HOW EXTREMELY STUPID AMERICA HAS BECOME

DEPRESSING  SURVEY  RESULTS  SHOW  HOW  EXTREMELY  STUPID  AMERICA  HAS  BECOME

Michael Snyder

March 29 2016

Ten years ago, a major Hollywood film entitled “Idiocracy” was released, and it was an excellent metaphor for what would happen to America over the course of the next decade.

In the movie, an “average American” wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that he suddenly finds himself in.

Sadly, I truly believe that if people of average intellect from the 1950s and 1960s were transported to 2016, they would likely be considered mental giants compared to the rest of us.  

We have a country where criminals are being paid $1000 a month not to shoot people, and the highest paid public employee in more than half the states is a football coach.  

Hardly anyone takes time to read a book any more, and yet the average American spends 302 minutes a day watching television.   

75 percent of our young adults cannot find Israel on a map of the Middle East, but they sure know how to find smut on the Internet.  

It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet today, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.

What in the world has happened to us?  How is it possible that we have become so stupid?  According to a brand new report that was recently released, almost 10 percent of our college graduates believe that Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court…

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know.

Nearly 10 percent of the college graduates surveyed thought Judith Sheindlin, TV’s “Judge Judy,” is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Less than 20 percent of the college graduates knew the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation.

More than a quarter of the college graduates did not know Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World War II; one-third did not know he was the president who spearheaded the New Deal.

It can be tempting to laugh at numbers like these until you realize that survey after survey has come up with similar results.

Just consider what Newsweek found a few years ago…

When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president.

Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar.

Even worse were the extremely depressing results of a study conducted a few years ago by Common Core…

*Only 43 percent of all U.S. high school students knew that the Civil War was fought some time between 1850 and 1900.

*More than a quarter of all U.S. high school students thought that Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean after the year 1750.

*Approximately a third of all U.S. high school students did not know that the Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

*Only 60 percent of all U.S. students knew that World War I was fought some time between 1900 and 1950.

Of course survey results can be skewed, and much hinges on how the questions are asked.

However, even studies that are scientifically conducted confirm how stupid America has become.  In fact, a report from the Educational Testing Service found that Americans are falling way behind much of the rest of the industrialized world.  

The following comes from CBS News…

Americans born after 1980 are lagging their peers in countries ranging from Australia to Estonia, according to a new report from researchers at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). The study looked at scores for literacy and numeracy from a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, which tested the abilities of people in 22 countries.

The results are sobering, with dire implications for America. It hints that students may be falling behind not only in their early educational years but at the college level.

Even though more Americans between the ages of 20 to 34 are achieving higher levels of education, they’re still falling behind their cohorts in other countries.

In Japan, Finland and the Netherlands, young adults with only a high school degree scored on par with American Millennials holding four-year college degrees, the report said.

Out of 22 countries that were part of the study, the Educational Testing Service found that Americans were dead last in tech proficiency, dead last in numeracy and only two countries performed worse than us when it came to literacy proficiency…

Half of American Millennials score below the minimum standard of literacy proficiency. Only two countries scored worse by that measure: Italy (60 percent) and Spain (59 percent). The results were even worse for numeracy, with almost two-thirds of American Millennials failing to meet the minimum standard for under standing and working with numbers. That placed U.S. Millennials dead last for numeracy among the study’s 22 developed countries.

So why has this happened?

Why have we become such an extremely stupid nation?

Well, at least a portion of the blame must be directed at our system of education.

The following is an excerpt from an article written by reporter Mark Morford.  

In this article, he shared how one of his friends which had served for a very long time as a high school teacher in Oakland, California was considering moving out of the country when he retired due to the relentless “dumb-ification of the American brain”…

It’s gotten so bad that, as my friend nears retirement, he says he is very seriously considering moving out of the country so as to escape what he sees will be the surefire collapse of functioning American society in the next handful of years due to the absolutely irrefutable destruction, the shocking — and nearly hopeless — dumb-ification of the American brain. It is just that bad.

Now, you may think he’s merely a curmudgeon, a tired old teacher who stopped caring long ago. Not true. Teaching is his life. He says he loves his students, loves education and learning and watching young minds awaken. Problem is, he is seeing much less of it.

And of course things don’t get much better when it comes to our college students.  In a previous article, I shared some statistics from USA Today about the rapidly declining state of college education in the United States…
 
-“After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change.”

-“Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago”

-“35% of students report spending five or fewer hours per week studying alone.”

-“50% said they never took a class in a typical semester where they wrote more than 20 pages”

-“32% never took a course in a typical semester where they read more than 40 pages per week.”

I spent eight years studying at some of the finest public universities in the country, and I can tell you from personal experience that even our most challenging college courses have been pathetically dumbed down.

And at our “less than finest” public universities, the level of education can be something of a bad joke.  

