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July
25
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– Kamikaze
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When you have nothing to lose, you may as well do as much damage as
you can – and make sure that it is spectacular, or cooperative
mass-media who have the job of spreading the antismoking fraud will
certainly ignore it. Smoking bans do not hurt businesses, and
“everybody” is happy about them, didn’t you know?... And smokers
better keep setting themselves up for dinners and parties at home:
The more damage against healthist crime they can do, the better.
July 14,
2007
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Smoking cessation is useless
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Tobacco.org may soon be consigned to scrapyard of history. Just the
other day, we at FORCES had the pleasure of heaping disdain at
tobacco.org, because the folks behind it were running out of
donations. Let's have some more fun with them!
April 20, 2007
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Refusing to submit
- A crowd of angry citizens demonstrated outside the Danish parliament in
Copenhagen this week. The object of their outrage is the smoking ban and
they are not planning on skulking away until changes to the law are made.
Petitions and protest statements were presented to the health committee while
outside the crowd waved banners, sipped beer and smoked cigarettes. Soren
Højbjerg was on the scene and reports on the mood in Denmark.
April 9,
2007
A new con in town - Søren Højbjerg reports
from Denmark on a new entrant to the cancer rackets. This new group
declares that it will not tolerate lung cancer. Such an adamantine vow
won't provide much relief to cancer sufferers but it helps to establish the
street cred of yet another gang cashing in on the west's morbid fear of death.
The new group focuses on a particular form of lung cancer that mysteriously
shuns smokers, preferring instead to wreak vengeance on non-smokers and
"reformed" smokers. Other factoids are dispensed, proving that what a
grifter lacks in logic he makes up in floods of verbiage, some of it
contradictory. Mr. Højbjerg welcomes the new group but ponders its
survival as it intrudes on territory already staked out by the current mob of
cancer vultures.
April 4,
2007
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The doctor off his meds again
- On a lighter note we link to an amusing observation from Søren Højbjerg who is
determined to probe the minds of the mindless healthists. The particular
ideologue under the microscope is really, really worried about everyone's
health, so of course focuses inordinately upon smoking. He also appears
not to approve much of alcohol and in a wonderful example of pretzel logic
manages to finger both vices as causes of cancer, according to variables that
only a lunatic could conjure up. Our correspondent from Denmark thinks
such schizoid contradictions fall under a discipline known as polylogism.
We call it something a bit simpler; delusional bull shit.
March
26, 2007
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Something brewing in the state of Denmark - Søren
Højbjerg had a busy weekend and a highly productive one as he and a cohort got
together to do something about the loss of freedom in Denmark. The hours
of labor produced the inception of a political force to take the concerns of the
people to the politicians who have forgotten they represent all citizens, not
just the special interests who spend the most money and have the loudest voices.
We wish the brave and stalwart Danes all the success they deserve.
March
21, 2007
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Something brewing in the state of Denmark -
Søren Højbjerg reports on the situation in Denmark and, despite the usual push
by the elites to install prohibition on the backs of the working class, finds
reasons for cheer. Bar owners are protesting the upcoming ban in growing
numbers as the implementation date nears. The Denmark Smoker Party is
gearing up and will ensure that smokers' input is taken seriously.
Magic science
- We all know epidemiology, the method used most often in
anti-tobacco "studies", is not science. Often it appears to be a low-grade
type of stage magic that couldn't fool a reasonably intelligent junior high
school student. Stage magic, of course, is designed for amusement but the
bilge that our correspondent from Denmark highlights here is hardly a barrel of
laughs. Disgusting is the key word here and fraud is the motivating
factor.
Turning the tide
- Denmark has a smoking ban that can, in these days of total
prohibition, be described as soft. Not soft enough for many the citizens
of that peaceful and progressive country who are fed up with narrowly focused
special interests imposing their wills on the majority. Our correspondent
from Denmark reports on the growing resistance to prohibition.
Norwegian spammers - From Norway comes yet
another hysterical "study" from a team of bozos who concluded last year that
smoking one cigarette is significantly dangerous. That piece of junk went
over so well that they've recycled the numbers and come up with a new
earthshaking contribution to human knowledge. Our correspondent from
Denmark barely breaks a sweat as he bludgeons the numbskulls' latest
conclusions.
