Influenze e teorie di Pavlov su gli italiani

Dalle ricerche di Pavlov, il campanellino che fa sbavare il cane sembra che sia stato usato con il popolo italiano. Un’iniezione di sostanza anestetica (o gas da scie chimiche) per parecchi anni ha fatto si che il popolo italiano sia diventato come uno zombie – assuefatto a quello che gli succede intorno. Non e’ piu’ capace di riconoscere qual e’ il bene o il male, tanta e’ la confusione che il governo (lo Stato) gli ha inculcato in una mente gia’, prevalentemente, fragile.

Le Elezioni in Emilia Romagna e Calabria hanno portato alla vincita, di nuovo, del PD. La Lega ha avuto buoni voti e il M5S sembra affondare all’orizzonte.

L’astensionismo è stato il voto vincitore. I media ne hanno parlato e Renzi se ne e’ fregato. Con tipica “faccia da mona” anche se solo il 10% avesse votato – lui ne va fiero dello “stato democratico” instaurato negli ultimi anni.

Dopo il PD, i partiti “forti” sono stati la Lega Nord e il M5S. Il problema con la Lega Nord deriva proprio dal nome del partito. Se e’ Lega Nord, perche’ un calabrese dovrebbe votare per loro? Dopotutto, la Calabria come altre regioni del sud sono ancora rimaste ai felici ricordi dei Borboni. E’ l’Emilia Romagna al Nord? Si sentono vicini alla Lega Nord? La Lega Nord e’ principalmente un partito per la Lombardia e il Triveneto. Il Piemonte ne e’ fuori perché’ si sente ancora Savoia. La Val d’Aosta fa parte della Svizzera; quand’e’ l’ultima volta che se ne e’ parlato tramite i media o altro? E’ come se non esistesse.

Se poi si inserisce il divisorio obbligato tra nord e sud con il fiume Po’ – l’Emilia Romagna si sente esclusa dal Nord. Se non fosse per un divisorio di soli 20km con la Liguria tra Emilia Romagna e il Mar Tirreno, l’Emilia Romagna sarebbe (e parzialmente lo e’) un passaggio d’obbligo tra il nord e il sud d’Italia per tutti i trasporti e commercio.

Storicamente si sa che l’Emilia Romagna e’ di sinistra; forse grazie anche alle “comiche” di Don Camillo e l’onorevole Peppone ambientate nel paese di Brescello (provincia di Reggio Emilia).

Quindi, 10% o 30% al voto la scelta dei partiti e’ grama e “bisogna dare tempo a Renzi”. Quando molti saranno “in mutande”, sempre per effetto Pavlov, non se ne accorgeranno neppure.

Il “Partito della Bistecca” promette bistecca, frutta e verdura per due volte alla settimana a tutti i cittadini. Infatti, offre anche il pesce al venerdi. Il problema e’ che “per essere giusti”, questi ‘diritti’ verranno dati per primi agli immigrati, insiemi a i politici e politicanti e, se dovesse avanzare qualcosa, andrebbe agli italiani (non ai disoccupati, anziani e/o affamati – quelli devono morire perche’ inutili).

Salvini promette tanto e dice quello che il popolo vuole sentirsi dire. Su diverse cose ha pure ragione e di promesse ne spara a raffica; “usciamo dall’Euro”, per esempio. Perche’ non tornare al Ducato o al Fiorino? Infatti, perche’ non torniamo indietro al 1860, prima che l’Italia venisse definitivamente unificata? Nonostante siano passati oltre 150 anni, per molti, sembra di essere ancora nel 19esimo secolo. Mazzini disse: “L’unità d’Italia, non è mai stato considerata un obiettivo, ma un mezzo.”

E in fondo, il popolo italiano questo lo sente e non si sente unito. Perche’ una Calabria dovrebbe sentirsi unita con un Nord d’Italia, quando tra Palizzi e Susa la distanza e’ di 1450km? [Tra Londra e Milano sono ‘solo’ 1260km].

Per quanto un animo nobile ed innocente potrebbe vedere l’uscita dall’Euro come una cosa positiva, non bisogna mai dimenticarsi del tormentoso e mai sovrano passato della Lira (1992 – Soros, per esempio) per capire che tornare alla Lira puo’ solo che essere un’utopia. Una graduale introduzione sul territorio italiano della Lira a fianco all’Euro potrebbe essere una soluzione (la Svizzera usa il WIR e CHF), ma i piani in corso svolti da forze maggiori, vogliono solo portare l’Italia alla distruzione economica, se non totale e con la perdita della sovranita’.

Anche il M5S ha promesso tanto, forse anche troppo perche’ solo pochi hanno capito veramente che cosa il M5S ha come agenda politica. Quello che tutti (a suo tempo) volevano, era sopprimere gli stipendi da 20,000 a 50,000 Euro al mese di molti parlamentari, consoli, ministri e ambasciatori in tutto il mondo. Idea geniale perche’ mentre ‘questi’ si prendono stipendi mensili da cinque cifre (piu’ rimborso spese), molti pensionati non ce la fanno ad arrivare a fine mese con 400 Euro di pensione.

L’idea geniale si e’ poi spenta in pochi mesi e si ha cosi’ un governo (non eletto) che va avanti dal 16/11/2011 (Monti) che ‘promette’ (?) di portarci a qualche tipo di elezione entro il (?) 2016? 2018? [Dei famosi 1000 giorni di Renzi, che scadono il 18/11/2016 – ne mancano 722. Quindi, ridendo e scherzando, 278 giorni (9 mesi di terribile gravidanza) basati su democrazia e benessere (?), sono gia’ passati].

A quel punto l’influenza di Pavlov sara’ tale che, con un popolo affamato, depresso e senza motivazione, portare al governo una ‘Bonas’ di Avanti un Altro (Paola Caruso), sarebbe come aver raggiunto il massimo della democrazia e serenita’ comune [sempre meglio lei che un Renzi, Alfano, Kyenge e Boldrini].

