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			by Mike Adams 
			September 29, 2008 
			
			NaturalNewsedited on October 03, 2008
 
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						Technical comments: 
						While the outcome of Western Finance and Western 
						Medicine are not in doubt, the timing of their demise is 
						uncertain. The financial system could break and collapse 
						in weeks, or it could possibly limp along in a severe 
						recession for decades (a la Japan, circa 1989), 
						depending on the actions of foreign central banks and 
						the Federal Reserve.Western Medicine will likely take many years to unravel 
						and be replaced by a new system based on reality. But a 
						collapse of the U.S. government would accelerate that 
						shift by taking the FDA out of the equation. Without the 
						FDA to enforce Big Pharma's monopolistic, racketeering 
						practices, natural products would quickly take over the 
						free market and Big Pharma would quickly shrink.
 
						Remember this: FDA 
						employees are only one paycheck away from complete 
						disloyalty. The entire U.S. government is held together 
						by a long supply line of fragile paychecks. The whole 
						system could unravel in less than 30 days if foreign 
						nations stop buying U.S. debt. |  
			  
			  
			  
			Here at NaturalNews, we've been 
			publicly predicting the fall of Western Medicine for nearly five 
			years.  
			  
			During that time, we've also covered the 
			increasingly precarious financial situation, warning readers in 2005 
			and 2006 about the impending housing bubble crash and the 
			implications for the entire financial system.
			In covering these two topics (western medicine and western finance), 
			I've come to recognize many strong parallels between the two.  
			  
			This 
			article explores the common threads of deception that characterize 
			these two powerful institutions.
 
				
				#1 - They're both based on fraud and 
				deceptionBoth Western Finance and 
				Western Medicine are fundamentally based on fraud. The fraud of 
				Western Finance is that you can create money from nothing and 
				everybody can get rich by selling each other fictitious 
				financial instruments that have no connection to reality.
 
				  
				The 
				fraud of Western Medicine is that everybody can get healthy by 
				taking fictitious patented chemicals (pharmaceuticals) rather 
				than addressing fundamental issues of nutrition, exercise and 
				exposure to consumer chemicals.
 Western Finance's fraud is committed by high-brow academics who 
				contrive complicated derivative financial instruments that are 
				then presented to the investment community as things of real 
				value (which they are not). Western Medicine's fraud is 
				committed by high-ego medical researchers who selectively 
				massage clinical trial data to create fictitious "scientific" 
				results that are then presented to the FDA as fact.
   
				The 
				
				FDA then "approves" such drugs 
				which are sold to the public as medicines that treat "disease" 
				(which are also fictitious, by the way; being voted into 
				existence by a panel of experts who benefit from such disease 
				definitions).
 Both the financial instruments and FDA-approved medications are 
				fraudulent to begin with, and they offer nothing of real, 
				lasting value to anyone.
 
				  
				They're both sold simply for momentary 
				profits, without any regard for the health or the wealth of the 
				People.
 
				
 
				#2 - When problems arise, they both treat 
				symptoms rather than solving the causesThe $700 billion financial 
				bailout created in Washington is a classic example of Western 
				Medicine's "treat the symptoms" mentality. Rather than address 
				the root cause of the problem (the Fed's control over the money 
				supply and the very structure of fractional-reserve banking), 
				politicians seem satisfied to rig up a series of financial 
				bandages that allow them to pretend the problem has been solved.
 
 In Western Medicine, this "treat the symptoms" approach is the 
				de facto treatment philosophy taught in medical school: Ignore 
				the real cause, don't bother educating patients about diet or 
				exercise, and simply prescribe pharmaceuticals to mask the 
				problem for as long as possible.
 
 In both cases, the patient inevitably gets sicker: The financial 
				situation festers and grows like an unchecked cancer tumor, and 
				while stop-gap measures can create the illusion of a healthy 
				patient, these actions inevitably contribute to far greater 
				crisis down the road, where the patient eventually crashes and 
				dies.
 
 The financial sickness now infecting banks, lenders and 
				insurance companies across the globe is an unchecked pandemic of 
				infectious debt.
   
