Day: November 17, 2016

VACCINE COERCIVE ENFORCEMENT: FREEDOM OF THOUGHT & RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ARE UNDER ATTACK

THE VACCINE POLICE ARE COMING
FREEDOM OF THOUGHT & RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ARE UNDER ATTACK 
BY DR. MERCOLA
SEE: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/11/13/vaccine-injury-exemptions.aspx; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
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Your freedom of thought, conscience and religious beliefs are under attack, so it is really vital that you listen to the information presented by Barbara Loe Fisher in this interview with me.
Fisher co-founded the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) in 1982 and she has been a leading health rights advocate defending the human right to informed consent to medical risk taking, including the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices — a right that has been severely eroded in the U.S. over the past three decades.
“If we don’t have the right in this country to make health care choices, including vaccine choices, that impact our bodies and the bodies of our children, we’re really not free in any sense of the word,” she says.
“I’ve seen this evolve over almost 35 years now. It became clear several decades ago that the goal of public health officials and the medical trade organizations and industry was to have everyone in the country … have to get every single government-recommended vaccine … That is what I saw happening, but I didn’t know how long it was going to take.”

Unprecedented Attack on Personal Beliefs in 2015

In 2015, the American media went berserk reporting an outbreak of measles at Disneyland.
By the time the media hysteria hyping irrational fear of measles and demonizing parents with unvaccinated school children was over, there had been 131 cases of measles reported in California and only 189 cases of measles reported nationally for the whole year.  
What was interesting about the 2015 measles outbreak that started all the fear mongering, was that when you looked at the California cases with vaccine records, it became clear the outbreak was not about unvaccinated school children at all:  
Fifty percent of the reported measles cases were adults and only 18 percent were in school-aged children. Yet that measles outbreak in 2015 was used by industry and medical trade lobbyists to fuel an all-out assault on personal belief exemptions in state vaccine laws.
It was an assault that specifically targeted the non-medical exemptions for religious, conscientious or philosophical beliefs filed by parents so their children can attend school. As noted by Fisher:
“What happened in 2015 was unprecedented in terms of the numbers of bills that were introduced in the states to take away non-medical vaccine exemptions. There were over 100 bills introduced. There was an assault in at least 11 states to take away the exemptions.
[P]eople signed up for our [NVIC] Advocacy Portal online and we helped them to preserve the exemption in nine states. But we lost California, which was a huge loss because that’s the biggest state.
The personal belief exemption was eliminated and it took out both the religious and the philosophical exemption in one fell swoop …
We have a 94 to 97 percent, sometimes almost 100 percent, vaccine coverage rate with federally recommended vaccines in the United States … [Yet] in 2015 we saw the most vicious assault I have ever seen on parents who take exemptions or who don’t give their children all of the vaccines.
There were calls for these parents to be charged with child medical neglect, for them to be publicly identified and humiliated online, for them to be sued and for them to be jailed.
At the same time, we saw an assault on doctors; doctors who were critical of vaccine safety, doctors who were giving children medical vaccine exemptions, doctors who were taking care of children who were not fully vaccinated. The rhetoric was over the top in terms of viciousness in 2015.
Again, how many measles cases did we see in America? One hundred wighty-nine cases of measles. Not one death, not one injury, that I’ve seen, was reported.”

Your Involvement Protected Health Rights in 2016

This year, yet another 100 vaccine related bills were introduced and most tried to either add more vaccines to state mandates or restrict or eliminate vaccine exemptions.
The NVIC opposed about 70 percent of them. Fortunately, only eight of those bills were actually passed this year, and none of the bills to eliminate vaccine exemptions passed.
The reason for this, Fisher says, is because people saw what happened in 2015 and started to get much more involved in the political process in 2016.
Whenever NVIC put out an Action Alert through the online NVIC Advocacy Portal, more parents, grandparents, health care professionals and other concerned citizens personally contacted their state legislators and showed up for committee meetings and public hearings to make their concerns known.
It is so important for you to know that you can make a difference when you take action to protect your freedom and, together, we are making a difference. This can be seen from the fact that many bad vaccine bills were defeated this year because people stood up for their rights.
I want to express my deep appreciation and gratitude to all you who worked with NVIC and participated in the legislative process in your states this year. Yes, some battles were still lost, but it is through persistence that we can collectively make a huge difference.
“It’s the only reason we didn’t get the medical and religious [vaccine] exemption taken away in Virginia this year,” Fisher says. “The only reason was because people got energized and showed up.”