Non a caso la democrazia italiana e’ influenzata dalla Regina Elisabetta d’Inghilterra, la quale, grazie anche ai vari media che ci inculcano di notizie di tutta la famiglia reale inglese quasi ogni giorno, sarebbe felice di avere anche un po’ di pecore sotto di lei come sudditti. Sempre non a caso, il 03/04/2014, la regina britannica ha fatto una visita lampo a Roma per istruire il “reuccio” Napolitano. Elisabetta II (88enne) è arrivata poco prima di pranzo nella capitale dove si è intrattenuta appena 4 ore per ‘colazione’. Il diario di Elisabetta prevede gia’ le date per la sua morte e i funerali e, soprattutto per una 88enne, visite lampo (che sono escluse da protocolli reali e/o diplomatici) sono totalmente inacettabili. Chissa’ mai che cosa ci sara’ stato di cosi’ urgente da dire a Napolitano!?

Quindi, dopo Monti e Letta e’ arrivato Renzi ed e’ stato necessario che Renzi andasse avanti bene con le sue politiche da stupido che, di nuovo non a caso, sembrano venire fuori da copioni presi da film di Mr. Bean.

Children – do mothers know best?

This blog is written from a male point of view and it will probably differ from many other posts written and inserted by women.

I was at the counter in Boots, stood behind a woman and her child. I would say the child was about 16 months old. He was in a pram. The child wasn’t very happy to be in the pram while the mother was chatting away to the shop assistant. Apart from some trivial details the conversation carried on as follow:

Shop assistant: “I don’t understand why your child is so fidgety, he is getting the best of life, sitting there doing nothing and been taken around”.

Mother: “Yeah! He is always complaining. He’s just like his dad! Men are always complaining!”

I kept quiet but this Blog will be posted on many sites.

Strangely enough, a few days later, my partner read to me a few comments from a post on Facebook. One woman had stated that “mothers know best.”

But do they? Really?

What happened to provoke that post was as follows…

A woman was queuing at a post office and became annoyed with another woman because her child was, obviously, in some distress; and she was not doing anything about it. What a moment of Déjà vu – the same thing happened to me some seven years ago. The little girl in the pram was screaming her head off and the mother was doing nothing about it. Everybody kept quiet but I couldn’t – I told the mother to do something about it. While I was right in my forward judgment, my approach was actually aggressive and all that I obtained was for the mother to cry whilst the rest of the public to insulted me.

[I can only apologize for my out of place behaviour].

I cannot really cope with children or animals in distress. My daughter never cried or, if she did, it was for good reasons – the sort for which an answer or solution was  typically available – thus we were usually able to put everything to rest with ease. Which is why I feel the need to question parents who are unable to take good and sensible care of their children.

The page on Facebook carried on with many mothers making their comments and ganging up together to discuss how good they are at mothering children. This didn’t make much sense to me. Mothering (or more accurately parenting) is a learned skill – of course it requires certain psychological parameters – and it is something almost all of us are capable of. Children do not come with a book of instructions and common sense should always prevail. Something possessed by both men and women.

In fact, one of the particularly stupid comments made by a mother was, “My baby was a pain for three months, he suffered with colic and he wouldn’t stop crying!”

I imagine that she would be a “pain” should someone stick a cork up her rectum for three months, so that she could not pass wind. The child was merely trying to alert someone to its problems – in the only way that it could.

If “knowing best” means making any child suffer in any way… It would be worth sending those mothers who claim to know best to night schools about coping with problematic children.

While children are mostly extremely intelligent and sometimes seemingly telepathic (just as well as they need all the fortune they can for survival in some cases) parents are often oblivious about  what these little creatures actually need.

As strange as it may seem there is actually very little that babies need. They eat, they sleep and wet their nappies.

All mothers should be able to breastfeed their babies. There are a few rare cases of excessive milk production, underproduction of milk and too painful production; but there are also natural solutions for these. In UK there is a stigma associated with breastfeeding in public and many mothers don’t like to do this even at home.

The more a mother breast feeds her child the healthier the child will grow up and, in some cases, the more intelligent.

“On 12^th November 2014, Italian police put 12 paediatricians under house arrest on for accepting extravagant gifts from makers of baby milk formula to promote it in place of breastfeeding. Many mothers actually trusted these paediatricians”. …Similar incidents go on all over the world.

From a psychological point of view (with breastfeeding) the newborn also benefits from the physical closeness of nursing (emotional needs). Coming from a close, dark womb into an overwhelming experience of bright lights, loud noises and new smells, the baby needs the comfort of the mother’s continued physical presence (reassurance). Gazing into the mother’s eyes, the baby comes to understand that he or she is loved and protected, making the base of those emotional needs and support helps him or her grow into a well-balanced (confident) and strong person. The first milk that is produced immediately after birth is called colostrum and has a very high nutritional value, as to be equated with serum plasma rich in antibodies and hemoglobin. At a distance of some days, lactogenesis occurs: the mother produces milk, mainly composed of water, but also with substances of very high nutritional value. These vitamins, saturated fatty acids, proteins, sugars (such as lactose) and minerals, are essential for the development and growth of the newborn. In addition to these substances, milk contains hormones and agents with antioxidant and antibacterial properties. For this reason, breastfeeding is linked to children’s ability to respond and react to infectious diseases.

Our daughter used to sleep in the middle of our bed. When in need of feeding, her mother just turned towards her and she was happily sucking away. We still used to get good night’s sleep, even when this happened more than twice each night. Most people, in reading this, would be concerned about suffocating the baby. Unless you are drunk (and let us not forget that some adults have also died in their own vomit) our instinct is to sense danger or the presence of someone in the room. My five year old son used to stand in the middle of the room at night, after having left his bed to come to ours. The presence of a “ghostly figure” always woke me up. At which point I used to go to sleep in his bed as his arms and legs used to fly all over the place.

If feeding is not a problem (and it shouldn’t be; anyway) there are no reasons for the child to cry.

Colic is one of the biggest problems for babies, bringing children severe pain and discomfort. There are hundreds of good solutions for this problem and there is absolutely no need for the child to suffer, even for one single day (never mind three months). I mentioned hundreds of solutions and it is for you to find out what actually works with your child [find below a paediatric article about solutions on colic]. My partner simply used to pat our daughter on the back for several minutes, after feeding her, thus helping her digestive system.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2011/03/28/peds.2010-2098.full.pdf+html

Breastfeeding should carry on until the baby is five months old. The slow introduction of “solids” in the form of purees should take place with extreme cautions and attention. Many children are now allergic to many food substances and these allergies can bring problems.

