Altered Genes, Twisted Truth - How GMOs took over the food supply

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth

How GMOs Took Over

the Food Supply

 

By Dr. Mercola

Genetically manipulated foods may be one of the most serious threats not only to our environment but to the health and very survival of future generations. Typically, the blame for the promulgation of genetic engineering of our food is placed on chemical companies.

But there's actually a hidden back story to how genetically engineered foods were able to reach millions of dinner tables.

Steven Druker, who you may not be aware of, is the attorney who filed a lawsuit in the late '90s challenging the most important action the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken in this area: its presumption that genetically engineered (GE) foods are Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) and can enter the market without a shred of safety testing.

However, the evidence clearly reveals that the FDA's GRAS presumption was fraudulent when first announced in 1992 and that it remains fraudulent today. Nonetheless, it has played the central role in allowing inadequately tested GE foods to permeate the American market. There are many components to this story, and Steven is just the man to set the story straight.

He's written a landmark and historic book Altered Genes, Twisted Truth, with the revealing subtitle: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public.

If you have even the remotest interest in this topic, I would strongly encourage you to get a copy of this book. It is, without a doubt, the best book on the topic and provides a treasure trove of facts that will help you decimate anyone who believes that GMOs are safe.

Steven was aware of this issue 10 years before I was, and he's really a pioneer and a champion in warning the public and protecting us from the negligence and irresponsible action of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Genetically Engineered Food Blindsided Everyone

Most people are only superficially aware—if at all—of the background that led up to the FDA's landmark policy statement of 1992 that granted genetically engineered foods GRAS status.

I myself was unaware of the academic and scientific discussion that was going on some 15 to 20 years prior to the historic and crucial FDA 1992 action that made the commercialization of GE foods possible.

Steven's book goes into that in great depth, and provides an accurate historical record of the irresponsible behavior of many eminent scientists and scientific institutions in the earlier decades of the genetic engineering revolution, long before Monsanto's lackey Michael Taylor and the hordes of revolving door cronies came into the picture.

"It was probably not until about late '94 or '95 that I became aware of genetic engineering, and that it was being used by that point to reconfigure the genetic core of many of our foods.

The goal is, ultimately, to reconfigure the genetic core of almost every edible fruit, vegetable, and grain. That's the grand vision.

I became very concerned as I learned about this. I've had a long-term interest in eating healthy nutritious food myself, and in protecting the purity of the food. I was involved back in the late 1980s in the campaign to better regulate food irradiation.

But I too was behind the curve on understanding what was going on with genetically engineered foods, which I think puts things in perspective. So you can see why people still, up to a few years ago, didn't even know that they had been eating genetically engineered food for all these years, and feeding them unknowingly to their kids. It really has blindsided many of us."

Blatant Misrepresentation of US Food Law

Steven began researching the matter around 1996, and quickly realized that there is a great gap—both then and now—between the claims made by the proponents of GE foods and the actual facts.

One major concern was the fact that while the US had the strictest and the most rigorous food safety laws in the world in regard to new additives, the FDA had not enforced those laws when it comes to GMOs. Instead, the FDA gave GE foods a free ticket to circumvent the law.

In May 1992, the FDA made a blanket presumption that GE foods qualified to be categorized "Generally Recognized as Safe" (GRAS). They then said that this meant these foods could be marketed without any safety testing at all.

"That actually is a blatant misrepresentation of US food law, but that was the FDA claim," Steven says. "[They claim] there's an overwhelming 'scientific consensus' they're safe, and so safe that they don't need to be tested. Therefore, the FDA let these foods into our market without the requirement of a smidgen of testing.

Moreover, they didn't even require these foods be labeled, so the consumers at least would be informed about the major genetic reconfiguration that had occurred. This struck me as not only being unscientific but irresponsible and unethical. At the time, I had a hunch it was also illegal."

As he continued researching the matter, that hunch was confirmed. Not only is the policy governing GMO's at odds with the science, it violates US law. At first, Steven did not think he was sufficiently qualified to launch a lawsuit to contest the FDA's ruling. But as time went on, it became clear that no one else was willing to stick their neck out to do it.

FDA Scientists Warned of Grave Risks

Steven decided to launch a lawsuit on his own, and founded a non-profit organization called the Alliance for Bio-Integrity. Fortunately, as word got around, he was contacted by a public interest group in Washington D.C., the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA).

"They had a very good legal team and they were very interested in taking this on," he says. "The lawsuit was filed in May 1998, and it quickly accomplished something very major... It forced the FDA, through the discovery process, to hand over more than 44,000 pages of its internal files relevant to the policy that it made on genetically engineered foods."

It turned out to be a real treasure trove of hidden "gems" the FDA had undoubtedly hoped would remain hidden for all time. For starters, there were damning memos from FDA scientists assigned to the biotechnology task force, whose job it was to actually analyze and assess genetically engineered foods in terms of both the law and the science, and to do a risk assessment.

"This is probably one of the first scientific risk assessments performed by independent scientists," he notes, adding: "The memos that I was reading were astounding, because...they recognized that there were unusual risks in these foods. I already knew that genetic engineering had the potential to create unexpected and unpredictable new toxins and allergens in these foods.

These toxins would be very difficult to detect unless each food was subjected to very rigorous long-term toxicological testing,  the likes of which the biotech industry has routinely avoided performing and has been given a pass on by various governments. The surprising thing was not just that they understood these risks, but that they were warning about them in no uncertain terms to their superiors."

FDA Supports Biotechnology Industry as Matter of Policy

According to the FDA's own admission, the agency has been operating for years under a policy to promote the US biotechnology industry. They decided it was more important to promote the industry and uphold the fragile image of GE foods rather than tell the truth and acknowledge the scientist warnings. So they covered up these warnings. Had Steven not sued, the warnings of the FDA's own scientists still would be unknown to this day.

"We wouldn't know the extent to which the FDA has been lying all these years. But fortunately, we do know now," he says. "And what we know is that although the FDA scientists overwhelmingly concluded and warned their superiors that these foods entail unique risks, that they cannot be presumed safe, and that each one of them should be subjected to long-term rigorous toxicological testing, what the public heard from the FDA was that "The agency is not aware of any information showing that foods developed by these methods differ from other foods in any meaningful or uniform way."

Now, it's impossible, I think, for any rational man or woman to read just the sampling of memos from the FDA scientists that are posted on the website of the Alliance for Bio-Integrity... and feel that the FDA's assertion is  anything other than a blatant fraud meant to mislead the public, mislead the world, and allow genetically engineered food a free pass to enter the market. It's just an astounding fraud."

For close to 20 years, the American public has been exposed to these largely experimental, untested foods, which its own scientists said entail unique risks and could not be presumed safe. The FDA claimed GMO's could be presumed safe, and that there was an overwhelming scientific consensus backing up their decision, yet the evidence shows that is a bold-faced lie.  One document (document #8), is a letter from the FDA's biotechnology coordinator to an official of Health Canada, written in the fall of 1991, just six months before the FDA's ruling on GE foods.

