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Why the Institutions of Western Finance and Western Medicine are Both Doomed to Fail
by Mike Adams (see all articles by this author)
(NaturalNews) Here at NaturalNews, we’ve been publicly predicting the fall of Western Medicine for nearly five years. During that time, we’ve also covered the increasingly precarious financial situation, warning readers in 2005 and 2006 about the impending housing bubble crash and the implications for the entire financial system.
In covering these two topics (western medicine and western finance), I’ve come to recognize many strong parallels between the two. This article explores the common threads of deception that characterize these two powerful institutions.
#1 They’re both based on fraud and deception
Both Western Finance and Western Medicine are fundamentally based on fraud. The fraud of Western Finance is that you can create money from nothing and everybody can get rich by selling each other fictitious financial instruments that have no connection to reality. The fraud of Western Medicine is that everybody can get healthy by taking fictitious patented chemicals (pharmaceuticals) rather than addressing fundamental issues of nutrition, exercise and exposure to consumer chemicals.
Western Finance’s fraud is committed by high-brow academics who contrive complicated derivative financial instruments that are then presented to the investment community as things of real value (which they are not). Western Medicine’s fraud is committed by high-ego medical researchers who selectively massage clinical trial data to create fictitious “scientific” results that are then presented to the FDA as fact. The FDA then “approves” such drugs which are sold to the public as medicines that treat “disease” (which are also fictitious, by the way; being voted into existence by a panel of experts who benefit from such disease definitions).
Both the financial instruments and FDA-approved medications are fraudulent to begin with, and they offer nothing of real, lasting value to anyone. They’re both sold simply for momentary profits, without any regard for the health or the wealth of the People.
#2 When problems arise, they both treat symptoms rather than solving the causes
The $700 billion financial bailout created in Washington is a classic example of Western Medicine’s “treat the symptoms” mentality. Rather than address the root cause of the problem (the Fed’s control over the money supply and the very structure of fractional-reserve banking), politicians seem satisfied to rig up a series of financial bandages that allow them to pretend the problem has been solved.
In Western Medicine, this “treat the symptoms” approach is the de facto treatment philosophy taught in medical school: Ignore the real cause, don’t bother educating patients about diet or exercise, and simply prescribe pharmaceuticals to mask the problem for as long as possible.
In both cases, the patient inevitably gets sicker: The financial situation festers and grows like an unchecked cancer tumor, and while stop-gap measures can create the illusion of a healthy patient, these actions inevitably contribute to far greater crisis down the road, where the patient eventually crashes and dies.
The financial sickness now infecting banks, lenders and insurance companies across the globe is an unchecked pandemic of infectious debt. But rather than addressing the cause of the infections, the financial industry seems satisfied to refinance the disease carriers so they can rise up, coughing and sputtering as they pass along the disease to anyone within breathing distance.
#3 They both enrich powerful corporations while impoverishing the People
The key agenda of both the financial and health industries is to enrich wealthy corporations at the expense of the public. In Western Finance, this is being done by privatizing the financial gains while socializing the financial losses. In other words, all the profits go to the wealthy elite while all the losses are passed along to taxpayers (this is the fundamental point of the $700 billion bailout, of course).
In Western Medicine, virtually every regulatory policy in effect today is constructed to enrich corporations. The FDA’s censorship of true health claims on nutritional supplements, the FTC’s crackdown on anti-cancer herbal remedies, the DEA’s raids on medical marijuana… these campaigns are all conducted solely to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical companies at the expense of public health.
Think about it: Monopoly pricing on pharmaceuticals sold in the USA is enforced by the FDA and FTC. Approvals of drugs based on outright fraudulent science is openly granted by the FDA. Raids against vitamin companies, supplement companies and natural product retailers are organized and conducted by both the FTC and FDA, two regulatory bodies that engage in outright extortion, threatening natural health companies with bankruptcy and criminal charges if they don’t pay outrageous fines based on fabricated accusations of things like “linking to a scientific journal from your website” (which is now a crime in the U.S. if you sell nutritional products).
