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Open Letter on Corruption:

You are the two people I believe are the most committed to positive constructive change in San Antonio.
Here are a few items I would like to change. Probably the three of us cannot impact any of these problems
1. Since last Tuesday the filing of Obama’s impeachment filing, there has not even been mentioned by any major outlet, except for one small article on worldnet daily
2. Obama should be removed from the ballot in every state because he was born in Kenya, was introduced as a foreign exchange student named “Barry” until his 20s and used a forged selective service registration, and fake social security number of some 89 year old lady in Connecticut.
3. Eric Holder ordered guns and drugs shipped to Mexican drug cartels and blamed the second amendment under a code name “Fast and Furious”
4. Jon Corzine, a financial advisor for Obama and a former governor of New Jersey stole $ 3billion dollars of customer assets at MF Global while the head of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was on the phone with Corzine, and then sent the money to JP Morgan Chase in London, then said no one could find the money, and was not punished for this theft. Less educated people have stolen a six pack of beer from a convenience store and ended up in prison for years, even though they were mentally retarded.
5. Leon Panetti and the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Congress they do not need a declaration of way from the Congress to invade Syria, but report directly to the United Nations and NATO.on Tuesday, March 6, 2012
6. Warren Buffets bank Wells Fargo made 377.84 Billion.from among other things laundering drug money. They have paid fines $160 million dollars. In the event that they do not get caught again by next March, prosecutors will drop all charges against Wells Fargo. Meanwhile because the Obama Administration has refused a Presidential permit for Keystone Pipeline to be built, Warren Buffet, the owner of Burlington Northern Railroad will obtained billions of dollars profit from shipping oil to Red China on the railroad.
Any one of these activities is unAmerican and should be stopped at some juncture. I have had two computers crash this week alone. I wonder why? Could it be exposure of corruption?

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Healthcare Reform still Broken. Do you know anyone who can help me fix it in an emotionally intelligent manner? Let me know please
Below is an article from the Center for American Progress. Everything written then remains true. Healthcare is still in need of drastic reform. I am asking for referrals of someone you know who can help me get a Health Rerform package together in Washington, D.C. the same dates the Supreme Court will knock down “Obamacare” Some new program has to replace the currently broken Health system. The World ealth Organization says thaty Healthcare in the United States is number 37 in all the countries in the world.
Article below The Center for American Progress:http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/02/pdf/we_need_reform.pdf

Obama was born in Kenya. Obama should be removed from the ballot in Rhode Island, Maryland, Utah, Arizona and Texas. The so called long form birth certificate is a Photoshop amateurish forgery, as was his so-called Selective Service Registration. If Attorney General Eric Holder endorses Mitt Romney, he should also support this action under the Tenth Amendment

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Former radical activist Bernardine Dohrn and her companion William Ayers leave court in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1981. Dohrn received a $1,500 fine and three years probation for her role in the ‘Days of Rage’ disturbance in Chicago in 1969.AP Photo

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

 

While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.

 

Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.

 

“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”

 

Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.

 

Obama’s connections to Ayers and Dorhn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Obama to their home — part of a campaign courtship — reflects more extensive interaction than has been previously reported.

Neither Ayers nor the Obama campaign would describe the relationship between the two men. Dr. Young described Obama and Ayers as “friends,” but there’s no evidence their relationship is more than the casual friendship of two men who occupy overlapping Chicago political circles and who served together on the board of a Chicago foundation.

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But Obama’s relationship with Ayers is an especially vivid milepost on his rise, in record time, from a local official who unabashedly reflected a very liberal district to the leader of national movement based largely on the claim that he can transcend ideological divides.

 

In one sense, Obama’s journey toward the cultural and political center is not unusual among national politicians. But its velocity is.

 

Politicians of an earlier generation had their own relationships with figures now far to their left. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for instance, interned at a radical San Francisco law firm while in law school.

 

On the other side of the political spectrum, many in the generation before hers shifted dramatically on civil rights. John McCain voted against creating a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and later called that a mistake.

 

The relationship with Ayers gives context to his recent past in Hyde Park politics. It’s milieu in which a former violent radical was a stalwart of the local scene, not especially controversial.

 

It’s also a scene whose liberal ideological features — while taken for granted by the Chicago press corps that knows Obama best — provides a jarring contrast with Obama’s current, anti-ideological stance. This contrast between past and present — not least the Ayers connection — is virtually certain to be a subject Republican operatives will warm to if Obama is the Democratic nominee.

 

The tension between the present and recent Chicago past is also evident in some of his positions on major national issues. Many national politicians, including Clinton, have moved toward the center over time. But Obama’s transitions are still quite fresh.

 

A questionnaire from his 1996 campaign indicated more blanket opposition to the death penalty, and support of abortion rights, than he currently espouses. He spoke in support of single-payer health care as recently as 2003.

 

Like many of the most extreme figures from the 1960s Ayers and Dohrn are ambiguous figures in American life.

 

They disappeared in 1970, after a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.

 

Both have written and spoken at length about their pasts, and today he is an advocate for progressive education and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she’s an associate professor of law at Northwestern University.

 

But — unlike some other fringe figures of the era — they’re also flatly unrepentant about the bombings they committed in the name of ending the war, defending them on the grounds that they killed no one, except, accidentally, their own members.

 

Dohrn, however, was jailed for less than a year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating other Weather Underground members’ robbery of a Brinks truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed.

 

“I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in 2001.

 

And their rehabilitation in establishment circles, even in Hyde Park, has its limits.

 

Though he is a respected figure in liberal educational circles, Ayers wrote recently about how in 2006 he was informed he was persona non grata at a progressive educators’ conference in the summer of 2006.

“We cannot risk a simplistic and dubious association between progressive education and the violent aspects of your past,” he quoted the conference organizers, whom he described as friends, as writing to him.

 

But the couple has been embraced, by and large, in the liberal circles dominating Hyde Park politics.

 

“Bill Ayers is one of my heroes in life,” said Sam Ackerman, a longtime local activist. “I knew Tony Rezko, and he ain’t no Rezko.”

 

But others in Hyde Park, whose intellectual and political life revolves around the University of Chicago, view the couple with ambivalence.

 

