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Straightening up eaters

June 8 [04:00 GMT] – Resolution targets trans fats in Madison – After New York, Madison, WI, looks like it is going to be the next one in line to get into your dish.

“I have just read your reporting on the transfat ‘epidemic’ (and for sure, this will become one)”, comments Capri Lione to the Wisconsin State Journal. “The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has already started the wheels with their $5 million donation to the states to ‘fight’ the obesity ‘epidemic’. Their next logical step will be to create the junk science needed to launch a new lawsuit against the businesses that make these fats or use these fats, sell these fats, consume these fats... so, there will be no "fattys" amongst us on this ‘pristine clean’ planet. Just another one of those unintended consequences, I would guess?... Public Healthscare has become quite the behemoth. So much for ‘public health’ addressing its original purpose in government, such as the water substructure of its cities and towns. “

And that’s the problem. We have allowed “public health” not only to exceed its mandate by leaps and bounds, but also and especially to become the greatest executive political power in existence. And since “public health’s” strings are pulled by the powerful pharmaceutical lobbies, then Big Pharma has become the real, Grey Eminence behind that political power. No surprise that soon it is not going to be “socially acceptable” to buy food without a prescription.

The fight for freedom

June 8 [04:00 GMT] – Heroic Resistance to social engineers during Klein era – As Alberta is building up a province-wide smoking ban in the road of denormalization of smoking and normalization of pharmaceutical interests and personal choice control, the pro-prohibition press drums along. Faithful to the healthist doctrine dictating that only an addicted smoker (and not a liberty supporter) can be against smoking bans, the press is going to great extents to point out that former minister Ralph Klein, who always opposed the ban (to the point of calling the tobacco control agenda “bullshit”), is a smoker. Ergo: a non smoker who loves liberty would be in favour of a smoking ban, because prohibition is synonym of freedom! We connect with Surreality Times – currently, the most appropriate publication name we have seen so far.

The industry of fear and disinformation

June 8 [04:00 GMT] – Rome, red alert: cocaine, caffeine and nicotine in the air! – This is the latest "alarm" launched by the Italian media. We read: “In Rome’s atmosphere there is suspended cocaine… this is a very serious study … to poison the air of the capital are not just cars and industries, but drugs as well. … The data confirm what emerged in other types of analyses in great western cities, analyses that show how rivers or banknotes always contain traces of drugs”.

This is yet another example of how hysteria can be built with the perverse use of super-sophisticated measuring technology. The perception frauds on passive smoking paved the way for a whole new industry of deception technically based on truth but which becomes a truth based on deception. We are not playing with words: we simply reflect on the reality of our times. It is true, for example, that passive smoke contains some 4,000 chemicals – but, first of all “chemical” does not mean poison, and poison is so only when the dose is sufficient to cause harm, otherwise nothing is a poison. The zero exposure/zero tolerance (zero mind) “religion“ tells us that the only way to guarantee health is zero exposure, but that is false regardless of the “authority” that says it. Moderate exposures build resistance, thus health.

The same applies to the cocaine that “poisons” Rome’s atmosphere. The concentration of cocaine in the air is 0.1 nanograms per cubic metre (1 cubic metre = about 35.31cubic feet). To have an idea of how ridiculously small that measure is, click here. Now forget cocaine and think passive smoking – nothing will change much.

Prohibition

June 8 [04:00 GMT] – Scores of smoking ban opponents, supporters spar - Hooray for the Libertarian of Wisconsin! Senator Risser, who is all about banning smokers in Wisconsin, teams up with the Appleton representative to “level the playing field”. Hmm, these are the only two cities in WI that have a complete smoker ban at this time.. connect the dots Wisconsin and America!

A bit of history here: Gov. Tommy Thompson was governor during the Master Settlement Agreement - our Attorney General at that time was Diamond Jim Doyle - who is the current sitting governor of WI. Former Governor Tommy Thompson is running on the Republican ticket for 2008 Presidential elections. Ed Thompson ran on the Libertarian ticket for Governor in the elections 4 years ago (and made a substantial showing). Current Governor Doyle is very close to Dr. Fiore of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Fiore pulls the strings of the Tobacco Control dollars of the WI Smoker Ban (and also sits on Pharmaceutical B.O.D. (or B.O.D.s?).

Ah, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

Public Health

June 8 [04:00 GMT] – Germs and the City - For anyone interested in the subject of public health in our culture, this article is a must-read. Lots of thought-provoking stuff on the historical importance of public health, the complacency of the post-antibiotic era, lifestyle and morality issues, drug regulation, incentives and disincentives for pharmaceutical companies, and more. This is the kind of article – honestly laying out sometimes complex and difficult issues – that the voting public needs to see more of.