These are all the actions of governmental tyrants who act solely as Big Business street thugs, wiping out the competition to protect the profits of their (mob) bosses.
#4 They’re both based on arrogance and the worship of money
Arrogance runs high in Western Medicine, where clever men at the top of the pharmaceutical companies think they’ve outsmarted mother nature by brainwashing consumers into thinking the human body is born with deficiencies of patented synthetic chemicals. This same arrogance is woven directly into the fabric of Wall Street, where greed-based financial players convince themselves they’re so brilliant that the mere idea of how to make money is now recorded as a bankable asset on the balance sheets (that’s the Enron style of accounting, which has now infected all of Wall Street).
The arrogance in both these industries is astounding. Neither Western Finance nor Western Medicine believes there is such a thing as a reality that shall ever hold them accountable. They don’t believe in gold, or real food, or cause and effect. Things are things because they say they are, and nothing is subject to economic reality, scientific scrutiny or real-world common sense.
These two industries have been living in the Twilight Zone for so long, they’ve completely lost touch with reality. In fact, they no longer have any familiarity with reality. Doctors, for example, have no knowledge of nutrition or superfoods. They are nutritionally illiterate the day they graduate from medical school. Similarly, bankers are almost universally ignorant of the basic laws of economics. Few understand how fractional-reserve banking really works, nor do they grasp the correlations between increases in the money supply and inflation.
Bankers and doctors, it could be accurately stated, have almost no knowledge about the very things over which they have been granted authority.
(For the record, yes I know there are many exceptions to this. Lots of well-educated bankers and doctors break out of the box of ignorance by learning, on their own, those things not taught to them in the land of academia.)
#5 They both seek instant profits at the expense of future generations
Western financial institutions are famous for their focus on the next fiscal quarter. If it doesn’t create a profit in the next 90 days, it’s not considered a worthwhile investment. This “instant profit” mentality inevitably leads to an abandonment of virtues like saving money or honoring future generations. Instead of leaving our children with equity, the United States of America (and its financial co-conspirators) have burdened future generations with an impossible debt burden.
Pharmaceutical companies think much the same way. Rather than uplifting the health of the nation with sound prenatal nutrition policies (and infant health programs based on disease prevention), it seeks to vaccinate and medicate every living being with a never-ending parade of high-profit pharmaceuticals… from birth to death. There is no attention paid to the environmental effects of flushing all those drugs down the drain (pharmaceuticals are now found in the drinking water of over 50 American cities), nor is there any attempt to actually prevent cancer (or other diseases) in any way whatsoever.
Instead, Western Medicine prefers to wait until people get sick so it can cash in on their disease. Similarly, Western Finance prefers to hide its problems, expanding its debt base until it gets too big to fail, at which point someone has to come along and bail it out.
Neither industry operates with any degree of accountability.
#6 Both are run by unindicted criminals
If I break into your house and steal your wallet, I would be considered a criminal. But when Congress breaks into your finances and steals your life savings, they consider themselves to be heroes!
Make no mistake: Both the Western Finance and Western Medical industries are run by unindicted criminals who steal, lie, and deceive their way to the greatest profits possible. Drug companies routinely bury studies they don’t want you to see, and FDA leaders routinely stack their decision boards with “experts” who maintain direct financial ties to the companies selling the pharmaceuticals they’re voting to approve.
Meanwhile, top bankers are shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars in favors to Washington politicians in order to avoid any reduction in their multi-million dollar salaries, even while the financial institutions they led are about to be bailed out by taxpayer money. What all this has in common is that the top CEOs, politicians and regulatory decision makers are unindicted criminals who are guilty of various crimes against the People: Theft, conspiracy, racketeering and much more.
If these people were held up to the same laws applied to you and me, they’d all be arrested and spend their lives in prison (or worse).
#7 Both are doomed to collapse
The final parallel between Western Finance and Western Medicine? They’re both doomed to collapse.
That very idea was considered absolutely loony just 30 days ago. But I’ve stuck to this prediction for five years: Western medicine is doomed to collapse. And now, all of a sudden, more people are waking up and seeing their fictional world crumbling around them. The near-collapse of the global financial system, it seems, has rudely awakened a few people who were sleepwalking through life, intoxicated by visions of free riches, free pharmaceuticals and life in the land of zero accountability.
