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Meet the current Next Up BC Year 4 group (2010-2011)!
Amanda Adams // Vancouver, BC
Amanda is an environmentalist and outdoor enthusiast who grew up on the prairies and has since migrated west to the majestic mountains of BC. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan with a BSc in biology and a BA in anthropology she recognizes the complexity with which environmental and social issues are intertwined. Just as comfortable in a sleeping bag under the stars as in a bed under a roof (perhaps even more so), working in the field of wildlife and conservation ecology has allowed Amanda to live and work in a vast array of environments from the Great Bear Rainforest to Grasslands National Park, often alongside members of the local communities. She has strived to share these experiences and the appreciation she has gained from them with others. Her love of teaching has led her to organize Bioscan at the UofS, public education events with the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Saskatchewan and deliver workshops with the Child Hunger and Education Program. Amanda has also worked on a number of environmental campaigns including Say No to Nuclear in SK and most recently for a tanker ban on the west coast. She currently works as a member of a research team at the Centre for Applied Conservation Research Sciences within the Faculty of Forestry at UBC and is an interpreter at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum.
Brad Olson // Vancouver, BC
Brad is a migrant to Vancouver from the not-so-flatlands of Saskatchewan. The deep roots of the cooperative movement and progressive politics of the Prairies, as well as the blatant disparity of Aboriginal people, have led him to constantly question the power structures within society. Through this questioning, he was led to Social Work and Vancouver, where he obtained a Bachelors of Social Work degree in 2009 from UBC. He has consistently been involved in work towards social justice, in both his day job, and activism. This has included being involved in a Theatre of the Oppressed troupe though YouthCO, work with Aboriginal and HIV organizations, student politics at UBC, and his current work on housing issues in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. He has worked for Vancouver Coastal Health, Healing Our Spirit, the School of Social Work at UBC, and currently BC Housing. He is passionate about community health, urban development issues, and poverty.
Britney Kerr // Vancouver, BC
Brittney lives by the credo, qui tacet consentire vidétur. Brittney is currently in the Masters of Public Policy program at Simon Fraser University and holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of British Columbia. Brittney's work experience is primarily in communications and outreach with the Liberal Party of Canada and Vancouver Foundation. Brittney is passionate about tax and health policy – particularly surrounding mental health, addiction, and children and families – and values economic perspectives that support social equality. Brittney is actively involved with the Liberal Party of Canada and on an international level with her sorority, Delta Gamma. She also believes that "the time is now" for a poverty reduction strategy in our province. In her spare time, Brittney can be found reading, tweeting, and cycling with her fiancé.
Carlos Carvalho // Vancouver, BC
I am currently an executive at large for CUPE 402. I chair the political action, and apprenticeship and trades committees, I also co-chair the young workers committee and the social justice committee.
I recently became an executive member for the surrey-newton NDP and the surrey civic coalition. I help coordinate social media and outreach programs for both of these groups.
Christine Boyle // Vancouver, BC
Christine is a born-and-raised Vancouverite, who has never stopped being awed by the geograpy of this place. She has an BSc in Urban Agriculture and First Nations Studies from UBC, and an MA in Religion and Justice from Berkeley, CA. Over the years she's worked for the Vancouver School Board, Vancouver Coastal Health, and the United Church of Canada, among others. She's coordinated local community gardens, facilitated community kitchens, taught yoga, led youth retreats, ran workshops on environmental and social justice issues, spent lots of time chatting with people about their feelings, and fed hundreds of people at conferences, workshops, and in her home. Right now she is most excited about doing multi-faith community organizing, and amplifying progressive religious voices in our Canadian political discourse. In her free time she rides her bicycle, and enjoys the company of courageous people.
Deanna Rogers // Vancouver, BC
Born on Cape Breton Island, raised on subtle landscapes and wild imagination, Deanna Rogers now finds excitement and comfort in the City of Vancouver. Here, Deanna has carved strong footholds and remains an active member in her community. She believes in fostering meaningful connections between academia, community and self; making space for education to be meaningful rather then routine. She is currently employed by Simon Fraser University with the mandate of expanding and growing the experiential learning culture of the university. She has also organized the first community consultation for the BC Walking the Talk's new United Nations R.C.E. on Sustainability Education and designed and implemented a Community Zero Waste model for Metro Vancouver. No matter the venue common threads carry through Deanna's work: creating space for dialogue, focusing on the larger picture and promoting alternative thought. Deanna will soon graduate from Simon Fraser University with a BA in Anthropology, a minor in Dialogue and a Certificate in Sustainable Community Development.
Imrahn Mitha // Vancouver, BC
Imrahn is an economics enthusiast, political aficionado and a lifelong., die-hard fan of the Chicago Bulls. Born and raised in Kisumu, Kenya, Imrahn grew up immersed in a broad and diverse base of cultures, ethnicities and world views. From a young age he was taught to appreciate the strength of diversity, pluralism and meritocracy in a society. Passionate about addressing the issues of poverty alleviation and youth leadership, Imrahn was selected to coordinate the Enhanced Learning Centre, a leadership program geared toward the recent Afghan immigrants to Canada. This experience brought about an appreciation for women's issues, specifically the need for education and open dialogue. Imrahn was also recently invited by Global Vision and the Department of Foreign Affairs to serve as a Junior Canadian Ambassador. In this role, he spent the summer in discussion and debate with the All China Youth Federation, over key issues such as Economic policy, Food Security and the Environment. Imrahn is also currently completing his degree at SFU, majoring in Economics and English. When he is not engaged in community projects or travelling, Imrahn can be found shooting hoops at Ambleside beach, and playing the Ngoma at the Stanley park Drum circle.
Jeremy Carlson // Vancouver, BC
Jeremy is from Manitoba were he chose to study business administration at Red River College. He continued his scholarly endeavours at the University of Manitoba, where he majored in Psychology (Behavioural) and minored in Philosophy. Has plans to continue his education for a masters in Applied Behavioural Analysis. He chose to move West to pursue a different avenue then school for a while and became a member of the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Union. He is a third year apprentice, the youth coordinator for Local 118, a member of the following :BC Federation of Labours' youth committee/task force, the Vancouver District Labour Council, and BC Federation of Labours' Occupational Health & Safety and Labour Education facilitator program (educating high school students on rights). Jeremy volunteers time to the Earn campaign (Employee Action & Rights Network) and with the $10 now Campaign which helps to raise the minimum wage in BC. On his spare time, he likes to go hiking, biking, read, volunteer and go to a good concert with friends. Jeremy likes to be around people who stand up for what they believe in and take action in their communities.
Jocelyn Anderson // Vancouver, BC
Jocelyn was raised in a small sunny town on the BC coast. Her parents exposed her early on to diverse cultures and ecosystems which led to her passion of ecology and community building. After gaining an undergraduate degree in biology at UBC she travelled to Bolivia, SA where she co-founded a volunteer program working with a local village to co-create health education and infrastructure projects. Her passion for creating strong community ties, innovative educational tools and infrastructure around safe drinking water was integral to the success and sustainability of the project. This time was one of transformation and lit the path to working on many more community projects with the YMCA, Envirothon, Be the Change Earth Alliance and Canadians Advocating Political Participation (CAPP). She currently works as a gift planner with the non-profit legal society Ecojustice and has enjoyed event planning as part of this role. Her goal for Next Up is to shape her 5 year plan/vision and gain experience in facilitation and workshop creation.
Natasha Robillard // Vancouver, BC
Natasha is a born and raised British Columbian francophone. Feeling at home both on the West Coast where she grew up and Quebec where her family lives has taught her to reflect on at an early age how our connections with community and place shapes our histories and sense of belonging. She studied at the University of British Columbia and graduated with a BS in Global Resource Systems and First Nations Studies. Her studies provided her with the opportunity and tools to reflect on colonial history through a critical lense. Her deeply rooted passion for supporting Aboriginal rights, community empowerment, and health through community-based initiatives has been the focus of most of her work, student research, and volunteerism. She has worked for various Aboriginal organizations, groups, and First Nations communities, including the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal, Native Brotherhood of British Columbia, the UBC Aboriginal Strategic Plan Committee, and the Wilderness Committee in partnership with the St'at'imc Nation and Tla-o-qui-aht Nation. She is currently working for the Provincial Health Services Authority Aboriginal Health Centre as the Project Coordinator for the Chronic Disease Prevention in Aboriginal Communities through Youth-Elder Engagement Project. She is passionate about supporting food sovereignty, learning about local histories, and enjoying a good deer stew!
Neelam Kham // Vancouver, BC
Neelam is a youth passionate about creating change through grassroots movements. She went to Windermere Secondary School where she led the Organic Garden and ACTION Sustainability Club, is apart of Youth Made where she delivers anti-oppression workshops, is apart of Condomania as a Youth Educator on Sexual Health and HIV and AIDS, is a Global Citizens Coordinator with the Vancouver School Board, and went across Canada to film a documentary on Social Justice and Environmental issues. For Neelam, Next Up gives her the opportunity to amplify her voice & speak out about the injustices she sees & experiences within our system. Her hope is to create allies with peers and to create a ripple effect that will reach communities, countries and the world.