Public Health Officials Militarize Vaccine System Through Rule Making

Unfortunately, because we’ve been successful in stopping these state bills trying to take away your freedom, public health officials are now starting to invoke rulemaking authority to bypass the democratic process altogether.
Rulemaking authority is given by Congress to federal legislators, and given by state legislators to the people who operate government and government employees.
On August 15, 2016, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) in the Federal Register to amend the Public Health Service Act, which governs public health law. We warned you about this several months ago in this newsletter.
What the CDC wants to do is expand the use of police power to detain and involuntarily quarantine you if you are traveling by airplane into the U.S. If you have a cough, rash, low-grade fever or other minor symptoms of illness, they want to enlist airline personnel to report you to the CDC.
Then, if public health officials think you might be infected with or could get infected with measles or another communicable disease, they want the legal authority to apprehend and:
  • Detain you for 72 hours without access to an attorney to appeal the detention
  • Evaluate you medically
  • Offer you a contract to sign that will allow them to treat you, such as vaccinate you, as a condition of being released
  • Electronically monitor you after your release

Disease Eradication Efforts Historically Turn Into Militarized Efforts

The same would apply if you travel between states, especially if you’re travelling on an airline or by ship, bus or train. NVIC is vehemently opposed to this and submitted a public comment on Oct. 14, 2016, calling on the CDC to withdraw the NPRM.1 The CDC has not implemented this rule yet but they have the authority to do so, even though CDC officials received more than 15,500 public comments by Oct. 14 — most of them opposing the NPRM.
“In 2005, they [CDC officials] tried this. They got enough public pushback that they didn’t implement. The thing I’m worried about is that we have a President who’s on his way out. He can issue executive orders. We do not know what is going to happen between the elections and when he leaves,” Fisher says.
“We don’t know if measles is going to be put on that isolation and quarantine list … They’ve just declared measles eradicated in the Americas. If you take a look at the last two years, you’ll see this progression. Clearly it has all been to set up this idea that measles must be eradicated from the earth.
What happens when they say ‘Let’s eradicate?’ Well, we know what happens. There was a militarization of the public health infrastructure to eradicate smallpox and polio. This means just what it sounds like: It means detention, isolation, quarantine and vaccination.
I am concerned that even if we are successful in protecting state exemptions, if you have a federal law that allows the militarization of the public health infrastructure, we’re going to be in a very difficult situation here. What can we do? We have to become involved in government. We cannot take government for granted and our freedoms for granted. If we don’t hold our elected officials accountable, then we are going to have laws passed that are going to be oppressive.”

Vaccine Roulette Before Pharma Blackmailed Congress

A major problem today is that major profit-making industries, and the drug industry in particular, wield tremendous influence over our federal government agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and CDC. Their money, presence and political influence can be clearly seen on Capitol Hill and just about everywhere.
A perfect example is the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. Fisher was a young parent of a DPT vaccine-injured child when the television documentary “DPT: Vaccine Roulette” was aired in the spring of 1982. It was the first time American parents had been informed that a vaccine recommended and mandated by the government could brain injure and kill children.
That ground breaking investigative report was the catalyst for the formation of the non-profit charity known today as the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) that Fisher co-founded with other parents of vaccine-injured children.
Within months,  drug companies declared they would stop producing childhood vaccines recommended and mandated by government unless Congress indemnified them from liability. Congress jumped into action and proposed legislation to restrict vaccine lawsuits.  
“We were contacted because we were this new group. There had never been a group like this,” Fisher says. “They said to us, ‘We are going to pass legislation to protect the vaccine supply in this country. You can either come to the table and argue for what you think the families should get or you cannot come to the table. But we’re going to pass this with or without you.’”

NVIC Helped Put Safety Provisions Into Law

Communication at that time was telephones and snail mail. Messages could get out via TV or radio, but there was no world wide web and few parents had personal computers.
Parents of vaccine-injured children had no political power, but NVIC’s co-founders networked with families and fought as hard as they could to protect the rights of children and families. They preserved the legal right of parents to sue vaccine manufacturers when there was evidence the company could have made the vaccine less toxic, and they got vaccine safety informing, recording and reporting provisions into the 1986 law — even though the safety provisions have never been enforced.

5 Years Ago US Supreme Court Banned Vaccine Injury Lawsuits

Then, in 2011, the Supreme Court heard the case of Bruesewitz v. Wyeth. Vaccine manufacturers, medical trade organizations and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared that all vaccine injury lawsuits should be banned.
“The Supreme Court said, ‘Any FDA-licensed vaccine is unavoidably unsafe and there shall be no more lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers.’ Done. Not even if you could show a vaccine could have been made safer,” Fisher says.
“On that same day, the Supreme Court said that seatbelt manufacturers, car manufacturers, are liable for defective seatbelts, but vaccine manufacturers are not liable for defective or unsafe vaccines. So here we are, with the medical trade associations all saying ‘no more non-medical exemptions,’ after they have narrowed the medical exemptions so that no medical condition qualifies for medical exemption.”

Intimidation Tactics Are Being Used Against Doctors

During the measles outbreak of 2015, doctors criticizing vaccine safety and mandatory vaccination laws or giving children medical vaccine exemptions were publicly attacked. This year, the state Medical Board charged California pediatrician Dr. Bob Sears with “gross negligence” for “improperly exempting” a 2-year old boy from vaccination.2
Sears gives vaccines in his practice but allows parents to make the choice about whether or not to vaccinate their children. He has been an outspoken supporter of flexible exemptions in mandatory vaccination laws and now his medical license may be on the line simply because he wrote a medical vaccine exemption after a child had an adverse reaction to a previous vaccination.
As noted by Fisher, the medical contraindications that CDC officials consider an official reason to grant a child a medical vaccine exemption have become so incredibly narrow that about 99 percent of all children, including those who have had previous vaccine reactions, do not qualify for a medical exemption. What’s happening to Sears is sheer harassment and nothing else, designed to make other doctors think twice before they suggest a child might be at high risk for suffering a vaccine reaction. Fisher asks:
“How can you mandate a product that can cause injury or death that some people are more susceptible to having a reaction to, basically removing the medical exemptions so nothing qualifies [and then] remove the personal belief exemption so you can’t exercise freedom of conscience and religious belief, and penalize you if you don’t obey the law that literally could take your life or your child’s life?
This is insanity. It’s cruel. It is inhuman. You [Dr. Mercola] opened up this interview with the statement that freedom of thought, conscience and religious belief is under attack. Absolutely, our bodies are under attack by laws that are punitive, particularly for those of us who have genetic or biological reasons for having a greater susceptibility [for vaccine injury].”

Vaccine Injuries Are More Common Than You’re Led to Believe

Vaccine injuries are real. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database, which was created as part of the Vaccine Compensation Act, shows that about 71,000 reactions and nearly 350 deaths have been reported following receipt of themeasles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine alone since 1990.
Studies have shown that doctors and other vaccine providers are massively underreporting injuries and deaths that follow vaccination, perhaps fewer than 1 to 10 percent of serious adverse events are ever reported to VAERS, so the real number may be around 35,000.
Adding insult to injury, the government is not doing a good job on finding out how many people are actually suffering serious health problems after vaccination. Even when reactions are reported to VAERS, health officials rarely follow up on vaccine reaction reports.

NVIC’s Video Vaccine Reaction Reporting on Memorial for Vaccine Victims

This month, NVIC has expanded its online International Memorial for Vaccine Victims by adding a video vaccine reaction reporting feature called Protect Life: Witness A Vaccine Reaction at NVIC.org. You can post a video description of a vaccine reaction that you, your child or someone you love has experienced, where it will be archived permanently and accessible to millions of people who visit NVIC.org.
“One of the things that we feel strongly about at the NVIC is that people who have had vaccine reactions, whose loved ones have suffered vaccine injury and death, need to publicly witness. NVIC has had, for more than a decade, the International Memorial for Vaccine Victims. We were one of the first websites to really formalize the public reporting of vaccine reactions. We have a vaccine reaction registry that is 35 years old.
Most people know somebody who was healthy, got vaccinated, and was never healthy again. This is what people across the country need to understand. It can be you. It can be your child, your mother, your sister [or] your friend. Everybody is a candidate …
I encourage everyone who has had an experience with a vaccine reaction to participate because when you publicly share your vaccine reaction story with others, it can turn the terrible tragedies that have occurred from vaccine injuries into saving lives by making others aware that vaccines can cause serious harm.
You can take your story, record it on your cell phone or computer and post it on NVIC’s Memorial for Vaccine Victims. You could save 100, 1,000, 10,000 or 1 million people’s lives because they were so inspired by your story that they understood the truth, finally. If more people do this, the more compelling the evidence becomes.