Reality, though, is a stubborn thing. You can daydream all you want, but the laws of economics cannot be violated any more so than the laws of human physiology. When there’s a poison in the system (biologically or financially speaking), something must be done to eliminate the poison and bolster the health of the patient. Sadly, Washington remains in the business of denying the problem, which makes it all the more difficult to try to solve it.
Interestingly, the collapse of Western Finance is inevitably linked to the collapse of Western Medicine. How so? Because Big Pharma is almost entirely dependent on the government to protect and feed itself. Without Big Government creating an artificial monopoly market where competing natural products are censored or outlawed, Big Pharma could not compete!
Nobody would buy arthritis drugs if they knew cherry extracts or potent fish oils could solve the problem more safely and affordably. No one would buy high-profit cholesterol drugs if they learned the truth about red yeast rice, aged garlic or policosanol.
Big Pharma is entirely dependent on the government to prop up its business, and when the U.S. government goes operationally bankrupt (which is coming), Big Pharma may suddenly find itself competing in a free marketplace where it no longer has the tools of oppression, censorship and tyranny to bludgeon the competition into irrelevancy. When Big Government goes, Big Pharma will follow, and the collapse of Western Finance is thus a precursor to the collapse of Western Medicine.
Both institutions, of course, will attempt to claw their way back to power, even as they are crumbling. They won’t go without a fight, and they may be able to put in place clever tactics that delay their demise by years. But in the end, no nation has a future when its finance — and its medicine — are based on fraud.
Think about that. It’s a powerful realization. The U.S. simply cannot continue the way it’s running today. With 50% of the population on pharmaceuticals, and children being drugged with Speed (ADHD drugs), and mandatory vaccines poisoning (and killing) young girls, there is no future unless something changes.
With junk foods and energy drinks intoxicating our youth, and dangerous chemicals running rampant through the personal care product industry, and foods being irradiated to destroy their nutritional content, there is no future.
With banks stealing money from the working taxpayers, and $10 trillion national debt knocking on our door, and the government taking ownership of more than 50% of the national economy, there is no future!
The real world will be a shock to many
The end of these systems is now in sight. They are crumbling under their own arrogance and stupidity, revealing a society based on self-righteous deception and global scandal. Everything we thought was real turns out to be fabricated: The money, the medicine, the economy, the law… it’s all being revealed for what it is: A Matrix of enslavement, designed to keep the People believing they live in a free society, even as their health and wealth are stolen from them by the sinister few who wield political power.
Western Finance will fall, and Western Medicine will soon end its reign of terror over the people. We will live to see the end of the FDA as we know it; the end of the AMA, the cancer industry and the dominance of the drug companies. We may lose our savings and we may even lose our nation, but we will not lose the one thing that matters most in this cold, dark universe: Our sense of connection with life, nature and each other.
Because when all the fictions fall apart, and the facade of the American Empire crumbles like the twin towers on 9/11, when it’s all said and done, we still have one thing we can count on: Mother Nature.
Nature will still be there. The trees, the gardens, the herbs… these things are real. The water, the oceans, the honeybees… these are the things that bring us real wealth.
Wealth is not a collection of digits in a computer. It isn’t a promise printed on green paper money. Real wealth is a garden that feeds you, a river that hydrates you, and a system of medicine that nourishes and supports you. Real wealth is a day with sunshine, a night under the stars and a life lived with purpose.
Real wealth is not fleeting, nor subject to cascading collapse. It is as real as the morning dew on a cabbage plant, or the sweet taste of fresh blueberry juice, or the buzz of ten thousand honeybees pollinating an orchard.
These are the things Western society has forgotten, and in that forgetfulness, it has suffered a dangerous, multi-generational amnesia … a disease of delusion, if you will, that is about to collide head-on with reality.
The awakening will be rude. Some will embrace reality and thrive in the Next Society. Others will deny reality and suffer.
