Americans eat more than their body weight in GMOs every year, study shows

Ethan A. Huff

Natural News
Oct 18, 2012

The consumer advocacy organization Environmental Working Group (EWG) has put out a new paper that estimates the average person’s yearly consumption of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). And based on the figures, which EWG admits are very likely understated, the average person consumes more than their own body weight’s worth of GMOs every single year, a shocking reality with unknown, long-term health consequences.

For their study, EWG researchers compiled data from 2011 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data sheets on average per capita consumption of various GM foods, including corn-based sweeteners like corn syrup, salad oils, and various other “corn products” like corn oil and corn meal. They then analyzed these figures based on the percentages of each of the crops used to make these products that are genetically engineered in the U.S.

The average adult in America, it turns out, weighs 179 pounds, and consumes an average of 193 pounds of GM corn-based products and salad oils every year. And when various other GMOs are added into the mix that were not included as part of the original study — in addition to corn and sugar beets, soybean oil and other soy-based products, conventional papaya, and canola oil are all widely consumed foods of GM origin as well — the contrast between body weight and GMO consumption widens even more significantly.

“From these figures, EWG calculated that the average American annually consumes genetically engineered foods in these quantities: 68 pounds of beet sugar, 58 pounds of corn syrup, 38 pounds of soybean oil and 29 pounds of corn-based products, for a total of 193 pounds,” says EWG.

With more new GMOs on the way, consumption patterns expected to increase dramatically

These figures are only estimates, of course, as some Americans are health savvy enough to avoid many of the common GMO ingredients and additives used in conventional foods, while others chug down excess amounts of corn syrup-laden sodas and soy-glutted condiments and sauces like it is nobody’s business. But the fact of the matter is that Americans as a whole are being used as human guinea pigs in a massive biotechnology experiment with uncharted ramifications.

And the really bad news is that, unless GMO labeling laws like Proposition 37 in California are passed in the very near future, the biotechnology industry will continue to secretly release evermore GMOsinto the food supply. In the next few decades, in fact, Americans will very likely be subjected to a whole host of new, undisclosed GMOs if mandatory GMO labeling does not become a national standard.

“EWG considered only three genetically engineered crops (for its study), but more than 30 others are currently being tested in field trials, including apples, barley, bell peppers, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, cherries, chili peppers, coffee, cranberries, cucumber, flax, grapefruit, kiwi, lentils, lettuce, melons, mustard, oats, olives, onions, peanuts, pears, peas, persimmons, pineapple, radishes, strawberries, sugar cane, sunflower, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, walnuts and watercress,” adds EWG.

“While it is unclear how long it may take for these new genetically engineered crops to reach the market, this long list makes it likely that people could be eating two or three times their weight in GE food annually within the next decade.”

To learn more about California’s efforts to become the first U.S. state to mandate GMO labeling at the retail level, visit: http://www.carighttoknow.org/

Also, be sure to check out the hard-hitting new documentary Genetic Roulette by award-winning author, filmmaker, and Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), Jeffrey Smith: http://geneticroulettemovie.com/

What’s Next for GMOs? How About Genetically Modified Trees!

Prisonplanet.com

Oct 18, 2012

Industries are all about making more money, at any cost. If they can develop something now that will save money and produce more down the road, they will—often tossing ethical concerns to the side. Need proof? Just look at Big Pharma’s sales of harmful drugs, their cycle of side effects and treatments, or even how they want to make genetically modified plants to produce pharmaceutical drugs. Need more proof? Look at Monsanto and environmentally destructive herbicides. The latest movement towards increased production at a lesser cost comes in the form of genetically modified trees.

Further Altering Nature, Now with Genetically Modified Trees!

Genetically modified trees are being developed in the U.S. and around the world. A new paper, circulated at outside of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Convention on Biological Diversity cautions that GM tree research is being done without much oversight and with limited information.

As reported on the Science and Development Network, the industries pushing this research are those that can serve to make money off of the GMO trees. They are testing their genetic alterations in the lab with poplars, pines, acacias, and eucalyptus trees just to name a few.

So far, the U.S. has the most patents with 53% and Brazil follows close behind. In all, 21 countries are working on the GMO trees. So, what are they trying to do? From an industrial standpoint, they are looking to “perfect” the trees—make them more useful and more valuable, not recognizing the value of trees goes far beyond their ability to make nice paper or fancy hardwood floors.

They are working on developing wood with less lignin, for instance, which will make it easier to process. They are also working to develop trees that are more pest-resistant, obviously ignoring the issues of GMO crops and their damage to the delicate natural balance.

Isis Alvarez, of the Global Forest Coalition, cautions that these researchers are being hasty in their projects. She says they are pushing the industry to “escalate without any consideration to the environmental or social impacts, and with little or no oversight or monitoring from governments”.

One has to wonder if they’ve thought ahead, to what would happen, for instance, if the trees were completely pest resistant. What would happen to the pests who no longer had wood for homes and food? When they died off, what would happen to the birds who depend on them for their own food—and so on. Likely, the corporations which are no doubt behind the research are concerned with one thing and one thing only—their bottom line.

This post originally appeared at Natural News

HEMPSTEAD, NY - OCTOBER 16: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L) speaks as U.S. President Barack Obama listens during a town hall style debate at Hofstra University October 16, 2012 in Hempstead, New York.  (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Back in 1968, Alabama Governor George Wallace thundered that “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats.” Wallace’s famous quote sprung to mind last night as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama squared off in their second debate.

Surely there were differences between them, but to watch the debate was to see two candidates vying to say who would cut taxes the least for top earners, who would “crack down” most on China, and who believed the most in an “all of the above” energy strategy. Neither said much of import, if at all, each candidate won certain segments, but the impossible to escape conclusion was just how unimpressive both candidates were.

It was like two beginners playing tennis with each other, neither able to hit the ball over the net. Both deserve to lose.

Obama And Romney Square Off In Second Presidential Debate

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Barack Obama And Mitt Romney Participate In Second Presidential Debate

HEMPSTEAD, NY - OCTOBER 16: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R) speaks as U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and moderator Candy Crowley (C) listen during a town hall style debate at Hofstra University October 16, 2012 in Hempstead, New York. During the second of three presidential debates, the candidates fielded questions from audience members on a wide variety of issues.

• It began with the first question asked by a Hofstra College student who wanted to know what either would do to ensure that future grads like him will have jobs.

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Romney responded that (all quotes paraphrased) “We’ll have to make a college education more affordable for all, and I’ll do this through growth of the Pell Grant program.” The problem, of course, is that it’s the federal government’s existing subsidization of college loans through programs like the Pell Grant that reduce the incentives for colleges and universities to lower tuition costs. And then in promoting a boost in Pell Grant funding, Romney’s calling for more of the same whereby the feds take money from one set of American hands, and place those funds in the hands of others. On the street this would be called theft, but when politicians propose it, it’s “compassion.”

After that, Romney basically repeated the same line over and over again: “I know what it takes to create jobs, and I’m going to make sure you get a job.” The president as our nanny, one supposes. The sad thing is that Romney, far more than Obama, does know how to create jobs, but to explain how he does he’d have to be more up front that he’s rich precisely because he’s expert at turning around companies.

Obama’s response was no better. He added his support for expanding the Pell Grant program that makes college more expensive, and then “bragged” that funding for Pell Grants had already increased during his deficit-ridden presidency.

On jobs specifically, the nanny standard bearer for the Democrats said “We need good jobs, jobs that can support a family.” Having said this, he then said that he wanted to create manufacturing jobs which, even if he could, would in today’s world at best foot the bill for a Starbuck’s latte – once a day. Barack Obama to families: Drop dead!

Moderator Candy Crowley followed up with a query about what either candidate would do about the high number of jobless Americans overall.

This segment went to Romney for the former governor pointing out that the unemployment rate is the same today as when Obama entered office. He added that the number is only 7.8% because so many have exited the labor force due to a lack of job opportunities.

Obama responded with his stock line about 5 million jobs created since he entered office, plus his wildly questionable assertion that he saved 1 million automobile jobs; jobs that would have disappeared under Romney for the latter having wanted to send GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. Romney’s response was fairly good for him pointing out that Obama too took the ailing carmakers into bankruptcy; Romney simply having wanted to do it the normal way (you know, without the fleecing of secured creditors, gifting the automakers to the UAW) whereby the company continues to operate while restructuring its debt.

In the next question Obama was asked about Energy Secretary Steven Chu having admitted three different times that he’d like to see gasoline prices higher.

Obama predictably talked up how much oil and natural gas exploration has increased during his administration, then pivoted to the green energy he likes so much, and then proclaimed that he would “not cede green energy jobs to China and Germany.” Funny how much us taxpayers have had to pay so that Obama could pursue his green fantasy, and as for China and Germany, if taxpayers in both countries are so eager to fund the economic lie that is green energy, and if skeptics like this one turn out to be wrong, the good news is that we’ll be able to import the energy at a market price as though it was conceived in Berkeley. Does anyone want to bet me on my assertion that green energy will never be able to stand on its own absent major subsidies? Can I pay you back ten lifetimes from now when you win the bet?

Romney then predictably responded that yes, oil and gas exploration is up under Obama, but none of it on federal lands. He also brought up a criminal action the Obama administration took against a producer in North Dakota. And then ever a me-too candidate, Romney said he too was for an “all of the above energy plan”, which on its own is strange for someone who claims to believe in the free market; free markets surely devoid of national energy plans. Puzzling to this writer is why Romney didn’t attack Obama again for not just the costs of his green energy fantasies, but also how much of the companies funded are now bankrupt. A lost opportunity for Romney.

Romney perhaps drew blood for pointing out that a gallon of gas in Nasssau was $1.84 when Obama entered office, and now it’s $4. Obama drew blood in return with his reminder that gasoline was relatively cheap when he entered office precisely because the U.S. economy was collapsing under Republican policies that Romney would supposedly like to revive. Of course neither made the obvious point that gasoline is only expensive insofar as the Obama dollar is very cheap; Obama failing to make that point for obvious reasons, Romney failing to make it because his economic advisers such as Greg Mankiw actually support the Treasury and Fed’s so far successful, and economy wrecking efforts to debase the greenback.

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On taxes, Romney was asked what tax deductions he would limit in order to cut taxes for all Americans across the board.

Notable here was that the questioner pointed out the good in the Romney tax plan (20% across the board cuts for all earners); this something Romney has so far been reluctant to do given his odd and frustrating desire to not appear to support a reduction in the price of work for the top 1% in this country whose economic achievements improve all of our lives on a daily basis. Instead, Romney went out of his way yet again to oddly brag that the top 5% would still account for 60% of federal revenues (and you thought Obama was a socialist), while all the benefits would come to middle earners whose tax savings by virtue of them being middle earners can’t move the investment dial that leads to job creation. After that, Romney’s implicit message to middle income types with designs on making it into the 1% is essentially “If you have the temerity to achieve so much that you enter the 1%, your penalty will be higher taxes.” Romney’s the growth candidate. No seriously, he is.

Obama was naturally no better. He, much like his taxation doppelganger in Romney promised middle class tax relief, though in his case he proposed doing the impossible whereby he would try to fleece top earners even more than at present in order to close the deficit. Lots of luck with that. He then added that “Governor Romney thinks it’s fair and that it grows the economy when people making $20 million a year pay a lower tax rate than those making $50,000. That does not grow the economy.” Actually, Mr. President,it does grow the economy when you lower the tax burden on the vital few whose exploits elevate our economic existence, not to mention that any income not taxed away by the feds morphs into investment, investment authors all company formation, and through company formation there’s job creation. Economic growth is easy, though you wouldn’t know it from listening to either of the candidates.