Stephanie Gatto // Vancouver, BC
Stephanie is a born and raised British Columbian who continues to be humbled by the natural world and our lives within it. Before finding the language to describe it, she became curious about people and the ways
in which we interact and, ultimately, shape one another. Early on, she was heavily influenced by sports; this led to an athletic scholarship to the States, which she soon escaped for something different. Following a conversation with a stranger, Stephanie was inspired to learn more about health and the factors that determine it: This led to a BHK from UBC and a Master in Public Health from SFU. She has a range of research experience including, work in an applied physiology lab at UBC, research in rural Malawi, and research with the CCPA's climate justice project. Currently, she's working with the Children's Health Policy Centre at SFU. Stephanie is passionate about contributing to research that aims to deconstruct social inequities with the goal of reducing health disparities. In the spirit of full disclosure, she believes that a more equitable society will enable us to connect more meaningfully with others and the world around us. Outside of work, Stephanie can be found exploring the beautiful BC mountains, dabbling in music, and sparking up conversations about the mystery of life.
Wade Lifton // Vancouver, BC
Wade is completing a masters degree at Vancouver School of Theology and hopes to be ordained in the United Church of Canada. He is interested in the relationship between our inner lives, cultural norms and societal structures. Wade co-founded theWATERproject.ca, an NGO developing rainwater harvesting with Ghanian villages, and worked for over ten years in children, youth and young adult ministry. He holds certificates in performing arts and in youth ministry, and is defenseless against the power of chocolate chip cookies.
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Raising concerns over a drug-resistant form of malaria has clinics in Thailand on alert.
KANCHANABURI, THAILAND (OCTOBER 26, 2012) (REUTERS) - A small crowd of people gathered outside a malaria clinic in the Sai Yok District of Kanchanaburi, Thailand on Friday (October 26), a province located roughly 167 kilometres (103 miles) west of Bangkok.
They wait to be seen by health workers who busily take blood samples and patients temperatures to determine their condition.
Scaled up efforts to control malaria have decreased the number of cases since the year 2000, but in recent years the progress has been threatened by the emergence of drug-resistant malaria parasites in Southeast Asia.
The Chief of Vector Borne Disease, Dr. Wittaya Saiphomsud at the clinic said out of 190 cases of malaria in the last month, they were waiting for the results of 40, which may show drug resistance.
"We have to wait for the results of the PCR tests before knowing if the 40 cases are old diseases or a new form. Because this area is at high risk of malaria, sick patients may contract new diseases or still have the same disease that they haven't recovered from. We just have to wait for the results," Dr. Wittaya said.
Also at the clinic were members of Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM). An organization launched by World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank in 1998.
Their visit came six months after the WHO called for more research funding into a drug-resistant malaria in Thai borders.
Malaria infects more than 200 million people worldwide every year and kills over 600,000 of them - primarily children under age five in sub-Saharan Africa.
Most severe forms of malaria are caused by the parasite plasmodium falciparum, which is spread by mosquitoes.
Experts say one of the most challenging features of this parasite is its ability to evolve and overcome anti-malarial drugs - a factor which is undermining global work towards eradicating the killer disease.
Thailand's Ministry of Public Health said 2004 saw roughly 51,000 cases of malaria which jumped to 63,000 in 2006.
The ministry points to the increasing travel over borders between Thailand, Cambodiaand Myanmar as a possible cause.
Dr. Nafo-Traore, the Executive Director of RBM, said there is a concern over the spread of the resistance to the top-line anti-malarial drugs in the Greater Mekong subregion.
"It's mainly Thailand, Cambodia, and we're seeing new development in the Great Mekong region that needs to be studied, well understood before any action is taken. But the most important thing is to scale up the use of the current available intervention for universal access to treatment," she said.
Many residents in the surrounding area are Thai or Burmese and said they were glad to have malaria clinics close by.
"Sometimes you have to test the blood two or three times before seeing the disease. If there is a disease, the doctor will give us medicine. Some people, outside our family, are allergic to the medication or are kids or pregnant women, if you have the disease, you can't take the medication. So they are taken to the hospital," said a 40-year old mother of two who goes by the name Mollay.
At the Sai Yok District hospital, doctors said malaria can be treated if got to in time.
"Malaria for the most part doesn't kill people, if you can treat the disease in time. The majority of cases where the patient dies are when the patient came too late and the symptoms are already severe. Even then if we give them medicine, it still might not be in time."
WHO has identified Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar as the four countries most affected by the emergence of a parasite resistant to artemisinin, a drug used in the treatment of malaria.
It issued its first warning about the drug resistance threat in the Greater Mekong sub-region in 2005. Since then efforts have been made to scale up monitoring and intensify containment.
WHO reports the threat of malaria in Southeast Asia is second to that of Sub-Sahara Africa. It estimates around 1.32 people are at risk with 2.4 million cases reported in 2010 and 2426 deaths.
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Sj?gren's symptoms (SS) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by chronic swelling and damage of salivary and lacrimal glands leading to dry mouth and dry eyes, respectively. created by macrophages and lymphocytes generally, but is normally also created in salivary epithelial cells (Sisto et?al. AS 602801 2009). Many research suggest that TNF\is normally most likely to enjoy a function in the pathogenesis of SS; for example, TNF\is normally upregulated in both plasma and salivary glands of sufferers with SS and main salivary glands of pet versions of SS (Humphreys\Beher et?al. 1994, 1998; Cha et?al. 2002a,c; Nguyen et?al. 2007; Sisto et?al. 2009). Furthermore, neutralization of TNF\in non\obese diabetic (Jerk) rodents by transgenic reflection of soluble TNF\receptor (g55) considerably decreased lymphocytic infiltration in submandibular and lacrimal glands linked with the reduced reflection of the cell adhesion elements, VCAM\1 and ICAM\1 (Craving for food et?al. 1996). Additionally, many in?vitro research indicate that TNF\causes apoptosis and interruption of restricted junction reliability in the salivary epithelium which is necessary to get saliva release (Baker et?al. 2008; Nelson et?al. 2014). Nevertheless, scientific research demonstrated that neither etanercept nor infliximab (both therapies described toward preventing TNF\signaling) improved SS in managed scientific studies (Mariette et?al. 2004; Sankar et?al. 2004). A tangible justification of these findings is normally missing still, nevertheless, a effective research recommended that unforeseen natural results of TNF\antagonists may possess offered to this impact credited to an unexpected level of TNF\noticed pursuing treatment with etanercept (Moutsopoulos et?al. 2008). Presently, there are no remedies to lower or remove lymphocytic infiltration noticed in salivary glands with SS. We believe that understanding the systems by which this cytokine functions in?vitro is a necessary stage for potential translational research. Our understanding of the endogenous systems that govern natural resolution of swelling is definitely limited in salivary glands (where proresolution pathways that promote epithelial healing are under current investigation) (Odusanwo et?al. 2012; Leigh et?al. 2014; AS 602801 Nelson et?al. 2014). Earlier studies shown that human being and animal cells convert (100?ng/mL; Becton Dickinson), then incubated for 1?h or 6?h at 37C. Cells were then treated with AT\RvD1 (100?ng/mL; Cayman Chemical, Ann\Arbor, MI), and differing doses of DEX (25C100?ng/mL). Three\dimensional Par\C10 cell clusters were used for assays after incubation at 37C with 95% air flow and 5% CO2 for 72?h. Cell bunch quantification Par\C10 salivary cell clusters were counted using a Leica DMI6000B microscope (Leica Microsystems, Mannheim, Australia) with the 10 objective to make a field of look at of 1000??700?for 1?h. Cells were then treated with AT\RvD1 (100?ng/mL) and varying doses of DEX (25C100?ng/mL) both only and in combination for 72?h. A airport terminal deoxynucelotidyl transferase\mediated dUTP nick end\marking (TUNEL) assay was performed with a Click\It? TUNEL Alexa Fluor? 488 imaging assay (Existence Systems, Grand Island, NY) as explained previously (Easley et?al. 2015). Following fixation and permeabilization methods, some wells were incubated with DNase for positive control data. Maximum intensity projections of each well had been created by creating 4??4 tile images (20 objective; 1280??1280?implemented simply by treatment with DEX and In\RvD1 by itself and in mixture since defined in Components and Strategies. After that, salivary cell groupings had been quantified using light microscopy as CTNND1 defined in Components and Strategies. As demonstrated in Number?1, untreated control cells while well while cells subjected to solitary treatments with AT\RvD1 (100?ng/mL) or DEX (100?ng/mL) for 72?h showed increased salivary cell bunch growth while compared to cells treated with TNF\only (100?ng/mL). Additionally, cells that were preincubated with TNF\(100?ng/mL) for 1?h followed by treatment with AT\RvD1 (100?ng/mL) and DEX (25C100?ng/mL) only and in combination recovered the quantity of salivary cell clusters after 72?h. Remarkably, cells preincubated with TNF\for 1?h and then treated with AT\RvD1 (100?ng/mL) and ? dose of DEX (25?ng/mL) for 72?h displayed a significant increase in the quantity of cell clusters grown while compared to cells treated with TNF\only. Notice that only cells preincubated with TNF\without any subsequent treatment showed a statistically significant cell bunch decrease from the control group. Amount 1 AS 602801 Treatment with aspirin\prompted resolvin Chemical1 (AT\RvD1) and dexamethasone (DEX) by itself and in mixture enhances Par\C10 cell group development on development aspect\decreased Matrigel (GFR\MG). Par\C10 cells had been … Treatment with AT\RvD1 and DEX by itself and in mixture enhances Par\C10 cell group development Par\C10 cells had been plated on GFR\MG and preincubated with TNF\implemented by treatment with AT\RvD1 and DEX by itself and in mixture as defined in Components and Strategies. After that, cells were in that case stained and visualized under a fluorescence microscope seeing that described in Strategies and Components. As proven in Amount?2AClosed circuit, the control and solitary treatment cells (neglected, In\RvD1 (100?ng/mL) only, and DEX (100?ng/mL) only) grown for 72?l displayed apically local ZO\1 and N\actin band (white arrows), suggesting development and polarization of hollowed out lumens. In comparison, cells incubated with TNF\(100?ng/mL) only for 72?l lacked both apically local ZO\1 and an N\actin band (Fig.?2D; reddish colored arrow), suggesting reduction of cell lumen and polarity development, normal of cells cultivated.
