I have been following the Video Rebel since the inception of the blog. They do some very good work, altho they also fell for the ‘Ron Paul for God’ meme floating around the blogosphere. I called him out on the Ron Paul Plan To Restore America, suggesting that Paul’s stump rhetoric does not match his written plan. Maybe he doesn’t like the word PaulTard. I dunno.
Like most all the other “alternative” sites, this went over like a lead balloon (it amazes me how emotionally invested these people get in their favorite candidate of the two parties). No matter how much people like Video Rebel and others suggest Paul is “Independent”, Paul’s own words betray such a trust and makes these people look like lemmings unable to think thru another two-party dog and pony mindmuck.
Nevertheless, VR has written two blog posts recently that grabbed my attention. I try to comment, but he has banned me from his blog (ole B’Man must be really scary, a total dickhead, or I say shit that goes against their ideology, causing these stalwart defenders of liberty and freedom to squash any liberty or freedom for me to share with them). That is very telling. In the two posts, VR has a solution for the financial woes and in my estimation, they look as if they could work (nothing being done now is correcting any of the problems) and so I commend him for his ideas and presentation.
For instance, an interest free money… taking the trillions stolen by bankers back… debt cancellation… abolish income taxes…. etc (many very good ideas)…
However, like most Socialist Hunters (kinda like a Vampire Hunter), VR takes the same tact that my TN Senator takes and that is to continue the Health Insurance Companies’ stranglehold over healthcare. They think they offer a solution (well, I am giving VR the benefit of the doubt, cause Alexander doesn’t give a shit about anything except protecting the health insurance companies). In Alexander’s latest Newsletter he says:
The Supreme Court may have failed to declare the entire health-care law unconstitutional, but it is still an historic mistake that expanded a health-care system we already knew we couldn’t afford. Congress should repeal the law and then proceed step by step to reduce the cost of health care so more Americans can afford to buy insurance.
Health Insurance does not equal Health Care. No matter how twisted the thought is in the minds of all these people, health insurance is NOT health care. To continue to allow these entities to siphon off their 35% off the top and add ZERO value to do it, is stupid. But its not that they just don’t add value, they detract from the overall care. It shows that some people (like VR) are not thinking this through. But then again, look at the comment policy I have here compared to how many people treat me over the Paul issue on their blogs. There is openness and then there is a close-mindedness among many of these people, especially when it comes to their favorite Demublican politician.
His failure is that he doesn’t identify WHY prices are so high and wants to allow the very entities that cause it to still dictate pricing and acceptance/denial. Just like his using someone from within the two corrupt parties as a lamppost to guide us out of our woes, VR also wants to use the very same criminally corrupt insurance agencies to continue their scheme.
You can read Part1 and Part 2 of Video Rebel’s essay at the links below:
Eddie Reborn Into A World With Debt Cancellation
What Real Debt Cancellation Combined With Pension And Health Care Reform Looks Like Part II
Working John, Working Joe
When I was a young man (as all good tales begin)
I was taught to hold out my hand
And for my pay I worked an honest day
And took what pittance I could win
Now I’m a working John and I’m a working Joe
And I’m doing what I know
For God and the Economy
Big brother watches over me
And the state protects and feeds me
And my conscience never leaves me
And I’m loyal to the unions
Who protect me at all levelsAnd as I grew, the winds of fortune blew
And the bank smiled down upon me
And mortgaged to the hilt I threw
The breeze of caution behind me
Now I’m a working John and I’m a working Joe
And I’m good at what I know
And God and the Economy
Have blessed me with equality
Now I’m equal to the best of you
And better than the rest of you
Who would criticise my success
In times of national unrestNow I own my horseless carriage
In it’s central-heated garage
And I commute eighty miles a day —
Up at seven to make it pay
I direct ten limited companies
With seeming consummate expertise
Two ulcers and a heart disease
A trembling feeling in both knees —
I’m a working John and I’m a working Joe
BTW, VR, I won’t ban you from commenting here. You see, here, I am looking for dialogue (and not necessarily someone to agree).
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While I’m not quite as harsh on Paul as you are it does amaze how devoted his followers are. They cannot admit that maybe, just maybe, some of his ideas are wrong. Even extremely fucking wrong. I love when Paul speaks about civil liberty issues and most foreign policy issues(hes too timid on Israel and obviously 9/11 truth). But there is no denying that most of his domestic views are either flimsy or just plain wrong. As you point out though, saying so in the company of a major Paul backer can sometimes provoke a pretty harsh response. Usually devoid of facts but heavy on emotion. His son is just a piece of shit.
Posted by Chris | July 12, 2012, 8:24 amPaul talks a good game. However, he had his plan published for us all to evaluate and critique (and hopefully discuss).
I covered my bitches in the following posts:
https://buelahman.wordpress.com/?s=Paulsterity
(listed newest to oldest)
And, I agree, Rand Paul is a piece of shit who obviously didn’t fall far from the asshole that bore him.
