Why does the US allow a controversial weed killer banned across the world?

A good friend sent an article of that title published in The Guardian. I'm not sure this article will be behind a paywall or not, in my experience some are and other aren't.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/28/paraquat-weedkiller-epa-ban?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If you can't see it (it is very good BTW) I will try and relay the gist of it here: Another common sense look into the world of US regulation of "foods" and chemical substances, with industry profits on one side and population health on the other...guess who the winner of that boxing match is?

A reminder, I frequently enclose the word "food" in quotes to remind us that most of what we consume today is hard pressed to qualify as actual food. IMHO tastes good and filling does not equal "healthy" unless one is referring to fruits and vegetables. The more clear it becomes to me as a result of my own health that fruits and vegetables are optimum people food, the more confused and conflicted the world seems to become about which foods are the true "cause of health".

What is the cause of health? Primarily the absence of toxins entering the body, and the entry of balanced nutrition. It's not complicated, but the avalanche of (very profitable!) disinformation swamps the voices of reason and common sense who do not have the power of industrial profits behind them.

Second best to a whole foods fruit and vegetable diet is any whole foods diet. In other words if the only thing you do is to eliminate "foods" that have an ingredients list attached the better off you will be for it.

So: why do we allow industrial toxic pollutants into our food supply at all? The answer can be found in this paragraph I found in an investment letter titled "Nine Billion Reasons to Invest in Agrochemical Innovation".

The common solution for all these infestations is chemical control... broadspectrum insecticides – such as pyrethroids, neonicotinoids, and organophosphates – that target and kill a wide range of insects, including entire groups or species. And while the use of chemical compounds poses risks to human health and the environment, it's the lesser of two evils for folks facing frequent food shortages.

Ah ha, the reason is because we have to kill off huge swaths of nature-ecology in order for us nine billion humans to survive. There just isn't enough room on the planet for both of us. By that logic we will only truly be thriving when we've wiped out all of nature-ecology.

Are we talking billions of humans or billions of dollars?

But no worries! When we've wiped out all of nature we can go to Mars! Hey, rocks are nature too...who needs biology?

Oh, and by the way, the next big investment trend is artificial biology. OK, now we can go to Mars.

Extreme common sense: Nutritional Excess vs Deficiency

Well part of the title of this post (extreme common) is a bit nonsensical isn't it? Is that because common sense is really just logic and deductive reasoning? And if so, perhaps explains the old saying "common sense isn't all that common". Perhaps logic is more "aptitude" than learned, which is to say, some are just born that way.

Anyway, this post is a good example of why I'm a big fan of the thinking of Doug Graham, which emerges from an aptitude for logic. In the universe of health information this is very uncommon, and continuously countered by monied interests who make trillions insuring we (Americans) spend more on health care than any other developed country, with the worst health of any developed country to show for it.

Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/OgdTcHf_GrA

 

A Sober Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccines | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Gigi Foster

One thing we are very unlikely to see when following mass media news is highly credentialed health scientists and MDs who are completely in favor of vaccines but have reservations about the current and completely new vaccine technology express their expert opinions as to why they have reservations.

You gotta wonder why are these established and credentialed scientists not heard? Could it be that excess profits in the new tech controls politics and media? And if that's true, wouldn't you prefer to be better informed by hearing all relevant expert points of view? I certainly would.

Here are two expert research scientists who are also practicing MDs express their expert observations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gX7Tz0LWJQ

Excess baby deaths investigation

Dr. John Campbell is a consummate master of communication in these perilous times of global "economic reset", censorship, and obfuscation from politicians and the "health care" conglomerates who line their pockets. Dr. Campbell manages to adroitly communicate the gist of a censored topic in the talk linked below.

https://youtu.be/wj4rE0LrpR0

Just how big is big? Pharma and the "health care" industries

Dr. David Eifrig writes an investment newsletter. Having graduated from a prestigious MBA program his first job was on a trading desk at Goldman Sachs, one of the most plum wall street jobs an MFA grad can land.  He left Wall Street however, because, in his words, he was disgusted with the corruption there.