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March 21, 2013 (#1292)
Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" LIVE on RBN:
Poem Copyright Alan Watt March 21, 2013:
Don't Be Rude--Have 'Wellness', Love Your Servitude:
"You Simply Must Admit It, The Cons Today are
Batteries Of Marketers Work Hard Making Your Mind Sick,
They Study the Latest Tests on Manipulating Folk,
So the Elite can Be Wealthier as All the Folk Go Broke,
Battalions of Experts Advise Govs. How to Manage
All the Big Agendas without Admitting to the Damage,
"Sustainable Development", "Austerity", Global Warming,
As We Freeze Our Butts Off Watching Snowstorms Forming,
Pavlovian Response Comes from Imprinting Recognition
Followed by Bertie Russell's Clue, Constant Repetition,
Everyone Must Be on Board, Climate Denial is Just Rude,
Aldous Huxley said, 'You'd Come to Love Your Servitude'"
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Hi folks. I am Alan Watt and this is Cutting Through The Matrix on the 21st of March 2013. For newcomers, I hope you can make use of the website cuttingthroughthematrix.com; there's lots of information for downloading, lots of information to lead you through the system that you're living in, to tell you what it is. Most folk have a suspicion there's something else going on of course, but they're trained not to really question it any further. The media doesn't help you either because it's all part of the system.
I go through the history. The big boys got together over a hundred years ago to plan a new world order, an orderly world order, under their orders naturally. It would be decided that all the big decisions would be created by the guys at the top, scientists, those in academia, and all working for the big international economists and bankers that run the whole world. Because everything runs on finances, you see. So they decided a long time ago, rather than leave it to the different classes of people right down to the bottom, to make their own decisions, what they want to do with their lives and so on, they'd bring in a planned society. They'd reduce the populations, or they'd increase it in times of war and decrease it in times of overproduction and so on. This is all part of the big planning. Lots of books were churned out at the time about it, under the guise of socialism. But it's really all to do with this world order you're living through today. You're going through the big, big changes that were planned an awful long time ago, just like a big business plan. Business plans can go for 50 to 100 years. The same with the foundations, they can go for 100 and 150, 200 years to get their agenda through. They are private and they run the world basically. So you're going through it now.
So help yourself to the website as I say. And remember too, you can also help me tick along here by buying the books and discs at cuttingthroughthematrix.com. [Order and donation options listed above.] And straight donations are awfully welcome, because things are awfully expensive, as you know. Because we're going through austerity as they call it, which is training you all to live in a post-consumerist society, again, an idea not just tossed around but heavily debated a hundred-odd years ago, to bring in this system you're going into today.
Inflation of course works hand-in-glove with the whole thing because those who run the money run the world. It's very, very simple. Most folk don't even know how money is even created, never mind the interest rates and so on that you cannot get out of when it's compound interest and all that. The big agencies took care of that a long, long time ago when they gave you something called democracy for the Western countries; they tried the same thing in other countries with different names and so on, but ultimately it's the same system with the same people running the world. Because everything revolves around economics. Everything.
The wars are all economic wars too, as they standardize the last few countries that don't have central banks belonging to the private central banking group that's under the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland. Once they're bombed into the Stone Age then they're given loans by the International Monetary Fund, a private organization, and The World Bank, a private organization, and they are also run by the Bank for International Settlements, a private organization. That's the real system that you live in. So how can you have democracy and any kind of freedom when there really are private organizations, so secretive too in what they do, that run your lives? They can raise a country up or collapse it overnight, very simple, by shifting vast amounts of money around the world. And they do that. And they've been doing it recently again of course. Back with more after this break.
Hi folks, we're back Cutting Through The Matrix, talking about the big system. And the big system is all pervasive. It's all there is in fact, because it covers everything and every angle of everything too. It's your whole existence because you're born into it, you're programmed into it, your parents programmed you into it because they don't know what's going on; they think they do because they think they're sane – and everyone thinks they're sane – because you're born into a system that already exists; everything in it must be normal, right. That's how simple it is.
Then when you go to school you get the reinforcement of the system again. You're taught NOT to do your own reasoning, except for at the higher schools of course, where they turn out the world leaders, but the rest of the people get dumbed down in fact. There's lots of books out there on The Dumbing Down of America, Charlotte Iserbyt, and so on, and John Taylor Gatto is another guy who put a good book out too, to do with the dumbing down process and how deliberate it is. They have lots of information to back up their claims and so on from big players in the educational field. So this has happened across the world at the same time, to bring in the societies that would be more obedient, actually disinterested in what's happening in the world around them, even in their own world around them, until it hits them personally and then of course they're howling. But most folk today are detached.
Then the big, big players that were put in too, to work together in huge think tanks, international think tanks, the Bertrand Russell's of the world, and before him even the HG Wells of the world, and the Huxley's and all the rest of them, churned out lots of information which you have to understand and read to get the picture of what's really happening in the world. Because those guys with the big groups that they set up back in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and all going today too, with new names in fact – some of them have changed their names, these organizations, because they were too well known, but they still exist today under different guises. They planned the whole future including the various revolutions which are cultural revolutions: the feminist revolution, the sexual revolution, all this kind of stuff, all the hippy era. Even the music revolution, that was all planned too by Adorno and the Frankfurt School and other people who were brought in to take over American culture, which would eventually be copied by other cultures across the world, which it was, very quickly.
So you're living through a planned reality, you might say. Very much so, it was planned. And they wanted to destroy the family unit – it wasn't just the communists; because they all work together at the top. And that's true because Carroll Quigley talked about it. He said that he was the historian for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a private organization, worldwide organization, that does put lots of members into government every year, all governments by the way, across the world. They have different names, again, the Council on Foreign Relations for the American branch. They've been running the system for an awful long time. He said himself, as the historian for the Council on Foreign Relations, for America, he said that they'd have to go along with all the same plans, of course, because they work together, the communists, the capitalists, and all the rest of it. And by capitalist I mean the money system of private banking at the top, central banks, and with the big secrecy of how it's even made, and who the big shareholders are.
Also he said, we'd have to bring down the populations, etc., etc. They really worked hard and heavy on reducing populations, and I think personally from my own investigations, they've been doing it for an awful long time; you don't know it. Why do you think sterilization is going up by itself? It's not doing it by itself; things don't happen by itself. But the Western world has actually got a massive decrease in sperm, of even young men today. And again, that's well studied too.
So we're going through a big, big system that literally runs our lives for us. And Quigley, again, being the historian for the Council on Foreign Relations, also said, he says, we don't care who joins us, we've got communists, we've got far right, we've got everything in it, even dictators, in the Council on Foreign Relations/Royal Institute of International Affairs across the world. Although in this day and age of course they're getting rid of the dictators; they're actually turning on some of their own. Because they set up the United Nations – this same organization – and they said in their charter that when people were elected into office in any country, NATO and all these countries would not go in and unseat them. Well, they've broken every law that they made. You see.
So you're living through a system, as I say, planned well in advance. They got all the initial guys in on it, at the United Nations, and now it's time to mop up the world, to standardize the last few countries into what they call democracy, which is, again, the same system of a private central bank. Remember, every Prime Minister and President has to go to the private central bank every year with cap in hand to ask for more money. So you tell me who runs the country. It's very simple isn't it?
So you're living through the transition. This is called the Great Transition. This is the age, the Century of Change as well, that they talked about bringing in. And you'll see those terms all over the place now. They're replacing your income now and your spending power, and spare spending power, the extras, into wellness. As long as you feel well about things it doesn't matter how poor you are. I mentioned that last night too. It was international wellness day, like just switch yourself on and be happy for a day sort of thing. Utter, utter nonsense. But you understand, neuroscientists and behaviorists are behind all this stuff. And it actually works in a lot of people. A lot of people actually take this stuff and say oh that's nice and away they go; they switch themselves into be-happy mode for a day. So we're run by experts, and all facets of experts, all kinds of experts, and all specialists. And the people still don't get it.