As we watch all of this unfold, I invite you to join me in the real world; to eat real food, to experience real (natural) medicine and to make real, lasting contributions to the future of life on Earth. As fictional constructs fall to the ground around us, we are all being granted front-row seats to one of the most amazing transformations in the history of life on Earth: We are about to watch one civilization end, and another civilization emerge from the ruin.
We are, indeed, watching history unfold before our eyes. And you know what? We are all fortunate enough to participate in it! Don’t miss this. Stay confident. Help those you can, and prepare yourself for the transition. The next few years are going to be the most interesting we’ll see in our lifetimes.
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http://www.naturalnews.com/MindfulWealt…Technical comments: While the outcome of Western Finance and Western Medicine are not in doubt, the timing of their demise is uncertain. The financial system could break and collapse in weeks, or it could possibly limp along in a severe recession for decades (a la Japan, circa 1989), depending on the actions of foreign central banks and the Federal Reserve.
Western Medicine will likely take many years to unravel and be replaced by a new system based on reality. But a collapse of the U.S. government would accelerate that shift by taking the FDA out of the equation. Without the FDA to enforce Big Pharma’s monopolistic, racketeering practices, natural products would quickly take over the free market and Big Pharma would quickly shrink. Remember this: FDA employees are only one paycheck away from complete disloyalty. The entire U.S. government is held together by a long supply line of fragile paychecks. The whole system could unravel in less than 30 days if foreign nations stop buying U.S. debt.
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ouch. the article made me cringe actually. while i realize that there are problems with the medical profession and pharmaceutical companies, i wouldn’t go as far as the conclusions raised in this article.
i do believe that the quality of a person’s health is heavily influenced by that person’s habits in relation to exercise, nutrition, sleep, stress, and other causes, but i wouldn’t discount the ability of medical science to contribute to a higher standard of living.
while exercise is of course important, i also feel that drugs which ease the pain of arthritis are helpful. while nutrition is of course important, i also feel that a multivitamin each day doesn’t hurt, and is helpful in the event that complete nutrition isn’t achieved via that day’s menu.
where clinical trial data has been massaged, the response should be criminal or administrative liability, as well as more oversight, and not fewer clinical trials.
if the true benefits of nutritional supplements and other natural remedies have been censored by the FDA, the response should be an investigation into how the FDA operates, and more research into these natural methods, and not a wholesale acceptance of the claims made in relation to these natural methods.
where fraudulent science has been used in drug approvals, the response should be more and better science.
where regulatory bodies have been oppressive in relation to natural product companies, the response should be investigation of these agencies so that the relevant parties can be punished, so that such oppression may not be repeated.
to assert that doctors have no knowledge of nutrition or super foods is perhaps a little strong, and empirically indefensible. they may not know everything there is to know, but i am fairly certain that some of them know a thing or two about nutrition.
if the concern is that doctors do not share what they know, then efforts should be undertaken to encourage doctors to do so. better to enlist them as allies in aid of health (which they are already, i believe), as opposed to considering them foes, and letting it go at that.
while the academia may not necessarily teach doctors everything there is to know about subjects like nutrition, i do not believe that it teaches them nothing about it, or nothing relevant to it.
while prenatal nutrition and infant health based programs are of course important, so too i believe are vaccines and medication. a vaccine brought an end to the scourge that was polio, something all children and parents are probably thankful for today.
all steps should indeed be taken to prevent cancer, and again i believe that in this regard, natural and modern methods can work together, as opposed to having to choose one over the other.
at the same time, however, when cancer does strike a particular person, western medicine allows for diagnosis (the earlier the better), as well as at times, alternatives for attempting to send the cancer into remission, so in this sense western medicine continues to play a significant part in the fight against cancer.
where there are criminals in high places in western medicine, the response should be their removal, and not a turning away from western medicine.
i’m a big fan of competition. so i believe that where government plays a part in stifling it, the government should be held to account.
i believe the proof is in the pudding. if cherry extracts are found to relieve arthritis better than drugs, in a safer manner and more affordably, then no amount of corporate or government censorship would be able to stifle the positive word of mouth or media coverage that would ensue, especially in this internet age where information can spread like wildfire.
if a vaccine is found to result in the poisoning and killing of young girls, the response should be an immediate investigation, recall of the vaccine, media coverage, and criminal liability for the company and government officials who allowed such a vaccine to enter the market.
the response should not be a disavowal of vaccines in general.
nature does, of course, play a huge part in our quest to live better, healthier lives, but nature alone may not suffice.
if i ever end up in a serious car accident, i will be thankful for anesthetics, modern equipment, and the knowledge accumulated in relation to surgery. if i ever have a heart attack, i will be thankful for these as well.