Obama then asserted that Romney thinks economic growth can only occur if capital gains taxes on the rich are maintained at their present rate of 15%. Romney should have answered him in the affirmative, that capital gains taxes are a cost placed on investment, that if you want more jobs you need more investment, and that the job-maximizing capital gains rate is zero, but instead he repeated for seemingly the 6th time his platitudinous line about how “I know what it takes to create jobs, and my five point plan will get us there.” Those listening to the debate on the radio probably thought they were listening to a 4th grade debate, as opposed to a faceoff between two men vying to lead the richest, most important nation on earth. Seriously, we used to be a serious country with serious leaders.

On male/female income disparities, Obama talked about enforcing laws, ending discrimination and more education, and then Romney talked about how he made a point when governor to get more women into his cabinet. There was a time when Republicans decried affirmative action.

Up next was a question from an undecided voter who, though disappointed in our progress the last four years, is similarly worried that Romney would bring us back to the Bush policies that she similarly didn’t like. Good taste, this questioner.

Romney’s response brought new meaning to the word hopeless. Once again he trotted out his “Five Point Plan”, after which he talked up a rush to energy independence that would cripple us economically for violating comparative advantage, then he said “I’ll crack down on China, Bush didn’t.” Actually Bush bashed the Chinese too, and the result was a severely debased dollar that drove oil to nosebleed heights, and a horrifying increase of investment into the sink of wealth that is housing (the middle classes have to hedge governmental destruction of the dollar too) which led to a recession, and then led to a financial crisis thanks to massive bipartisan support of bank bailouts. And then channeling Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis, two presidential candidates who pandered to the little guy on the way to landslide presidential losses, Romney said “I’m for small business, Bush wasn’t.” Ok, the problem here is that though small businesses create lots of jobs, they tend to be able to thanks to their proximity to large businesses. Rest assured, absent big business, there would be very few small businesses.

In his response, Obama once again blamed the Bush administration for all of the economic problems during his own presidency, then he turned to Romney and said “Governor, you’re the last person who’s going to get tough on China.” Second graders could doubtless relate to the two candidates as they tried to out-protectionist one another.

The next question went to Obama. The questioner had voted for Obama in 2008, didn’t think things were so hot economically in 2012, so how would they be different if Obama were handed a second term.

Obama naturally blamed Bush yet again before talking about the 5 million jobs he created. Romney perhaps did a little better in response as he rattled off the economic statistics of what is Obama’s failed economic presidency. Romney noted that during Reagan’s recovery, and despite a much smaller population, two times as many jobs were created. He then had a good line about how Obama “is great at describing his vision, but his record doesn’t match his rhetoric.” Round to Romney, flyweight division.

And then Obama took the next round when a Hispanic woman asked about their immigration policies for productive, but illegal immigrants. Romney gave the usual GOP line about how he wants immigration, if it’s legal. “But I won’t grant amnesty to illegals”, and then he talked about his support of a computer system that would crack down on companies that hire illegals. No joke, we used to be a free country, and Republicans used to be into freedom.

Obama seemed reasonable after Romney in the sense that he acknowledged the truth that we’re a nation of immigrants, not to mention the happy truth that the world’s talented still want to come to the U.S. Obama then opened himself up to major smackdown from Romney when he noted that the illegal inflow of workers across the border is the lowest it’s been in 40 years. Romney could have easily said that the “inflow has plummeted precisely because your economy is so bad”, but to do so, he would have had to acknowledge just how foolish is his own immigration stance. Round to Obama, featherweight division.

And then they returned to jobs, and a questioner asked what both would do about outsourcing; outsourcing the economically stimulative process whereby low value work is sent overseas, the outflow of jobs boosts profits for U.S. companies, then those U.S. companies use their profits to expand while creating higher-paying jobs stateside. If we didn’t send jobs overseas, we’d be a very poor country for so many Americans still stuck in low value work. In short, outsourcing is beautiful.

Not to these two amateurs. In Romney’s case, as though he felt he hadn’t stressed enough his plan to start an economy-wrecking, stock market crashing trade war with China, the former governor, as if on auto-pilot talked up again his promise to “crack down” on China in order to bring jobs back to the U.S.

And then Obama, never one to let a bad, economy crippling idea go unanswered, followed up with his own bad idea, contradicting himself in the process. Specifically, he drooled that “Some jobs won’t come back to America because they’re low wage and low skill, and that’s why I want to bring back manufacturing jobs to the United States.” Translated: “Low wage, low skilled jobs aren’t coming back to America, so I want to bring low wage, low skilled jobs back to America.”

Last night’s debate has to be considered a draw, albeit one in which both fighters punched themselves out in the first round. It was truly an embarrassing night for each candidate, and as the world was watching, an embarrassing night for the United States more broadly. It’s been said that “When a Democrat runs against a Democrat, a Democrat wins.” I’ll have neither.

The Presidential Debates Are Nothing But Scripted Beauty Contests

Washington’s Blog
Oct 18, 2012

The “spontaneous” questions from audience members are actually pre-screened, and even the moderator is forbidden from asking follow-up questions:

Gawker’s John Cook succinctly sums up the rigged debates:

Leaked Debate Agreement Shows Both Obama and Romney are Sniveling Cowards

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Both campaigns are terrified at anything even remotely spontaneous happening.

They aren’t permitted to ask each other questions, propose pledges to each other, or walk outside a “predesignated area.” And for the town-hall-style debate tomorrow night, the audience members posing questions aren’t allowed to ask follow-ups (their mics will be cut off as soon as they get their questions out). Nor will moderator Candy Crowley.

Glenn Greenwald notes:

The moderators were selected to ensure that nothing unexpected is asked and that only the most staid and establishment views are heard. As journalism professor Jay Rosen put it when the names of the moderators were unveiled, using terms to describe those views that are acceptable in Washington media circles and those which are “fringe”:

“In order to be considered as a candidate for moderator you have to be soaked in the sphere of consensus, likely to stay within the predictable inner rings of the sphere of legitimate controversy, and unlikely in the extreme to select any questions from the sphere of deviance.”

Here then, within this one process of structuring the presidential debates, we have every active ingredient that typically defines, and degrades, US democracy. The two parties collude in secret. The have the same interests and goals. Everything is done to ensure that the political process is completely scripted and devoid of any spontaneity or reality.

All views that reside outside the narrow confines of the two parties are rigidly excluded. Anyone who might challenge or subvert the two-party duopoly is rendered invisible.

Lobbyists who enrich themselves by peddling their influence run everything behind the scenes. Corporations pay for the process, which they exploit and is then run to bolster rather than threaten their interests. The media’s role is to keep the discourse as restrictive and unthreatening as possible while peddling the delusion that it’s all vibrant and free and independent and unrestrained. And it all ends up distorting political realities far more than illuminating them while wildly exaggerating the choices available to citizens and concealing the similarities between the two parties.

To understand the US political process, one can just look to how these sham debates are organized and how they function. This is the same process that repeats itself endlessly in virtually every other political realm.

Indeed, the Republican and Democratic parties have long formed Gentlemen’s agreements – through the “Presidential Debate Commission” – on what topics are “off-limits” (and which journalists can even ask questions) during presidential debates:

As this 4-minute video shows, – they both ignore the desires of their own bases:

The American people are sick of both the Republican and Democratic party, and yearn for something different. See this, this and this.

No wonder … the mainstream Democratic and Republican parties agree on most matters which affect American lives the most directly. Here, here, here here and here.

Obama and Romney are virtually indistinguishable on most core issues. For example: jobs, freedomsand favoring fatcats instead of the little guy.

The Founding Fathers warned – at the very birth of our nation – against a two-party system as being destructive to liberty.

If we opened the debates up to third parties, it would show how similar the GOP and Democratic Party really are:

If I speak the words, would my mind get in the way?

Of the message of my soul, and what it has to convey.

The many portals of life are now opening up to all awake, 

there's  doors at every corner of the world that we make.

Its up to us to find the way, crossroads of life beckons us now,

put away your fear and learn to be in light and love somehow.

Everything is possible when your in the right space,

no turning around now, were almost in that holy place.

Where it is ,my brother,we have all been there before,

no one is left behind, and no one left standing at the door.

Open it up and let him in, it is here we shall all begin,

to learn the lessons , we repeated from our past within.

All the memories of hurt and pain is gone ,you see,

back then  when I was him and you then were me.

We did it all,over many lifetimes that were forgotten,

But this time around we become the only begotten.

Love  and Light shines on our awakened minds,

bringing to life, all those who were then left behind.

Now is the moment of all of our greatest success.

We are the winners ,because we did our very best.

So lets raise a toast to ourselves and give a cheer,

For no-one else has ever done this or even come near.

For it was the greatest challenge to all of mankind,

To overcome the evil and Fear and open our mind.

For We have saved the world and all of human life,

including ourselves, we over came all the heavy strife.

Now we can go home, if that is what we truly desire,

Or we can stay awhile, as mankind awakes on fire.

Its a bit much for those who have been sleeping long,

Guiding them back home is the name of this song.

Rev.Joshua Skirvin. Oct.15-012

Another Obama Executive Order Allows Seizure of Americans’ Bank Accounts

Bob Adelmann

New American
Oct 13, 2012

The latest executive order (EO) emanating from the White House October 9 now claims the power to freeze all bank accounts and stop any related financial transactions that a “sanctioned person” may own or try to perform — all in the name of “Iran Sanctions.”

Titled an “Executive Order from the President regarding Authorizing the Implementation of Certain Sanctions…” the order says that if an individual is declared by the president, the secretary of state, or the secretary of the treasury to be a “sanctioned person,” he (or she) will be unable to obtain access to his accounts, will be unable to process any loans (or make them), or move them to any other financial institution inside or outside the United States. In other words, his financial resources will have successfully been completely frozen. The EO expands its authority by making him unable to use any third party such as “a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, subgroup or other organization” that might wish to help him or allow him to obtain access to his funds.

And if the individual so “sanctioned” decides that the ruling is unfair, he isn’t allowed to sue. In two words, the individual has successfully been robbed blind.

But it’s all very legal. The EO says the president has his “vested authority” to issue it, and then references endless previous EOs, including one dating back to 1995 which declared a “state of emergency” (which hasn’t been lifted): Executive Order 12957.

EO 12957 was issued by President Bill Clinton on March 15, 1995, which was also obliquely related to the Iran “problem”:

I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, find that the actions and policies of the Government of Iran to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

Clinton’s EO further delegated such powers as were necessary to enforce the EO to the secretaries of the treasury and state “to employ all powers … as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government.”

Such EOs are the perfect embodiment of what the Founders feared the most: the combining of the legislative, executive, and judicial functions into one body. Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution says: “All legislative powers herein shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” As Thomas Eddlem, writing for The New American, expressed it, “then it stands to reason [that] none is left for the president.”

But Joe Wolverton, also in The New American, pointed out the particular piece of language the Founders used to limit the powers of the president which totalitarians have twisted to allow such powers to expand: the “take care” clause, to wit: Article II, Section 3: he [the president] shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed…

With every EO, the president avoids the cumbersome constitutional safeguards spelled out by the Constitution, and uses them to implement policies he “knows” are right. Says Wolverton: “With every one of these … executive orders, then, the president elevates his mind and will above that of the people, Congress and the courts.”