At the end, we are reminded that “one way or another, germs will contrive to horrify us again, in some very nasty way. A society’s only real defense is to stay horrified, well ahead of the curve.”

The challenge for lovers of liberty (the last one to leave please turn off the lights) is to see how this can be done responsibly in a free society. If we can’t manage to do it, we’ll eventually lose both the war against disease and any prospect for the kind of world the last World War was fought to defend. Indeed, the two things might possibly happen in one fell swoop.

How it works

June 7 [03:00 GMT] – Lesson for crusaders – From the pages of Freedom To Choose comes another Recommended Reading. Short and powerful, no one should skip this one. It condenses all there is to know about building a crusade based on fraud: get the government on your side while getting rich on the backs of your victims; get ignorant politicians to repeat your lies and even turn them into laws, and then get them to defend the fraud even when they know that it is a fraud. Forget science. Forget the truth. Forget morality. With that kind of power, you can redefine freedom and morality in your favour, and even show contempt for those who demonstrate your fraud – from as high up as the throne of the ministry of health, for example. Once you get the “right” crusade started you will govern the lives of all with no responsibility, no accountability, and even with laws defending your criminal actions – indeed, you may even have streets and parks named after you for having been a “good” criminal. In one word: unbeatable.

Population control

June 7 [03:00 GMT] – Spot a smoker from the air! - Now, the only people who have to worry about the new “spy drone” are “anti-social” people, right? That’s a great comfort, isn’t it, since you’re not “anti-social”, right? (Yeah, yeah, “Why should I worry about the government conducting airborne surveillance in every public space and across the countryside? It’s only to protect me. After all, I have nothing to hide!”) On second thought, better check the New Labour Mullahs’ latest weekly updates before you make any rash assumptions about your status as an acceptable person.

The marketing/pr (or lack thereof) is interesting here. Usually, we’re being drowned in the muck of double-speak, PC-gabble and and cute euphemisms, especially when the politicos are worried that they’re going to offend too many people if they speak plainly. Obviously, the notion of domestic police spying is now deemed so mainstream and uncontroversial that actually calling the spy drones “spy drones” poses no problems even for the spin doctors of bureaucracy and media. Sad days, bad days.

Fight for freedom

June 7 [03:00 GMT] – Choke ‘em in smoke! – We link to an antismoking page for the purpose of informing our Ohio readers on where to go and have a cigarette. Coherent with the USSR credo in spy networks that the antismoking scum loves, the website invites the readers to squeal to the health Gestapo on any infringement of its fraud-based law. We would not normally publish this, as we are openly supporting those businesses that have the balls to respect the right to smoke but since the antitobacco scum has already exposed them, we may as well let you know where to go and enjoy your right. What do we hear? Smokers have no rights? Perhaps so. That only means that it is high time to take them back as any oppressed group should. And of course it means to break the “law”. Tyrants always make laws to suit themselves, and any fight for freedom always meant the breaking of some law. And when the fight was won, the law was changed. Nothing new under the sun. So, let’s crack out that brand new pack of smokes.

Understanding the obvious

June 7 [03:00 GMT] – Majority of U.S. parents not in favor of HPV vaccine mandates - Months back, FORCES was critical of what appeared to us to be a rather bullying rush to get the public to immediately accept the HPV vaccine as part of mandatory vaccination programs. The criticism was not based on any faulting of the vaccine itself (although it has only recently been made available, in itself perhaps an argument for some degree of initial conservatism). It was based instead on the hectoring way in which public health authorities, in the context of an increasingly authoritarian and coercive school public health regime (look at what’s happened with Ritalin, for example), were contemptuously brushing aside any concerns the public might have in the immediate furtherance of their goals.

Our perception has been strengthened by some recent polling that indicates that a key reason for much parental reluctance over the program can be found in misgivings over new vaccine safety.

“ Most notably, 85 percent of parents surveyed feel that vaccines are a good way to protect their children from infectious disease, Davis says. It was parents' attitudes, however, about the safety of new vaccines that ultimately factor into their support of mandates for the HPV vaccine. While 43 percent of parents agree new vaccines are safe for children, nearly half of all parents feel neutral about the safety of new vaccines.”

“…. Not surprisingly, a higher proportion of parents who do not believe new vaccines are safe are opposed to a mandate for the HPV vaccine, compared with parents who view new vaccines as being safe.”

Public health is so busy with health hysteria propaganda, it is becoming like the boy who cried wolf. Its resources will be spent on unproductive and socially destructive PR campaigns, while its good ideas will be viewed with mounting distrust. Good going, folks.