Help Support Vaccine Awareness Week

From November 13 to 20, we launch Vaccine Awareness Week 2016 in partnership with the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC). With aggressive efforts by pharmaceutical companies, medical trade groups and government to restrict or eliminate all vaccine exemptions, it’s critical for you to act now to protect your legal right to make informed, voluntary vaccine choices.
Thankfully we have experienced organizations such as NVIC providing accurate information about vaccine issues and working to secure informed consent protections in public health laws. NVIC’s mission is to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and to defend the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk taking, which includes access to flexible medical, religious and conscientious belief vaccine exemptions.

Resources Where You Can Learn More

  • NVIC Advocacy Portal: Become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your state and defend your legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices for yourself and your children.
  • Ask 8 Vaccine Information Kiosk: Download brochures on vaccines and infectious diseases and how to recognize vaccine reaction symptoms (in English and Spanish), as well as special reports, posters and web badges, to help you educate your family and friends when you advocate for vaccine freedom of choice.
  • Vaccine Ingredients Calculator: If you have made the choice to vaccinate, create a customized plan after evaluating vaccine ingredients.
  • State Law & Vaccine Requirements: You can easily access your state’s vaccine policies and laws here.
  • Protect Life: Witness A Vaccine Reaction. Post a video or photo and description of a vaccine reaction, injury or death on the International Memorial for Vaccine Victims and search the database or view the video collection.

Let’s Help NVIC Get the Funding They Deserve

This charitable educational organization has been working since 1982 to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and to provide information and counseling to those reporting adverse responses to vaccination. Please consider donating to NVIC to help support their life-saving mission and join the vaccine awareness and choice movement today.

TRUMP PULLS WORLD FROM BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR: SOROS OUTRAGED

TRUMP PULLS WORLD FROM BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR: SOROS OUTRAGED

The global elite have a new obstacle to overcome as Trump defiantly opposes their plans

Soros Admits No Remorse For His Actions
Published on Nov 17, 2016
In a 60 minutes interview from 1998, George Soros was rather cavalier in talking about the actions he has taken in financial markets around the world as well as actions he took as a kid helping the Nazis. Here are some of the highlights encapsulated by Owen Shroyer.

OBAMA’S BROTHER CALLS FOR BOYCOTT OF CNN, MSNBC, NEW YORK TIMES

Obama's Brother Calls for Boycott of CNN, MSNBC, New York Times
OBAMA’S BROTHER CALLS FOR BOYCOTT OF CNN, MSNBC, NEW YORK TIMES

Malik Obama joins president elect in calling out biased press

BY ADAN SALAZAR
SEE: http://www.infowars.com/obamas-brother-calls-for-boycott-of-cnn-msnbc-new-york-times/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Americans should boycott biased news sources such as CNN and MSNBC, President Barack Obama’s half brother, Malik Obama, tweeted on Wednesday.
Malik’s latest tweets follow statements over the weekend concerning unfair coverage from the New York Times and other establishment outlets still hellbent on publishing negative stories about President-Elect Donald Trump.
Regarding weekend coverage, the president-elect himself slammed The Times specifically on Twitter Sunday.
On Tuesday, Malik echoed Trump’s sentiments deeming the New York Times “corrupt and dishonest,” and tweeted an article from the Times focusing on Trump’s reported transition team troubles.
Trump on Wednesday followed up his previous statements disputing the New York Times’ reportage by labeling it a “failing” paper, saying they “looked like fools in their coverage” of his transition team.
Obama later turned his attention to CNN, stating it “has ZERO CREDIBILITY,” and MSNBC, wishing a simple phrase could make it vanish.
Malik has also accused his home country Kenya of having a “corrupt media” that can be bought off:
Obama made his support of Trump clear earlier this year when he told the New York Post he liked the businessman’s tell-it-like-it-is approach.
“I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart,” Malik told The Post. “Make America Great Again is a great slogan. I would like to meet him.”
“Mr. Trump is providing something new and something fresh,” he said.
Malik also made headlines when images from his wedding were uncovered showing his brother, President Obama, wearing a traditional Muslim dress as his best man. Malik’s Twitter profile also features an image of him posing with President Obama while outfitted in Muslim garb.
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Amid accusations of anti-Trump bias, The New York Times last week wrote a letter to readers regarding its slanted election coverage, promising subscribers it would “rededicate” itself to honest journalism after horrifically inaccurate predictions of a Hillary Clinton win.
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Toward the start of the month, The New York Times reported a 95.7 percent dip in quarterly profits.
“Net profit attributable to the newspaper publisher fell to $406,000, or break-even per share, in the third quarter, from $9.4 million, or 6 cents per share, a year earlier,” reported the Daily Mail.