I have seen babies eating crisps and biscuits (even sausages) as well as drinking Ribena and Coca-Cola. Sugar and salt (especially in these quantities) should definitely be a no-no. Fizzy drinks should never be considered and crisps have no nutritional value whatsoever.

As it happens babies are teething and this is also a cause of pain. Once again, there are hundreds of alternatives (natural remedies) to make a child more comfortable. Natal teeth are already present at the time of birth. They are different from neonatal teeth, which grow in during the first 30 days after birth. Sometimes this can be a problem with breastfeeding.

At this point, no lack of food, no problem with colic or teething; the child has no reason to cry.

Unless – they have a wet nappy.  It is not unreasonable for babies to have diarrhoea and break wind. Especially when they are becoming acquainted with “solids” as these are new to their digestive system and might bring with them new allergies. These loose and watery stools can easily cause problems for the soft and delicate baby skin which will – of course – cause serious and painful discomfort. [Fart a wet one in your pants and tell me how it feels like].

Once again: if a mother does not know and appreciate all of this, how can she possibly be said to know best?

There is absolutely no need for babies (children) to cry: all they need is love, attention and nurturing. If I can tell when my cat is meowing in distress because he needs to get out, I am confident that most parents are able to tell the difference between attention-seekers (spoilt-brats) against those in distress. Please look after the latter at airports, planes, buses, on the underground …and in post offices.

[By the way – Please give something to your baby during takeoff and landing while on a plane. Sucking a drink or a sweet will help to pop the child’s ears and he will stop crying].

Each child grows up at its own speed.

Unless a child suffers from craniosynostosis, the ossification of the bones of the skull causes the anterior fontanel to close over by 9 to 18 months – in some cases even 36 months. Teething takes its time too (different from child to child) and the same goes for walking and talking. I observe too many parents pushing their baby to stand up and walk. This is wrong – very wrong. Each child should be encouraged and supported to walk only when he/she is ready to do so. The fragile structure of bones and muscles must be able to support the rest of the body with efficiency and harmony. A doorway baby bounce is good for co-ordination and strengthening the muscles without placing much pressure on the body. Feet are there to support all of the body and that goes for the spine too – all the way to the cervical bones of the neck. These early problems are later picked with back and neck pain and headaches. Look at your shoes and the shoes of your children. Look where the heel is mostly worn – often to one side or right at the back. It should not be like that: the heel should be even. Correct walking is important, otherwise, the future will be made of many visits to the chiropractor, osteopath or Alexander therapist. And if you want your child to be successful you should bear in mind that these problems may be reflected by poor studying (due to lack of concentration).

I see many ‘grown up’ children who are still in prams.

Why? Are they lazy?

Have you made them lazy?

You decided to have a child and it is you that has to look after his/her needs and not the other way around. I’ve seen mothers pulling the child because he is not walking fast enough. I have seen grown up children sitting in prams (and sucking their thumb) while eating crisps and drinking some soft drink made mainly with colourings and sugar. It takes effort to ensure that the child is fine and is growing well. Once he starts walking, there should be no further need for a pushchair or pram. Take your time (his or her time) to look after him, at his pace, encouraging him to be involved in new activities and discoveries.

Don’t, for a moment, forget that babies/children are physically smaller. They are eager to discover mainly by touch and taste almost anything. It is rare, unfortunately, but it is fantastic to see mothers on the underground talking to their children and explaining their surroundings. The opposite of that is sadly more common: mothers spending long hours on the mobile phone or sitting and talking to other mothers while their child is left in the pram or is playing. So to the mothers who do not make time for their children I say… Like your cat is proud to bring to you a dead mouse at home, your child is very proud to show to you that he has been able to make it, on its own, all the way up the stairs of the slide; but you are too busy with more important aspects of your life (like your nails, your hair, the game on the tablet or your favourite television program). It begs the question: does dad do the same? Does no one care about this child? Why did you bother having a child in the first place if you were not going to care for or about his or her welfare? Are you really suitable material for parenthood? How can you possibly know best?

Take care of your children when you enter hot (winter, central heating) or cold (summer, air-conditioning) shops. Most baby’s clothing is made of synthetic materials, terrible for the skin (causing rashes) and horrible for insulation. Sweating can cause health problems and make the child agitated (another reason for crying). It is a ‘shocking’ thing to do (though it never should be) but it takes one minute to undress or dress him as necessary.

Summer is a beautiful season, long days out, warm weather and loads (if lucky) of sunshine. Why don’t you cover your child’s head, face, arms and legs? It is easy for them to get sunburned (utterly unnecessary) and the head, with hot or cold weather, is very ‘delicate’. Cover the head properly in summer and in winter.

Most studies will tell you that the most obvious sign of ADD/ADHD is hyperactivity. In early 1900 they used to give babies some cocaine to make them sleep; if it was up to the pharmaceutical companies, they would like now to prescribe statins to your children too. Most children watch a lot of television these days or play with video games. Parents are also busy with the same and there is little time for interaction and exercise. On top of this, many parents give to their children an incredible amount of junk food – just to keep them happy and quiet. Two medicines, methylphenidate and amphetamines, are the most commonly used treatments for ADHD. So, on one side you want peace and quiet and junk food is the solution to make him or her happy and on the other, to suppress his/her active behaviour, you will need to give your child medications that have many side effects.

Do I really need to spell out the answers?

There is a lot of hard criticism here but it all comes from observing the daily behaviour of the people around me/us. You can do the same and tell me if I am wrong. Of course I have generalised but for what I have noticed is that the majority of mothers around me are misbehaving. I am well aware that no mother wants to hear such comments, though – especially not from a man.

I have two lovely healthy kids (29 &16). One has a degree in psychology and the second studying psychology too. Psychology is not the answer though – common sense is. I simply wish for mothers (and fathers) who seem to think that they know best to go away and do some research.

Like so many people – I love to see the happiness of a child. It’s something that comes from their eyes and their smiles.

[A. Procaccini is a practising psychologist in London. Apart from a long list of diplomas he has also studied Anatomy & Physiology and Child Psychology too. He is also currently volunteering for an aid centre in West London looking after children from broken families. K. Tanna – Editor]

Why I am not asking the doctor(s)

This post is a response to a very simple question fielded by my son, “J”:

“Why don’t you ask the doctor?”

