanity for unchallengeable power and total global dominance.

2010-03-15

The Queen of England is the largest LANDOWNER IN THE WORLD - part 2

Vatic Note: Be sure to rewatch the video that leads up to this three part series. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMdw24f0XmA

Source:  Who Owns the World - Vatic commentary
             
 Title:        The Queen of England is the largest LANDOWNER IN THE WORLD - part 2


Date:  3/15/2010

Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth’s non ocean surface.

She is the only person on earth who owns whole countries, and who owns countries that are not her own domestic territory. This land ownership is separate from her role as head of state and is different from other monarchies where no such claim is made – Norway, Belgium, Denmark etc.

The value of her land holding. £17,600,000,000,000 (approx).

Who owns Britain? Biggest landowners agree to reveal scale of holdings

Source:    The British paper - "The Independant"

Title:    Who owns Britain? Biggest landowners agree to reveal scale of holdings -  Part I 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/who-owns-britain-biggest-landowners-agree-to-reveal-scale-of-holdings-443956.html
By:   Robert Verkaik, Law Editor


Date:   9 April 2007

Before reading this article, please, please, first watch this video all the way through to understand these next three articles you are going to read.   This video is the best job i have seen in laying out exactly how this all works in the most scholarly presentation.    Its a foundation for understanding all of what is happening to us globally.   Then please read the rest of this article and the next two in this series. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMdw24f0XmA


A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully

Title: A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully
By: Marc Ambinder
Date: Mar 5, 2010

Why is the national security community treating the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration's choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt? A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity. Read the bill here, and then read the summarized points after the jump.

According to the summary, the bill sets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals to be held in military custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided with a Miranda warning.

A leading Japanese politician espouses a 9/11 fantasy

Bruecke Notes: When you can't address the issues, attack the messenger. Make note of the character assassination at work, as well as the overt bias of the author when phrases like "too bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus to merit serious discussion" are inserted. 

Title: A leading Japanese politician espouses a 9/11 fantasy

YUKIHISA FUJITA is an influential member of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. As chief of the DPJ's international department and head of the Research Committee on Foreign Affairs in the upper house of Japan's parliament, to which he was elected in 2007, he is a Brahmin in the foreign policy establishment of Washington's most important East Asian ally. He also seems to think that America's rendering of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is a gigantic hoax.

The People We Pay to Look Over Our Shoulders

The People We Pay to Look Over Our Shoulders
By ERIC LICHTBLAU

Published: February 22, 2010

At this very moment analysts at the National Security Agency some 30 miles north of the White House are monitoring countless flashpoints of data — cellphone calls to “hot” numbers, an e-mail message on a suspicious server, an oddly worded tweet — as they carom around the globe like pinballs in cyberspace.

The snippets of information could conceivably lead them to Anwar al-Awlaki, a fugitive cleric in Yemen whose fiery sermons have inspired violent jihadists. Or to the next would-be underwear bomber. Or, much more likely in the needle-in-a-haystack world of cyber detection, it might lead to nothing at all — at least nothing of any consequence in determining Al Qaeda’s next target.

This is the world of modern eavesdropping, or signals intelligence, as its adherents call it, and for many years it operated in the shadows. “The Puzzle Palace,” the 1983 best seller by James Bamford that remains the benchmark study of the N.S.A., first pulled back the curtain to provide a glint of unwanted sunlight on the place. And the years after the Sept. 11 attacks — a period in which the surveillance agencies’ muscular new role would lead to secret wiretapping programs inside the United States, expansive data-mining operations and more — gave rise to public scrutiny that made the place a veritable greenhouse of exposure.

Full El Al flight took off on 9/11 from JFK to Tel Aviv

Full El Al flight took off on 9/11 from JFK to Tel Aviv
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Mar 16, 2010

(WMR) -- WMR has learned from two El Al sources who worked for the Israeli airline at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport that on 9/11, hours after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded all civilian domestic and international incoming and outgoing flights to and from the United States, a full El Al Boeing 747 took off from JFK bound for Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport.