By Janet Phelan

In an article in the New Republic in December, 1998, former UNSCOM leader Scott Ritter decried Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons experiments on human subjects. Wrote Ritter,

“We had received credible intelligence that 95 political prisoners had been transferred from the Abu Ghraib Prison to a site in western Iraq, where they had been subjected to lethal testing under the supervision of a special unit from the Military Industrial Commission, under Saddam’s personal authority.”

The stance of the United States and her allies has always been that such experiments bear the watermark of a brutal dictatorship and are never engaged in by the free world.

So when Abu Ghraib again hit the news in 2004, concerning the ongoing torture of prisoners by US forces, the US was swift to act in condemning the reports as constituting isolated incidents and not reflective of US policy.

And then the floodgates opened, with more revelations of torture, CIA “black sites” waterboarding and prisoner rape. And torture became a topic of heated debate.

Those who torture would like you to think that they do not, or that torture is necessary for reasons of “National Security.” However, any first year medical student can tell you that torture is unnecessary to gain confessions, which is the fall- back used by government officials to explain its necessity. All that is needed to obtain such ostensibly highly valued confessions is a good dose of sodium pentothal or another such chemical in the array of truth serum drugs.

What one gains by the use of torture is false confessions. False confessions would be highly valued in the continuing “war on terrorism,” to provide proof that acts of terror are being perpetrated by those who are detained.

Abu Ghraib may or may not have been the locus of experiments by the Iraqi leadership. What is certain is that the US is engaged in experiments on its own people, without informed consent, some of which achieve the definition of torture.

The US Continues to Evade the Mandates of Informed Consent

The issue of informed consent was central to the The Doctors Trials at Nuremberg, where twenty German doctors who experimented on Jews and others, often fatally, were tried and sentenced. What emerged from the Trials was the Nuremberg Code, which mandates that experimental subjects be given information about the nature of the experiment and the right to refuse.

The Nuremberg Code, however, remains a recommendation, not a law.

Some of these current experiments run by the United States are taking place within the borders of the US and some are taking place in foreign countries, with pharmaceutical and defense agencies as primary perpetrators.

As an act of apparent damage control following the 1994 disclosures of US radiation experiments during the Cold War, President Bill Clinton produced a memo, lodged in the Federal Register, calling for strengthened protections for human subjects.

These radiation experiments exposed US citizens to high levels of radiation, without informing them of the risks. According to reports, the radiation caused the deaths of a number of the experimental subjects.

Clinton subsequently established an Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments to review reports and recommend ways to prevent further unethical research from taking place in the future.

The Advisory Committee’s recommendations included mandating informed consent of all human subjects, among other recommendations. However, the Committee´s recommendations were never acted upon. And informed consent, which constitutes the core of the Nuremberg Code, was never codified into law.

Obama Perpetuates the Myth of Legal Protections for Test Subjects

Fast forward to 2010, when another embarrassing experimental project, this time launched by the US Public Health Service in Guatemala, hit the front pages of newspapers. US researchers were reported as deliberately infecting over 1500 human subjects in Guatemala with sexually transmitted diseases. This study took place back in the 1940’s and was effectively covered up for over sixty years.

In response to this disclosure, President Obama directed the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to “determine if Federal regulations and international standards adequately guard the health and well-being of participants in scientific studies supported by the Federal Government.”

The Commission reported back in December of 2011 with their conclusions that the current US rules would deter such abuses from taking place again.

The Commission failed to take note that research protocols, classified and otherwise, are lacking an informed consent requirement. What this means is that if, for example, an intelligence agency decides to run an experiment using human subjects, that intelligence agency can waive any necessity to inform the subjects and to gain their consent.

The Commission’s report is largely a whitewash. In light of the following facts, it is clear that US nonconsensual human experimentation is rampant. Some of these experiments appear to be classified and some not. In many cases, neither the classified research nor non classified protocols appear to be abiding by the stated need for informed consent.

Children as Lab Rats

On January 4, 2002, President Bush signed into law the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, which provides incentives for using children in drug trials. The Act offered pharmaceutical companies a six-month exclusivity term in return for their agreement to conduct pediatric tests on drugs. This Act was quickly followed in 2003 by the Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA). PREA authorizes FDA to require manufacturers of new drug and biologics products to conduct pediatric studies in certain circumstances.

As a result, drug trials on children have gone through the roof.

An article at medicalkidnap.com states that: “In 2006, they found that there were approximately 45,000 children participating in experiments.”

Read entire article: http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/27/human-experimentation-rampant-in-the-united-states/

By Mike Adams

Following the confirmation of new FDA head Robert Califf, I have been told by people in the legal field with close ties to FDA staffers that the FDA is planning to ramp up a wave of inspections and crackdowns targeting natural product companies.

