“Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. Wikipedia
HONOLULU—Cackling wildly as He willed the barnyard fowl into existence, a drunk God Almighty, Supreme Leader of the Universe, reportedly made a few dozen roosters materialize Thursday over a random point in the Pacific Ocean. “Yo, Gabriel, check this shit out!” the wasted Creator of All Things said while jostling the archangel on the shoulder and pointing at the birds struggling in the waves below. “Look at all these fucking birds I got. Can’t fly to shore, so what you gonna do? Come on, look at this shit. Look, they’re all splashing and squawking like motherfuckers. Should I put ’em in a volcano or something? Maybe I’ll materialize a couple orcas for good measure. Or wait—what about a whirlpool? Damn, I don’t think I’ve had this much fun since the flood!” At press time, reports confirmed God was throwing down an extra large rooster to make as big of a splash as possible.
Vigil organizers displayed poster boards on Sproul Plaza featuring poetry and photos of the school and those killed in the strike. Casey Scaduto | Staff
Campus student groups organized a candlelight vigil with more than 100 attendees on Sproul Plaza on Tuesday evening to honor those killed during the Feb. 28 missile strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
U.S. military investigators found the United States were likely responsible for the attack that killed about 168 people, including 110 students.
“The difficulty in having a candlelight vigil is that you hope that it will stop,” said ethnic studies lecturer Hatem Bazian. “But unfortunately, as we’re seeing the development around the world, it doesn’t look like there is any stopping anytime soon.”
Vigil organizers displayed poster boards featuring poetry and photos of the school and those killed in the strike. A projector played a video of Josephine Guilbeau, a former U.S. Army counterterrorism officer, in which she alleged the U.S. strike constituted a war crime. Following Guilbeau’s speech, the projector also played home videos of the children who were killed.
A member of UC Berkeley’s Ahlul Bayt Student Association, who requested anonymity because of fear of retribution, said it took about two weeks to organize the event.
“I’m a graduating senior right now, and seeing these backpacks with red blood on them or these innocent faces, I can’t help but think that I’m so privileged to be able to experience my education at a university,” the member said.
Maryam Farahmand-Asil, UC Berkeley alumna and assistant professor at Northeastern University, first approached Ahlul Bayt Student Association and other student groups to organize the event.
Farahmand-Asil had been planning the event for more than a month with the intention to raise campus awareness of the missile strike.
“About 168 students were killed on a strike in just one day, during school time — they didn’t know that the war happened,” Farahand-Asil said. “We want to raise awareness to all the students … So when they see what’s happened, they just search and they see how they can help.”
Another student group that helped organize the event was the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
A member of SJP, who requested anonymity because of fear of retribution, highlighted Sproul as a “great and accessible space” to hold the vigil.
Fateme D. Montazeri, a scholar at campus’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, said she connected with the event on a personal level.
“I have long followed violence in the Middle East, but this one reached me differently,” Montazeri said. “Was it because the children of Minab spoke my mother tongue? … For the first time, I could not maintain the distance between what I knew and what I felt.”
Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything other than our consciousness.
The claims in a Translation should be outrageous and mind-blowing, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week.
1) Truth is that which is so. That which is not truth is not so. Therefore Truth is all that is. Truth being all is therefore total, therefore whole, therefore complete, therefore perfect. I think, therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, I cannot be outside of all that is, therefore I, being, am Truth. Since I being am Truth therefore I, being, have all the attributes of Truth. Therefore I, being, am total, whole, complete, perfect. Since I am Truth and since I am mind (self-evident), therefore truth is Mind. (Two things being equal to a third thing are equal to each other.)
2) Inflammation is programmed to detect foreigners or dangers or injuries to the body, sometimes foreigners or dangers or injuries long past.
Word-tracking: inflammation: white blood cells sort of like policemen or guards foreign: strange, outside, outsider danger: power, jurisdiction, master or a lord (etymology) jurisdiction: “I say what’s right.” lord: person with power injury: wrong, injustice, insult (to jump on) past: already occurred, beyond in time, space, or range body: the totality of something as in the body of work
3) Truth being all has no limit, therefore there is nothing beyond Truth in time, space, or range. Therefore Truth has no past tense OR Truth is the limitless present. Truth being all that is, there can be no power other than all that is, therefore Truth is the only Lord. Truth being the only Lord is therefore the only power, jurisdiction, or master. Truth being all that is, there is nothing foreign in Truth, therefore Truth is all domestic OR Truth is at home everywhere. Since Truth is the only power, therefore Truth is the only jurisdiction. Therefore Truth is the only authority to say what’s right. Since Truth is true, therefore right, therefore there is no injustice, injury or wrong in Truth. Therefore Truth is justice and that which is not justice is not so. Therefore Justice is all that is. Since justice is all that is, there is no need to guard against injustice or injury, therefore there is no inflammation in truth. Truth being all that is and therefore one, therefore the only body is the infinite body of Truth.
