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Research
in service of the big bucks
July 6
[03:30 GMT]
– Big
Drugs, Pregnancy and Social Marketing
– On
June 28, 2007 the Seattle Times published an article about use of
antidepressants by women who are pregnant. The article downplayed the risks
to a developing fetus attributable to antidepressant use that have been
well-documented in several previous studies. The Times’ take-home message
was that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes study
results are “generally reassuring” it is safe for pregnant women to continue
taking drugs such as GlaxoSmithKline’s PAXIL. On the same day, June 28,
2007, The Times also published an article concerning exposure to secondhand
smoke for pregnant women and the alleged risks that such exposure creates
for a developing a fetus. That University of Washington study included data
that purportedly demonstrates nicotine ingested through exposure to
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) is strongly associated with later behavior
problems in children and recommends further study on the subject.
The
problems with the two news reports by the Seattle Times are manifold. Most
glaringly apparent is the fact that many of the birth defects attributed to
ETS by tobacco control advocates and in part by the University of Washington
study are also attributed by other researchers to use of anti-depressants
during pregnancy. Despite this confounding factor, the University of
Washington study authors report no controls as to whether subjects were
using prescribed antidepressants during their pregnancy. The
University of Washington study authors also report no controls for use NRT
products by study participants.
We
observe the curious phenomenon of University of Washington study authors
inventing analysis criteria and calculation variables concerning ETS to
“prove” an association that does not plausibly exist, while ignoring
well-documented and highly relevant confounding factors.
Anti-tobacco economics
July 6
[03:30 GMT]
– Lobbying
with smokers' money
– For
a hoot, read the "embarrassed" comments of this anti-tobacco operative whose
friend from the Big City was appalled that smoking was still allowed in
restaurants in benighted Wisconsin. Bear in mind that the entire article
drips a phoniness so obvious that the author's credibility about any subject
is in jeopardy.
"As coordinator of the Tobacco Program of the Interfaith Center on Corporate
Responsibility in Milwaukee, I oversee the effort of shareholders who raise
questions about tobacco concerns with the large tobacco companies - Philip
Morris USA, Reynolds American Inc. and Loews Corp."
From a
resident who knows a thing or two about how anti-tobacco operates:
I am
a Neanderthal. I am offensive by my very existence. I am a legal smoker
of tobacco. That said, I would like to know the funding for Mr. Crosby's
position and the funding for the Interfaith Center. Does any of it come
from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement? Does any of it come from
Robert Woods Johnson Foundation grants, or funneled thru either of these
through the state of WI? If so, I would ask him to cease and desist
lobbying for a total ban on The Smoker, as I have paid him and his
Center thru my tobacco taxes for years.
The
questions are, of course, rhetorical and, thief that he is, Mr. Crosby has
no intention of ceasing to persecute those whom he has robbed.
Junk
science and propaganda
July 6
[03:30 GMT]
– The
best places to be a smoker
– This
piece of the Telegraph.co.uk begins with the link to 'Map of hospital
admissions due to smoking'
Indeed, that map cannot exist, as it indicates the OPINION of a corrupt
institution – the National Health System – on what it believes caused
the admissions. In reality, it could have been anything else. But the idea,
once again, is to depict smoking as an epidemic, and to project the
emotional concept that, if it wasn’t for smoking, those hospital admissions
would not take place. These maps and studies are a fraud
no different than what Michael Siegel exposed about Piedmont, Italy.
The industry of fraud (“public health”) stated that the hospital admissions
went down two months after the ban, when in reality the admissions
increased, as it turned out that the con artists manipulated the
statistical figures to make them square with their political agenda.
After all the babble on the indemonstrable “causalities” and their
distribution, here comes the “warning” from ASH: “These figures should
send a warning to smokers. It's harder to give up spending more time with
smokers”. Thank you for the “warning”, ASH – we will make sure to
boycott non smoking places as much as possible, and to happily smoke
together. In the meantime, here is our warning to you and to the corrupted
health “authorities”: there will be payment for the frauds – you will not
get away with conning the public.
Finally, the challenge of Freedom To Choose is dismissed as that of a
“fringe group” that does not stand a "cat in hell's chance". Maybe. But what
really does not stand a cat in hell’s chance, in the long run, are the
frauds and the hatred that ASH and “public health” disseminate on smoking
and smokers. Whatever it takes, institutions will be honest again.
Anti-tobacco smears
July 6
[03:30 GMT]
– His
advisers worked for PM, he must be evil
– Fred
Thompson is a presidential Republican candidate. His staffers and advisers “have
worked on behalf of Philip Morris, one of the world's leading tobacco
conglomerates and a leading force in promoting cigarette smoking.”
Oh, my God, can you believe that?...
How disgusting! His advisers worked for a company that promotes SMOKING --
how repulsive! We all know that smoking KILLS to the point that not one
death has ever been scientifically demonstrated to be caused by it! What
more proof do we need? And what’s this evil doing amongst us?...