The current administration has had a lot of help in justifying and codifying the legitimacy of executive orders, going all the way back to President George Washington who in 1793 issued his “Neutrality Proclamation,” which declared that the United States would remain neutral in the current conflict between France and Great Britain, and would bring sanctions against any American citizen who attempted to provide assistance to either party. The language of Washington is eerily similar to that used by President Obama in the present case:

I have therefore thought fit by these presents to declare the disposition of the United States to observe the conduct aforesaid toward those powers respectively, and to exhort and warn the citizens of the United States carefully to avoid all acts and proceedings whatsoever which may in any manner tend to contravene such disposition…

I have given instructions to those officers to whom it belongs to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons who shall, within the cognizance of the courts of the United States, violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at war, or any of them.

When James Madison protested Washington’s usurpation of powers not intended for the president, Congress acquiesced and passed, retroactively, the Neutrality Act of 1794, validating Washington’s usurpation.

President Lincoln engaged in similar usurpations, using presidential “directives” to run the early months of the Civil War, presenting Congress with, as Todd Gaziano put it,

the decision either to adopt his [directives] as legislation or to cut off support for the Union army.

Within his first two months in office, on April 15, 1861, Lincoln issued a proclamation activating troops to defeat the Southern rebellion and for Congress to convene on July 4.

He also issued proclamations to procure warships and to expand the size of the military; in both cases, the proclamations provided for payment to be advanced from the Treasury without congressional approval.

These latter actions were probably unconstitutional, but Congress acquiesced in the face of wartime contingencies, and the matters were never challenged in court.

President Franklin Roosevelt often overlooked the niceties of constitutional restraints as well. As Gaziano expressed it, “FDR also showed a tendency to abuse his executive order authority and [to] claim powers that were not conferred on him in the Constitution or by statute.”

As far as numbers of executive orders issued, Obama is a piker. At the moment, although the list is growing, his administration has issued only 900 or so executive orders. President Theodore Roosevelt issued 1,006 while President Woodrow Wilson issued 1,791. Even President Calvin Coolidge used the EO “privilege” 1,253 times.

The granddaddy of them all, FDR, issued an astounding 3,728 executive orders, but of course he was in office longer than Obama.

President Bill Clinton issued only 364 executive orders, but he made the most of them, using this extra-legal power to, among other things, wage war in Yugoslavia without congressional approval. Cliff Kincaid collated the numerous EOs issued by Clinton in 1998 and 1999, and concluded:

Clinton waged his war on Yugoslavia through executive order and presidential directive. Clinton used executive orders to designate a “war zone,” call up troops, proclaim a “national emergency” with respect to Yugoslavia, and impose economic sanctions on the Belgrade government.

Clinton claimed war-making presidential authority through his “constitutional authority” to conduct “foreign relations,” as “Commander in Chief” and as “Chief Executive.” Under this self-designated authority, Clinton delegated command-and-control of U.S. forces to NATO and its Secretary-General Javier Solana, who decided when the air war would be discontinued…

The most outrageous executive order of all time was that issued by President Roosevelt that allowed the enforced internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans: 9066.

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) called EOs patently unconstitutional. When asked about them by Fox News’ Megan Kelly, Paul responded:

The Constitution says that only Congress passes laws. The executive branch is not allowed to pass laws, nor should the judicial system pass laws. So it is clearly unconstitutional to issue these executive orders.

They’ve been done for a long time, both parties have done it, but the Congress is careless. They allow and encourage and do these deals … to get the president to circumvent the Congress. If something’s unpopular and he can’t get it passed, well, let’s just sign an executive order. So I think that is blatantly wrong. I think this defies everything the founders intended. I think it’s a shame that Congress does it, and I think it’s a shame that the American people put up with it.

NOTE; Today I removed the last of my money out of my USA bank,left just enough to keep it open and for my visa card. I have half in travelers checks the rest in cash. Rev. joshua,Adonai

We do think we know what it is, I believe,

A point in time, the place that we all can percieve

A personality mystery that surrounds our very being,

Coming home to find all creation that I am seeing.

How is it possible for this to be just thoughts in my mind,

What is it that makes me seek and want to find.

All that I can be, my heart decree's this reality,

I am you and you are me, all are one in eternity.

My Vision Quest hunts me, there must be more,

But why,I ask, I have been here many times before.

Don't look back to what you have been, my son,

The father says to me, see ,we have just begun.

To doubt is to stand still, time is ever so brief,

Look all around you, Love is such a grand relief'.

The voice inside of me, is ever so strong sometimes.

Leading me forward today in words that must rhyme.

Is this my real family, if so which one is me,

My evolving mind, spirit leads me forward to see.

My soul is the record keeper, or so I am told,

He presents all these scenario's, he is so bold.

I have a ticket, a free trip home to our destiny ,

Question is, do I want to leave this 3D reality.

I have become familiar with this pain and sorrow,

It has become my day and then my tomorrow.

How can I go to a place where I have never been?,

What will happen to me then,will they let me in?

My mind try's to make a nice picture for me to see,

My spirit guides light,comes and takes hold of me.

Where is it that you want to go ,my son,he asks,

you've already been there many times in the past.

The journey has begun, to a place not so distant,

its already inside of you, in this most holy instant.

Time stands still for those who are in the knowing,

The distance is short, consuming all in its flowing.

Never to turn back, except to remember who you are,

now is the time, the place, home is not so very far.

''Love'' is the journey that we have been on,

were it leads is to a distant shore, a knew dawn

So please Open your heart and let it all in,

because this is were it begins and never ends.

Rev. joshua Skirvin -Oct.13,012

What is the true meaning behind this hide and seek game, but to remind us that we are more than what we think we are when we have lower thoughts of this so called physical reality. When we raise our thoughts we purify our dreams. What is attainable is stretched to perfection in eternity. Our mind is not only the key but the tool to reach the other side of the veil. Our Creator waits in readiness for us to take the first steps toward him so that the mind of God comes in to our mind, a mind meld of sorts.

The Creator and the Created become as one the instant that touch or contact is made. Perfection rests in our desire to become like our Creator and the higher we raise our new perception of our fathers mind the more the son’s mind is stretched. And in this exercise we soon learn to become strong. Everything we thought we knew in our old ways falls away as we lay the foundation to something new.

As the Moody Blues say, “We are all time travelers . And you have to make the journey out and in”. In God’s mansion there are many doors. Choose one and begin the journey. A journey can never start if it never begins. And in eternity there is no end. So if it never stops and never ends, where then do we begin? We have already begun the now moment when we let the truth in. There is no discovery or journey more enjoyable than the ride to our Creator’s house. Question is, is it without or is it within? The moment we open our hearts to him, the God within, then the mind meld can begin. Knock and the door shall be open. Ask and we shall receive. What is it that lies beyond our perception? Only a veil, a thin disguise or illusion that this is real and the other isn’t. There is no end in the circle of time. The veils divide our perception of what is reality. Outside of Gods mind in our mind, all is an illusion. In the first reality of God, mind is all there is.

The point of no return is set the moment we open our minds. A journey begins with the first step toward its end, an adventure of an unknown reality, soon to be explained, but not perceived in vain. One new thought leads to another. Every trip to the mansion of God, opens a new door to his mind , which in reality is in our own minds because we are connected. It is a false belief that we were separated. Nothing lost can be found if it wasn’t lost in the first place. Mispreception is in reality known as an untruth. The unknown does become known in each quest we make as we awake.

Vision is much more than sight. It is the ability to perceive what we see. There are those who can see but not perceive. Their vision quest lays dormant like a seed waiting for the water that then brings it to life. Searching then for the light, it knows it needs to survive. But soon survival is not enough. The craving to become one, not to be alone anymore, moves the embryo to begin a different life, to be or become something else not yet sure of who or what it is to be. It doesn’t know what it needs. It just knows that it needs. We all want more, not of what we are but what we can become. The name of the game is the same. To exist is not enough. To become more is our goal, of what we’re not really sure. But it comes to us when we open the door. Each new room in our father’s mansion creates a new desire to become one, one with what created it.

Never do the created then create the Creator. And only the foolish thinks he created himself. But in his fantasy he thinks he does because he has discovered something beyond himself, that which is called “love.” He doesn’t know what it really means, but only knows that he needs it. What it is he desires he is not sure. But he does know it leads him to yet another door. And in our father’s mansion there are many rooms, many gifts for us to receive, where nothing is given that can be taken away.

This is the new discord for us to comprehend. Clean the cobwebs from our minds. Each step up the ladder helps us to be able to understand. We re-create ourselves in the image of him who created us. Like the Creator who had created another image of himself, which became our mind, then spirit followed not far behind. I am aware that “I am” what I think I am, or at least I think I must be. This is more than what I think I can be, with my limited thoughts. But never the less, it’s the tool I need to be able to perceive.

I now understand I will always have thoughts when I am awake, but the dream of more is what I create. What is behind my thoughts and where do they lead? Is there more to perception than what little I perceive? Is thought just a tool to a reality beyond thoughts, to be able to just perceive, to know, to be, to experience that which created me? If we reach out to touch someone, even a good neighbor, it helps me to perceive that we are all one in this mind of the creator. We are a particle, a drop of water in the sea. Knowing there is more in the family than just “you and me,” the many parts make up the whole. But do the parts know?

Who is the designated driver, the one who will get us there? Is he lost in deep despair? Did he take a wrong turn, leading us to nowhere? Who is right and who is wrong? Should we turn around and drive ourselves back on course to where we belong? Who’s got the correct answer ? Whose vision quest, will we each follow, our own or the unknown ?

Everyone has a guide inside that has never been lost. Even though we think we know the way, if we seek the answer alone, will we go astray? And in our hurry and excitement of touching the light that shines forth, from us to another, will we stray? We can only have it when we give it away, a strange custom one might say. Yes, but there is no other way. We can try what we will and do what we may. But what it does come down to is if we want to have it, we have to give it away. What is it we ask? Can we touch it, feel it, see it, hear it, smell it or realize it in any other way? What is it that is here, then gone, only to return yet again in a different way? Why is love so elusive and so hard to get it to stay? If “God is love” then why doesn’t it just come our way? Why can’t we have it when we want to make it stay?

We think we do understand what it is, only to find out it’s more than anything we can perceive. It’s beyond words. It’s just a feeling, an experience, but crying out to be heard in thoughts that make us feel good when we hear it and say, “Love, please don’t go away. I know I don’t understand you, but I will someday. How is it that you can be ‘God,’ an energy I seek to understand some way, yet be a personality, a manifestation of a being of the utmost reality of what I think I can perceive?”

How is it possible for all these things to be just mere thoughts in my head? My mind stretches its thoughts so that I can see. What is it that I seek? Is it me? Is it the one who created me? If then we are all one that means “I am you and you are me. He is I and I am him, he who created me.” We are one in eternity. My Vision-Quest haunts me. I am a seeker who seeks to be free, as I am found only by that which I cannot see. My disbelief is in something higher than me. To doubt is to stand still observing my disbelief which seeks to fool me.

Is it that I am not strong enough to believe what my eyes refuse to see, to hear that higher voice inside of me, to share my thoughts with him that is much higher than me? Yet, it is not insane to believe that someday the two of us will become one, a sentient being, speaking to its other half. Two minds to someday become one. How is it possible all these minds are to be inside of me, unless they are part of my mind? Which one is really me?