Dr. James Maryanski's letter acknowledges that there is no consensus about the safety of these foods within the scientific community. That admission is in the FDA's own files. "Even if we didn't have the memos from the scientists, we would have that admission, and yet, what happened? The FDA basically just buries that and lies about it all," Steven says. What's worse, because the FDA is so widely respected, and because the US—which is known to have strong food safety laws—said GMO's were GRAS, it paved the way for easy approval in Canada as well. Europe also relaxed their stance on GMO's as a result of the FDA's lie.

How and Why the Scientific Discussion Was Shifted from Cautious to Confident in Favor of GMO's Safety

Steven delved into the early history of  genetic engineering that took place long before the technology was capable of producing a genetically engineered plant that could be eaten. It took a long time from developing genetically engineered bacteria before scientists could actually genetically engineer any viable edible crops.

Genetic engineering first became a reality back in the early 1970s, and at the time, it was a radical breakthrough. According to Nobel-laureate biologist George Wald, it was the biggest and most radical human intervention into the natural order that had ever occurred. Even the scientists who were doing it were mindful of how radical it was and how important it was to be careful. Initially, the scientists themselves warned of the dangers of this new technology and how it had to be used with extreme prudence and caution.

"But they then realized there was negative feedback from the public... So over time they began to change their story. It became clear that they had to project a united front of confidence about this [technology]. What we began to see was a progressive misrepresentation campaign... to convince the public and the government that genetic engineering is something that is essentially not very different from processes that have been occurring in nature all along anyway... They got away with that."

The scientific establishment mounted a huge lobbying campaign in the summer of 1977, orchestrated to convince the congressmen in Washington that there was no need for legislation. At that time, several bills to regulate genetic engineering had already been introduced in Congress. This concerted effort also relied on misinformation, which Steven details in his book, including making claims of having evidence that in reality did not exist.

Shifting the Burden of Proof

These lobbying efforts were not backed by the biotechnology industry, mind you. There was no biotechnology industry at that time. This is a key theme of Steven's book, because it's easy to forget that there was a time before the biotechnology industry, and very few know who the leaders of the genetic engineering establishment were, or why the technology was invented in the first place. As much as most of us despise Monsanto for their reprehensible behavior, they could never have implemented their strategy if it weren't for the prior misbehavior  of the molecular biologists.

"The biotechnology industry—as irresponsible as they have been by and large—the main guilt lays at the feet of the mainstream molecular biology establishment; the scientists who were doing the research, getting the grants, and wanting to develop this technology. Most of them had altruistic goals. They thought this was going to be used to cure so many ills in the field of medicine... I think they eventually developed an 'end justifies the means' psychology...

But when you have so many highly influential, powerful scientists who are working together to convince the world that genetic engineering is inherently safe, and that the research they're pursuing is safe, that can be somewhat dangerous. And it turned out being very dangerous for the world, I think.

One of the points made in the book very clearly, is that the burden of proof that was placed on new technologies and new products, which ordinarily requires the developer to substantiate the safety of the new technology and its products, got shifted. It got shifted because of the subterfuge and the fraud, and it was put on the shoulders of the critics, the people who had concerns. There were many good scientists who had concerns, but they were all of a sudden put into the position of, You've got to prove they're dangerous," and the burden of proving safety was removed."        

Molecular Biologists Pushed for Genetic Engineering Without Safeguards

The forerunners of the biotechnology industry were the molecular biology establishment. James Watson, the co-discoverer of the DNA structure, was a member of that establishment and, for obvious reasons, one of the big proponents of genetic engineering. He was one of the scientists who became very vocal, claiming that genetic engineering was safe and that earlier concerns had been exaggerated. And the molecular biologists who were strongly in favor of pushing ahead with genetic engineering without adequate safeguards wielded a great amount of power within the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which is one of the premier scientific organizations in the US.

"My book goes into the behind-the-scene story showing that the National Academy of Sciences—because their agenda was so strongly influenced by powerful molecular biologists—were afraid of allowing a full and fair review of the possible ecological problems of releasing genetically engineered organisms," Steven says.

In contrast, one of the scientists who strove to uphold the integrity of science was Dr. Philip Regal, an eminent white hat biologist, who became the point man for attempting to get the genetic engineering venture aligned with sound science during the first 15 to 20 years of its existence. He was also a great resource for Steven's book, giving him the set of personal recollections he had written that described what he had experienced in pursuing this endeavor.

"It was a gold mine. It allowed me to interweave his fascinating story with the story I was telling and make it a much more exciting and compelling narrative. He made a major contribution... Not too many people know about him yet. Hopefully through my book, he will get all of the respect and gratitude from the public and the world that he deserves."

Fraudulent Groundwork Set the Framework for Massive GMO Fraud

Dr. Regal and some of his collaborators managed to put together two major conferences, and were shocked to learn just how many high-risk projects the genetic engineers had in the pipeline, slated for imminent release. Many of these high-risk projects were stopped because of Dr. Regal's efforts. Still, his voice was eventually outweighed by all the others, which resulted in the technological elite we're dealing with today.

"The media tended to present all of the statements about how good these foods were and how safe they were in the mouths of the scientific experts. Anytime concerns were raised, they would put that in the mouth of non-scientists; activists who were presented as not knowing very much about science but were just concerned."

That same tactic is used today, to great effect. Rarely if ever does a concerned scientist get any kind of airtime in the conventional media. Scientists are also crippled by the threat of losing grant money, or their career.

"It's really kind of the comedy of the absurd. The elite who had the power and ability to manipulate the press prevailed. They were successful in promulgating the impression that there were no real problems with genetic engineering; that there was an overwhelming scientific consensus this was so; and that regulation wasn't really needed. They imparted the impression that they could be trusted – that they were regulating it very well and regulation was unnecessary. They essentially kept regulation at a bare minimum."  

The Spin-Doctors of the '70s

It's important to understand this, because the fact that regulations on genetic engineering were kept to a bare minimum from the very start is the foundation that set up the framework for the FDA's 1992 ruling. If safety regulations for the industry had been stricter, it's unlikely that they would have been able to pull it off.

"If that fraudulent groundwork hadn't been laid by the mainstream scientific establishment, especially the molecular biology establishment, the FDA could not have done what it did. It wouldn't have had the aura of scientific respectability, nor could Monsanto and the biotech industry have later been able to do what they've done."

The primary blame, the primary guilt goes back to the early 1970s, to the molecular biologists who were, little by little, fudging things, fudging facts, and spin-doctoring. As my book says, eventually, spin-doctoring will cross the line to downright misrepresentation... As Dr. Philip Regal mentioned: "Within the scientific community, gossip became as good as truth; as good as fact." And people just parroted what they heard other people saying."

Major GMO Disaster Used as Leverage to Attack Natural Supplements

While there's no proof that a whole food developed through GE has killed anyone after just a few meals, we do know that a genetically engineered food supplement was acutely toxic – and did take lives. In the 1980's, a supplement of the essential amino acid L-tryptophan, which was produced through genetic engineering, was the first major GMO catastrophe, killing dozens of people who took it. Thousands were seriously sickened, many of whom were permanently disabled. The novel disorder that afflicted these unfortunate people was named eosinophilia–myalgia syndrome (EMS). I was witness to this outbreak while I was a practicing physician.

In the 1980s I used to prescribe L-tryptophan for my patients as a sleeping aid and for the treatment of depression. So did numerous other doctors. However, the supplements we prescribed were manufactured conventionally. But when  one of the manufacturers started to use genetic engineering, a deadly epidemic ensued and the FDA took all the brands of L-tryptophan off the market. Thus, the agency used this disaster as a tool and leverage to attack natural supplements with a pristine safety record. Prior to the release of the GE version of L-tryptophan, that supplement had never created a problem in anyone.

"The scientific evidence is very clear: tryptophan supplements were not a problem. To our knowledge, the only tryptophan supplement that ever created a problem was the one that was created through genetically engineered bacteria. As my book demonstrates, when one gathers all of the evidence that we have and puts it all together, then the finger gets pointed pretty strongly at the genetic engineering technology itself as having been the cause for the toxic contamination that caused the major epidemic in 1989 and 1990."

People died because they consumed a product of genetic engineering. And it's important to understand how this tragic event was spun to serve the industry's agenda even further. Rather than raise questions about genetic engineering of supplements, the tragedy was used to raise questions about the safety of natural supplements. Undoubtedly, a lethal mishap like this is bound to occur again, and when it does, the industry will use the L-tryptophan incident as a template for how to address and divert attention again, seeing how it worked so well the first time.

"If we don't get the knowledge out there, they will be able to continue the same game plan. It's very important to get the truth out there, so that it cannot continue into the future and so that changes are made. Dramatic changes have to be made."

The GMO Supplement That Killed Dozens and Injured Thousands

How was L-tryptophan re-engineered? In the mid-1980s, one of the main developers of L-tryptophan supplements, Showa Denko Corporation in Japan, decided they could turn out more L-tryptophan in the same amount of time if they endowed the bacteria they were using with extra genes. The bacteria naturally have the genetic components to synthesize L-tryptophan. By giving the bacteria an extra copy of those genes, they reasoned that more L-tryptophan would be produced more quickly.

Alas, they discovered that in order to achieve maximum production rates, they also had to boost one of those genes with a promoter from a virus.  This created a very unnatural situation. As Steven notes, "They were messing around in very radical, unprecedented ways with the metabolism of bacteria that have been safely used for many, many years." There were early reports of the supplement giving people trouble, and as production was increased, the product appears to have become increasingly toxic.

"The final version [of this genetically engineered bacteria], which was the most souped-up of them all and the most disruptive to their metabolism, cranked out not only a lot of L-tryptophan but some unusual contaminants. The profile of that toxic tryptophan was highly unusual. It contained many more contaminants than most products do. They were very low level though. It was still pure according to pharmacological standards. It tested pure. Generally, most chemicals are not dangerous at that extremely low concentration, but at least one of those [contaminants] was, and it created a major epidemic.

Now, one of the points, which is very sobering, is that this epidemic... was only determined because the symptoms were highly unusual and unique... It was fortuitous in a sense that it was such a strange disease, otherwise, it would not have been even recognized, and those tryptophan supplements would still be marketed and still be killing and maiming people. It's a very important thing to know."

'Disappearing a GMO Disaster'

Powerful, persistent, and successful misinformation was dispensed to disassociate genetic engineering from the toxic contamination of this L-tryptophan supplement. Consequently, most people—including many scientists—do not know that this lethal epidemic was caused by a genetically engineered food supplement.

According to Steven, claims that the toxic contamination was caused by some defect in the manufacturing process, independent of genetic engineering, simply are not true. In his book, Steven details the scientific evidence that strongly suggests the toxin was most likely produced by bacterial enzymes, probably within the bacteria themselves, or in the broth before it was put through the purification system, which would place the blame squarely on the genetic tampering itself; not on some flawed manufacturing process.

"It's just so gross that you will hear from both governments around the world who are promoting this and from scientists a claim that no genetic engineered food has ever been associated with a human health problem. One government official has stated that not so much as a sneeze or a sniffle has ever been associated with the product of genetic engineering. What? There was a major epidemic!"

GMOs Infiltrate Agriculture

In the early 1980s, some large corporations started to become interested in the potential applications of genetic engineering to agriculture. Remember, if that preliminary groundwork by the molecular biologists (discussed earlier) had not been laid and the burden of proof had not already been shifted, Monsanto, Dow, and others  would not have gone ahead to invest in genetically engineered seeds as they would have never been able to get these dangerous products presumed to be GRAS by the FDA.

But the groundwork was laid and the path forward was opened wide. That's why it's so important to understand that early history. Then, enter Michael Taylor, a partner at a major Washington, D.C. law firm that represented Monsanto. After serving as Monsanto's legal counsel, Taylor was then installed as Deputy Commissioner on Food Policy at the FDA—a position that didn't even exist before Taylor got the job.

"It was because, I think, as I looked through the records, there were FDA scientists who were objecting to the drafts of the policy statement, saying, "Wait, what's happening to all the scientific elements in this?" ... I believe, this is my belief, that Michael Taylor was brought in at that critical junction to start getting things moving in the direction that the Bush White House and the people directing the FDA wanted. But certainly, we can see within the memos... where the clout was. It was coming from the White House and the Office of Management and Budget. The economic and political considerations were trumping the scientific considerations. And the poor FDA scientists were spending their time trying to do their job as scientists, and it turned out it didn't come to anything."

Steven's book also shows how former President Ronald Reagan's deregulation agenda dovetailed with that of the molecular biology establishment, giving the industry a major breakthrough. There's a 1958 law requiring that novel additives to food must be demonstrated safe. They cannot be presumed safe ahead of time. Each and every one should, by law, have to undergo stringent safety testing. This is the law the FDA broke, pretending as if it did not even exist, when it claimed that genetically engineered foods don't need to be tested.

When Vice President Dan Quayle announced the FDA's policy, he announced it as regulatory relief for the industry, saying "We're freeing the industry from any new burdens and regulations." What he didn't know was that the industry was also being freed from a law that, ever since 1958, had been one of the major consumer protection laws in this country. It was now being illegally circumvented in the name of deregulation. This illegal activity has allowed the biotech industry to perpetuate and increase their penetration into the market, without ever having to actually prove the safety of any of their products. Remember, the safety of GE foods is merely presumed. It's not proven.

GMO FDA Lawsuit Derailed

So, whatever happened to Steven's lawsuit against the FDA, you might ask? In short, it was stymied. And here's why: As Steven explains, the judge concluded that there was no need for a trial because trials are only necessary when there's a dispute about material facts. Trials are done to clarify the facts. In this case, the critical facts were the very records that the FDA had in its possession as of May 1992, when it released its policy. Since those were the key facts, there was no need for a trial, as everyone agreed on what the records said. After submitting briefs and answers, the judge will ordinarily call for oral arguments, to tease out more information.

"We fully expected that she would, but surprisingly she didn't. When she finally issued her opinion, it was a bit of a stunner. What she stated was that, essentially, in May of 1992 the FDA administrators had some rational basis to presume that genetically engineered foods are generally recognized as safe."

That was the key legal issue. Did the FDA's presumption about GMO's being generally recognized as safe have a rational basis? Steven's team had to demonstrate that there had been "arbitrary and capricious breech of administrative discretion". But as long as the FDA could show some rational basis for their decision, they could be upheld. In this case, Steven's team demonstrated there was no rational basis.