In another previous article, I shared some examples of actual courses that have been taught at U.S. universities in recent years…

-“What If Harry Potter Is Real?”
-“Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame”
-“Philosophy And Star Trek”
-“Learning From YouTube”
-“How To Watch Television”

Could you imagine getting actual college credit for a course entitled “What If Harry Potter Is Real?”

This is why many of our college graduates can barely put two sentences together.  They aren’t being challenged, and the quality of the education most of them are receiving is incredibly poor.

But even though they aren’t being challenged, students are taking longer to get through college than ever.  

Federal statistics reveal that only 36 percent of all full-time students receive a bachelor’s degree within four years, and only 77 percent of all full-time students have earned a bachelor’s degree by the end of six years.

Of course our system of education is not entirely to blame.  The truth is that young Americans spend far more time consuming media than they do hitting the books, and what passes for “entertainment” these days is rapidly turning their brains to mush.

According to a report put out by Nielsen, this is how much time the average American spends consuming media on various devices each day…

Watching live television: 4 hours, 32 minutes
Watching time-shifted television: 30 minutes
Listening to the radio: 2 hours, 44 minutes
Using a smartphone: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Using Internet on a computer: 1 hour, 6 minutes

When you add it all up, the average American spends more than 10 hours a day plugged into some form of media.

And if you allow anyone to pump “programming” into your mind for 10 hours a day, it is going to have a dramatic impact.

In the end, I truly believe that we all greatly underestimate the influence that the mainstream media has on all of us.  We willingly plug into “the Matrix” for endless hours, but then somehow we still expect “to think for ourselves”.

There are very few of us that can say that we have not been exposed to thousands upon thousands of hours of conditioning.  And all of that garbage can make it very, very difficult to think clearly.

It is not because of a lack of input that we have become so stupid as a society.  The big problem is what we are putting into our minds.

If we continue to put garbage in, we are going to continue to get garbage out, and that is the cold, hard reality of the matter.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/depressing-survey-results-show-how-extremely-stupid-america-has-become

Canadian Leader Heading To Secret Meeting Killed

Canadian Leader Heading To Secret Meet With Trump-Sanders Reps Killed

A chilling new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that one of Canada’s most beloved television and radio personalities, Jean Lapierre, was killed yesterday in Quebec Province by “a deliberate terrorist act” when his aircraft was targeted just hours prior to his secret meeting with top representatives from the American political campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. 

Top Canadian media personality and politician Jean Lapierre

According to this report, SVR “assets” this past weekend were monitoring the “movement / actions” of a small contingent of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) terror fighters that were secreted from the Levant War Zone territory of Syria into Turkey, then flown out from Incirlik Air Base (IAB), landing first at Canadian Forces Base Greenwood in Nova Scotia, then completing their flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Upon these Islamic State terror fighters landing in California, their US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) “handlers / instructors / protectors” transported them to a desert region outside the town of Apple Valley where, this past Sunday (27 March), they began firing their weapons at American citizens who had been hiking and camping in the area.

The SVR notes in this report that this “bizarre / strange” CIA-MI6 exercise involving these Islamic State fighters terrorizing American citizens was “more than likely” intended as a “simulated event” to test the reactions of local police forces who might in the future encounter these terrorists—and is a theory the SVR says is supported by the fact that as soon as local US police and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) forces captured these terrorists, they were all let go “without charge”.

Captured Islamic State terrorists in California before being set free 27 March 2016

After their release by US police and FBI forces, the Islamic State terror fighters were then transported back to Edwards Air Force Base where the SVR presumed they would begin their journey back to Turkey—but upon their plane landing for refueling in Nova Scotia Monday evening (28 March), 4 of these fighters departed their flight and boarded a smaller plane that had filed a flight plan for the Îles-de-la-Madeleine Airport in Quebec, Canada.

In attempting to ascertain as to why these four Islamic State terrorists were being transported to this “small / tiny” Quebec island, the SVR was “enlightened / shocked” to discover that an Air Canada flight from Albany, New York to Montreal, Quebec had scheduled passengers belonging to both the Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns aboard who all were then scheduled to continue flying on to Îles-de-la-Madeleine Airport.

A further “electronic countermeasure” investigation by the SVR of these Trump-Sanders “high level” representatives as to why they were traveling to this island revealed a “significant” level of “contact / correspondence” with Jean Lapierre who had, likewise, yesterday morning filed a flight plan to travel there, too.

Upon compiling these “alarming / suspicious” “evidentiary facts” the SVR then sent to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) an urgent “investigate / inquire” request that was not responded to and, within three hours of this request being made, public reports began to state that Jean Lapierre’s plane had crashed while it was landing at this small islands airport killing him and 6 others aboard. 

To why the representatives of Trump-Sanders would be meeting with Jean Lapierre, SVR analysts in this report state, is due to this Canadian politician being one of the most knowledgeable and powerful Western leaders who successfully established, across all party and ideological lines, a potent anti-establishment political party called the Bloc Québécois.