OBAMA’S BASKET OF ECONOMIC DEPLORABLES

OBAMA’S BASKET OF ECONOMIC DEPLORABLES 
BY  Ralph R. Reiland
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary/item/24624-obama-s-basket-of-economic-deplorables; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
“As I have said before, I think of this job as being a relay runner,” President Obama said on the day before his briefing meeting at the White House with President-elect Trump, referring to the customary process of the presidential changeover. “You take the baton, you run your best race, and hopefully by the time you hand it off, you’re a little further ahead. You made a little progress. And I can say that we have done that and I want to make sure the hand off is well-executed because ultimately, we’re all on the same team.”
That sounds cooperative, hopeful, and a bit self-congratulatory, but what was understandably left unsaid by Obama is that he’s handing over to Trump a basket overflowing with economic deplorables.
In a major downshifting of economic expansion and a persistent level of second-rate growth in national output since Obama was elected, the 3.4 percent annual pace of GDP growth in the United States from 1949 to 2008 dropped to 1.8 percent from 2008 to 2016.
“At 3.4 percent, the size of the U.S economy doubles in about 21 years; at 1.8 percent, it takes 40 years — nearly twice as long,” reported Investor’s Business Daily in its comprehensive summary of the consequences of poor economic growth, “It’s Still the Economy, Stupid: How Next President Can Return U.S. To Economic Growth,” November 7, 2016.
On the whole, the performance of the Obama economy, reports Eric Morath, economics correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, citing  Commerce Department figures, represents the weakest economic expansion of the past 70 years.
The cost of this economic slowdown and snail’s pace economic growth, both nationally and per household, was calculated by Investor’s Business Daily and summed up in the aforementioned “It’s Still the Economy, Stupid” report: “If growth since 2008 had merely been average for recoveries since World War II, the economy would be $2.2 trillion larger than it now. Each household would have, on average, $17,000 more in income. And we’d have about 6 million more jobs.”
To reverse the stagnation, the Trump administration and Congress face the challenge of an extensive assortment of economic crises and an abundant supply of obstacles to growth: A federal debt of $20 trillion ($166,000 per taxpayer), steeply rising entitlement spending, an increase in federal expenditures of 118 percent since 2000, crumbling inner-city economies, stagnating labor productivity, internationally uncompetitive corporate tax rates, anti-business attitudes and edicts, anti-growth ideologies, overly burdensome regulations, entrepreneurs dispirited by state-imposed impediments and hurdles, stagnation of business investment, an often inefficient and badly focused educational system, stagnation in household incomes, and 47 million Americans below the poverty line.
An October 2016 survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), “Small Business Economic Trends,” showed a record level of uncertainty among small business owners, the employers of 58 million Americans and the creators of most new jobs in the U.S. economy, resulting in an unwillingness to make business decisions that could jump start the economy by way of accelerated investment, economic expansion and job creation.
Small business owners “are struggling with high taxes, ball-and-chain regulations, and spiraling health insurance costs,” explains NFIB President and CEO Juanita Duggan.
“Red Tape Rising 2016: Obama Regs Top $100 Billion Annually,” by James L. Gattuso, Senior Research Fellow at the Roe Institute for Economic Studies, and Diane Katz, Research Fellow in Regulatory Studies at the Heritage Foundation, reports on the costs of Obama’s regulatory increases: “The Obama Administration is responsible for an unparalleled expansion of the regulatory state, with the imposition of 229 major regulations since 2009 at a cost of $108 billion annually (using the regulatory agencies’ own numbers). The actual costs are far greater, both because costs have not been fully quantified for a significant number of rules, and because many of the worst effects — the loss of freedom and opportunity, for example — are incalculable.”