His father and uncle were MDs, so then he then decided to become a doctor and enrolled in medical school, again at a prestigious university known for it's medical school. Then as a doc in practice he again found a level of corruption in medicine distasteful (how many meds are average senior citizens obliged to consume?), and at that point retired completely to writing an investing letter, which he's now done for about two decades.

Dr. Eifrig made these points in a recent letter:

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- Health care makes up nearly 20% of the U.S. economy.

- It employs over 20 million people.

- At $4.1 trillion, it’s not just bigger than every penny spent nationwide on food, cars, or energy, it’s bigger than all three put together.

- Ask any American which federal department gets the most funding and almost everyone will say defense.

- The DoD is certainly huge, with a nearly $800 billion budget this year.

- But the “winner” is the Department of Health and Human Services. It’s twice as big at $1.6 trillion. Nothing else comes close.

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All things considered it appears obvious from multiple perspectives that health care is the most corrupt industry in modern history. Of all these perspectives the most obvious is the fact pharmacology is a failure, we spend massively more on legal drugs than any other country in the world, and have the worst health to show for it.

In a fair fight between pharma drugs and a truly nutritious diet, pharma gets absolutely clobbered in the reversal of the chronic diseases so common these days.

And then there's the cost of expensive (patented!) drugs vs food we have to buy anyway. Your choice, nutrient packed whole foods vs junk. What's it gonna be? Wanna be happy? Can't be happy if you are not healthy, one of the more simple facts of life.

Nutrition is not as complicated as it's made out to be: a balanced diet of whole foods nutrition is infinitely more effective than supplements. Can we live on supplements? Nope, but we can live on whole foods. But supplements are mostly benign, hundreds of studies show that on the whole they have no real effect on health positive or negative.

Pharma drugs however are very destructive to health. How do we know this?  To repeat: we spend massively more on pharma than any other country in the world, and we have the worst health to show for it. And the dollar cost is extreme. If they worked better than good food perhaps the cost could be rationalized? But they don't work.

And yet we, on the whole, implicitly trust the health care industry. 

And when the ancillary industries are included, big "food", chemical (pesticides, herbicides, fungicides), insurance, and yes Wall St too, they all collect massive profits from the source of misery called pharmacology.

Bottom line? The aggregate murder for profit number is truly astonishing, and nearly unimageable.

And yet we, on the whole, implicitly trust the health care industry. 

How do these industries get away with it? It's a complex answer that includes an almost religious faith in technology, and new technologies. It is a collective unconscious bias of our age. Unconscious bias is also related to "magical thinking", which is endemic to human thinking since the search for the fountain of youth. We want the magic pill that solves all problems.

That pill does not exist, and yet it is an easy sell. 

There is an actual fountain of youth, but it only involves certain diet and lifestyle choices that cost nothing. So big pharma and it's ancillaries assiduously ignore it. In fact they actively work to divert us from the knowledge of it. They know all they have to do is keep us confused about nutrition to get away with murder.

The Tsunami of Data in excess all cause deaths

A former wall street wealth manager analyzed reports of sudden death and excess death using the raw data collected continuously by the insurance industry, funeral home industry, and government databases.

Excessive deaths among the heathier than average working-age cohort in Americans have increased in 2021 versus 2020 when vaccines were not available. Why?

Edward Dowd presents his conclusions in this podcast.

https://youtu.be/NCGO9kuYM0M

Vaccine RNA in breast milk, and iatrogenesis

Dr. John Campbell discusses the first study looking for evidence of vaccine RNA in breastfeeding women (link below).

Reading through the comments below Dr Campbell's presentation reinforces the notion we are living through one of the strangest episodes in modern history. 