Founded in June 1991 the Bloc Québécois broke with Canada’s establishment and created a populist movement political party centered on the rights of French speaking Quebec peoples and bringing under its leadership former political enemies from both the left and right—a near mirror circumstance existing in the United States today should Trump and Sanders unite their populist movements. 

With populist sentiment fueling both Trump and Sanders, their campaign rallies draw tens-of-thousands of disaffected American voters filled with anger against their nations 'elite' rulers, and whose constituencies are now being observed to be merging and which, should they do, they would destroy both the Democratic and Republican parties.  

Unlike any other American Democratic Party politician, Sanders would, in fact, be acceptable to right-leaning Trump supporters due to his long support of gun rights which were necessitated by his being a representative from the State of Vermont whose gun laws are nearly nonexistent.

And to the likelihood of a Trump-Sanders presidential ticket becoming a fact, it now appears a near certainty as both of these populist leaders, of both the left and the right, and no matter how many contests they win, are seeing the outright theft by their political parties of their nominations — Trump’s being done by the theft of the delegates he has won, and Sanders by a system that gives his opponent what are called “super delegates” the American people aren’t even allowed to vote for.

Too, if the American people will be allowed to know these facts and though not mentioned in this SVR report, it is important to note that one of Germany’s top journalists recently admitted that the news is “completely fake” because “we all lie for the CIA.”  

A top US journalist admitted to fake news being told, and other journalists have admitted that the US government actually pays to have lies disguised as news reported, too.  

Sorcha Faal  

March 30, 2016

TEAM TRUMP PLANNING STRATEGY

TEAM  TRUMP  PLANNING  STRATEGY  FOR  BROKERED     GOP  CONVENTION

NBC News , WTLV 6:10 AM. EST March 25, 2016

 

 

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump has a clear answer to questions about a contested convention in Cleveland — it's not happening. "I know the press likes to talk about the brokered convention," he told NBC this week, "but I think we're doing really well."  

The dealmaker, however, is not leaving anything to chance.  While Trump publicly dismisses talk of a battle in Cleveland, he is quietly assembling a team of seasoned operatives to manage a contested convention. Their strategy, NBC has learned, is to convert delegates in the crucial 40 days between the end of the primaries and the convention - while girding for a floor fight in Cleveland if necessary.

The outreach is already underway.

"We are talking to tons of delegates," says Barry Bennett, a former Ben Carson campaign manager now leading the delegate strategy for Trump.  Under  Republican Party rules, a candidate who wins a majority of 1,237 delegates during the primaries clinches the presidential nomination. If no candidate wins that majority, delegates vote on the nominee at an open convention.

Bennett says the campaign has planned two distinct phases for winning in an open convention.

- First, there is a window to lock down delegate commitments between the last primary on June 7 and the convention start on July 18.  "You've got 40 days between the last primary and the convention," Bennett says, "to go woo the appropriate number of unbound delegates." It's a long time if the gap is small.  "You still have a chance to put together 50 or 75 delegates to win on the first ballot," Bennett says, "that's Phase One."

The campaign could obtain signed, public commitments from those delegates in June — signaling to the rest of the party that Trump will be the nominee.  Sources in the Trump campaign say this approach thwarts a key premise of the "Stop Trump" effort, which assumes a long floor fight if Trump finishes the  primaries without a delegate majority.  The campaign believes, however, that it could line up those personal commitments from the remaining delegates. Then it would march into Cleveland with an orderly victory on the first ballot.

The math shows that this is an achievable path.

There are now 323 delegates currently up for grabs on the first ballot. These are delegates who backed Rubio and Carson or hail from states that don't bind their vote, (such as Colorado and North Dakota).  If Trump falls short by 100 delegates, he could close the gap by locking in one out of three of those unbound delegates. That is certainly possible, considering he has won about 37 percent of all votes so far.

It is a point that may be lost on some still rooting for a long contested convention — if Trump keeps winning primaries, he won't need many of the convention delegates.  Still, the campaign has assembled a delegate team of about a dozen people ready to game out these convention scenarios. The team includes Trump's general counsel, former FEC commissioner Don McGahn, former Carson aides such as Jason Osborne, who handled floor operations at past conventions, and Ed Brookover, a former RNC political director with deep ties to Washington Republicans.

The hires come as the Cruz campaign is already proving it is trying to out-organize Trump at state party conventions where they can add to their delegate count in order to better position themselves to stop Trump in Cleveland. Only two states have held those local conventions so far, and Cruz successfully added to his delegate count in Louisiana earlier this month.

Asked to assess this "Phase One" strategy — picking off delegates before the convention — a former high ranking RNC official praised Trump's team, but warned there's no way to know if the plan works before delegates are chosen at state conventions. "They have an experienced team in place to do it," the former official said, "but I don't know how you gauge success before you know who the delegates are."

'Every Man and Woman for Themselves'
 
Trump faces an even more unpredictable process on the convention floor if he does not lock in a clear delegate majority before Cleveland.  If no candidate clinches the nomination on the first ballot, there are new rounds of voting, and the rules allow delegates to switch teams.