Further, “the tide of regulation is expected  to rise even higher in 2016,” report Katz and Gattuso: “With 144 additional rules already in the pipeline, Americans should be prepared for a regulatory surge before year’s end.”
The Federal Register, where the U.S. government’s proposed and final rules and regulations are printed daily, is expected to exceed 90,000 pages for 2016, up from 80,260 pages for 2015.
On top of unendingly tossing sand into the gears of an efficient and innovative free market-economy and weakening the development of start-up companies and higher levels of job creation, this bloated regulatory state directly reduces the income, wealth, and standard of living of American families.
The above mentioned Investor’s Business Daily report, “It’s Still the Economy, Stupid,” spotlighted the overall regulatory costs and the direct economic impact on American families: “In its annual report, ‘Ten Thousand Commandments: An annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State,’ the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) notes that regulations imposed by more than 60 federal departments, agencies and commissions impose what it calls a ‘hidden tax’ of $1.9 trillion on the U.S. economy — or roughly $15,000 per household every year. What’s worse, a recent survey of small businesses from the National Federation of Independent Business found that ‘unreasonable government regulations’ is now the second-most pressing problem cited by small businesses. That’s up from fifth just four years ago.”
Similarly, the Investor’s Business Daily report focused on the obstacles to U.S. economic growth and job creation inflicted by the “byzantine bible of rules” in the U.S. tax code — 2.4 million words in the code, plus another 7.7 million words of clarification — causing American to spend an estimated 8.9 billion hours per year filling out their taxes this year according to the Tax Foundation, up from an estimated 6 billion hours four years ago.
“All told,” reports Investor’s Business Daily, “Americans spend about $409 billion a year now to comply.” That’s not the amount of taxes paid, but only the cost of figuring and filing, the financial and time costs of reading the rules, tax planning, gathering receipts, filling out forms, etc.
On healthcare prices, a report issued in October by the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the cost for a health-insurance plan obtained through the exchanges set up by the Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare, would increase by 25 percent on average for the 2017 coverage year.
The report from the Department of Health and Human Services broke down the expected changes in cost by state, with increases varying heavily by state: Premium prices up 2 percent in New Hampshire, 43 percent in Illinois, 53 percent in Pennsylvania, 63 percent in Tennessee, 116 percent in Arizona.
As I’m typing this sentence, the ever-spinning federal debt clock (US Debt Clock.org) reports that the national federal debt totals $19,815,785,518,206, nearly double the $10.6 trillion debt level when President Obama took office in January 2009.
Also in Trump’s inherited basket of economic deplorables is the declining labor participation rate in the United States and the over 94 million Americans over the age of 16 who are currently not in the labor force — none of whom are officially counted by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics as unemployed.
In May, a record 94,708,000 Americans were not in the labor force, 664,000 more than in April (and 14 million more than when Obama took office), dropping the nation’s labor participation rate to 62.6 percent, a 38-year low.