According to the FDA's own regulations, in order to qualify as generally recognized as safe, an additive or supplement must have solid, technical evidence of safety that has been generally known and accepted within the scientific community. That ordinarily means that evidence should have been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so its solidity can be certified. There has to be an overwhelming consensus that the product is safe, and that consensus has to be based on solid technical evidence.

"The FDA's own files show that in the case of genetically engineered foods, neither of those conditions applied. In fact, their files show just the opposite. There was certainly a major dispute about the safety of these foods even within the FDA. Most of their scientific staff said you can't presume they're safe. That right there is a scientific fact. It's a material fact. Also, there was that letter from the FDA's own biotechnology coordinator, admitting that there was no scientific consensus."

By the way, we didn't even have to base it on what was in the record because nine well-credential life scientists took the unprecedented step of signing the complaint as plaintiffs. It was unprecedented for a group of scientists to be suing a federal regulatory agency on the basis that one of its policies being scientifically unsound. Right there, by doing that, we demonstrated there was not a general recognition of safety within the scientific community."

Theatre of the Absurd

In earlier years, the FDA had taken a supplement off the market claiming it was not GRAS on the basis of testimony of only two experts. Here, the judge acknowledged the plaintiffs had shown that significant disagreement existed within the scientific community by bringing in nine scientists. But then she got tricky.

She claimed that the critical issue was not whether these foods could be reasonably presumed safe in 1998 (the year the suit was filed). Most people would think that is a critical issue, because if these products cannot legitimately be presumed safe – and are thus being marketed illegally even though millions of people are eating them -- that's clearly a major problem. But, as Steven explains, the judge wasn't interested in determining whether GE foods were truly GRAS in 1998 and were actually being sold legally at that time. She instead focused solely on whether the FDA administrators had some rational grounds for presuming they were GRAS as of May 1992.

So she ruled that the evidence submitted in May 1998 was irrelevant – despite the fact it clearly demonstrated that GE foods were not GRAS at that point. Moreover, she said that the agency's administrators had a right to overlook the opinions of their own scientific staff – essentially giving them free rein to pretend there was consensus in 1992 when there clearly was not. Moreover, she herself overlooked that letter by the FDA's biotechnology coordinator admitting that there was not a scientific consensus about safety during that period. Nor did she make any mention of a crucial memo by an FDA official admitting that the technical evidence required to support a GRAS presumption was entirely lacking. And she failed to take note of these two critical admissions even though the plaintiffs' briefs had clearly called them to her attention.

As a result, the FDA still clings to its unfounded and thoroughly rebutted presumption that genetically engineered foods are GRAS. However, once you're done listening to Steven's story, or reading his book, you will know the truth of the matter the next time you hear someone talk about 'overwhelming safety' of GMOs... This is a fascinating book and discussion and it is loaded with so much new information that it turned into the longest interview I have ever done. So we needed to break it into two parts. We will post part two on March 15, 2015.

Help Support GMO Labeling

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA)—Monsanto’s Evil Twin—is pulling out all the stops to keep you in the dark about what’s in your food. For nearly two decades, Monsanto and corporate agribusiness have exercised near-dictatorial control over American agriculture.

Finally public opinion around the biotech industry's contamination of our food supply and destruction of our environment has reached the tipping point. We're fighting back.

The insanity has gone far enough, which is why I encourage you to boycott every single product owned by members of the GMA, including natural and organic brands. More than 80 percent of our support comes from individual consumers like you, who understand that real change comes from the grassroots.

Thankfully, we have organizations like the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) to fight back against these corporate giants. So please, fight for your right to know what’s in your food and help support the GMO labeling movement by making a donation today.

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Teenagers Trapped On Tiny Iceberg Float Away On Lake Michigan, Prompting Dangerous Rescue

Two teenagers playing near the thawing Lake Michigan got quite a scare when the iceberg they were standing on broke free and began drifting away from shore, leading to a dangerous and frigid rescue.

The teens, ages 17 and 18, were stuck on the tiny piece of ice about 40 yards from shore when a 911 call came into the Racine Fire Department. Three scuba divers had to swim out to the pair, giving them life vests and then pushing the piece of ice back to shore.
The incident took place near the Racine Zoo, which frequent visitors said can be a very difficult spot. In the winter, the ice tends to build up by the shore and it becomes nearly impossible to tell where the beach ends and the lake begins.
As the Boston New Times noted, it was the second icy rescue in the area this week alone. On Thursday, the United States Coast Guard was cutting ice on Lake St. Clair when they found a young man walking across the ice. The nearly frozen man said he was trying to walk from Detroit to Toronto, a walk that would have been several hundred miles and taken him days to complete.
This year Michigan and other Great Lakes states were hit with a frigid air system that left most of the lakes frozen over. The system, called the Siberian Express, brought more than 100 record low temperatures during a single week in February.
“This week ranks among the most intense arctic outbreaks so far in the 21st century for the eastern U.S., and it is certainly one of the most impressively cold air masses we’ve seen this late in the winter season, coming only a month before the spring equinox,” noted Weather.com senior meteorologist Nick Wiltgen.
As the Mail Online explained, last year’s frigid winter may have actually made this year worse.

“One likely explanation for the rapid buildup this month is that 2014’s freeze lasted so long — Lake Superior wasn’t completely ice-free until June — and summer was so mild that the lakes didn’t absorb much heat, he said. ‘So we started this season with below-water temperatures to begin with.’ “

The teens who floated away on the iceberg in Lake Michigan were unharmed, with rescuers able to pull them out of the water about half an hour after they first became trapped.
[Image via Boston New Times]

What’s Mark Zuckerberg’s One Rule When Hiring?

Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook, disclosed his one rule to employing staff to work for him at Facebook. During a question and answer session at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Zuckerberg revealed an interesting strategy that allows him to choose the perfect candidate.

Zuckerberg said, “I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test and I think this rule has served me well.”
Mark Zuckerberg topped the world’s top 10 richest individuals under 40 and is also the world’s 16th richest person. However, the 30-year-old multi-billionaire intimated that his success was all done to self-belief.

“The most important thing is to just have faith in yourself and trust yourself. When you’re young, you hear that you don’t have experience to do things, that there are people that have more experience than you.”

Mark Zuckerberg also encouraged others that self-belief is the key to success. “Don’t discount yourself, no matter what you’re doing,” Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg’s social media empire, which includes Facebook and Instagram, pushed him to unrivaled success in his field. However, he said, “Facebook is not a company for everyone in the world. The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible.”

“Facebook serves more than a billion people around the world but our team has fewer than 10,000 people. It’s only possible because of modern technology. Big companies get bloated.”

In 2014, Zuckerberg went outside his comfort zone and purchased the virtual reality company Oculus for $2 billion. His ambition for the virtual reality company rung clear.

“The strategy for Oculus is to help accelerate their growth. They’ve got two products… Rift on PC, and they’re supporting Gear VR and the Samsung team on building the mobile version. I’m really excited about both of them.”

His venture into virtual reality proves his self-belief and drive to succeed despite accomplishing so much at a young age. At the Mobile World Congress, Mark Zuckerberg imparted one final word of wisdom during the question and answer session.
Zuckerberg said, “Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.”
Mark Zuckerberg may well be the living embodiment of that quote.
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The 2014 Accomplishments of The Charles E Holman Foundation for Morgellons

What About Last Year?