An operative on Trump's convention team, who was not authorized to speak on the record, described Phase Two as an effort to prevent attrition in that balloting. "Our goal," the aide says, "is to make sure every delegate Trump has now stays a Trump delegate on the second ballot."

The horse-trading also intensifies on later balloting. "It's every man and woman for themselves," Bennett said, "and that's when the negotiations start." "It's everything from, 'Come campaign in our state,' or 'Do a fundraiser for a state party,' or 'Put stronger language about right to life in the platform,'" he said. "Or all kinds of crazy things that are important to whoever the delegate is."

The challenge for the Trump campaign will be closely tracking which delegates want to bargain, and what the campaign can deliver in return.  One campaign operative, who joined Trump's convention team during the primaries, expressed surprise at that effort already in the works. "I think the mistaken impression is that they weren't playing by the traditional rules before," said the campaign staff member, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"One of the pleasant surprises I had when I joined was that the state directors were already engaged in the process."Even some of Trump's detractors concede he is well-positioned to win even a contested convention.
"It's like a recount — always better to go into it with a lead," Stuart Stevens, a former Romney campaign strategist, told NBC NEWS.

'Mathematically Unfair'

While his convention team prepares, Trump is publicly casting any challenge to his nomination as either dangerous or unfair.

In a CNN interview on March 17, Trump said "I think you'd have riots" if delegates blocked him from the nomination at the convention.

This week, he told Fox Business it would be "mathematically unfair" if he lost the nomination after winning 400 more delegates than Cruz.

On Monday, he called the majority delegate requirement "unfair" seven times, arguing that it's too hard for the front-runner to win 50 percent in a race with over 5 candidates.

Convention Insurance

Several campaign sources stressed that Trump's convention operation is an insurance policy for an unlikely event.  Bennett says the campaign's internal projections show Trump will finish the primaries with about 1,450 delegates. That number was top of mind for the candidate himself this week, as he offered reporters a tour of his new hotel at Washington's Old Post Office.
"If we do pretty well — just pretty well — we're at 1400," he told NBC News.

To win the bare 1,237 delegate majority, Trump would need to win 54 percent of the remaining delegates, an achievable outcome according to NBC estimates.  Most of the remaining states award delegates by essentially rounding up, with winner-take-all Congressional Districts, a potential benefit for whichever candidate is finishing strong.

Cruz currently trails Trump by 281 delegates, after winning all 40 delegates in Utah this week, a winner-take-all state.

For Republican insiders, if Trump finishes a little shy of 1,237 delegates, the key question may not be whether it's theoretically possible to stop him in Cleveland — but whether it is practical.

An RNC official working on convention planning said party insiders increasingly expect Trump to be the nominee, which impacts how hard people really want to push a lost cause.  "Lee Atwater always told us, 'If it's happening, be for it,'" said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "This is happening."

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/data/politics/team-trump-planning-strategy-for-brokered-gop-convention/101780536 

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Then there's the following addition to this story line:

 

1.  This country does not have a bonafide government (Republic) for which to hold an honest election!  The nation has been held hostage to a criminal nazi corporation PRETENDING TO BE a government since at least 1933.  Also true for the criminal Rothschild banking system erroneously referring to itself as THE FEDERAL RESERVE WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A GOVERNMENT, ONLY TO FILL THE PURSES OF THE CRIMINALS BY ROBBING AND DEFRAUDING THE PEOPLE. (SAME FOR THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE.)

 

2.  The public does NOT vote for an officer of a CORPORATION; i.e. we don't vote for officers for Coca Cola, or Halliburton, or General Dynamics, or Northrop Grumman, etc.

(http://www.fairfaxcountyeda.org/facts-and-figures/business-lists/washington-technologys-top-federal-contractors-list) and, by the same token, we do NOT vote for the officers of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CORPORATION.  A TOTAL SHAM ON THE PEOPLE. 

 

3.  The 'voters' don't even realize that they do NOT have an 'election' OR a 'vote'!!! The whole thing, including the debates, the interviews by (the controlled) media, the mud slinging, is a total deception production.  Even if there WAS an actual vote, the outcomes are totally controlled by the shysters, the likes of Soros and others who will only ALLOW one of their traitorous 'good ole boys' club to occupy any position of authority in their deceptive corporations. The 'winners' are announced before the 'elections' have barely begun, and the 'winners' are ALWAYS the pre-selected individual to occupy the coveted office.  The 'voters' all weep, either for joy or for disappointment, at the outcome of the fraudulent 'elections.  