They are my family, but only one is to be me. Two in one is to set me free, mind with a divine personality, a deity to become one with a mortal mind, to be able to experience creation through an evolving mind, with spirit as a body and soul as its record keeper. This destiny was agreed upon long ago which no one in their right mind would want to leave, a free trip home to both our creators, but only as one. When the two of us agree, his personality becomes mine as my mind wills my personality to his. We not only call him the mystery monitor, but the thought adjuster because he adjusts our thoughts to his.

The thought adjuster is behind this new message I am giving now, to share what I have found, a great spirit to reach out and touch someone. He says this is how it’s always been done. The father reaches out to his son, the higher becoming the lower. They fuse as one. Then the real journey has begun. Memory may fail as we leave the body behind but the soul records all that is worth keeping and can play it back anytime. Personality will be shared. Two become one. What more is there? Follow your heart, my son. What is told will be done. We are the ones who have begun. Never give up and we will get there. We are all one,Love is the way for all today.“Love” is the journey,here always to stay. Amen

Time to Make Some Real Strong GlobalNoise!

Yahoo Gremlin Causing Mischief; Just Ignore Him

Yahoo Gremlin Causing Mischief; Just Ignore Him

Just ignore the Yahoo gremlin

Folks, we do know about the mischief that an individual at Yahoo! is causing by rejecting messages that originate with me or the 2012 Scenario site, preventing people from sending them to Yahoo! groups, etc.

One prominent operator of a well-known distribution list writes:

“Yahoo Groups is refusing to deliver your messages, which I copied and pasted into a new message, this time from the World Peace [Achieving World Peace Now!]  site. I don’t know how to circumvent this. But I thought this morning’s message was well worth sharing, but evidently Yahoo doesn’t think so. It refused 3 Yahoo groups lists, or maybe it’s just your messages they are boycotting. I haven’t a clue. So far, no one else’s messages have been targeted.”

What Archangel Michael had to say about the situation in Monday’s An Hour with an Angel is posted below.

What do we intend to do about it? Nothing.

The trouble is only temporary and is being handled as we speak. I assume the gentleman will find himself bombarded with love and stop at some point.  No, not the Love Boat. The Love Box.

If a document is intended to be circulated, it will be.  An idea whose time has come, like world peace, cannot be stopped or even impeded by acts of opposition such as this gentleman’s.

However it does mean that you may have to reset your Yahoo! password (I have to do that as well; my Yahoo! account has also stopped functioning) and it may mean that you have to resubscribe to this site. It will also mean that some things you try to circulate from this site may be blocked by Yahoo!.

And it also may mean that, if you want to post something to a Yahoo! group from me or this site, you may have to go to the Yahoo! group site and do it from there, rather than emailing it in.

But you also don’t have to do any of that. Why?

Well, as AAM has said, these ideas that are expressed don’t even have to be read to have impact. They enter the collective consciousness and their influence spreads out from there. Moreover they influence by the Law of Attraction. And they have the impact of freeing the hands of the Company of Heaven, which operates by respecting the Law of Freewill. If they express the popular will, for sure the folks in the rafters, as Poof calls them, take heed and act on them.

There is no stopping what is happening now. Very soon we’ll see events that will have our eyeballs rolling and the time of separation will see those who resist them simply fall away. So just be patient a little while longer and these annoyances will pass.

Here’s what AAM said about the gentleman in question:

Steve Beckow: Lately we’ve been having a lot of trouble on the 2012 Scenario with our daily digest. 500 subscribers at a time are dropped. Is Yahoo censoring the 2012 Scenario site?

Archangel Michael: From time to time, yes.

SB: What is their motivation? What is their reason for that?

AAM: It is not really a motivation at all. It is more a case of a single individual. Do not worry. It’s being taken care of.

SB: Could you just explain that a bit more?

AAM: When you think of organizations, whether it is any of these social media, there are certain flags that are raised now and then — and certainly the 2012 Scenario has raised many flags over the years! — and then it is at the discretion of what you can think of as managers, technicians, to either proceed or simply let things flow.

So what has happened in this situation — and it is an isolated situation time-wise and content-wise — is that you have irritated or challenged the belief systems of an individual.

SB: Okay. I know you don’t like to judge people or name people, so I’ll let it go there. (1)

THE 3DDD and the 3-stooges that we spoke of in part one, represent the most serious negative Agenda of the mostly invisible empire that was to be. And the most invisible of these 3 is the ''Visitors'' whom we have only recently discovered, that is for most of us. And they were presented to us by our newly found friends ''The Friends of Humanity''. I re-posted there 7 briefings last wk and outlines yesterday. So that we can become familiar not only with the new found friends but our newly found enemy or adversary, who's Agenda is also to take us over. We also discussed how powerful there group mind is, we call the collective or hive mind. And most importantly how they are able to imitate  and copy almost verbatim our precious masters and ET friends who have been channelling to us for many yrs now. And of course they also have there own minions such as Candice who regularly channell there dis-info down to us. Not only do they copy and insert there false info as the real thing but they infiltrate the real thing. Causing must conflict, arguing and general bickering amongst the light-workers themselves on this and other forums of love and light that recieves mostly channelled material.

 This has become a very serious problem as it is dividing the light workers against each other and it is  not understandable to the newly awakened ones, who become lost and conflicted in all of the false flags and Disclosures that never materialize. The positive aspect of this conflict  is the lessons of Discernment learned from all the false events that never took place. Until that time, most of us were fooled into thinking that although the material seemed to change irregularly and the thought patterns were not the same but things were still Ok, But in reality they were mixing truths with untruths, which most of allowed to happen, but when too many false events and Disclosure took place we began to become greatly disappointed and it only grew worse. Of course the biggest question was why, why did our so called friends tell us certain events would happen on certain dates and when they didn't take place they blamed it on us. Of course that rocked many peoples boat and again the question was why. And every so often the real entities whom they were imitating would mention that it wasn't them but did not go into detail about it, which of course left us even more frustrated. But by now we were begining  to see that something else was up or rather someone else was involved.

And still the question was why, why would they do it, what was in it for them. When we asked those questions we hit the right buttons, By asking the right questions our minds began to search for the correct answer. Some one or group was playing with our minds ,playing dirty tricks on us, planting lies and disceptions into our most secrared  texts , the channelled materials from higher Dimensions than us. The answers came slowly at first from the first question of why would they keep decieving us in lies. Finally the answer came to some of us. It was to cause division and conflict, to make us not believe in the entities or channelled materials from the ones we have been  following for many yrs. In essence they took away our teachers for now we could no longer believe in them. And to slowing bring in tere own Agenda. Why didn't our teachers do something to stop it, besides saying it wasn't them. This conflict still persists today, as many refuse to believe that some if not many of the channeled materials weve been getting on a daily rate has been infiltrated by the enemy and unseen force who is extremly clever at pretending to be our real teachers from beyond. Others have stopped reading most of them like myself, but we do go back because we need to sort them out, we need to find out who they are , what there Agenda is and how to,bring them down. This my firends is the real ''Disclosure'' that we have been waiting for'

Disclosure of this kind, impacts our minds on a level that we have never played before. This mind games have sent us for a loop , that is until we learn what to look for and that job is mostly up to us Elders who have been around for awhile and are able to discern the truths from the untruths. Not that its not possible for the others to do it , they should! But we Elders must step up and say what we think is really going on here. And keep in mind that it is still going on to some degree but they have recieved a blow from us, that has knocked them down as we commented back to them that we don't believe them any more and we want them out and many did leave. The most strongest of these was Greg Giles channelling the GFL. He recieved so much slack and feedback that he and the ''Visitors'' had to step back and finally he quit. Then the info of the ''Visitors'' began to hit this site. I had read it before over the yrs but didn't give it that much credit until it all happened. Then it all made sence, when the ''Allies of Humanity'' brought forth this info on the Visitors and what there real Agenda was. So they divided us, A house divided in itself cannot stand (JC) they turned us against each other and they turned us against those who are channelling to us , as we don't know just who to believe any more. One way to desern if it is the good guys or the bad ones is to see how the message flows. Those who plant dis-info do it a certain way. They say a lot of good thing and maybe even beautiful or spiritual things, then when they have got you to let your guard down on your discernment, they implant some negative info or untruths or even out and out lies in between the other so that ou except this along with the rest of the material. 

So now we must learn greater Discernment on par with the professionals. We need to see the bigger picture here. I will give you an example here; A couple of wks ago the ''Visitors infiltrated one of my favorite channeling ''The Arcturian group'' One of the things that they talked about is the ''Con-federation'' which I am not even sure that they exist or if they do they are not our friends per say. They then said that the BUDDA was installed as the Planetary Prince when Jesus left earth. Of couse we all know that they would not put in a leader or master that did not believe in God the father our Creator. Buddist beieve in lessor gods but not in a creator, so this is false info. Then there is those minions of the ''Vistors who know that they are working with and are putting out false info materials like ''Drake the Fake'' and more like Candice who runs a 3DD fear blog every two yrs ,that was brought to our knowlede by Kelly. Upon investgating this futher Candance is one htere minions who push the idea of Jesus having married and 5 kids. The DC call this black lodge today  ''the Priory of Zion. The idea is to get us to believe that there are decendents of Jesus and Creator Michael .And that these family of Zion are speacial people who have a right to rule us, because of there DNA. Of couse we all know better than this. As it was strictly forbidden by the Creators Father'' the Eternal son'' for Michael to leave offsprings here, that they would be worshiped and could even create a negative world gov't. So the story of Jesus marring Mary Madeline is truly false

Then of couse she and her friend Alex H. from the poor web. site ''the light workers'' also pushed along with others the even greator false story of  Christ Michael Aton. At first I excepted it because I thought that maybe it did come from the Creator himself. There was many truths in those many blogs about the universe but I found untruths when they say all of the Michael sons are Creators and have Created thousands of universes. Of course anyone who has studied the ''Urantia Book'' knows that there is only 49 created univeses, 7 in each super universe. Then there was other problems such as his name ATON, there is no mention of  the last name of ''Aton'' in the UB. They claimed that the reason why is that he just now took on the name as a short for ''Hantonn''. And that he was now in a tall gray alien body and the Commander of the ''Con-Federation Fleet''. The real Creator Michael has always incarnated in the body form of the beings that reside on the planet that he visits in what ever Dimension. So that is false. And it is more likely that the name came from En-ki and or his Brother who may be a part of the Collective of the ';Visitors'' and the word Aton refered to them as Annunaki's who supposedly ruled out world before the Reptilians took over. The word Aton meant ''Lord or Ruler as a demi-God. And there is much false records left behind by them s to there creating humans from there DNA and that they would someday return to there Creation. So this is again a connection in this false info and its agenda is for us to except all of this as truths so that they may twist it a little more each time that they present it to us and eventually turn things all around to there favor and there end agenda of taking us over next.                                               Part-3-TM.

This new Jesus movement should and does make one feel good inside. Fulfilling our mission is our real purpose of life. Finding a way to share it, now that feels good. Knowing everything is going to turn out all right and that my purpose in life is special. Love, Joy, peace, happiness, harmony, safety, family, that’s what this kingdom movement is really all about. A journey without distance.