We live on the one planet we are aware of that spontaneously generates biology, which if not the definition of miracle, nothing is. And yet here we are, the single animal expression of biology that invents technology, which has enriched our lives while systemically destroying the biological foundation we spring from and live upon.

We are collectively now aware of the predicament we have brought upon ourselves with technology...and what do we do as a result? Double down. Should we begin to approach the potential for biological destructivity with greater caution? Sooner than too late?

The myth we humans entertain which seems to be the most biologically destructive is that we will at some point in the not too distant (ever receding) future capture infinite intelligence through the agency of technology.

Meanwhile, in the the last few decades we have entered the age of iatrogenesis: 

"relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment".

Which seems to imply we, as a species, have yet to mature beyond adolescent like self-destructivity.

And we are growing evermore aware of iatrogenesis, as evidenced in the comments below Dr. Campbell's presentation, and even in research published within the purview of the same medical establishment cramming iatrogenesis down our throats, at the link below:

Iatrogenesis: A review on nature, extent, and distribution of healthcare hazards

And a quick "by the way" reminder, the third leading cause of premature death in the US is categorized as "medical mistakes". From a cause of health perspective relatively free of pharmacology iatrogenesis is easily the lead cause of premature death, a point we are on the whole still far from apprehending.

It all comes down to a mind-bendingly simple mistake: we have as yet failed to understand and implement the benefits of "cause of health" measures in our societies and individual lives. Instead we chase the huge profits generated by "health care", which delivers us into a paradox of vested interest in the destruction of health: big food that makes us sick, and big pharma that attempts to fix the effects of one toxin by putting another on top. How does that make even minimal sense?

 But we do know (don't we?) that health is our most fundamental resource for good lives and societies.

In order to break out of this box of our own making we will have to collectively understand and manage the self destructive potential of our intrinsic instincts of fear and greed, which is admittedly easier said than done. Is it a task beyond the range of human capacity?

Here is Dr. Campbell's review of the discovery of vaccine RNA in breastmilk. And do please also review the comments below the video.

https://youtu.be/1uF1oPyh8OY

Press Conference: Dr. Aseem Malhotra's New Peer-Reviewed Papers

Well it seems the shocking levels of corruption in so-called health care (highly profitable permanent disease management) may finally be crashing through the screens of willful blindness so many of us have been unknowingly wearing.

Here is esteemed cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra in a press conference discussing his recent papers in greater detail. This presentation is brilliantly done, and chock full of information we can all learn a lot from. Click the (blue) link directly below to skip straight to the beginning of the presentation:

https://youtu.be/ojPT9TWBikU?t=685

And here is a link to the World Council for Health (which hosted the press conference with Dr Malhotra) where you will find the same video presentation without ads, and also links to Dr. Malhotra's paper, as well as a host of additional related information.

https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/multimedia/aseem-malhotra-press-conference/

Jay Bhattacharya: The legal case against Anthony Fauci

This legal case is potentially of historic import because it addresses (to the best of my knowledge) the very first example in US history of a complete across the board censorship in our liberal democracy, which is founded firmly on the anti-authoritarian principle of free speech.

Do some still believe unilateral and damaging coercive censorship did not occur? I suppose if one has only paid attention to mass media and Facebook they may yet be unaware? I don't know.

In any case, whether you are currently aware of this issue or not, you will very likely find this conversation most interesting, and perhaps also of the utmost importance, as I do.

https://youtu.be/8z9mFeu59UA

Dr Doug Graham is a great health educator

Doug Graham knows more about the cause of health than anyone else I've come across, and not to brag, I have a fairly broad purview of the field. A very high capacity for logic, combined with 5 decades of experience with practices that actually do heal people with "incurable conditions", equals Doug Graham.

Perhaps the most amazing thing about him is he has been eating 100% raw foods for decades, and he's probably the healthiest 70 year old you will ever meet.

How is that even possible in today's world?

Here's an example of what it's like to be at one of his retreats.

https://youtu.be/Y4a7fftc4dM