Like nicotine, sun tanning is an addiction -- unless you use Big Pharma!

June 7 [03:00 GMT] – Skin-cancer stats fall on young deaf ears, but wrinkles, now those are scary (for the fools, that is) - Twenty-eight percent of people who “work on their tan” at the beach are now “addicts.” Pharmaceutical sun-block cream is the “cure.” There’s even “Ultra Violet Polaroid pictures” to prove that behind the beautiful face lurks an ugly, wrinkled skin. So how long before people without sun-block cream are also banned from the beaches? No need to worry. Current global warming junk “statistics” tell us the sea level will rise 20 to 40 feet due to melting ice caps. Problem solved, 95 percent of all beaches will soon disappear. Then we can ban sun-block and eliminate the huckster epidemiology used to sell it.

Insanity at the top

June 6 [03:00 GMT] – Agenda Afflicted: Endorphins Overpower Reason – Many won't be surprised to find that politicians make policy decisions while ignoring facts that invalidate the assumptions on which their policies are based. Most, however, would be surprised that such pig-headedness produces a perverse euphoria to which so many of our rulers are addicted. Norman Kjono examines the disturbing phenomenon of how agenda trumps reality and how what would be regarded as a mental defect in the general population is the modus operandi with the governing class.

Hatred: how far will YOU allow it to go?

June 6 [03:00 GMT] – Wales: smokers forced to wear the yellow star - You know, the most unfortunate thing that has happened during the history of FORCES is that many people thought we were exaggerating for effect, or that we were extremists. What we did in reality was look at history repeating itself and project it forward. When we called antitobacco a neo-Nazi movement many on our own side said that such a definition would “turn off” people, and not to use it – too rhetorical, they said. These people, of course, were (and are) making a serious mistake, for they still think that they are in some sort of popularity contest where all it takes is to “win the public opinion” in the smoking “debate”, without realizing that this is a hate campaign which is EXACTLY what the German Nazi Party promoted on a racial base – same basic ideology except (so far) for concentration camps. So smokers did not listen – and we were right.

“Public health” and the mentality/scale of values it represents is the reincarnation of the Nazi Party, and those who refuse to accept that fact are the sad reincarnation of Chamberlain with his idiotic politics of appeasement. Look at this episode in Wales, where “smokers are being marked out for all to see in nightclubs across the city. Clubbers who want to light up are having to wear wristbands at some of Cardiff’s most popular nightspots in the wake of Wales’ smoking ban. Nightclubs are also being forced to pay thousands of pounds for extra door staff to supervise the smoking area and monitor the queue of smokers entering and exiting the clubs.” This is not an isolated case, as there are precedents, and it is destined to become the standard unless something serious is done about it.

It is so tempting to say “we told you so, you idiots”, but we will not say it: to err is human – but to persevere is diabolical. Now that you know what the next step is going to be, now that you are marked as a “dirty Jew”, what are you prepared to do about it? You know what it takes: organizing locally and supporting FORCES – the only group that has always fought for the dignity of everyone’s lifestyle; dedicating your valuable time to this important fight; taking to the streets with demonstrations and being prepared for violent acts of repression by the Nazi “health authorities”. It takes heavy duty boycott of the health “establishment” with any means and way possible, as to create the maximum possible damage. It requires not wasting time with “compromises” and “negotiations” that “public health” is unwilling to consider. It takes an acknowledgement that this is a war – not a debate – so anything goes. The alternative is to quit smoking (drinking, eating), be branded anyway and, peacefully and orderly, like good obeying victims should do, line up for the concentration camps and forced pharmaceutical detox – childless, unemployed, spat on, abandoned by the state that you are forced to contribute to anyway for the benefit of the non smoking, non drinking, non eating Master Race. The choice is yours, never say that you don’t have freedom of choice! Just don’t take too long to decide, the Nazis are trotting.

England: the raise and growth of IV Reich

June 6 [03:00 GMT] – 1.6 Billion pounds to implement a fraud – “Implementing the smoking ban in England will cost taxpayers, restaurateurs and pub landlords at least £100 million more than the Government originally budgeted. The Department of Health estimated that the bill for the ban, that comes into force in a month's time, would run to £1.6 billion. While this takes into account paying for advertising, falling tobacco duty and hiring extra staff to police the ban, the Government has said it will be offset by the benefits to the NHS as smoking diseases fall.”