2014 CEHMDF: Your financial support facilitated the following accomplishments:

The identification and characterization of pathogens involved in Morgellons Disease.
The expansion of the research within an international group of test subjects.
Additional research currently underway at the University of New Haven nearing completion.
The gain of support from physicians nationwide:
A chapter entitled, "The Morgellons Debate" has been published in a medical textbook.
University-based veterinarians are reaching out to collaborate with the researchers of Morgellons in humans.
Several new medical experts are committed to speaking at our 2015 8th Annual Conference on Morgellons Disease on March 28-29, 2015.

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Hopefully this next year will bring Full Awareness to those with the condition of Morgellons; no longer to be seen as a nut case that needs to be pushed aside. To many have died while waiting for help that never came.

One woman attempted to contact me while I was working on another board helping folks. The board had been hit by paid trolls and my computer became infected with some random virus. This attack was several years back and I wasn't able to send info to the lady until several days after she contacted me. It will haunt me forever. She killed herself that weekend. One of the ones that the help never made it to.

May the truth of this infectious condition finally be realized.
The Science is Here and Morgellons is Real.

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Donate and deduct from your taxes and or sign up for this years
conference:

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Many Blessings,
CrystalRiver

One Man Holds a Patent That Will Heal Many…

What The Elite Don’t Want You To Know Has Just Been Made Available to the Public: One Man Holds a Patent That Will Heal Many…

Sunday, March 8, 2015 7:53

(Before It's News)

GEORGY BOY SOROS AND BILLY BOP GATES....BOTH ARE COMMIE NAZI TRAITORS AND MURDERS.....                                                 



By Lisa Haven

 

The key to our salvation from Monsanto lies in pages of one man’s patent that could literally change the health of millions on the planet. For far too long Monsanto has been pulling the strings in our food industry and it’s about time we put an end to their power-hungry rhinoceros approach and shove them and their food down the toilet where it belongs. 

 

Every year millions are infected with their chemicals and GMO ridden food put out by this monstrosity and as a result there has been an uptick in cancer, tumors, Alzheimers and more! We’ll I have a had enough! It’s time we fight back!

 

In the video below I expose not only the real nature of this company but also one man’s patent that could literally crush them from the inside out… 

Here is Paul on TedTalks: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save The World… 

 

This is nuts!

I just reactivated my Dish Network and tuned to the Discovery Channel. Every other commercial is either insurance or big pharma pushing jokes! Such madness!!!

To The Humans: From The HoneyBee

Dear Humans,

I am at the end of my rope; not even enough rope to tie a knot in and hang on. I can't seem to think clearly or even find my way home half the time, I've lost so much of my family. I'm so sad, and so ill.

I loved my job of pollinating; the smell and taste of the flowers was so good and even passed this on in my honey. The flowers don't taste good anymore; it is a foul taste they leave in my mouth. I hurt so very much that even flying is hard. I don't like to complain and would rather just do my job.

Staying busy helping the crops along was so rewarding and I slept so well; not any more.

I loved you and doing things for you that no one else could or not many had the talent or was so small to be able to pollinate the flowers well.

I love you and thought you appreciated what I did for you. Yet, when I say that the poison makes me ill; you just say don't look and you won't know; you can't see it so you think it doesn't hurt me, but it does.

It hurts you also; but perhaps not as much as the smaller ones. The smaller you are, the more destructive the poison is to the life form, no matter what life form, it doesn't discriminate (when discrimination would be a good thing).

Sometimes the other bugs can become a problem, I understand once in awhile but all the time is causing problems to those of tiny stature.

I told God you would understand and you would care but so far, you just tell me to stop complaining and keep doing my job.

Wow, have I become disillusioned with the world. I thought at least you would care about your own food. I was told you were to busy to think logically; I didn't believe it. I guess I've discovered differently and been proven wrong.

To be fair, there are those that have tried; but so much against them as well. The hives that died from pesticides and herbicides were part of my family as well. Some who just had a drift of the herbicides, pesticides was all it took. Wonder if it was you that was facing genocide?

I quit,
Good luck to you,
The Honey Bee

Will Obama Go To Jail Shortly? Mayhem And Chaos Erupt On Internet. Obama Shills Bezerk In Terror (Video)

LETS GET-ER-DONE TEXAS.... TEXAS SEEMS TO HAVE THE BIGGEST SET OF BALLS AMOGNST THE STATES...

Sunday, March 8, 2015 2:49

  

(Before It's News)
                By King of Shambhala

Yes Obama’s the Antichrist. Now it seems the Texas legislators and judges have cornered Obama…. and are putting him through a dryer. If Obama’s unable to wriggle out of this trap, he’ll face birthers who have long ago already slapped him with hundreds of cases relating to his false-identity scam on the US People. They’re waiting to get going as soon as Obama slips up anywhere.
 

1. In Texas this month, Judge Hanen slapped Obama with an injuction on his Amnesty.
 
2. Then Judge Hanen rebuffed a new request by Obama to lift that ban-injuction on his Amnesty.
 
3. Then the new Governor Greg Abbott told Hanen to add “Contempt of Court” to the charges against Obama that Hanen’s handling. The Contempt charge is because of the 100,000 illegal immigrants Obama amnestied before the excutive order was passed and which Obama’s lawyers didn’t speak about in their desposition before the judge. The Obama Camp has pleaded guilty and confessed to having done that.
4. Now the final nail is Texas AG Ken Braxton investigating the 100 000 immigrants incident.
 
If Obama’s found guilty in any of these instances being brought against him, he’ll be facing great charges by others, seeking reparation for Obama’s crimes. Obama could face life in jail for being a fraud, using a false identity and being the greatest criminal the world has ever seen and ever will see in history.
 
That’s four counts to knockout for Obama in Texas with Judge Hanen. Obama’s not budged since this all began. He’s just been spouting threats and big talk (threatening to take the case to SCOTUS because like a spoiled kid he wants “his way or the high way”. Meanwhile Hanen’s just adding new charges to the same case for Obama and piling it up on him.). …that’s all. He’s not fighting these Texas law-makers, just taking each new slug on the chin, without budging. Obama’s digging himself into a hole so deep, even Superman couldn’t dig himself out of it.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are honing down on Obama the Antichrist at the speed of sound. Hurry to get with this Revelation or you’ll be Left Behind.
The Obots are in total meltdown at BIN and on Internet worldwide.
Spread this news and get all your friends to get on this 24 7 because this will blow today and tomorrow when Obama tries to do something real “smart” and in fact blows his whole show up in doing that.
 
Yes, Obama’s the Antichrist. In the Buddhist Kalachakra too, the Demon-King of the end times fits Obama’s description. Obama’s the Antichrist for both Christianity and Buddhism and all the world’s faiths.

OBAMA PROCLAIMS I AM the ISLAMIC world SAVIOR the MAHDI

I IS WHO I IS, I AM WHO I IS, I CAN DO WHAT I DO.  BECAUSE YOU ARE ALL ASLEEP.....NUCK, NUCK, NUCK NUCK.... I AM YOUR MASTER...WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

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Here we go again!! = Fatal police shooting of unarmed 19-year-old prompts protest

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The fatal shooting of an unarmed black 19-year-old by a white police officer, who authorities say fired after he was assaulted, prompted protesters Saturday to take to the college town's streets with chants of "Black Lives Matter." The city's police chief said he understood the anger, assuring demonstrators his department would defend their rights as he implored the community to act with restraint.

Tony Robinson died Friday night after being shot in his apartment following a confrontation with Officer Matt Kenny, who had forced his way inside after hearing a disturbance while responding to a call, authorities and neighbors said.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said Kenny was injured, but didn't provide details. It wasn't clear whether Robinson, who died at a hospital, was alone.
"He was unarmed. That's going to make this all the more complicated for the investigators, for the public to accept," Koval said of Robinson. The department said Kenny would not have been wearing a body camera.
Several dozen protesters who gathered outside the police department Saturday afternoon held signs and chanted "Black Lives Matter" — a slogan adopted by activists and protesters nationwide after recent officer-involved deaths of unarmed blacks — before walking toward the neighborhood where the shooting took place.
The shooting came days after the U.S. Justice Department said it would not issue civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the white former Ferguson, Missouri, officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black and unarmed, after a struggle in the street last August.
Federal officials did however find patterns of racial profiling, bigotry and profit-driven law enforcement in the St. Louis suburb, which saw spates of sometimes-violent protests in the wake of the shooting and a grand jury's decision not to charge Wilson.

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Kyrisha Isom, left, weeps with Derrick McCann during a rally protesting the shooting death of Tony R …

Other high-profile deaths of black suspects at the hands of police officers have prompted nationwide protests, including that of Eric Garner, who died in July after New York City officers put him in a chokehold and a video showed him repeatedly saying, "I can't breathe." A Cleveland police officer in November fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who had been pointing a pellet gun at a playground. A Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot Dontre Hamilton last April was found to have acted in self-defense, but was fired for ignoring department policy regarding mental illness.
Koval struck a conciliatory tone Saturday while addressing the potential for more protests in Madison, saying he understood the community's distrust after "this tragic death."
"For those who do want to take to the street and protest," Koval said, his department would be there to "defend, facilitate, foster those First Amendment rights of assembly and freedom of speech." The promise echoed as a stark contrast to Ferguson, where an aggressive police response to protesters after Brown's death drew worldwide attention.
Koval also asked protesters to follow what he said was the lead of Robinson's family in asking for "nondestructive" demonstrations.
The chief said he had gone to Robinson's mother's house overnight and spoken with his grandparents and expressed sympathy to his family Saturday, saying, "19 years old is too young."
Family members at community meeting later read a statement prepared by Robinson's mother, Andrea Irwin.

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Madison Police investigate the scene of a shooting on Williamson Street, late Friday, March 6, 2015  …

"I can't even compute what has happened," Irwin's statement said. "I haven't even had a chance to see his body."
Koval said Kenny, a more than 12-year veteran of the Madison department, also shot and killed a suspect in 2007, but was cleared of wrongdoing because it was a "suicide by cop-type" situation. In that shooting, Kenny responded to a 911 call of a man with a gun and shot the man twice after police said he pointed the gun at officers. It turned out to be a pellet gun.
A picture of Kenny on the Madison department's website shows him with a police horse he trains, alongside a short first-person bio in which he says he served nine years in the U.S. Coast Guard before joining the department.
Kenny has been placed on administrative leave pending results of an investigation by the state's Division of Criminal Investigation.
A 2014 Wisconsin law requires police departments to have outside agencies investigate officer-involved deaths after three high-profile incidents within a decade — including one in Madison — didn't result in criminal charges, raising questions from the victims' families about the integrity of investigations.
Madison, about 80 miles west of Milwaukee, is the state capital and home to the University of Wisconsin's flagship campus. About 7 percent of the city's 243,000 residents are black. Neighbors said Robinson's apartment is in a two-story gray house on Williamson Street, known to many as Willy Street.

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Madison Police stand outside the scene of a police involved shooting at a home in Madison, Wis., on  …

Chief Koval said police responded to a call about 6:30 p.m. Friday of a person jumping into traffic. A second call to police said the man was "responsible for a battery," Koval said.
Kenny went to an apartment and forced his way inside after hearing a disturbance. Koval said the officer fired after being assaulted by Robinson; Koval said he couldn't say how many shots were fired because it is part of the investigation.
One of Robinson's neighbors, Grant Zimmerman, said Robinson would run between his apartment and his roommate's mother's house across the street "all the time, even in the middle of traffic."

Wisconsin's online courts database shows that Robinson, a 2014 graduate of Sun Prairie High School, pleaded guilty to felony armed robbery in October and was sentenced in December to three years' probation. A police report said he was among four teenagers arrested in a home invasion in which the suspects were seen entering an apartment building with a long gun. They ran with electronics and other property and three of the four were captured. A shotgun and a "facsimile" handgun were recovered, according to the report.

Koval declined to discuss Robinson's background Saturday, saying he thought it was inappropriate.

"I'm not here to do a character workup on someone who lost his life less than 24 hours ago," Koval said.

A neighbor, Doris King, told the Wisconsin State Journal she asked Robinson about his involvement in the robbery because it seemed out of character for him.

"He felt he was under a lot of pressure from the others to do what he did," she told the newspaper. "He told me he would never do anything like that again."

Williamson Street appeared quiet Saturday evening. At least one Madison Police officer stood in front of the building where the shooting took place.

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Associated Press writer Todd Richmond contributed to this report.

Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State

"Corporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries."--Ray Lewis, Retired Philadelphia Police Captain

It's one thing to know and exercise your rights when a police officer pulls you over, but what rights do you have when a private cop--entrusted with all of the powers of a government cop but not held to the same legal standards--pulls you over and subjects you to a stop-and-frisk or, worse, causes you to "disappear" into a Gitmo-esque detention center not unlike the one employed by Chicago police at Homan Square?

For that matter, how do you even begin to know who you're dealing with, given that these private cops often wear police uniforms, carry police-grade weapons, and perform many of the same duties as public cops, including carrying out SWAT team raids, issuing tickets and firing their weapons.

This is the growing dilemma we now face as private police officers outnumber public officers (more than two to one), and the corporate elite transforms the face of policing in America into a privatized affair that operates beyond the reach of the Fourth Amendment.

Owing to the general complacency of the courts and legislatures, the Fourth Amendment has already been so watered down, battered and bruised as to provide little practical protection against police abuses. Indeed, as I make clear in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, we're already operating in a police state in which police have carte blanche authority to probe, poke, pinch, taser, search, seize, strip and generally manhandle anyone they see fit in almost any circumstance. Expanding on these police powers, the U.S. Supreme Court recently gave law enforcement officials tacit approval to collect DNA from any person, at any time.

However, whatever scant protection the weakened Fourth Amendment provides us dissipates in the face of privatized police, who are paid by corporations working in partnership with the government. Indeed, if militarized police have become the government's standing army, privatized police are its private army--guns for hire, if you will. This phenomenon can be seen from California to New York, and in almost every state in between.

Technically, a private police force is one that is owned or controlled by a non-governmental body such as a corporation.