Denmark's almost ban - Our
correspondence from Denmark reports on the latest anti-tobacco nonsense
inflicting his erstwhile progressive nation. As required by the
haughty, and unaccountable, European Union, the country has approved a
nation-wide smoking ban. The devil, as always, is in the details,
which
Søren Højbjerg sorts out.
Scottish Spin -
Under great
anti-smoker bravado and orchestrated cheers, a band of anti-tobacco
'researchers', at the University of Dundee, Scotland, have published a
piece of agitational science. This time the claim is that pub workers'
lives have been saved due to the smoking ban recently foisted upon the
hapless Scots. ... The people-banning instigators who have backed and
are promoting this piece of trash should be ashamed.
The “denormalisation” campaign in Britain: “I just
called to say, ‘I hate you’” - Propaganda
takes on many forms. The best results are of course achieved if the recipient of
propaganda does not realize that he is being targeted. We shall zoom in on a
specific piece of propaganda that employs exactly this technique.
Smoking bans are an assault on liberty
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Under
the false guise of health, anti-smoking zealots are massively hammering
the rights of citizens and business owners to make their own decisions.
These fanatics exploit the democratic majority rule to foist their
interventions against a minority, smokers and the entrepreneurs who
cater to their wishes.
A Healthist Manifesto -
In
1974, one Marc Lalonde, Minister of Health in Canada, published a paper
titled ”A New
Perspective on the Health of Canadians”. Readers of the Forces pages
may be familiar with the title of this publication. But how many have
actually read it? Until recently, I had not.
Studying this healthist manifesto allowed me insight into the
fundamentals of the propaganda that we are exposed to every day,
through newspapers, television, novels and other channels of
indoctrination. ”A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians” is a
despicable medieval parchment. It reduces man to a pawn in a
gigantic game played by the directors of healthism.
Liberalism & regulation of lifestyle - For
a generation "liberalism" has been a dirty word in the United States. The
tarnishing of this once luminous concept is entirely due to the abuses enacted
by the far left in liberalism's name. In an article about Berkeley,
California, for instance, the reporter unwittingly reinforced the public's
distain of of the "L" word by glowingly describing that most intolerant of
cities as a bastion of liberalism and cited Berkeley's early embrace of smoking
bans as proof. Enacting smoking bans, and by extensions demonizing
smokers, is antipodal to true liberalism.
Søren Højbjerg, our
correspondent from Denmark delves deeper into the tragedy liberalisms
transformation from an ideal to a nightmare.
Orchestrated science - There really is
nothing new under the sun, although some of the permutations of anti-tobacco
"science" are so bizarre they do appear new. Junk science was invented a
long time ago and once its use as a tool to disseminate deception and
scary-sounding innuendo was perfected it became the coin of the realm in
societal adjustment. Our correspondent from Denmark presents a brief
history in anti-tobacco junk. Please note the abhorrent source and ponder
why evil can be defeated but never eliminated.
Socialism Junked - While secondhand smoke has never been proven to be a
hazard to nonsmokers, the political ideology that falls under communism or
socialism has been revealed as a total failure. The cadres,
however, are still active but, as our correspondent from Denmark notes, are now
bossing us around under the banner of health.
A softer, reasonable approach - The small nation of Denmark
has been much in the news of late because of the so-called
controversy erupting over a newspaper's decision to print images of
Mohammed. The country, so far, has bravely faced down an
onslaught of threats and condemnation while newspapers, particularly
here in the United States have cravenly buckled under foreign
pressure. Lost in all the hubbub is the news
that Denmark is again countering the mob by enacting smoking
regulation that seem downright reasonable these days. Our
correspondent from Denmark fills us in.
Big fat zero - First comes the
junk science "proving" that secondhand smoke causes nonsmokers to
keel over dead. Prohibition follows. Finally "research"
is released showing that everyone loves the smoking ban, businesses
are booming and the workers' lives have been saved. Søren Højbjerg
examined the proof anti-tobacco conjured
up to laud Ireland's country-wide, total smoking ban. After
laughing uproariously he places the bilge into perspective
pronouncing it much ado about absolutely nothing.