I remember too, when Aldous Huxley talked at Berkeley back in the 60s – and you'll find the audio up in my archives section at cuttingthroughthematrix.com. He talked about people being made to love their servitude. And people today pretty well have been. Whatever was in them that was wild and free has been destroyed, for most folk, and they kind of love their servitude. They take it for granted there are special people running the big problems of the world above them. They don't know that these people above them actually create the problems of the world. So they've been taught too, to be egocentric and egosyntonic. Again, Bertrand Russell, a guy who worked with international organizations to set up this present period, and there's still more to come, and yet he's dead, he's gone. He said that, we'll make them egocentric and we'll make them narcissistic until they have no time for anybody in the world except themselves. That's already happened. But when you do that there's no cohesion, there's no collective cohesion for defense for the people at all; it's all broken down and then government truly is in charge.
If you want to find out more on that go way back to the days of HG Wells, the propagandist who talked about all this system. He was a propagandist for it in its early phases under the name of the Milner Society, that became the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He talked about that, eventually government will achieve its goal when it can talk down to the individual with no one, no spouse, no relatives, no one, not even neighbors, standing up in their defense to help them. That's where you've gone, right down to the computer stage, where governments now are not only watching everything that you do. They've admitted, and I'll put a link up tonight too, where all the agencies that have the private agencies now have access to everything, your bank accounts, you name it, they have the whole lot there now.
US plans to allow spy agencies to monitor every citizen's finances – report - rt.com / March 14, 2013
And there's no murmur from the general population as usual. In fact, when there's a murmur from the population it's because there's an organization already set up, in a particular area, whatever it happens to be, that stands up immediately and speaks, supposedly, for you. But they don't really. All they say is, oh dear, dear, that's bad, stop it please. It doesn't stop anything as you well know. It stops you from doing anything more about it and pushing yourself to stop it.
So you're living in a completely controlled society. Now, part of it too, is to get rid of... in a postconsumer society, is to inflate the currency until it's worthless basically, and you'll be paying pretty well all that you earn or bring in to pay your basic rent or mortgage. And the mortgage too, eventually will go under as they go through the great transition into no private property, except for the big, like chain, chain property owners throughout the cities that you already have across Britain and the States and elsewhere in the major cities. And no private vehicles except for emergency vehicles and vital vehicles only. That's all part of Agenda 21, also attached to the Millennium Project; you've got to read both of them because they're both the same really. It's being implemented big time. So all your spare cash will go to pay for bare essentials, bare essentials for pure survival... food, shelter, clothing, heat and so on. That's already happening now.
And I'll tell you one thing, when you study all this stuff for years you'll find out they never change their mind on anything. That's the only thing that you can take to the bank, some kind of bank anyway, because they never change their mind. And if you think that they've ever backed down on something, don't believe it. They'll bring it through in some omnibus bill and some altered name and ram it through anyway. That's how things have always been. That's how it's always been.
Now, part of it too is the climate change nonsense. Remember, right now there's a whole bunch of international summits going on to do with sustainable development. That's why there's so many articles in the newspapers, amongst all the trash, the rest of the trash in the papers because the papers today, now, honestly, even looking through them today, it was utter trivia on so-called mainstream papers across the world. Utter trivia, rubbish. But in amongst that is all the rest of the propaganda like I say this one here, for instance. It says…
Funding Shortfall: Germany Forced to Cancel Climate Programs
spiegel.de / 18 Mar 2013
And it's from the Spiegel online and they go on to bemoan the fact that Germany literally is cutting back on all of its sustainable development, alternative energy, renewable energy sources and so on, all the cash, because they're broke basically. And Spiegel is bemoaning it basically. The reason they give for it in here is because they'd hoped, all the governments have hoped, by the way, that this big con of carbon taxation, with carbon revenues being put up into the big giant carbon casino too, to accumulate more cash for the guys at the top – it's all fallen through. It's not working the way they wanted it to. And they put bets on it, basically, hoping that they would get about 20 euros or whatever a ton, and it's only about 6.47 dollars a ton; that's how far it's got to so far, or even below. So they're complaining because they've cut back on all their electric cars, and all the stuff that doesn't work very well at all. They're very expensive to maintain to keep, never mind the charging time as well of course; there's energy coming from somewhere and it could be used on other things couldn't it? Their batteries don't last long, nothing lasts long, and it's really meant, again, for very wealthy folk to live in the special cities they're setting up across the world. The rest of you are to be crowded into the already overcrowded cities; I'll be touching on that tonight because they've already got it in the newspapers. Back with more after this break.
Hi folks, I'm back Cutting Through The Matrix, talking about the big, big system, of course, and all the hullabaloo that's going on. Because as I say, Germany is bemoaning the fact, at least Der Spiegel is, that they're cutting back on all their renewable energy projects, or a lot of them anyway, because they can't afford it. Of course it was supposed to be a beautiful utopia where everyone was getting forced off the road with carbon taxes and so on; it hasn't quite happened yet you see. Because the carbon prices on the big trading casino up there hasn't really taken off very well at all and they were all counting on it. But don't hold your breath. They'll bring it back in a bigger, bigger fashion. They're already talking about it.
They're talking about what they call backloading – that's the term they're going to use for it – to reduce the supply of certificates that the government hands out, to the big corporations, to start the carbon taxes rolling. And they get free tickets and they start gambling amongst themselves, before we're all forced to go into it; we don't get a choice, and we don't get them for free either. But they're going to backload them; they're trying to take some of the certificates away from the present supply to boost the prices. I mean, it's just amazing. Even with silly ideas like that, and fantasy, they can even bring that into the same con as everything else, with their accountants and their economists. It's just amazing.
Also too, we know that right now the big conferences are going on that tie in with the last Rio conference, by the way, again, all sustainable development, Agenda 21 and all the rest of it, and the Earth Summit. It's all part and parcel of the same thing; it's all the same parcel actually. But here is the kind of pablum that they chuck out there at this time of year. Actually, they admit it too, and I've gone through articles before, where they admit they give us scary scenarios; the top guys say that. We give them scary scenarios, otherwise we don't listen to them, you see. That's what they say. So they're back at it again and this says…
Pacific to suffer worst climate change impacts (Alan: ...once again. Apparently, by the way, a lot of the islands in the Pacific should have been sunk, under the water, with the sea rising about, oh, 30 years ago. It hasn't happened yet, you know.)
abc.net.au / Jemima Garrett / Mar 21, 2013
The World Bank (A: ...again, this private organization, that you think is a world bank there to loan cash out at high prices and so on to the poor folk of the world. Here they are in the same business as sustainability and climate change. And you don't ask why. How come, you know.) is urging the international community (A: ...that's someplace off in Mars I think...) to heed the plight of Pacific island countries and take action on climate change.
The bank's vice president for Sustainable Development (A: ...right. Do you know that they've got a sustainable development manager, vice president and so on? ...and also so does the IMF have one, so does the big central banks have them. They have tied everything together you see, with eugenics and sustainable development, depopulation and all the rest of it. So their sustainable development manager or director or whatever...), Rachel Kyte, says Pacific nations will suffer higher sea level rise than other parts of the world. (A: ...nothing to back it up, you see.)
She says the impact of climate change will threaten the very existence of some countries in the Pacific. (A: Just keep repeating the same pablum, without telling you why.)
Ms Kyte also warns Australia will see some of the most extreme droughts, with summer temperatures of over 40 degrees becoming commonplace. (A: It doesn't give you a timetable, even though, again, they've been soaked last year and the year before and so on, and it hasn't really quite worked out that way. See, it doesn't matter what reality is, they just keep bringing back the same rubbish. Repetition, repetition, repetition…)
She has told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat a lack of action on climate change is undermining efforts by the World Bank to address global poverty. (A: Well, the World Bank has been here since about, you know, the 1920s I think, and look at the state of the world. It's getting poorer all the time.)
"Imagine we've laid the table, ready for the economic and social solutions to ending poverty and building prosperity," she said. (A: Now, this is all part of the Millennium Project, and there are links in this article right to it in fact at the United Nations, and Agenda 21. So understand, the whole climate change nonsense is nothing more than a camouflage, complete camouflage to redistribute the wealth from you to the big bankers, not to the people, that are going to be there to help, you understand; this is the con of it all. So I'll put this up tonight and you'll actually see the rubbish that they're chucking out once again to us, to say, oh my God save us, save us. They're going to throw dollar bills in the sky to stop it all, you know, apparently.)
So they want smart agriculture. Now remember too, the Department of Agriculture at the United Nations said before, quite a lot of years ago, that farming cannot be left to farmers. They want corporate, big international business farms only. That's already happening as they put all the farmers under, across the world, and you have these big Agri-businesses. Five Agri-businesses run the world's food supply now; there's probably the same shareholders in the five of them too. So that's total control of your food supply. Remember what you need for survival? Food, water, shelter, clothing, heat... Quite simple. But they're going to con you into giving everything up. See, they're very legalistic; you've got to do it legally, willingly.
Remember what Sunstein said too, Cass Sunstein, the guy who was up there with Obama; I think he's left, I'm not quite sure. But he loved neuroscience. He wasn't one himself but he used a lot of their stuff. He said eventually... again, remember, going back to that statement I made before where Huxley says the people could be trained to come to love their servitude. Well Sunstein said something very similar. He said, we can train the people – and I read the articles last year from him and they ended up in the newspapers across the world, because they get instant access to all the media, since they're brainwashing us. But he said, we can train the public to love paying taxes, they'll really want to pay taxes, extra taxes. Well, this is what sustainability is all about; don't you want to save the planet? You see. And I'll touch on this article that I'm going to read when I come back from this break, as they go for the last of your protein. Back after this.