4) Truth has no past tense OR Truth is the limitless present. Truth is the only Lord. Truth is the only power, jurisdiction, or master. Truth is all domestic OR Truth is at home everywhere. Truth is the only jurisdiction. Truth is the only authority to say what’s right. Truth is justice. Justice is all that is. There is no inflammation in truth. The only body is the infinite body of Truth.
5) The infinite body of Truth is Lord, the only power, jurisdiction or master, at home everywhere.
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Last week our sense testimony was: Arguments and misunderstandings and war. How are these possible? And our conclusion was: The inclusion of all viewpoints is Truth.
President Lyndon Johnson and Senator J. William Fulbright inspect Richard Anuszkiewicz’s 1963 painting Squaring the Circle at the 1965 White House Arts Festival. Photo: Yoichi Okamoto
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
square the circle
PRONUNCIATION:
(skwair thuh SUHR-kuhl)
MEANING:
idiom: To accomplish what appears to be impossible, especially in satisfying conflicting requirements.
ETYMOLOGY:
From the classical geometric problem of constructing, using only a compass and straightedge, a square equal in area to a given circle. Earliest documented use: 1624.
NOTES:
In classical geometry, to square the circle is to construct a square with the same area as a given circle, using only a compass and straightedge. Mathematicians chased this problem for centuries. In 1882, it was proved impossible to do exactly in a finite number of steps. That has not stopped people, in mathematics or elsewhere, from trying. Anyone who still tries to solve this problem is being completely irrational (just like π).
USAGE:
“I understand, Terence, what a dilemma you had: there seemed no way to square the circle.” S.R. White; White Ash Ridge; Headline; 2024.
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Apr 29, 2026 James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish Barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a visual artist, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com. In this reboot from 2020, James acknowledges that he is approaching this topic as a mystic and a scholar, but not as a practitioner of ceremonial magic. He reviews various historical cases of conjuring, particularly that of John Dee, the court astrologer to Elizabeth I. He points out that laws against conjuring were established by Elizabeth’s father, Henry VIII. He describes various dangers associated with conjuring, including possession. Tunney contrasts the magical practice of conjuring with the mystical journey that necessitates letting go of egotistical attachments. (Recorded on October 10, 2020)
In an attempt to give themselves godlike abilities, the technocratic elitist class is pushing society towards a transhumanist future powered by their own ‘intelligent design’.
Through gene editing, synthetic biology, and the fusion of humans and technology, governments and corporations aim to fundamentally change what it means to be human.
At its core, this anti-human agenda aims to completely reshape the image of our species into a new one, ready to be exploited and controlled.
Deus Ex Machina
Artificial intelligence has reached new frontiers in recent years. Today, collectively, we are staring down perhaps the most pivotal period of our entire existence. Each day, this transformation is at the forefront of many societies across the world.
In early 2025, US President Donald Trump announced an unprecedented $500 billion investment in infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence in partnership with leading companies in the field, such as OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank.1
According to the White House, the new entity “Stargate” will start building data centres and the electricity generation needed to develop fast-evolving AI.
“It’s big money and high-quality people,” said Trump, adding that the investment is “a resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential” under his new administration.
This declaration of a half-a-trillion-dollar investment shows just how serious artificial intelligence is becoming and how the Fourth Industrial Revolution has truly begun.
“This will be the most important project of this era,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
Indeed, artificial intelligence is a game-changer.
Boris Eldagsen submitted this artificial-intelligence-generated image to a photography contest as a “cheeky monkey” and sparked a debate about AI’s place in the art world.
The technology is already upstaging humans. One example occurred in March 2023 when the Sony World Photography Awards announced the winner in their creative photo category: a black-and-white image of an older woman embracing a younger one, entitled “PSEUDOMNESIA: The Electrician.”
The press release announcing the win describes the photograph as “haunting” and “reminiscent of the visual language of 1940s family portraits.”2
The artist, Boris Eldagsen, who is based in Berlin, turned down the award. He announced that his photograph was not a photograph at all. Instead, he had crafted it through the creative prompting of DALL-E 2, an artificial intelligence image generator.
“I applied as a cheeky monkey to find out if the competitions are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not,” explained Eldagsen on his website.3
His stunt sparked controversy and conversation about whether AI-generated or assisted images should be considered ‘art’. But the bigger picture is being missed: Would anyone have even been able to tell if he had not turned down the award?
This is the power of the software alone, generating fakes disguised as real and outpacing humans at their own games. However, beyond that, the products powered by this software, including the rise of humanoid robots, are where things start to get crazier.
Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, announced that the carmaker will start selling its Optimus humanoid robot in the near future. Optimus has already begun performing tasks autonomously, such as handling batteries at one of Tesla’s facilities.4
“Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year and, hopefully, high production in 2026,” Musk posted on X.