4.  So - Americans are finally waking up to the deception and fraud, and the matrix bondage they have been held prisoner in for well over 100 years.  They are tired of the lies and deceit.   They are tired of being defrauded and treated with total disregard and disrespect.  They have found HOPE in an individual by the name of DONALD TRUMP.  And, though they are still afraid of once again being deceived - even by Trump - the message he espouses is that one held in the minds and hearts of awake Americans. The message gives them hope.  The message gives them something to work for, to live for, to 'vote' for.  The real problem is the ignorant Americans who live off the hard work of the rest of us, those who live on welfare, make excuses for not getting off their duffs and seeking gainful employment. These are the ones who - even now - are led like sheep to slaughter by their own kind who seek to use them as cannon fodder to divide and conquer this nation, bringing it to its knees for the death and destruction in process by the new world order satanic system.  

Will America be discerning enough to see this plan for our destruction?  Will America repent for her sins and turn back to our God?  Will America refuse to allow the traitors in this nation to lead them by the nose any longer?  Will America stand up and fight for her very survival?

 

May the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob grant to each the discernment, strength and desire to make that last stand for FREEDOM for our beloved nation - AMERICA.  United we stand - divided we fall.  ONE NATION UNDER GOD ...............................

DOCTORS MURDERED FOR DISCOVERY OF GENOCIDE BY VACCINES

Doctors  Who  Discovered  Cancer  Enzymes  in  Vaccines  all  Found  Murdered

February 28, 2016 by Rory Hall

 

 

Not long ago, Neon Nettle reported on the epidemic of doctors being murdered, most of which were in Florida, U.S. The scientists all shared a common trait, they had all discovered that nagalase enzyme protein was being added to vaccines which were then administrated to humans. (SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO))

 

Nagalese is what prevents vitamin D from being produced in the body, which is the body’s main defense to naturally kill cancer cells.

According to Thebigriddle.com: Nagalase is a protein that’s also created by all cancer cells. This protein is also found in very high concentrations in autistic children. And they’re PUTTING it in our vaccines!!

This prevents the body from utilizing the Vitamin D necessary to fight cancer and prevent autism. Nagalese disables the immune system. It’s also known to cause Type 2 Diabetes. So basically…they weren’t killing these doctors because they had found the cure to cancer or were successfully treating autism… they’re killing them because these Dr’s had been researching and had the evidence that the vaccines they’re injecting our precious children with are CAUSING our current cancer and autism crisis!!

And that it’s obviously being done knowingly and on purpose! The Dr’s they killed in FL had been collaborating and were getting ready to go public with the information.

Depopulation 101..add poison to vaccines…make it law that all children must be injected to attend school. Slow kill methods. They think they’re being fair w/ their “survival of the fittest” type mentality. Only the best genes survive? These people have no souls.

Dr Ted Broer broke it on The Hagmann & Hagmann Report and it took them a whole hour just to get him on air b/c their 3 hour show was brought down and every line they tried to use kept disconnecting…and then their servers were brought down.

They asked a bunch of people to pray against the attack and then finally got him on a secured line..and so a full hour into the show they were finally back on the air and connected to Dr Broer and the first thing he said was “I am in no way suicidal.” He was super nervous holding onto this info…afraid he’d be taken out Hastings style before he got a chance to say it publicly. So listen to this short clip of him breaking the story.

It’s a 19 min clip but the most important info is heard within the first 10 min. It is definitely some of the most important news I’ve ever heard, and it needs to go viral.
 

Doctors are Being Killed
for Saving Your Children 
Most Urgent!!!

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2016/02/28/doctors-who-discovered-cancer-enzymes-in-vaccines-all-found-murdered/

Lead and cadium in chocolate

Are  You  Eating  Toxic  Chocolate?  Lead  Found  in  Trader  Joe’s,  Hershey’s  and                                Other  Chocolates

As You Sow | March 26, 2016 8:40 am


Consumer health watchdog As You Sow released results Wednesday showing that 35 of 50 chocolate products tested, including chocolate bunnies and eggs, expose consumers to lead and cadmium above levels set by California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act.

Testing commissioned by As You Sow, and conducted at independent laboratories, indicates that the chocolate products contain lead and/or cadmium, and they fail to provide the legally required warning to consumers.

“Lead exposure is associated with neurological impairment, such as learning disabilities and decreased IQ, even at very low levels. In fact, there is no safe level of lead for children,” said Eleanne van Vliet, MPH, As You Sow’s environmental health consultant.

As You Sow has filed legal notices against chocolate manufacturers, including Trader Joe’s, Hershey’s, Green and Black’s, Lindt, Whole Foods, Kroger, Godiva, See’s Candies, Mars, Theo Chocolate, Equal Exchange, Ghirardelli, Earth Circle Organics and more for failure to warn of lead and/or cadmium in their chocolate products.

“As underscored by the Flint disaster, humans have contaminated our environment with lead and now we must do everything in our power to protect ourselves and children who are the most vulnerable of us from every possible exposure,” said Sean Palfrey, MD, a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics and public health at Boston University School of Medicine. “Young children and pregnant women especially should avoid exposure to lead.”

Scientists have linked chronic cadmium exposure to kidney, liver and bone damage in humans. Children are more susceptible to especially susceptible to even from low doses over time. Animal studies associate cadmium exposure with decreased birth weight, neurobehavioral problems and male reproductive harm.