In reality (and so far) this is the largest investment driven by pharmaceutical agendas so far. Let us never forget that the “benefits” projected are based on computer models whilst not even one death can be scientifically demonstrated to be caused by smoking. Reading the rest of the article about the loss of liberty and business is simply chilling. This is the greatest hit to liberty in British history. Britain is on its way to become a very ugly police state, driven by criminal institutions that are piloted by pharmaceutical multinational interests that justify themselves by waving false medical and statistical information. Will the proud Brits stand the pressure of the 21^st century Nazi state, which is now poised to crush them? Will they fight fraud and dictatorship with what it takes? Will they ultimately take those who are responsible to trial? History will tell. In the meantime, special police corps are being trained to repress and suppress the rights of citizens beating the population in to submission by the healthist regime. Has Hitler won the battle of Britain? We don’t know yet – but the bridgehead sure is there.

Cultural assault

June 6 [03:00 GMT] – A chemical feast: barbecue season in the heartland of anti-smoking (subscription required for link) - Start reading about the barbeque season in ostensibly smoke-free California, and the culinary news is all about what a tasty (but toxic!) treat cooked meat is. Keep on reading, and the story gets murkier, as it becomes clear that studies ultimately differ as to whether there’s much real danger at all in connection with cooked meat, whether barbecued or not.

Nonetheless, the entire exercise begs the question: if barbecuing is as horrific as this article at times suggests, why isn’t it being banned with the same zeal as cigarettes? Check out this description:

“PAHs are technically the incomplete combustion products of fuel and are best known as components in air pollution and cigarette smoke. However, the World Health Organization estimates that 80% to 90% of our exposure to PAHs comes through food. Smoke clouds from charcoal grills and those fat drip flare-ups are packed with PAHs. And, again, the longer the cooking or smoking time, the greater the coating of carcinogens. “

So maybe it’s time to ban selective foods as being a worse threat to health than smoking. Can second-hand food scares be far behind?

Ban, ban, ban!

June 6 [03:00 GMT] – Pin-ups banned in the British Navy - It is true that when the cancer of prohibition invades the social body, it spreads rapidly everywhere until the host is dead. On top of all the other heavy-duty repressions and surveillance, Great Britain now also forbids its Navy sailors to have pin-up girls in their own lockers.

“Royal Navy top brass have secretly banned sailors pinning up photos of The Sun’s Page 3 girls. Orders sent out to all 39,000 personnel outlaw the display of topless pictures — even in the privacy of their locker doors and stowage containers. Sailors flouting the ban face fines. One said: ‘The lads are fuming.’ A 2004 ban lasted just two months.”

It may be so, but now the ban is back because the prohibition mentality was not eliminated, and it just waited for the next opportunity to peak out - and here it comes again. One may say that getting hot about the pin-up issue is puerile, but such a person should be careful not to look like a pin head. This “silly” prohibition reaffirms the principle that the “authorities” have the right to regulate your own private life -- along with spying on you with CCTV cameras, denying surgery if you smoke or you are fat (alcohol is next on line, don’t worry), fingerprint you even if you committed no crime, and so on.

We are spectators (and victims) of a powerful implosion of liberty that spreads at the speed Nazism spread in Germany in the 1930s. The fascination with absolute, totalitarian control on even the smallest manifestations of personal behaviour is with us again – but this time it is at the planetary level. And, this time, there is the technology to enable that control! So, it boils down to the usual question, doesn’t it? What are we prepared to do about that? Sure, the pin-ups are “not worth fighting about” – nor is eating, driving, smoking, drinking, walking in the street being watched… So, say: what is worth fighting about?...

Smokers

June 6 [03:00 GMT] – Smokers a minority? - Anti-smokers want us to believe that the non-smoking majority of the population "suffers" from people lighting up. They don't care about minority rights. After all, most people nowadays are non smokers, right? Well, that applies to most parts of the world. But there's a small place somewhere in Europe where things appear to be a little bit different. The most recent substance usage survey in Austria - granted by the Ministry of Health - reveals that 38 % of the adult Austrian population are regular smokers - and 13 % are occasional smokers. That sums up to 51 %! So, an Austrian 18 years or older is more likely to smoke than not. And they seem to be proud smokers, too, as the new Eurobarometer poll by the European Commission shows that only a minority of the Austrians supports smoking bans in bars. Bad luck for European Health Commissioner Kyprianou who is whining now that Austria hasn't been brainwashed enough.

More civil disobedience: it’s about time

June 5 [08:40 GMT] – Hundreds of pubs to flout smoking ban – “Landlords at up to 200 pubs are planning a 'day of defiance' when the legislation comes into force next month, allowing customers to light up on July 1. The number involved is expected to grow and some publicans have vowed to continue to break the law beyond July 1 if customers want them to."

A reading for hope and certainty. Don't give up, prohibition WILL fail!