This sweeping crackdown assault, I’ve been told, will be invoked under the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA), which was aggressively pushed into law following a series of highly suspicious outbreaks of E.coli and salmonella in food products in 2010. These outbreaks were widely publicized by the mainstream media which obeyed its propaganda marching orders from the government to whip up a frenzy of irrational fear over all fresh food. From that fear, the political establishment passed the FSMA and Obama signed it into law on January 4, 2011.

By Stephen Lendman

Saudi Arabia is a family dictatorship masquerading as a nation-state.

It’s one of the world’s most tyrannical regimes, infamous for public beheadings and whippings, as well as numerous other high crimes.

Torture and physical abuse are commonplace. So are arbitrary arrests, along with denial of fundamental human and civil rights.

State terror is official regime policy internally and abroad. So is religious extremism, Wahhabi clerics enforcing their theofascist interpretation of Islam. Shias are considered heretics.

Saudi tyrants want Shia Iran and Syria replaced by totalitarian Sunni dominance, Hezbollah eliminated in Lebanon.

ISIS, Al Qaeda and likeminded terrorist groups represent Wahhabi extremism.

Riyadh partners with America’s imperial wars, supplies ISIS and other terrorist groups with arms, chemical weapons and other material support.

Saudi rulers are among the world’s most ruthless, a crime family posing as legitimate governance – tolerating no opposition to their tyrannical rule.

Since March 2011, they’ve waged US-orchestrated terror-bombing and blockade of Yemen, slaughtering mostly civilians, committing genocide, millions of people at risk.

Last June, its UN ambassador in Geneva, Faisal bin Hassan Trad, was quietly chosen head of a five-member UN Human Rights Council panel, charged with reporting on abuses worldwide – mocking the legitimacy of the initiative.

HRC is a sham operation, serving US-led NATO interests. Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay (2008 – 2014) was a reliable imperial tool.

France partners in all US wars of aggression. During his visit to Paris last Friday, President Francois Hollande quietly awarded Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef France’s Legion d’Honneur, its highest award, established by Napoleon in May 1802.

The Saudi news agency SPA said it was for his “efforts in the fight against terrorism and extremism” – a shocking perversion of truth.

Angry social media criticism followed, many tweets featuring the hashtag “honte (shame).”

On Sunday, Riyadh carried out its 70th execution this year, a public beheading. Saudi tyrants lop off more heads than ISIS.

http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/saudi-crown-prince-awarded-frances-highest-honor/

China’s industrial profits in the period between January and February grew 4.8 percent against the same period in 2015, National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) data showed on Sunday.

By Organic Consumers Organization

French lawmakers approved plans for a total ban on some widely used pesticides blamed for harming bees, going beyond European Union restrictions in a fierce debate that has pitched farmers and chemical firms against beekeepers and green groups.

The EU limited the use of neonicotinoid chemicals, produced by companies including Bayer CropScience and Syngenta , two years ago after research pointed to risks for bees, which play a crucial role pollinating crops.

Crop chemical makers say the research blaming neonicotinoid pesticides is not backed up by field evidence and a global plunge in bee numbers in recent years is a complex phenomenon due to multiple factors.

The French outright ban on neonicotinoid pesticides was adopted by a narrow majority late on Thursday by France’s National Assembly as part of a draft bill on biodiversity that also contains an additional tax on palm oil.

https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/france-moves-towards-full-ban-pesticides-blamed-bee-losses

By Mike Adams

Despite the insidious attempts of the corporate-controlled U.S. media to censor the stories about the deadly side effects of vaccines, the truth keeps surfacing. The latest vaccine tragedy to strike has killed two babies in La Pimienta, Mexico and sent 37 more to the hospital with serious reactions to toxic vaccine additives.

“…14 children are in serious condition, 22 are stable and one is in critical condition,” the Chiapas Health Secretariat said in a statement via Latino.FoxNews.com.

What’s especially alarming is that only 52 children were vaccinated in all, meaning that 75% of those receiving the vaccines are now either dead or hospitalized.

The vaccines were administered by the Mexican Social Security Institute, known as IMSS. The IMSS confirmed the deadly reactions occurred after children received injections of vaccines for tuberculosis, rotavirus and hepatitis B — the same viral strains targeted by vaccines routinely administered to children in the United States.

How desperate are the Left-wing authoritarians in the Obama administration getting to push their global warming/climate change hoax? Desperate enough, apparently, to consider prosecuting anyone who dares to question their climate change orthodoxy, even if they do so with facts on their side.

According to The Blaze, Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified before a congressional committee recently that yes, her ‘Justice’ Department has indeed “discussed” taking civil legal actions against the fossil fuel industry for “denying” that the “threat of carbon emissions” is real when it comes to climate change.

Sheldon went on to note that under President Bill Clinton, the Justice Department brought a civil case that it won against the tobacco industry, while so far the Obama administration has “done nothing” in regards to the fossil fuel industry.