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Sustainable Food Procurement
and Agricultural Policy
JH. eHaaltrhv iCe aerte aPl.revention and Sustainable Ag Policy JAMIE HARVIE,1 LESLIE MIKKELSEN,2 and LINDA SHAK2
1Institute for a Sustainable Future, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
2Prevention Institute, Oakland, California, USA
Health care leaders are broadening their awareness to include the
need to address the food system as a means to individual, public,
and global health, above and beyond basic nutritional factors.
Key voices from the health care sector have begun to engage in
market transformation and are aggregating to articulate the
urgency for engagement in food and agricultural policy. Systemic
transformation requires a range of policies that complement one
another and address various aspects of the food system. Health
care involvement in policy and advocacy is vital to solve the
expanding ecological health crises facing our nation and globe
and will require an urgency that may be unprecedented.
KEYWORDS sustainable agriculture, policy, climate change,
food, hospital, health care, prevention, nutrition
INTRODUCTION
Over the last century, we have radically altered the way we produce and
distribute food. The transformation of our food and agricultural system is
fundamentally affecting the health of our planet and its inhabitants. We are
already experiencing significant impacts in the form of increased antibiotic
resistant bacteria, poisoned air and water, and foodborne pathogens. Rural
communities and farm-based economies are collapsing and we are in the midst
of epidemics of both obesity and malnutrition. Moreover, the increasingly
energy-intensive industrialized agricultural model is a significant contributor
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to climate change, accelerating a feedback loop with resultant negative
impacts on food production, human health, and ecosystem resilience.
Food production, distribution, and procurement intersect a wide variety
of issues. Economics, immigration policy, spirituality, agriculture and trade,
culture, environment, and nutrition are but several of the myriad of concerns
associated with the food we grow and eat. And because food is a fundamental
human need, there is a strong cross section of organizations and
interests involved in food and agricultural policy and practice. There is perhaps
no issue that has such a wide depth of actively involved interests. The complexity
of interests requires a systems, or ecological, approach. By taking an
ecological approach, we can attempt to see the complexity of interrelationships
and hopefully provide a more useful analysis of the system.
An understanding of these complex relationships gives us an opportunity
to restore control over a situation that has pervasively influenced the health
of humans and our environment. The concurrent crisis in the US health care
delivery model provides the perfect opportunity for the health care community
to adopt a new primary prevention agenda that is focused on food
system policy. Agricultural policy and climate change policy play such an
influential role in food system design that key voices across the health care
sector can articulate the urgency for engagement in policy development and
legislative advocacy, areas that have heretofore not been considered.
This new agenda is close at hand. We are now experiencing an awakening
to the intricate relationships health care has with food production and
ecological health. Health care leaders are broadening their awareness to
include the need to address the food system as a means to individual,
public, and global health, above and beyond basic nutritional factors. And,
the co-benefits to ecological health and the financial health of our health
care system are now increasingly recognized by health care leadership.
THE INDUSTRIAL FOOD SYSTEM—IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH
Historically, farmers and farming played a pivotal role in stewardship of the
land because the health of the land and their livelihood were mutually interdependent.
Their personal success (and by extension, the success of their
communities) was inextricably linked to the farmers’ understandings of the
complex interaction of ecological processes. Healthy communities require
healthy ecosystems, characterized by functions and systems that allow the
maintenance of biodiversity, biotic integrity, and ecological processes over
time.1 The technologies provided by industrialized agriculture such as commercial
fertilizers, pesticides, and antibiotics afforded farmers the ability to
circumvent natural systems. A historical knowledge and understanding of
the land slowly became supplanted by a knowledge and relationship with
technology. In short, a tremendous shift has occurred in the nature of farming
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and agriculture with respect to the roles they play in the protection of ecosystem
health and ultimately human health. Fundamental ecological
processes have been interrupted. The shift has transpired over the last 60
years and has resulted in a predominance of large farms producing single
commodities requiring significant inputs. Large multinational food corporations
battling for consumers’ food dollars characterize the system. And we
have shifted from a being a society in which most people ate whole local
foods to one that eats highly packaged and processed foods transported
over great distances.2 We are now experiencing the strains throughout our
health care system. Though obesity is one health crisis, a wide variety of
hidden health crises resulting from current agricultural practices are equally
at play. These impacts have been well documented and include water and
air pollution,3–6 decline of socioeconomic health,7–10 pesticide-related health
impacts,11,12 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and antibiotic
resistance.10,13–19 A comprehensive overview of these issues is available
in “Redefining Healthy Food: An Ecological Health Approach to Food
Production, Distribution, and Procurement” in a paper presented at a Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation–sponsored conference.20 These impacts to
human health from industrialized food production and distribution methods
are both direct and indirect. Importantly, the majority of these impacts are
interrelated and caused directly or indirectly by our intervention in and
disruption of feedback loops regulating natural ecological processes and
systems.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FOOD SYSTEMS, CLIMATE,
AND HEALTH
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warming of
the climate system is now unequivocal, and evidence from all continents
and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by
regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases.21 The direct
and indirect impacts to human health are not inconsequential, including
asthma, loss of life, the range of infectious disease vectors, respiratory diseases
and allergies, and impairment of childhood development.22,23 In 2003,
more than 35,000 people died in Europe as a result of heat stress.24 Clearly,
the health care system will be required to carry a significant burden in treating
climate-related health care costs.
About 30% of global emissions leading to climate change are attributable
to agricultural activities, including land use changes such as deforestation.25
Industrialized agriculture methods are fossil fuel intensive; the US food
system accounts for an estimated 10.5% of the nation’s energy use and 19%
of its fossil fuel consumption.26 Industrialized food production is helping
promote climate-related health threats.
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A variety of changes to our food system have resulted in a highly consolidated
food system characterized increasingly by a loss of small and midsized
farms.2 If present trends continue, mid-sized farms, together with the
social and environmental benefits they provide, will likely disappear in the
next decade or two.27 It is predicted that the result of this consolidation will
be 6 multinational retail firms determining not only the size of America’s
farms but the type of management decisions made on those farms.28 Similar
to other global business models, the commercial interests that drive these
large consolidated firms are based on 3 primary business objectives: the
development of supply chains, biological manufacturing (or industrial food
processing), and the reduction of transaction costs.29 This increasing concentration
of size and decision making has resulted in a food and agriculture
system that is highly linear and contrary to what is recognized at most
effective at coping with system stress. As the Swedish Ministry of Environment
and others have recognized, we will have to increase the resilience of
our socio-ecological systems considerably if we are to cope with future
climate change and other components of global change.30 “Biodiversity
plays a crucial role in ecosystem resilience by spreading risks, providing
‘insurance,’ and making it possible for ecosystems to reorganize after disturbance.
A diversified decision-making structure at local, national and international
levels is critical to building resilience in social-ecological systems.” (p. 5)30
As described, the global industrial food system lacks resilience. It is
highly concentrated, linear, and, as a result, fragile, less able to deal with
system shock. In reports sponsored by the United Nations, the World Bank,
and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), they recognized that, “Effective
adaptation will require significant evolution of the current market-based
drivers and the institutional incentives that set directions for agricultural
knowledge science and technology. Innovations in policy, infrastructures
and the ‘rules of the game’ to focus greater attention generating and delivering
public goods . . . will be needed.” (p. 4)31 Our food system is driven by
an industrial economic model that abhors inefficiencies and redundancy. It
centralizes decision making and concentrates rather than redistributes
wealth. Over the last several decades we have seen the growth of large
packing plants, confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), and national
distributions centers. Instead of promoting a food system (and associated
socio-economic system) that will be better ability to withstand and adapt to
the predicted shocks of climate change, we have instead evolved one that
has highly fragile to predicted disruptions.
A HEALTHY FOOD SYSTEM
No matter how we try to distance our food production from natural processes,
the foods we produce are dependent upon delicate processes in a
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complex system that has evolved over time. Pollinators, nitrogen-fixing bacteria,
microbes, temperature and light variations, etc, all play a role in intricate
biological processes. For approximately the last 60 years, we have
experimented with an attempt to impose an industrialized approach to agricultural
production and the larger food system in which it is contained. And
the system has responded with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, morbidity and
mortality from nutrition-related diseases, water and air pollution, and food
marketing. From a public health perspective, our current system has failed.
We need a new approach for food production and distribution with a health
focus. Such a system will be preventive in nature and provide the capacity
for self-renewal. By recognizing the linkages between human and global
ecology, we can envision a food system that works to support health and
we can work to implement this vision by rewarding and supporting agricultural
and public policy in service of health.
HEALTHY FOOD
Though a variety of other indicators may exist, we propose that healthy
food is derived from a food system that provides food that is healthy for
consumers, the workers that grow it, and the environment that sustains us
would be represented by the following principles32:
• Proximate—originating from the closest practicable source or the minimization
of energy use;
• Healthy as part of a balanced diet and not containing harmful biological
or chemical contaminants;
• Fairly or cooperatively traded between producers, processors, retailers,
and consumers;
• Nonexploiting of employees in the food sector in terms of rights, pay,
and conditions;
• Environmentally beneficial or benign in its production (reduced inputs
such as pesticides, fertilizers, energy use, etc.);
• Accessible both in terms of geographic access and affordability;
• High animal welfare standards in both production and transport;
• Socially inclusive of all people in society;
• Encouraging knowledge and understanding of food and food culture.
And perhaps the most important principle is that agriculture should conform
as closely as possible to natural systems. As will be discussed, a growing
body of research demonstrates the viability of these types of agricultural
practices.
Contrary to longstanding belief, considerable evidence shows that our
current industrialized model of large monoculture is paradoxically less
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productive than smaller scale, sustainable production. In fact, small farms
are more productive than large industrial farms.33 As a result of various efficiencies,
if we are looking at food production per acre in tons, calories, or
dollars, such as intercropping, the polycrop is far more productive for all
farm sizes.34 Farms that rely on fewer inputs (petroleum-derived fertilizer,
pesticides, etc.) are more efficient in land use, nutrients use, and energy and
cost less to maintain than chemical intensive monocultures.35,36 A variety of
studies from around the world reveal that low external input (LEI) or
organic farming (farming without synthetic inputs) can produce as much as
and sometimes much more than conventional farms37–39 and, contrary to
some misconceptions, produce adequate global supply.40 A recent study on
organic methods in Africa led the Executive Director of the United National
Environmental Program to suggest, “The evidence presented in this study
supports the argument that organic agriculture can be more conducive to
food security in Africa than most conventional production systems . . . it
offers not only improved food security, but also an array of other economic,
environmental, health and social benefits.” (p. iii)41 In summary, we know
that alternative agricultural systems not only can provide us with enough
food but also that sustainable systems provide a host of tangible co-benefits
to personal, community, and global health. Societal drivers are needed to
help transition our current food system.
HEALTH CARE’S OPPORTUNITY
The creation of a healthy food system is not a simple task, cannot be done
overnight, and is not the role of one sector. The health care community,
which includes practitioners, hospitals, and health systems, and health plans
cannot do it alone. Yet, as the evidence suggests, it is intuitively obvious
that health care and the public health community must play leadership
roles. Historically, they have risen to the task. For example, success was
achieved in advancing policy and legislation to remove lead from paint and
fuel. Health care has provided leadership in raising an awareness of the
dangers of tobacco smoking. Hospitals and health care systems advanced
the first smoke-free environments, and the American Medical Association
called for divestment of cigarette company stock. Over the last 10 years,
health care has laid the groundwork for national comprehensive mercury
elimination by promoting awareness of mercury as an ecological health
concern and by reducing and almost completely eliminating mercury use in
health care. This has been achieved through support for mercury legislation,