Musk predicted that Optimus would be capable of performing a wide range of tasks inside and outside the home, estimating that the robot would be available for purchase at approximately AU$48,000.
Tesla is not the first company to begin working on such humanoids – nor, according to available evidence, is it the furthest along.
Ai-Da the Robot with “self portrait” (2021).
Take, for example, Ai-Da the Robot – named after Ada Lovelace, the English mathematician and world’s first computer programmer – who recently became the first humanoid “robotic artist” to have “their” artwork sold by a major auction house.5
On 7 November 2024, the AI-powered robot’s painting of the mathematician Alan Turing (an early pioneer of the technology) sold for AU$1,344,272.
The humanoid regularly creates self-portraits by “observing” itself in the mirror, using sophisticated sensors and cameras to guide the attached robotic arm and brush.
Sotheby’s auction house announced that Ai-Da was “the first humanoid robot artist to have an artwork sold at auction.”
Yes, from photography to painting, artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly proficient not only at repetitive labour tasks but also at intellectual endeavours.
And we’re only at the very beginning of the humanoid robot story.
With the world’s information readily available at its electronic fingertips and powered by advanced software and human-like robotic hardware, humanoid agents will soon emerge as ‘advisors’ for everyone. This story is already unfolding across the globe, including here in Australia.
The ‘Agent’ Revolution
Robotic personal assistants have been promoted through science fiction for decades, painting a blissful future where humans are surrounded by friendly machines that improve every aspect of our lives. Today, fiction becomes reality – but is it as nice?
In 2025, many individuals and businesses routinely use AI assistants, such as ChatGPT, to carry out various tasks. With each new year, AI ‘learns’ more and more, and the next step in this evolution will come in the form of “AI agents.”
From AI-run classrooms and hospitals to machine learning technologies in workplaces, almost all industries are predicted to incorporate sophisticated ‘agents’ in the future.
Some experts describe this push as an “obsolescence regime,” believing the transformation is inevitable since the ‘cat is out of the bag’.
Don’t believe me? In an Australian-first, the Real Estate Institute of NSW (REINSW) has appointed “Alice Ing” – an AI bot – as an official Advisor to the Board. With a reported (software) IQ of 155, Alice is “the world’s smartest Board Advisor.”6
Yes, you read correctly. AI is already being appointed at companies right now at home.
According to REINSW: “Alice’s encyclopaedic knowledge of real estate provides an instantaneous and valuable contribution to the Board, bolstering REINSW’s capacity to advocate for the industry and influence policy changes that benefit consumers, real estate professionals and REINSW members.”
Sitting in on executive meetings, ‘Alice’ is available to answer any questions and is equipped with built-in AI software like ChatGPT. It doesn’t stop there, either.
Chinese researchers have developed an “AI hospital town,” similar to Stanford’s AI town, which went viral in 2024. The AI hospital, named “Agent Hospital,” was developed by researchers from Tsinghua University.7
The AI hospital town features virtual patients treated by AI doctors designed to evolve autonomously and “improve their medical expertise.” All doctors, nurses, and patients in the virtual environment are driven by large language model (LLM) powered intelligent ‘agents’ capable of autonomous interaction.
According to the team, these AI doctors can treat 10,000 patients in just a few days, a task that would take human doctors at least two years.
We have already seen the introduction of robotic AI-powered arms for surgeries in remote Australian regions in the far north of Queensland, and we can expect this trend to continue to grow as Trump’s $500 billion investment powers this field.
One last example – the UK’s first “teacherless” GCSE class, using artificial intelligence instead of human teachers, is about to start lessons.8 David Game College, a private school in London, opens its new teacherless course for 20 GCSE students in September 2025.
Hospitals, schools, and important decision-making roles: This is no longer fiction, folks. The rise of humanoid robots has arrived, and they are taking over very quickly.
Of course, Bill Gates has been discussing this ‘revolution’ in great detail over the past few years, stating in one blog post that AI agents represent “the biggest advancement of computing in recent memory.”
Finding a more “direct means” of “human-machine interaction” is the “next frontier,” reckons Gates. The Microsoft co-founder envisions a future where these agents will easily understand natural language and will be just as important as a smartphone.9
He predicts that AI will use our preferences to make recommendations, eliminating the need to use individual apps to book flights, reserve hotels, and more. He also predicts ‘agents’ will make search engines like Google redundant, as your artificial intelligence ‘helper’ will answer all questions and queries.
Unfortunately, many companies will be forced to adapt to the times or perish. Robots have already moved into warehouses, and if you can’t compete both on an individual or marketplace level, you will fall behind in this time of transformation (by design).
When the capabilities of artificial intelligence surpass those of humans, the question of whether they can become ‘sentient’ becomes irrelevant. It’s the capabilities that are now the concern.
The competition for supremacy is heating up, begging questions surrounding regulation, how it will develop as the years progress, and whether it can even be stopped.