God works in mysterious ways. There’s still more to say. “Spiritual reality” will always stand the test of time because true information doesn’t change in time and everything less than truth evolves to truth or into nothingness from which it came. Since we are evolving as well, we must change and acknowledge all that is not truth in our lives.

One way to determine if some information is true or the truth is to see if it feels good in our heart center. If it does, then the information has a lot of truth in it. If not, release it from memory (as possible untruth). Second, check to see if the so called truth can be applied to our lives in positive ways. If not, let it go. Third, see if it fits in the puzzle we have all recreated called life or what we think life is. Fourth, see if it can be expanded and still remain true. Fifth, see if it helps or makes us grow toward our Creator.

All truth evolves from the creator and does return there. All things that truly come from God are true or the truth. Everything else is man made or spirit made. One could write a book about truths and all the many kinds of truths, such as part truths, something that is partly true. Then there’s truth that only applies in certain situations or conditions, almost like it can change form or something.

Then there are truths that have been taken out of context. So are they still truths? That depends. Sometimes truths must have other truth’s surrounding them to make them true and when we put truths in with or surrounded by untruths, then what do we get? We get dis-information, which is a tool the dark side uses to fool us. They use our established religions to insert untruths into them or the new religions borrow untruths from others sources like the occults, to fit their new paradigm.

Remember that religion’s biggest problem is the same one as our society, power. The leaders want to retain their power over the people or “followers.” The Anti-Christ uses this tool in the same way, but goes one step further and steals people’s power away from them which the dark side feeds upon.

So everyone should become a truth seeker, and true spirituality or “spirit reality” should teach just that, nothing but the truth and the whole truth. Many more new truths are being sent down to us as we now once again come to an end of an age. These new truths are to help us over to the other side of the veil. But if we still don’t recognize what the truth is, we wont’ grow. If we hold onto our old untruths and still want to believe them as truths because it’s easier than to change, then we too will fade away with those old untruths, and then we have to start over again and miss the Ascension.

As I said before, it’s like school here. When we remember our schooling we start out in first grade, and learn the basics of the rules for change. Later as we learn to read we move up the ladder to second through fourth grade through sixth grade, etc. Then we go to junior high and high school and beyond, hopefully. And all that we learned in those lower grades no longer applies to the next grade. It was just a foundation for learning.

If we go back and read those books again, we will think that they are silly, maybe even nonsense, and not necessarily untrue but that they don’t apply to us anymore. They were just tools to get us to the next level and the next, moving on. We keep graduating as we keep learning. And to keep learning we have to let go of the old information that we called truths then. And the more we let go, together with the new information we take in, the more we grow.

There is a two fold problem though. First, in the higher grades we attained dis-information and were taught and told that they were truths. As a rebel and a warrior in many lives, I rebelled against what was taught to me as truths because they were not true. And now as a man and a spiritual light warrior, I still rebel against what is taught as truths if they are not true. But if they are small truths that can someday, hopefully, become truths then I embrace them, to be able to build my own library of truths. I don’t read any books that would go against my basic truths. I recognize untruths for what they are and I file them away to the trash department for we must keep our minds clean and pure. And the only way to have a pure and, someday, holy mind like our creator is to discern what is the truth, large and small, part and whole.

The second problem is that people reach a certain grade, maybe even finish high school or even college, and think that now the learning is over. They are now programmed and ready to become part of society, the nine to fivers, or so they think. Now we have another two fold problem.

First is the programming we received is maybe untrue in many parts. They have programmed us with truths and untruths combined together. So what happens then? We have a split mind. Jesus said a house divided amongst it’s self cannot stand. This presents many difficulties in our lives. As we become adults, we can’t seem to get our heads together. We can’t find peace. Peace of mind is what they say. To have peace of mind we must have all information categorized as truths, small or large, but they must harmonize. They must work together. If not, we cannot attain peace. (See the chapters on deprogramming.) After we learn to deprogram, then we can reprogram ourselves with “spiritual reality,” truths, which are given to us as a gift from our Creator Father Michael.

The second problem lies in the idea that we can stop growing after we finish school. But this life, this world, is school so we must now continue to grow. Schooling, or education as they call it, doesn’t stop when we graduate or leave as I did, but it’s a basic foundation. It’s not so much what we learn in school, because so much of it is untrue, but we should use it as a stepping stone for life. In other words, it’s a foundation for us to just learn how to learn , not so much of what we learn. Once we learn how to learn, and by that I mean to be able to discern truths from untruths, then we move on up the ladder and continue to grow.

We must let go of most or a lot of what we learned in school and in church. Learn to discern the truths, and build upon that. Recognize the new spiritual truths being handed down to us to use in our everyday lives to help us learn how to be able to cope with the stress of lies, deceit and untruths laid upon us daily by the media, church, schools, governments, etc. We can and must now learn to take our power back, to “reprogram” ourselves with the divine information and truths that are now flooding our book stores and the web.

There’s a really great amount of information and truths being sent down to us now to help us through this transition stage. As I mentioned before, Jesus says we are crazy because we live and was born in a crazy world, one not of our making but because of the old Lucifer Rebellion which is hopefully now dying out. And great damage has been done to our world and society as we know it. Much repair is now needed. Many volunteers are asked to come forward, to learn to forgive and forget so we can heal the mind.

“Spiritual reality” is really all there is. Everything else is just an illusion. Untruths are not real. Dis-information is not real. This world we see now is not real. It’s someone’s dream. We must ask ourselves who controls our dreams. Do we or is there someone or something else controlling us? Are we puppets on a string? Do we have the power to control our future and our everyday present life, or is someone else doing it? We, or at least many, have become numb, overwhelmed with lies, untruths, deceit, dis-information, all designed to cause havoc and fear in our lives. Even the church contributes to it. Established religion is supposed to come to the rescue, but instead they’re often part of the problem and not the cure. There is only one cure.

The cure is to awaken, to remember who we really are, not what we are told or programmed to be, to take our power back, to be of one mind, to be of one spirit and body called the Brotherhood. All that we need to know is already inside of us. We are all one. We are not separate, never have been. It’s all part of a conspiracy. And now we can and must take over. By that I mean we must change our lives, ourselves. Yes, we can be saved. God has bestowed great mercy upon us. He has brought down and channeled a huge amount of information and truths to awaken us. If we can accept it, we can change ourselves and in so doing change the world. That’s what the “spiritual reality” is really all about, taking back our power to become part of the “Brotherhood” by sharing, forgiving and helping our brothers and sisters in this large family, also called the Kingdom of God.

It all depends on us. It grows and expands by us or through us, not only on this earth planet but throughout the whole universe and into eternity. We are all one. Let us now remember and awaken to the peace, joy, love, happiness of God within. “I rule my mind which I alone must rule ” is an affirmation prayer by Jesus.

God is pure mind. We are created in his image. Then our minds awaken. We only use the brain for storage. God is pure thought. When we purify our thoughts we become like him, one with our creator. But we can’t come home until we purify our mind. God’s mind is in our mind, when we ask him in. We are in God’s mind, when we purify our thoughts.

It is in a pure state of mind that our oneness becomes conscious of itself. Maintaining pure thought creates the oneness of mind that was forgotten and lost in time. Eternity exists so we can have enough time to create a pure mind through pure thought, if only for a moment. A holy instant created the beginning of creation, touching Creator.

Oneness doesn’t just happen. It is created out of our desire to be one with our Creator. When we think in these terms, our minds become like our Creator, creating an image of itself through its perfect mind. However, we are unable to maintain this train of thought for any length of time. We open a veil, a sort of door, into another dimension or level of consciousness, a reality yet unknown to us.

We may call it a Paradigm shift, a jump into the unknown from whence there is a return passage. Every new path that is discovered must be marked so we know or learn how to return their again. We seem to always be pulled back here to this so called reality, which soon seems more like a dream the more we enter this paradigm shift or veil. The illusions of this world soon start to fade away like a day dream. The veils are doors that are opened when we let go of our doubts and disbelief. Our perceptions are raised to new heights as we perceive new realities that we have not known before but yet some how are familiar to us in this new paradigm shift. Dimensions blend to together as one, as our minds are stretched to its maximum trying to understand what it is that we are seeing and perceiving. We are trying to find a new category or shelf to put all of this in.

There must be a way to sort it all out so that it makes sense and we can use these new Truths to move up yet another step on the ladder of life. Much like our bodies, the sayings use it or loose it is true. The more we use our mind and exercise it the stronger it gets and the more it is able to do. The real question is what do you wont to do with it. Awakening is the name of the game. Attaining Super-consciousness allows one to be able to become anything, like its Creator. That is our true vision quest, to re-create ourselves in the image of our Creator!

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TAKING ACTION

The Allies ask us to take a stand for the well-being of our world and to become, in essence, Allies of Humanity ourselves. Yet to be real, this commitment must come from our conscience, the deepest part of ourselves. There are many things that you can do to offset the Intervention and to become a positive force by strengthening yourself and others around you.

Some readers have expressed feelings of hopelessness after reading the Allies material. If this is your experience, it is important to remember that it is the intention of the Intervention to influence you to feel either accepting and hopeful or helpless and impotent in the face of their presence. Do not allow yourself to be so persuaded. You find your strength by taking action. What can you really do? There is a great deal you can do.

Educate yourself.

Preparation must begin with awareness and education. You must have an understanding of what you are dealing with. Educate yourself about the UFO/ET phenomenon. Educate yourself about the latest discoveries of planetary science and astrobiology that are becoming available to us.

Resist the influence of the Pacification Program.

Resist the Pacification Program. Resist the influence to become listless and unresponsive to your own Knowledge. Resist the Intervention through awareness, through advocacy and through understanding. Promote human cooperation, unity and integrity.

Become aware of the Mental Environment.

The Mental Environment is the environment of thought and influence in which we all live. Its effect upon our thinking, emotions and actions is even greater than the effect of the physical environment. The Mental Environment is now being directly affected and influenced by the Intervention. It is also being affected by government and commercial interests all around us.

Becoming aware of the Mental Environment is crucial to maintaining your own freedom to think freely and clearly. The first step that you can take is to consciously choose who and what is influencing your thinking and decisions through the input that you receive from the outside. This includes media, books and persuasive friends, family and authority figures. Set your own guidelines and learn how to clearly determine, with discernment and objectivity, what other people, and even the culture at large, are telling you. Each of us must learn to consciously discern these influences in order to protect and uplift the Mental Environment in which we live.

Study The New Message.

Learning The New Message brings you into direct contact with the deeper spiritual mind, called Knowledge, that the Creator of all life has placed within you. It is at the level of this deeper mind beyond our intellect, at the level of Knowledge, that you are safe from interference and manipulation from any worldly or Greater Community power. Knowledge also holds for you your greater spiritual purpose for coming into the world at this time. It is the very center of your spirituality. You can begin your journey in The New Message today by starting the study of Steps to Knowledge online at NewMessage.org.

Form an Allies Reading Group.

To create a positive environment where the Allies material can be deeply considered, join with others to form an Allies Reading Group. We have found that when people read the Allies Briefings and the books of the New Message aloud with others in a supportive group setting and are free to share questions and insights as they go, their comprehension of the material grows significantly. This is one way that you can begin to find others who share your awareness and desire to know the truth about the Intervention. You can start with just one other person.

Preserve and protect the environment.