comprehensive education and advocacy, and implementation of alternatives
by health systems and nursing and medical organizations. In short, through
engagement in education, market-based strategies, and policy changes, the
health care community has been at the forefront of making important public
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health advances. As we shall discover, over the last several years, there has
been a growing assumption of similar health care leadership through the
adoption of new purchasing policies, education, advocacy, internal policy
changes, and more. By no means does this change yet dominate the health
care landscape or necessarily represent the majority of thinking. But we
propose that adequate groundwork has been laid for the US health care
community to leverage this momentum, assert its moral authority, and
employ its political capital in the service of a healthy, or ecologically
sustainable, food system.
FOOD SYSTEMS AND HEALTH CARE’S NEW RELATIONSHIP
The years 2005–2009 may be recognized as the development phase of
health care’s new relationship with food and health. As we will describe,
health care professional organizations began to adopt policies and resolutions,
hospitals began to adopt food procurement policies to support local
and sustainable supply chains, and hospitals and health systems began to
educate their patients, staff, and visitors about the relationship between
food production and health. The obesity crisis did not lose momentum and
efforts within health care facilities at improving nutrition continued, yet a
new context, the food system began to emerge. Following is an overview of
some of the significant changes in health care’s developing understanding
of the relationship between the food system and health.
EMERGING HEALTHY FOOD AND HEALTH CARE LEADERS
In 2005, several efforts coalesced to form what might be recognized as
health care’s first foray into addressing food from a systemic perspective. At
that time, both Catholic Health Care West and Kaiser Permanente (KP) promulgated
vision statements that include the aspiration to “provide healthier
food in a manner that promotes agricultural practices that are ecologically
sound, economically viable, culturally appropriate, and socially responsible.”
(p. 1)42 They defined healthy food “not only by nutritional quality, but
equally by a food system which is economically viable, environmentally
sustainable and which supports human dignity and justice.” (p. 2)43
Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), the campaign for ecologically sustainable
health care, is a global network of over 450 public health, nursing,
environmental, labor, and health care organizations. In 2005, HCWH
launched its Healthy Food in Health Care Initiative and quickly introduced
to the marketplace, the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge. Without
encumbering facilities with mandates, hospitals pledge to initiate a healthy
food system approach. The pledge sends an important signal to the market-
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place and policy-makers about their interest in local, nutritious, sustainable
food. Signatories agree to initiate steps to work with local producers, procure
local and/or sustainable foods, educate their community on the link
between food production and health, and minimize and compost food
waste.44
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION SUPPORT
In 2007, an American Dietetics Association task force published a primer,
which pointed to identification of opportunities to link emerging roles for
food and nutrition professionals with principles of sustainable practice and
means to promote partnerships and collaboration with local and state agencies
and organizations.
In 2007, the American Public Health Association (APHA) passed a policy
statement “Toward a Healthy, Sustainable Food System,”45 which laid out a
variety of public health concerns associated with our current industrialized
model, including but not limited to antibiotic resistance, pesticides, and
energy intensity. The comprehensive APHA policy urged support of environmentally
sound agricultural practices to reduce pesticide contamination,
resource use, and climate change, in addition to improved food labeling for
country-of-origin and genetic modification and a ban on nontherapeutic
antimicrobial and arsenic use. It recognized the urgency of transforming our
food system to promote environmental sustainability, improve nutritional
health, and ensure social justice.
In 2007, the California Medical Association endorsed a similar resolution,
“Improving Health Through Sustainable Food Purchasing.”46 It encourages
hospitals to adopt policies and implement practices that increase the purchasing
and serving of food that promotes health and prevents disease.
Included are meat and dairy products produced without nontherapeutic
antibiotics, food grown on nonindustrial agricultural operations, and food
grown according to organic or other sustainable methods. Finally, it calls on
physicians and other health care professionals to serve as models and educators
by participating in and promoting a healthier and more sustainable
food system.
In 2008, the American Nurses Association recognized this same relationship
between food production and health and endorsed a resolution
“Healthy Food in Health Care,”47 calling on their profession to advocate for
policies that will support local, sustainable agricultural, to encourage health
care institutions to commit to a sustainable food purchasing policy, and for
nurses to serve as role models and educators.
In addition, in 2008 the World Medical Association endorsed a resolution
supporting sustainable food systems, as did the Minnesota Academy of Family
Physicians, through their resolution “Improving Health Through Sustainable
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Food Purchasing.”48 The Academy, in an effort to identify and champion
model hospitals, has sent letters to Minnesota hospital administrators and
food service directors, encouraging them to sign the Healthy Food in Health
Care Pledge and to serve nutritionally healthy and sustainable foods (personal
communication, January 14, 2009).49
In 2009, the American Medical Association approved a policy in support
of practices and policies within health care systems that promote and
model a healthy and ecologically sustainable food system that “provides
food and beverages of naturally high nutritional quality.” Importantly, the
AMA also supported a directive that encourages, “the development of a
healthier food system through the US Farm Bill and other federal legislation”
and that the “AMA consider working with other health care and public
health organizations to educate the health care community and the public
about the importance of healthy and ecologically sustainable food systems.”50
And following on the AMA endorsement of the findings of the United
Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2009 the World Health
Organization (WHO) and Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) released a report
on global health care climate mitigation strategies that included a key recommendation
to support and promote local, sustainable food production.51
HEALTHY FOOD AND THE HEALTH CARE SUPPLY CHAIN
Health care has realized its importance within the food system not only
because of the tremendous resource it allocates to treating food- and nutritionrelated
disease but because it plays a critical role through its considerable
food budget. Hospital food is big business. In 2004 alone, the top health
care group purchasing organizations (GPOs) purchased approximately
$2.75 billion worth of food.52 The total health care market for food and
beverages is about $12 billion.53 Though patient food receives considerable
attention in the media, cafeteria and catered food make up the largest percentage
of food in the budget, accounting for approximately 55% to 70% of
hospital volume.52 Hospitals and hospital systems are now becoming aware
of their ability to use their purchasing dollar to affect change in the marketplace.
Demand by health care facilities is creating momentum within the
GPOs, who, until recently, were completely unaware of food system issues.
As a result of hospital-driven demand, GPOs and distributors are offering
and labeling products in food catalogues and are now contracting for sustainable
products. Yet hospitals are also recognizing a variety of hurdles at
the distribution level. For example, food service departments typically order
from their distributor’s electronic catalogue, but these sophisticated databases
provide almost no information on which products have been sustainably
produced. Hospital systems are driving a change of contract language
for more disclosure. In early 2009, CHW announced a new purchasing
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policy geared toward the avoidance of genetically engineered (GE) foods
and were beginning to survey GE policies of their suppliers. And now one
of the top GPOs is requiring GE disclosure from its suppliers. Hospitals
around the country have been building model internal policies and practices
and working to change the supply chain by incrementally implementing
preferential procurement polices serving local grass-fed beef, fair trade
coffee, and organic fruit and vegetables.
We have witnessed these considerable changes in the health care supply
chain within the last few years. Yet, the complexity of a systems approach,
compounded by the current financial crisis, has provided tremendous challenges
for these organizations attempting to change our existing agricultural
model and food supply chain. Still, by July 2009 over 250 hospitals had
signed the HCWH Food pledge providing a significant aggregation of the
health care understanding of the relationship between food, agriculture, and
health and commitment to action. Furthermore, with the adoption of the
AMA Policy on Food Systems, it can be argued that the varied community of
professionals that make up health care had arrived at a new level of awareness
and readiness to engage in a serious and fundamental transformation
of our food system. To facilitate this transition successfully, a combination
of market-driven supply chain and policy changes will be necessary. For
this to occur, it will be imperative that the health care community understand
where, and how, to take action and engage in the policy arena.
HEALTH CARE AND FOOD POLICY
Unquestionably, if we are to solve the expanding ecological health crises
facing our nation and globe, the health care community is going to have to
become much more involved in policy and advocacy with a voice and
urgency that is unprecedented. Significantly, these changes in health care
and society will require more than small changes in behavior. As Dr. David
Pencheon, director of the United Kingdoms National Health System Sustainable
Development Unit, shared when announcing the dramatic elimination
of meat from UK hospitals menus, “This is not just about doing things more
efficiently, it’s about doing things differently, because efficiency is not going
to get us to big cuts. . . . What will health care look like in 2030–2040 in a
very low carbon society? It will not look anything like it looks now.”54
Policy is a critical tool for shifting the food system to help reverse the trend
of spiraling health care costs, widening health inequalities, and rising rates of disease
related to food and food production. Health professionals, in partnership
with other sectors, have an extremely important role to play in achieving the
public policy changes that will create a sustainable food system able to meet
environmental, nutritional, and social goals. Widely recognized as experts, health
professionals bring tremendous credibility and influence to the conversation.
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Two critical pieces of federal legislation—the United States Farm Bill
and the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act—influence agricultural
production, community food retail, school lunches, and more. Both pieces
of legislation are up for reauthorization every 5 years, and it is essential that
health care leaders provide input to ensure that they support healthy diets,
are ecologically protective, and foster a sustainable agricultural economy.
Increasingly, climate change policy will play a role in advancing both
mitigation and adaptation strategies and it will also be important for policymakers
to include the food system in climate legislation. Climate change
policies that provide incentives for farmers to switch toward organic and
sustainable practices will be important. From an adaptation perspective,
policies that promote decentralized decision making with respect to agricultural
practices and policy, recognize right to water and food as a basic
human right, and regulate food and agriculture concentration and monopolistic
practice are essential.
A broader agenda—complementary policies addressing various aspects
of the food system—is also needed. Public policy at the local, state, and
federal levels can help to create a healthful food system that is sustainable,
safe, and accessible to all.55
POLICIES TO SUPPORT A SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM
What farmers grow, how they grow it, and how it gets to our tables has a
profound impact on what we eat, our health, and our environment. Sound
agricultural policy is therefore the starting point for sustainability.
Our current federal food policy provides subsidy payments for the commodities
corn, wheat, and soybeans, products ultimately used for animal feed
and as ingredients in our highly processed food supply.56 The 2008 Farm Bill
allocated $41.6 billion to Commodity Title Programs. Alternative policy is
needed to reward and incentivize farmers to produce healthful products and
to support small and mid-sized farmers who struggle to make a living.
To operate viable businesses, farmers need training and ongoing
support; marketing assistance and opportunities; access to land, water, and
other inputs; and credit. State and local policies that support farmers’
markets and farm-to-institution programs create local markets for agricultural
products and help farmers earn a living wage. This includes investing
in production, processing, and distribution infrastructure for local farms.
This practice allows small and mid-sized farmers to aggregate their products
and provide light processing, such as precut vegetables or washed fruit, to
allow them to sell to large institutions and retail establishments.
Another important aspect of preserving the farming profession is protecting
farmland through agricultural district programs, growth management laws,
agricultural protection zoning, and mitigation ordinances. For example, an
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ordinance in Davis, California, requires one acre of farmland to be permanently
protected for every acre of agricultural land developed for commercial or residential
use. At the federal level, the 2008 Farm Bill’s Farm and Ranch Lands Protection
Program helps farmers and ranchers keep their land by providing
matching funds to localities working to protect agricultural land.57
Policy can also directly promote sustainable agricultural production practices
that protect human health and the environment. Reducing pesticide use is
a key health priority,12 as well as a critical strategy for preserving the environment.
A major priority includes support for farmers to transition to organic agriculture
or, at the least, to utilize pesticides less intensively.58 This can be
achieved by expanding federal USDA programs such as EQIP (Environmental
Quality Incentives Program), which sets aside funds for organic conversion, as
well as by lobbying the EPA to ban highly hazardous pesticides. Locally, the
Organic Conversion Resolution in Woodbury County, Iowa, provides property
tax rebate incentives for farms that stop using pesticides and adopt methods