But there is more on the record of this ugly individual. Imagine that PM’s
involvement “was peanuts compared to the fees Thompson got from just one
lobbying client 23 years later, after another Tennessee friend, Bill
Frist, was elected Senate Majority Leader. Equitas, a British firm seeking
to minimize the cost of damages to Lloyds of London under pending
legislation governing asbestos liability (asbestos is a known cause of
respiratory diseases and of mesothelioma, a lethal lung cancer) in 2004
hired Thompson as part of a massive, $7.88 million lobbying drive.”
Gosh, limiting the milking of an industry that did not know that
asbestos could cause lung cancer when it used it? Absolutely
immoral.
We have no doubt – we never have any: Philip Morris nearly 30 years
ago and asbestos industry anti-shakedown activities: this guy is real scum,
let’s get rid of him. Long live the future Third Fascist Way, where the ugly
industries will be one with (and controlled by) the State. We all know that
the state is the ultimate repository of all wisdom and knowledge, full as it
is of “public health experts” who will finally liberate all of us from all
choice (and responsibility!), and give us eternal, healthy life in exchange
for our unconditional obedience.
Population Control
July 6
[03:30 GMT]
– Filling
in the template
– King
County Executive Ron Sims took the first step toward limiting greenhouse-gas
emissions from new development on Wednesday with an executive order covering
unincorporated parts of the county.
The order will require developers to provide information — such as square
footage of buildings and estimated travel on new roads — that the county can
use to project greenhouse-gas emissions. The requirement takes effect Sept.
1. Sims later plans to create emission limits for new developments. Those
limits would be sent to the Metropolitan King County Council for approval.
The
tobacco control model works so well in King County, Washington they now even
apply it to King County and greenhouse gases and global warming. Stand by
for more restrictive housing choices and higher prices for new developments.
Once again, Washington demonstrates its propensity for “progressive
leadership” by restricting choice and driving up process. And once again we
see business leaders supporting the process.
Its no
wonder that in the same issue of the Seattle Times we now read that
secondhand smoke harms fetus in the womb. From the Seattle Times, June 28,
2007, “Secondhand Smoke May Affect Brain of Fetus:”
“Pregnant women who are chronically exposed to secondhand smoke may have
children who are at greater risk of problems related to attention and
emotion, University of Washington researchers believe. In a study released
Wednesday, scientists found that children who have such psychological
problems have a higher frequency of them -- or more severe troubles -- if
their mothers were regularly exposed to tobacco smoke while pregnant. Those
troubles include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), aggressive
behavior, defiance and a behavior pattern called conduct disorder, which can
include truancy, fighting, failing in school, substance abuse, theft and
property destruction.”
Fight for freedom
 July 5
[03:00 GMT]
– Monarch
definitely not irrelevant
– At
81 years of age, Queen Elizabeth no doubt remembers the horrors of the Nazi
bombing attacks on her beloved homeland and most certainly lost many friends
and relatives who paid the ultimate price fighting to preserve freedom and a
way of life for a proud people. A way of life that is under attack again.
Not by a foreign dictator with bombs and bullets but by what should be
considered an even more insidious and dangerous foe. A steady and relentless
barrage that comes from within and is so carefully crafted that sometimes
it's even greeted with cheering and applause by the very people being
suppressed.
Now, some 60 years later, the Queen is rankling the rank and file of the
Nazi-inspired and big-pharma financed religion of health-and-safety with
statements that question the government's role in meddling in citizen's
affairs. Her refusal to put up no-smoking signs in areas used by the royal
family and their aides makes it pretty clear what her intentions are.
Yup....smoking in the palace. "She has made it clear to courtiers she would
have preferred to continue offering ash trays to visitors and allow them to
indulge in their habit." It's a pretty fair bet she will continue the, now
shameful, practice of tolerance and good manners towards her guests.
She obviously has no patience for these crusaders. "....she refuses to wear
a hard hat when she is out riding and she refuses, too, to wear a seat belt
when she travels by car."
The health Nazis may have to stop in at Buckingham Palace and smack the Queen
around a bit....until she learns to behave.
Hatred
July 5
[03:00 GMT]
– When
epidemiology becomes hatred
– Hyper-passive
smoke bad for children. It’s incredible what you can do with a criminal mind
and a questionnaire. We “all” know that “smoking is bad for you”. So is
second hand… and third hand too!
“Children whose mothers were exposed to second-hand smoke while they were
pregnant have more symptoms of serious psychological problems compared to
the offspring of women who had no prenatal exposure to smoke, according to a
new University of Washington study.”
 Yes!
Passive smoke is so deadly that mustard gas is therapeutic in
comparison. Not only does passive smoke “kill” children, but it also “hurts”
the children of the children! There is no need to make fun of this
squalid piece of epidemiological trash, as it is self-degrading enough.