Recent revelations of lead contamination in water in Flint, Michigan raised awareness that lead is irrefutably linked to neurological impacts in children. Since 1992, As You Sow has led enforcement actions resulting in removal of lead from children’s jewelry and formaldehyde from portable classrooms.

“Lead and cadmium accumulate in the body, so avoiding exposure is important, especially for children,” explained Danielle Fugere, As You Sow president. “Our goal is to work with chocolate manufacturers to find ways to avoid these metals in their products.”

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https://ecowatch.com/2016/03/26/lead-cadmium-chocolate/

More control

Newspaper letter hits nail on the head

Watch Steven Segal Say That American Mass Shootings Are “Engineered” By The Government

It’s never easy for a celebrity to share their opinion on global issues. If they do, they run the risk of endangering their life and the lives of their loved ones, along with their career and reputation. That being said, a growing number of celebrities have been choosing to use their status to help enact positive change on the planet and create awareness about various important issues.

Some recent examples include Roseanne Barr, who stated that Hollywood and the entire entertainment industry itself are dominated by MK Ultra – the name for a previously classified research program through the CIA’s scientific intelligence division. It was the CIA’s program of research in behavioural modification and the manipulation of the mind. You can read more about that here.

Another is Ashton Kutcher who, a couple of years ago, stated that Hollywood and the industry are full of insider secrets to keep your career going, and that he felt like a fraud. He told his fans that that when you grow up, you don’t have to think like everybody else, or how you are told to think, or follow the rules that some people have created for us — that you can build your own life and create something new. You can watch that video here.

Russell Brand is another great example. He has been using his voice, reach, and popularity to create awareness for a variety of issues. You can find out/read more about that by clicking here.

Last but not least is Steven Segal, a prominent actor for many years who has been very vocal about a number of issues. You may ask yourself, what does Steven Segal know? Well, he did facilitate a U.S. congressional visit to Russia on counter-terrorism cooperation and also has many ‘high’ connections within the Russian government. He also knows the Russian president personally.

He was quoted as saying (in the interview below with RT news) that:

“We believe that many of the people in America are not going along with the hocus pocus of certain governmental bodies who want to try and perpetuate the Cold War, we believe that the Cold War is a fantasy and a hoax to perpetuate maybe some sort of financial gain….” 

“You have to understand, whether or not it is intelligent, or ethical, or moral, one of the great techniques of even Adolf Hitler … [is to] tell a lie enough times and it becomes the truth. One of the things that, you know, certain people’s regime has become very adept at is controlling the press, and controlling the media … For example, CNN, do I think CNN is completely telling it like it is? No, I think they have an agenda, I think their agenda is bought and paid for…. This isn’t about telling the truth, who’s right or who’s wrong, it’s about a smear campaign and who can manipulate the press.” 

“I am not prepared to make a comment on what’s happening in Syria because in America I don’t believe we are being told the whole truth.” 

“I believe that, I hate to say this, a lot of these mass murders and all this funny stuff that’s going on, I believe a lot of this is engineered.” 

In the last quote, he is talking about the Boston Bombings and other such events.

Segal Is Not Alone In His Beliefs

“The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al-Qaeda, and any informed intelligence officer knows this. But, there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an intensified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive TV watchers to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the United States.” – Former British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook

These beliefs are backed up by documents and evidence, which is exactly why these people (and many more) are drawing the conclusions that they are.
We would love to hear your opinions on Segal’s comments, so please feel free to share in the comments section below.
In the interest of time please refer to these articles for more information regarding this topic:
Ahmed Mohamed: Something Nobody Is Talking About When It Comes To The Clock Making Teen 
US Intelligence Officer: “Every Single Terrorist Attack In US Was A False Flag Attack
14 Years Later & People Are Still Waking Up To These Facts About 9/11
Award Winning American Journalist Exposes The True Origin Of ISIS & The “War On Terror.”
FBI Whistleblower: “US Is Reviving Terror Scare With ISIS To Promote The Terror War Industry.” 
U.S. Soldier Uses Heart Breaking Wikileaks Video To Make His Point

 http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/10/19/watch-steven-segal-say-that-american-mass-shootings-are-engineered-by-the-government/

The vaccine in Vaxxed: so pure, angels sent it for your kiddies

 (To read about Jon's mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

 

By Jon Rappoport

 

Whatever happens in a doctor's office must be good, right?

 

Don't worry, be happy, angels brought the MMR vaccine to Earth so doctors could shoot your kiddies with it.

 

The film, Vaxxed, which has been axed from the Tribeca Film Festival, is all about the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine.

 

Long-time CDC researcher, Bill Thompson, publicly admitted he and his colleagues committed gross fraud, to make the vaccine seem safe, to pretend it had no connection to autism, when it did. They lied. That's what Vaxxed is about.

 

So pardon me, but I thought I'd offer some quotes about MMR. Just to keep you in the loop.

