This is TGM post #23 and installment #7 for the topic Political Health and Healing.
Introduction:
This post was born out of insights I learned from a banker friend who has Jewish heritage, and from an email I received from a politically active friend who professes to be Christian and “Republican”. His email contained a link to a YouTube video that portrays president Barack H. Obama as Muslim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY. But it seems clear to many that the U.S. President espouses either Islam or Christianity based on financial-political expediency, and that we are all being duped. For example, is it just a coincidence that Lee Rosenberg, who is Jewish, and served on the Obama’s national campaign finance committee, has recently taken over as the new president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) – “The Israel Lobby“? (link to video). Click here to read more about Mr. Rosenberg. The same article indicates that he “hails from Chicago, the home state of President Obama, and also is on first-name terms with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, President Obama’s senior adviser”. And: “It was not as if [Rosenberg] was plucked out of nowhere. He paid his dues.”
The related premises for this TGM post are that religion and politics may: 1) have their titular member impostors (for example, Obama and Bush), and that we are all somewhat deceived); 2) increasingly divide us and distract us from seeing the truth, regardless of one’s monotheistic image of God as Creator (or lack thereof); and 3) represent the dual “opiate of the masses” that blunt our perception from seeing “the root of evil” – the practice of usury-based commerce,fractional reserve banking, and the New Secular Order.
Look at Obama’s left hand. Who’s really in control? Follow The Money Trail to start finding out.
God as Creator vs. ‘Only Your Image of God is Right’:
All religious persons who believe in monotheism – including Christians, Jews and Muslims – have probably gazed into “the heavens” at night and proclaimed that the “only true God” is the One who created the Universe. And during the day, under the canvass of the blue sky, they likely think or give voice to ideas that indicate that only their belief system consists of the full truth to live by.
Such monotheist “believers” would likely judge me as being blasphemous for stating that maybe they are all largely wrong in their dogmatic adherence to their beliefs, and that perhaps “the only true God” may not fully condone their insistence that the interpretation of religious doctrine they adhere to is the only possible “truth”. Some of my own monotheistic religious friends and acquaintances have clearly judged me this way, even to the extent of saying I am now “damned” by God (”May God have mercy on you, Dr. Douglass” was a proclamation from a doctor friend in response to my concerns about “Zionism” and “dispensationalism“). And at the time of posting this material I’m even wondering if the pastor of a “dispensationalist” evangelical friend, whom I have known for over 45 years, has recommended that I be avoided, as a “lost one” – not unlike the spirit of rejection Muslims are instructed to apply to Christians, Jews and people who leave Islam.
Deep survey image of spiral and elliptical galaxies: Purest view of the works of God the Creator?
Usury as World’s Evil, “Devil’s Influence”:
Regardless of religion, we nearly all adhere to the belief that we can “follow the money trail to find the root of corruption and evil”. But most of us hone in on, and take aim at, a nebulous “greed” factor, or what we perceive as our religious or political opponents, and focus on them as the “evil”. But I’m increasingly convinced that “following the usury trail” – especially that monetary practice within the system of fractional reserve banking – is a more useful focus while trying to learn how to identify and refrain from a core evil.
It is usury “the lending of money at an interest rate” – that is the controlling monetary system of the world, to which we are all indebted and enslaved to some degree (even if we are individually, personally not in debt to banks). And the three predominant world religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam strictly forbid usury:
Exodus 22:25: “If you lend money to my people…you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not ask interest from them.”
Qur’an, Al-Baqarah, Sura 2:275: “Those who charge usury are in the same position as those controlled by the devil’s influence. This is because they claim that usury is the same as commerce. However, God permits commerce, and prohibits usury.”
A politically active friend (who would probably fit the description being ‘Independent’ politically, and I think religiously) reminded me that the original Lords Prayer – as evidenced in most versions of the Bible – contains the phrase, “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors“; and that for centuries that has been the concept Christians have repeated over and over throughout their lives. But interestingly, the Catholic version of the Bible replaces the word and concept of “debt” with that of of “trespass”. The same friend reminded me that the concept of Jubilee – to release people from their debts – has been expunged from western thought, and that a debt Jubillee was used too “keep certain groups and families from gaining intergenerational power at the expense of the nation and public good”.