				But rather than addressing the cause 
				of the infections, the financial industry seems satisfied to 
				refinance the disease carriers so they can rise up, coughing and 
				sputtering as they pass along the disease to anyone within 
				breathing distance.
   
				#3 - They both enrich powerful 
				corporations while impoverishing the People
 The key agenda of both the 
				financial and health industries is to enrich wealthy 
				corporations at the expense of the public. In Western Finance, 
				this is being done by privatizing the financial gains while 
				socializing the financial losses.
 
				  
				In other words, all the 
				profits go to the 
				
				wealthy elite while all the losses are passed 
				along to taxpayers (this is the fundamental point of the $700 
				billion bailout, of course).
 In Western Medicine, virtually every regulatory policy in effect 
				today is constructed to enrich corporations. The FDA's 
				censorship of true health claims on nutritional supplements, the 
				FTC's crackdown on anti-cancer herbal remedies, the DEA's raids 
				on medical marijuana... these campaigns are all conducted solely 
				to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical companies at the 
				expense of public health.
 
 Think about it: Monopoly pricing on pharmaceuticals sold in the 
				USA is enforced by the FDA and FTC. Approvals of drugs based on 
				outright fraudulent science is openly granted by the FDA.
   
				Raids against vitamin companies, 
				supplement companies and natural product retailers are organized 
				and conducted by both the FTC and FDA, two regulatory bodies 
				that engage in outright extortion, threatening natural health 
				companies with bankruptcy and criminal charges if they don't pay 
				outrageous fines based on fabricated accusations of things like 
				"linking to a scientific journal from your website" (which is 
				now a crime in the U.S. if you sell nutritional products).
 These are all the actions of governmental tyrants who act solely 
				as Big Business street thugs, wiping out the competition to 
				protect the profits of their (mob) bosses.
 
   
				#4 - They're both based on arrogance 
				and the worship of money
 Arrogance runs high in 
				Western Medicine, where clever men at the top of the 
				pharmaceutical companies think they've outsmarted mother nature 
				by brainwashing consumers into thinking the human body is born 
				with deficiencies of patented synthetic chemicals.
   
				This same arrogance is woven 
				directly into the fabric of Wall Street, where greed-based 
				financial players convince themselves they're so brilliant that 
				the mere idea of how to make money is now recorded as a bankable 
				asset on the balance sheets (that's the Enron style of 
				accounting, which has now infected all of Wall Street).
 The arrogance in both these industries is astounding. Neither 
				Western Finance nor Western Medicine believes there is such a 
				thing as a reality that shall ever hold them accountable. They 
				don't believe in gold, or real food, or cause and effect. Things 
				are things because they say they are, and nothing is subject to 
				economic reality, scientific scrutiny or real-world common 
				sense.
 
 These two industries have been living in the Twilight Zone for 
				so long, they've completely lost touch with reality. In fact, 
				they no longer have any familiarity with reality.
 
				  
				Doctors, for 
				example, have no knowledge of nutrition or superfoods. They are 
				nutritionally illiterate the day they graduate from medical 
				school. Similarly, bankers are almost universally ignorant of 
				the basic laws of economics. Few understand how 
				fractional-reserve banking really works, nor do they grasp the 
				correlations between increases in the money supply and 
				inflation.
 Bankers and doctors, it could be accurately stated, 
				have almost 
				no knowledge about the very things over which they have been 
				granted authority.
 
 (For the record, yes I know there are many exceptions to this. 
				Lots of well-educated bankers and doctors break out of the box 
				of ignorance by learning, on their own, those things not taught 
				to them in the land of academia.)
 
   
				#5 - They both seek instant profits 
				at the expense of future generations
 Western financial 
				institutions are famous for their focus on the next fiscal 
				quarter. If it doesn't create a profit in the next 90 days, it's 
				not considered a worthwhile investment.
   
