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On the Road to Technological Tyranny? Micro-Chipped Pills

How the Smart Pill Technology Works

From The chips that are good for your health – Science – News – The Independent (UK-Jan. 17, 2012).

The Story

The Independent of the UK reports on a new medical technology that embeds a tiny silicon-based battery-powered chip in a medical delivery device (or should I just call it a pill?).

As you can see from the diagram, the pill contains a microscopic sized battery that emits a unique electric signature that identifies the particular medication being delivered.

Then there’s a companion skin patch that records the pill’s electronic signature over several days, and then can broadcast the stored data via Bluetooth.

The physician has a phone app that receives and interprets the Bluetooth signal. With this app, the doctor can see a record of when the patient ingested his meds.

The Implications

There are obvious benefits from this kind of technology, particularly in medical situations where departing from the prescribed pharmaceutical treatment could have dire consequences; or where the patient is likely to screw up the medication schedule.

There’s an ethical dimension as well. For one thing, it assumes patient incompetence, and reinforces dependence on the medical authority rather than individual responsibility.

And finally, there are the possibilities for this kind of technology to be used malevolently. And believe me, if a technology can be used to control or coerce, it will. This is the Big Brother aspect of the story.

You owe it to yourself to read the original article and the reader comments. The comments are mostly courteous and rational, and you’ll see the threads of a debate between the health benefits and the potential for it to be used by the surveillance state.

Technology has no intrinsic morality. Whether it’s good or bad depends on how it’s used. Bad people who want to control us are out there, waiting for new advantages in their game. And we must remain awake and vigilant to new technological tactics.

On the Word, God

There is a force that permeates everything. It permeates every individual thing and at the same time it is everything. It is all that is. I think the best we can do is call it The All. But most of humanity has a name. In the Judeo-Christian West, we say God.

We must be careful about attaching a label to this force, because when you label something, you automatically distinguish it from something else. You make it separate, you give it borders.

But by definition, something that is at once every individual and the whole cannot be divided, cannot be distinguished. Therefore, we diminish and distort the great force of all when we name it.

Further, by giving it a personal name — God — rather than an objective name that would begin with an article — The God, we further risk attaching human characteristics to the entity.

I think Prince was onto something by distancing himself from his name. Labels don’t apply so well in the spiritual dimension where our so-called souls or essential consciousness resides.

So perhaps we would do better to use the vaguest terminology like “The All” to describe that which cannot be named.

David Halpin: Taking a Stand Against Our Psychopathic Leaders

At this writing, Dr. David Halpin is leading an effort in the UK to open a legal inquest into the suspicious death of Dr. David Kelly, who the government claims committed suicide. But beware and be vigilant: The government’s story contradicts the evidence, includes a good dose of secrecy and obfuscation, and smells like a coverup.

Dr. David Halpin and Wife Sue (from UK Daily Mail)

Kelly was a microbiologist turned biological weapons expert, who participated in Iraq inspections surrounding the 2003 invasion, and who became controversial when he announced in a June 2003 interview that the charges of Iraq pocessing biological weapons of mass destruction had been “sexed up”. Not long after that, he was found dead after taking a walk near his home.

Dr. David Kelly (from UK Daily Mail)

The intrepid James Corbett had Halpin on his show October 4, 2011 to discuss the Kelly story. At the end of the Interview 383 – Dr. David Halpin, Halpin speaks elegantly and forthrightly of the evil this world faces, and the need for people to wake up and take action. I was incredibly moved by his courage and obvious love for humanity, and dedication to the truth.

Transcription of Dr. David Halpin on James Corbett, Oct. 2011

Our still-beautiful world, mauled by these people. Some people are waking up. They have to say, “What should I do?” And if people do not act, it’s no good just mouthing words. People have to stand up, James. You know that. Like you stood up.

This world is incredibly dangerous now for everybody. And people have got to get their messages.

It’s easy for me here on the edge of Dartmore—it’s a very beautiful environment, with the heather behind me, taking the dog for a walk—to think the world is going to stay just as it is. It’s changing rapidly. And the people who have control of it are evil beyond words.

I speak a lot about the psychopath. Many of our leaders are psychopathic, and I say that without any reservation at all. I mean it. And particularly I focus on our friend, Blair, who’s now jetting around the world talking about faith.. whatever; who’s meant to be performing a function to aid peace in the Middle East. He has done nothing towards that.

People have to grasp this and say, “These people have had their day.” We have to stand up, get together with people of like mind—decent people who want the best for their children and their grandchildren. That’s why I’m acting. I’ve got three lovely grandchildren, three girls.