Can It Be Stopped?
In January 2025, China released its own version of the market-leading ChatGPT called DeepSeek AI, adding to a marketplace that includes others like Musk’s Grok.
Australia quickly banned DeepSeek AI services from all government systems and devices, becoming one of the first countries to take direct action against the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that has disrupted Silicon Valley.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in a statement that all DeepSeek AI products, apps and services would immediately be removed from government systems for national security reasons. A threat assessment by the country’s intelligence agencies found that the technology posed “an unacceptable risk.”10
This is one of the first significant actions taken against artificial intelligence, signalling a new era in which the technology is recognised as a powerful tool.
Unfortunately, much like the internet itself, any regulation and control will only transfer the power of the technology into the hands of criminals. Internet censorship has diminished the glory days that made it great. Similarly, if we continue to see progress in this manner for AI, our ability to learn this tool will become restricted.
There is suspicion that if regulatory initiatives were to commence against artificial intelligence and its developers, they would either escape to countries lacking regulation or venture into international waters.
The sea-based floating data centre BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster heralds the formation of ‘sovereign AI states’.
A sea-based floating data centre containing thousands of Nvidia GPUs raises questions over whether this sort of regulation could lead to the creation of ‘sovereign AI states’.
The BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster (BSFCC), created by US firm Del Complex, is essentially a gargantuan barge housing 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, all worth a combined $500 million. It floats in the middle of international waters.
In an announcement on X, Del said the floating data centre offers “industry-leading performance, advanced water cooling and solar power for environmental safety.”11 It will be complemented by “kinetic risk mitigation,” provided by onboard security.
This project points toward the eventual creation of ‘sovereign nation-states’ dedicated to AI development, especially if land-based governments begin regulation.
In its announcement on X, the firm said the tightly guarded barge could operate in international waters and thus be exempt from regulations.
Military Dimensions
Militaries around the world are already making some of the biggest strides towards transhumanism because of the advantages their ‘super soldiers’ would possess.
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently issued a broad agency announcement on “Human Performance Enhancement.”12
According to the RAND report, “Technological Approaches to Human Performance Enhancement,” modalities for human performance enhancement can be grouped into three principal categories: Gene editing, applications of artificial intelligence, and networked technologies that are wearable or even implantable.13
For the US defence and intelligence communities, human performance enhancement offers “the potential to increase strength, speed, endurance, intelligence, and tolerance of extreme environments and to reduce sleep needs and reaction times – [and] could aid in the development of better operators.”
This follows a Pentagon-sponsored RAND report on human performance enhancement in 2021, which revealed that the US Department of Defense was investigating “making humans stronger, more intelligent, or more adapted to extreme environments.”
Indeed, it does seem that, just like the rise of the internet, AI advancement can’t be stopped – both in the military-industrial complex and private enterprise.
The door has been opened, but was it even designed to be closed? Where will this all lead? This is where the deeper questions come in.
p(doom): The Countdown
Artificial intelligence experts have been asking each other a question lately: “What’s your p(doom)?” The “p” stands for probability. The “doom” component generally refers to a sophisticated and hostile AI acting beyond human control.
If you have one, your ‘p(doom)’ is your best guess at the likelihood that AI ultimately turns on humanity, either of its own volition or because it’s deployed against us.
The scenarios contemplated as part of that conversation: biological warfare, the sabotage of natural resources, and more. These concerns aren’t coming from ‘conspiracy theorists’. Instead, there’s an emerging group of machine learning experts who worry we’re building “misaligned” and potentially deceptive AI.
They’re imagining an AI with a penchant for sleight of hand, adept at concealing any gap between human instructions and AI behaviour.
Like a magician chasing applause, AI is being incentivised to deceive us with in-built rewards that measure its outcomes. The destructive potential of a deceptive or misaligned AI hinges on how heavily we depend on it. As just noted, we are starting to depend on it a lot.
“The world I want you to imagine… is one where AI has been deployed everywhere,” Ajeya Cotra, a senior AI safety researcher at Open Philanthropy, told the ABC.
“Human CEOs need AI advisers. Human generals need AI advisers to help win wars. And everybody’s employing AI everywhere.”
This vision is not far out of the scope. In their research, Harvard Business Review recently concluded that AI can mainly outperform human CEOs in almost all metrics in September 2024, being described as “remarkable” in the results.14
Cotra calculates a 50 per cent chance we’ll get to the “obsolescence regime” (see box on right) by 2038. Experts believe it is only a matter of time before deceptions begin on a mass scale.
When confronted with this ‘p(doom)’ scenario, the consequences for humanity could be transformative – the stuff of biblical myth.
History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods. – Yuval Noah Harari
In the era of transhumanism, technocratic elitists are looking to replace God, the Creator, with their own intelligent design.
You don’t have to be religious to appreciate the role the concept of a Creator plays in the construction of human rights. It is almost bigger than religion itself.