 

"In 1977, 34 new cases of measles were reported on the campus of UCLA, in a population that was supposedly 91% immune, according to careful serological testing. Another 20 cases of measles were reported in the Pecos, New Mexico, area within a period of a few months in 1981, and 75% of them had been fully immunized, some of them quite recently. A survey of sixth-graders in a well-immunized urban community revealed that about 15% of this age group are still susceptible to rubella, a figure essentially identical with that of the pre-vaccine era." Richard Moskowitz, MD, The Case Against Immunizations, 1983, American Institute of Homeopathy.

 

At the excellent site, thinktwice.com, long-time vaccine investigator and author, Neil Z Miller, has assembled an impressive cache of information about the MMR vaccine. Here are a few highlights:

 

"The drug company that makes the MMR vaccine publishes an extensive list of warnings, contraindications, and adverse reactions associated with this triple shot. These may be found in the vaccine package insert available from any doctor giving MMR, and in the Physician's Desk Reference (PDR) at the library. The following afflictions affecting nearly every body system -- blood, lymphatic, digestive, cardiovascular, immune, nervous, respiratory, and sensory -- have been reported following receipt of the MMR shot: encephalitis, encephalopathy, neurological disorders, seizure disorders, convulsions, learning disabilities, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), demyelination of the nerve sheaths, Guillain-Barre' syndrome (paralysis), muscle incoordination, deafness, panniculitis, vasculitis, optic neuritis (including partial or total blindness), retinitis, otitis media, bronchial spasms, fever, headache, joint pain, arthritis (acute and chronic), transverse myelitis, thrombocytopenia (blood clotting disorders and spontaneous bleeding), anaphylaxis (severe allergic reactions), lymphadenopathy, leukocytosis, pneumonitis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, erythema multiforme, urticaria, pancreatitis, parotitis, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, meningitis, diabetes, autism, immune system disorders, and death."

 

More from Neil Miller: "This section contains unsolicited adverse reaction reports associated with the MMR vaccine. They are typical of the daily emails received by the ThinkTwice Global Vaccine Institute:

 

[MMR114] My 12-month-old received his MMR shot on a Friday. The following Friday he had a 104 degree temperature and became violently ill. The doctor said it was a stomach virus. But on Monday morning he woke up with a rash all over. I took him to the doctor and was very upset to learn that this is very common.

 

[MMR128] Recently, my 13-month-old had his MMR. He now has constant high fevers and seizures, which he never had. He is a totally different boy. This is devastating.

 

[MMR176] My friend's 15-month-old daughter received an MMR vaccine. Within eight days she was hospitalized with a 104 degree fever and a skin rash. My friend called to see what I could find out about Stevens-Johnson syndrome. They told her that her daughter may die as a result of this.

 

[MMR203] A dear friend lost her 15-month old daughter two weeks after her MMR. She was healthy and showed no signs of illness yet died suddenly in her sleep one afternoon. The post mortem revealed a viral infection and traces of pneumonia, but her mother and I find it very hard to believe that the vaccination wasn't to blame.

 

[MMR216] Three days ago my friend's 15-month-old daughter was hospitalized after experiencing a high fever and her first seizure. The hospital put the baby through a series of tests, including a CAT scan and CBC. My friend told me he thought it was a reaction to the MMR vaccine she recently received. However, the doctors were puzzled as to the cause and disallowed this explanation.

 

[MMR315] When my daughter was just over one year old, she received her MMR vaccination. Later that day she had a high fever, and I put her to bed. I was busy doing housework downstairs and got this "mother's intuition" that something was wrong. I rushed upstairs to find her blue and not breathing. I called a nurse. My daughter seemed to be convulsing, so I was instructed to reach down her throat to open her air passage. She was rushed to the hospital and they immediately put her into a cool bath. She was in the hospital for almost a week. Had it not been for my gut feeling that something was wrong, my baby would not be with me today.

 

[MMR317] Our son developed seizures after his MMR vaccine at 14 months. Today, after two years of anti-epilepsy medications, he has totally regressed. We decided to stop all medications five weeks ago and his grand mal fits have stopped. We are now left with a child experiencing severe constipation and bowel problems.

 

[MMR321] One week after the MMR shot for my 16-month-old daughter, she had diarrhea. The next day she had three seizures. What steps should be taken once a reaction has occurred. I want to be sure it is documented and the government is made aware.

 

[MMR398] My daughter had a serious reaction to the MMR shot when she was 22 months. She developed brain damage after a fever of 106 degrees. She also has seizures which are unresponsive to medication, damage to the nerves of her eyes, and learning disabilities that she battles every day. We took her case to court and lost. The doctor who testified on their behalf stated that the government only called him in when they wanted a finding in their favor. What a setup! Of course they don't have to live with the frustrations and expense of raising these vaccine-damaged children.