Read the fine print, however, and you'll find that these private police aka guns-for-hire a.k.a. private armies a.k.a. company police officers a.k.a. secret police a.k.a. conservators of the police a.k.a. rent-a-cops don't exactly remove the government from the equation. Instead, they merely allow them to work behind the scenes, conveniently insulated from any accusations of wrongdoing or demands for transparency. Indeed, most private police officers are either working for private security firms that are contracted by the government or are government workers moonlighting on their time off.

Today these private police can be found wherever extra security is "needed": at hospitals, universities, banks, shopping malls, gated communities, you name it. Yet while these private police firms enjoy the trappings of government agencies--the weaponry, the arrest and shoot authority, even the ability to ticket and frisk-- they're often poorly trained, inadequately screened, poorly regulated and heavily armed. Now if that sounds a lot like public police officers, you wouldn't be far wrong. READ MORE/ENBEDDED LINKS

A WAY TO CRUSH MONTSANTO AND SAVE THE WORLD?

MONT-INSANE-O


FINALLY A WAY TO CRUSH MONTSANTO AND SAVE THE WORLD?


 


 Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium
and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus
can help save the world.


One guess on why we haven't known about this earlier?


CENSORSHIP


THE 'GOVERNMENT' DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THIS!


http://www.ted.com

NATO & the IMF Just Suffered a Disastrous Military Defeat

NATO & the IMF Just Suffered a Disastrous Military Defeat (Part 1)

February 25, 2015  •   BRICS, China, Economy, Freedom, Russia, US Dollar         

Calling a Spade a Spade

Several shield brothers in the past have asked me to write upon a crucial topic: establishing political sovereignty in a bankster world.  For the last several weeks, I’ve answered that call by detailing Hungary’s heroic struggle to reassert itself, and by speaking to Russia and China’s struggle to give the world a SWIFT alternative.  Now though, I want to give another reminder that the struggle for freedom, both monetary and otherwise, in our world is very real.  Real lives are literally at stake around the globe.

To paraphrase a certain actor-turned-politician, I believe the 9 most dreaded words in any language are:  “I’m from the IMF, and I’m here to help!”  

Every country that has accepted that “help” leaves a lasting impression upon any casual observer, as the IMF seems to leave a distinct “card” with their victims.  Hmm, how shall I describe it?

Oh yes!  A full-on, 100-proof bottle of raw, utter destruction:

 

There’s no denying it: the IMF is the world’s foremost predatory lender.  Every “loan” is a complete surrender of sovereignty in disguise, as attached to all that new-found digital credit, are bankster talons that lock into a nation’s soil, its resources, its inhabitants, its dignity, even its very national spirit.

Every country they enter is seemingly either turned into a zombified, debt-slave to DC and London(if they submit), or bombed into a fiery crisp, if they stand up and resist.

Take for instance, oh, say, Ukraine, where both of those scenarios are playing out at once!

Blood on the Bankers’ Hands

Over the last year, since Victoria Nuland’s coup there, which toppled the duly-elected government of that country, the Money Masters thought they’d seized the opportunity to both subdue all of Ukraine and Russia along with it. They thought the entirety of Ukraine was in the bag!

What they couldn’t have foreseen though, was that Ukraine would amusingly prove to be the most disastrous, agonizingly expensive, and intensively, painful migraine that the IMF and NATO has ever experienced!

From the loss of Crimea(and Russia’s coveted naval base), to the embarrassing need to fork over billions of IMF monies to Gazprom(just to keep Kiev’s heat on!), things have been going from bad, to worse….to “just shoot me now, please” for Western bankers.

That was only the beginning of their troubles though!  For soon the Donbass region of Ukraine stood up to the banksters, and voted to secede from IMF-controlled Ukraine.  They called themselves the Republic of Novorossia, and vowed to fight the bankster armies tooth and nail.  

Trust me when I say, that this is a vow that Novorossia has kept!

Just when you thought, “Whoa Watchman, that sounds like a complete trainwreck!”, things get even dicier for the Western bankers!

IMF’s Proxy Army is Trapped

For you see:

After the IMF guns-for-hire(aka the Ukrainian army)wasted thousands of lives, and hundreds of pieces of armored, heavy vehicles, throwing themselves at the front lines….only to fail to subdue the capital city of Donetsk last fall…..

After being humiliatingly pushed back on all fronts(by a much smaller force)…

After being compelled to come to the bargaining table, and agree to a temporary ceasefire, in the city of Minsk last winter…

A larger, even more epic failure and military defeat awaited IMF and NATO forces in Ukraine!

For in January, after enduring artillery fire on their civilians hundreds of times, in violation of the Minsk peace deal, the Novorossian rebels had as much as they could take.  They finally launched a decisive counter-attack, and stormed the Donetsk airport, stunning the DC regime in the worst psychological defeat up til that date.

That airport had been key, because the Ukraine troops stationed there had held out for several months.  All of DC’s and Kiev’s hopes to continue this war, and bring this stubborn populace to heel(who refused to accept the legitimacy of DC’s new puppet government) was staked on that battle, and they lost…big time.  Ah, but that defeat would be dwarfed by what happened next!

Now that the people of Novorossia had the momentum, they pressed it with renewed vigor.  They knew that a new Minsk deal would be reached, but they also knew that if they were to stop the IMF-led troops of Kiev, they’d have to negotiate from a place of strength.  That could not be done from the positions they currently held.

So, onward the Novorossian troops pushed, rolling back the IMF forces for dozens of miles along the front line, until a crucial moment arrived.  A chokepoint was developing around a key city, which linked the two breakaway capitals of Lugansk and Donetsk: a city called Debaltsevo(or Debaltseve).

It was there that the Ukrainian army was given orders to dig in, and defend to the last.  The only problem was, that they were the deepest, furthest point in Novorossian territory, and were in dire threat of being completely surrounded.  Here, take a look at the Ukrainian position.  It’s the big protrusion in the top center of the pink area.  

 

Over 7,000 Ukrainian troops were being slowly surrounded, for miles around, on every side. As the days passed, and the calls to lay down arms were ignored…the sovereign, Novorossian republics shelled the peanut butter out of those poor, duped souls.

Within a week’s time, that map looked like this:

 

It was surreal.  The IMF army, sent to assault civilians and subdue a sovereign people(with billions of dollars of banker cash)….had been utterly trapped.  The men inside the “cauldron” or “pocket”, as it came to be known, were totally cut off, and being shelled to pieces on a daily basis.

It was at this point of desperation, in which Washington DC announced that it was thinking of giving lethal aid to Ukraine; a plan that would not be accepted by DC’s allies.  In fact, once Angela Merkel learned of the US plan to give lethal aid to the failed war against the Novorossian separatists, she came out swinging publicly, saying that:

“Germany will not support Ukraine with guns and weapons…We are putting all our bets on sanctions and doing our best to find a diplomatic solution.”

That was truly the last thing Washington wished to hear.

Merkel and Hollande knew that if DC was allowed to give deadly weapons to Ukraine, it would escalate the war, and perhaps bring a broader, regional war right onto Europe’s doorstep. Considering this whole conflict was the CIA’s and DC’s unwanted pet project anyway, this did not sit well with many of Europe’s leaders.  Something had to be done, and fast.