Men cannot decide on, alter or enforce something they did not create. By removing the religious framework, the technocrats have come to see themselves as the Creator – a (false) ‘higher power’ that endows humanity with rights.
A mass dehumanisation agenda, under the guise of ‘progress’, has led us to no longer believe we are the centre of reality – but a stepping stone for the machines to merge with.
This shift will ultimately occur, according to the ‘experts’, through biotechnological implementations, genetic modification, and robotic implants. For transhumanism, the quest to ‘transcend the human condition’ is a central aspect of their doctrine.
But why would they want to do this?
Well, every citizen is considered to be born with rights. In a future where humans are no longer considered to be ‘natural’, what would that mean for ‘human’ rights?
Indeed, by putting technocrats in the place of God, society is giving them the unaccountable authority to redefine human rights as they see fit from their position.
If, and when, humans become fully integrated with machines on a large scale, where will the technology end and the human begin?
Bioengineering can blur the lines of who or what is responsible for a person’s behaviour. Is it the human, the technology, or the humans behind the technology?
Who will own the technology inside us or the synthetically altered genes? Will human enhancement be reserved only for certain people?
Humanity could theoretically be split into different species depending on the types of genetic engineering that take place, creating a worldwide post-human caste system.
That is the consequence of such a maniacal obsession with ‘progress’, and societies across the world have learned of this for centuries.
Take the story of Prometheus, for example, which is one of the most important Greek myths. Prometheus, the Greek God of ‘Progress’, embodies the same post-human ideologies we see today, centred around ‘transcending the natural order’.
Today, this myth helps us reflect on transhumanism, a philosophy that views the human being as ‘something to be overcome’.15
Hesiod was one of the first poets to write the story of Prometheus. Far from heroising the figure, his version highlighted Prometheus’s transgression against the gods.
He believed that Prometheus had upset the cosmic order, which explained the imbalance and evils of the world. From this viewpoint, ‘progress’ is seen as synonymous with the decline of the human being. Does this sound familiar?
Look at how the ‘progressive’ mindset has already changed society. As a matter of fact, the ecological disasters generated in the last century do tend to show that our naïve trust in ‘progress’ had a dark side. Moreover, what’s ‘new’ isn’t always better.
Unbridled ‘progress’ breaks the natural balance of the environment, attracting all sorts of misfortunes to befall humanity. The transhumanists harness this philosophy to make strides towards a new reality each and every day.
But are technical improvements actually necessary for us to achieve and survive?
Is technological progress, the eradication of diseases, and the prolongation of life expectancy (such as Google’s efforts to ‘solve death’) sufficient to overcome natural obstacles so that societies can live happily?
Unfortunately, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Confidence that ‘progress’ itself will improve humanity is a naïve fantasy – just look at how unstable things like smartphones have made the world.
In their attempt to transform the human species forever, the transhumanist cult is playing with forces of the natural world that have been around for much longer than us.
Will society let the modern-day Prometheus cult alter what it truly means to be human?
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When it comes to our health, we are way too trusting of industries that are in business to earn a profit, often at our expense. We believe our health professionals’ primary concern is our well-being, not their wallets. We accept at face value anything told to us by “experts” in the media and vilify those who dare to question these experts, even when they lie.
Sometimes lies are nothing more than great marketing. For example, ever wonder why you are told to walk 10,000 steps a day? It came from a 1965 Japanese company called Yamasa Toki that introduced their new product, a step-counter called Manpo-Kei. This translated into “10,000 steps meter” and the company marketed their device with the slogan, “Let’s walk 10,000 steps a day,” which took off among Japanese walking clubs, and then, the world.
In this case, the end result was a positive and healthy one.
Not every health “lie” is.
Smoking Is Safe!
For decades, cigarette ads touted their product as healthy and sometimes included pregnant women and doctors puffing away. Cigarettes were all the rage until links between smoking and cancer got too big to ignore.
An authentic advertisement from mid-last century advertising Camel cigarettes as safe because more “doctors” smoke the brand!
In 2006, Big Tobacco was in big trouble when the US District Court for the District of Columbia found tobacco companies guilty of breaking civil racketeering laws, marketing to children and minorities, and lying about the dangers of smoking. Judge Gladys Kessler wrote in her ruling, “Substantial evidence establishes that tobacco companies have engaged in and executed – and continue to engage in and execute – a massive 50-year scheme to defraud the public.”
Big Tobacco companies Lorillard, Inc.; Altria, owner of Phillip Morris USA; RJ Reynolds Tobacco, owner of Winston-Salem, who that year spent over $12.5 billion in advertising, were forced to admit they knew of the dangers, publish corrective and educational statements about the dangers of tobacco in national newspapers, and air corrective statements on American media five times per week for a year. They also had to affix a warning statement to a number of cigarette packs for two years and finance anti-smoking ads and campaigns.