With each passing day, we are learning more and more about the need to preserve, protect and restore our natural environment. Even if the Intervention did not exist, this would still be a priority. Yet the Allies’ message gives new impetus and a new understanding for the need to create a sustainable use of our world’s natural resources. Become conscious about how you live and what you consume and find what you can do to support the environment. As the Allies emphasize, our self-sufficiency as a race will be necessary to safeguard our freedom and advancement within a Greater Community of intelligent life.

Spread the message about the Allies of Humanity Briefings.

Your sharing the Allies’ message with others is vitally important for the following reasons:

- You help break the numbing silence that surrounds the reality and specter of the extraterrestrial Intervention.

- You help break down the isolation that keeps people from connecting with one another about this great challenge.

- You awaken those who have fallen under the influence of the Pacification Program, giving them a chance to use their own minds to re-evaluate the meaning of this phenomenon.

- You strengthen the resolve within yourself and within others not to capitulate to either fear or avoidance in meeting the great challenge of our time.

- You bring confirmation to other people’s own insights and Knowledge about the Intervention.

- You help establish the resistance that can thwart the Intervention and promote the empowerment that can give humanity the unity and strength to establish our own Rules of Engagement.

Here are some concrete steps that you can take today:

- Share this book and its message with others. The entire first set of briefings is now available to read and to download at no costhere at the Allies website.

- Read the Declaration of Human Sovereignty and share this valuable document with others. It can be read online and printed at HumanSovereignty.org.

- Encourage your local bookstore and library to carry both volumes of The Allies of Humanity and the other books by Marshall Vian Summers. This increases access to the material for other readers.

- Share the Allies material and perspective in existing online forums and discussions groups whenever appropriate. Thesecards and this summary sheet may assist you in representing the Allies Message.

- Attend related conferences and gatherings and share the Allies perspective.

- Translate the Allies of Humanity Briefings. If you are multi-lingual, please consider helping to translate the briefings in order to make them available to more readers around the world.

- Contact The Society to receive a free Allies advocacy packet with materials that can help you share this message with others.

This is by no means a complete list. It is merely a beginning. Look at your own life and see what opportunities may exist there, and be open to your own Knowledge and insights on this matter. In addition to doing the things listed above, people have already found creative ways to express the Allies’ message – through art, through music, through poetry. Find your way.

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In reality, all of this is happening in our minds and our souls. Anyone who has ever had an out of body experience, whether by a near death experience or through astral travel knows for sure that we are not these bodies (physical) but we have a spiritual body with a similar form as this one and we can still think and see and feel to a certain degree. All of our emotions are still there. We are still there. Truly this very strange experience is a “real blessing.” It confirms our new beliefs that we are first spirit and second we are in a material body. This changes our perspective on ourselves and on life itself forever more!

Of course, none of this is taught in our religions or schools of thought. So it makes our jobs even much more difficult. But once we learn this new concept we then perceive ourselves much more differently. So instead of being born a sinner and going to die and live a life of suffering and pain with heaven or hell waiting on the other side, we can then see the “truths” much more clearly. We are born a spiritual angelic type being into a physical body that has a certain time or length of time attached to it for us to remember who we really are and that we “don’t die.” Just the body does.

So we don’t really have anything to fear for it is fear itself that is from the dark side trying to bring us into it or “hell” as it is called when we die the body. But in reality we live on. We don’t die our spiritual body, but move back to where we came from which is home which they call heaven. But we don’t go straight home or to our creator but onto the next life. If we have failed we may go back to school here again after a dispensation has passed or onto a different planet and another material form similar to the one we have now.

A perfect example of all of this is “Jesus.” He was a highly evolved spirit and material being who became man, and Lord Michael our creator also indwelt or bestowed himself in Jesus the man. He lived the most perfect life possible for a soul evolutionary material being, one who had evolved to the highest possible attainment and yet had still maintained a human or material body. Then he died the body (unjustly) to show his love for his enemies and for us. This was the ultimate gesture a being can have, to give his life for not only his loved ones but for his enemies as well, as I have said before.

After he died the body, he rose again in a new body of the next life that we too will someday do. He did this as a human evolutionary creature and the God in him, Michael, returned back to his home as sovereign king and creator. Jesus stayed for awhile teaching his apostles here and also teaching in the next dimension. Finally when Jesus and Michael were finished Jesus ascended into heaven for the last time, both of them bestowing their spirits on man for evermore as the spirit of truth, a new companion to help us remember and to become like Jesus in all that we do. He was man and God at the same time. The man part in him showed us what was possible for us to do, maybe not in this life time, but in a new future one, a new dispensation, a New Age which is now coming upon us quickly, 2012 (2016?).

Remember, Jesus the man said that “all that I do you can do and more,” and “if you had but the faith of a mustard seed you could move mountains”. So that should inspire us all to our higher selves which is a gift from God, not only since the time of Jesus but before and after, if we but believe in the truth of what is being told to us. Be not in fear and fear not the evil in men or spirit for we are stronger than they. We have not lost our light or connection to our creator. We are not a separate entity from him but one with him. All power in heaven is ours if we use it to help our brothers and ourselves to become better beings, to be able to become what we already really are. We need to loose the “untruths,” the disbelief that have been laid upon us, forgive and forget.

Rise up against these dark forces and untruths. Let’s remember who we really are, angelic type beings. Believe not the untruth that binds us to the hell they have created here. We are above them and all that we are is more powerful than them. We are still a son of God. Again, we were never separated. It was all an illusion, a lie, deceit, a trick to steal our powers away from us, to trick us into giving them our powers and energy, for the dark side has none.

They live only from what energy they can steal from others who have not fallen from the grace of God, such as they have. They cannot live without our energy. So let us not give our new energy away to them. Don’t let them be able to cause “fear” in us. We will not die like them, but we can live forever if we choose too, but in different body forms.

Someday we too will become creators of sorts but for now we must learn to recreate correctly in God’s image. All that we recreate must be for the purposeful goal of all of mankind. God’s Kingdom is spread and created in this way. It is the divine plan. All beings are brothers on some level and therefore the Brotherhood is the Kingdom. And the Kingdom must grow. What better way for it to grow than by those who have themselves been there? When we reach Super consciousness as Jesus (Sananda) did, then there’s only one thing left to do. Help all our brothers reach up to the same level, as we were helped.

I spoke of the disadvantage, and now we will speak of the advantages of being an evolutionary creature. Some of what I just said can be recognized in either the eastern or the western religions, better yet when east meets west. But now we will go even further. “What is the divine plan?” many ask. Is it the end goal of our mission or purpose for being here? I mentioned our purpose for being here was to learn, to dare I say it, “to love.” There I said it. Love is life, to be God like is to love life, for life is Love. To be in peace is to be one with God. Peace ,joy happiness and health are all aspects of Gods Love. And since God is Love. Then these Gifts are all aspects of God.

God is love and for us to truly understand what “love is” we must have a deeper and greater understanding of what God is. And that could take forever it seems. But we do have forever. Time only exists down here. It’s called linear time. But in true time we do evolve through events, learning experiences that we must learn from and share with our brothers. We are all on a Journey without distance. The Healing begins once again when we awaken and take the first step towards our Creator Father.

These new and old ways of sharing what we learn, as I have mentioned before, is what life and the real kingdom is all about. Every being that is created less than perfect, including the angels and up the spiritual hierarchy and down to the lower evolutionary creatures such as us, all must evolve to its creator. Many of these higher Creators and or created beings do much to help even in our material creation. But the spiritual creations are left up to Michael and his higher developed spiritual beings.

It has been told to us in some vague terms that we too are to someday help create new species, not much differently than we are today. We will move up the ladder from recreating to creating, when we have mastered how to recreate “in peace,” in perfection or near perfection. Then we will reach what is called the life and light age, the last dispensation, like Jesus was or is as Sananda. The next stage after that will be to learn to create beings like our present selves. Who else but a parent could come so close to his newly created being? The compassion and passion for life would be greater because there would be a bond between them, even as there is a bond between our off springs or recreations if they are loved and the bond between us and our real father and creator Michael. It is believed that this new divine plan will open up a whole new realm.

Never before has it been done where an evolutionary creator learns to create as his creator did, not just recreation as we are doing today. That’s why it is so important for us to learn this new concept and divine plan, and to learn to recreate in goodness, in balance, to have all the attributes of a divine creator. The principles are taught to us to be able to apply them in our every day life in all that we recreate around us.

We have created nothing on this planet, not even ourselves. God, Michael, has created it all. And all that we do is learn to recreate it, all the “things” we have. All of our houses, toys, food, clothing, transportation, energy, everything is recreated by us from God the creator . But in spirit-reality it is all an illusion ,so look at what we have recreated! Where are we going with this “re-creation?” Are we now awakening toward “God-head” or are we de-evolving toward our own demise or destruction? All the prophets and revelations that have been given to us are but for this purpose. What are we creating within our re-creation? Are we recreating for the healing betterment of all of mankind or for only a few? Are we recreating just for our pleasures in life, what little pleasures we steal from our recreations? Do these toys bring us happiness? Or are they fleeting? Are we led astray from the trivial pleasures our new re-creations bring us? Where will they be in the years to come? And where will we be in 2012 (2016?)?

All of God’s creations return to the Creator. All of our re-creations return back to the mother earth which they came from and our physical bodies will return there as well. Then what is the purpose, one might ask, if all returns back to whence it comes? Well, my friends, it’s what we keep in our heart of hearts, our souls, our true minds, what becomes part of our permanent personalities, the new beings that are forever evolving. We have and we will change forms many times, probably too many to count. Even our past memories of who we were before are lost mostly in this transition into a new life form again.

So who are we then? What do we then identify ourselves with? The answer is to look at ourselves now. How much do we remember of our childhood? Only a little, right? We were there, but only those outstanding events in our lives remain in our memories. And we have built our personalities upon them.

How much do we remember of ourselves as babies, probably none? But we were there. And we were taught by our human parents who built the foundation during those first seven years so that we could become an adult someday. But most have no memory of this. Only a few do. Then how much do we remember of being born, or being inside our mother’s womb, none, of course. But we were there. So get the point? Now how much do we remember of our previous lives? None, but we were there. And there are ways to help us remember. That’s what our guides are for, to help us remember. And once we do, “presto” our lives change again.

These changes are what life is all about. Maybe it’s unfortunate that we don’t remember all these life stages as we evolve, this cycle of life and death (of the body) and rebirth again. What’s the purpose, one might ask. The purpose is to remember our mission, the great divine plan, to be a part of something great, so great it’s almost beyond our comprehension. But we have to reach out for it, to ask for it. Ask and ye shall be given, give and ye shall receive. Sharing completes the oneness that we are. We are all a part of the total “is-ness,” one mind, one consciousness, never being truly alone, never separated from God or our goal. We may backslide for awhile but eventually the mass consciousness must move forward for completeness and ascension.

We all want to be complete, to serve our mission, to remember our purpose. The real reason for us being here is to remember, to awaken, and to return to that which we were and are as divinely created angelic beings and to help all of mankind to be able to remember as well, to awaken. And then all of us can ascend once we remember we have already descended. Now we must ascend. And if it feels good, do it, if not don't,is the old hippie saying. I choose this new spiritual movement over the old religious ones for that very reason. None of what they taught me, nor rituals they put me through, nor the punishments, none of it made me feel good. It only made me feel bad.  

GALACTIC NEWS; THE TRUE DISCLOSURE OF THE DISHONESTY IN OUR CHANNELLED MATERIAL.