Somebody said to me the other day, “What are you leaving? What about your money?” I said, “I’m not concerned about the legacy or money I’m leaving them, but what world I leave them. What world am I leaving them?” And that’s mostly why I’m acting.

I cannot stick* lies. I cannot stick* evil. I want to see people live peacefully. I want to see a mother being able to hold her baby on her breast in peace without someone threatening them. A drone above inSomalia, orYemen, or wherever; or the northwest frontier in Pakistan. These things are horrible. We should be enraged by it. Am I making myself clear, I’m sure?

*”Stick” = tolerate (British)

Sources & Audio

Audio Excerpt of the Conclusion of James Corbett’s Interview With David Halpin:
Download audio file (halpin-corbett-interview_conclusion.mp3)

Help raise money to bring justice to the death of Dr. David Kelly: The Dr. David Kelly Inquest Fund.

Full Halpin Interview on The Corbett Report (link to Corbett site)

Episode 192 – Requiem for the Suicided: Dr. David Kelly (link to Corbett site)

All UK Guardian Stories Related to Kelly’s Death

Wikipedia Entry on Kelly’s Death

Mental Anti-Virus Card: Top Fallacies Quick Reference

I created the little pocket-size printable document below as a quick reference card with what I consider to be the top fallacies. My criteria: they’re widely used and easy to understand.

Understanding and memorizing these fallacies will help you detect and deal with incoming information, and will also help you express yourself with more persuasiveness and authenticity. It’s part of the path to getting closer to the truth. Dig it.

If you’re interested in pursuing this kind of intellectual clarity in more depth, here are some recommended sources: Jan Irvin’s Trivium Education, Tragedy & Hope, Pop-Up Fallacies.

Fallacies Quick Reference Card

Chemtrails With My Own Eyes – Gotcha!

I recorded the following video on my iPhone 3GS this morning, after seeing the chemtrail process develop during my commute to work in Aurora, IL (west suburban Chicago). Due to the low resolution, the two planes I point out that were in the sky at the same time, but not involved with the chemtrail production, are really hard to see. Oh well.

The second non-chemtrail jet was a great comparison, because it was adjacent to a big chemtrail, and this second jet actually showed a typical contrail that dissipated while I watched. In contrast, the huge lines being drawn across the entire sky were clearly of a different and broader character.

I’ve heard a lot of the theories about chemtrails, but haven’t studied them in depth, so I’m not at a point even close to certainty about the designs behind the practice. I’m not sure anybody outside the closed doors of government and industry is. The important thing is, chemtrails happen—I’ve seen them myself now, in addition to a multitude of videos, photos and testimonials by others. This is a covert project, as our cowardly leaders deny and obfuscate instead of explain and clarify.

Given our leaders’ history of nefarious deeds, I suspect these bozos are up to no good. What to do? Among the conspiracy crowd there’s a lot data gathering and speculation, followed by denunciation and lamentation. We need to wake more people about the existence of this phenomenon, identify the contradictions between the official explanations and the empirical evidence, and insist on a story that is consistent with the facts.

Link to YouTube: Chemtrails With My Own Eyes

Understanding the Cultural Consensus on Fluoridation

Like 98% of Illinois communities, the municipal water supply of La Grange Park, where I live, is fluoridated. You may be aware of an ongoing debate on the safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation. I oppose the fluoridation, but I also understand the problems with challenging the status quo acceptance of the practice.

One of the biggest problems in opposing fluoridation is it’s supposed harms aren’t directly and immediately apparent. For example, when I drink a glass of fluoridated water from my kitchen tap, nothing bad happens. In fact, it feels good–my thirst is quenched. So if I list a litany of harms from fluoride as the basis of my argument against it, I sound implausible, or even alarmist or conspiratorial.

There are three reasons why the connection between fluoride and human ills not obviously apparent:

1. The long periods of time it takes most of fluoride’s ill effects to show themselves.
2. The relative subtlety of most of those harms in most people.
3. The diversity of the harmful symptoms, which diffuses the clarity of direct cause and effect.

One negative effect that is directly observable is dental fluorosis, a streaking or mottling that typically occurs in the early development of permanent teeth. The prevailing story about this disease is that it is only cosmetic damage, not indicative of harm to the physiological system. Because dental fluorosis is so obvious, the medical authorities recently to response to data that shows over 30% of children have at least mild dental fluorosis by lowering the allowable concentration of fluoride in public water.

While most people don’t show directly observable negative symptoms from ingesting fluoride, there are some more sensitive individuals who have significant reactions to it, such as gastric and neurological problems. In some, even topical exposure, such as showering or bathing in fluoridated water, can cause adverse reactions. We should look at these individuals as early warning signs, like canaries in our public coal mine.