"History, however, supports the finding that prohibition is impossible to achieve in the economic sense. Prohibitions have no socially desirable effect. Prohibitions are classic examples of the co-opting of public-spirited intentions by rent seekers. The results are counterproductive in every way."

From: The Economics of Prohibition. Click here to see more.

Tabloid sensationalism or real action? The debate on “which is what” is going on. Surprisingly, certain “Smokers’ Rights Groups” in England not only do not believe it, but also don’t seem to want to be part of the rebellion! The reason? “We are engaged in a battle of ideas, not a campaign of civil disobedience”. How noble – and how convenient. Let us quantify those “ideas” beyond plush words on one hand and rabid antismoking rhetoric on the other:

Heavy-duty campaigns by the British NHS to demonize smokers, smoking and to falsely represent the effects of passive smoking on nonsmokers so that there is hostility and social violence against those who use a legal product.
Massive financial damage to publicans and other businesses, as is happening in all the other countries that have embraced the antitobacco pharmaceutical “ideology”.
Heavy enforcement and fines enforced even through plain clothes policemen and CCTV cameras – a practice beloved by the Orwellian British government – to spy on citizens and spot the “perpetrator” – that is, the criminal who lights up a cigarette.
Refusal of surgical operations unless the smoker bends to the political will of "public health" and quits smoking a month prior to the operation - to be verified with blood analysis - but no reduction of the fiscal contribution of the smoker to the NHS in proportion to the reduced service. Once again, smokers finance non smokers' regime through extortion and forced behaviour.

Yet, there are still those "on our side" who disassociate themselves from civil disobedience and from a positive approach against antitobacco. And what is the alternative course of action taken so far by them? Try this: “smoking is bad, but…” [we want a bathroom to hide in]. “Passive smoke ‘bothers’ non smokers, but…” [we want a bathroom to hide in].

A law and a form of implementation that has been taken – literally - straight out of the Nazi state is defined as “bad taste” by these “SRGs” that lost their testicles exactly at the same time that the tobacco industry did. Certainly the industry does not want its customers to stand up for their rights to use a legal product, but it does want them to just keep buying and consuming that product … where? The industry is to behave “responsibly” – that is, cooperate with the rotten-to-the-bone “health” authorities to keep making money. Is it then scepticism that we read, or is it shrewd and cunning crowd control of a powerful mass of consumers? Could it be that this peculiar kind of political correctness and ostentatious "moderation" is precisely to the end of preventing the rebellion of the oppressed by pretending to side with them while undermining any and all politically effective initiatives even before they are undertaken, so that smokers “get used” to the quit-smoking indoctrination? One wonders.

No one can accept the “denormalization” of his own smoking personality as normal - now or ever. No one can “get used” to an institutional fraud such as a total smoking ban is. No one can “get used” to surrendering his freedom just because rotten institutions knowingly misrepresent dangers that are not there by the standards of science book - standards that anyone can consult.

Disobedience is in order – and more, much more – to fight this despicable state of affairs. God save England from antitobacco – and let’s hope that what is reported by The Telegraph is true, and actually understated. And, if it is overstated, that only means that more work is needed to get there – to destroy the antismoking pharmaceutical cartel and its political pawns. With friends like the SRGs, who needs enemies? (more on civil disobedience here)

Political takeover

June 5 [08:40 GMT] – Medical privacy update: healthcare for all - "Can we trust politicians to suddenly start ignoring the huge contingent of health insurer and pharmaceutical lobbyists in Washington that have outnumbered congressmen on both sides of the aisle for years? As the New York Times reported, for example, as of July 12, 2006, Senator Clinton had received more campaign money from pharmaceutical and health insurance companies than any other candidate, with the exception of Senator Rick Santorum." The Orwellian takeover of the "health" industry in American politics and the massive profits and control attached to it are described in this exhaustive article by Sandy Szwarc, which is our recommended reading for the day.

Smoking bans are good for business: didn’t you know?...

Junk science and pharmaceutical interests spell financial disaster - Here are two stories about a common problem all over the world: smoking bans destroy businesses because smokers are doing what they should do: they're staying home.

June 5 [08:40 GMT] – Major crisis for charity organizations - a year into the smoking ban in bingo halls, non-profit organizations (NPOs) fear for services to the vulnerable and needy - "One year after the Charest government's anti-tobacco law, non-profit organizations throughout Quebec, whose funds are raised from bingo, are united in affirming that they are victims of severe financial prejudice. Today, the Fair Air Association of Canada also released the results of a survey on the impact of banning smoking in the 121 bingo halls belonging to the Loto-Québec network. Nearly half of the 85 bingo halls that answered the survey report a drop from 20 % to 30 % in the number of bingo players." – Hang in there, bingo halls: soon the government will show you a beautiful paid-for "study" that will show you that your business is soaring in spite of what your cash register says. That's the way of "public health" today. The problem? You keep on believing it - and do nothing spectacular to change it.