Aside from the opportunistic and unethical money-grabbing of these
“scientists”, what we highlight here is how hatred against something
or someone takes the form of “science”. The purpose of trash like
this is not just to scare the smoker into quitting by using scientific fraud
(and that is bad enough!), but also instigating unlimited hatred against the
smoker and the fear in the non smoker: mere exposure to a harmless substance
not only damages the person exposed, but even the offspring. “If you choose
to be exposed, you don’t have the right to expose your innocent child” is
the implicit but clear message. So, equally clearly, you have to force the
smoker to put his cigarette out even if you personally don’t mind – unless
you want the responsibility of creating psycho-problems for your child! And
avoiding responsibility is what society is all about, today, isn’t
it?...
There is enough to begin to believe that non smokers like Goebbles have much
to learn from the antismoking mind. One more reason to disinfect public
institutions.
Shakedown
July 5
[03:00 GMT]
–
Licking
their chops
– "You're
going to see some really serious exposure on the part of companies that are
emitting CO2," Mr. Susman predicted. "I can't say for sure it's going to
be as big as the tobacco settlements, but then again it may even be bigger.
We're not going to know until the regulatory environment becomes clearer."
It's
official: the anthropogenic climate change is a fraud. The proof? The lawyers are
gathering, preparing to shakedown society, just as they did with tobacco.
The circle, as designed by the criminals running the country, is complete.
The "problem" has been identified, in this case the bogus notion that
mankind is causing the world to become hot. The solution, devolving society
back to the medieval times when man's carbon footprint was zero, is in the
planning stages. The real goal? Massive amounts of booty flowing from the
producers (business and people who profit and benefit from production) to
the parasites that produce nothing but regulations and lawsuits.
Links
July 5
[03:00 GMT]
–
The
Heartland Institute
– Although
with some delay, we are glad to introduce our readers to the Heartland's
Smoker's Lounge, hosted by the Heartland Institute.
"Welcome to the Smoker’s Lounge, the place to go for sound science,
economics, and legal commentary on tobacco issues. This “issue suite” cuts
through the propaganda and exaggeration of anti-smoking groups by giving you
access to the best available research and commentary from scores of
independent research organizations, publications, and government sources."
A nice
and educational place to be indeed.
Anti-tobacco
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Antismoker Gene
Borio, founder of Tobacco.org. Out of a Tolkien book. That's what
non smoking does to you. |
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July 5
[03:00 GMT]
–
An
end to tobacco.org?
– We
realize that this news is no way compensates for the beginning of the
British ban, but it is good news nevertheless. One of the oldest spreaders
of disinformation on the effects of smoking on health is shutting down. We
are talking about Tobacco.org
Fed by large pharmaceutical funding, Tobacco.org has been one of the big
mouthpieces of the pharmaceutical industry for years, spreading hatred
against smokers and against the tobacco industry while riding the gravy
train. But, for reasons that are not totally clear, the money feed has dried
up.
Of course, big boys like Tobacco.org do not bother with small donations.
They just don’t pay enough: antismoking crusaders are in for the big game,
because the “ideology” is simply not enough to justify volunteer work. We
can understand that: spreading false and distorted information is only worth
it if there is serious money involved -- especially in the absence of
morality or principles. But lying for nothing is just too much work.
That’s the difference between pushing the truth and pushing a fraud: those
who push the former – such as FORCES – do it for nothing and the donations
have always gone to the fight against the industry of fraud, 100% of them --
and nothing in our pocket. Why? Because we have the ideology of truth,
and we have decided that we’ll never “get used” to a socially acceptable
fraud. We therefore have the MOTIVATION, and we do not need to be paid to
fight. And yes,
we do appreciate small donations.
Those who push antitobacco, instead, need fat paycheques because there is no
motivation – and, perhaps, there is also a need for monetary compensation to keep
conscience under control. That is why the key to the
destruction of the industry of fraud is to cut the money – or at least to
create political and social problems to make the antitobacco enterprise too
expensive to sustain. It worked for alcohol prohibition. It will work for
tobacco prohibition too. It’s an inescapable law of economics – and history
always repeats itself.
Oppression
July 5
[03:00 GMT]
–
New
Labour isn’t the villain
– Spiked
magazine’s recent round-up piece on the reactions to smoking bans in various
cities of the world yielded some great one-liners from disgruntled citizens,
like the one quoted above. But very disappointingly, Spiked missed the
opportunity to put the issue into a wider political perspective for its
readers.
Deputy editor Rob Lyons says the British government shows a lack of “vision”
or “mission” by resorting to measures like smoking bans: “…isn’t there
also something sad about a government that has to force people to stub out
cigarettes in order to make a connection with us?”, he wonders.
Spiked editor Brendan O’Neill, in his contribution on the smoking ban in
Ireland, also concedes the issue has political dimensions, but he reserves
his comments only for the way Irish polticians are instrumentalizing the
opportunity, noting that “the scandalised and corrupt Irish authorities are
trying to fashion a sense of mission, to re-present themselves as altruistic
and future-oriented. And they have chosen the issue of smoking on which to
do that because they instinctively know that these interventions into
personal health matters generate little protest or rebellion these days.”