Read more: http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/loretta-lynch-admits-climate-change-deniers-may-targeted-legal-action-government/

No better example on how the actually world operates can be found than the Corporatist argument that all the opposition to TPP is just wrong. Really ??? Understand that the record of trade agreements have been greatly beneficial to Transnational Corporations. So it is natural that enterprises that seek to crush competition, favor the term FREE, when in reality the practice of conducting commerce on highly structured agreements, eliminates upstarts and squeeze out weak rivals. TPP has finally taken off the mask for all to see.

Still, the sway of the corporatocracy influence is so powerful that establishment economists, main stream business media, and election money dependent politicians are beating the drums in spite of the growing public opposition to the disastrous consequences in TPP.

Don’t celebrate that the argument has been won, QUARTZ publishes the corporate line that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are both wrong about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

“But there’s a difference between not supporting free trade and being against trade agreements. Trade agreements, such as TPP or the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), promote trade by eliminating tariffs and other barriers. But they also (as is the case of TPP) enforce patents, labor and environmental standards, copyrights, and other legal protections. Rather than unfettered globalization, trade agreements steer trade to certain countries and give participating governments more control on how trade is conducted. You can be against a trade agreement because you think there should be less trade (like Sanders and Donald Trump) or because you don’t like the structure of the agreement (which Hillary Clinton claims is her issue). But opposing TPP for either reason is a mistake.”

The author of this total falsehood is Allison Schrager an economist, writer, and pension geek. Her distortion of the facts is astounding. When did Donald Trump ever take the position that he wants less trade? In Breitbart Trump states: The 5,544-page deal is far too long to be understood, said Trump. “Nobody understands it,” he said. “The deal is so bad because of the fact they don’t cover currency manipulation,” Trump added. “It’s the number-one weapon used by foreign countries to hurt the United States and take away jobs.”

Schrager goes on with even more lunacy. “The structure of TPP may not be perfect, but it is expected to increase real incomes in America by $131 billion and boost exports by $357 billion by 2030. In absolute terms, the United States will benefit most from the deal.”

Folks, only a fool or an idiot would claim that the suicidal trade deficits that America has experienced, directly from ill conceived trade agreements like NAFTA is a benefit to our economy. And we are supposed to believe and take on faith that real incomes will increase BECAUSE of the TPP?

Since all four of the contending candidates for President are giving lip service against the TPP, the political pressure from an angry electorate is finally hitting home. However, the Corporatist will not abandon their fast track plan to drain even more wealth out of the pockets of hard working Americans. Hording their manipulated ill gains off shore does not put food on the table of your neighbor. Inversions do not employ more domestic workers. And since The U.S. Has the Highest Corporate Income Tax Rate in the OECD, it would be totally insane to give the globalist corporations even more advantages, when they already avoid the long reach of the IRS.

Lying politicians have done the bidding of their corporate donors for as long as companies have made contributions to campaigns. Congress could reduce the corporate tax and grant a tax holiday to repatriate all those stashed billions. Allowing Citizens United to be the law of the land, guarantees control of the corporatist over trade policy.

Trade should not be an ideological issue. The merits of any agreement should be judged on how AMERICA and her people benefit, not on how much gain corporations command from the arrangements. Trump states he wants to negotiate trade deals with individual countries as opposed to all inclusive and putative global dictates.

This approach can and will stop the adverse trade hemorrhage that is destroying our future. Needless to say, a mouth piece for Marco Rubio, Scott Lincicome an international trade attorney, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and Visiting Lecturer at Duke University, disagrees. In Almost Everything Donald Trump Says About Trade With China Is Wrong, he contends:

“Moreover, basic economics teaches us that trade balances reflect national savings, consumption and investment, not trade policy. Thus, every dollar traveling overseas to buy imports (in excess of our exports) eventually comes back to the United States in the form of investment, and our “trade deficit” is matched by a “capital account surplus.” In other words, we buy goods and services from foreigners, and they buy an equal amount of our exports plus our financial assets (aka foreign investment in the United States).”

In this last statement, the ugly game plan of the internationalist rigged trade agreements is revealed. Transfer of domestic wealth and national treasure to the globalist companies who buy up America on the cheap. Just what this nation needs! Shills like Lincicome are certainly not nationalists.

When fronts for the supra-elites, ratchet up their attacks on Trump, they are really looking to stop the opposition against the TPP. The Club for Growth to launch million-dollar attack on Trump is a typical example of this tactic.

Get prepared for many more reposts like this. The Corporatists mobilization to prevent any opposition to the TPP is behind the establishment of any populist politician. Wake up America and know your trade enemy, they wrote the TPP.

http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/corporatists-mobilize-prevent-tpp-opposition/

We were reviewing an old Weather Control Video when we noticed at the 8:45 mark, a Picture of the 1st Commercial Earthquake Machine. It looked just like a GWEN Tower [Ground Wave Emergency Network], except shorter.