If usury-based commerce truly is the key “devil’s influence”, then it becomes clear that a crucial way we can partially refrain from evil, individually and corporately, is to get out of debt. Ultimately to “come apart and be separate” from the usury system would require that we abstain from the use of any and all fiat (fake) currency and trade in real money – gold and silver, historically – or via the barter system. However, that very proposition leads to the realization that we are all enslaved to usury-based commerce by being forced to use of currency that is not backed by anything of limited supply and thus of standard, quantifiable value.
Jesus and the ‘Money Changers’ (Usurers)
New Secular Order (Novus Ordo Seclorum) – The Usury-based Global System:
Do usury-based financial and currency systems really control and enslave us? If yes, then is it really so difficult to accept the existence of a usury-based “New Secular Order“? It seems clear that the symbolism of that usury-based system of commerce even stares us in the face daily, from the very currency we are impelled to use.
Has the course of history already been set – and the future of human civilization largely decided – by the influence of commerce-based usury, the underlying force used by the most powerful men in the world? In fact, might we all be slaves already, to the “New Secular Order” without being aware of it?
New Secular Order is Based on Usury
One-World Currency = One-World Government:
This all bristles with even more questions when the introduction of a one-world currency is contemplated, especially if such a currency is based on commodities so as to resist inflation (see Terra, the “Trade Reference Currency, TRC). That would be a real currency (a “good thing”). But a key question remains: who would be in control of the new global currency? A one-world currency system would require a powerful one-world governmental system (for better or for worse).
One-World Currency = One-World Government
Blinded by Distraction:
Under a usury-based, fiat money-based system, is it possible for the predominant societal control of any country to really be based on Christian, Jewish or Muslim principles? Or might that religion-based ideal be a serious and dangerous distraction from understanding the “root evil” – usury-based commerce – and how that system is controlled?
Maybe we are so distracted and divided in the process of wrangling about religious beliefs and political partisan points of view, that we can hardly begin to see the “root” of the problem: usury. But if we do begin to perceive this “root”, then the mysteries of the likes of a New Secular Order quickly become too much for most brains to believe and consider. And the simple rationale becomes, “I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. It’s impossible”.
The Round Table: Do the members likely ‘conspire’?
Opiate of the Masses:
For a moment at least pretend the New Secular Order is real and that it is a system based on usury. And also at least pretend Karl Marx was partially correct (forgive my religio-political blasphemy?), that “religion is the opiate of the masses”. I say “partially” because given the global confusion and deception within the ranks of religion and politics, perhaps a more accurate adage is that, “religion and politics are the opiate of the masses”. And it is those two “opiates” that bind our ‘receptors’ from perceiving the root of the problem, usury; and from understanding that the power that financial system provides those in control of the New Secular Order is the power that allows them to control this Earth, and to attempt to move us toward a one-world currency and a one world government (for better or for worse).
Karl Marx. Are there actually two (2) “mass opiates”?
Post Script: Contemporary Potential Peek Into the New Secular Order:
Interestingly, as alluded to elsewhere on That’s Good Medicine, some believe that inside information (”Intel”) on The Israel Lobby, and the passage of Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed Bill (in it’s original form) would serve as important venues into the inner secrets of the New Secular Order, allowing us to “follow the usury trail”. But what’s the likelihood that bill will pass, really, given the current control of America’s politics, finance and media, and the mounting apathy, confusion, and dissension among people of all religions and political persuasions?
This is TGM post #21 and installment #6 for the topic Political Health and Healing.
Many emails I’ve received about the Health Care Bill – H.R. 3963 – contain a confusing array of warnings that I’ve found impossible to verify from searches of the actual Bill in pdf format, but some warnings pan out to be legitimate. In the paragraphs below I have inserted supporting screen shots from the Bill itself, since ’seeing is believing.’ Click here to download the actual Bill.
If you agree with any or all of what is posted below, please contact your U.S. ‘representatives’ to express your concerns.
What I’ve verified from the Bill so far:
1. National Card: You will be required to be in possession of a national, digital-based ‘health card’ or ’similar mechanism’ (if you want health care).