And so on, as correspondents report anecdotally from the cities of Paris,
Rome, Brisbane, New York, Stockholm. Only the headline of this article, “The
global crusade against the evil weed” hints at the real core of the problem
–- an international movement that, once having built momentum, moved on to
abuse the inherently undemocratic mechanism of international treaties to
“oblige” governments to go after smokers. If credibility-challenged national
governments find anti-smoking authoritarianism a convenient “cause” to
embrace, it’s partly because legislatures – although this is rarely pointed
out – have treaty obligations which ensure they will vote anti-smoking
measures and pressure local governments to enact complementary supporting
measures. It’s too easy for them to jump on the bandwagon. Or, better
said, since the band wagon is already on the move, their legislative rubber
stamp only serves to legitimize the exercise in the eyes of the public as
the product of a functioning national democracy.
In another recent Spiked article on the British smoking ban, editor Mike
Hume calls the ban “a typical New Labour measure”, similarly missing the
point that New Labour’s reach does not extend to California and Colorado,
Australia, Bhutan (it went so far as to make tobacco actually illegal two
years ago), all across Canada (the “tolerant” nation where a recent Supreme
Court decision recently put “health” – whatever that may mean in practice –
above the constitution), and step by step, all over Europe. New Labour? What
has Mr. Hume been smoking?
“Follow the money,” is the investigative journalist’s trusty slogan, but who
is following the money – nationally and especially internationally –- in the
story of the world-wide anti-smoker movement? Spiked has contributed some
thoughtful pieces on the issue, but it is missing the big story. Some media
outlet, somewhere, needs to assign a decent budget and really do a deep
investigative report into the international movement to police and
micromanage our lifestyles irrespective of what party is in power in an
individual nation, and done in a way that no change of poltical players, no
lawsuits, and no constitutional challenges can touch.
The real story here is that a carefully crafted manoeuvre of “global
governance” is being used to seduce all governments and screw the citizens
of every nation before they even begin to understand the nature of the
beast.
Prohibition
July 4
[03:00 GMT]
–
What is going to happen next in England?
–
“Smoking ban a great success”. “Poll indicates that 87% of the population
supports the smoking ban”. “Rates of smoking declining already”. “No flexion
in liquor sales”. That is followed by interviews of smokers that state that
“this is the opportunity to quit I have been looking forward for a long
time”. Just give it a few weeks.
Save and print this page and consult it in one month time, perhaps even
earlier.
How do we know all this? Experience. Knowledge of the procedure that
the mass media lackeys have been told to adopt. Knowledge of the false and
biased information circulated by the antismoking trash. ASH and the rest of
the antismoking gangs are working hard to pressure and intimidate the
remaining British media that still give some voice to dissent – to silence
that dissent (or make it look sick and weird), so that the correct voice
will be given only to pro-prohibition. In that way it will look like the
support for the ban is overwhelming – a word beloved by the
antismoking con artists.
All those are tested sound bites, studied and prepared by the “public
health” commissars and their minions who are paid off by the pharmaceutical
industry, as well as with the silent assent of the bent over tobacco
industry.
In one month, “the British have completely accepted the smoking ban”,
and “...already no one can conceive how we put up with noxious smoking
for all this time”. "Cigarette sales have declined by 4%" and, a
little later: "...study shows that XXX (minimum three digits)
lives have been saved by the ban". Further "studies" will show "a
decrease in hospitalizations for "smoking-related" diseases by both smokers
and especially non smokers since the beginning of the ban". That will be
achieved through data stratification – a statistical artifice used in
Italy, Canada and United States.
The statistical fraud is perpetrated by dividing the hospitalizations in age
classes and showing ONLY the age class that, by random chance, showed a
hospitalization decrease. The presentation rhetoric fits the class: if it is
children, "children have been saved"; if it is the old, "lives have been
spared"; if it is working age, it is "dicreased exposure in the workplace",
and the preferred subjects of the fraudulent rhetoric are the hospitality
industry workers. Normally, in these kind of "studies" the total number of
hospitalizations increases, but that information is kept from the
public to show that passive smoking is a health hazard, and that its removal
creates measurable health benefits.
The fraudulent technique is described by Michael Siegel
on the Piedmont study.
Remember – always – that "public health" has become a criminal enterprise
that does not hesitate to defraud the population with manipulated data as
long as it can further the political and marketing agenda of the
pharmaceutical multinationals. The health institutions are marionettes whose
strings are pulled by a tiny minority of fanatics such as ASH.
Once the ban in is place, one thing happens to each and every
country: all mass-media activities are geared to convince the
population that the population cheers prohibition and that it accepts the
measures. Showing popular consensus is a history-tested technique used
by ALL totalitarian governments.