Then I recalled seeing 2 large GWEN Towers only 100 feet apart at the MD./VA. Line near a bridge that crosses the Potomac River. I had also noticed another GWEN Tower, right next to a bridge that crossed over the D.C. Beltway near the same VA./MD. Line. And while I was driving down U.S. Route 70 between Baltimore and Frederick MD., I noticed that 3 out of 4 Bridges that crossed over U.S. Route 70, had large Gwen Towers within a 1/4 mile of the bridges.

If GWEN Towers are indeed, small self-contained Earthquake Machines, not only can Earthquakes be started anywhere in America at any time, but they can also bring down Bridges at a moments notice and shut down the entire U.S. Highway System to Civilian Traffic. This would in effect, stop the citizens from one city or county from helping other citizens from other cities or counties, or States for that matter. It appears to be a way of isolating citizens from each other.

GWEN stands for Ground Wave Emergency Network. The key words being GROUND WAVE, EMERGENCY, and NETWORK. They are everywhere.

And that’s not all. The Russians have what they and others call a Zombie Gun. It’s Microwave and Modern Extra Low Frequency (ELF) Weapons. If the Russians have it, so do we…on Steroids. It’s the GWEN Towers other function.

The ELF Waves can disrupt the higher functions of Human Brain activity. Making it so that the average person, can’t think straight. Can’t do even or only the most basic of tasks. They will in effect, become like zombies.

The Ground-Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) is a communications system that the military is in the process of constructing as we speak. It operates in the very-low-frequency (VLF) range, with transmissions between 150 and 175 kHz. This range was selected because its signals travel by means of waves that have a tendency to hug the ground rather than by radiating into the atmosphere. This signal drops off sharply with distance – a single GWEN stations transmits in a 360 circle to a distance of 250 to 300 miles. The entire GWEN system consists of approximately 300 such stations spread across the United States, each with a tower 300-500 feet high. The stations are from 200 to 250 miles apart, so that a signal can go from coast to coast from one station to another. When the system is completed around 1993, the entire civilian population of the United States will be exposed to the GWEN Transmissions. Read Appendix 4 and then re-read this section.

APPLICATION OF MILITARY FREQUENCY WEAPONRY

According to a 1982 Air Force review of biotechnology, ELF has a number of potential military uses, including “dealing with terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling breaches of security at military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in tactical warfare.” The same report states: “Electromagnetic systems would be used to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual dis- tortion or disorientation. They are silent, and counter- measures to them may be difficult to develop.”

GWEN TOWERS! How to Switch-On and Switch-Off a Pandemic

There has been a tremendous focus on the swine-flu epidemic, which certainly started out looking like it could turn into the long-awaited (and PROMISED) deadly pandemic. People were in a state of panic and behind it all the military was ready to be mobilized to handle the crisis. Never mind that according to the Center for Disease Control website: “CDC scientists estimate that an average of 36,000 people …..die from influenza-related complications each year in the United States” and at the point of panic at MOST there were less than a couple of hundred deaths attributable to the new killer. Somehow, they just KNEW this was the “big one”.

Lets’ just start with the Center for Disease Control (CDC), from whence it was reported samples of the swine-flu were being shipped around the World—and let’s focus on the word “Control”. In order to control a process, one must have the ability to START it, to CHANGE it and to STOP it; that is the definition of control.

What few people know (because they have not studied the information in the Phoenix Journals provided for the remnant) is that disease propagation by FREQUENCY allows the elite controllers to imply “pull the trigger” on a pandemic any time they want.
Up front, let us acknowledge the GOOD NEWS, that the opposite is also true: Just as easily as a virus can be activated by frequency, it can be STOPPED by the same technique.

Read the entire article:  http://educate-yourself.org/dc/gwentowersbybyronweeks.shtml

By Brandon Turbeville

In an interview conducted by Harper’s Dan Baum nearly 22 years ago, former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman admitted what many have known ever since the beginning – that the Nixon administrations’ War On Drugs was a giant lie.

To clarify, it was not Nixon’s police state that was a lie. That was very real. It was the justification used for the war, the fearmongering, and the panic-inducing hype produced by the White House that was a monumental obfuscation.

Ehrlichman doesn’t mince words when he discusses the War On Drugs and it is not inference suggesting that the justification given for the War on Drugs was a lie. In fact, Ehrlichman even states that the policy was in order to attack political rivals and alleged “threats” to the Nixon administration like “blacks and hippies.”

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” Ehrlichman said.

“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

As Tom LoBianco writes for CNN, “It’s a stark departure from Nixon’s public explanation for his first piece of legislation in the war on drugs, delivered in message to Congress in July 1969, which framed it as a response to an increase in heroin addiction and the rising use of marijuana and hallucinogens by students.”

Of course, the War On Drugs and the ensuing police and incarceration states that followed had a much larger purpose than merely helping Nixon fight back against potential political threats. Indeed, most drugs were already illegal by Nixon’s election.

Hiding and preventing the knowledge of positive effects of some substances, shredding Constitutional and human rights, creating a culture of incarceration, and implementing a gradual but eventually total police state were most certainly part of the plan as well, which history has demonstrated. For instance, Reagan and especially Clinton were under no threat from the populations mentioned by Ehrlichman but they nevertheless sent the drug war and the natural results of it listed above into overdrive.