2. Re-admissions ‘De-incentivized’: You’ll be less likely to be re-admitted to the hospital, if you return to the ‘ER’.
3. Salary Control: Employers will be unable to decrease salaries in attempt to be able to pay for health care coverage for employees.
4. Slap On Another Tax: You’ll be taxed on your income – at an additional 2.5% – if the U.S. ‘health czar’ deems that you don’t have “acceptable health care coverage.”
The above four (4) proposals included in the Bill are just some of costs ‘we the people’ will endure if this promise by the U.S. government to “provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans, reduce the growth in health care spending, and… other purposes” goes into effect. As I continue to gain insights from readers and further study of the 1,190 pages of the Bill, I will update this post.
In the following four (sections) I will expound upon the evidence.
1. Health Card? Hey, Why Not Just ‘Verichip’ Me Instead?
Section 1173A proposes the utilization of a “machine-readable health electronic plan beneficiary identification card” (’health card’) that would “enable the real-time…determination” of your “financial responsibility at the point of service….”
Clearly, proof of citizenship will need to be on your card. But what information about your “financial” status (indicating your level of “responsibility”) will also be included?
The proposed ‘health card’ will stipulate whether or not you are eligible “for a specific service with a specific physician at a specific facility, on a specific date or range of dates.” Wow! All this sounds impressively specific.
And this Section (1173A) indicates as an alternative to the ‘health card’: “a similar mechanism.” Question: What might our ‘trusted public servants‘ in Washington have in mind for such a “similar mechanism“?
Well, why not entice us with an even ‘more convenient mechanism’ than a card, and something that is unlikely to be misplaced, like the Verichip, using “Health Link” technology “to link you and your health record”?
This section of the ‘Health Care’ Bill – regarding the ‘Health Card‘ – is draconian legislation and smacks of the totalitarian future described so well (and as a warning) by author George Orwell in the novel 1984.
Screen shot from the Bill – Section 1173A:
National Health Care Card is Orwellian
Why Not Implant My Information Instead of Requiring a Card?
Health Card is Ready for Implementation. So is Verichip
2. Bill Provides Incentive Not to Re-Admit: Less Pay to Hospitals for Re-Admitted Patients.
Even non-health care workers understand that re-admissions to the hospital are extremely common, necessary and important for Americans’ health. It is not wise for me as a doctor – carrying the responsibility of patients’ health in the Emergency Department – to have a financial incentive to NOT readmit you, your spouse, your child or your parent!
But Section 1151 allows the new U.S. ‘health Secretary (’czar’) to tell hospitals and doctors: ‘Don’t re-admit that patient, or we’ll reduce your pay.’
Quote: “The Secretary shall reduce…payments…to such hospitals.”
Screen shot from the Bill – Section 1151:
If you need to be re-admitted, do you want your hospital to be disincentived to do so?
3. Salary Cuts to Pay for Employees’ Health Care? Government Says You Cannot.
Section 1174 basically says, ‘You will provide your employees with health care coverage, but you cannot take it from their salaries.’
Quote: “Any contribution on behalf of an employee, with respect to which there is a corresponding reduction in the compensation of the employee, shall not be treated as an amount paid by the employer.”
Salaries are the #1 expense for most companies. Yet the government is demanding that you do not adjust salary rates in order to pay for health insurance. If you did reduce salaries to pay for health insurance, you, as employer, would need to make records appear as if the draw from other account categories was made for other reasons, in such a manner that would not ultimately reveal your business decision.
Of course, taking such a measure as that would be considered by the government to be criminal, especially after the proposed “strengthening of audit authority,” which is also included in the Bill. Advice: Keep quiet or one of your employees or colleagues may report you to Big Brother. This sure seems just like the draconian dynamics in George Orwell’s 1984.
Screen shot from the Bill – Section 1174:
Government to employers: You will pay for healthcare, but not by adjusting salaries.
4. You Have No Health Care Insurance? Your Income Tax Just Increased 2.5% – Unless You’re Amish?
You will be taxed 2.5% if the U.S. ‘health czar’ deems that you don’t have “acceptable” health care coverage.”
