We’ve all heard that honey and lemon can help soothe a cough. Now, however, a leading expert in cough and respiratory medicine believes chocolate is even better.  Here, Professor Alyn Morice, head of cardiovascular and respiratory studies at the University of Hull, and a founding member of the International Society for the Study of Cough, claims there is research to prove it… Chocolate can calm coughs. I know that might sound like something out of Mary Poppins, but as an independent clinician who has spent years researching the mechanism of cough, I can assure you the evidence is actually as … Continue reading

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Without seeking permission, a small group of defiant armed men seized control of coveted property in Oregon. They weren’t welcomed by local residents, some of whom petitioned the government to evict the intruders from federally administered land. Rather than sending in the troops to uproot the uninvited settlers, the U.S. government told the local residents to accommodate them even as they put up fences and started to run cattle on the land they had seized. This destroyed the local agricultural balance, leaving many of the locals near starvation. Hunger can drive a man to do desperate things, especially when its … Continue reading

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Instances of volcanic eruptions are their highest for 300 years and scientists fear a major one that could kill millions and devastate the planet is a real possibility. Experts at the European Science Foundation said volcanoes – especially super-volcanoes like the one at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, which has a caldera measuring 34 by 45 miles (55 by 72 km) – pose more threat to Earth and the survival of humans than asteroids, earthquakes, nuclear war and global warming. There are few real contingency plans in place to deal with the ticking time bomb, which they conclude is likely to … Continue reading

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We ended 2015 as yet another year when most investors felt safe with their stocks, bonds, property and other investments. But sentiment can change very quickly and since the year end the Chinese market is down 14%, the S&P down 6% and most global markets down 6-10%. Most investors had been hoping that the investment Shangri-La would continue for another year? Little do they realise that current values in no way reflects real values or risk. As we know, markets can remain irrational for a very long time. The risks that one day will bring the world economy down have … Continue reading

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Although I have frequently accused Jonah Goldberg of being an intellectual vulgarian, his latest column “The Term Neocon Has Run Its Course” has convinced me that he also lives on a different planet. On this celestial body, “neocons weren’t any more hawkish than anyone else on the right.” Moreover, this group is now vanishing as a recognizable sect and anyone who persists in “using the nut charge” is embracing an anti-Semitic slur, that is, “a code for suspiciously Hebraic superhawk.” Since Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz recently suggested that he would pursue a more moderate foreign policy than the group … Continue reading

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Let’s face it.  We live in a world fueled by debt and for many, having debt is an ordinary part of life,  For them, racking up the credit cards at Christmas and slowing paying them off while collecting massive interest is a way of life.  Many never pay them off. From where I sit, it is understandable when people owe money for extremely large purchases like real estate or a reliable vehicle.  That makes sense, but these days, a great deal of consumer debt is lifestyle debt. Lifestyle debt is credit used to purchase clothing, go on vacations, and buy … Continue reading

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Radar detectors, like bulletproof vests, don’t make you invulnerable. They improve yours odds. And like a bulletproof vest, the more you know about your radar detector’s capabilities – and vulnerabilities – the better off you’ll be. Here are some things worth knowing: * Radar detectors usually can’t pick up “instant on” radar… until it’s too late – One of the ways police foil radar detectors is by not giving them a steady signal to detect  – which gives you less time to react. Instead of lurking by the side of the road with his radar on, waiting for you like a venus fly trap, the … Continue reading

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H.H. Holmes, born Herman Webster Mudgett circa 1860, would come to be recognized as one of America’s first serial killers. But to this day, because of the nature in which he disposed of the bodies and his wildly inconsistent stories and confessions, much of the facts about his life are unclear. So is his death count: Police at the time suspected around nine or 10 victims, while other estimates are in the hundreds; in his published confession, Holmes himself claimed credit for the deaths of 27 people—but several “victims” were later found to still be alive. To make matters more confusing, … Continue reading

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Our only agenda is that laid out at length by Lyndon LaRouche in a meeting with associates Tuesday evening, Jan 6. He began by referring to his forecast that all Hell would break loose after Jan 1, as it certainly has begun to,— but the detailed further course of the collapse is still undetermined. He went on to point to the success of the Manhattan Project, despite all its difficulties. That Manhattan Project is now the key to history; if LaRouche had not launched it as he did in October, 2014, now all would be lost.

He identified that it is the British system, top down, which is driving towards a global mass killing of the human population. The British royal family is determined to reduce the human population to a small fragment of what it is today. Asia will not be destroyed by the impact of the economic collapse which is now striking the trans-Atlantic area, but precisely for that reason, the British Empire, through Obama, is determined to destroy Asia and Russia in war.

“So, therefore, our objective has to be to destroy the British Empire. If you don’t destroy the British Empire, you’re not going to be alive. That’s what the issue is. And the issue is the fact that most people are stupid because, out of fear, they don’t want to do something like that. And the only way we can save the population of the planet is to get rid of everything that is the British authority, especially the British Isles authority; British royal family and its legacy…. And so therefore that’s where we are, and the only way we can deal with this thing is to actually deal with it by destroying the British Empire, and destroying the forces in the United States which were the guilty party in the incumbent Presidency of the United States, and in much of the leadership of the organization of the United States. Because you see that what they are doing is they are leading the march toward the destruction of the population of the United States.

“Look what’s happened! Look at the death rates imposed by Obama, by Obama’s policies on the people of the United States. So you’re not in a situation of economic problem, as an economic problem, but the intention is mass murder. So saying you’ve got a program to solve the threat of economic problems, you’re kidding yourself. The intention is, by hook or by crook, to reduce the population of the planet massively, and suddenly.