Sue the bastard - Outrage greeted Action on Smoking and
Health's strident call to terminate all employees who refuse to quit
smoking. ASH obscures its hatred of smokers by claiming its
bigoted message is merely a proposal to reduce health care costs.
Our correspondent from Denmark sees beyond the shocking hatefulness
to the core of lies that ASH has been dissembling for decades.
One trick pony - Søren Højbjerg, our correspondent from
Denmark, zooms in on a contradiction in the anti-tobacco movement
that needs more exposure. An anti-tobacco organization finds
itself on the outs with most other anti-smoking groups because it
doesn't limit its message to hectoring smokers into quitting smoking
and hooking themselves up to smoking cessation devices. The
heretics suggest that perhaps a bit more resources should be poured
into cancer research, looking for the cause of cancer and ways to
eliminate it. Such research would help the growing numbers of
nonsmokers who contract lung cancer and who cannot, as anti-tobacco
preaches, give up smoking and go on pharmaceutical nicotine.
Level Killing Field -
Anti-tobacco has worked so hard in implying that only smokers
get lung cancer and that smoking tobacco inevitably causes
lung cancer that it is hard pressed to come up with a coherent
explanation why lung cancer, in an era of fewer smokers, is rising.
Søren Højbjerg, from Denmark, examined the stats provided by the
Centers for Disease Control and finds some surprising trends.
Tightening the noose - Instead of wasting time on worse case
scenarios if the bird flu panic actually does become a reality,
people should focus on the pandemic of government tyranny. Our
correspondent from Denmark updates us on the situation there as Big
Drugs and its political clients ready the population for
prohibition.
Clean air is hazardous to health
- Struck by the latest
absurdity to come out of the junk science industry, our
correspondent from Denmark takes an illogical premise, dispensed by supposed
scientists, to its logical conclusion.
Thought engineering - George Orwell's 1984 novel about a
totalitarian society that brutally extinguishes every last vestige
of freedom has chilled generations since it appeared in 1949.
In the book the "party" works relentlessly on techniques to instill
complete conformity and obedience. One method involves paring
down the language to a few concepts so that individuals brought up
speaking "newspeak" are incapable of uttering unorthodoxies that
could lead to subversive behavior because they cannot conceive of
ideas outside the party's narrow vision.
Our era of slavish conformity has not
achieved the level of thought homogeneity envisioned by Orwell but
it isn't for lack of trying. As our correspondent from Denmark
notes, anti-tobacco in particular and Big Health in general is busy
redefining terms and words into concepts that are conducive for
controlling the population.
The Great Danish Smokeout - Our
correspondent from Denmark comments on the state of freedom in his
country as media unites with behavior modification engineers.
While his analysis may appear bleak we note that anti-tobacco has
declared victory many times before, each time their crowing has been
very premature.
Norway report card - Norway holds the dubious honor of being
the first country on earth to impose smoking prohibition.
Smoking is illegal everywhere except outdoors and in private homes.
To bolster the PR efforts of the tobacco control industry the
country recently released a glowing report touting all the wonderful
progress made since personal choice, property rights and scientific
integrity was thrown into the garbage can. Although the report
is in English it is doubtful that few will read beyond glowing
synopses that accompany its release. Søren Højbjerg, from
nearby Denmark, has read the report and offers his insight.
Penetrating the smoke screen - It was inevitable.
Unable to restrain themselves the anti-tobacco grant junkies
continue to crank out study after study, each designed to show
tobacco as more deadly than plutonium. With each new study
come contradictions and every so often one produces results that are
completely contrary to anti-tobacco's purpose. Our correspondent
from Denmark zeroes in on the one from the National Cancer Institute
that found secondhand smoke playing a minor role, if any, in
nonsmoker lung cancer. The study suggests that "unidentified
carcinogens" are the agents that cause the cancer in nonsmokers
Perhaps those mysterious carcinogens are
the agent that causes lung cancer in smokers. Perhaps the
government and legitimate health organizations should stop wasting
public dollars focusing solely on tobacco. How much progress
could have been made if billions of dollars weren't poured down the
bottomless pit of anti-tobacco research?