OBAMA: SUBMIT TO GLOBALISM OR FACE WAR, DEATH, DESTRUCTION

OBAMA: SUBMIT TO GLOBALISM 
OR FACE WAR, DEATH, DESTRUCTION 
BY ALEX NEWMAN
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/24638-obama-submit-to-globalism-or-face-war-death-destruction; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
With globalists facing a series of devastating defeats and mounting global outrage over their agenda, Obama complained that President-elect Donald Trump “tapped into” what he called a “troubling” strain of public opinion that threatens to unleash war, genocide, and death. Obama’s divisive comments acknowledging but then dismissing Americans’ rejection of the globalist assault on self-government and nationhood were made in Athens, Greece, during his final official trip abroad. The misleading remarks confirm that, despite escalating public fury worldwide as expressed in Brexit and Trump’s election, the globalist establishment is not ready to surrender its radical internationalist agenda without a dirty fight.
Speaking at a press conference alongside totalitarian-minded Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Obama lashed out at what he described as “anger and fear in the American population” over globalization. Sounding oblivious to reality, Obama also suggested that much of that “anger and fear” was based on inaccurate rhetoric from politicians rather than the truth. In the real world, of course, successful politicians such as Trump and Brexit engineer Nigel Farage are giving voice to the pre-existing concerns of the electorate, rather than the rhetoric fueling the concerns.
Not in Obama’s mind, though — at least not in his public statements. “You’ve seen some of the rhetoric among Republican elected officials and activists and media. Some of it pretty troubling and not necessarily connected to facts, but being used effectively to mobilize people,” Obama claimed during the news conference in Greece. “And obviously President-elect Trump tapped into that particular strain within the Republican Party and then was able to broaden that enough and get enough votes to win the election.”
By “troubling” so-called “strain,” Obama was referring to the anti-globalist, anti-establishment, pro-sovereignty, pro-borders, pro-America campaign platform that propelled Trump to a historic victory despite the entire establishment and all of its propaganda organs arrayed against him. But by essentially claiming that the sentiment was based on the rhetoric of politicians rather than the concerns and wishes of the voting public, Obama’s analysis falls short — almost certainly deliberately — even as it attempts to marginalize the legitimate outcry of tens of millions of Americans.   
Obama also implied that people’s concerns about globalist scheming, as expressed through the ballot box, could be dangerous if wiser globalists do not save humanity from itself. “People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there is no doubt that has produced populist movements, both from the left and the right,” Obama argued, comparing socialist Bernie Sanders with Trump, as if the two represented a similar vision. “That sometimes gets wrapped up in issues of ethnic identity or religious identity or cultural identity. And that can be a volatile mix.”
He put his message bluntly, too: A rejection of Big Government globalism might well lead to war, genocide, hate, and other evils. “We are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism, or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them, and I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common, as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict,” Obama claimed, saying in so many words that those who believe in the independent nation-state produce conflict while globalists, responsible for countless wars in recent decades, produce peace.  
Then he brought up World War II. “Take Europe,” Obama continued. “We know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up and emphasizing their differences and seeing a competition between various countries in a zero-sum way. The 20th century was a bloodbath.” In other words, surrender self-government and liberty to globalists and their unaccountable institutions, or face death and destruction. Never mentioned by Obama is the essential role of the globalist establishment in the bloodbaths of the 20th century.   
A key purpose of Obama’s final trip abroad, according to establishment media reports, was aimed at assuring foreign governments that Trump was committed to United Nations subsidiary NATO and globalist institutions rather than his campaign rhetoric. Whether that is true remains unclear. Indeed, aside from rejecting globalism, Americans also rejected the media’s lies. The fringe globalist-minded media, once widely mischaracterized as the “mainstream media,” appears to be dying in terms of both credibility and finances. Polls show Americans now overwhelmingly reject the establishment’s propaganda organs as dishonest, with just a gullible fringe still trusting the media.
But Obama and the establishment media were hardly the only ones expressing concerns about the surging global opposition to globalism. Globalist HQ in America, the Council on Foreign Relations, which Hillary Clinton said told her how to think and what to do as secretary of state, also sounded the alarm. “For U.S. internationalists, the election of Donald Trump poses a monumental challenge,” wrote CFR globalist Stewart Patrick on the CFR blog The Internationalist after Trump was elected. “Two decades ago, Patrick J. Buchanan’s pitchfork populism attracted no more than twenty percent of the Republican electorate. Today his ideological heir is bound for the White House.”
Indeed, Trump’s opposition to globalism has been clearly stated from the start, and was a major part of what animated tens of millions of his supporters to propel his outsider campaign to a historic victory. “Hillary says things can’t change. I say they have to change. It’s a choice between Americanism and her corrupt globalism,” Trump wrote in June on social media. In a major foreign policy speech, Trump vowed that“Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.” The reality is that Trump’s publicly stated views aligned with those of Americans, and that is why he won despite the entire globalist establishment working fiendishly against him.