Quote: ‘‘In the case of any individual who does not meet the requirements…there is hereby imposed a tax equal to 2.5 percent of…the taxpayer’s…gross income….”
An important story from Fox news reported that the Amish are to be except from the mandate because admirably, they “take care of their own” and don’t carry commercial or governmental “insurance.” In fact, they’ve avoided the Medicare and ‘Social Security’ scams since the 60s after fighting to not have to pay taxes toward those two ‘programs’ for the same reasons.
From the Fox story: “[I]f the Amish can opt out, then some civil libertarians say they want out, too — not for religious reasons but because they don’t think the underlying health insurance mandate is legal.”
Are there any “civil libertarians” out there who think this mandate from the ‘givement’ is coercive and illegal?
One thing for sure: If ‘civil liberty’ doesn’t beat this thing, and this Section of the Bill passes, the IRS/U.S. Treasury/’Federal’ ‘Reserve’ will be able to effectively sniff out Americans ‘under the radar’ who aren’t paying their ‘fair share’ of income taxes (’Ah! Let’s gain control of ‘em when their most vulnerable: in need of health care, and without a ‘health card’!).
Screen shot from the Bill – Section 59B:
You have no government-mandated healthcare? Then IRS will enslave you an additional 2.5%
Action to Take: If you agree that any of the above Sections (#59B, 1151, 1173A, 1174) of H.R. 3963 – the “Health Care” Bill – are not “Good Medicine” for America please contact your U.S. ‘representatives’ in Washington D&C and express your concerns to them immediately, assuming they still actually hear you. Also ask them why you are subject to the Bill, but they are not.
This is TGM post #20 and installment #5 for the topic Political Health and Healing.
Disclaimer: None of us on TGM are ‘anti’ any religion or race. To point out what we think may be truth associated with a religion does not mean we are in any way ‘against or for‘ that religion.
Recommendation: Be sure to explore all the References (links below) before drawing any conclusions as to the verity of the information in this post.
A One-World Government/New World Order (NWO) – An Open Conspiracy: The NWO was once considered fodder for uneducated eccentrics, but the Internet – the ‘new media’ – has exposed and confirmed many of the plans and accomplishments for the NWO. I created this Triad to conceptualize and document NWO progress, and I think you will find the supporting references enlightening.
One World Triad:
Religion as the Third ‘Front’ to be ‘Mastered’: In the mythical sense, might Religion contain the most challenging obstacles for the New World Order ‘elite’ to complete the Triad – the ‘unfinished pyramid’? Given the progress already made on the Governance and Finance ‘fronts’ (see references below) it seems likely that significant inroads would have been made in the attempt to create a one-world Religion too.
Unfortunately – or fortunately, depending on your perspective – secretiveness is the the modus operandi of the Federal Reserve (Finance) and much of the U.S. Congress and Executive branch (Governance). Secretiveness characterizes some or all of the world’s religions too. Therefore, unless we are part of the NWO ‘elite’ there is no way to know alldetails of the NWO plans and accomplishments on the three ‘fronts.’ But as you will see from the references, significant progress has at least been made in global Governance and Finance. Progress on the Religion front remains largely a question.
Religion: Bane or Blessing to a NWO? Religion may be the ‘angle’ of the Triad that is the most likely to result in the death or success of the New World Order. What is of obvious concern is the fact that history and current geo-military-politics – some say especially in the Middle East due to the America-Israel alliance – demonstrate that the Religion ‘front’ has significant potential for annihilation of human civilization.
Action to Take. Regardless of your religious beliefs and geopolitical persuasion – and whether or not you believe that a NWO is in the world’s best interest (Caveat emptor) – consider this ‘Preventive Strategy’, since doing so might be ‘good medicine’ for mankind at this point in time: strictly adhere to the principles of the U.S. Constitution and the Campaign for Liberty. Links:
1. http://www.CampaignForLiberty.com
2. http://www.DailyPaul.com
This is TGM post #19 and installment #4 for the topic Political Health and Healing.
[Critical update (since initial post on January 12th, 2009): The Consumer Price Index (CPI) decreased 1.0 percent in December, 2008. Read below to understand why this may signal the onset of deflation and ultimately a depression. It may be likely that the 'media masters' controlling our mainstream media will brush over or censor the bad financial news, as the U.K. is apparently starting to do. Regardless, President Obama's inauguration has certainly eclipsed it.