Nevertheless, after setting the United States further down the path of totalitarianism, we at least appreciate Ehrlichman’s honesty even if it is decades later. Perhaps now, we can begin dismantling the drug war.

http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/03/former-nixon-aide-admits-war-on-drugs-was-a-big-lie-was-never-about-drugs.html?

By Melissa Dykes

Talk about wag the dog. I’m not even sure what to write for a description of the video you are about to watch.

So-called “reality” can be edited in real-time.

It’s the matrix.

The project is a joint effort in progress between Stanford, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. According to the project’s abstract, via Stanford University:

We present a novel approach for real-time facial reenactment of a monocular target video sequence (e.g., Youtube video). The source sequence is also a monocular video stream, captured live with a commodity webcam. Our goal is to animate the facial expressions of the target video by a source actor and re-render the manipulated output video in a photo-realistic fashion. To this end, we first address the under-constrained problem of facial identity recovery from monocular video by non-rigid model-based bundling. At run time, we track facial expressions of both source and target video using a dense photometric consistency measure. Reenactment is then achieved by fast and efficient deformation transfer between source and target. The mouth interior that best matches the re-targeted expression is retrieved from the target sequence and warped to produce an accurate fit. Finally, we convincingly re-render the synthesized target face on top of the corresponding video stream such that it seamlessly blends with the real-world illumination.We demonstrate our method in a live setup, where Youtube videos are reenacted in real time.

Watch the video here: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/reality-edited-in-real-time-new-tech-shows-why-you-cant-trust-anything-you-see-on-the-news.html?

By Zen Gardner

This might sound contradictory or counter intuitive but it’s not. Many are being faced with serious personal challenges and decisions right now on top of this backdrop of the ongoing global crackdown and diminishing realm of harmony and supply. The building maelstrom around us only picks up speed as we attempt to go about our lives and it is by no means an easy time in which to operate.

I’ve often addressed the issue of personally shifting in a seriously shifting “whirled” on many levels and how at least two very distinct dynamics are at play during this awakening amidst an increasingly contorted and spiritually toxified environment. Changing in a changing world is not a time to simply lay back and take it.  Our participation is clearly implicated and needs to be very awake, aware and conscious.

There are things to hold on to while at the same time adhering to the principle of letting go. This can only be approached from a conscious perspective but approach it we must.

Grab the Rudder and Move On

The underlying truths and realities we’ve become intensely aware of cannot be neglected during such times of apparent stress and contradiction. We need to loosen our grip on the temporal nature of the fleeting emotional and physical gymnastics we’re experiencing on a very practical level, while at the same time sailing steadfast in the direction of firm conscious conviction regarding underlying realities.

All this is easy to say but it’s actually quite clear when we consciously stand back and lucidly evaluate our situations. I’m no perfect example of continual overcoming as I succumb to these waves like anyone else at times. It just helps me enormously to stop and assess and consciously address these confrontations as they come up, with the intention that it can perhaps help someone else in the process.

After all, we’re in this together.

Sometimes Simply Blast Through

This is a personal remedy I employ regularly. Rather than wallow in some confining situation, mulling over my circumstances, challenges and growing sense of anxiety or sense of depression that seem to close in periodically, I prefer to blast out.  If I don’t like the circumstances I can change them by taking the initiative. It’s not always easy, nor does it always work, but it almost always does.

Get busy. Do something productive and quickly move on. All the while keeping an eye on what was trying to hold you back and often those around you to better understand it as you gain distance from it. It’s a learning process and requires attentive action and some real tenacity.

It’s actually easy and the path of seemingly less resistance to take the initiative rather than slide around the morass of goop that surrounds us in times like this. We look for sympathy and grovel in it a bit thinking we’ll get some leg up from a loved one or some external influence to help yank us out of these cesspits of weakness and self-pity, but it’s just a fleeting comfort and of no avail as far as overcoming.

Those assuaging bandages never go anywhere and we know it, yet we each play that game on and off. But it does help a bit to share ourselves in this manner – to an extent.

We always eventually pull out of these dips, but waiting for circumstances to change is like expecting your containment cell sergeant to give you a break. Ain’t gonna happen. It’s more often than not a time to turn the dial to another station and operate accordingly.

The challenge is making the decision, and that gets into a world of personal, social and psycho-spiritual influences. Nevertheless it’s the same simple, basic decision.

Move on.

The Challenge

A lot is and will be coming at us in the time to come. Be armed, and aware. We’re each antennae picking up a myriad of signals from a wide variety of sources so this should not be a surprise to us, yet when it hits home personally it takes on another nature that isn’t that easy to shirk, never mind grasp at the time.

That’s understandable, and the nature of the game. Try not to internalize these confrontations as much as see them for what they are: outside attacks on the psycho-spiritual body testing our metal and resolute determination, something available to each of us that awaits drawing upon.