Hi folks, we're back Cutting Through The Matrix. I was mentioning before too, that they're taking over the food supply. In Canada for instance, you don't know what you're eating anymore; everything tastes the same. Put a blindfold on and you don't know if it's chicken, beef, or what; you have no idea. That's how bad it is now, the junk that they're selling you. And we already know they're putting different things in and calling it beef and all the rest of it too; it's broken out into the papers. But really, we don't know what we're eating anymore and there's a lot of junk going in there. Everything is, what they call, reconstituted, or whatever they… It's kind of minced up together and chucked in there. Even the roasts, two years ago I read the article on the air. The roasts that are sold in Canada and some other countries are actually put together, by the big meat companies, from across the world, all their cut-offs and they glue them together, so well that it looks like a roast, until you start cooking it and it tastes all weird. You're already in that phase if you're just an average person. If you're pretty rich you won't, you get access to really good stuff, and I mean access to it. It's not a matter of buying it; you have to get access to it.
But they're going for the fish too as we know, with the salmon and so on, the GE salmon. And it isn't just salmon by the way. They're into everything else, even freshwater fish too, across Canada, have been for years. But it says here…
Major US supermarkets to boycott GM salmon
guardian.co.uk / 20 March 2013
A number of US supermarket chains pledged on Wednesday not to sell genetically modified salmon, in a sign of growing public concern about engineered foods on the dinner table.
The US Food and Drug Administration (A: ...of the US.) (FDA) is in the final stages of deciding whether to allow GM salmon on to the market. If approved, AquaBounty Technology's salmon would be the first genetically engineered animal to enter the food supply. (A: And it's not the first at all, by the way, you know, ...if you want to call it an animal either. But anyway, who's to complain about the newspapers?)
The company combined genes from two species of salmon with a pouter eel to produce a fish it says it can bring to market twice as fast as conventional salmon. (A: Well, it's just like the vegetables that you eat too. I mean, some of these vegetables that you're buying, that you think look the same and all the rest of it, which they pretty well do look very, very similar, except for the crops that are left after you've harvested them. Look at the corn for instance; the tractors need special tires, the kind that the military uses that don't get blown up easily, because it tears them to shreds, the stalks literally tear the tires to shreds, this new stuff. Never mind all the genes they put in it, from hundreds of species, to make that one thing. And remember too, a lot of the guys who worked on the genetics programs worked with the military for years before that, working on ways to kill populations across the world in times of war. So that's who is making your food now. Do you trust them? I don't. I don't, no way at all.)
The GM salmon is the first in some 30 other species of genetically engineered fish under development, including tilapia....
However, those plans could be blocked by Wednesday's commitment not to sell genetically engineered seafood from national grocery chains including Trader Joe's, Aldi and Whole Foods, as well as regional retailers.
Between them, the chains control about 2,000 outlets – a fraction of supermarkets across the country. But campaigners said they represent a growing segment of the population that is concerned about GM food, and willing to pay higher prices for healthier foods. (A: In other words, they're paying higher prices, you're willing to pay it for healthier foods. You understand even what you call organic is actually normal food. It was normal up until they brought in nonorganic, the genetically modified. And now you're paying through the nose, for the normal food, if you can get a hold of it, that is, even. I mean, you get it in all directions, right? You bend down, you get it. If you turn over, you get it. It's as simple as that. That's the world, folks. Everything is a racket and a con.)
Anyway it goes on about the FDA and so on. Now, is the FDA really there to help the people and make sure that they're eating properly? If they were they wouldn't be letting you eat all the junk you're already eating. I mean, your food today is literally a cesspit of dumps. It's just a dumping pit really for the chemical industry and all the byproducts that they throw out there, that they used to have to pay (to get rid of), a lot of this stuff that was actually pretty lethal, and they end up putting it in your food. It's just astonishing. I've done lots of articles on this in the past, it's astonishing what's been done. And the public haven't a clue, most of them. And meanwhile, their body shape is changing, everything is changing, they're being reengineered. And of course, they have noticed that in medicine for an awful long time, at least since the early 60s, that literally the physical appearance of both male and female is changing, of humans. Quite something else. So I'll put that up tonight too.
And also from Washington's Blog it says...
Action Alert: We Have 1 Week Or Less to Stop Genetically Engineered Foods and Destruction of the Separation of Powers
washingtonsblog.com / March 20, 2013
America has been decimated by the breakdown of the separation of powers between different branches of government. For example, the executive branch is negotiating laws in secret – and grabbing powers – without telling Congress.
And life-and-death decisions about who the government labels an "enemy combatant" and assassinates are being kept away from the judges altogether.
At the same time, government agencies like the FDA go to great lengths to cover up the potential health damage from genetically modified foods (A: ...and by God they do. Because there's a lot of damage done; they know it.), and to keep the consumer in the dark about what they're really eating. Remember, genetically engineered foods have been linked to obesity, cancer, liver failure, infertility and all sorts of other diseases.... (A: Now, these are scientific studies that were done at the very, very beginning even, and done over again too. And even the most recent ones that they've done have found that, that it causes obesity, cancer, liver failure, infertility, and all sorts of other diseases it says.)
Things are about to get a lot worse within the next week … unless we stand up and say "NO!" (A: Well, good luck. Good luck. I'm sorry to say it, but America is run by corporations, multi-nationals, monopolies; that's how America is run. The world is run that way now, by the way; it's the whole damn world.)
Specifically, a law has been snuck into the Agriculture Appropriations bill – which will be approved by March 27th – which would destroy the separation of powers by stripping courts of the power to challenge genetically modified foods.
How? (A: How is it done? It says...)
The "Monsanto Rider" (section 735) uses "farmer-friendly" happy talk, but is an iron-fisted ploy to allow GMO crops to be planted even if a court has ruled that planting them is illegal.
If the United States Department of Agriculture – which suffered "regulatory capture" by the big food companies decades ago – approves a genetically modified food without any testing, a court can enjoin (i.e. halt) production of that food until testing occurs.
Yet the Monsanto Rider would strip the courts of power, and would allow GMO crops to be planted and put in our food … no matter what a judge has ruled. (A: Never mind the judge. What about you, folks? You are the guys that are eating it. We're always waiting for someone else to do something. So I'll put this one up tonight too and it goes through a lot of the bill. It's a long article here; it's not bad, it's not that long. But it goes through the GMO, more history on it and so on, and what's happening, etc., etc. So, again, it's giving Monsanto special powers that overrides the Congress and anybody else. I mean, this is wonderful isn't it?)
Now, also Berlin, that's again, I've just mentioned it, Germany at the start of the broadcast, Germany is cutting back on all of its climate stuff and renewable energies and all this kind of stuff. The incredible money pit it is. And it's a great money pit because you don't have to produce anything. Give me a few billion dollars and I'll try to see if this works; that's all you have to do. You don't have to promise anything. We've seen that happen with company after company. In fact, they make a business of just starting up company after company, raking in the cash, collapsing it and getting more to start something else up. Everything is a racket, folks. And they know that at the top; they're all in on the racket. But Berlin, it says…
Berlin Sets 100-Year March Snow Record… (A: It just broke its record.)
notrickszone.com / P Gosselin / 20. März 2013
Today Focus magazine reports that Berlin has set a new record for the amount of snow on the ground in the month of March. The online news magazine writes:
A 16-centimeter blanket of snow covers the capital city on the first day of spring. 'It's the highest amount of snow that has been measured here in March in 100 years," says meteorologist Dominik Jung of the weather portal wetter.net."
In Germany it's getting so that children will soon no longer know what bare ground in the wintertime is.
High-profile German meteorologist turns skeptic
I recall getting a bit agitated a year or so ago because Jung once repeated the usual global warming rubbish we always hear in the media. But now that Germany has recorded its 5th colder than normal winter in a row and Berlin and Hamburg find themselves digging out from record snow, Jung apparently has looked at the science (A: ...this is a big scientist up there, Mr. Jung...) and data for himself and now seems to conclude that the CO2 theory is indeed over-hyped after all.
Hopefully he'll pick up a copy of Die kalte Sonne to get complete overview of the science, if he hasn't already.
Jung's skepticism is now being reported in major media outlets all over Germany. For example Germany's no. 1 daily by circulation numbers Bild quoted Jung's wetternet.de website in bold print yesterday: (A: ...where this top scientist that was all about global warming, up until recently, he's changed his mind…)
"Winters clearly have gotten colder," says meteorologist Dominik Jung of the weather portal wetter.net. Moreover: "In the year 2000 the climate experts prophesied that winters with ice and snow in Germany would no longer exist. (A: ...it would be a thing of the past, you see.) That this claim is false is shown by current facts, and in many regions with just a glance out the window!"