Already the mass-media have suffocated or underplayed the disobedience of
the first day of the ban in order to discourage resistance. Don't fall for
that. But it must be kept in mind that, from the day of the ban, one
cannot believe any word that he hears or reads by the mass media on the
smoking issue, as the agenda is shifted to undermine your psychological
resistance and make you accept the fait accompli. Rather, one
is to continue to boycott and damage the economy while making the life of
nagging non smokers as miserable as they try to make his, now that they feel
empowered by the industry of fraud.
You are the injured party; you are the victim of the institutional and media
fraud; and non smokers do not have any “right” to be “protected” from a
danger that does not exist. In short, you are in the right and they are in
the wrong – thus you are justified to fight them with any and all means at
your disposal, as anything goes.
It is as simple as that.
American Independence
July 4
[19:00 GMT]
–
Considerations on the 4th of July - Considerations by an
American citizen on the fading perception of the individual
self-determination that made America great. Who lost the Cold War, really?
The USA used to be a powerful, roaring lion for liberty, and an example of
unbounded freedom for the entire planet. Look at it today: a healthist,
politically correct, hollow shell. The clash with the Communist ideology is
over – but the historical result is not the victory of freedom. It is the
merging of Communism and Capitalism – a fusion that is resulting in the
Third Way.
Too bad that the Third Way already existed: it was called
Fascism.
Anti-smoking inventions
July 3
[03:00 GMT]
– Electronic
losers?
– We
read: “FINALLY you can ‘smoke’ ANYWHERE and ANY TIME you want! Legal
water vapor! […] On the Day of
Defiance,
smokers around the world are given back their right to enjoy a legal product
as they please, and go anywhere they want once again.”
Mmhh… what
kind of defiance is the use of a device that the law permits?... We mean,
where is the defiance? Are we talking, once again, about the illusion of
being fighters, or being real fighters by disobeying the law? And if smoking
is a right, how come it can be taken away or given back?
Let’s face
the real issue, if you please -- as it seems to us that we are
missing the target as usual. The issue is the right to smoke - better
yet, the conquest of the legal right to smoke that was the
custom but was never specifically protected by law. The electronic cigarette
is nothing but a nicotine inhaler. Is the issue how to go around the ban
with some device, or is it how to beat the ban in the long run with
disobedience, creation of political problems and with the continuous
exposure of the institutional fraud on active and passive smoke? If junk
like those devices is adopted, it will only prove that we are nicotine
"addicts" - not "freedom fighters" or fighters for health institutions that
have some integrity.
The first
thing to do therefore is to establish what we want: freedom or
"nicotine fixes"? Do we want to prove that we are “addicts”, or fight
for the right to smoke the real McCoy?
If the
choice is the former, and if these nicotine devices become common use, not
only will the bans stay forever but, once established in the culture, a
way will be found to ban even those devices -- guaranteed! Let us
never forget that the WHO program is to eliminate any form of nicotine
intake -- whether smoked or otherwise -- unless it is of pharmaceutical
origin. The message to deliver, therefore, is that we will not submit
to politicized scientific fraud by health "authorities", nor will we accept
to undergo cultural engineering -- with or without nicotine delivery
devices.
Furthermore, the “electronic cigarette” advertised as a way to “beat the
ban” is, in reality, a
Chinese product that “helps you stub out the habit”, as
described in this Reuters press release of May 9, 2007.
So, at the end of it all, the device of “defiance” turns out to be a
smoking cessation trick! If you want to quit smoking, all you need to do
is put down the pack – and conform to the impositions. No need to fall for
marketing scams – but there sure seems to be a desperate need to become a
little bit less naïve.
In short,
the problem is to be eliminated at the root. To use a metaphor, when
you get the beating you can either develop a thicker skin (and that will
induce the abuser to get a bat with spikes), or keep a thin skin but take
the bat away from the beater -- and use it on him.
We
unconditionally vote for the second option -- for the first one will only
guarantee more beating.
Justice
July 3
[03:00 GMT]
– Legal
challenge to smoking ban
– “Campaigners
for the right to smoke are expected to launch a High Court challenge over
the Government's smoking ban in enclosed public places”.
Regardless of its outcome, this test case represents an important turning
point for those who defend the right to smoke and fight for the restoration
of institutional integrity. The case, in fact, represents a different
attitude of smokers towards the industry of fraud. No longer do smokers ask
for “a place to hide”. No longer do they apologize for their way of life. No
longer do they “try to quit”. The attitude is to make the industry of
fraud quit. Quit its statistical frauds and misrepresentations of
evidence. Quit its defrauding citizens with their own money. Quit its
paternalism that nobody voted for, or asked for.
The debate is over – we agree. Now is time for total war.
Disfunction
July 3
[03:00 GMT]
– Anti
Morality
– “The
night before Tyler DeLeon turned 7, he was so thirsty he ripped a hole in
the screen of his bedroom window to eat snow. By the next evening, Tyler was
dead. He weighed just 28 pounds, the size of an average 2-year-old.
 Dehydration
is the official cause of death, but authorities think Tyler suffered a
variety of abuses at the hands of his adoptive mother, Carole DeLeon, a
woman who led a seemingly ordinary life as a paralegal with the U.S.