that meet the standards of the USDA National Organic Program. Regulatory policy
is needed to regulate CAFOs in order to protect local water sources, prevent
antibiotic resistance, and reduce pollution and the promotion of gene transfer
and human flu.10 A 2008 report by the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal
Production outlined policy recommendations, including improving federal,
state, and local enforcement of existing regulations; relocating facilities in order
to protect the health of neighboring residents; and developing a new, more rigorous
system to deal with farm waste and its health impacts. To this end, Congress
should examine and strengthen the role of the EPA, the USDA, and the
FDA.10 State, county, and local decision makers can implement zoning and siting
laws regulating proposed CAFO operations.10
POLICIES TO KEEP FOOD SAFE
From spinach to peanut butter to pet food to hamburgers, outbreaks of
foodborne illness have garnered attention in recent years. One important
policy target is the Federal Food and Drug Administration, the regulatory
body for all foods other than meat, poultry, and eggs (which fall under the
Department of Agriculture). Important improvements include granting the
FDA authority to (1) set standards for food processing and on-farm safety;
(2) monitor and inspect for standards compliance; (3) detain food from distribution
and issue food recalls as necessary; and (4) penalize manufacturer
violations.59 Together, these steps would minimize foodborne outbreaks.
In addition, transparency is needed around food labeling and false
health claims. Consumers want transparency about their food in order to
make informed purchasing decisions—what is in their food, how it is
produced, how animals are housed, and what additives, chemicals, and
hormones are being used. Many food manufacturers label packaging with
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misleading terms to link products with healthful or green qualities. Expanding
the FDA’s authority to address claims on product classes, rather than
only on individual products, would enhance the agency’s capacity to
protect the public from misinformation.
Increasing rates of antibiotic resistance in humans is making otherwise
treatable illnesses harder to treat; the use of nontherapeutic antibiotics in meat
and poultry production contributes to this problem. The European Union has
taken a stand in addressing this problem by banning the use of nontherapeutic
antibiotics in animal feed.60 The United States has yet to follow suit,
although legislation has and will again be introduced at the federal level.
POLICIES TO INCREASE ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOOD
The availability of healthy foods—in grocery stores and restaurants, in schools,
and on the job—can be seen as the hallmark of a thriving community that supports
the health of its residents. Yet in the United States today, access to
healthy foods is marked by inequities. In many communities of color and lowincome
neighborhoods, it can be particularly difficult, if not impossible, to find
fresh, high-quality fruits and vegetables and other nutritious foods. These inequities
take their toll on health, because residents with better access are more
likely to consume healthier foods and less likely to have diabetes.61,62 Policy
approaches can increase the availability of healthy food availability by ensuring
healthy food retail in disadvantaged communities and providing lowincome
residents with additional resources to purchase healthy food.
Government investment can provide financing and technical assistance
for supermarkets, grocery stores, and other healthy food retailers looking to
open in underserved communities. Pennsylvania’s Fresh Food Financing initiative,
passed in 2004, has so far provided $38.9 million in grants and loans
for healthy retail projects, resulting in the creation of 50 stores that offer
fresh foods, 3723 jobs, and 1.2 million square feet of floor space. Initiatives
are now beginning in other parts of the country, and federal legislation is
under consideration. Additionally, at the local level, public agencies can
aggressively recruit potential stores and provide financial and regulatory
incentives, site-related assistance, expedited permitting, and tax breaks, all
of which can help stimulate grocery store development and improvements.
Federal nutrition programs provide critical nutrition support for lowincome
families in the United States. The Federal Child Nutrition and WIC
Reauthorization (CNR) Act and the Farm Bill determine guidelines and funding
for a range of critical food assistance programs that serve as important nutrition
sources to children and low-income families and provide families with
additional resources to buy food.
Child Nutrition Programs operate with limited resources to provide
healthful and appealing meals in schools. A key policy proposal centers on
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increasing federal reimbursement rates for school meals and then leveraging
them to enhance nutrition standards as part of the 2009 Child Nutrition
Reauthorization Act. Such a policy can also improve schools’ selection of
commodity foods and support locally grown produce. Additionally, the
upcoming Child Nutrition Reauthorization will most likely establish federal
standards for “competitive foods,” food and beverages sold outside of
school meals, including in vending machines, at snack bars, and through
fundraisers. Unlike school meals, competitive foods are not required to
meet federal nutrition standards, and current USDA statutory authority to
regulate competitive foods is limited.63 The Institute of Medicine (IOM)
report Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools urged schools to establish
standards for the nutritional value of competitive foods (e.g., amount of fat,
sugar, and calories), to limit products with caffeine and nonnutritive sweeteners,
and to set rules about when competitive foods may be sold during
the day and how they may be used at fundraisers and as student rewards.64
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and
Children (WIC) provides free nutritious foods, nutrition education, and
access to health and social services to low-income pregnant, postpartum,
and breastfeeding women, as well as to children up to 5 years old. The
National WIC Association (NWA) is working to ensure that funding
increases to meet a surge in demand due to economic recession.65
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the
Food Stamp Program, is the primary hunger mitigation program in the
United States. It provides monthly benefits through an electronic benefit
transfer (EBT) card, which can be used to buy foods and beverages at
authorized outlets. New rules adopted in the 2008 Farm Bill increased benefits,
bringing SNAP closer to what families actually need to purchase healthful
foods. Despite this success, ongoing advocacy will be necessary to maintain
and expand these federal benefits, as well as to simplify the application
process and increase community outreach.
Increasing access to nutritious food is essential for improving the nutritional
quality of US diets. At the same time, we must reduce the overall
consumption of energy-dense highly processed foods if we are going to
improve health outcomes. One important influence on the consumption of
these unhealthful food and beverage choices, especially among children, is
food and beverage marketing.66 In 2005, the IOM issued a seminal report, Food
Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity? which concluded that
“food and beverage marketing practices geared to children and youth are out of
balance with healthful diets and contribute to an environment that puts their
health at risk.” (p. 374)66 Though the United States lags behind other countries
in its attempts to address marketing to children, the IOM report has led to calls
for legislation to limit the exposure of children to advertising messages for
unhealthful foods and beverages. Advocacy efforts are underway to establish
federal regulations on interactive advertising and digital marketing (a currently
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unregulated arena) aimed at children to help curb the amount of advertising as
well as the collection of their personal information. Localities or states can take
action by eliminating all commercial messages in schools or restricting marketing
for food and beverages that do not conform to school nutrition standards.
TAKING ACTION
There is no lack of good policy ideas and models. Policy change results
from an active and engaged community. For example, in 2008, nurses concerned
about the use of rBGH (an unnecessary hormone given to dairy
cows to promote milk production) began a letter writing campaign asking
yogurt producers Dannon and Yoplait to stop purchasing milk produced
with rBGH, they wrote letters to their state nursing journals, and sent letters
to state legislators asking for enforcement of labeling laws. Hospitals sent
letters asking dairy users to use milk produced without rBGH and to their
distributors asking for rBGH-free milk. By the Fall of 2008, both Dannon
and Yoplait announced they would stop using rBGH milk and a variety of
states maintained label disclosures. Though this was a national initiative that
also had tremendous grassroots support, there is reason to believe that
engagement by the health care community helped change the nature of the
debate. This epitomizes the face of health care engagement in practice and
policy. That professional organizations have passed resolutions or policy
actions is not enough; doctors and nurses must educate one another, hold
their professional organizations accountable for the implementation of these
policies, and ask that these organizations engage in lobbying and political
advocacy. They might ask their organizations to end those relationships that
are inconsistent with the promotion of healthy, nutritious, sustainable foods.
For example, in 2008 the American Dietetics Association welcomed Coca-Cola
as a major corporate sponsor, clearly a mixed message for those interested in
health promotion. Nurses and doctors can educate their patients, write letters
to their legislators, and ask that their hospitals support the aforementioned
policy actions. Nurses and physicians can encourage and champion hospital
practices that model and promote healthy food systems. The physician voice
is essential in this regard. Hospitals can work individually or through their
association to lobby and engage in policy debate. They can meet with legislators
to propose and support policy. Hospitals can support the Healthy Food
in Health Care Pledge, provide information to their patients, and educate their
community through their Web site, and more. The Health Plan community
can provide incentives to those hospitals and plan members who model and
promote a healthy food system, through membership in communitysupported
agriculture food box programs, and through changes in cafeteria
and inpatient meals. Importantly, health care actors must also recognize their
shared interest with other public interest groups and work together.
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CHALLENGES
We are at an important juncture. We are experiencing a host of health impacts
from a food system that exacerbates health care’s financial crisis. The public
has little understanding of where and how its food is produced. Paradoxically,
the obesity crisis may be the blessing that propels us to step back and examine
the big picture. By approaching this crisis with a systems model and applying a
health lens, we can begin to address a host of health concerns through preventive
interventions and to build a new food system—a healthy food system. It is
only appropriate that health care be the messenger. In the last few years, we
have begun to witness an important awakening to these issues within the
health care community, driven in large part by several leading health care institutions,
individual health care practitioners, and now finally professional health
care organizations. Though significant, these efforts are not enough to fully
move some of the most important levers of change in the supply chain and
public policy. We now need an ability and willingness to act with urgency.
There will also be challenges. Many of the financial costs to the health
care system from our current food production system are hidden or have
been purposefully externalized. Though we know that the costs associated
with antibiotic resistance,67–69 pesticides,11,12 and obesity2,70 are significant,
and unquestionably negatively impact the cost of health care, we do not
have a sufficient economic analysis to understand the magnitude of these costs
to engage the health care community from a strict economic perspective.
Health care is accustomed to technological fixes and tends not to
“reward” primary prevention. The breadth and burden of the obesity crisis
may be big enough to awaken health care to the need for a systems approach.
By contrast, sustainable agriculture is part of a food systems approach that
requires less technological inputs, though still very much dependent upon
science and knowledge transfer.
As a result of government policy inaction on climate change between
2001 and 2008, we have not experienced as rich a discussion on climate
change and associated impacts as other countries. The UK National Health
Service has adopted a climate action plan with target reduction goals and
associated mitigation and adaptation strategies. These include the elimination
of bottled water and support of local, sustainable foods. It is likely that they
have recognized the paradox that an energy intensive health care model
promotes an increasing cycle of global warming gases, followed by human
and public health impacts, followed by even more health care delivery.
CONCLUSION
Until recently, humans have been able to dissociate their activities from ecological
processes. The air, water, and land have carried the burden of these
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activities. As our population and activities have increased, we now have little
room for error or disregard. We are reminded from the recent United Nations
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, “At the heart of this assessment is a stark
warning. Human activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of
Earth that the ability of the planet’s ecosystems to sustain future generations
can no longer be taken for granted.”71 We are beginning to fathom that we
cannot be healthy on an unhealthy planet and that we have little time to act.
Over the last 60 years we have developed a food system that superficially
appears very efficient. This food system is dependent on a practice of
agriculture completely at odds with the functioning of natural systems. We
have developed synthetic inputs, decreased diversity, and contaminated the
food web. We have evolved a food system that supports and has accelerated a
high technology industrialized agriculture, which is now out of control, critically
affecting cultural, social, and ecological systems. We have arrived at a
crossroad. We can choose to continue to intervene and tweak an incredibly
complex network of relationships and feedback mechanisms and to hope
that we understand these dynamic intricacies that have evolved over eons
of time, or we can advance an agricultural model that works in concert with
these ecological processes. Health care leaders are now beginning to play a
decisive role in advancing a food system that is healthy for patients, communities,
and the planet. Moreover, these leaders recognize that ultimately,
such a system is imperative for human, community, and global health. The
question remains whether we will act with appropriate urgency.
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The Problem / GLOBAL DOMINATION AGENDA
Introduction