Beyond Western globalists, the mass-murdering dictatorship enslaving mainland China has also expressed fears over the global uprising against globalism. Speaking to the BRICS alliance made up of the largely socialist and communist regimes ruling Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping complained that anti-globalist forces were allegedly a threat to the world economy. “Some countries are getting more inward-looking in their policies,” the brutal tyrant whined. “Protectionism is rising and forces against globalization are posing an emerging risk.”
Of course, the regime in Beijing and its globalist totalitarian-minded backers in the West — people such as George Soros, David Rockefeller, and other globalist billionaires — have long been pushing for the communist dictatorship to lead what they refer to as the “New World Order.” Soros even called for the regime, which murdered more people than any in history, to “own” the New World Order like the United States owned the previous one. The Chinese dictatorship has been so committed to the regional government approach to global governance outlined by Henry Kissinger that it has even been a key financier of the Obama- and EU-backed African Union being imposed on Africans.
After British voters decided to ditch the European Union, top Chinese Communists again pledged their loyalty to globalism and the destruction of national sovereignty and self-government in Europe as well. “China firmly supports the process of EU integration and believes that the EU’s development will not stop, and furthermore is willing to see a stable, flourishing, and powerful EU,” Communist Chinese “Premier” Li Keqiang said in July after the vote, referring to the superstate that former Soviet dictator Gorbachev described as the “European Soviet.” “This suits EU-China cooperation, and also suits China’s interests.”
After Brexit, the EU, like Obama following Trump’s victory, sounded more detached from reality and tone-deaf than ever before. Among other schemes, leading EU member governments threatened their fellow member states with an “ultimatum” amid a push to abolish the remaining vestiges of nationhood. One reporter described the extreme plot, unveiled shortly after the historic referendum, as a plan to “morph” EU nations into a “Giant Superstate.” Under the plot, control over everything from immigration, taxation, and economic policy to military, intelligence, and law enforcement would be centralized in the unelected bureaucracies of Brussels that essentially rule Europe today by decree.
In a revealing document released in June touting global governance composed of regional governments and based on a “strong UN,” the increasingly EU was blunt, vowing to impose its extremism on peoples worldwide. “We will invest in regional orders, and in cooperation among and within regions,” the unpopular and increasingly autocratic superstate declared in a “Global Strategy” document, echoing almost precisely the demands of globalist war-criminal and population-control fanatic Kissinger in his book World Order. “And we will promote reformed global governance…. The EU will strive for a strong UN as the bedrock of the multilateral rules-based order.”
While many supporters of liberty and self-government have been encouraged by recent developments, some experts are urging caution. The free market-oriented Daily Bell, which provides some of the most insightful analysis available on the establishment’s manipulations as expressed through its propaganda organs, has warned in a series of articles about a possible “meme” being prepared by the elites purporting to pit “populism” against “globalism.” The ultimate objective of the meme — an idea that spreads through a culture or society — would be to advance globalism while discrediting and even demonizing the opposition, identified by globalists as “populism.”   
“We’ve pointed out that the mainstream may be actively enhancing the meme now that they have gotten control of it,” DB analysts noted, highlighting a representative propaganda piece by Reuters. “As populism is denigrated, globalism, in our view, will be uplifted. We’ll be subject to considerable contrasts between ´toxic´ populism and erudite — ´mainstream´ — globalism. We’ve already indicated that we believe this meme is a cultivated one. We don’t believe that the sudden emergence of populism throughout the West is simply coincidental or even evolutionary. We think this meme is being deliberately cultivated and that it is part of a larger Hegelian dialectic that is intended to reinforce globalism in the long-term.”
The end point might be tragedy. “The conclusion of the meme will probably involve a series of catastrophes that will further cultivate and expand globalism,” the analysis explained, expanding on previous articles on the same theme. “It’s happened before, especially after the 20th century’s world wars. There is no real reason to think the playbook has been significantly adjusted. Conclusion: This meme is not only of the utmost importance, it is clearly warning us of considerable distress to come.” The DB has also allowed that Trump may not even be aware of — much less an active participant in — the establishment plot to cultivate the “populism versus globalism” narrative in a bid to advance globalism.
Obama, the EU, the establishment media, and more all appear to be re-enforcing the meme. So, while the elections clearly show that the public is catching on to the globalists’ machinations, Americans, Brits, and people around the world must remain on guard. The globalist establishment may still have dangerous tricks up its sleeve — everything from economic and monetary chaos to war could be unleashed and exploited to maintain and consolidate power. Voters should work with Congress and their elected officials to dismantle globalist power and institutions such as the United Nations in favor of the U.S. Constitution and the God-given rights it protects. If not, the globalists will almost certainly strike back — and hard.   
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