Attorney's Office in Spokane. Records released this week by the state
Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) say that between 1988 and
2005, DeLeon had deprived at least four other adoptive or foster children of
food and that she was accused of punishing her biological children by
withholding food, as well. Yet DSHS didn't recognize the pattern until after
Tyler died in January 2005. The records, which document DeLeon's history.”
The
picture of this woman speaks volumes: crying, wailing, and gnashing of teeth
and being arrested for homicide by child abuse. It’s all about her and her
grief at being busted, the kids being a distant irrelevant consideration.
She shows no more concern for the consequence of her dysfunctional behavior
on children Read the article: the typical Anti-Mentality. I have said for
years that there is a correlation between a compulsion for control and child
abuse. Washington Department of Health and Human Services has enough time to
mandate “Smoke Free” environments, but cannot be bothered to identify and
stop death by starvation or thirst in foster homes. The Agenda Afflicted are
losers I the worst extreme: their repugnant compulsion to control others
overrides common decency and sense. Time to clean out the entire nest of
filth in state government executive branch offices. --
Comments
by
Norman Kjono
Hysteria
July 3
[03:00 GMT]
– Zero
exposure is absolute health
– Another
holy grail of the healthist ideology is that zero exposure is the only way
to guarantee 100% health – another way to express the belief that if we
eliminate ALL the causes of disease and death, death and disease will not
take place.
This concept is as eminently linear (and stupid) as the Marxist elimination
of money as the cause of all social inequity was. As time goes, the only
thing that changes is the topic, but not the universal constant of
bureaucratic idiocy. That is why the nihilistic healthist ideology is based
on the number zero (zero tolerance, zero exposure, zero dialogue…): idiocy
admits a lot of arrogance, but NO debate and intellect. The truth is already
in the pocket – why waste time arguing about it?
Take this example of “emissions killing our children”. Should school buses
idle while the kids board them, or turn the engine off? Perhaps restarting
the engine creates even more emissions? Alarm – that’s always the right
thing to do! How do we ever achieve the zero exposure target? Zero exposure
is absolute health! Perhaps we should go back to the horse – but horses make
emissions too, through their methane farts, and cause global warming! Plus,
methane is a carcinogen! We
should really find the way of moving without consuming energy, shouldn’t we?
Hell there outta be a law about that!
In reality exposure is dangerous only in massive and concentrated
quantities, but it is bad to say that: health first of all – truth, reality
and freedom can wait.
Editorial
July
2
[08:00 GMT]
– British
Day of Defiance a success - The British Day of Defiance has been a
success. We have received several letters from participants satisfied with
the outcome. The antismoking law has been broken with no intervention of the
police.
 This
is good news. It was a celebration of the intention not
to respect a law that is fundamentally based on fraud and on pharmaceutical
industry self-interest, and promoted with disgusting paternalism. ‘Dear
“public health”, take your fraud and paternalism and shove it: we will not
obey’ is the clear message launched.
But now the
difficult part begins: endurance. It was wise (and very PR-oriented)
for the police not to intervene in the defiance. The police are not supposed
to look oppressive – and orders were probably issued to allow smokers to
“get it out of their systems”. But the general instructions are loud and
clear: SUPPRESS – from now on – one person at a time, one pub at a
time, until backs are broken and the fear of (“public health”) God is put
into both smokers and pub owners. Will smokers continue the pressure? Will
they continue to disobey a law that deserves no respect? Will they be able
to create the economic damage, the social pressure, the
turmoil and political problems that are necessary to
defeat the
public
fraud and the pharmaceutical agenda? Will they make the ban too
expensive and too chaotic to enforce (given that the debate with “public
health” is “over”, and actually was never there)?
Those are
the fundamental questions, and the only ones that really matter. Unless
sizeable damage is created; unless there are long-lasting
negative consequences for Big Health “authorities”; and if
smokers just roar, mumble and then bend over, the antismoking crooks will
declare the ban a success. (Actually, they will declare it a success anyway,
because that is the World Health Organization established protocol). That’s
one more reason why the failure of the ban should be as spectacular as
possible – to the point that not even anti-tobacco’s mass-media lackeys
can hide it.
Yesterday
the lives of millions of British smokers were damaged and changed thanks to
an
institutional fraud. Now what is to be seen is whether smokers can
damage and change institutional “public health” in return – and, in doing
so, prompt a clean-up of the institution, stimulating politicians to shut
down repressive programs and cut short the careers of operatives working
with contempt for the tradition of liberal democratic society.
In the
meantime, here is a link to
“The Bolton Smoke In” and to the
“English Defiance!” pages, both on the
Freedom to Choose
site. Also, here is
a
description of the event from Bladimir Tolstoy, correspondent from
England.
Fight for freedom
 July
2
[03:00 GMT]
– A
Message to Smokers
– It’is
a matter of TRUST, is it not?... This piece by Joe Jackson is our
recommended reading today, and it was written in occasion of the onset of
the British smoking ban, a very sad day for England.