A Moment of Clarity

Amazingly, in that moment of truth, it was revealed just how opposed Europe truly was to Washington’s goals.  Knowing that the U.S. government planned this coup, and crucially knowing that the Feds intended to escalate it with lethal aid to their hired guns, both Angela Merkel and Francoise Hollande worked with Putin to summon Ukrainian President Poroshenko to a new peace conference in Minsk, within days.

Merkel and Hollande knew the real truth: that the US and UK banksters are the biggest instigators of conflict around the planet.  They also knew that if any peace deal was to have even a ghost of a chance, the US and UK couldn’t be a party to its design.

So it was, that in a huge slap in the faces of John Kerry, David Cameron, and Barack Obama…Europe’s highest state officials met without them, in a desperate attempt to stop the bloodshed that DC was dead set on increasing.

Time was of the essence though: the US Congress had already approved a plan to give lethal aid to Ukraine. If the plan was going to be halted, Europe and Russia had to work together to show the world that they were capable of reaching a diplomatic solution on their own.

It was crunch time, for sure, but after an intense negotiation(which lasted for 16 straight hours of talks) Minsk 2.0 was reached.

Now, let’s be clear about one thing: this peace deal is unlikely to be honored by either the US or Poroshenko’s Ukraine government.  In fact, Ukraine is already trying to deal with the UAE, in attempts to obtain lethal US weaponry(without technically, getting it straight from the US), so that it can continue the war.
However, it was an enormous victory over the IMF and DC, because it achieved several things:

It halted the plan to yet provide further escalation of this war(which DC and the IMF desperately want).

It forced Europe to stand up for its own interests.

It drove a wedge further between Europe’s heads of State and DC.

It proved that diplomatic solutions can be found without the US and UK brokering them.

It placed the burden of keeping the peace deal on Ukraine, not Novorossia.

Yes, much was accomplished, but the most important thing it bought Novorossia, Europe, and Russia was precious time.
Yet, there was another HUGE problem for the US and Ukraine though:

The Minsk 2.0 accord failed to address the 7,000 trapped Ukrainian troops in Debaltsevo!

The Debaltsevo pocket, and the scores of battalions, heavy weapons, and tanks inside were cut out of the deal entirely!  In other words: they were on their own!
“Wait Watchman, I don’t get it!  If such a huge number of men was trapped with virtually no hope of rescue, then why didn’t the Ukrainian government negotiate their release?”
That’s the saddest part about all of this, friend:
Ukrainian President Poroshenko was so dishonest and delusional, that for several weeks, he spent every waking moment denying that there were any trapped troops at Debaltsevo at all!  He denied to the Ukrainian people and the press that there even was a “pocket”.  He pretended all this even during the peace accord, where he could’ve easily brokered a deal to save the lives of roughly half of the battle-ready troops of Ukraine!
Those men, who had fought for him, were abandoned in return, without even an acknowledgement that they existed.
Truly incredible.
As a result…since the Minsk deal only secured “the line of contact”(the front lines), and since admitting this defeat would bring Poroshenko an enormous loss of face, the Ukrainian army was cut off, shelled for several weeks….and annihilated altogether in the Debaltsevo cauldron.
Here’s what the map looks like now.

 

The pocket is no more, and the IMF troops inside it are all gone.  A few of them escaped, but most were captured or killed.  How many Ukrainian men did the IMF needlessly throw away in that one battle alone?
That’s difficult to pin down, but the more reliable estimates(from Donetsk) say that up to 3,500 Ukrainian soldiers were killed while in that pocket….in less than two weeks.

Furthermore, several hundred prisoners were taken, and up to a quarter of all the Ukrainian army’s gear is now in the hands of the sovereign republics of Lugansk and Donetsk(including over 80 tanks).  

This point also underscores something that the geniuses in DC haven’t thought of:

Even if they gave lethal aide to Ukraine, at this rate, those weapons would end up in the hands of their opponents within weeks or days!  Despite the IMF’s vast monies being thrown into the fray, their dreams of oppressing yet another people are hitting a rock, solid wall of resistance in Novorossia.  It is inspiring, to say the least!

Conclusion

For the last several weeks, I’ve given our brotherhood some real world examples of successful resistance to the banksters on multiple fronts: the political sphere, the monetary one, and now the military one.  I normally write about the monetary side of the world’s struggle against the banksters, but today I chose to write about a literal, military struggle against them, to impress a few things upon us:
Firstly, this isn’t a game.
Real people are dying because of the wars these bankers start.  As Chris Duane has said, the Anglo-American empire spreads “debt and death” around the world. We know of the debts all too well, but this is a taste of the death they’re currently responsible for.  I also wrote this though, to demonstrate that these banking powers, far from being invincible, have actually never been weaker than they are now.

Keep in mind brothers, this new, catastrophic defeat on the field of battle, comes right on the heels of fresh defeats on the monetary front as well.  With the ratification of the new BRICS Bank this week, with the near completion of the new SWIFT alternative, which is being connected to hundreds of Russian banks and lenders as we speak, there can be little doubt:

De-dollarization is not only happening, but is close to reaching “escape velocity”.  With the world’s alternative lending and wiring systems a go, it’s now only a matter of time before the rest of the necessary preparations for walking away from the US dollar are finished.  The IMF is all wet, as their personal shock troop army has met defeat after defeat at the hands of “former tractor drivers, and coal miners”.

Ukraine has become the all-consuming headache that no amount of aspirin can dent.

Though the coup by the banksters in Kiev may have resulted in a war that has claimed as many as 50,000 lives, and may have stopped Ukraine from signing a trade treaty with Russia, it has most certainly:

Failed to take away Russia’s naval base in the Black Sea.

Failed to plant the bankers’ talons in Crimea.

Failed in its attempts to conscript the numbers of troops Kiev needs in their insane war.

Failed in its false flag shoot-down of MH17, to suck Russia into the conflict.

Failed to usher Ukraine into NATO.

Failed to conquer a tiny territory, despite being fully funded by IMF war-hawks.

Failed to maintain any credibility in the eyes of the world.

Failed to rescue thousands of its own troops which were obliterated at Debaltsevo.

Failed to keep the Ukrainian currency, the Hryvnya, from spiraling into a truly, hyperinflationary collapse.

Failed to even pay much of its heating bills!

The desperate battle plan of the Banking Dragon, to yank away Ukraine from the East is floundering in the mud. DC and the IMF, who have already shuttled roughly $30 billion dollars into the Ukrainian money pit, are discovering that country is a black hole investment.

Obama and Poroshenko can plan fresh hostilities and the breaking of Minsk 2.0 all they want, but time is not on their side.  From economic collapse in Ukraine, to hyperinflation, to the risk of a brand new uprising developing by restless locals, the newest, banker puppet regime in Ukraine is in danger of losing control after just one year in power.  Incredible.

If this is all making the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, then good!  It should do that! For against all odds, the tiny republics of Donetsk and Lugansk have thus far demonstrated a most potent desire to resist Western, banker oppression in their lands.

Their indomitable spirit has also demonstrated another powerful truth:

When a people, with God’s help, and an unbreakable desire for real sovereignty, latches onto a cause worth actually fighting and dying for…

Then despite legions of tanks or armored vehicles from the CIA, IMF, NATO, US, and UK sent against that people to subjugate them…

That people can still prevail!

Continued here, in Part 2