To Kouji:
The answer to the problems in western medicine lie in the recent revival of the 5,000-year-old tradition of Ayurveda, which uses methods to detect illness at an early stage and then rid the body of the causes, thus obviating the need for surgery, artificial pain relief, dangerous pharmaceuticals, and the masking of symptoms.
Actually, doctors are taught very little about nutrition, and the food pyramid they have manufactured is fraudulant. Every person is different, so each has different food needs.
Most of the populace doesn’t get its share of vitamins from food because they don’t eat properly. Since multivitamin supplements do not exist in nature (yet another Big Pharma?), Ayurved advises getting what we need from fresh organic food, not from canned or packaged food.
So many need to be prosecuted, but who will prosecute, and who should be prosecuted when the medical industries write the laws and influence lawmakers with pac money? Everyone is involved, and the money problem is too great to undo. Wrongdoers in Big Pharma, the FDA, fraudulent science, and a bribed Congress will never be prosecuted without a massive shift in consciousness of the nation. Criminal liability lies in the lap of all concerned in the medical industry and Congress. The bad doctors overprescribe, and the good doctors remain silent about those crimes. Prosecute? In a perfect world perhaps, but then pigs should fly. There aren’t enough lawyers in the world to take care of this astronomical problem.
Twenty states now face a medical liability crisis and say that $70 billion to $126 billion in health care costs could be saved annually by limiting “unreasonable” jury awards.
Of course the government should be held in account, but that won’t happen without a clean congress and that all begins with campaign finance reform — again, not something I am holding my breath for.
It’s not so much that there are criminals in high places. The entire approach of modern medicine is wrong. Masking symptoms is not a cure. Using “miracle drugs” that create side-effects is not a cure. More and better science won’t happen by itself so long as the huge profits are there.
Work together to cure cancer? So far, after several decades and billions spent on research on cancer drugs, we are no closer to a cure for cancer. It is a late-stage disease resulting from a lifetime of toxins and improper diet and lifestyle. Some choose good health, others choose trans fats. God takes care of it in the end. You have to go sometime, and the infirm don’t want to continue on and the world would become even more populated. The fortunate ones will be those who live a long, healthy life without infirmity because they have lived lives according to the laws of Nature.
Western medicine might allow for “early diagnosis” and techniques for remission, but this whole approach is just another band aid for those who are not educated in how to eat properly. Their diagnoses are not early enough.
Policing Big Pharma’s “poisoning and killing of young girls” with vaccines has so far come to nothing. After using us as guinea pigs, they fail, they are fined, they don’t pay the fines, and the feds forget it happened. Big Pharma and government are one. Until the voters wake up and vote everyone out, we’ll continue as we are. Mostly the American mind votes for someone who is a reflection of what they are, which means George W. Bush.
Vaccines are leftover from the age of Pasteur who incorrectly guided medicine into a battle against invading germs instead of using BeChamp’s philosophy of making the body more resistant to those invaders. This was the beginning of the end of natural medicine. We need educated parents who will create healthy children who have immune systems that keep them welll without vaccines and medication.
Nature alone may not suffice, but neither do synthetic practices and drugs. You are right to be thankful for emergency care, but that is the only field where doctors succeed.
In a world where patients hate doctors and doctors hate patients, the time has come to dissolve a 100-year disaster called western medicine.
Educating the public is the answer. When the public learns about ancient medicine, they will become healthy on their own with less need for doctors. Then we’ll see the whole system of western medicine go bankrupt.