				This "instant profit" mentality 
				inevitably leads to an abandonment of virtues like saving money 
				or honoring future generations. Instead of leaving our children 
				with equity, the United States of America (and its financial 
				co-conspirators) have burdened future generations with an 
				impossible debt burden.
 Pharmaceutical companies think much the same way. Rather than 
				uplifting the health of the nation with sound prenatal nutrition 
				policies (and infant health programs based on disease 
				prevention), it seeks to 
				
				vaccinate and medicate every living 
				being with a never-ending parade of high-profit 
				pharmaceuticals... from birth to death.
 
				  
				There is no attention 
				paid to the environmental effects of flushing all those drugs 
				down the drain (pharmaceuticals are now found in the drinking 
				water of over 50 American cities), nor is there any attempt to 
				actually prevent 
				
				cancer (or other diseases) in any way 
				whatsoever.
 Instead, Western Medicine prefers to wait until people get sick 
				so it can cash in on their disease. Similarly, Western Finance 
				prefers to hide its problems, expanding its debt base until it 
				gets too big to fail, at which point someone has to come along 
				and bail it out.
 
 Neither industry operates with any degree of accountability.
 
   
				#6 - Both are run by unindicted 
				criminals
 If I break into your house 
				and steal your wallet, I would be considered a criminal. But 
				when Congress breaks into your finances and steals your life 
				savings, they consider themselves to be heroes!
 
 Make no mistake: Both the Western Finance and Western Medical 
				industries are run by unindicted criminals who steal, lie, and 
				deceive their way to the greatest profits possible. Drug 
				companies routinely bury studies they don't want you to see, and 
				FDA leaders routinely stack their decision boards with "experts" 
				who maintain direct financial ties to the companies selling the 
				pharmaceuticals they're voting to approve.
 
 Meanwhile, top bankers are shelling out hundreds of millions of 
				dollars in favors to Washington politicians in order to avoid 
				any reduction in their multi-million dollar salaries, even while 
				the financial institutions they led are about to be bailed out 
				by taxpayer money. What all this has in common is that the top 
				CEOs, politicians and regulatory decision makers are unindicted 
				criminals who are guilty of various crimes against the People: 
				Theft, conspiracy, racketeering and much more.
 
 If these people were held up to the same laws applied to you and 
				me, they'd all be arrested and spend their lives in prison (or 
				worse).
 
   
				#7 - Both are doomed to collapse
 The final parallel between 
				Western Finance and Western Medicine? They're both doomed to 
				collapse.
 
 That very idea was considered absolutely loony just 30 days ago. 
				But I've stuck to this prediction for five years: Western 
				medicine is doomed to collapse. And now, all of a sudden, more 
				people are waking up and seeing their fictional world crumbling 
				around them. The near-collapse of the global financial system, 
				it seems, has rudely awakened a few people who were sleepwalking 
				through life, intoxicated by visions of free riches, free 
				pharmaceuticals and life in the land of zero accountability.
 
 Reality, though, is a stubborn thing. You can daydream all you 
				want, but the laws of economics cannot be violated any more so 
				than the laws of human physiology. When there's a poison in the 
				system (biologically or financially speaking), something must be 
				done to eliminate the poison and bolster the health of the 
				patient.
 
				  
				Sadly, Washington remains in the business of denying 
				the problem, which makes it all the more difficult to try to 
				solve it.
 Interestingly, the collapse of Western Finance is inevitably 
				linked to the collapse of Western Medicine. How so? Because Big 
				Pharma is almost entirely dependent on the government to protect 
				and feed itself. Without Big Government creating an artificial 
				monopoly market where competing natural products are censored or 
				outlawed, Big Pharma could not compete!
 
 Nobody would buy arthritis drugs if they knew cherry extracts or 
				potent fish oils could solve the problem more safely and 
				affordably. No one would buy high-profit cholesterol drugs if 
				they learned the truth about red yeast rice, aged garlic or
				policosanol.
 
 Big Pharma is entirely dependent on the government to prop up 
				its business, and when the U.S. government goes operationally 
				bankrupt (which is coming), Big Pharma may suddenly find itself 
				competing in a free marketplace where it no longer has the tools 
				of oppression, censorship and tyranny to bludgeon the 
				competition into irrelevancy.
 