So you see, reality is always getting… It doesn't matter what reality is, the big boys at the top say that we give you your reality, we can remake it anytime we want. Remember, George Orwell's 1984; you've got to read the book or see one of the movies that they made on it, where he's getting tortured, Winston is getting tortured, the character in it, by the guy who represents the big establishment, the real establishment. The whole idea was to make Winston believe whatever the boss said. If the boss says, if I can fly, you'll believe I can fly, and you'll really believe it. And if I put up two fingers or three fingers and say how many fingers are there, and you give me the wrong answer, he said, if you don't say five then I'll shock you, I'll give you electrical shocks. In other words, reality is whatever the boss tells you it is, and you better really, not just say it to please him, you've got to come to BELIEVE what he tells you. And that's already happened with most folk, they believe what they're told. And they really are, they become the willing fools, that Albert Pike and others talked about. It's happened, folks.
You got to understand the power of persuasion, of neuroscience and behaviorism, and the massive psychology they have and studies they've done on people. It's pretty well perfect. They understand exactly what to input into your mind and how you'll come and be guided to the conclusions they want you to have. And give up ALL your freedoms, ALL your rights, and you'll get on your knees and say please save us, from whatever doom it is today.
Now, here's a great piece of propaganda, fantastic piece here. It says…
Terrorism plot size of 7/7 attacks 'foiled every year' (A: ...right.)
bbc.co.uk / 21 March 2013
Police are foiling a terrorism plot as big as the 7 July attacks every year, a senior officer has said.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Osborne added that the threats against the UK were constantly changing. (A: ...no kidding.)
Mr Smith, senior national co-ordinator for counter-terrorism, said Islamic extremists were planning in smaller groups in a bid to avoid detection.
It came as the Home Office revealed the number of terror arrests had risen by 60% in the year to September 2012.
The co-ordinated attack was linked to al-Qaeda. (A: ...you know, the guys that the US and Britain are funding to go into Syria and take them down. [Alan chuckles.] I mean really folks, eh. There's reality for you.)
Mr Osborne said: "On average we've probably had about one potential attack planned with an intent to create something similar to July 7 every year.
Although it may have that effect, the aim of Stuart Osborne's message was not to alarm people. (A: Now, scattered throughout this article too, in every two or three lines, are pictures and statements to do with the ONE bombing that they had, that still stinks by the way, to make sure that you get the message; there's your association, with these statements. Now, he's got nothing to back up his statements, you see, but this is how they justify the kind of cash they're spending and the fact that you're all under, really, incredible watch by Big Brother. This is how they justify it. So it says…)
. . . Stuart Osborne's message was not to alarm people. (A: ...oh no.)
He was simply painting a picture of the complex and rapidly changing terrorism landscape, containing small groups, "lone wolf" terrorists and international networks.
What is so different now is that police have more resources and expertise than they did before 7/7: almost 4,000 counter-terrorism officers and staff in hubs across the UK - plus MI5, with whom relations are said to be better than ever.
But the arrangements may not last long. Police are having to make deep budget cuts, and a long-awaited review of counter-terrorism policing is set to begin once the National Crime Agency (NCA) is established in October. (A: Understand, now ALL crime is going under terrorism. I hope you understand that. [Alan chuckles.])
"The UK threat as we stand today remains at substantial, which means that a terrorist attack remains a strong possibility and could occur without warning."
Mr Osborne said the hatching of plans in small groups followed the foiling of large-scale terrorism plots. (A: Again, no evidence of anything. Then they go back and give you...)
These included a scheme to blow up passenger jets with bombs disguised as soft drinks (A: ...you know, your lemonade…) in 2006, and more recently a Birmingham-based plot to set off up to eight rucksack bombs. (A: ...no kidding.)
"Some who have been trained actually are becoming quite self-motivated, they are beginning to plan in small groups which are hard to detect," he said. (A: Well, how can he say all this if they're hard to detect? He seems to have no problem detecting them, if he's talking about it all, right?)
"There is no doubt that the big sophisticated 9/11 or 7/7 (A: ...so you're back to the one thing that you've all got visions of in your head, they're stuck and it's imprinted in your brain.) type plots are much harder to organise, they did need a lot of overseas direction and some of the al-Qaeda leadership have said that's good if you can do it, but if not, any attack whatever you can do at whatever size is useful.
This is what they're claiming, Al Qaeda, you know, this bogeyman. This is the Goldstein, the Goldstein of 1984. Again, you have to see the movie and read the book because they always give you the archenemy; you never find him. You seek him here, you seek him there, you seek that Pimpernel everywhere. In other words, it's completely elusive, ALWAYS, you see. But it's always there, you can't give up, you can't stop the totalitarian system. It's all part of the totalitarian system. I mean, if you stop doing it all the totalitarian system just falls apart. When it falls apart people start getting self-confidence back and they start questioning things, like you can't do this to us, and stuff like that. And they don't want that anymore. They want you trained and fearful and go along with anything. Remember what they said many years ago. Even the greenies, the head of the Green Party said it. If we can get Britain and other countries into this stage of war, like wartime London, where they all gave up their rights, they obeyed all the officers and the air raid wardens, to do anything that they were told, and they put up with hardships and poor food supplies, rationing, all that. If we can get that same scenario then we're on our way.… to sustainability. It all ties together, folks. So anyway, he goes on and on and on and repeats the same rubbish over and over and over again. Over and over and over again. Remember too, in 1984, you constantly listened to the Department of Statistics; they keep giving you statistics on things. But they can't back up them, they just give you statistics; that's good enough. That's good enough for most folk, you know.
Back into sustainability again, it's all at the same time, it says...
World's cities to expand by more than twice the size of Texas by 2030
(A: ...SCARY SCENARIO, right....)
nbcnews.com / Ian Johnston
Cities worldwide are on track to expand by nearly 580,000 square miles – more than twice the size of Texas – in less than 20 years, according to (A: ...once again...) experts at a major international science conference. (A: Now, who is all there?)
Yale University professor Karen Seto said the North American suburb had "gone global, and car-dependent urban developments are more and more the norm."
The world's population is expected to grow from the current 7 billion to about 9 billion by 2050, according to the United Nations.
Experts meeting at the Planet Under Pressure 2012 conference in London (A: See. Again a private organization, a big foundation again, all linked with the usual foundations, and the Royal Society, and the eugenicists, and all the rest of it, you see, sustainable progress and so on they call it, Agenda 21, as they cram you all into the existing cities. Getting you used to it... repetition, repetition, repetition. Back after this.)
Hi folks, we're back Cutting Through The Matrix. As I was mentioning before though, the big cities are to be overcrowded with more and more people coming in all the time; they want this actually. They want under Agenda 21 everybody, all nonessential people off the rural areas altogether, for the big corporate farms. The United Nations has stated too, by 2030 or so that there will only be a tiny minority of people living in rural areas, who are incredibly wealthy. You see, you're going to get taxed and forced off of it by the government agencies, who can fine you forever for having a faulty downpipe or something from your gutter, things like that. There's a method to the madness. And of course it's mad, getting fined 10 grand because you've got a faulty gutter. They are reasons to get you off, obviously.
Internet tax proposal up for a vote in Senate this week
news.cnet.com / Declan McCullagh / March 21, 2013
Internet tax supporters are hoping that a vote in the U.S. Senate as early as today... (A: Now, who are these tax supporters for Internet shopping? Well, it's the big international corporations…)
...Walmart, Macy's, and Best Buy... (A: ...and so on, all the big chains, want to put all the Internet shoppers into... you know, off, out of the way, get rid of the competition.)
Senators Mike Enzi (R-Wy.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are expected to offer an amendment to a Democratic budget resolution this week that, by allowing states to "collect taxes on remote sales," is intended to usher in the first national Internet sales tax. (A: And it's due out today, I haven't heard the results yet.)
"We're working overtime in pushing this, talking to our members, activating our grassroots," (A: ...which of course is an international corporation.) says Stephen Schatz, a spokesman for the National Retail Federation. The group's board members include OfficeMax, Macy's, the Container Store, and Saks, which argue it's only fair to force Americans to pay sales taxes when buying from online retailers. (A: So they want you to buy it from their overpriced stuff they have in their stores.)
The justification for the proposal reprises arguments that state tax collectors have made for at least a decade: online retailers that don't always collect taxes are unreasonably depriving state governments of revenue (A: ...taxes again.) and enjoy an unfair competitive advantage over big box retailers that do collect taxes. On the other hand, there are close to 10,000 jurisdictions that can levy taxes, each with its own rules and ability to conduct audits. . . (A: ...and so on.)
(A: But the fact is, you understand, the government and the central banking, when they brought in the banking and the national taxes and so on, in all countries by the way, even your income tax was a temporary tax; in Britain it was a temporary war tax, and I think in the US it was a victory tax, things like that. And they've got all employers working as tax collectors now; they just deduct it off your wages. The same with all the stores, it's all included there. So everybody is working for the government. And the person who told me that was a person in the federal government themselves. [Alan chuckles.] Everybody's working for the government. Do you think it's that different from communism? Really? Anyway it says…)
Taxpayer advocates say an endorsement of a multi-billion dollar tax hike on Americans shouldn't be snuck into an unrelated budget bill (PDF) (A: I'll put the PDF up, for the whole thing if you want to see it all.) that's expected to be voted on before senators leave for an Easter recess. (A: Well, this will be a beauty, this one, this PDF actually, because they're going to really smack it to you, in a whole bunch of ways, I'm sure. Because that's why they're leaving for Easter recess; they'll go through it then and then they're gone, you see.). The National Taxpayers Union set up a petition to Congress this week calling the amendment "really just a way to unleash state tax collectors on the Internet," and 15 conservative groups sent a letter last week to members of Congress saying an Internet tax law is "is bad news for conservative principles and the cause of limited government." (A: Well, limited government went out an awful long time ago.)