The battle we’re engaged in is one for our consciousness. This is why the would-be controllers work so hard at diverting our attention, to keep us from our true spiritual nature and mode of understanding. Information comes at us at an almost blinding speed and we need to be aware of the nature of this onslaught and selective as to what we tune into and give our attention as well as intention.

What Awaits Us

This won’t get any easier. Our fundamental fighting techniques need to be honed. The true spiritual warrior need only be equipped with dogged determination to get through, nothing more, although discernment sure helps and grows with time. The enclosing matrices of seeming impossibilities and insurmountable circumstances will always be there. They simply take on new disguises and play with a variety of emotional triggers.

Our vision beyond these creeping enclosures creates the way. It’s simply ours to follow it.

When we know the end from the beginning, which we do in our heart of hearts, there’s nothing to fear or seriously deter us. Sure we get waylaid and we’re fallible beings subject to many influences, but ultimately we have a very sure knowledge set in our hearts as to where we are going and in what mode we should be operating.

Trust that. Take the coming challenges with grace and patience, despite your reflexive nature. It’s not all that hard when we rise in conscious awareness. As we all find out, that’s not some ethereal catch all but a learned attitude of a true, sincere heart.

It comes with practice and sound determination.

Trust your heart and operate in simplicity. Let the static fall away as best you can. That’s all it is, distracting static.

You can do it. And know you’re not alone.

We’re all in this together – and overcoming!

See you on the front.

http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/getting-grip-letting-go/

By John Vibes

Prosecutors in Belgium have recently announced that executives with pharmaceutical companies based in the country will be charged with knowingly providing drug cartels with prescription drugs that were used to manufacture methamphetamine.

The companies are accused of providing the Mexican drug kingpin Ezio Figueroa Vazquez with several tons of ephedrine, knowing that it would be used in the production of methamphetamine.

Prosecutors have said that there are seven executives who were charged with crimes, but they have not named these executives or the companies that they represent. However, Reuters uncovered that Sterop and Andacon are two of the three companies involved in the charges.

The companies claim that they had no clue who was buying the drugs, but prosecutors say that they have evidence proving that the executives had full knowledge of what they were involved in. The evidence reportedly includes email and phone surveillance.

http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/03/pharmaceutical-giants-caught-supplying-cartels-with-tons-of-bulk-ingredients-to-produce-meth.html

By Claire Bernish

Exposure to electromagnetic frequency radiation has been shown by medical studies and the Navy to cause numerous health problems, including corneal damage, tubular degeneration of testicles, brain heating, sterility, altered penile function, death, cranial nerve disorders, seizures, convulsions, depression, insomnia, chest pain, and sparking between dental fillings. And that list is far from complete.

That being said, electromagnetic warfare testing and training has been covertly conducted by the U.S. Navy on public roads in Washington State — for over five years.

An exclusive report from Truthout divulged the secretive EMF testing, discovered through a number of Freedom of Information Act requests coupled with contradictory and fumbling public statements by the Navy and Forest Service.

“An email thread between the Navy and US Forest Service between 2010 and 2012, recently obtained via [FOIA] request filed by Oregon-based author and activist Carol Van Strum in November 2014, revealed that the Navy has likely been driving mobile electromagnetic warfare emitters and conducting electromagnetic warfare training in the Olympic National Forest and on public roads on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula since 2010,” reported Truthout’s Dahr Jamail.

Alarmingly, without public notification or even cautionary boundary warnings in place to prevent accidental exposure, the Navy’s EMF testing has taken place in public areas and popular tourist destinations for five years. This vastly contradicts its proposed electromagnetic warfare training plans, ostensibly set to begin this year, which have stirred enormous controversy.

Read entire article: http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/navy-caught-conducting-secret-electromagnetic-warfare-testing-public-washington-state/

By Brandon Smith

If there is one concept on Earth that has been the absolute bane of human existence (besides global elitism), it would have to be the concept of the “majority opinion”.  The moment men began refusing to develop their own world views without first asking “What does everyone else think?”, they set themselves up for an endless future of failures.  We are, of course, very social beings, and our natures drive us to seek those of like mind and spirit in what some might call a “tribal imperative”.  However, this imperative to organize is often manipulated by those who understand the psychological mechanisms behind it.  Oligarchs and tyrants abuse and exploit the inherent social natures of the people in order to fool them into abandoning their individuality for the sake of the group, or some abstract and dishonest ideal.  When successful, the organization of a culture becomes bitter and twisted, changing from a tribe or a community of sovereign individuals, into a nightmare collective of soulless sheep.

Human beings desperately want to belong, but, they also desperately want to understand the environment around them.  Often, the desire to belong and the desire to know the truth conflict.  In some societies, in order to be accepted, one must give up on his search for truth and avoid eliciting the anger of others.  This causes a severe mental and emotional disturbance within a population.  In order to reconcile their conflicting needs within a system that does not nurture their quest for transparency, they tend to unconsciously cling to the “majority view” as if their very existence depends on it.  The idea of the majority view or the “mainstream”, gives people the sense that they are a part of a group, and at the same time, gives them the illusion of being informed.