				  
				When Big Government goes, Big Pharma will follow, and the collapse of Western Finance is thus 
				a precursor to the collapse of Western Medicine.
 Both institutions, of course, will attempt to claw their way 
				back to power, even as they are crumbling. They won't go without 
				a fight, and they may be able to put in place clever tactics 
				that delay their demise by years.
   
				But in the end, no nation has a 
				future when its finance - and its medicine - are based on 
				fraud.   
			Think about that. It's a powerful 
			realization.  
			  
			The U.S. simply cannot continue the way it's running 
			today. With 50% of the population on pharmaceuticals, and children 
			being drugged with Speed (ADHD drugs), and 
			
			mandatory vaccines 
			poisoning (and killing) young girls, there is no future unless 
			something changes.
 With junk foods and energy drinks intoxicating our youth, and 
			dangerous chemicals running rampant through the personal care 
			product industry, and foods being irradiated to destroy their 
			nutritional content, there is no future.
 
 With banks stealing money from the working taxpayers, and $10 
			trillion national debt knocking on our door, and the government 
			taking ownership of more than 50% of the national economy, there is 
			no future!
 
   
			The real world 
			will be a shock to many
 
			The end of these systems is now in sight. They are crumbling under 
			their own arrogance and stupidity, revealing a society based on 
			self-righteous deception and global scandal.
   
			Everything we thought was real turns out 
			to be fabricated:  
				
				The money, the medicine, the economy, the law... 
			it's all being revealed for what it is:  
					
					
					
					A Matrix of enslavement, designed to 
				keep the People believing they live in a free society, even as 
				their health and wealth are stolen from them by the sinister few 
				who wield political power. 
			Western Finance will fall, and Western 
			Medicine will soon end its reign of terror over the people. We will 
			live to see the end of the 
			
			FDA as we know it; the end of the 
			
			AMA, 
			the cancer industry and the dominance of the drug companies.  
			  
			We may 
			lose our savings and we may even lose our nation, but we will not 
			lose the one thing that matters most in this cold, dark universe:  
				
				Our sense of connection with life, 
				nature and each other. 
			Because when all the fictions fall apart, and the facade of the 
			American Empire crumbles like the twin towers on 9/11, when it's all 
			said and done, we still have one thing we can count on: Mother 
			Nature.
 Nature will still be there. The trees, the gardens, the herbs... 
			these things are real. The water, the oceans, the honeybees... these 
			are the things that bring us real wealth.
 
 Wealth is not a collection of digits in a computer. It isn't a 
			promise printed on green paper money.
 
				
					
					
					Real wealth is a garden that 
			feeds you, a river that hydrates you, and a system of medicine that 
			nourishes and supports you. 
					
					Real wealth is a day with sunshine, a 
			night under the stars and a life lived with purpose.
					
					Real wealth is not fleeting, nor subject to cascading collapse. It 
			is as real as the morning dew on a cabbage plant, or the sweet taste 
			of fresh blueberry juice, or the buzz of ten thousand honeybees 
			pollinating an orchard. 
			These are the things Western society has forgotten, and in that 
			forgetfulness, it has suffered a dangerous, multi-generational 
			amnesia ... a disease of delusion, if you will, that is about to 
			collide head-on with reality.
 The awakening will be rude. Some will embrace reality and thrive in 
			the Next Society. Others will deny reality and suffer.
 
 As we watch all of this unfold, I invite you to join me in the real 
			world; to eat real food, to experience real (natural) medicine and 
			to make real, lasting contributions to the future of life on Earth.
 
			  
			As fictional constructs fall to the ground around us, we are all 
			being granted front-row seats to one of the most amazing 
			transformations in the history of life on Earth:  
				
				We are about to 
			watch one civilization end, and another civilization emerge from the 
			ruin. We are, indeed, watching history unfold before our eyes.
				 
			And you 
			know what?  
				
					
					
					We are all fortunate enough to participate in it! 
					
					
					Don't 
			miss this
					
					Stay confident
					
					Help those you can, and prepare yourself 
			for the transition 
			The next few years are going to be the 
			most interesting we'll see in our lifetimes...
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