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

-Martin Niemoeller
By Foster Gamble 

What is keeping us from thriving? After a lifetime journey of pursuing that question, my research revealed that a small group of financial elite have gained control over key areas of our lives – energy, food, health care, education and more – and are the single greatest threat to humanity’s ability to thrive. 

As I researched the problems in each Sector of human activity, I came to the shocking realization that virtually every problem we face is human-caused. But then I realized what good news this actually is. If there were a comet plummeting toward Earth or the planet was careening out of orbit we would be at a loss as to what to do. If, on the other hand, people caused it, we have a better chance of being able to fix it as we wake up, expose corruption and align with natural principles.

It is not that humans are incapable of thriving. It’s that we’ve been duped into a system that is designed to consolidate wealth and power, rather than provide a real opportunity for people to thrive. By exposing this agenda, strategically challenging deceptive systems such as central banks and fiat money, and coming up with new ways to organize and cooperate, we can obsolete this destructive agenda and liberate our planet and our true human potential.

At first, an agenda to control others was hard for me to consider. But as I spent many years getting myself educated about it, many things that hadn’t made sense began to fall into place. A different story began to emerge which, horrible as it was to consider, actually explained more than ever before and provided a feeling achieving some traction in what I could do about our predicament. I came to realize the desperate drive to dominate others is based in a worldview of scarcity and fear. The controlling elite seem to believe the only options are to control, or be controlled, and realizing that gave me a better understanding of why they have chosen their current route. Now it is up to the rest of us to transcend this destructive belief system and show that we are capable of governing ourselves… that we actually can thrive.

WHAT is the Global Domination Agenda?

The global domination agenda is a plan by powerful private bankers to take over all our primary systems (money, energy, food, media, etc.) and to establish a sole global authority – with themselves in charge. They use the media, central banks, multinational corporations, governments, major foundations, and international agencies such as the IMF and World Bank to implement their strategies. So far they have successfully brought down countries across the globe, including Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, Tanzania, Indonesia, Brazil, Poland, Mexico, Bolivia, Thailand, Iceland, the Soviet Union, Japan, Greece and scores of others. They are now attempting to dismantle the U.S. by collapsing the dollar and making sure Americans are in debt they can’t repay. 

This pyramid shows the basic structure of control. The financial elite are at the top. They use international and national central banks to control corporations (which they loan to at special rates), manipulate national economies and hence their governments, and get everyone in debt to the bankers.

Regular working people, who produce most of the real wealth on this planet, are at the bottom of the pyramid. As of 2007, the richest 2% of adults owned more than 50% of the global assets[1] and as of 2010, one out of every seven people didn’t have enough to eat.[2]

Material wealth and resources continue to funnel up to the financial elite, while domination and control come down through the international banking structure and the corporations and governments below them. It’s important to note that the strength of the pyramid is in its base. As people wake up and withdraw their support, the corrupt money structure will lose its control.

Conspiracy

Conspiracy: an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot. (dictionary.com)

Until recently, the controllers have been quite successful at insulting the idea that there might actually be conspiracies going on. “Conspiracy theorists… wackos…paranoid nut cases.” It has been made socially unacceptable to challenge big lies that we are told, because someone might make fun of us. But “conspiracy THEORY” has been turning into “conspiracy ANALYSIS” and finally into conspiracy FACT. When President George Bush Sr. got busted for covertly selling arms to the Contras, his administration was convicted of …Conspiracy. When the AMA tried to shut down the emergence of Chiropractic, they were found guilty of…Conspiracy. Here are a few more of countless examples of proven conspiracies:

“33 CONSPIRACIES THAT TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE”

And here are some well-informed voices from 20th century history:
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

- Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913)

“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds’ central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.”

- Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University, highly esteemed by his former student, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, in Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time (Macmillan Company, 1966).

“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control…. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”

- Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the crash of a Korean Airlines 747.

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”

- David Rockefeller (2000)

“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.”

- Strobe Talbot, President Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992

“We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent.”

- James Warburg, member of Council on Foreign Relations, in his statement to The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th, l950

“It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in the process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist, to get people to love their servitude.”

- Aldous Huxley, 1962 speech at Berkeley

WHO is Implementing the Agenda?

Efforts to conquer and colonize are as old as history, but it was creating the deception of “monopolized central banking” – where a few individuals get to just make up money out of nothing – and “fractional reserve” lending – where bankers get to lend and charge interest on money they don’t actually have – that gave the elite the means by which they could hope to actually rule the world. The first central bank was the Bank of Amsterdam – founded in 1609 – and then in 1694 King William III teamed up with UK aristocracy to launch the private Bank of England.
Elite private bankers – including the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and Morgans – and members of such secret societies as the Council on Foreign Relations, The Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, and the Royal Institute of Affairs are setting and implementing the current agenda.

*Secret Societies
“The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans. “

- British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1876

“The Council on Foreign Relations is “the establishment.” Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship.”

- Former Congressman John Rarick, 1971

“The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power — political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation states involved. As managers and creators of the system, they will rule the future.”

- U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater in his l964 book: With No Apologies.

Control of currencies is the core of their power methodology. The elite financed Mussolini and Hitler, planned WWI and II, and financed all sides in order to cull the population and consolidate their power. For more than a century, their goal has been to create a single global government. The attempt to create a League of Nations after WWI Was funded by the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds. The plan failed, but was revived as the United Nations after WWII on land in New York gifted by the Rockefellers. As wonderful as it’s made out to be, with its diversity and “peacekeepers,” the UN seems to be the front organization for the One World Authority –with NATO as its militant arm and the World Bank as its financial enforcer. All the organizations below as well as the World Health Organization, The World Trade Organization were created by the Rockefellers, Rothschilds or Morgans.

Only a handful of nations – like Iran, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and until recently Iraq – have not succumbed to the elite’s central banking takeover scheme. This seems to play a major unspoken role in determining the New World Order’s imperialist hit-list, the so-called “axis of evil.”

To see a detailed history of the establishment of the current U.S. central banking system, the suppression of alternatives, and the manipulation of economic booms and busts by these elite private bankers, click here.

To see how these same elite bankers have gained control not only over our money system, but over almost every other sector of human activity, check out the “Follow the Money” section of the site.