Posted by BuelahMan | July 12, 2012, 8:35 amI read it at the time(I’m a bit of a lurker) and sent it to a couple of people I know who love Ron Paul. Very interesting stuff. You’ll get no arguments from me on the negative fallout that would come from Ron Pauls domestic decisions were he ever to become President.
Posted by Chris | July 12, 2012, 8:39 amAnd yes, “socialist” Obama wouldn’t even allow a public option on the table despite polls showing over 50% support for one. Some “socialist”…
Posted by Chris | July 12, 2012, 8:25 amIts worse than that. As I have shown over and over again, Obama is a “Damned Liar”, especially related to Single Payer:
https://buelahman.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/obama-on-single-payer-healthcare-program/
Posted by BuelahMan | July 12, 2012, 8:32 amCant beleive ya have to prove Obamy being a lier to others…cant they see for themselfs?? I have never heard him tell the truth or keep a promise….I think his head would explode if he did…. I guess when they all lie it becomes the norm….
Just remember when he demands you bow to him…turn around and pull your pants down first..God gave us a middle finger just for this jerkoff!!!
Posted by ARF | July 12, 2012, 11:30 pmThere was a single-payer option introduced by I think Dingell of Michigan, and it was only about 20 pages long, as opposed to the lobbyist written 2,000 +page long POS health care bill that was shoved down our throats.
It never got out of committee, the Speaker, Pelosi saw to that.
That’s the same Pelosi who claimed to not really know what was in the bill that got passed, but we should go ahead and get behind it, we’ll like it!!!!
Fascism 101.
Posted by Greg Bacon | July 12, 2012, 2:36 pmPelosi is a piece of crap but I put most of the blame on Obama, who from the very start took the public option off of the table(in spite of the poll numbers). He wouldn’t even allow anyone who was in favor of it a seat at the table. Pelosi was just following orders like a good little fascist.
Posted by Chris | July 12, 2012, 7:37 pmI agree with your critique of Video Rebel (who I generally find quite instructive, even when I don’t necessarily agree with him/her/them, which is somewhat rare). Video rebel was clearly off the mark on a healthcare solution- although they do have a fairly intelligent view of alternative medicine which they have evidenced on their site (vitamin D3 as anticancer for colds/flu, etc.), but they did miss the mark on the health insurance canard.
Most insurance companies are financial scams/ponzi schemes, the healthcare insurance companies being no exception and often the worst abusers. They are perfect for the present sickcare paradigm- because they represent a chokehold on therapies and can move the sick population into their expensive, often ill-conceived monopolistic therapies. It should be no surprise that the Rockefellers (AMA, American Cancer Society, hug pharmaceutical holdings and JPMorgan Chase) would also be shown to be heavily invested in the healthcare companies (as are the Rothschilds). This group has long known the secrets of chokehold monopolistic economic points and skimming percentages off of business transactions in a host of areas (hydrocarbon monopolies, banking- Federal Reseve, global warming-carbon tax, etc.). It is no different here. This is their MO. A good review of the chokehold economics in healthcare and of rampant fraud in cancer therapy is G. Edward Griffin’s book “A World Without Cancer” which exposes the tremendous suppression of rational, effective, lowcost anticancer therapies which have been withheld from the market by the same groups that are pushing Obamacare and the use of corrupt practitioners, medical associations and the media to destroy patient access to effective, lowcost therapies.
http://tinyurl.com/77k2g76
Now act surprised.
If one were to provide a decent healthcare system- one might try opensource, competition and relying on insurance companies when desired (volitional) perhaps for catastrophic medical bills, medical savings plans when desired and while I do not believe that anyone should be forced into Obamacare principally because that system enforces a corrupt, fraudulent, sickcare/soft eugenics paradigm which is ineffective or even downright fraudulent (especially in overvaccination and anti-cancer therapy) with no real alternative, one must recognize the need for “state” healthcare when a person can’t afford treatment by any other means.
The answer comes from opensource as most solutions often do. We must kill the anticompetitive chokeholds that exist in the system for it to become much more cost effectifve. Competition for insurance companies across all state lines, medical savings plans fully deductible, incentives for wellness, alternative medicine (which is often as or even more effective than the allopathic paradignm for a fraction of the cost- depending on condition and disease state). State clinics for those who need to go to such clinics because of affordability issues.
That would be a good start.
Posted by Botham | July 12, 2012, 9:02 amExcellently written.
I want to exceed “decent” when providing healthcare for all Americans. I want to live up to the lie that we are Number 1 (or, alternately, “The Greatest”, as many Pols tell us). Since we rank around 35 or lower, it is a long way to reality of being first. First is a single payer style system (along with almost all the top 20 or so).
If they would actually conduct training that is healthcare related, as opposed to “sick-care” related, enforcing the rule of chemicals, medicines and non-healing quackery above nutrition and preventative care… have an FDA (or whatever) that actually looked after the citizen, instead of the corporation’s interests and implemented the immediate cost savings that the #1 – #20 or so top countries use, we would see an almost immediate and positive change in health, longevity, quality of life and money savings.