Their rationale is:

If most of the population believes something to be true, then, by “statistical law”, it most likely is true.  Those who do not share in the majority opinion are therefore in opposition to statistical law; meaning they are behind the times, social deviants, or just plain crazy..

The problem is, history has shown that at pivotal moments in a society the “majority opinion” is usually WRONG.  Any progress we do enjoy as a species is almost always due to the actions of tireless aware minorities, or even a lone man or woman who saw what the rest of us could not.

The greatest discoveries and truths have always been the product of individual thought and effort; numerous individuals working on parallel paths to generate new pieces of knowledge or more balanced and principled methods of living.  There has never been such a thing as a collectivist realization, or a collectivist truth, and there never will be. Collectives do not think creatively or honestly.  Their only concern is the survival of the system at all costs, and usually this requires a foundation of lies.

As a nation or culture edges towards collectivist tyranny, the battle-cry of the “majority opinion” will drown out all other reasonable voices.  It has happened before, and unfortunately, it will happen again.  In America today, I believe we are nearing the moment where the mass view becomes the only acceptable or legally sanctioned view.  With the 2nd Amendment issue alone, the most common argument by anti-gun proponents is that “the majority opinion is on their side”.  I’m here to point out that the “majority opinion” is, in fact, an illusion, and completely irrelevant.

Read entire article: http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/the-majority-opinion-is-an-illusion/

By Michael Snyder

Why are so few voices warning the people about what is coming?  We stand at the door of a period of distress that will be unlike anything that any of us have ever known before.  And even though the signs are all around us, very few individuals appear to be willing to stand up and sound the alarm.  Instead, there seems to be a large number of people that are quite eager to criticize the watchmen.  Earlier today, I was having a conversation with a very prominent voice in the alternative media, and we were reflecting on this.  There are so many individuals out there that love to shoot arrows at those that are sounding the alarm, and yet they are doing so little to make a difference themselves.

It is easy to sit back on your sofa munching on potato chips as the world around you goes to hell, and it is easy to criticize those that have chosen to have the courage to stand up and warn the people.

But it is not easy to stand up and say the hard things that need to be said in a society that does not want to listen.

Yes, there are some watchmen out there that are doing a great job of proclaiming the warning message.  I have personally met a number of them, and I am proud to be their friends.

Unfortunately, they are few and far between.  Most people either don’t believe that we are on the precipice of disaster, they don’t care enough to warn others, or they are too busy criticizing those that are trying very hard to warn others.

And of course you don’t need a media platform to sound the alarm.  We all have family members that need to be warned about what is coming.  We all have friends that need to be warned about what is coming.  Each one of us is uniquely positioned to reach others that may not be able to be reached any other way.

In the end, we all have a choice to make.  If we sound the alarm and people choose not to listen, the responsibility for failing to act falls on them.

Read entire article: http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/dont-warn-people-blood-hands/

By Luis Miranda

US researchers at Johns Hopkins, Florida State and Emory universities found that Zika infects and destroys the cells that form the cerebral cortex.

After exposure to the virus, 90% of cortical neuronal cells were infected, says the study.

What are the chances that a naturally occurring virus evolves and mutates to develop an ability to specifically attack and destroy brain cells that directly influence fetal development? Yes, I also thought so.

The Zika virus, which has been found to be a genetically modified version of a disease transmitted by the mosquito Aedes-aegypti, has now been found to directly target cerebral fetal cells that, researchers say, are responsible for a child’s developments in the womb.

The conclusion that Zika is made to directly attack brain cells comes from an investigation conducted by a group of researchers from John Hopkins, Florida State and Emory universities.

Their findings allegedly help clarify the association between the virus and microcephaly. The study, its authors say, is not conclusive proof that Zika causes severe fetal malformation, only that the virus does kill cerebral cells that are directly involved in fetal development. The direct relation between the virus and severe malformations may be confirmed at a later time.

The increase in cases of microcephaly possibly linked to the virus prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global health alert in the same fashion that the organization did with the H1N1 and the Ebola pandemic.

For the study, published Friday in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the researchers used three types of cultured cells in the laboratory and found that Zika selectively affects essential stem cells that intervene in the formation of the cerebral cortex of a fetus.

The study says that the virus reduces a cell’s ability to divide, produce new neurons and also makes them more likely to die. This causes the cerebral cortex not to form properly or not to regenerate.

Infection also occurs very rapidly: the researchers found that three days after exposure to the virus, 90% of cortical neuronal cells were infected.

“These findings may be related to the alteration of brain development, but it is more likely that direct evidence of the link between Zika and microcephaly appears in clinical trials,” the authors clarify.

“We are trying to fill the knowledge gap between infection and neurological defects. This study is a very first step, but it answers a key question.