3DDD> Equals,3 ways> Dishonesty-Discernment-Disclosure. A lesson that we followers of channelled material have finally come to learn. And that is that ½ to ¾ of the material known as channelled info or truths that have been handed down to us for a great many yrs now, in books, mags.,and internet has been invaded with untruths or dishonesty. Discernment has finally come upon us as we found that many of the ''Events that were supposed to happen over the yrs up to this present moment , in fact never took place. This of course led us to finally open our eyes and learn that we have indeed been decieved. The deception is done by 3 groups I call the 3stooges. The first of this is the DC, the Reptialian over lords who have been ruleing us for many centuries. There intent is evil and one can usually feel the negativeity and they are not very good at false spiritual channeling. As we know they plan to wipe us out except for those who will be left to serve them, as they install the N.W.O..They usually fool us though when talking about ET's and the universe and other subjects.

The 2^nd member of the 3 stooges is the Archons who I believe are like fallen angels, we also call fallen mid-wayers, who are able to manifest for short peroids into our dimension and they channel down false info and disinfo much like the DC in fact they are in partner's with the DC. They are being rounded up at present by the angels of the order of AA-Michael. They like all fallen angels, feed off the dark energy that they create on earth, such as hate,anger, all forms of vilance and Fear. So the messages's they present are usually controversal and cause's bickering and arguments and conflicts of right and wrong, especially in the light workers who have been around for awhile. The newly awakened dosn't really know what is going on at all, believing all channelled material is correct ,for they haven't learned Discernment yet. And the 3^rd person of the 3 stooges is the ones we now call the ''Visitors'' they have been around for awile but not as long as the others and there numbers are small. But there Agenda is nearly the same as the other two, except that they are not as evil in there intent. But they do want ot take us over as well but not kill us off like the DC but to use us for labor. What they really want is the natural resources of the planet as many of this group come from planets that have depleated there resources and are looking to take others who are not so advanced technologly, sucg as us earthlings.

This collective of aliens use what is called the group mind or hive mind which is very powerful. This is there number one weapon but it is also thre weakness as they then don't have an individual mind and can become confused oncertain issues of knowledge that they don't have. They can be very sutial and soft in there ability to inplant disinfo or untruths into our minds ,both in personal contack and in there channelled material to us. They often speak against the DC and tell us how and what to do to get rid of them, so that one would think that they are they good guys and not realizing that there motive is to take us over next, when we do finally get rid of the DC and the Archons. We did not know of there existence until our new found friends called ''The Allies of Humanity'' channelled down this info to us warning us about them. For they had to deal with there like's before themselves. We are told by the AH that the angels sent them here to help us as they them selves were befriended from other ET's whohelped them toover throw these type of aliens and when we are free and more advances we in turn must do the same for those behind us, and it will continue on this way, for that is the law of ''Oneness''.

The Allies of Humanity'' have given us much info about these beings at the risk of there lives. For they would come after them if they found out about them and how they are helping us. They tell us that these Visitors have for some time now studied our history ,our poltics, our religions and socil and culture life. Thereplan is to pretend to help us overthrow the DC and make friends with the top leaders od countries themselves and to persuade our religions to there way of thinking with out going against them. And of course they to will present to us advanced technology to help us and they help themselves into our system. To make the world believe that they are our new best friends. That they are the ET's who have come to help us gain our new found Freedom. While the real agenda is to take over our minds through gentile invasion. But they to have a problem living on our planet with the air to some degree but mostly the many virius's that can kill them. So again like the Reptialians they have created many hybrids from those of us they have captured and or pursuaded to get there sperm and DNA.

These hybrids are the ones who are amungst us now and making friends and getting ready to set up the new world gov't, to replace the one that is falling now as we speak. At the same time certain groups of them work together in anolizing ,copying and imatating the channelled entities that we all know so well. They copy them so well that even the persons who are doning the channeling often dosen't realize that it is not the being that they normal channl from. A very good example of this would be Greg Giles who had been channeling the GFL. But in the last yr or more they ''Visitors'' have come in and taken over the GFL or rather pretended that they were them. And then slowly they changed there motive's. And they make many predictions and promises that never did come true. And they kept doing this until the light workers here and on other site revolted by refusing to believe anymore of the lies of Desception and Disclosure that has never happened.         PT.2. TM

Whole Foods caught in GMO marketing deception, false advertising – here’s the proof

Mike Adams
Natural News
Oct 8, 2012

A bombshell investigative video just released by Infowars.com has exposed what can only be called false and misleading advertising by Whole Foods. It all began when InfoWars reporters Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton visited Whole Foods last week to try to find out what customers thought about Whole Foods stores selling so many unlabeled genetically modified foods. That fact was recently admitted by Whole Foods in its own blog post.

As you can see in the video, some customers were shocked to discover that Whole Foods sells GMOs in their store. The majority of Whole Foods customers, it turned out, had no idea the company was selling GMO.

While talking with customers on camera, Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton were approached by a Whole Foods executive named Libba Letton. She handles investor relations with Whole Foods, and she’s also in charge of food safety. In an on-camera interview, she admitted that Whole Foods stores do sell unlabeled GMOs, but her justification for that was that stores everywhere are selling unlabeled GMOs.

As she stated on camera (see video, below):

“Unless a store is all organic, every store in the country sells unlabeled genetically modified [foods].” – Libba Letton, Whole Foods Market Inc.

On the issue of GMOs, then, Whole Foods is no better than Safeway, or Kroger or even Wal-Mart.

But then Libba said something that will no doubt haunt her and the entire Whole Foods executive team for years to come:

“I don’t think that Whole Foods does anything to try and make people think that we don’t have food with GMOs in them,” she said on camera.

“NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER!”

Libba’s statement is, as you’ll see below, a blatant deception. Because as the Infowars video shows, Aaron and Melissa located a Whole Foods store in Austin with a giant logo emblazed on the side of the store. As you can see in the photo below, the logo declares: NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER.

So how can Whole Foods claim “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER” when even the company’s own top executives admit its stores are knowingly selling artificially engineered, genetically altered ingredients?

The answer, of course, is that Whole Foods is engaged in false advertising and misrepresentation.

Whole Foods engaged is engaged in false advertising

The definition of “false advertising” is:

…the crime or tort of publishing, broadcasting, or otherwise publicly distributing an advertisement that contains an untrue, misleading, or deceptive representation or statement which was made knowingly or recklessly and with the intent to promote the sale of property, goods, or services to the public.

A question, then: Is Whole Foods making untrue, misleading or deceptive statements with the intent to promote the sale of goods to the public?

Absolutely. Without question.

The claim emblazed on the front of the Whole Foods stores, as proven in this Infowars video, says, “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER.” And yet the company openly admits to selling an entire array products in its stores which contain artificially-modified ingredients such as GM corn.

So how are artificially modified grains not artificial? It doesn’t add up. The marketing claim is false.

GMOs are artificial

You might wonder, “What’s the definition of artificial?”

Here it is from Dictionary.com:

Artificial: made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural)

And what, you might ask, is the definition of GMO?

Genetically modified organism: an organism or microorganism whose genetic material has been altered by means of genetic engineering.

“Altering” the DNA of an organism is, by definition, artificial (i.e. not natural). “Engineering” the DNA of seed is accomplished by human skill, hence it is “artificial” in the same vein as “artificial color” or “artificial flavor.”

GMOs are, of course, blatantly artificial. No one can argue with a straight face that GMOs are “natural.” The very definition of the term “modified” (in the context of GMOs) means modified by humans to create something that nature did not create on its own. Nature does not cross-pollinate humans, insects and plants, for example. But human genetic engineers do!

So Whole Foods’ claim of “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER” has no basis in fact. It is marketing deception, pure and simple. False advertising. Blatantly misleading. That Whole Foods’ own foodsafety executive says, on camera, that “I don’t think that Whole Foods does anything to try and make people think that we don’t have food with GMOs in them” is pure bull. It’s the kind of statement you might expect to hear from a Monsanto spokesperson, or from the TSA claiming “our radiation scanners are SAFE!”

What is the purpose of this deceptive marketing, you might ask? To trick customers, of course, into falsely believing Whole Foods sells nothing artificial.

No wonder so many customers and even Whole Foods employees are convinced that Whole Foods sells no GMO! This was revealed in a recent Organic Spies video that was banned by YouTube because it dared to engage in actual investigative journalism.

Whole Foods carries out false and misleading marketing

The claim about “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER” is part of a grand bait-and-switch scheme of consumer deception carried out by Whole Foods. Publicly, Whole Foods runs advertising and uses corporate messages that claim it sells absolutely nothing artificial, but once you’re inside the store, a huge number of products on the shelves contain not only GMOs but alsohidden forms of MSG, too. Just check the labels of foods sold by Whole Foods, and you’ll see masses of products made with yeast extract and torula yeast — both are hidden forms of MSG.

On its own web page, Whole Foods describes its “quality standards.” Those standards include the following six points:

1) We carefully evaluate each and every product we sell.

2) We feature foods that are free of artificial preservatives, colors, flavors, sweeteners, and hydrogenated fats.

3) We are passionate about great tasting food and the pleasure of sharing it with others.

4) We are committed to foods that are fresh, wholesome and safe to eat.

5) We seek out and promote organically grown foods.

6) We provide food and nutritional products that support health and well-being.

If point #1 is true, then Whole Foods “carefully evaluates” products containing GMOs and then accepts them into the store anyway! The company is fully aware that it sells GMO ingredients, but doesn’t seem to think this is a problem, even when GMOs are not labeled on its foods, thereby deceiving customers . How is this anything resembling honesty?

On point #4, the store says it is “committed” to foods that are “safe to eat.” Is the company not aware of the recent French research showing rats fed a lifetime of GM corn developed massive, horrifying cancer tumors?

Here’s a picture of the rats, released by the French research team, showing the results of rats fed a lifetime of Monsanto’s GM corn:

Importantly, that’s the same Monsanto GM corn found in many products sold by Whole Foods!

If Whole Foods is committed to safe food, why is it still selling unlabeled GMOs throughout all its stores, especially when those same GMOs are seen as so dangerous around the world that they’ve been banned in numerous countries already?

Point #6 claims the company provides products that “support health and well-being.” And that’s true. Whole Foods does sell many high-quality nutritional products and certified organic food items. But that’s not all they sell. They also sell products made largely with Monsanto’s genetically modified corn and other GMOs. To say “we sell healthy products” while simultaneously selling products containing an unlabeled ingredient widely suspected of causing cancer is a kind of market sleight of hand. It’s an effort to say here, watch what we’re doing over here with organics but pay no attention to all the GMOs we’re selling.

To put a giant logo on the side of the store claiming “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER” while secretly selling unlabeled GMOs all across the store is nothing less than deceptive, misleading marketing. If Whole Foods were to be totally honest with customers, it would need to add point #7:

7) We sell unlabeled GMOs and we have no intention of ever telling you about them. When you shop at Whole Foods, it’s sort of like a nutritional mine field. Good luck, customers, because you’re on your own!

From a culture of hippies to a corporate culture of lying

What really concerns me about Whole Foods and its false advertising is not merely the false advertising itself but that Whole Foods marketing executives think nothing of flatly lying right out in the open about GMOs. They apparently think their customers are so uninformed that they won’t ever find out about all the GMOs sold there.