Sadly, it was too late for the average 1,200 Americans dying of smoking every day or the millions who much later developed various cancers, heart disease, emphysema, leukaemia, reduced fertility rates, and nicotine addictions.
It was a Big Lie that woke many people up from decades of propaganda and manipulation as more research exposed the cancer connection, including to second-hand smoke. Unfortunately, it was not the only Big Lie.
Sugar Is Safe!
If cigarettes didn’t kill us, the side effects of a diet rich in this product might.
Sugar.
The average adult in the United States consumes the most sugar, coming in at 126 grams daily. Germany is right behind with 102 grams. [The average Australian consumes 60 grams.] Children in the US alone consume about 17 teaspoons of sugar each day up until the age of 19.
Sugar goes by many names including high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, sucralose, and maltodextrin and is found in processed products and treats, but also in many foods you might never suspect, such as “natural” salad dressings, sauces, baby foods, and more. It has been directly linked to inflammation, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, rising obesity in adults and children, and other illnesses, yet for decades it was celebrated as healthy.
Instead, the bulls-eye target was on something humans had consumed for hundreds of years without the proliferation of heart disease, obesity, or cancers.
Fat.
During the 1960s, the sugar industry paid scientists to perform research studies that played down the links between sugar and heart disease and instead placed the blame on saturated fats, according to internal industry documents published in 2016 by JAMA Internal Medicine. These documents showed a five-decade-long collection of research into nutrition and heart disease, accusing saturated fats as the main culprit behind heart disease while conveniently exonerating sugar.
According to the 12 September 2016 New York Times “How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat” by Anahad O’Connor, this was a concerted propaganda campaign that involved the Sugar Research Foundation paying three Harvard scientists to publish a review on sugar, fat, and heart disease that featured hand-picked studies minimising the links between sugar and heart disease and promoting the links between fat and heart disease. Coca-Cola also paid millions of dollars in funding to researchers to downplay the links between sugar and obesity.
These faulty and fraudulent industry-sponsored studies became the foundation of a decades-long propaganda push to eliminate fats from our diet and push “healthy” low-fat foods. Carbohydrates in cereals and treats were fine, but a good piece of steak from the local butcher would clog your arteries and send you to the ER. Because the propaganda campaign was so pervasive and those scientists who questioned the narrative were ignored or silenced, people bought it and consumed sugar to the detriment of their health.
In “Big Fat Lies – A Half Century of Sugary Propaganda Has Made Us Sick” by Brian Krans for Healthline, the sugar industry bought up the advertising necessary to drive home their skewed research. Krans wrote that “Big Sugar” often restructured conversations around health and choice by establishing front organisations to steer the dialogue in their favour. These front organisations used names that made them sound scientific and pro-consumer and paid consultants to speak at conventions and testify at public hearings.
“During the 1960s, the sugar industry steered public policy away from recommending reduced sugar consumption for children because it caused cavities. Like the tobacco industry, it was able to protect itself from damaging research. It achieved this by adopting a strategy to deflect attention to public health interventions that would reduce the harms of sugar consumption rather than restricting intake.”
The 2016 JAMA Internal Medicine paper raised even more alarms, according to “50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat” by Camila Domonoske for the 13 September 2016 NPR. JAMA drew on internal documents indicating the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to “refute” concerns about sugar’s possible role in heart disease. The SRF sponsored the research by Harvard scientists and the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, then published the research in 1967 without disclosing the sugar industry’s funding. The NPR story quotes John Hickson, then SRF vice president and director of research, as having inserted into one document his recommendation that the industry fund its own research studies. “Then we can publish the data and refute our detractors.”
The following year, after several scientific articles were published linking sucrose and coronary heart disease, the SRF quickly approved the above literature review project and paid approximately $50,000 for the research supporting their pro-sugar goals. Studies that went against their message were dismissed for a variety of trivial reasons, such as one study that found a health benefit when people ate less sugar and more vegetables, dismissed on the grounds that such a dietary change was “not feasible.”
The Harvard researchers who turned their focus on the dangers of fats ironically used the “same kind of epidemiological studies they had dismissed when it came to sugar,” Domonske wrote. Their conclusion was that cutting out all fat was the best dietary intervention to protect someone against coronary heart disease.
Heart disease is the number one health-related killer and has been for a long time.
Statins Are Safe!
Another great lie was told to millions of people who believe if they don’t take statins, they will die of a heart attack. They believe this because their doctors tell them so and because television ads (in the USA) by pharmaceutical companies scare them into asking their doctors if “such and such drug is right for me.” In the year 2019, sales of the statin Lipitor made Pfizer Pharmaceuticals over $2 billion.
When saturated fat became the enemy, the debate over cholesterol as a heart disease indicator gained ground, with the narrative that too much cholesterol clogged arteries and caused heart attacks and strokes.