Posted by BuelahMan | July 12, 2012, 9:31 amIn following up by reading the linked NaturalNews article, I found this interesting writeup of Laetril:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdalin
Posted by BuelahMan | July 12, 2012, 12:03 pmTrue, but that is Wikipedia. Be careful with anything that is an important issue to the mainstream that needs to maintain a narrative (i.e., chemotherapy is the best approach to treat cancer). Wiki plays traditional narrative, not truth. Wikipedia is a psyop, although some information is reliable (when not posited in opposition to an “approved” fictional historical narrative which summarily gets deleted).
With respect to laetrile, G. Edward Griffin (an intrepid researcher who also did a great expose of the Federal Reserve in “The Creature Jekyll Island”) lays out the controversy and suppression of information involving laetrile (amygdalin or vitamin B17). Griffin points out that John D. Rockefeller founded the American Cancer society (as well as the AMA), which was very hostile to natural cancer therapies and those Rockefeller based institutions suppressed numerous non-allopathic cancer treatments of Hoxsey, Gerson, Caisse, Simpson (run from the cure through the various anti-marijuana drug laws) and Krebs, Jr. (vitamin B17) A good video to watch in this regard is Cancer, the Forbidden Cures:
In the case of laetrile, laetrile was tested at Sloane Kettering in the 1970s by an outsanding (world renowned) cancer pharmacologist by the name of Kanematsu Siguira. Despite all attempts to quash the outsanding activity that laetrile exhibited in cell based and in vivo cancer assays (high activity, extremely low toxicity) conducted by Sigiura, Sloane Kettering (which had at that time 3 Rockefellers sitting on their Board of Directors) did everything to malign and suppress the value of amygdalin in the mainstream press. Notwithstanding the incredible pressure placed on Sigiura (and others at Sloane Kettering who believed that laetrile was an excellent anticancer agent and tried to release that information through the press), Sigiura held fast to his position.
http://www.ralphmoss.com/sugiura.html
Griffin does a much more extensive investigation of Sigiura and the controversy/suppression of the laetrile/amygdalin results which occurred at Sloane Kettering.
I personally believe that amygdalin, as part of a general nutritional approach to cancer (which may also rely on the cannabinoids, which exhibit significant activity based upon four mechanisms of anticancer activity) is a useful nutritional agent for assisting in reducing/preventing cancer (as does reducing/.eliminating animal protein levels in order to increase pancreatin levels, bromelain, curcumin, reservetrol, vitamin D3, selenium, etc.).
Try these foods for high amygdalin (also generically referred to as nitrilosides):
http://www.vitaminb17.org/foods.htm
Further, given the recent findings regarding the integrity of research in the cancer area:
http://tinyurl.com/6v4erjl
One has to be careful what scientific research one relies on in this area.
Posted by Botham | July 12, 2012, 1:21 pmThanks, again, Botham. Unfortunately, there is a max number of links one can add to a comment before WordPress spams the comment. I just saw it and ok’d it manually.
Great info!
Of course I am aware of wikipedia being a psyop, but found the info curious, in relation to Griffin.
Posted by BuelahMan | July 12, 2012, 7:57 pmVR throws a lot of things out there. Food for thought but open for tweaking.
What do you think of single payer, a sort of medicare for all? I don’t know but I’ve seen reports that medicare overhead is 3%. I would add to that overhead by hiring a number of honest people, if that’s possible, as watchdogs to prevent fraud. I think the system needs to be run as a non-profit with the squeeze put on the criminal aspects of big pharma, FDA, CDC etc. and with alternative methods allowed (marijuana therapies for example among others including an emphasis on prevention). I have no problem with doctors, nurses and other health care workers making very good money as long as they are honest and know who they work for…the people.
Posted by kenny | July 12, 2012, 9:11 amHey Man,
I am all in for Single Payer. All the reasons have been pointed out (you just named a few of them). Botham lays it out very well up above.
Health Insurance Companies are leeches. They offer nothing of value to the scenario, but negatively impact every facet (including the catalyst for my bankruptcy a few years ago, when the first phase of the crash hit). I spent over $30K out of pocket, two years running and another $20K+ out of pocket a couple of years beforehand. As a small business owner (at the time), health insurance was my largest cost. As a private citizen, health insurance was my biggest cost (it is the biggest expenditure we have right now, as a matter of fact).
Non-profit is the only way to go (and before the knee-jerks chime in, “non-profit” doesn’t mean people can’t make good money, as Kenny points out). It is that stinking 35% leech off the top with no value that causes the excessive costs and poor healthcare to begin with.
Video rebel points out several interesting points about health, reconfiguring the FDA, making use of holistic medicine (including the cannabis issue), and others, but misses this. I don’t get it, but he won’t discuss this (or anything) with me. So….
Posted by BuelahMan | July 12, 2012, 9:20 amHere is a decent primer video for an upcoming film explaining the FDA corruption and how they have been hijacked by different corporations:
Posted by BuelahMan | July 12, 2012, 11:27 am