June 5 [08:40 GMT] – Quebec bar owners say anti-smoking law led to bar closures and lost revenues – “Quebec bar owners say last year's tough provincial anti-smoking legislation has led to bar closures, lost alcohol sales and reduced revenue from video lottery terminals. Peter Sergakis, a spokesman for a coalition of bar owners claims ‘between 500 to a 1,000’ establishments have shut their doors since the law went into effect May 31, 2006.” Go on believing and obeying those who lie for a living, and these are the results. In the meantime we like to smoke, we don’t intend to quit, and we don’t believe “public health”. That means that we will not take smoking bans as "normal" and we will not walk into your locales - even if the "level playing field" becomes the entire planet.

Canada: the smoker of the year

Multimedia Project Progress Report

We are glad to announce that the process of portalization, which includes the FORCES multimedia portal, is proceeding well. All portals are now complete and technically operative. They are being set up with information data-entry by many volunteers who are donating their time from all over the world – from Germany to Italy, from the Philippines to Canada. We estimate that about three/four weeks (max.) is the time required for the switch-over to the database portal systems. As a reminder to readers, we describe here what these super-portals will do.

· They will bring you the news just as this site does, but in a better and more readable format.

· They will bring you the voices and the faces of people and activists from around the world – to show you that you, as a target, are not “alone” and are not “the only person in the universe” to “feel this way”. This is what antitobacco wants you to feel – but it is yet another lie.

· They will offer ways to communicate and coordinate, to improve the fight against the “health authorities” who use fraud, brainwashing and repression to take your freedoms away.

· They will show all the scientific evidence in an organized, clear and easy-to-find way. The evidence clearly shows that “public health” and antitobacco activists are fraudulent in their statements about smoking. You will be able to consult that evidence directly.

· They will educate the non-specialist with didactic, interactive courses that will give everybody the knowledge to understand all the details of the greatest fraud ever conceived by governments and “health” authorities at the expense of a huge class of citizens around the world. This will help you understand the depth and the gravity of the pandemic of corruption and pandering to pharmaceutical multinationals using false information. Ignorance, disinformation and fear is what the WHO-coordinated antismoking crooks around the world count on to transform a superstition into a culture. We are going to take those tools away from them.

· You will see and hear interviews with all kinds of people -- including authoritative scientists who have been systematically suppressed and intimidated, and that the mass-media collaborating with the fraudulent “health” authorities religiously avoid giving voice to because they are fearful of pharmaceutical advertisement budgets being cut off! And all the information will be verifiable directly through the scientific evidence portal! What mass-medium, ministry of “health” or medical “expert” can do that?

Hang in there, we are working hard for you – and thanks to your generous donations, you will soon have the means and the knowledge to defeat the antismoking fraud. Hopefully, it will be time to celebrate with cigars and deeply inhaled cigarettes – right in the face of antismoking laws!

FORCES International

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June 4 [08:10 GMT] – A hero of the movement against the antismoking pandemic –Canadian businesswoman Diana Reid has responded to the institutional corruption and assault on property rights that is antismoking with coherence in actions – not just in words. Challenging the "public health" regime of her nation, she has ignored the smoking ban, and recognized to her patrons the right to smoke even after numerous acts of intimidation. She has done so knowing that the health regime sooner of later would shut her business down, depriving her of her main means of survival. And so it has happened. Diana is not sorry for what she has done. She is proud. She knows that passive smoke does not hurt anyone – but especially she knows that liberty, self-determination and property rights are more important – far more important – than the proclaimed but so often phantom “public health epidemics” that are conjured up these days through manipulated computer models. Diane is aware that she is setting an example in the fight against antitobacco enterprise. We will imitate you, Diana, and your courage.

In fact, Diana Reid is indeed an example for all of us. An example of peaceful rebellion, of reasoned dissent, of determination in the fight against a faceless dictatorship that hides behind junk statistics, knowingly giving false information to instigate intolerance and hatred. Instead of passively feeling guilty and ashamed of their life choice, all smokers should indeed follow her example, and peacefully disregard the fraud-based antismoking laws. We know we hurt no one. We know it’s a fraud that will not stop with smoking. We know that the “anti” mentality is a cancer that must be defeated. What are we waiting for?...