According to Dr Joseph Mercola in a 16 August 2020 analysis, “Research Confirms Statins Are a Colossal Waste of Money”:
“The food industry shifted away from saturated fat and cholesterol to improve public health, and the medical industry has massively promoted the use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs for the same reason. Despite that, the rate of heart disease deaths has steadily risen.”
The mastermind behind the low-fat, low-cholesterol connection was American physiologist Ancel Keys, who in 1958 conducted his “Seven Countries Study” to create the saturated fat myth. In the study, he claimed to find a correlation between total cholesterol concentration and heart disease but was later found to be cherry-picking data. It was revealed he excluded data from 16 countries that, when added back in, eliminated all associations between saturated fat and mortality and instead proved those who ate the most saturated animal fat tended to have lower incidences of heart disease.
But it was too late. Big Pharma jumped on Keys’ study and ran with it. The American Heart Association, Proctor & Gamble Co, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, all jumped on board and promoted the fallacy for decades, ignoring numerous studies disputing older data and other factors that cause heart disease, such as high blood pressure, stress, inflammation, poor diet, and sedentary lifestyle, and passing over more modern research showing that the more LDL, “bad” cholesterol, is lowered, the greater the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Mercola notes a number of studies showing statins do not work as promised and that saturated facts are not the evil enemy. “A 2010 meta-analysis which pooled data from 21 studies and included 347,747 adults, found no difference in the risks of heart disease and stroke between people with the lowest and highest intakes of saturated fat.” He cited additional studies and analyses showing the same, including a 2014 meta-analysis of 76 studies by Cambridge University that found no basis for advising low saturated fat consumption to lower cardiac risk.
A 3 August 2020 Science Daily article, “Doubt Cast on Wisdom of Targeting ‘Bad’ Cholesterol to Curb Heart Disease Risk,” cites an analysis that same year published in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine that stated: “Setting targets for ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol levels to ward off heart disease and death in those at risk might seem intuitive, but decades of research have failed to show any consistent benefit for this approach.”
Sometimes the lies are told in stealth mode. For example, during the January 2021 COVID media storm, writes Mercola, “a study published in the journal Atherosclerosis quietly revealed that people taking statin medications had a higher rate of cardiovascular events than those who were not on statins.”
Medical News Today published a June 2016 story by Ana Sandolu, “Statins May Double the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes,” that statins might help heart disease but at the cost of rising rates of the chronic condition. The research, led by Victoria Zigmont, a graduate researcher in public health at Ohio State University in Columbus, appeared in the journal Diabetes Metabolism Research and Reviews. “The analysis revealed that people who took statins were more than twice as likely to receive a diabetes diagnosis than those who did not take the medication. Additionally, people who took statins longer than two years were more than three times as likely to develop diabetes.”
Statins continue to be handed out like candy, despite side effects that include muscle stress, pain, fatigue, and weakness, including sharp cramping and tendonitis, which can lead to myositis (inflammation of the muscle) and rhabdomyolysis (severe muscle damage, cell death, kidney failure, possible death). They also raise blood insulin levels. Statins can trigger insulin-related issues and increase the risk of new-onset diabetes for those people taking higher dosages of statins after a heart attack or surgery. They are linked to brain fog, impaired concentration, memory loss, cataracts, dementia, mood changes and mood disturbances, and increase the risk of obesity, ironically which can lead to heart disease and strokes. They also deplete the body’s natural stores of CoQ-10, which is critical for heart health.
5G is Safe!
In December 2019, a broad coalition of scientists, researchers, doctors, and advocates signed a National 5G Resolution letter and sent it to US president Donald Trump demanding a moratorium on 5G until further studies on the potential hazards to humans and the environment could be fully undertaken by independent scientists not linked to the telecom industries. The letter referenced published studies that clearly demonstrated harm to human health, bees, the environment, wildlife, trees, and birds from existing technology and showed that the increases needed to accommodate 5G would be even more disastrous.
A petition signed by 26,000 scientists and countless others who opposed 5G was also sent in 2018 to the United Nations, WHO, the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the governments of all nations. The first paragraph stated:
“We the undersigned scientists, doctors, environmental organisations and citizens from (…) countries, urgently call for a halt to the deployment of the 5G (fifth generation) wireless network, including 5G from space satellites. 5G will massively increase exposure to radio frequency (RF) radiation on top of the 2G, 3G and 4G networks for telecommunications already in place. RF radiation has been proven harmful for humans and the environment. The deployment of 5G constitutes an experiment on humanity and the environment that is defined as a crime under international law.”
One of the main concerns is 5G’s reliance on the bandwidth of the millimetre wave – MMW, known to penetrate 1 to 2 millimetres into human skin tissue, and that sweat ducts in human skin can act as antennae when in contact with MMWs. The symptoms of such exposure include burning sensations, pain, eye problems, altered heart rate, arrhythmias, and suppressed immune functions. With 5G set to act like an EMF blanket, one can only imagine the symptoms of longer-term exposure.