He and I actually started to argue about it. Like so many other fathers and sons, we struggled to find a simple answer or solution to our differing opinions and beliefs.

Do parents always know best?

I don’t think so.

It is a fact that our children have grown up (and are still growing up) in a world quite alien to the one in which we ourselves were children. Theirs is a different environment, full of new technology and alternative expectations. When “J” was only seventeen years old, he was able to figure out how to setup the many functions of our new car quickly, efficiently and with minimal difficulty. Meanwhile, I still find myself asking my children questions about setting up and using my tablet and mobile phone. Sometimes I even have to ask them how to use new features on Facebook.

This lack of ability is no mere by-product of age – in fact age is often a poor excuse – because laziness also plays a big part in our perceived inability to learn new skills and interface with different technologies. For most of us, once my generation had learned the skills of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, our lives went on with little to no interest in the workings of more recent technological developments. In fact, for some of my generation, it is more interesting to learn “old skills” based on what I would like to define as “updating our knowledge”.

In my case, I started to wonder which events didn’t worry my generation when we were in our thirties – and why. In recent years, my interests have changed a great deal. For half a century of my life I had only really read Homer’s Iliad and The Odyssey… But in recent years I have gone through over a hundred text books spanning a vast range of subjects.

Returning to that question then…

“Why don’t you ask the doctor?”

“J” was enquiring about a recent CT scan that was carried out for my heart (a coronary calcum scan) at Hammersmith Hospital.

For some reason, it went drastically wrong.

It is worth mentioning that the medical profession have coined a term for “I don’t know”… They call it MUS (medically unexplained symptoms). Most of the diagnoses for MUS come under the “functional somatic syndrome” aspect and, should these not to be accepted by the patient, the MUS may also merit a psychiatric diagnosis on the basis of the same symptoms (page 236, Davidson’s Principles & Practice of Medicine, 22^nd Edition). In other words, if medicine (doctors and drugs) cannot come up with an answer or a solution to someone’s problems, the referral should go to psychiatry, just in case “they” can convince said patient that there isn’t anything wrong with them.

In Greek mythology, Icarus  always wanted to fly. We still cannot fly like birds, but man has been able to invent planes and other technologies that allow us to take our feet off the ground. Will we one day be able to fly like birds? Will we one day be able to use medicine as a natural source of well-being without resourcing to DNA or genetics or medications? Knowledge in the field of medicine has increased a great deal within the last few decades (or one hundred years). It is thanks to Ernest Duchesne that, in 1897, we discovered the presence of Penicillium glaucum as a way to inhibit bacterial growth. Louis Pasteur (a chemist) [and Robert Koch] discovered the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization (as far recently in human history as the 1870s). In 1895, the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X rays. The cholera bacterium was isolated in 1854 by Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini, but its exact nature and his results were not widely known until in 1885, when Spanish physician Jaume Ferran i Clua developed a cholera vaccine, the first to immunize humans against a bacterial disease (bearing in mind that in Russia alone, between 1847 and 1851, more than one million people perished of the disease). In 1901 Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian physician, discovered the first three human blood groups; we have only been able to give vital blood transfusions for a little more than a century.

Science has been able to eradicate many diseases and, without a doubt, we are able to live longer and, somewhat, better lives. Long gone are the days when “doctors” used to perform bloodletting or trepanation (the practice of boring holes in the skull) to cure sickness; the same days in which they used mercury in attempts to increase lifespan and vitality; in which they prescribed elixirs containing human flesh, blood and bone (so-called “corpse medicine”) to cure headaches, muscle cramps and stomach ulcers; or Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup containing pure morphine for babies suffering with painful teething problems; or heroin drops against coughs, and so on.

So, even if, in the 1830s, the French imported about forty million leeches a year for medical purposes; in 2009 the US government bought 229 million doses of H1N1 vaccines of which only 91 million doses were used against the pandemic H1N1/09 virus (the UK and many other countries bought large amounts too, which have, for the most part, gone unused – until the next pandemic of course).

Leeches don’t really help sick people and viruses like AIDS, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 and Ebola spring up and we remain unsure as to how and where such outbreaks actually begin. In truth, doctors, throughout history, haven’t really had all that many accurate answers (if any at all) about the origins of these diseases.

A short scene from a television series concerning a doctor and a patient has made me aware that we have in-built expectations about medical professionals. The doctor was performing an examination on the patient; looking at the eyes, tongue, ears, tip of the fingers and ankles, listening to the heart and so on. Most of us know what flu symptoms look (and feel) like but we don’t necessarily know why we have a bloodshot eye, or a large bump behind the ear, pain in the groin or skin that has turned a little green. The good news is that doctors are trained to give us the answer to our symptoms. The bad news is that they don’t always get it right (often the first, second or third time) and once they think they have guessed the right condition (with or without further tests) their options are restricted to medicines, surgery or the use of another specialist practitioner.

Children, as young as four years old, play doctors. Curiosity is one of their main reasons; we all know that there is little inclination to find any cure for the patient in such games. As adults we often used to look under the bonnet of our car for “a wave – a smile” from the engine. Most of us had no idea of what we were looking for. It was similar to ‘slapping’ the side of the television if it stopped working – we were simply hoping for a response. Modern cars have a dashboard to tell us what is wrong. Doctors use their knowledge and experience to find solutions to our problems – as well as a plethora of machines capable of telling them what is wrong with their patients.

It’s like troubleshooting a piece of broken technology through a call centre: solutions can only be provided if the symptoms sit within a set of regular phenomena – if they are the same problems that the call centre have to deal with every day – or if scientific testing can provide further information about the problem. But if the problem is unorthodox in nature and if there are no means by which to test its symptoms –  the patient becomes a MUS.

Severe sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, claiming between 36 000 and 64 000 lives annually in the UK, with a mortality rate of 35%. [Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Volume 66, Issue suppl. 2Pp. ii11-ii23]. We are talking well over 150 deaths per day. Some years ago, my son’s GP  failed to diagnose his Peritonitis within seven days and –  by the tenth day – it became necessary for him to undergo aggressive surgery and intensive care for three days at a specialised hospital. “J” was only ten years old and he made a fantastic recovery but that does not change the fact the GP ignored my recommendations. Of course, I am not a doctor, but after seven days of failed cures for gastroenteritis, the GP should have looked for something else; had he done so he would have noticed that the symptoms pointed to peritonitis.