So I'll put this up too, as we all go down the tubes in so many different ways. But it's done in the proper way by the big boys at the top. And that's not the guys who you see on TV and your government; that's not the big boys.
From Hamish and myself from Ontario, Canada, it's good night and may your God or your Gods GO with you.
Topics of show covered in following links:
Planning to Allow Spy Agencies to Monitor Every Citizen's Bank and Financial
Germany Cancels Climate Programs
World Bank Propaganda on Climate Change
Opposition to GM Salmon
US has 1 Week to Stop GE Foods
Berlin Breaks its 100yr. March Snow Record
Britain---PR Piece on Foiling Terror
More Propaganda for Agenda 21
US Senate Voting on Internet Sales Tax
& PDF of Bill
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"Cutting Through"
"Waiting for the Miracle....."
Ancient Religions and History MP3 CDs:
Blurbs and 'Cutting Through the Matrix' Shows on MP3 CDs (Up to 50 Hours per Disc)
"Reality Check Part 1" & "Reality Check Part 2 - Wisdom, Esoterica and ...TIME"


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A seriously red Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport has been spotted at the Frankfurt Auto Show.
As everyone was scampering around the Frankfurt Auto Show trying to steal a glimpse of the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport L'Or Blanc, we caught the proverbial 'diamond in rough', per say, of the French supercars chilling at the premier German auto event. The Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport is the convertible version of the fastest production car in the world. 42 of the 108 units ever produced of this version were sold, leaving the French automaker with a surplus of supercar convertibles.
To try and swing some sales, Bugatti has brought their completely red model to Frankfurt to show off. From the interior to the wheels, everything was painted red. The Bugatti Veyron features an 8.0-liter W16 engine that can put out 1001hp. Bugatti has confirmed that an even more powerful version of the Veyron Grand Sport will be unveiled at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show.


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Giving props, for those who are unaware, is where someone who has contributed to open-source code is given acknowledgment. Typically you'll find these props given within a specific ticket in which a person has contributed a fix for the open ticket. In the WordPress realm, you'll also find these props at the bottom of a new release post as you can see here in the section called The Squad.
Those who contributed the actual fix are the ones receiving props. But … that's not very inclusive.
You Get Props, I Get Props, Everybody Gets Props!
Recently I came across a tweet from Jip Moors, who works at Yoast, that resonated with me:
Give props in abundance, not in restraint.
Celebrate everyone that contributed to the issue, problem, feature, concept, testing.. inclusiveness can make the difference for new and old contributors on your projects. #OpenSource #props #inclusiveness
— Jip (@moorscode) December 6, 2017
Jip is stating that instead of giving props in restraint, we start turning that around by giving props in abundance. And when you think about it, that actually makes a lot of sense to all parties contributing. There are several elements of a ticket that are extremely valuable but are not "thanked for" as much as they could be.
The lifetime of a ticket starts with the first person reporting the problem, but often times a lot more happens after. In many cases there will be multiple people brainstorming possible solutions, coming up with proof of concepts, help out testing and more. It's a shame that those who put in the time to find a solution hardly get any props at all. I believe it's time to change this.
Getting More Involvement
I think it's fair to say we all appreciate getting recognition for something we did. I also think it's fair to say we'd feel more inclined to help out, even more, when we do. Help out with more issues in any way we can.
A good example of where the acknowledgment of contribution has worked very positively is with the WordPress Translations. Every single time WordPress is updated you'll be pointed to the About screen which highlights the contributors in both code as well as translations. This has lead to more awareness to those who contribute in translating. More awareness here resulted in more people finding out they too could contribute.
Ultimately this led to many more people contributing to translations and it's one of the reasons there are now more non-
en_US WordPress installations out there than default
en_US ones.
We Can Take It Even Further
The WordPress Project has many many ways to contribute to it. Take a look at the Make WordPress blogs and you can't help but get inspired about wanting to contribute. There are a ton of ways to get involved with WordPress, but there are not many ways to receive recognition for it. At least not as easy as getting props and being mentioned with new releases. Sure, there are WordPress.org profiles where you can see how a person has contributed to the WordPress Project (here's mine as an example), but they're not very visible.
We want WordPress as a whole to grow, and to make that happen, we'll need more people contributing to it. I propose one of the mechanisms to propel this growth is to start by giving props in abundance, not in restraint.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on how we can achieve that.


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The director of California's Department of Managed Health Care sees problems if high-deductible plans replace the state's 'delegated model.'
When Democrats lost control of the California statehouse with the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis, Cindy Ehnes figured her time at the state's Department of Managed Health Care had come to an end. She left her appointed position as deputy director for plan-provider relations and took a job at the state's public employee pension system, CalPERS.
To her surprise, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger crossed party lines and appointed Ehnes as the department's director in March 2004. The department, created in 2000 within the state's Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, is responsible for the licensing and accountability of managed care plans through the enforcement of prevention and care laws. The department reviews managed care mergers, operates a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week HMO Help Center for consumers, and has developed a public education campaign so consumers know their rights under managed care plans and a third-party grievance system for consumers.
Before coming to California in 2002, Ehnes served as legislative affairs director for the Commission on Family Medicine in Colorado for two years and from 1997 to 2000 as the director of enforcement for the Colorado Division of Insurance. From 1978 to 1984 and again from 1988 to 1996, she was a lawyer in private practice. She holds an undergraduate degree from George Washington University and a law degree from Catholic University, both in Washington, D.C. She spoke recently with Senior Contributing Editor Patrick Mullen.
MC: How would you describe your approach to your job?
EHNES: The job is very much to balance inequities among parties who are part of a relatively delicate health care ecosystem, not to exert a heavy regulatory hand. California has a strong managed care environment that relies on a multiplicity of relationships between plans, hospitals, and 250 different provider groups. Our job is to shore up situations where there's an unequal bargaining power, without going overboard in any direction. I prefer to use problem solving and collaborative decision making to come up with industry solutions.
MC: What types of inequities are most common?
EHNES: When I took this job, one inequity was the failure to enforce laws ensuring that providers of health care, those who actually touch the patient, are paid fairly and on time. That was having a serious impact on access. Over and over, doctors who had worked with managed care plans told me they were dropping managed care contracts because they got paid faster and better without them. I decided that we had to attend to this issue in a meaningful way, and we have. We set up a separate provider complaint unit that is charged with the responsibility of enforcing laws that were already on the books, but which had not been meaningfully enforced. Some health plans and large provider groups took a very blithe approach to paying doctors and hospitals on time. They were doing a variety of things, including a lot of unfair edits, coding tricks, and issues relating to contractual provisions. Our role is not to tip things in favor of providers, and I'm sure that if you asked the plans, they'd tell you that all I care about is providers. That absolutely is not the case. An imbalance had to be corrected. We weeded out run-of-the-mill billing issues that should have been handled properly by health plans or provider groups the first time. When a bill comes in, their job is to pay it right, on time, the first time. We put some teeth behind that. That has helped create appropriate expectations among providers that they will be paid for services rendered, which allows us to focus on tougher issues.
MC: Why do you think plans perceive you as tilting toward providers?
EHNES: They shouldn't have that impression. When I came into this job, I sat down with health plan CEOs and asked them for a list of what they were looking for from the department. Number one on the list was to ease the licensing stranglehold on new products that this department had imposed under a strong ideological bent. Plans wanted more copayments, deductibles, and greater cost sharing. We are going through a two-year restructuring of licensing from top to bottom. We're making sure we don't collect a piece of paper that we don't read and that we do as much electronically as we can. We use model evidences of coverage and other template documents so that when they file, they use those documents and redline their changes so that the review doesn't take as long. We're approving flexible cost-sharing arrangements that would never have been approved two years ago. I have tried very hard to meet them more than halfway to loosen restrictions on HMO products so that they can remain viable in a rapidly changing marketplace. They forget that when we take on issues of potentially excess billing by providers, we're carrying their water.
MC: Beyond greater cost sharing, what types of new products are plans asking for?
EHNES: Health saving account compatible products are our first order of business. We have been working very hard to approve HSA-compatible products for any health plan that asks. We did our initial one with Kaiser, to help them attract the young healthy lives that are more appropriate for HSA products. As a rich benefit product with low cost sharing, Kaiser is the Hindenburg for adverse selection, just a big target. We required a research component to give us demographic information we didn't have about who was buying that product.
MC: What are some of the tougher issues you're looking at on the provider side?
EHNES: One big issue is the question of what is a reasonable and customary amount for noncontracted providers, particularly emergency room providers. We haven't been completely successful in getting those resolved, but we're working on it. Of course, issues of reasonable and customary amount are much more prevalent in the rest of the country because of the lack of managed care penetration. California has around 51 percent managed care penetration for insured enrollees. In the rest of the country, it's more like 27 percent. In California, these issues come into play when a provider group or hospital perceives that it's more advantageous to be non-contracted. It comes up the most with emergency services, because at that point you're not picking a provider. A patient may go to an ER at a contracted hospital, but the on-call doc, the radiologist, or the trauma surgeon may be part of a non-contracted medical group. They submit a bill that may or may not be reasonable in light of what the rest of the market charges for those services. Then you're in a battle over what is the appropriate amount. According to the law, the amount to be paid must be the reasonable and customary value of those services.