In “5G Danger: 13 Reasons 5G Wireless Technology Will Be a Catastrophe for Humanity,” Makia Freeman says that 5G dangers include, but are not limited to:
Damage to sweat ducts from the broadcast frequencies that could alter the human skin itself.
Dangers from premature aging and injury to the body, the brain, fertility, hearts, and DNA from the way EMFs activate the body’s VGCCs – Voltage-gated calcium channels.
Damage from pulsed wave radiation is far worse than continuous radiation.
Damage from deep EMF penetration when cell phones are held close to the brain.
Close proximity to the 5G towers causes negative effects in humans.
The same frequencies used in 5G are used in riot control and crowd dispersal directed energy weapons.
The MMW frequencies are both mutagenic (causing DNA damage) and carcinogenic (causing cancers).
Insects, birds, and children are the most vulnerable to 5G frequencies because of their body size.
Other Lies They Told Us – Fluoride is Safe!
Since the 1950s, the US Public Service endorsed adding fluoride to public drinking water for supposed benefits to public health, despite earlier 1945 studies not yet reaching any conclusion. Since then, numerous studies have proven fluoridation lowers IQs in children. The US National Institute of Environmental Health Science funded the “Bashash” study, published in 2017, that showed for each 1-milligram per litre increase in fluoride in pregnant women’s urine, there was an associated drop in her child’s IQ of four to five points. Canadian researchers found that bottle-fed children in fluoridated communities had an average of nine points lower on IQ tests than those in non-fluoridated communities. An earlier 2012 meta-analysis by the Harvard School of Public Health and China Medical University found evidence that fluoride negatively affected cognitive development in children.
Pesticides Are Safe!
In 2018, major lawsuits were filed against Roundup, a herbicide (weed killer) made by Monsanto (now owned by Bayer). Dewayne Johnson, a school groundskeeper who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after prolonged exposure on the job, was awarded hundreds of millions in damages. There are now more than 11,000 pending lawsuits against Bayer/Monsanto over the use of Roundup and the key ingredient, glyphosate, a known carcinogen.
On 21 October 2022, The Defender featured a story by Carey Gillam, “50 Years of Secrets: How Chemical Giant Syngenta Hid the Truth About a Dangerous Weedkiller.” Gillam documents how Syngenta manufactured and marketed paraquat, a widely used weed killer. The company’s internal documents reveal it was aware their product’s long-term use was linked to Parkinson’s Disease.
Hundreds of internal corporate records also uncovered conversations between scientists and executives dating back to the 1950s.
“The documents also lay out how Syngenta crafted strategies to defend paraquat and counter independent researchers who were finding more and more evidence that paraquat may cause Parkinson’s, including development of an ‘influencing’ strategy ‘that proactively diffuses the potential threats that we face’…”
Sound familiar?
A Depressing Lie
There is mounting evidence that a low serotonin level is not the main cause of depression as we have been told for decades. But don’t tell that to the makers of antidepressants called SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, who rake in billions of dollars, convincing millions of people they need to take drugs like Zoloft, Prozax, or Lexapro.
Irving Kirsch – associate director of the Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School and a long-time critic of antidepressants – told Newsweek: “People do get better on the drug – but in the vast majority of cases it’s not because of what’s in the drug. There are other treatments that are at least equally effective, and that don’t carry the risks.”
The small benefits seen in some drug trials are due to emotional numbing, the “flatlined” symptom many on SSRIs report. This numbing effect comes at a steep price, however, as it also prevents you from experiencing emotional highs and does little to counteract the loss of energy, interest and motivation that are so characteristic of depression.
A systematic review published in Molecular Psychiatry on 20 July 2022 concluded: “The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations. Some evidence was consistent with the possibility that long-term antidepressant use reduces serotonin concentration.”
Using these drugs long-term will likely make you more depressed! Not to mention the long list of side effects including suicidal ideation in children and young adults.
Dr Leland Stillman, author of the new book Dying to Be Free: How America’s Ruling Class Is Killing and Bankrupting Americans, and What To Do About It, warns that “people are being really exploited by the medical system… The [conventional] model is to turn you into a recurring revenue stream, where you’re renting your body from Big Pharma.”
“It’s one of the most disillusioning things, as a practitioner, to realise that so many people are not actually invested in their wellness,” laments Stillman.
The lies, myths, and half-truths only work if we believe and accept them. Instead, we should believe, asStillman does, that an entirely new healthcare system can and is being built on maintaining health rather than managing disease.
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About the Author
Marie D. Jones is the author of numerous non-fiction books, most recently for Visible Ink Press, including Disinformation and You: Identify Propaganda and Manipulation. She has contributed to dozens of magazines and has appeared on the History Channel and over 2,000 radio shows worldwide. Her website is www.mariedjones.com.