The study, researchers say, “allows us to focus our research. We can now study the virus, test drugs and study the biology of the correct type of cell,” says in a note Hengli Tang, one of the lead authors and a professor of biological science at Florida State University.

Read entire article: http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/zika-bioweapon-precisely-kills-key-cells-responsible-fetal-development/

By Jefferey Jaxen

The business strategies of monopolistic agrochemical corporations are becoming clear for the world to see. On the timeline of events, the world has shifted from angry marches to conscious action.

Relevant lawsuits and thorough medical studies are continually exposing these inferior GMO products and their associated toxic chemicals for the failed experiments they are. It appears the corporate tactics have been reduced to the sociopath’s technique of gaslighting. In cases where regulatory agencies step in, the multinational agrochemcial corporations are simply ignoring their requests. Gaslight, ignore…repeat.

GASLIGHTING (VERB): A form of intimidation or psychological abuse, sometimes called Ambient Abuse where false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory, perception and quite often, their sanity. The classic example of gaslighting is to switch something around on someone that you know they’re sure to notice, but then deny knowing anything about it, and to explain that they “must be imagining things” when they challenge these changes.

Recent examples:

1.) BAYER REFUSES EPA REQUEST TO HALT INSECTICIDE USE IN US MARKETS
https://www.rt.com/usa/331448-bayer-epa-belt-request/
2.) FARMERS IN KONA, HAWAII HIT MONSANTO WITH LAWSUIT
http://www.infowars.com/farmers-in-kona-hawaii-hit-monsanto-with-lawsuit/            *Official statement from Monsanto regarding the Kona, Hawaii lawsuit in with Glyphosate’s false advertising and safety is on trial:
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…these claims regarding glyphosate are baseless and without merit……Glyphosate has a 40-year history of safe use, and based on the overwhelming weight of evidence, regulatory agencies around the world have concluded that glyphosate can be used safely according to label instructions. No regulatory agency in the world considers glyphosate to be a carcinogen

Meanwhile, German mainstream media networks are running this new documentary on the well established dangers of glyphosate. Germany, renowned for its world-leading beer brewing and longtime reputation of purity has reported finding weedkiller in 14 of is most popular beers. A report released by The Munich Environmental Institute cited “alarming” levels of the herbicide glyphosate, a 2A carcinogen, found in German beers.

Watch video here – Poisoned Fields – Glyphosate, the underrated risk? http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/03/german-tv-runs-new-glyphosate-documentary-titled-poisoned-field.html?

By Melissa Dykes

When stories like the lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan make national news, people sit up and take notice.

What people don’t realize is just how contaminated our water is all the time, every day, every where.

I’m not talking about heavy metals like lead, although unless regular testing is done the nation over or you test your own water with a home kit (cheap, definitely worth it if you are curious to know what’s in your water), how do you know what’s coming out of your faucet is lead-free anyway?

In this instance, however, I’m talking about Big Pharma.

Salmon caught in the Puget Sound were recently found to be contaminated with a toxic cocktail of 81 drugs and chemicals.

Tissues of the juvenile chinook were tested and researchers were blown away by what they found.

Drugs these fish were on included:

Prozac
Zantac
Advil
Benadryl
Lipitor
Cocaine
Flonase
Aleve
Tylenol
Paxil
Valium
Birth control pills (estrogen)
Zoloft
Tagamet
OxyContin
Darvon
Nicotine
Caffeine
Fungicides
Antiseptics
Anticoagulants
Cipro and other antibiotics galore…

Why? Because the process used in wastewater treatment facilities does not filter out all the drugs that are eliminated by humans into the water supply en masse on a daily basis. That water is then reused, contaminated more, taken up by crops and the animals that eat them, and it ultimately winds up on our dinner tables to be eaten and recycled once more. (Kinda reminds me of the film Soylent Green).

Read the entire article: http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/03/is-your-food-on-crack-salmon-test-positive-for-81-different-drugs-prozac-birth-control-cocaine.html?

By Zen Gardner

Waking up to the realities presented before us and even more importantly what they imply is a very profound and personal experience. Once we become aware we are living in a world that’s been deliberately fabricated in ways we never would have imagined and that even our own true nature is anything but what we’ve been told, there’s no turning back.

It may appear to be a lonely path at first, but we are by no means alone in this awakening. It is happening in all walks of life. Whether a banker or corporate employee wakes up to the scam being perpetrated on humanity and pulls out of the matrix, or a normal taxpaying worker realizes they’re contributing to a military industrial machine hell bent on control and world domination, we’re all the same.

And those are just surface issues compared to the deliberate suppression of man’s innate spiritual nature, whether we call it social liberty or the simple freedom to create and manifest as we truly are. Not the least of which control mechanisms we are faced with is religion which works hand in hand with this suppression of humanity. All part of this repressive, controlling matrix.

Please read the entire article here: http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/the-beginning-is-here/