MC: What can be done about that?
EHNES: We have convened a high-level work group that involves all the stakeholders. One of my major philosophies is that I don't want people trying to talk through us; I want people talking to each other, hearing each other very clearly and taking responsibility for formulating solutions that meet some or all of the interests of the other party, not just their own interests. This is a tough issue because at the end of the day, nobody wants us to tell them what to charge or what to pay. We don't have rate-setting authority, so we get into voluntary discussions. Still, there's a point at which everybody feels like they're touching the third rail. They start backing off because they perceive us to be trying to set the rate. We're working on a pilot program that will run for about a year starting this fall for an independent dispute resolution process based on baseball's arbitration model. An external arbitrator would look at the doctor's bill and the health plan's or provider group's payment offer and pick one number or the other that in the arbitrator's view best represented the value of the services.
MC: In other words, the arbitrator couldn't split the difference.
EHNES: That's right. This model will eventually bring parties more to the middle, because if ER docs are billing as extravagantly as health plans and provider groups claim, and plans and provider groups are being completely reasonable, as they assure me, then over time arbitrators will pick their number. If ER docs lose enough arbitration cases, they will moderate their behavior in the market.
MC: And this process won't be too time consuming or cumbersome?
EHNES: It won't be. Nobody's going to have to travel to Sacramento for a hearing or anything like that. In this country, we rely on emergency docs showing up to provide safety net care. The primacy of their role can't be questioned. You can say they're greedy but ultimately our safety net system relies on the willingness of an emergency room doc to show up to provide care. We can't just browbeat them. We must solve the problems they have getting paid and try to work the solution from a number of different angles.
MC: Where does the department fit in the regulatory environment in California, where the Departments of Corporations and Insurance has some regulatory duties related to managed care? What was missing that required creation of the Department of Managed Health Care?
EHNES: For reasons that are way beyond me, California decided that managed care entities would be regulated initially by the Department of Corporations as opposed to the Department of Insurance. The fact that Kaiser started here influenced that decision. The state Department of Corporations regulates more than a dozen industries and was not focused on managed health care. It was very much a business regulator as opposed to the more consumer-oriented managed care regulator that California consumers and legislators felt was needed. That helped spur creation of DMHC.
MC: You worked in Colorado so you've seen a market that is not dominated by Kaiser the way California is. How does the presence of one plan that big and well established with that particular model change the dynamic of the market?
EHNES: That's a very good question. Kaiser has a very profound and unique influence. In other markets, the Blues plans tend to be predominant. The difference is that Blues plans tend not to have the inherent values and cultural characteristics of Kaiser. The number one impact of Kaiser is the acceptance of the delegated model [under which organized groups of physicians accept responsibility for managing the care of HMO enrollees] and the influence that it's had in creating and preserving that model outside of Kaiser. It's a strong well-rooted delivery system in California, and it's under serious attack from PPO products and other high deductible health plans. Higher cost sharing means that the level of capitation goes down and by and large, high-deductible plans don't pay for the disease management and health information technology infrastructure that capitation has provided. That is a very serious risk in the California market. The second impact Kaiser has is their ability to attract new talent in the provider community. Kaiser hires a substantial percentage of the top level of new medical school graduates. The third thing is their information technology system. They don't tout it as strongly as they will in the future when they feel more secure about it. It will become a competitive distinction that will drive development of health information technology in the state. Absent Kaiser's leading edge role, California would not be moving as significantly as it now is in the direction of health IT buildup.
MC: You and your department took flak from some quarters for not scrutinizing the WellPoint-Anthem merger carefully enough. Are you confident you reviewed that deal as closely as necessary?
EHNES: I can tell you probably where you read that, either on the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights Web site or Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times. Those two have been critical of our review.
MC: Correct. It was Hiltzik's "Golden State" blog on the Times Web site.
EHNES: First, I'm not running for office. I'm here to do my job within existing statutory authority. I work in an administration that is not in any fashion antibusiness, so they don't come in with a predisposition that a merger is a raw deal by definition. On top of that, our statute was never written as a merger and acquisition statute, the way the Holding Company Act in the Department of Insurance was. If you look at what [Insurance Commissioner John] Garamendi was able to do, the Insurance Department's authority ended up somewhat limited as well. Had he been tested in court, he might or might not have been able to sustain his disapproval. John and this department work well together. Within the confines of our existing authority, the general construct is that the plan that you approve to assume ownership tomorrow must deliver health care on the same basis that the plan did the day before. We have no rate-setting authority in California, and there is no limitation whatsoever on executive compensation. It's silly to suggest that I didn't have a reaction to the notion that health care executives were getting compensation packages that would enable them to buy private islands. These packages only make sense on Wall Street. They do not make sense to consumers and they do not generally make sense to regulators.
MC: Questions also came up about the thoroughness of the review of United HealthCare's purchase of PacifiCare. What were the department's goals in examining that deal?
EHNES: We were careful in our review to look at how we could preserve PacifiCare's historic role as a major participant in managed care in California. We got something out of that transaction that will benefit California, $200 million in PacifiCare funds to be invested in health IT infrastructure for rural and safety net providers, and another $50 million to be given out in the form of grants, again for build out of health IT infrastructure and safety net providers. We required PacifiCare to develop a number of new capitated HMO products, and to assist us in analyzing and talking about the value of the delegated model over the next year. What's getting lost in the discussion of consumer-directed health care is that we risk disaggregating our medical delivery system in favor of a fee-for-service environment. That wasn't a good idea back in the '80s and it's unlikely to be a good idea now. Before we go down that path, the DMHC, partnering with PacifiCare, is going to be taking a very strong look at the value of what delegation has brought to California in the form of lower premiums and we think better care, less costly care for sure.
MC: What's your sense of the ultimate impact of consumer-directed health plans?
EHNES: That term is the rubric under which — if a tipping point is reached — employers will be able to disengage from the delivery of health care. That's the risk. It isn't that HSAs and consumer-directed health care have a huge natural market. When people choose for themselves, these plans attract healthier, wealthier people, and that's a limited market. But employers may flock to such plans as a way of getting out of first dollar coverage, comprehensive benefits, and high premiums. These plans represent a tremendous risk that we take very seriously on a daily basis out here. You only need to look as far as the pension system to develop your model. The reality is that globalization has had a real impact. Health care represents about ten percent of the cost structure of employers that offer benefits. So Wall Street generally rewards Wal-Mart, which doesn't provide benefits, and disfavors Costco, which does. As a policymaker, my job is to try and look ahead, plan for the worst, hope for the best, and that's what I'm doing.
MC: Thank you.
Paul Lendner ist ein praktizierender Experte im Bereich Gesundheit, Medizin und Fitness. Er schreibt bereits seit über 5 Jahren für das Managed Care Mag. Mit seinen Artikeln, die einen einzigartigen Expertenstatus nachweisen, liefert er unseren Lesern nicht nur Mehrwert, sondern auch Hilfestellung bei ihren Problemen.


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A nice sweet dip for an appetizer.
I bought this mix from Homemade Gourmet and decided that I could figure out the recipe myself and save money.
- 1- 8oz pkg cream cheese, softened
- ? c butter (the real stuff), softened
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 T brown sugar (heaping)
- ? c powdered sugar
- ? c mini chocolate chips
- ? c finely chopped pecans
- Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla.
- Add sugars until well blended.
- Stir in pecans and chocolate.
- Alternative- Cheesecake ball: Stir in chocolate chips only. Place mixture onto a piece of plastic wrap and form into a ball. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Roll ball in pecans.
- Serve with graham crackers or graham cracker sticks.
This recipe was submitted by coccinelle on August 31, 2005.


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Decomposing Carrot Tea Towel
After printing with a fresh carrot, then leaving it to sit on my work table for a week, the shape of the carrot evolved and shriveled, creating a more delicate and wrinkled yet flower-like impression. Even in a decaying state, the veggie showed its beauty.
Originally created with ink on paper, this veggie pattern is reproduced on a white cotton-linen. Each towel is individually sewn and includes a stitched-in loop for hanging.
25 x 20 inches
This cotton-linen blend is printed with water-based, eco-friendly inks in the USA.
Machine wash with cold or warm water on gentle/regular cycle using phosphate-free detergent. Tumble dry on a low-temperature setting. Iron on reverse side, if needed.


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Artists have always been conveyors of nuance and subtlety…
Artists have always been a culture's conscience …
Today our job as artists has not changed.
Chris Oatley, along with Storytellers' Summit hosts Adam Westbrook and Maike Venhofen face a difficult question all artists have:
'How can we create honest art and stories in a time of so many cultural divides?'
Questions Addressed:
- How do I dramatize what I want to say?
- How do I avoid demonizing people with different ideologies than mine?
- Are villains just characters that don't agree with the hero?
- Should I dramatize an uncomfortable theme in such a way that is comfortable for my audience?
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