Without direct, immediate experience through our perception to help us understand the effects of fluoride, we must rely on science. While I won’t go into depth on the scientific evidence that links fluoride to a large number of harmful health effects, they are numerous and well substantiated. For example, brittle teeth and bones, lowered IQ, arthritis, osteosarcoma (cancer), kidney disease, thyroid depression, and gastrointestinal problems. (For details, go to flouridealert.org.)

What about the benefit of water fluoridation? We have the same problem with no obvious experiential connection between the cause (fluoride) and the effect (fewer cavities). There is a cultural consensus in the U.S. that ingesting fluoride prevents and decreases cavities, which is promoted and repeated by medical, academic and government institutions. But is it really true? The scientific evidence is inconsistent, and in my opinion falls far short of “truth”.

So where does that leave us? Some important facts of the matter are these:

1. There is a preponderance of scientific evidence that make it probable that fluoride ingestion causes or influences a large number of negative health effects in humans.
2. There are no double blind studies proving the safety of fluoride, even though it is classified as a drug, and should fall under FDA jurisdiction.
3. The scientific evidence for fluoride’s effectiveness in preventing or reducing cavities is surprisingly week.
4. If fluoride can help prevent cavities, the most effective and safe application is topical, such as toothpaste, rather than uncontrolled dosages via the water supply.

It’s tough to make a persuasive argument in this limited space, but I hope you’ll consider that the status quo is by definition the current, accepted state of affairs, but is not necessarily truth. I’m convinced that fluoride is hardly safe and only possibly effective. And if that puts me outside the status quo, so be it. The authorities and established institutions have been wrong before.

I’ve found the following sources as comprehensive, credible places to read about the science and politics regarding fluoridation:

• Fluoride Action Network (website: fluoridealert.org)
• The Case Against Fluoride (book by Paul Connet)
• The Fluoride Deception (book by Christopher Bryson)

Don’t accept claims on either side of the debate at face value. Do a little work and research to think critically and rationally about the fluoride issue. In my case, I’ve concluded that the practice of public water fluoridation is irrational and ultimately destructive.

I welcome your comments here (below this post). You can also contact me directly with feedback.

Illinois honors communities for water fluoridation: An Orwellian Nightmare

Illinois Fluoride "Award"

In a bizarre twist that could only happen in a society that has taken the blue pill en masse and gone to sleep, the Illinois Department of Public Health bestowed the so-called “Fluoridation Award” to 430 communities (99% of the state) as praise for their keeping our water supplies flowing with one of the nastiest, most toxic substances on the planet.

Here’s the AP article as printed in the Chicago Daily Herald:

SPRINGFIELD — About 430 Illinois communities have been honored by public health officials for maintaining state-mandated fluoride levels last year.
The Illinois Department of Public Health presented the fluoridation awards to the local water systems at a Wednesday ceremony in Springfield. Fluoride is credited with cutting cavities and tooth decay. But studies show too much fluoride causes spots on some children’s teeth.

In January the federal government said it planned to recommend lower levels of fluoride in water supplies. It’s the first change in nearly 50 years.

State officials say about 99 percent of people served by public water systems in Illinois receive fluoridated water. That’s compared with the national average of about 72 percent.

I wrote a reply (below), which unfortunately was cut off at 1,200 characters. Damn! All the good stuff at the end was cut off. But know that I really let them have it. Oh well.

This is so twisted, even George Orwell must be spinning in his grave at the double-speak.There is a preponderance of scientific evidence showing the harm that fluoride can wreak on living organisms. Conversely, the evidence that no harm is caused by the dosage of fluoride commonly absorbed over a lifetime of ingesting this toxin is extremely weak.

What about it’s purported benefits? At best there is some evidence that ingesting fluoride may reduce cavities, but only a small amount. But weighed against the tremendous risks to the entire human body system, it’s unconscionable that the medical and academic communities in conjunction with their government bedfellows continue to promote and propagate the fluoridation practice.

Folks, fluoride is a DANGEROUS DRUG. And it is being delivered without controlling dose, and without YOUR CONSENT. How would you feel if the powers that be decided that it was in your best interest to put Xanax in the water supply just to keep everybody calm? After all, it’s for your own good, right?

Finally, the substance being added to our water supplies is NOT pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride like you get in dental products. It is primarily the hazardous w

Award truncation. What didn’t get published? I wrote about how the phosphate fertilizer producer’s waste product was what they put in our water. And then I spanked the PTB (powers that be) hard, ending with a call to

Wake up.