Like a car owner looking under the bonnet in the event of a malfunction, doctors expect to be able to see something that stands out – telling them “pick me”, waving and smiling. In my case “it seems” that a beta-blocker medication named Metropolol did not agree with my system and caused serious reactions that sent me to A&E. Indeed, I am still under the observation of several departments and specialists at the hospital. Of course, the medical professionals involved have come up with a number of potential causes, and they all would like, for one test or another to point (or wave) to the culprit behind my symptoms; but, to date, every single test has come back negative and there is currently no answer for my symptoms.

With help from the Internet I found out that some of the side effects of metropolol can include issues with Epinephrine, Central Nervous System and CYP2D6 enzyme. Using a bit of common sense and my own initiative, which would not follow any guidelines from the world of professional medicine, I paid two visits to my chiropractor (nervous system came to mind). Strangely enough, I started feeling better; however, I am still not quite like I was before the CT scan.

I have known this chiropractor for a long time and even if, like everyone, he is not perfect, he certainly, at least, makes a lot of sense in what he says and does. I say this because, unfortunately, there are loads of quacks our there who, in some cases, can do more harm than good (and that applies to professional doctors too).

I think it is important to point out that I like to keep an open mind about various curative alternatives. I am not alone in thinking that medicine, despite modern cures, is still very much primitive, one-sided and ignorant. I am now planning on reading “Curing the Incurable With Holistic Medicine” by Dr. George J Georgiou. He is one of many doctors that do not trust contemporary medicine – or the pharmaceutical companies that run the show. This new millennium is all about that one simple concept – the sale of medicine. For instance, it is only thanks to doctors that the sales of statins are as high as they are –  $33 billion worldwide in 2007 and going up, fast. This is despite the publication of books such as “The Great Cholesterol Myth” by Dr Stephen Sinatra.

Medicines can cure symptoms but never their causes. In England, in 2012, over to 2.7million prescriptions were given out per day. Despite dramatic developments in medical science and the proliferation of medication on the market, every year, there are still over 2100 people who die of renal failure, over 7000 of liver disease, over 26000 of pneumonia, over 70000 of respiratory system failure and so on, until we reach the grand total of half a million deaths per annum.

[What this nice doctor is saying is: “The problem with doctors starts with our training. The whole system is funded by the pharmaceutical industry, from training to research. The pharmaceutical industry has bought the minds of the medical profession: it all starts when we enter university. The entire course of study is supported by the pharmaceutical industry”]

We, the patients, the public, are on this side of the fence. We need to trust medicine and doctors and they want us not to ask any questions. The problem is, there is now the Internet. If you have an inquisitive mind and can understand the difference between tonsils and testicles then there is, in fact, an awful lot that one can read and learn. Some medical books are not expensive – including the ones used by your GP – and it is often quite easy to find answers and solutions to your problems without involving a doctor at all. All medications are listed on MIMMS and BNF and these books can be purchased on the Internet. Why would you need to purchase one? Because, interestingly enough, you have just been prescribed a strong sedative for depression when, all you went to your local clinic for was to ask about an itching ear or a small pain in your leg or so on and so forth.

There are a few trade secrets to be discovered when reading such books.

“If your PSA level is above xx, you must go for a biopsy because there are good chances that you have cancer” your GP or specialist will say. What they don’t tell you is that around 60% of those with high PSA are found to have cancerogenous cells but, some 30% will also have cancerogenous cells if their PSA is below the recommended level. Source? A book that is present in every surgery – “Davidson’s Principles & Practice of Medicine”. In the same book we are told that some 30%+ of hospital inpatients are not given their daily medications. This happened, twice, to my mother. Despite telling me that the nurse gave her the prescribed medications, there was no record on her medical chart and only when challenged would they admit that no medications were given. These, by the way, included medications for the heart, hypertension, thyroid, dementia and more. The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) became “famous” in the last 20 years as some doctors suggested that this was a system for killing the elderly on purpose. The Georgia Guidestones were mysteriously found in March 1980 at Elbert County, Georgia, USA. They “suggest” that some 7.5 billion people should die for a better world.

Information is not shared by different departments like Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, Cardiology, Urology, Ophthalmology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Gynaecology and each one of them is a medical specialisation. Hence, there is no great (doctor) mind that knows it all. Like so much else, it is all about money and fame (or reputation). Doctors will mainly prescribe medications with the hope that you will get better – despite some serious side effects resulting from many such medications. If their guess is wrong they will try a different one and, should this causes other unwanted side-effects, another medication will be given to counteract the first one, and so on. Specialists in the field of research keep their findings very secret in the hope that they will be the first to develop a cure (a medication) to for an illness. This means a lot of money for them and for their departments too – it could even mean a mention in the Lancet or in another prominent Medical Journal… Perhaps even a Nobel prize. Stem cells could very well be already available out there; Dolly (the sheep) was cloned in 1996. Why should (science) governments use them now when some 70% of the global population is poor or unnourished or too “dumb” by their standards to stay in this world? If we go by what the NWO wants, we must first get the world population down to 500 million. But, and the question must be raised, what about the billions in profit for the pharmaceutical companies?

There are existing studies on genetics and DNA that will allow future scientists to know when we will become ill and what the causes will be. All of these will be available on a chip that carries our personal details including our DNA and that will be given to all new born babies. If science doesn’t have preventative answers (hardly any of which exist now) then we will be only better off for knowing what we will die of and when.

Will the public learn anything from reading this? Probably not. My neighbour complains about the way in which she lost her husband, brother and daughter to sad medical circumstances without seeking, ever, any alternative medicine. I have friends that rely solely on the doctors or hospitals to tell them what to do. I question my doctors but it comes to a point when they don’t have any answers (even remotely sensible) or come up with “excuses” saying: “as you have been suffering with hypertension for a long time, we must…” Even if one tries to say “But I was able to eradicate my hypertension” it will fall on deaf ears. Doctors are always right – of course –  and it is rare for one to go against his or her colleagues.