More civil disobedience

June 4 [08:10 GMT] – Landlord in cigs ban protest. A mass light-up will take place at a Bolton pub on 1 July in defiance of the smoking ban – “Nick Hogan, licensee of the 750-capacity Swan in Churchgate, will openly flout the ban and has invited hosts from across England and Scotland to join him. Individuals caught smoking face a £50 fine, while Hogan could be hit with a fine of up to £2,500. ‘I am not relishing breaking the law, but someone, somewhere has to make a stand,’ he said. ‘I expect to be prosecuted and go to court where I will challenge the morality and legality of this ban. I am not pro-smoking, but I am pro-choice.’ “

We encourage Nick and all to keep that defiance up in the same way Diana Reid did. Some may say: “oh, well he will be shut down… if he wants that, it’s his choice”. But the example of these people will encourage others to challenge a law that deserves no respect, making it too expensive to enforce - and that's how laws get changed, nowadays - no justice, truth, or moral principles involved.

“Health" authorities, in fact, are not interested in smokers’ respect but just in the obedience to fraud-based laws designed to kill choice. So it all boils down to sheer force, doesn’t it? How much of a social and political problem are politicians willing to endure to serve the interests of the multinational drug companies?

June 4 [08:10 GMT] – Defiant: Ripley restaurant fights smoking ban - 'Customers at this mom-and-pop restaurant have been defying the Jackson County smoking ban for eight months now — and an injunction petition filed in circuit court last week by the county health department hasn’t slowed them down. Customers have offered to picket the courthouse. They’ve offered to pay the owners’ lawyer bills. Employees have had special T-shirts printed: “In AMERICA you can Burn our Flag ... But DON’T you Dare Burn a CIGARETTE!” M&R Restaurant has become the latest business nationwide to openly ignore its local no-smoking law...' - Way to go, folks! A law that does not respect the rights of all, itself does not deserve any respect.

Destroying the family in the name of health

June 4 [08:10 GMT] – A glimmer of common sense - The advice columnist at Slate demonstrates that the invasion of the body-snatchers has not quite claimed its last victim. The divisive hysteria of the ETS scare, which has rent many a family and scarred many a relationship, hasn’t fully overtaken at least one agony aunt. Read her advice to a woman who is about to become a mother and is set to start alienating her own mother from the new grandchild right off the bat – over what we might call third-hand smoke. Mom’s “extreme” concern? Grandma, who plans to smoke outdoors when the baby’s around, might pose a danger because of toxic residues on her clothes and skin! Like the advice columnist, the husband in this situation is not yet one of the undead, and he’s telling his anxious wife to chill out. But he’s being trumped by the “internet research” his wife’s been doing. Her eyes are glazing over, and the voices inside her head are saying “jettison grandma…”

Straightening up Eaters

June 1 [08:15 GMT] – England: the secret plans to turn us all vegetarian – The flawed and exceedingly dangerous concept that the government has the function and the duty to establish the health of the citizens above and beyond infectious diseases has broken the dam of totalitarianism. Once upon a time, secret government plans were for military defence against enemy invasions. Not anymore: now the plans are against freedom of choice, self-determination and for utter control of personal lifestyle. The enemies of personal freedom work hard, and they have managed to penetrate the highest level of government. Those enemies are medical associations, the pharmaceutical industry, antismokers, anti-fatsos, and, in general, the anti mentality.

‘Secret plans to encourage the nation to give up eating meat are being examined by the Government. A leaked e-mail expresses sympathy for the environmental benefits of a mass switch to a vegan diet - a strict form of vegetarianism which bans milk, dairy products and fish. The change would need to be done "gently" because of a "risk of alienating the public", according to the document.’

"Gently". "Phase in". Push -- then let “them” get used to it. Then push more, always more. “Phase out”. Call it "progress", make it seem inevitable. Convince "them" that it is "scientific", "right" and "for their good" -- and especially that there is nothing "they" can do about it. Then make it “socially unacceptable”. Then ban it. One step at the time. For total control. Liberty is a dangerous bomb: it has to be disarmed carefully.

June 1 [08:15 GMT] – … and from New Zealand: Scientists breed cows that give skimmed milk - Genetically engineered cows that give 1% fat content skim milk. They’re going to clone the DNA and have a herd ready to produce genetically engineered milk in a year or so.

Here’s the latest junk science scoop: drink inferior 1% skim milk from genetically engineered clone cows (that don’t fart, we suppose, to avoid global warming!) as the first step on your way to a meat and fish free vegetarian diet. You can’t have whole milk and you can’t eat steaks from the cow. That will put you happily down the path to “food free” anti-obesity nirvana! It’s your patriotic duty to help save the world from a problem that does not exist as represented.

The sad thing is that the majority of the public will say: “Ummmm… good!” as they suck down the latest swill dished out by special-interests.