Introduction: We seem to hear a lot about 'inflation' on the mainstream media, but little about 'deflation': inflation's ugly opposite, and the potential player in America's economic collapse ('depression'). Please consider first reading 'Deflation 101' below, if you are not familiar with the concept of deflation (the vicious cycle by which the prices of our goods and services can drop to catastrophic levels, deflate). N.b.: All emphases ours.
Ben Bernanke's Insights from the 2002 Report [Important: these thoughts of his were communicated to us seven (7) years ago]:
1. “I believe that the chance of significant deflation in the United States in the foreseeable future is extremely small…[because of]…the resilience and structural stability of the U.S. economy itself.” “A particularly important protective factor in the current environment is the strength of our financial system: …our banking system remains healthy and well-regulated….”
2. “Of course, we must take care lest confidence become over-confidence…. I would be imprudent to rule out the possibility [of deflation] altogether.”
3. “The…bulwark against deflation in the United States…is the Federal Reserve System itself. I am confident that the Fed…has…sufficient policy instruments to ensure that any deflation that might occur would be both mild and brief.” Note: We Americans have been lead to believe that the secretive Federal Reserve ‘policy instruments‘ are sane and in our best interest, and yet less than two months ago Congress clearly indicated that our money is manipulated secretively by the Federal Reserve and that “Secrecy of the monetary policy process…promotes increased financial market uncertainty [and] unnecessary volatility….”
4. The Federal Reserve’s primary ’policy instrument‘ is the way it increases and decreases the interest rates on the money it lends to its banks. And this from Mr. Bernanke is extremely important: “Deflation may result if…the [interest rate for banks] declines to zero or very close to zero,” a rate (a lack thereof) which the Federal Reserve has now achieved.
5. Once the…interest rate is at zero, no further downward adjustment in the rate can occur…. At this point, the nominal interest rate is said to have hit the “zero bound.”
6. ‘Zero Bound’ is when the Federal Reserve can no longer manipulate the money supply by lowering interest rates to stimulate us to buy, as is their ‘policy‘. Said another way, per Fed chairman Bernanke: When the Federal Reserves “policy rate falls to zero -- its practical minimum -- monetary policy loses its ability to further stimulate aggregate demand and the economy.”
7. America is now ’zero bound,’ and 7 years ago Bernanke wrote, “Suppose that, despite all precautions, deflationwere to take hold in the U.S. economy and, moreover, that we were to fall to zero.What then?”
8. “Some…have concluded that when that [interest] rate stands at or near zero [ is 'zero bound'] the [Federal Reserve] has ‘run out of ammunition’ -- that is, it no longer has the power to expand aggregate demand and hence economic activity.” “Hence…the situation is one to be avoided if possible.”
9. Now that ‘zero bound‘ has been reached -- where interest rates have been lowered to $0.0% -- the Federal Reserve “can no longer use its traditional means of stimulating…demand [by lowering interest rates] and thus will be operating in less familiar territory.” N.b.: Isn’t this an admission that the ‘traditional means’ -- the ‘policy instruments’ -- used by the Federal Reserve ’system’ are tenuous at their core?
10. The Federal Reserve’s “inability to use its ‘traditional methods’ may complicate the policy-making process and introduce uncertainty in the size and timing of the economy’s response to policy actions.”
11. [Being 'zero bound'] “creates…an even greater burden on households…that [have] accumulated substantial debt before the onset of the deflation…because, even if people are able to refinance their existing debts at near the low [0.0%] interest rates, with [housing] prices falling, they must still repay the principal….”
12. Bernanke continued: “I should emphasize that my comments on this topic are necessarily speculative, as the modern Federal Reserve has never faced this situation [of being zero-bound] nor has it pre-committed itself formally to any specific course of action should deflation arise.”
[This is the end of Bernanke's comments from his 2002 report]
Deflation 101: Prerequisite ‘lesson on deflation’ (largely from Wikipedia):
A. Deflation is associated with recession and more rarely, long term economic depression.
B. Deflation is caused by a general, widespread collapse in the public’s demand for goods and services -- across all or most industries.