Aside
from the passive smoke fraud, the fundamental point that Jackson makes is
that of trust – trust in “public health” in general and in the doctor in
particular. Can we trust those who lie to us once we know they lie? Can we
trust them even if we don’t know that they lie? In something as important as
lifestyle control – with the huge socio-economic, political and cultural
repercussions – aren’t we obligated to go check for ourselves instead of
blindly believing in medical “authority” on the grounds that it is not
“political”?
“There's an old saying: 'trust me, I'm a doctor'. But I'm asking you to
trust me because I'm not. Many people these days, including newspaper
editors and politicians, are simply not willing to challenge or question
medical authorities. They are assumed to be the only people on earth who
are never wrong, biased, dishonest, or corrupt. But unquestioning faith
in any authority is naïve and dangerous, and this is just as true in the
case of 'health' as in the case of religion or politics (they all claim
to know what's best for us, after all).”
In his
quiet and balanced way, what Jackson says is the most subversive and
dangerous concept there is, as it questions the trust in the most powerful
political control that there is: not that of the Prime Minister or
politicians, but that of the medical class.
Here is a link
to Joe Jackson's official website.
How to fight
July
2
[03:00 GMT]
– What
works (and what doesn't)
– We
have received this letter from a reader in Canada. We believe that this
letter is significant in understanding the futility of certain actions
against antitobacco, and the need to concentrate on what works instead.
Of course
we will be accused of being “extreme” – an accusation that has been going on
since FORCES began, simply because the victims of “public health” and
antismoking groups have never understood the extremism of “public health’s”
social engineering programs. In one sentence, they will go all the way.
Either you
have to be prepared to do the same, match the stakes and call their bluff
(but they are NOT bluffing!) or obey, be silent and waste no more time
fighting them.
Please read
the
letter we received
and our answer to it.
How it
ends
 July
2
[03:00 GMT]
– A
peek into the future
– On
this side of the barbed wire there are the drinkers, on the other side the
fatsos. Smokers are in a separate camp, to prevent them from threatening the
health of the other addicts with their exhausts. Of course the camps are not
camps, they are cessation centres.
Their
inhabitants are just too eager to be cured, hoping to get back their
medicare, their jobs, their pensions and especially their children, who have
been taken away by the State to protect them against the vicious addictions
(and examples) of their parents. The human race must be healthy. Health is
the paramount value.
The symbols
of the five Corporations that are now actually governing the world and
provide the indispensable drugs for good health, long life and especially
social order tower over all camps. Thanks to those corporations there is no
more social disharmony, as all agree about everything. People have
discovered that not even elections are necessary anymore, because polemics
and arguments are bad for public health and the economy, as they cause
Potential Years of Life Lost.
The World
Ministry of Health (WMH), consisting of five members - one from each
Corporation - now takes care of laws, politics, economics, environment,
information, state and industrial priorities, thanks to the successful
fusion between corporate pharmaceuticals and the state. History has been
finally set straight, by recognizing that Mussolini’s doctrine was indeed
the way to happiness, and his pictures are now mandatory in any public
place.
Only a few
hundreds of thousands of smokers, drinkers and fatsos are left in the world,
and they are helped in centres like this, that claim 98% recovery from their
disease. The remaining 2% constitutes most of the low life, and most of the
recalcitrant resistance to goodness. The case of those who resist is truly
terminal because they deny their addiction and they even label it as
“liberty” instead of the prescribed “freedom from”. They are nostalgic for
motorcycles driven without helmets and for big cars driven without safety
belts in which - incredible! - they could even smoke, eat hamburgers
and have occasional drinks in the presence of their children! Who in
his right mind would want something like that? They even long for
unsurveilled communications and streets without cameras, where unspeakable
crimes were committed, and without even a loudspeaker to tell them what not
to do. That alone is scientific proof of their nasty sickness. Despised with
extreme prejudice by society, all that those people evoke is just the utter
contempt once reserved for paedophilia -- another disease now successfully
cured with chemical lobotomy.
But they
are been dealt with -- although calls for their lethal injection are held
back with the appropriate psychodrugs. The supporters of such crude
punishment actually don't seem to understand that the problem will solve
itself, eventually. Those sick people are already denied anything that the
State allocates to decent people -- such as food credits, medical attention,
disability pensions and antidepressants. Why waste social resources on
people who can be better helped by denying those resources to them? Regular
statistics are published by the WMH on their useless deaths that follow
their useless lives. And all that just because they refuse to quit, so they
quit existing.
We have
done what's right, our conscience is clear. The year is 2020. The place is
anywhere. Only a few more years before the final triumph of “public health”,
and the beginning of an endless era of long life, peace and tranquillity:
the peace of emptiness, the tranquillity of a machine.
This is not
a gloomy fiction. It has already begun. What are you prepared to do
to keep it a fiction? I know what I have to do, and my conscience is already
clear.