For this reason, there is no point in my asking any doctor or specialist about my condition as they just don’t have the answers. I feel that I need to seek alternatives and look elsewhere. [At the eleventh hour] Only last night I was talking to a friend and he mentioned that he was eating apricot kernels as a supplement cure for cancer. I heard about them and also heard that they are very poisonous, something to do with amygdalin and cyanide. Apparently it is not so, as my friend has been eating them for ten years and is still alive.  However, they are illegal in USA. The “conspiracy theory answer” is that pharmaceutical companies cannot make money on something that is so readily available and, in this case, and in probably many other thousands of cases, it is easier to warn the public about allegedly serious side effects in the hope that people will not take them. Apparently the kernels are sold in bags but I am not sure if they are as good (have the same properties) as the real ones found in apricot, peaches and almonds. Who knows? What certainly can be said is that we won’t find out, not so long as these products are banned from sale.

And if you find it hard to believe any of the ideas in this post, it might be a good idea to read this article in Reuters…

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/21/us-italy-breastmilk-arrests-idUSKCN0J51TZ20141121

It reports on the fact that, this very month, Doctors (Pediatricians) in Italy have been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes to discourage breastfeeding amongst their patients. What have they been prescribing instead of a completely unregulated and free use of breast-milk? Expensive baby formula of course… Produced by a subsidiary of a pharmaceutical company dealing in nutritional goods.

So please use your common sense, look into everything. Never stop asking questions. Don’t waste your money. And don’t be fed lies. Or useless medicine for that matter!

 

 

Go forth and be logical: on Faith, Lies and Lateral Thinking

“Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.” — Benjamin Franklin

Despite the vast amount of information now available online, the majority of people still find it difficult to understand or even follow the great procession of world events. Most people seem to be uninformed about the governments of their own countries, let alone the goings on of international politics, world economics or global socio-political and cultural developments.

In 1927, British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote Why I Am Not a Christian, in which he explains how it is that he does not “believe in God” or “in immortality” and the reasons for which he does not think that “Christ was the best and wisest of men”. It is safe to say that I am not a Christian. In fact, I could probably define my argumentative position as agnostic or Atheist. I have not read Russell’s essay and I cannot make any comments about it, but following a certain instinct, I wholeheartedly agree that most religions are a waste of time.

Despite my many discussions on different fronts and from different sources, I still see no point in religion (that is, unerring faith in any subjective, metaphysical or theological position). I also see no sensible grounds for the arguments of those who “see the light” or self identify as “born again Christians”, nor do I trust routes such as “The Alpha Course” to be the “opportunities to explore life’s big questions” that their followers propose.

It is, however, worth reading this passage:

[The Lord Jesus Christ is talking to Nicodemus, a prominent Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin (the ruling body of the Jews). Nicodemus had come to Jesus at night with some questions. As Jesus talked with Nicodemus, He said, “‘I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.’ ‘How can a man be born when he is old?’ Nicodemus asked. ‘Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be born!’ Jesus answered, ‘I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, “You must be born again”’” (John 3:3-7)].

Author Brian Sze wrote a poem called Seesaw of the Spirit. This is one part of it:

• As science develops, religion declines,
• Because religion begins where science ends.
• As more and more knowledge fills our minds,
• Religious influence lessens.
• Religion was based on assumed claims,
• Which through time have been proved wrong

Throughout my life I have made multiple attempts to learn more about religion(s). I have (tried to) read a few passages from the Holy Bible, I have studied various areas of religious history, also about the centuries before and after the alleged birth of Christ, I have followed seminars about the Baha’i Faith, have had discussions on Buddhism, Protestantism, Judaism and Hinduism. I still have a certain (political) interest in reading the Koran (al Qur’ān) but, with both time and my other interests against me, it is (sadly) not a principal concern of mine, that I pursue these attempts at present.

Instead, agreeing with Brian Sze, I am not interested in “assumed claims … which have been proved wrong” (all of which has been done with an open mind on my part).

I could almost say that I believe more in aliens than I do in the theology behind most religions. For me, there is far more indication of the “strange” then there is of the theological; unlike religion (and even though much of it is not properly founded) there is still evidence pointing towards bizarre past and present events relating to aliens (and I am not talking about “Area 51” or “Crop circles” but instead about things such as Anunnaki, Dropa [Dzopa] Stones, the Nazca lines, Vimanas, Teotihuacan, Pacal’s Sarcophagus, Puma Punku and many more) when there is absolutely none supporting the vast majority of theological claims.

A very large proportion of humans follow and believe in religion, but unlike language there is no integrated set of cognitive principles for religion that could represent a specific-task for evolution.

Despite the above list of evidence that might be used to support a person’s belief in aliens, I remain fairly sceptical. There is evidence… But there is no proof. Yet some 2.2 billion people identify as Christian, 1.6 billion people are Muslim, and 1.5 billion are followers of Hinduism and Buddhism.

I notice that those that have strong beliefs in religion look at me as an ignorant, obstinate, presumptuous individual because I see “no reason” for their beliefs and have not seen “the light”. In my strongest defence, I can say that I have tried to seek information from different sources but still I cannot find what I would define as reasonable or scientific sense and evidence in what others profess to be “the truth” about God.

In my previous blogs and posts on Facebook and in forums, I have provided evidence. Of course these posts of mine are not books, therefore I see no point in going down to the smallest details on each subject. It is up to the reader to pick names or places and follow the information provided  with more research, as it should be with anything that posits itself as truth. Indeed, this ‘modus operandi’ that encourages the independent inquiry or readers should be applied across the board, where truth is concerned, available to all of the public, regarding all sources, would they be radio, television, newspapers, friends or even the words of professionals, critics and “experts” (the sort of orators who typically provide publicised speeches, seminars or comments on given themes and topics).

Some psychologists view intelligence as a general capacity for comprehension and reasoning that manifests itself in various ways. It seems that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack for which is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgement, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adopting one’s self circumstances. To judge well, to comprehend well, to reason well, these are the essential activities of intelligence.

Robert J. Sterneberg suggests that academic intelligence and, also, practical intelligence could be organized in four clusters that might be labelled roughly as follows:

1. Ability to learn and profit from experience
2. Ability to think or reason abstractly
3. Ability to adapt to the vagaries of a changing and uncertain world
4. Ability to motivate oneself to accomplish expeditiously the tasks one needs to accomplish.