As described in the timeline, the Rothschilds are the oldest, wealthiest and most powerful European Central Banking family. Their rise to financial dominance began with Mayer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt, Germany where he set up a finance house.

His five sons were spread throughout Europe in the late 1700s and early 1800s – in Frankfurt, Vienna, London, Naples, and Paris – forming a financial dynasty. In June of 1815, Nathan Rothschild’s secret courier network was the first to make it back to London with news that Napoleon’s French troops had been defeated by the British at Waterloo. Rothschild, who, as usual, had funded both sides in the war, cunningly pretended that the French had won and started dumping British “consuls” on the stock exchange. The market plummeted and then Nathan quietly started buying up everything in sight, and by the time the real news of Britain’s success in the battle reached the public in London, the House of Rothschild had bought control of the British economy. By the mid 1800s they dominated the banking industry, funding people such as the Morgans, Vanderbilts, Carnegies, and Cecil Rhodes.

Source: LCF Rothschild Group
The Rothschilds’ influence spread to the U.S. as well. They financed the house of Morgan and sent associate Paul Warburg, a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to meet with other private bankers on Jekyll Island to secretly draft the Federal Reserve Act that was passed in 1913. This allowed bankers to create 90% of our money supply and loan it out at interest – a sure way to be highly profitable and influential while also allowing private bankers to run the national economy. Indeed, as Mayer Amschel Rothschild once said, “Give me control over a nation’s currency, and I care not who makes its laws.”

The Rothschilds continue to wield tremendous power and control, though virtually always behind the scenes. Some researchers have estimated their fortune today could exceed $100 trillion. (The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part III by Dean Henderson)

A couple of the many palatial Rothschild estates.

Today, N.M. Rothschild & Sons is their main investment banking operation based out of London. It is one of the top 10 global investment banks for M&A advisory. In 2007, they did $566 billion worth of trades, more than 12% of the market share – and this is just what is known publicly. They have banks set up all over the world, making them shareholders in numerous Central Banks and granting them tremendous decision-making powers.
In 1998, Gaylon Ross Sr, author of Who’s Who of the Global Elite, wrote that he had been tipped by a private source that the combined wealth of the Rothschild family was then approximately $100 Trillion and that of the Rockefellers was $11 Trillion.

The Rockefellers are particularly dominant in America. They got started in the 19th century with funding from JP Morgan, who was the American front man for the Rothschilds. John D. Rockefeller was funded to help develop and control oil resources. As oil increased in demand, John D. Rockefeller’s wealth grew and he became the first American billionaire. With this money came a tremendous amount of power and control, not only in oil, but all sectors of society. Much of the family wealth has been funneled through “philanthropic” organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation.

Contributions and funding from the Rockefeller Foundation may look good on the surface, however, the control that comes from it is vast. For example, the current medical model originated with the Rockefeller’s around the turn of the century. In the early 1900’s, John D. Rockefeller set up the Institute for Medical Research that laid the foundation for health research and development.

Then in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation became one of the largest funders of medical research. They hand-picked scientists and doctors who were considered worthy of funding, with a heavy emphasis on pharmacology. This drug-treatment paradigm was carried over into the universities, many of which are still funded or were initially established by the Rockefeller Foundation. In this way, drug-based medical care has become the norm. It’s a similar story in all other sectors, which you can track in the “Follow the Money” section of the site.
In banking, the Rockefeller’s have had an ownership stake in Chase ever since 1930, when they merged the Rockefeller-owned Equitable Trust Company of New York with Chase National Bank. In the 1970s and 1980s Chase Manhattan was run by David Rockefeller. Then Chase Manhattan merged with J.P. Morgan and Co. in 2000.

“For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” 
- David Rockefeller, Memoirs, 2002

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the NY Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost forty years… It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
– David Rockefeller at a meeting in June of 1991 of the Bilderberg Group in Baden Baden, Germany.

“Competition is a sin.”
– John D. Rockefeller

The Morgans – J.P. Morgan was the front-man for the Rothschilds around the turn of the century. He has a history of profiting from crises, as detailed in the timeline above. In both banking panics of 1893 and 1907, he intervened creating the illusion of economic stability while consolidating wealth for his company. J.P. Morgan also benefitted from the Great Depression. When “Black Thursday” hit in 1929 he bought up cheap stocks to “keep the economy afloat.” While people endured extreme hardship, J.P. Morgan walked away with significant financial gains.

Today Morgan’s strategy lives on in Chase and CitiGroup. I believe these banking powerhouses were largely responsible for the most recent economic collapse. They were well aware of their destructive behavior but did nothing to stop it. In the end these banks were bailed out by taxpayer debt and gained huge profits while their competitors went under and people lost their homes, jobs, and retirement funds. I am convinced this was no accident – it was an intentional power and money grab that has happened throughout the course of history.

“Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure.”
- Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, in the July 26th, l936 issue of The New York Times

“…when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people… will hate the new world order… and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.”
- H. G. Wells, in his book entitled The New World Order (1939)

“The government of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which… pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.”
- British military historian Major General J.F.C. Fuller, l941

“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.”
- Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952

“Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means (just as they where in Nazi Germany), unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government – a bureaucratic elite.”
- Senator William Jenner, 1954

HOW is the Agenda Implemented?

Citizens wouldn’t simply stand by and let others take control of their lives, unless it was concealed in some way. Part of the shrewdness behind the agenda is that it is disguised so well that people even contribute to their own demise without knowing it. Most of us end up craving more credit and accepting more taxes to bail out those who are robbing us in the first place. We are giving our money to these elite controllers every time we make a deposit in one of their banks. They have convinced us that not only do we need them, but also that what’s good for them is good for us, and nothing could be further from the truth. Catherine Austin Fitts describes this as a “tapeworm economy.”
The global elite also utilize and sometimes manufacture tragic events to further their control. They do this either through a strategy referred to as “Problem-Reaction-Solution,” the “Strategy of Tension” or the “Shock Doctrine,” or False Flag Operations.

Problem-Reaction-Solution goes something like this:

(1) Create or capitalize on a problem.

(2) Incite a fearful reaction.

(3) Implement an already prepared, and previously unacceptable “solution” that further centralizes control.

False Flag Operations

Another deceptive strategy for consolidating power is “False Flag” Operations – named after the old technique of attacking a group using an enemy’s banner instead of ones’ own to misdirect the ensuing counterattack. These manufactured and often tragic events allow the elite to acquire resources, reap profit from wars, and erode our rights. They are disguised to generate a predictable reaction – public fear – to help serve the controlling interests. Some examples include:

World War I – this war was ignited by a fake terror assassination event of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

The Lusitania – in 1915 was sailed into hostile waters with armaments from the Morgan banking interests hidden in the hold of the passenger ship.[3] The subsequent sinking by German U boats and the loss of thousands of lives was apparently used to awake the anger of the American people to get them into the War.

An intentionally set fire in the German Reichstag building in 1933 enabled the Nazis to set up “emergency laws” as a “crackdown on terrorism” and justify the police state.

World War II – started around a staged attack by the Germans on one of their own radio stations – which they then blamed on the Poles.

There is documented proof that President Franklin Roosevelt knew from decoded Japanese messages, that they were planning to attack Pearl Harbor, but he kept it secret in order to get them to “fire the first shot,” because that would motivate the American population to get into the War in Europe.[4]

Operation Northwoods – in 1962 was a covert CIA operation (now unclassified and fully documented) to paint a plane with Red Cross colors, shoot it down and blame Castro, so the US would have an excuse to invade Cuba. President Kennedy refused to go along with the plan.

Vietnam War – Gulf of Tonkin – Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara acknowledged that the attack of a ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, which was the catalyst for the US entry into the Viet Nam War, actually never happened.

9/11 – The evidence is vast and growing of complicity by some individuals within the US Government and financial sector in the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon. Architects, engineers, physicists, whistle blowers, investigative reporters and filmmakers are all behind a growing 9/11 truth movement (see Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth).

“…the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”
- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

“The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists.”
- J. Edgar Hoover

Covert De-population

The notion of intentional depopulation is difficult to consider. I wrestled with whether to include it in the film and on this site. I am taking the risk of discussing it because I believe that we will not be sufficiently astute in our assessment of what is going on until we allow for the possibility of this perverse reality. Food and water additives, aerial spraying, contaminated vaccines, man-made weather catastrophes through HAARP, and endless wars look different through the lens of depopulation, and the dangers – and our responses to them – can become more informed and leveraged when we dare to face the documented evidence that exists beneath the lies we are told. See the Resource Tree at the bottom of this page for books and links to facilitate your own inquiry.
Eugenics and de-population programs were initiated by powerful families including the Rockefellers, Carnegies and Harrimans at the beginning of the 20th century. Their work inspired later dictators like Adolph Hitler to cull undesirable portions of the populace.[5]

We have been schooled to focus on Hitler as a unique madman who somehow got control of a whole nation by himself, but as is usually the case, it is well documented that Hitler was himself a puppet figure for the international banking cabal that wanted to overthrow Stalin.[6]

The genocidal agenda of the Nazis was forced underground after the defeat of the Germans and their convictions at the Nuremburg trials, but a similar agenda is re-surfacing all around the world in less obvious forms of aggressive elimination of large numbers of people.[7] In fact, many Nazi rocket scientist and mind control experimenters were brought to America under a covert CIA program called Operation Paperclip.[8]

The anonymously created Georgia Guidestones in Elbert County, Georgia, USA, have enshrined the idea that 500 million people is the number that the Earth can sustain.[9]