-- Gian
Turci
Anti-tobacco uber alles
 July
2
[03:00 GMT]
– Canada:
Constitution must bend to 'public health'
– If
you had any doubt left in your mind that “public health” is by leaps and
bounds more important than the constitutional guarantees of liberty, this
decision from Canada should erase it.
"The bench
unanimously and unequivocally upheld a federal law that tightly restricts
advertising and requires tobacco companies to put graphic health warning
labels, such as cancerous lungs, on cigarette packages. 'Restrictions on
tobacco advertising are a valid exercise of Parliament's criminal law
power,' Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in the 9-0 ruling."
There you
have it – and remember that “public health” does not even have to
scientifically demonstrate that a legal product is harmful: all it takes
is a good combo of declared “consensus”, hate promotion, false information
and suppression of opposition. The writing is on the wall for all to see: to
nullify constitutions – indeed to adapt the constitutions to the agenda –
all it takes is to have “public health” declare a product or a behaviour
“unhealthy”. When “health” is in conflict with freedoms and constitutions,
health is to prevail and constitutions and principles have to adapt and
conform. Get it -- and obey!
And don't
hope that the Banana Republic of Canada is different than where you live:
this ideology is a planetary cancer spread by the WHO and its pharmaceutical
masters. The back of healthism must be broken at its most basic, with
popular political actions and spectacular disobedience.
Read the
rest of the article, try not to be sick (that’s unhealthy!), and look at the
perversion of the principles and the imposition of domestic policies by
supranational treaties (WHO) – treaties signed without a national
referendum. Read the calls for even more abuse and absolute power to be
delivered into the hands of “public health” and its pharmaceutical
controllers, now even more powerful than national constitutions. Perhaps now
would be a good time to stop being sheep? The alternative is utter
dictatorship, let’s not kid ourselves.
And here is
the final insult to decency, spat on the face of Canadians by the minister
of health Tony Clement: "Speaking as a parent, not as a politician, I
would be extremely perturbed if my 10-year-old daughter, who has the
occasional use of a cellphone, receives a text message from tobacco
companies." Next are the alcohol and food companies.
But Mr.
Clement does not make a sound about the hammering advertisement of the
pharmaceutical companies, of course, that are allowed to bombard the
public with unrestricted advertisement -- and to drug the entire population.
No one can
afford to irritate the boss, eh, Tony?... We will sure smoke one up to that
-- and to hold back the puke that what you represent induces.
Anti-tobacco backfires
July
2
[03:00 GMT]
– English
refuse to be panicked into kicking habit – This
piece from the Telegraph.co.uk is as interesting as it is disinforming. The
opening statement is the absolutely indemonstrable and typical anti-tobacco
fraud:
: “Our map for The Daily Telegraph is based on the number of people
admitted to hospital for breathing difficulties caused by cigarettes.”
But how do they know? They don’t, of course. They don’t because they can’t.
They can’t because breathing difficulties are caused by hundreds of factors
– ignored by rotten “public health” to scare people into quitting through
false information.
Let’s go on with an even more perverse statement: “We know that older
people and people who are poorer are more likely to suffer from diseases
caused by smoking”. But if they are old and poor, they are exposed
to many more of the other factors that cause those diseases. Here the
utterly dishonest (and idiotic) implication to con people into quitting is
that if those old and poor people weren’t smoking they would not
suffer from those diseases – or, perhaps, old and poor people would suffer
as much as rich and younger people? Remember always: not one disease is
unique to smoking, or can be scientifically demonstrated to be caused by
smoking.
Let us proceed with the antismoking credo: “The introduction of a ban on
smoking in public places will undoubtedly encourage people to smoke less”
– followed by figures that do not say that both in Scotland and Ireland
smoking has picked up to normal levels, and probably even more thanks to
contraband, that cannot be quantified in official figures. “In
Scotland, smoke-free laws came into effect last year. Tens of thousands of
people have given up smoking since.”
Yes, but tens of thousands of people have started smoking – thank God
– and the absolute number has flexed very little – although one is to admits
that idiotic quitting because “it’s the law” or “to fit” always existed and
always will; but fortunately they are a small minority.
Now on to the good stuff for last: “So will English smokers behave the
same way? The evidence to date suggests maybe not.” And “The group of
smokers likely to be least affected by the ban is teenagers”, which
gives us high hopes that English teens and adults may be intelligent enough
not to believe institutionalized fraud. Hang in there, kiddos: we will break
them. The Telegraph’s piece finally reaches the ejaculation of the
antitobacco fantasy: “The ultimate example is
Bhutan,
where the sale of tobacco has been banned outright.”
But it does not say that the “ultimate example” of the antitobacco scum did
not work as the prohibition is unenforceable and vastly ignored, so people
smoke right in the face of prohibition as they should (that’s why the
mass-media don’t talk about Bhutan anymore). Antitobacco’s ultimate dream
reminds us of the masturbator who asked his hand: “was it nice for you
too?”…
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