The Whole Foods investor relations executive, Libba Letton, says that GMOs are found everywhere, but only when pressed on the issue in front of a camera. Is that seriously her excuse for why Whole Foods sells GMOs, too? Because everyone else does? Really?

This argument is, once again, based on deception because all the other grocery stores across the country don’t slap claims on the sides of their stores that say, “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER.” Only Whole Foods makes such a bold claim on the side of its building. And the claim is not merely false, it is a claim made for the purpose of deceiving customers into purchasing something that isn’t what they thought it was.

The claim is also knowingly untrue. This is a key element in court cases involving consumer fraud, by the way. Generally speaking, for a statement to be considered fraud, it must falsely state a material fact while also being known to be false by the person or entity making the claim. In addition, there must be intent on the part of the party committing fraud to deceive the consumer. In the case of Whole Foods, all three of the following conditions are true:

1) The statement “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER” is a false statement of material fact.

2) Whole Foods executives are fully aware that this statement is false, as admitted by CEO John Mackey and others.

3) The false statement is made for the purpose of deceiving consumers into believing Whole Foods sells no artificial ingredients when, in fact, it does.

Furthermore, it is a simple matter for consumers who might be engaged in a lawsuit against Whole Foods to prove that they relied on this claim as source of information from which they made their purchasing decisions at Whole Foods. This adds weight to any claim of fraud.

As a result, there may be a case for a nationwide class action lawsuit against Whole Foodsby consumers who were duped into thinking the stores do not sell GMOs. It will be interesting to see if such a lawsuit unfolds in the months ahead.

It will also be fascinating to see if Whole Foods continues to try to defend its lie about GMOs, or if it instead makes far-reaching changes to its marketing claims and labeling in an effort to actually tell the truth instead of deceiving customers about GMO.

Whole Foods CEO caught red handed in another online deception

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, of course, has a history of unethical deception. Back in 2007, as the Wall Street Journal reports:

For about eight years until last August, the company confirms, Mr. Mackey posted numerous messages on Yahoo Finance stock forums as Rahodeb. It’s an anagram of Deborah, Mr. Mackey’s wife’s name. Rahodeb cheered Whole Foods’ financial results, trumpeted his gains on the stock and bashed Wild Oats. Rahodeb even defended Mr. Mackey’s haircut when another user poked fun at a photo in the annual report. “I like Mackey’s haircut,” Rahodeb said. “I think he looks cute!”

Mr. Mackey’s online alter ego came to light in a document made public late Tuesday by the Federal Trade Commission in its lawsuit seeking to block the Wild Oats takeover on antitrust grounds. Submitted under seal when the suit was filed in June, the filing included a quotation from the Yahoo site. An FTC footnote said, “As here, Mr. Mackey often posted to Internet sites pseudonymously, often using the name Rahodeb.”

When this information came to light, instead of admitting wrongdoing, John Mackey claimed the FTC released the information “to embarrass both me and Whole Foods.” Oh, right, because it’s the FTC’s fault that Mackey was trying to bash his competition using a fake username in an online finance message board, leading up to Whole Foods trying to purchase Wild Oats.

Mackey even used his fake blogger name to — get this — admire himself! “While I’m not a ‘Mackey groupie,’ I do admire what the man has accomplished,” he wrote about himself. (Seriously.)

As the WSJ also reports:

Rahodeb [John Mackey] filed his last post on the Yahoo message board. He said he had lost a bet with “hubris12000″ about Whole Foods’ stock performance, and the bet’s terms required that he quit posting. He blamed the whims of the stock market for a 40% decline in the company’s shares.

Yeah, right.

As Techdirt.com adds, “He even made predictions about the company’s stock price, putting out extremely high estimates for its performance. It’s not clear that what he did was necessarily illegal, but his posting seems unethical and highly foolish, at the very least. If nothing else, the company’s stockholders should wonder about what the boss is doing with his time.”

The greatest corporate lies of all time

With its “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER” claim, Whole Foods now joins the Hall of Fame of the greatest corporate lies of all time.

Other corporate lies in the Hall of Fame include:

“Better Living Through Chemistry” – DuPont, 1935 – 1982

“DDT is safe to use around humans” – Monsanto, 1944

“Nicotine is not addictive” – Big Tobacco executives, 1994

“Corexit is safe for aquatic life” – British Petroleum, 2010

“NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER” – Whole Foods, 2012

You have to wonder: How is Whole Foods going to try to argue its way out of this monumental lie? Given that the company has already openly admitted to selling GMOs in its stores, it must now argue one of the following:

1) That GMOs are somehow not artificial — an argument as absurd as claiming that DDT is “natural,” too, and maybe Whole Foods should sell DDT in all its foods and offer a new beverage called Agent Orange Smoothie.

2) That the “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER” claim somehow doesn’t apply to the products it sells inside its stores. This, too, is patently absurd. The claim is emblazed on the side of the store, unmistakably visible to everyone who enters the store, and it exists for the purpose of claiming that the products inside the store contain nothing artificial. The sign obviously refers to items for sale inside the store.

For Whole Foods to claim “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER” and then sell GMOs inside its store is the logical equivalent of a store claiming “NO PESTICIDES, EVER” but then selling masses of pesticide-laden foods in its store. The claim is a lie. It is deception. And it may even be the undoing of this company.

Are we witnessing the fall of Whole Foods

When I first began covering the Organic Spies video and the Whole Foods GMO fiasco, I had no idea how deep the culture of deception really went inside this company. Knowing that I know now, about how the CEO knowingly deceives people online, how the company knowingly makes false marketing claims, and how it sells masses of genetically modified ingredients in the products on its shelves without bothering to label them, I’m beginning to think we’re actually witnessing the opening chapter of the implosion of Whole Foods.

I believe that once Whole Foods customers become fully informed of the fact that Whole Foods is selling foods containing Monsanto’s genetically modified corn, many of them will stop shopping there altogether.

Whole Foods exists only because of the trust of its customers. Its customers are its greatest asset! And when that trust is revealed to have been betrayed, Whole Foods has nothing but empty buildings, angry ex-customers and tens of millions of dollars worth of food products marching toward an expiration date.

You can’t force people to shop at Whole Foods, obviously. They do so voluntarily. And this voluntary action is based entirely on a level of trust that now appears to have been betrayed.

That’s why I also think there’s a good chance we will see a class action lawsuit formed against Whole Foods, and that such a lawsuit could involve billions of dollars worth of groceries people bought from Whole Foods, completely unaware they were buying GMOs.

How much money have you spent at Whole Foods? I’ve spent thousands of dollars there, for sure. Maybe tens of thousands. Years ago when I shopped there frequently, I had no idea Whole Foods was selling GMOs, either. Like many of you, I was deceived by Whole Foods, and because of that deception I unknowingly purchased products there that contained genetically modified organisms.

How many other customers have been tricked by Whole Foods into purchasing — and consuming! — GMOs?

Whole Foods, Half Truths

The bottom line on this comes down to a simple question: If they’re selling whole foods, why can’t they tell the whole truth about them?

Is the company’s new slogan: Whole Foods, Half Truths?

Why all the deception? Why not tell the truth? Why not come clean with customers?

That answers shouldn’t be all that surprising: Selling GMO foods is highly profitable. In fact, processed foods made with GMOs are far more profitable than organic produce, for example, on which profit margins are very thin. I wouldn’t be surprised if something like 35% of Whole Foods profits come from selling products containing genetically modified ingredients.

To ditch GMOs now would clobber the corporation’s profits, and therefore also its share price. And as you well know, public companies are routinely far more interested in keeping their share prices high than they are in serving the human interests of their customers.

Whole Foods probably thinks it’s going to make more money by continuing to sell GMOs, even while falsely claiming “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, EVER” on its stores. But this may be a gross miscalculation. Because if Whole Foods doesn’t come clean, it’s customers are going to find out the truth about the situation sooner or later and Whole Foods may go down in history as the once-trusted grocer that betrayed its customers and subsequently lost huge market share.

Mark my words: What appears today on NaturalNews.com becomes common knowledge in 1 – 3 years. What we’re writing about GMOs in 2012 will be widely known among health food consumers by 2013 – 2015.

That’s why if Whole Foods doesn’t get behind Proposition 37 with some serious financial support, I suspect it’s going to be seen as allying with Monsanto, DuPont and Nestle rather than defending the interests of its own consumers.

Why I believe Whole Foods may have already sold us out

Frankly, I believe Whole Foods may already be aligned with Monsanto. I suspect Whole Foods has long since sold out and actually has NO intention of labeling its products with their GMO content. Based on the behavior I’ve seen from this company and some (but not all of) its executives, I believe Whole Foods has turned to evil… joined the Dark Side, so to speak. And instead of telling the truth, it is engaged in a pattern of spin and excuse-making to try to deflect any blame from itself.

The one executive at Whole Foods who I think is honestly against all this GMO nonsense is co-president Walter Robb, an advocate of “conscious capitalism.” I suspect that, in his heart, Walter Robb knows GMOs are wrong and destructive, and he’d like to see Whole Foods get out of the business of GMOs altogether. But he’s fighting against a corporate culture that’s a lot more interested in profit than in actually doing good in the world. Shareholders demand profits, after all, not integrity.

The core of so-called “conscious capitalism” is, of course, honest communication between a corporation and its customers. On that point, Whole Foods has slipped… badly. The company can no longer be described as practicing conscious capitalism. It has devolved into a for-profit scheme of withholding information from customers while trying to confuse people with bait-and-switch marketing tactics.

My guess is that if Whole Foods somehow finds the courage to do the right thing on Proposition 37 or GMO labeling, Walter Robb will be the internal force that makes it happen, even against the wishes of John Mackey who seems to be driven primarily by greed and profit.

I invite you to email co-president Walter Robb and encourage him, in polite terms, to help save Whole Foods in three ways:

1) Make a large donation to Proposition 37 in California.
2) Announce a timeline requirement for all foods sold through Whole Foods to be labeled with their GMO content.
3) Proactively educate Whole Foods employees and customers about the reality of genetically modified foods being sold throughout the stores.

You can email Walter Robb at:
Walter.robb@wholefoods.com

Also contact Libba Letton and let her know what you think about “food safety” at Whole Foods

Libba Letton lists her contact information openly and publicly on the Whole Foods website. Her areas of focus are “investor relations” and “food safety.”

You can email her at:
Libba.Letton@wholefoods.com

I encourage you to contact her and let her know what you think about Whole Foods deceiving consumers with the “NOTHING ARTIFICIAL” claim while selling GMOs in the store.

If you do email her, please be polite but firm. If you are a Whole Foods customer, you may wish to let her know that fact. Please do not be unprofessional or threatening in your emails, even if you are angry at Whole Foods. Remember that if you email Whole Foods, they will have your email address. You may wish to use a secondary email address for this purpose.

October 16th is “take your GMOs back to Whole Foods” day

Next Tuesday, October 16th, join others in returning any GMO food items to Whole Foods and demanding a refund.

Which food items contain GMO? Almost everything made with corn that isn’t certified organic.

Class action lawsuit against Whole Foods?

If any law firms are interested in pursuing a class action lawsuit against Whole Foods for its misleading advertising and false claims, NaturalNews may be interested in helping you organize such an effort.

Call or email us if you wish to pursue this issue. We can help spread the word about a class action lawsuit and even distribute your phone number where people who believe they have been victimized by blatantly misleading marketing claims can call and file their complaints.

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