What methods might the elite be using to involuntarily get rid of people? My research leads me to believe that the vast amount of illness, sterility and death due to the following human created afflictions is no accident:

Irradiation from nuclear plants, depleted uranium weapons, food scanners, airport scanners, cell towers, “smart” meters etc.
Fluoride in our water (The Fluoride Deception, Bryson, Christopher and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3y8uwtxrHo )
Toxic Chemtrails (What On Earth Are They Spraying DVD; www.carnicom.com )
Destructive EM waves (HAARP) in our atmosphere (See Environment Critical Issue section on HAARP)
man-made weather catastrophes, earthquakes and volcanos and tsunamis (See Environment Critical Issue section on HAARP)
Dangerous pharmaceuticals in our bodies and in our waterways
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in our foods (Seeds of Destruction, Engdahl, F. William)
Continual wars of aggression 
Lethal IMF and World Bank “austerity policies” (The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast, Greg)
Man-made pandemics like the Swine Flu, Lyme Disease (Lab 257. Carroll, Michael C.) and AIDS (DNA: Pirates of the Sacres Spiral, Horowitz, Dr. Leonard)
Toxic and sterilizing vaccines like the anti-tetanus one laced with B-hCG, which when given in a vaccine, undermines women’s ability to sustain a pregnancy. The whistle has been blown on this type of covert sterilization in Mexico, the Phillipines, Puerto Rico and various countries in Africa. The dissemination of this vaccine was initiated by the Rockefeller founded Population Council and promoted through UNICEF, with funding from organizations like the Gates Foundation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VG4WibFBPs ) and Procter & Gamble (http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message760430/pg1 ).
The tragic irony, to me, is that evidence is strong that populations tend to stabilize when they have access to prosperity and education, not when they are undermined or attacked.

“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.” – p62

“Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton. (The Aztecs kept a domesticated alien tribe for the purposes of cannibalism. Their regime was totalitarian)” – p63

“At present the population of the world is increasing … War so far has had no great effect on this increase … I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others … If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full … the state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people are indifferent to suffering, especially that of other peoples. Here are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority…” p18
- Bertrand Russell – The Impact of Science on Society, 1953

“…we are in the process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist to get people to love their servitude.”

“…there is evidently a whole class of drugs effecting the CNS [central nervous system] which can produce enormous changes in sedation in euphoria in energizing the whole mental process without doing any perceptible harm to the human body, and this presents to me the most extraordinary revolution. In the hands of a dictator these substances in one kind or the other could be used with, first of all, complete harmlessness, and the result would be, you can imagine a euphoric that would make people thoroughly happy even in the most abominable circumstances.draft of their ‘Global Biodiversity Assessment‘ states there must be a reduction of five billion people.”
- Julian Huxley, Berkeley, 1962

“…we have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3 of its population… In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction…? We should stop putting ourselves in the position of being our brothers’ keeper and refrain from offering moral and ideological advice. We should cease to talk about vague … unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”
- George Kennan, Top Secret Memo PPS23 to the Secretary of State, 1948

In “The First Global Revolution,” published by The Council of the Club of Rome, an international elitist organization, the authors note that: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine, and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention …The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.” 16
- The First Global Revolution, Club of Rome, 1991

“Inaction today could mean that more drastic steps, less compatible with individual choice and freedom, will seem necessary tomorrow to slow population growth.”
World Bank 1984 World Development Report

“…whereas death control is extremely easy under modern circumstances, birth control is extremely difficult. The reason is very simple: death control – the control, for example, of infectious diseases – can be accomplished by a handful of experts and quite a small labour force of unskilled persons and requires a very small capital expenditure.”
- Aldous Huxley, 1959

“U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation”
- Henry Kissinger, 1978

For an in-depth history of Eugenics and the agenda for de-population, see the film, Endgame, by Alex Jones.

Common Objections to the Notion of Conspiracy

Government is too incompetent to pull off such a vast conspiracy and keep it secret.
Pyramid – “need to know” basis

As portrayed in THRIVE, the key to keeping secret an agenda as massive as what I am describing is a “pyramid” structure, a “need to know” system, where people only understand as much as they need to do accomplish their tasks, but no more. That way only the individuals at the top of each pyramid know the full plan. This is the way it works in the secret societies, the CIA, the banks, the major corporations, the military, the media and on and on. Most people involved in fulfilling the Global Domination Agenda would be horrified if they actually understood what they are inadvertently contributing to. Just such a compartmentalized apparatus was what allowed the US’s Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb in secret despite having 130,000 people working on it.

“The great masses of people will more easily fall prey to a big lie than a small one… Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it…”
- Adolf Hitler

Secret Societies

At the top of the Follow the Money pyramid, above even the Bank of International Settlements are the so-called Secret Societies. They are called such because there is little or no information that comes out revealing what got said, done or decided behind closed doors. No press is allowed. Their members are not allowed to take notes, and are sworn to absolute secrecy – often under penalty of death. If the Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission, the Masons, the Priory of Scion, the Council on Foreign Relations, Skull & Bones, the Illuminati, the Committee of 300, The White Brotherhood, the Black Nobility and so many others are really working for the good of all mankind, wouldn’t it be appropriate to see a live feed on TV or the Internet of their discussions and highest level decision making? (See Jim Marrs’ Rule by Secrecy and The Rise of the Fourth Reich, and The Secret Behind Secret Societies, Jon Rapaport, Secret Societies… And How the Affect Our Lives Today by Sylvia Brown)

So what is being kept so secret? My research has shown me that the main things having to be kept from public view throughout history have to do with corruption of money, power and sex.

The most renowned groups seem to meet to allocate money and influence to consolidate power for their own benefit – ultimately feeding the agenda for themselves to rule the world and to keep the rest of the people at bay. The roster and timing of known meetings shows a consistent pattern of this (Jim Tucker’s Bilderberg Diary) and occasional leaked information confirms it. The attendees are the people at the top of the pyramids of banking, media, military, intelligence, government, education, corporations and organized religion – or their agents. When they come out of their meetings, an experienced eye can begin to see the desired stories, candidates, market moves, coups, wars etc. appearing through the tentacles of the networks they command.

But aren’t the Terrorists really out to get us because of our freedom?

“Terrorism” = blowback

With no actual threatening enemy to justify their vast military appropriations and imperialist wars, the would-be controllers have created the bogey-man of “terrorism” instead. Terrorism is not a person, a group or a nation. It is a tactic. When I have “followed the money” upstream behind so-called acts of terrorism, what I have found, virtually always, is blow-back from violent aggression – victimized peoples trying to protect themselves from the invasion of their sovereign nations, the destruction of their cultures and economies, and the killing of innocent people.

In thinking critically, I believe it is vital to consider what is really going on to motivate people to desperate acts – and I certainly don’t see any evidence it is that they “hate our freedom.” It’s worth pondering if the perpetrators of the greatest terrorizing aren’t actually the “shock and awe” controllers themselves.

The world is too big to rule, too complicated to dominate. And besides, if they were trying, we would know about it.

Global Domination Checklist

In trying to assess whether or not such a shocking and dangerous conspiracy as the “GDA” could actually be true, I forced myself to think like a would-be controller and figure out what I would need to take over in order to have a shot at dominating the lives of everyone, everywhere. This was an immensely unpleasant, but profoundly informative and useful process. I realized they would have to try to take complete control over: money, energy, food and water, health, education, media, justice, science, religion, the arts and even the weather. They would have to sicken us, dumb us down, track our every move, hack our voting, steep us in debt and keep us afraid. Unfortunately, as you can read in the various Sectors of this site, that is exactly what they have done…But not entirely.

Fortunately, as of this writing, the elite have not been able to take over the Internet in the western nations and there are a vast number of brilliant computer whizzes out there who have organized to keep that from happening. They have not completely taken over food or health supplements, though their GMO and Codex Alimentarius efforts are vigorous. Such initiatives as organic growing, homeschooling, indy media, alternative currency, holistic health and the “Occupy” movements are booming.

10 Steps to Fascism

Author Naomi Wolf, in The End of America, has researched and outlined the 10 key indicators of when a country is slipping into fascist control. See if these sound hauntingly familiar:

1) Invoke an External and Internal Threat

2) Establish Secret Prisons

3) Develop a Paramilitary Force

4) Surveil Ordinary Citizens

5) Infiltrate Citizen’s Groups

6) Arbitrarily Detain and release Citizens

7) Target Key Individuals

8) Restrict the Press

9) Cast Criticism as “Espionage” and Dissent as “Treason”

10) Subvert the Rule of Law

“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you… you may know that your society is doomed.”
–Ayn Rand, novelist & philosopher, author of Atlas Shrugged

Police State 2.0 Experiment

Author Naomi Klein, in her article China’s All-Seeing Eye, reveals how the Chinese system so admired by David Rockefeller has created a “model city” of the future that gives a chilling vision of where the elite would like to take us. In just 30 years, Shenzen has grown from empty terrain to 21.4 million occupants who are continually subjected to “central planning, merciless repression and constant surveillance.” There are-already over 200,000 cameras in place with 2 million planned. The latest people tracking technologies are a part of “Golden Shield,” a high-tech surveillance and censorship program, and are supplied by the likes of IBM, Honeywell, and GE to create and test a “police state 2.0” on a scale that would still be resisted in America.

If we could just get rid of weapons we could live in a safe world.

Disarmament

As thoroughly committed as I am to non-aggression and even to non-violent self-defense (see Aikido) whenever possible, that does not mean I would stand by and see someone raped or let someone hurt me or another or take their rightfully gained property. America has a history of armed revolt in the face of tyranny. Statistically in America there are about 9 guns for every 10 adults.