With each of the above points we ought not to have any problems with society, integration, politics, multi-nationals and so on. Sterneberg states that we learn, we think, we reason, we adapt, we are motivated to accomplish tasks. His triarchic theory of intelligence (analytical, creative, contextual) was created between 1985 and 1997. And yet, I feel alone. I simply cannot recognize most of the human traits mentioned by him in our modern society.

So what has gone wrong?

It is not an easy task, identifying and understanding the myriad points at which our leaders and our governments, have played with our brains, influencing our socio-cultural minds: our decision making.

I suspect that it started as far back as the Palaeolithic Era. After all, we are supposed to learn from experience, to reason and to accomplish tasks.

Experience, assuming that there is any in the memory of our modern generations, is based on illusions. “Experiments have been designed to produce illusions of immediate memory and of perception, in order to demonstrate that subjective experience of familiarity and perceptual quality may rely on an unconscious attribution process [Bruce Whittlesea, 1990].

Only a few humans have retained the capability to reason. Reasoning is different from arguing. Most individuals are excellent at arguing and they spend most of their time in doing so and, often, they do so regarding subjects about which they know absolutely nothing. All of which goes against human rationality, as deductive logic is inappropriate, because everyday arguments are not deductively valid, but can be overturned when more information is learned (assuming that the people involved in such arguments want to learn).

When man had to create fire or had the necessity to invent the wheel (well over 5500 years ago) he was forced, within his tribe, or in his isolation, to accomplish these tasks. The main tasks that most humans (certainly, westerners) have to face these days are to write SMS messages without walking into lamp posts, watch ‘important’ stories from soap operas like Hollyoaks (John Paul McQueen returns home after being raped by Finn O’Connor, for instance), attend football matches or other sport events and play all 620 levels on the loathsome Candy Crush game.

“A supremely silly and pleasurable action movie”. [Kate Muir, Times UK, Top Critic]. Here we have a “Top Critic” that has posted comments on different blogs and also writes for The Times; (one of many top critics out there where others also provide their comments on other themes).  How can we go wrong with Kate Muir judgment? We have a (top) expert here, writing for a generally serious and well respected newspaper. So the ‘flock of people’ will go to the cinema looking forward to car chasing, shooting and special effects. Apart from many other rather dull and uneducated comments, the majority of viewers will follow their critics on the same level: “Luc Besson (movie: LUCY) gleefully combines two of his favourite movie elements – fit women and wildly insane action – in this raucous guilty pleasure” (..mmm?).

The saying “can’t see further than the end of your nose”, comes to mind. Sadly so if the experts are to provide short-sighted information why should the public at large be any wiser? Who is the public to question such skilled critics? Alas, following the crowd, too often, leads to poor decisions.

Should you type “Astor Family” on the Internet you will find “The Astor family is a family notable for its prominence in business, society, and politics in the United States and England during the 19th and 20th centuries”. What a lovely and noble family! This is true enough information for most readers and also for the students (because this is what ‘they’ actually teach at school). What one should research is how this family became notable and prominent. The fact is that the Astor family became rich because of their trading in Opium, Slaves, Fur and Cotton is often hidden from the general media and the public knowledge. The Astor family made their money on the misery and suffering of others.

The movie LUCY pointed to many different evolution aspects. One major point was Lucy (aka AL 288-1), the first and to-date recognised human/African ape ancestral split discovered in 1974 and said to be 3.2 million years old (an issue missed by all critics). Was this relevant? I would say so if we actually wish to interpret the film on a different angle. The other is, according to most results from the Internet, that there is a myth, which is a widely perpetuated urban legend, that most or all humans only make use of 10% (or some other small percentage) of their brains. With a smirk on my face, I would disagree (considering how the world is being constantly abused by ‘humans’). Instead, I would say, that most people only use 5% of their “grey matter”.

Any research or questions about : “What could the brain do?”, will bring up no results. The main reason is because science doesn’t really have any answers – there is still no such a thing as a brain-meter.  Then there is also the stupidity of some people with their comments:  “I find it amazing that there are people who think only 10% of their physical brain is functioning, like you could remove most of it and it wouldn’t make a difference”. (I hope the reader will understand where the problem lies with this comment).

With science, approval or not, the point of the matter is that discussions about telekinesis, precognition, pyrokinesis, telepathy, psychokinesis, psi balls, audiokinesis, dynamokinesis, quantakinesis and many more have been researched and studied by different scientists. The answer, despite the many research programs that have been carried out, is that scientists still don’t know much about the complexities of the human brain. Just a few years ago, it would have been hard to believe that a paralyzed person could control a robot with her mind; yet it is now possible.

And so returning to religion, billions in the existence of an “entity” that cannot be proven but, reject (and often accept) other findings based only on science (or an expert) saying so. Why base some decisions of science, and some on theology? It makes no sense.

The fact that we use 10% or not of our brain’s potential has little to do with Sterneberg’s  suggestions. One of the problems is apathy (an argument that I have briefly touched on in a previous post – “The motivation crisis – Apathy in 2014”).

A renowned gag is: “Ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care”

The media, via governments and the “elite” who preside above them, have been brainwashing the masses for centuries. All the information provided is distorted by their propagandist agenda. They have been feeding us, at a rate of small drips, in such a way that their lies are now deemed to be acceptable truths.  Since the advent of television commercials we have been programmed to aspire and desire for commodities that are completely unattainable for the vast majority (more than 99%) of human beings.

How many of you have this kind/size of kitchen in their home? And if this is “just” the kitchen, how big would the house be? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxtZI7QmqpE

Within the last three or so decades the clever advertising (brainwashing) agencies have been using more and more celebrities for their advertising.  With the rising popularity of the colour TV after 1965, TV personalities and entertainers also became popular. By 1975, one in eight TV commercials featured a celebrity. Researchers Robert Clark and Ignatius Horstmann of Boston University studied a collection of 1000 endorsement advertisements from 1920-1970 and found from that they were predominantly used by cigarettes, beauty products, beverages and audio equipment.

My keen hobby is about watches and not only I have seen more and more endorsement by celebrities but also hundreds of articles (on all magazines and newspapers) from “experts” (here we go again!) telling us, in a candid way, which are the best timepieces to buy. Of course, if Beckham, Clooney, Pitt, Cage, Woods, Sharapova, Bullock, Roberts and many more are endorsing these brands, then the watch must be really worth buying (on this note, it’s worth reading my blog: “There is almost no difference between a watch that costs £300 and another that costs £7,000”). And here, I should rest my case about brainwashing.