Oh boy. Now there’s a plan! The bad new is that it may work. The good news is that we can do something about it: refute healthism as an ideology and destroy it.

The ban culture

June 1 [08:15 GMT] – An interesting ban – Bans are very fashionable, these days. There are bans on everything: smoking, drinking, trans-fat, cellular phones. Bans on pictures, words, expressions, ideas, science, truth, different opinions, dogs, cats. Think of anything that makes life worth living - and you will have found a ban. The capricious use of bans is a way to say “I can’t deal with it, so I ban it”. Bans have become the equivalent of borders, defining areas of influence and control that are becoming ever more fragmented – shrinking down to the size of an individual. If we bring this process to its logical conclusions, it is easy to see that every individual will ban the world because he cannot deal with it. The “anti” and “ban” mentality should be the only, REAL panic button that our dying culture and civilization should push in a hurry.

Now heterosexuals are banned from a gay bar by equal rights legislation, to preserve the “convivial atmosphere” the facility seeks to preserve. But can they smoke? What about convivial smoking? Homosexuals can ban heterosexuals, but smokers cannot ban non smokers, while the opposite is “right”. Here’s a quote from the article: ‘ "These exemptions exist to protect groups in the community who are subject to being treated less favorably, or treated unfairly compared with other groups," she told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio Tuesday.’ So where’s the exemption for persons who smoke? Think hard, now: consumers of a legal substance are denied the freedom of assembly that is guaranteed by almost any democratic nation in the world – and this is what the WHO criminals, amongst others, adamantly support with the use of epidemiological fraud. The social treatment of smokers is now worse than that of blacks and Jews in the past, for at least they were allowed to assemble in ghettos.

This is what “public health” can do. Never forget it.

Lost liberties

June 1 [08:15 GMT] – Smoking in the Free World - A blogger disillusioned with his efforts to rally people against the effort to crush smokers reflects on how the worst demagogic democracy has put control freaks at the helm to ratchet up oppression – with the full blessing of the oppressed, of course:

“History's failures have taught present day anti-smokers valuable lessons, I suppose. In the 21st century, smokers' worst enemy is not Big Brother. A misguided consensus of our peers, brainwashed apologetic smokers, and people who would rather muzzle themselves via Big Mac than speak out are the instruments of this generation of anti-smokers. The gun pointed at tobacco's head is a perennial onslaught of PC propaganda created by ivory towered demagogues and their minions. We've given the government a mandate to pull the trigger. I think Hitler hated democracy merely because he didn't know how to work the system.”

In the end, “a misguided consensus of our peers” IS Big Brother, of course. That’s what history was supposed to have taught us, but we’ve forgotten the lesson.

Flaccid Symbolism

June 1 [08:15 GMT] – Cutting a moral panic down to size – The self-flagellation festival over global warming is an ominous phenomenon with the stink of oppression-in-the-making. People in the western world, while utterly powerless to effect a curb on industrial development in places like India and China (assuming that human activity is responsible for global warming) stand poised to start making each other miserable over every back-yard barbecue, every cigarette, every pet fart produced—all in the name of saving the planet. It’s heartening to see that at least some people in a position to closely observe self-serving (but basically ineffectual) save-the-world chest-thumping in the entertainment world are becoming a bit jaded by it all. Recently, the Who’s Roger Daltry sounded off about an upcoming rock extravaganza from Al Gore’s global warming roadshow: "Bo***cks to that! The last thing the planet needs is a rock concert. I can't believe it. Let's burn even more fuel. We have problems with global warming, but the questions and the answers are so huge I don't know what a rock concert's ever going to do to help.”

What Roger may not understand is that the purpose of a lot of this activity isn’t really to help anything—it’s to roil up emotion, line people as the among the Saved as opposed to the Damned, give them a focus for the anger and confusion that they already feel, and a sense of involvement with a “righteous” cause. It’s about emotional management in a political context—and not much else.

Books

June 1 [08:15 GMT] – The War on Fun - From Canada, another shot against the antis, this time in the form of a book called The War on Fun. The author is a conservative-libertarian publisher, Ezra Levant, best known for taking a courageous stand during the controversy some time back over Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed (Levant reproduced the cartoons in his magazine).

From the book: "… many of the sources of anti-smoking 'science' [other than your tax money I would add] are paid for not by neutral universities or academic foundations seeking only the truth, but rather by corporations whose business depends on a constant stream of anti-smoking information: pharmaceutical companies who sell smoking cessation. There's nothing wrong with for-profit pharmaceutical companies paying to promote the idea that cigarettes are unhealthy and their smoking cessation medicines are better – but that's called 'advertising' when it's done in other industries. In the anti-smoking industry, though, it's called a scientific journal."