Cigarettes don't cause cancer - Hyperbole aside, as well as
the impossibility of demonstrating a negative without the
existence of a positive, we'll cut Søren Højbjerg some slack over
his exuberant response to the recent court ruling that smoking
tobacco
has not been shown to cause lung cancer. Our
correspondent from Denmark, however, is on firm ground in finding
this ruling significant. For years anti-tobacco has pronounced
from on high that smoking causes lung cancer. While the
hazards of secondhand smoke have not really been accepted by the
public, the supposed dangers of primary smoking are taken as gospel.
Even more important is the astonishing fact that when the bogus
anti-tobacco science is made an issue in court, the truth will
prevail.
Stumbling over the truth -
Søren Højbjerg, is astonished at the level of obtuseness
demonstrated by supposedly well-educated experts of human behavior.
Despite high taxes, smoking bans and "denormalization" campaigns
smokers continue to smoke. "How can this be so," ponder the
wise men? The answer is obvious and it doesn't cost a
gazillion dollars in grants.
Their Finest Hour - Our
correspondent from Denmark is dismayed to see the United Kingdom
slipping down the slope of soft tyranny that always ends up on the
cruel rocks of hard oppression. He harks back to the grim days
when that country unequivocally stood alone against the rampaging
totalitarians intent on stamping out all personal freedom. His
disgust with the current government is tempered with his admiration
of the British spirit of liberty shining forth from those who won't
go down without a fight.
Regulating Nicotine Yields -
Since anti-tobacco is more akin to a psychological disorder than to
a rational ideology the anti-smoking operatives often find
themselves advocating contradictory agendas that cannot lead to
their stated goal of improving the public health. Such is the
case when nicotine, generally regarded as harmless, is regulated out
of tobacco products by governments under the sway of the flashy
propaganda spewed by anti-tobacco special interests.
The Dark Side casts its shade over the kingdom
of Denmark - We have often described antitobacco
as a social cancer, and we believe we were right. However, a cancer
can also be defined as the dark side of life. With the European
Union's adoption of the antismoking statistical fraud, the huge
bureau-statist Liviathan is
flexing its muscles on the member states to further the interests of
huge multi-national pharmaceutical corporations and of the professional "public health"
con artists on their payroll. The little, not-for-long free Denmark
is no exception, and it is undergoing "consultations" that are
nothing more than a mockery of democratic process designed to impose the Dark
Side of healthism on that nation. Darth Vader could not have done
better. May the FORCES be with Denmark!
Orwell vs. Huxley - "For a period in my
life I was fascinated with science fiction novels. I've read the famous ones –
2001, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World and 1984. In this article, I shall delve
into my memories of two of those novels, 1984 and Brave New World."
One
is a bleak vision of society completely enslaved, every aspect of
life controlled and enforced by faceless inquisitors of orthodoxy
and docility. The other is, on the surface, a soft paradise
where pleasures are pursued by happy, adjusted and ultimately
mindless conformists. Neither anti-utopia vision came to
fruition but today we see a hyprid version of them both threatening
to render us impotent.
Who said discrimination, committee rigging and secret meetings?
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...The manual also,
quite unprecedented in any UN affiliated organization, advocates comittee
rigging by suggesting a number of tactics to be employed in order to avoid
that anyone sympathetic to tobacco smoking be part of decision making concerning
'smoking policies' (prohibition)...
Meta-analysis-free Initiative
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The greatest threat
to liberty at the dawn of the 21'st century is not Islamic Fundamentalism. It is
perverted science, cloaked under the fake pretences of Health Fundamentalism. I
am not worried about Usama bin Laden, because he is not a threat to my liberty. The novel tool of the
perverted science movement is meta analysis. It is akin to an alchymist tool. It
can be used to conjure up anything from nothing...
Is nicotine addictive? - When
the CEO's of the seven dwarves years ago testified that 'nicotine isn't
addictive' everybody thought the were just a pack of liars. They had to be
liars, right? They had motives for lying, right? Anybody that has a motive must
be lying, right? Anti tobacco CEO's have motives. So they must be lying too,
right? Oops! We all have motives. Based on this observation, are we then all liars? No. Even if we have motives, we could very well be telling the truth...
California, land of the free -
The peoples of the
great American Californian state are the most free in the world. The
great news is that plans are underway to extend these enlightened
freedoms to the union and even the world. How did all of these great
freedoms come about?...
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