More or less, this is what I have been doing (or have tried to do). It is my wish that you start following your own logic by adapting, perhaps, to some lateral thinking. This blog is about those individuals that questioned HAARP for not being a destructive phenomenon. They questioned the devastating effects of Fracking as a negligible human intervention in our soil and society. The same individuals that do not question where ISIS (ISIL) comes from? Where does ISIL  get their money and armaments? Why is Ebola “out” again? Why there is so much migration in recent years coming from Africa and Middle East into Europe? (Many books written in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s pointed to this phenomenon to come).

HAARP, Fracking, ISIL, Ebola (do you remember the Avian H5N1 influenza?) are just the tip of the iceberg on the amount of bullshit that “they” are able to feed us and also get away with. The fact is (ignorance and apathy) that it has taken “them” centuries to mould our minds into accepting authority and what they want us to become (slaves – zombies) – with the view to serve them and their purpose (and it has been done, or tested, on a smaller scale, many times throughout history).

There is no real Kingdom to find or see but there is a lot of learning for everyone to exercise. Life has become very busy for everyone (they have made us preoccupied with modern technology) and, to learn, one needs time. “They” have taken our time away and don’t want us to learn as this would, very much, go against their agenda.

A German intellectual and pastor named Martin Niemöller wrote:

• First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
• Because I was not a Socialist.
• Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
• Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
• Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
• Because I was not a Jew.
• Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

There are no socialists, communists or fascist, really, anymore. All parties have blended under similar policies, yet, again, have all been set so that we trust and serve “them”.  These artificial policies designed to take side against each other when, actually, we should all be united for one singular aim. Unions have been dissolved all over the world and something like Ebola doesn’t care if you are Jewish or Muslim, black or white, heterosexual or gay.

Of course, as a reader you are fully entitled to make your comments and disagree with my views and points. However, before stating that my ideas are far-fetched, pretty please, do some research and, yes, come to your own conclusions. I could provide to you with thousands of topics for in-depth research, just by giving you a name or a title. I will not give you thousands of names, but three dozen of them should be sufficient for the curious individual to be enticed into a very complicated maze of deceit, corruption, illusion, power, globalisation and the control of all humankind. If billions can have an open mind about religion, with no grounds at all to do so, we should be able to get a few thousand interested in the world and in our future, based on a few substantial facts.

A few “statements” first, from books, please.

• Russell Monroe + Robert G. Heath (Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans) – “Heath and Monroe demonstrated that by implanting electrodes into the brains of their subjects they could switch on and off a variety of emotional and mental states, including fear, feelings of well-being, sexual sensations, as well as controlling memory and artificially including hallucinations” (1949).

• Curtiss Shafer (National Electronics Conference in Chicago, 1956) “”The ultimate achievement of biocontrol, may be the control of man himself… Biocontrol could make this enslavement complete and final, for the controlled subjects would never be permitted to think as individuals. A few months after birth, a surgeon would equip each child with a socket mounted under the scalp and electrodes reaching selected areas of brain tissue. A year or two later, a miniature radio receiver and antenna would be plugged into the socket. From that time on, the child’s sensory perceptions and muscular activity could be either modified or completely controlled by bioelectric signals radiated from state-controlled transmitters”.

• Jose Manuel Rodriquez Delgado (Ramon y Cajal hospital, Madrid, 1980) “…electromagnetic broadcasting for mind control had been developed to a state of effectiveness and could be utilized at up to three kilometres”; // “Delgado’s research determined that low intensity electromagnetic fields were capable of altering DNA”; // “Science is going to prove the fallacy of democracy in the sense that we talk about the rights of the individual, this democratic belief is not true. Because we are forming this individual, because we are constructing his brain, we are willy nilly making the differences we either desire or dislike”.

• University of Mississippi in Jackson, 1972 “Doctors were implanting electrodes into the brains of black children as young as five years old, with the purpose of controlling ‘hyperactive and ‘aggressive’ behaviour”.

• “Brave New World Revisited” by Aldous Huxley (1932-1946) “The 21^st Century will be the era of the World Controllers… The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship education will really work – with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown”.

• Frank Barron (High Times Magazine, 1978) “If you look back, many things that we thought were accidents turned out were not accidents”.

• SRI + Tavistock Institute = Project Shaky 1958 – delving into using the environment as a weapon through weather wars and controlled earthquakes (page 111, “Mass Control”, Jim Keith). [I can’t find much information on Project Shaky but we know that, some 30 years later, HAARP is able to control weather and cause earthquakes).

• Peter Vickers-Hall “Changing Images of Man” (1950) “The British population has been subject to a constant propaganda barrage of how it was on the industrial skids. All of this is true, but the net effect of the propaganda was to demoralize the population. The demoralising is necessary to make people accept difficult choices. If there is no planning for the future or if constituencies block progress there will be social chaos on a scale which is currently hard to imagine”.

Please remember a point about the statements above… Most of the comments made were done well before the fax machine, the mobile telephones and the internet came to use. All agencies involved saw no reason to hide such documentation. A lot of it (MKULTRA for example) has been destroyed.

This doesn’t mean for a second that no further tests or experiments are now taking place.  They have just become more clever about how to hide them.

Starting from here, here are a few “titles” that one may wish to start to research:

Alfa-Banking Group, Assicurazioni Generali, Bilderberg, Black Nobility of Venice, British opium Policy, Chatham House (RIIA), Cini Foundation, Committee of 300, Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), Eagle Star Group, Fabian Society, Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), Intellectual Property Office (IPO), Interdepartmental Intelligence Unit (IDIU), International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Lonrho plc, Operation Cable Splicer, Operation Garden Plot,  Permindex, Program Artichoke, Program Bluebird, Project Mkultra/Mkdelta, Project Monarch, Rhodes/Milner Group, Sir Moses Montefiore, Skulls and Bones, Tavistock Institute, The “Ditchley Group” Foundation, The Anti-Defamation League ADL); The Aspen Institute, The “Beast” computer, The British East India Company (BEIC), The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), The Club of Rome, The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), The National Reconnaissance Office, The Population Control Agenda – ‘Georgia Guidestones’; Thule Society; Treaty of Tientsin; Trizec Holdings, Inc.