Throughout history, when a would be dictator has plans to take over a people, one of the first actions planned is “disarmament.” Always for good sounding reasons of course – such as “for a more peace-loving secure world.” Not only was this true in Germany (1938), Italy and China (1935), but also in Turkey (1911), the Soviet Union (1929), Guatemala (1964), Uganda (1970), and Cambodia (1956). But the outcome is always the same: the state and the crooks keep the weapons and the ensuing police state meets much less resistance.

Australia in 2008 forced gun owners to surrender 640,381 personal firearms for destruction, at a cost of more than $500 million to the taxpayer. In a year, with criminals more confident their victims would be unarmed, homicides were up 6.2%. Assaults were up 9.6%. Robberies were up 44%.

It’s been said that, “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what’s for dinner… and Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”

If there were a hidden agenda to rule the world, we could just get rid of those in charge to stop it.

It’s the Agenda, Not Any One Person

It is critical to realize that the Global Domination Agenda is not dependent on any one person or small group for its survival. It is a worldview institutionalized in man-made laws, kept in place by bribes and threats. It has become in some ways a “legal mafia” because violations of contract integrity, persons and property have been OK’d by legislation. Just a few examples are: fraud and embezzlement (fiat money, swaps, short sales, derivatives, subsidies, bailouts, corporate personhood, etc.) theft (involuntary taxation, eminent domain land seizures), kidnapping (military draft, extraordinary rendition, Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act…), assault (mandatory vaccines, mandatory pesticide sprays, covert Chemtrails spraying, sobriety checkpoints…) torture (“enhanced interrogation techniques”)

So it is the moral basis and transparency of all systems that must be transformed, and no system can be imposed except in true self-defense.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
- Benjamin Franklin

Mind Control and Abuse
For me the role of sexual abuse in this domination scheme is the bottom of the bottom, the most repulsive part of the underbelly of what gets discovered as one continues to follow the threads of money and power. My research has convinced me that pedophilia and even Satanic rituals are an integral part of the lives of many of the perpetrators of this agenda and is a part of the mind-control system that operates in their covert plan for domination. This information is not critical for understanding that there is a global domination agenda or what we can do to achieve true liberty. I include it because I believe it is true and reveals the level of disturbing perversion that underlies the psyche of those in positions of vast power and the role of mind control (such as MK Ultra) that is involved in carrying out their agenda. I suggest you pursue it only at the pace that works for you to integrate such a disturbing realization into the larger picture of the vast love and awakening that is emerging at this time on our planet. For authoritative research and first hand eye-witness and victim reports check out: Cathy O’Brien, Brice Taylor, Hollie Greig, Carolyn Hamlett, the Franklin Cover-up.

As horrifying as it is to think what is being done to so many of the most defenseless among us, it was important for me to come to the realization that many of these same controllers who seek to abuse children are also running the major power centers of the world. Few of us get up in the morning thinking how we can cause pain and suffering for others, but some do. And their psychopathic or sociopathic capabilities to dissociate from human suffering actually tend to be rewarded in the system of lies and deceptions that is our political and financial structure. Recognizing that there are individuals whose psyches have been distorted into destructive patterns like this makes it even more imperative not to have a monopoly on money creation and a monopoly on force like the current bankster-run state.

In his scientific exploration, Political Ponerology, Andrew Lobaczewski traces the backgrounds of prominent figures whose sociopathic personalities have led to the deaths of millions. It is critical to understand that not only are there those who long to do harm to individuals and the masses, but their lack of moral values, integrity and compassion is rewarded in the corrupt power structures of today.

Recognizing that there are individuals whose psyches have been distorted into destructive patterns like this makes it even more imperative not to have a monopoly on money creation and a monopoly on force like the current bankster-run state.

Nobody would do such a thing.

Just because most of the people we know would not harm anyone on purpose, it doesn’t mean there are not those who could, would and choose to on a regular basis. These are people who have disassociated from normal human feelings to where they can knowingly run millions out of their jobs and homes, have hundreds of thousands killed in unnecessary and illegitimate wars and sicken intentionally countless others – and justify it with a worldview that says they know best, they have a special right to rule and that they are making a better world for the chosen by their cruelty to the many.

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
- Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct 28, 1973

What Are the Global Elite Suppressing

The elite controllers have a history of suppressing anything that threatens their own control or money-controlling abilities, including revolutionary energy technologies. They are literally suppressing the very information and solutions we need to thrive on a healthy planet. 

Scientists as far back as Nikola Tesla in the early 1900s have been developing alternative ways to access electricity without combustion. Tesla discovered the AC current that’s used all over the world today. He also developed the ability to transmit electrical energy through the air like radio waves, where they could be picked up with an antenna. He built the Wardenclyffe Tower to demonstrate the capability to the world. But right before his demonstration, banker JP Morgan ceased further funding and the project was terminated. Morgan owned the copper mines and was making a fortune from all the copper wires used to conduct electricity. Tesla’s invention would have made those copper wires obsolete.

The suppression continues to this day. The US Patent Office has seized over 5000 alternative energy inventions claiming in the name of “Nation Security.” Inventors such as John Hutchison, Adam Trombly, and John Bedini have all invented similar new energy technologies – that have the potential to get us off of oil so that everyone can access a universally abundant energy source – but their labs have been raided and devices destroyed. To learn more about it, go to the New Energy Technology section of the site.

But New Energy is just one example. Suppression reaches into every Sector where the Agenda is looking to centralize control. A short list of just a few examples of what is being suppressed or marginalized:

Organic growing
Natural and Raw Foods
Natural Supplements
Natural Cures
Medical Marijuana dispensaries
Independent radio stations
Alternative Currencies
Independent banks
Generic and imported medicines
Independent Investigations into 9/11
Alternate political candidates
Voting Machines with paper trails
Voting by people of color and soldiers
Home schooling
Freedom from vaccination
Privacy in the moving of personal money
Internet Privacy and equality of speed and access
Scientific information that questions the man-made global warming theories
Resistance to and Labeling of GMO foods
Transparency of the Federal Reserve and Black Budget appropriations

Quotes

Here’s what the elite themselves have to say about their agenda, often referring to it as a “New World Order”:

“It is a big idea, a New World Order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause…When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this New World Order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peace-keeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the UN’s founders.”
- George H. W. Bush, UN speech Sept. 11, 1991

“A new world is emerging. It is a New World Order with significantly different and radically new challenges for the future.”
- Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of England

“The President of the United States and Europe have proposed various different summits to look at new regulations and a New World Governance.”
- Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France

“It’s the kind of occasion where the crisis calls into question all certainties and minds are more open to change. The goal should be to devise a system of global financial governance.”
- Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission and Former Prime Minister of Portugal

“I think his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when really a New World Order can be created. It’s a great opportunity. It isn’t just a crisis.”
- Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under President Nixon and Ford

“By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations, a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of human survival. One world government is inevitable.” 
- Pope John Paul II, 2000

Conclusions

After years of researching this information I am convinced there is an elite group of people working very hard to control the rest of us. It is becoming increasingly clear – with evidence beyond reasonable doubt, that they have had the means, the motive and the opportunity to establish an agenda for total global rule. I believe they are attempting to create a one-world totalitarian authority that would destroy freedom and life as we know it. The agenda is not dependent on any one person or group. Its worldview must be exposed and its plan transcended. Their main tool for control is money. To challenge their power, and regain control of our lives, we can start by reforming the money system. 

As we get sufficiently informed about the facts and the functioning of the Global Domination Agenda, we can find ourselves suddenly able to make sense of current events, to hear through the lies the corporate media is promoting, and even to begin to anticipate the next moves planned for the further centralization of power. People like David Icke, Alex Jones, Gerald Celente, and Peter Schiff have been able to accurately predict events like 9/11, the invasion of the Middle East, the Patriot Act and the global financial collapse. Now knowledgeable sources are predicting attempts to create the total collapse of the dollar, another major false flag catastrophe, martial law, the takeover of the Internet, a one-world electronic currency based on carbon credits, and a one-world government, tax and army. We too can understand the agenda, take precautions, blow whistles and create viable alternatives.

People all around the world are working on ingenious solutions to solve our current predicament. Check them out in the Success Stories section of the site. If you see something that interests you, consider taking action yourself. As we learn to look through the lens of understanding the Global Domination Agenda, we can see how events are being shaped to serve the elite agenda, and we can stop them. The “Occupy” Movement that started on Wall St and has spread worldwide is a powerful example of people from all walks of life genuinely looking for just, non-authoritarian, non-partisan, principle and rights-based solutions. Now is the time to liberate our true human potential and create a world that can work for everyone and for future generations to come. 

GDA Footnotes

[1]James B. Davies, Susanna Sandstrom, Anthony Shorrocks, and Edward N. Wolff. The World Distribution of Household Wealth. Mapping Global Inequalities, Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, UC Santa Cruz: July 2007: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jv048hx#page-3 .

[2]According to the World Food Programme, as of late 2010 there were 925 million undernourished people in the world. One in seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide, greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

[3] The Daily Mail

[4] Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, Robert B. Stinnett

[5] http://hnn.us/articles/1796.html 

[6] http://www.rense.com/general40/bushfamilyfundedhitler.htm  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QuXUTnBLh4  
http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/bankrupt-germany.php 

[7] The Rise of the Fourth Reich, Jim Marrs

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip 

[9] http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-the-georgia-guidestones/