“And the only way you can deal with that is to beat the enemy. And that is what the Presidency and what the organization of the Congress would not do. The Congress had the authority to shut this project down. And they decided to go ahead. That was the decision that was made in December. The final decision at the point the Congress closed down, they made a decision to destroy the United States. Unless you denounce them for that, and scare the shit out of them, they’re going to continue to do that.

“That’s what’s going on in Europe. Europe is a death-knell. And unless you take the action to destroy the British interests and those things that correspond to the British interests, you have no means in which to avoid the kind of nightmare which is sitting there waiting to fall on us. You get out there and say we insist we’re going to get the members of Congress and punish them for what they’re trying to do and things like that, or you don’t have anything. In other words, there’s no way you can adapt to this situation. If you try to adapt to it, you’re just going to make a fool of yourself. You’ve got to throw this President out of office. And you’ve got to throw the members of Congress who’ll go along with him, too. That’s the only chance we have, from the standpoint of the United States. Right now, all of Western Europe is headed for the death-knell, on the basis of economic and related conditions. And the only thing you have is Asia, the Asian area, or the core of the Asian area. And therefore the British will not let that alone by any means. So you have to go out and just wipe out the royal family. Want to do that?”

LaRouche went on at a later point in the meeting, to point to the underlying nature of the problem:

“You look in particular, you get from Abraham Lincoln’s assassination; and then you put the other things that went with that; then you see the process leading in from that. You see the same outcome from the Civil War, and that became what was the next step; which was that one decade at the end of the century. Bismarck was put out of office; the 1890s were a horror period that led immediately to general warfare. We’ve had perpetual warfare, despite all the talk about peace, we’ve had general warfare forever. So therefore, it’s these guys who said ‘Be practical,’ that kind of stuff.

“And the point is, that we’re discussing here is the actual truth; we’re taking certain elements of the absolute truth of history and we’re looking at it from the standpoint of an earlier period as a record. Say, ‘Hey, this keeps going on!’; and it’s a threat to the entirety of humanity, it’s not a series of local problems. And Obama is simply a key Satanic figure; he is an agent of the British Empire. His stepfather, of course, was part of the same thing; part of the same British kind of operation.

“So, that’s the problem we have; you have to recognize that this phenomenon is what the issue is. It’s not Joe Doaks or somebody doing something, this is a phenomenon; and in certain parts of history, mankind has been able to deal with these kinds of threats. But they never stuck; they kept coming back, the same kind of phenomena. Take the Papacy in a certain earlier period; you had a great leader who built all the water systems in Europe [charlemagne]. He did it; and as soon as he died, Hell broke loose. And the Catholic Church became a piece of sodomy, immediately at that point. You have to know what happened when Charlemagne died; after his death, the Satanic movement took over the Catholic Church. What you got with the Renaissance was essentially again an attempt,— which is really a decade,— and then again, the same thing hit. And you see what happened after that. You see the death of Leibniz, and that was not an intended one; even though there was an intention to have that done. But the death of Leibniz was the occasion for getting Leibniz out; and Leibniz was organizing heavily with China, he was a leading factor inside China at that time. Well, when you look at it from the standpoint of real history, it becomes clearer.

“And the problem is, people don’t use the right language when they refer to these events. If you put the right tag on it, you would deal with the problem. If somebody says, ‘Somebody in California killed some people in California,’ and you try to isolate that; so Obama gets by with that by deliberately protecting these guys. They had actually instigated them, because he was part of the instigation. And people say, `Well, these guys did it. Maybe it isn’t that important; maybe it was just a few people.’ In fact, it’s not; Obama was the mother of this terror show in California. And sometimes, you know, the males can be the mother in cases like that….

“All these practical explanations, all these things; ‘this is that,’ a simple explanation of this fact and that fact, which goes on in our own organization, is something that makes us impotent and self-destructive. When we have qualities of things which in a more general way,— when you get too narrow in your focus, you lose perspective. In other words, you see a fact; you say, ‘Well, this is a fact; and this is my fact.’ But it doesn’t take into account the things that make those facts possible.

“No, this thing has to be seen and has to be handled in a certain way; because we’re dealing with a population inside the United States, and most the people in the United States are pretty stupid,— I have to admit that, for the sake of the American people and their decisions.”

At the end of the meeting, LaRouche detailed how he had been brought into the incoming Ronald Reagan administration, before Reagan was inaugurated, by then-still functioning elements of the intelligence apparatus of Franklin Roosevelt. LaRouche was key in organizing many of the policies of Reagan, which were the appropriate expression of Roosevelt’s intentions for this period of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The response of the British Imperial enemy, of whom the Bush family are puppets, was to attempt, again, to kill a President. “They didn’t kill him, but they almost killed him,” and during Reagan’s long convalescence, George H.W. Bush, who had been forced on him as Vice President, took over. LaRouche was railroaded to prison as part of the same operation. “So therefore, I have a certain responsibility in this matter,” LaRouche said. “My responsibility is meeting the challenge of what has to be done; I’m the heir of the victim.”

Just as LaRouche had forecast the collapse of the system at the beginning of the new year, market collapses continued and accelerated worldwide today, and the bail-out policy was inaugurated in Europe, as already in the U.S. We must escalate the campaign for Glass-Steagall to close down Wall Street, and get the United States on board the New Silk Road, which means a Franklin-Roosevelt reconstruction in the US.

LaRouche is right, I want updates.

Oregon US Representative Says US Government Has Gone Too Far Into Tyranny US Representative Greg Walden represents Harney County, Oregon. This is the county in which there are protests against the orchestrated frame-up of Dwight and Steve Hammond for refusing to sell their ranch to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The mainssream media and, unfortunately,…

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Today is the twenty-first anniversary of Murray Rothbard’s death. I had the privilege of knowing Dr. Rothbard, and he was not only one of the smartest people I ever meet, but he was a genuinely nice person who was fun to be around. Unlike so many […]