 

[MMR402] Three days after my daughter received her MMR vaccine, she started blinking her eyes and sniffling a lot. She's been doing this for 2 1/2 months now. Is there a link between the MMR vaccine and facial tics?

 

[MMR436] My 12-year-old had a seizure within 10 minutes of his second MMR. His head rolled side to side and his arms jerked a couple of times. He was unaware of this, so he must have blanked out. Afterwards, he felt woozy, very tired, and had a headache at the bridge of his nose. Also, his arm that got the shot was numb. The feeling in it gradually returned over the course of an hour.

 

[MMR443] I have a 15-year-old daughter. I recently moved to the U.S. from the U.K. without her medical records. Upon arrival we were required to give her complete immunizations. I strongly objected, but felt pushed into re-immunization because of state laws to get her into school. After her second MMR she has been complaining of dizzy spells and continuous headaches. Is there a link between over-immunization of MMR and this sickness?

 

[MMR509] Today, shortly after I was inoculated with the MMR vaccine, I began feeling faint and short of breath. After ten minutes of holding my head between my knees in a dirty gas station bathroom, I decided I could drive the 20 miles home.

 

[MMR518] I had an MMR shot about three year ago and have suffered from many reactions to this vaccine since.

 

[MMR552] When I was a child I was given the MMR vaccine. Almost seven days to the hour I became ill: fever, sweats, throwing up even the slightest amount of fluid or food. This went on for a month or so. The doctors would not even consider that the shots caused the illness. Later, they wanted me to have the second MMR; my parents refused. The doctors went through the usual tantrums and said I wouldn't be able to attend school. When my parents said 'Fine, he won't go,' the doctors gave in. At about the age of 18, I had a blood screening and was told I didn't have all of the MMR vaccine. Forgetting the episode as a child, I let them give me the shot. Seven days later I was sick again, but not as severe.

 

[MMR580] My college refused to admit me without an MMR vaccine. I had a terrible reaction and was rushed to the hospital with piercing screams, a high temperature and delirium. Now I have trouble focusing, and can be scattered and forgetful. I can't stand change and don't seem to have the energy and drive that I once had. My family thinks I developed obsessive-compulsive disorder. I am very bright, but nearly blew my scholarship after the shot.

 

[MMR588] I was told by the nursing school where I am enrolled, "No vaccine, no school." Even though I had all the normal vaccines as a child, I was unable to show this. Five days after I received the MMR vaccine, I was so ill that I ended up in the emergency room. The doctor told me that the MMR did not cause my sickness, and my nursing school supervisor said it was a virus. Why does the medical establishment deny vaccine reactions? Why can't they tell us this important information and let us make educated responsible decisions. The irony is that I got the vaccine and now I'm so sick that I can't go to school.

 

----But all the quotes I'm giving you in this article---they must be wrong. They must be. The authorities know what they're doing. They always do. Of course. They would never feed us false information. Everything is good. How could it not be good?

 

Don't worry, be happy.

 

Never listen to mothers of those children who end up with brain damage after getting a vaccine shot. All these mothers must be lying. Of course they are. They don't actually care deeply about their own children. Right?

 

Sure. Keep dreaming. Keep dreaming. Keep dreaming.

ASHTON CARTER AND GENERAL DUNFORD INTERVIEW

Dunford Interview...... DUH!!

​PERHAPS THEY NEED TO BE CALLED ​DUMB AND DUMBER!!!!!

http://www.c-span.org/video/?407268-1/defense-secretary-carter-general-dunford-news-conference
 

​Hey ....​

did you critically look at this and really listen??

Such as cutting ISIS money....

The fact that the U.S. military working with the CIA were the ones that created ISIS and funded through the CIA... Lets say this.... if the U.S. military stops their funding of ISIS they will have money thrown at them from the likes of Rothschild's, and Soros and many more....

​ For  the likes of some dumb aho's that are trying to make me believe that Rothschild and others like him don't own 75% of the worlds wealth think again...My UK  friend has heard Rothschild has many QUADRILLIONS...​ THE IDIOTS BEHIND ALL THE B.S. ARE ALL SAYING THE ROTHSCHILDS AND ALL THE REST OF THESE AHO CREEPS THAT CONTROL YOU ARE BROKE....TO THAT WE SAY BBBBBB....SSSSSSS!

Homeland Security???? (You mean NAZIS SS??) these aho's are some of the various enemies with-in and they need to be taken out... God forbid if these clowns believe the B.S. they just tried to shove down the reporters throats are true.... we are in serious trouble...​ It even sounds like this group of reporters are clueless....
Ashton would not stand a chance if he had to answer questions.......... FROM NESARA READERS...

Ashton  Carter is one dumb-arse!!!

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Getting tired of Ted Cruise spam emails? Have fun with this...

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Something that irritates me...

Getting these damn Ted Cruise emails daily! That Canadian thinks he can get into the bankrupt, defunct UNITED STATES corporation as the CEO just because the Kenyan Obummer paved the way. Ted's wife is also the VP of Goldman Sachs!