Man, I was just incredulous when I read that news release. An award for poisoning the people. It doesn’t get much better than that, does it? It’s interesting how they’re conceding a bit of ground with the potential risk, but they only admit to the dental fluorosis, and then only on the basis that this represents merely cosmetic damage. Fuck— what an uphill battle this is.

P.S. – Sorry for the ugly artwork. I can do better, but what the hell—it gets the point across.

Richard Falk: Learning From the Sendai Nuclear Disaster

Richard Falk, a law and international relations scholar who was in the news last January for speaking out on behalf of 9/11 Truth in one of his posts, just posted the following on his Citizen Pilgrimage blog:

Learning from Disaster? After Sendai

Falk writes eloquently about the nuclear dimensions of the recent catastrophic events in Japan, using this moment as a platform to take a hard look at the global nuclear weapons situation. This is a connection any thinking person will make, as we consider the imminent potential of radiation destruction revisiting the Japanese island.

In a short history lesson of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Falk states: “This use of atomic bombs against defenseless densely populated cities remains the greatest single act of state terror in human history.” The subsequent cold war maneuvering is represented accurately for the hypocrisy that it is.

And now, the nuclear threat returns to Japan. ”…this natural disaster that has been responsible for massive human suffering has been compounded by its nuclear dimension,” he decries. Is it possible the U.S. and all nuclear-armed nations could learn something from this? Maybe: “This technology is far too unforgiving and lethal to be managed safely over time by human institutions, even if they were operated responsibly, which they are not.”

Doubtful, but one can hope. At the very least, I would expect the gov to back off from its rampant nuclear power promotion of late, at least until things cool down. And I expect some few individuals to actually awake to the reality of the dangers of playing god with such awful toys. And a few others to come aware of those soulless political and industrial “elites” who would use any tool to further their ends of complete domination.

I highly recommend reading Richard Falk’s latest essay, and keep coming back to his blog for more, including standing up for the human rights of the

Palestinians. It’ll do you good to avail yourself of his clear insights into international workings.

Nagasaki Bomb Cloud - A Reminder

Freedom, Morality and Natural Law: The “Aquinas on Liberty” Essay

“True liberty is an essential property of objective truth and morality. Therefore there can be no true liberty in a civilization that enshrines moral relativity.”

So concludes the short essay that follows below. Written by an individual with the handle, Aquinas, this document elegantly builds the case that liberty is the result of choosing Right—that is, the morally right choice. And that morality derives from natural law principles, which are objective truths, not something subject to opinion.

Morality is very simple. You can feel it. Your body chemically guides you to know in your bones what is right and what is wrong. The Wrongs have been said many ways:

• Do no harm.
• Don’t steal another’s property or injure another’s body.
• Don’t initiate force or coerce with threat another against their will.

And the Rights as well:

• Love one another.
• Do unto others what you would have done unto you.

And so on… We know what this stuff is.

Nobody can bestow liberty on you. It is a state of being that comes from understanding and acting without contradiction with that which the creative universe intends. When humans feel, think and act consistently within this natural law, the result will be liberty. Until then, we are simply handed priviledges diguised as freedoms by our masters.

I include my own comments interleaved after the applicable paragraphs. The uncommented version is available in PDF format: Aquinas on Liberty

Please take the time to read this very carefully if you value liberty and life.

References:

Original post on InfoWars forum unreachable or unknown at this time. If you have any information on the original post, and even more valuable, the identity of that person, please let me know.

Reposted on the CAUTION: TINFOIL HAT AREA FaceBook group in the discussion thread, Truth Be Told the What On Earth Is Happening Radio Show.

Mark Passio of What on Earth Is Happening read and commented on this essay in his May 2010 radio show #9 (see his podcast archive).

Audio Excerpt of just this part of Mark’s show:

Download audio file (What-On-Earth-Is-Happening-009-Aquinas-on-Liberty.mp3)
What On Earth Is Happening #009 – Aquinas on Liberty

Link to Mark Passio’s PDF version of the essay: Aquinas on Liberty.

MSNBC Poll Gives False Choice for Fluoridation: You Get F No Matter What!

msnbc.com health – Should fluoride be removed from drinking water supplies?.

Here’s the poll:

Too much flouride in water, government says:

• [ ] Yes. Kids get enough cavity protection from toothpaste.
• [ ] No. Not everyone brushes regularly and fluoride protects everyone in the community.

Notice that there is no option for “no fluoride”. There’s a fallacious assumption in the poll that fluoride is protective and good.

Sure, it’s just a dumb poll, but this is the kind of thing that maintains the fluoride myths.

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