C. Result of deflation: prices for goods and services drop (deflate) severely, as businesses cut prices on an ongoing basis to entice buyers to buy. If we consumers don’t buy, then the businesses must cut costs even more, with employees first to be cut (rising unemployment). BTW: Rising uninsured too. In the ER we’re noticing a definite increase in unemployed -- and thus uninsured -- patients who cannot afford to pay cash to see their doctors, but who know we in the ER must see them for free (seemingly for any disease condition). These patients are stressed. And as the volume of these uninsured ER patients increases, their own economic/financial stress is translating to the ER work environment. The stress is becoming palpable.
D. In deflation, because the price of goods is falling, even though we consumers may still have dollars to spend, we have an incentive to delay purchases and consumption until prices fall further (’waiting for the bottom’), which in turn reduces overall economic activity and contributes to to the ‘deflationary spiral’ (a collapse in total demand of all goods and services; e.g., a decreased demand for that real estate you may be trying to sell). N.b.: I’ve now come to understand why ‘waiting for the bottom‘ to buy and ‘waiting for the top‘ to sell each contribute to deflation and inflation respectively.
F. Now that the Federal Reserve -- and thus America -- is ‘zero bound‘ (as above), the ‘Fed’s’ primary tool (’policy instrument‘) -- the manipulation of the interest rates it requires of its banks -- has ‘circled the drain.’
G. Federal Reserve members may try to pull out a few remaining, less dazzling ‘policy instruments’ from their bag of tricks, but concern is growing that they may fail to provide real solutions to preventing what could be an upcoming deflation crisis (depression).
Gold 101: Things on Earth are precious and valuable only if they are limited in supply. Diamonds are valuable primarily because they hoarded. This artificially increases their value. Gold is valuable because its supply is truly limited on Earth. Interestingly (as I understand it) if/when we have a gold-based currency, periods of relative deflation tend to undulate normally/healthfully with periods of relative inflation (’yin-yang’ balanced scale phenomenon). For example, if the prices of goods and services drops (deflates), the purchasing power of each gold-based unit of currency increases and people can by more with their ‘dollars.’ This stimulates the economy. Conversely, when the prices of goods and services increases (inflates), the purchasing power of each gold-based unit of currency decreases; people can then buy less with their ‘dollars’ and this cools the economy.
Ironically, Ben Bernanke used gold as an example (in his 2002 address), of why something has value, indicating that if through alchemy we could synthesize gold, it’s value and thus its price would plummet. This begs the question: Since we cannot synthesize the precious metal, why are we not using it as the standard for our currency, instead of continuing with the Federal Reserve’s phony, secretive system, which is based on their ‘alchemy‘ of worthless bank notes (’dollars’)?
Dollarization 101: Economies based on unstable currency, like the one we have now in America, spawn the use of alternative currencies. This is called ‘dollarization’: the use of foreign or alternative domestic currencies. When our ‘official’ money becomes unreliable, dollarization allows commerce to continue to some degree, unless governments make it illegal to use the alternative currency, as America’s did during the Great Depression, or if government shuts down the alternative currency resources, as the FBI attempted to do recently with the gold-based Liberty Dollar.
Mining 101: Deflation also acts as a stimulus to increase mining and exploration, since one easy way to make real ‘money’ (something of limited supply, and thus with true value) is, according to the Wikipedia post, to ‘dig it out of the ground.’
Barter 101: As the value of the dollar tanks, citizens take it upon themselves to do what they can to control chaotic economics by resorting to barter (and alternate currencies, as above). In effect, barter acts as protective tariff in deflated economies, encouraging local consumption of local products and services.
Inflation 101: As Bernanke said, with deflation and the ‘zero bound‘ state, it becomes impossible for the Federal Reserve to manipulate interest rates any further to try to stimulate consumer and business spending. One of the only other ‘policy instruments’ ‘the Fed’ then has then is to simply print and circulate increasing numbers of fiat paper ‘dollars’ (and simply enter more ‘money’ into the Federal Reserve digital balance sheets). By doing this, the value of the fiat-based currency approaches zero (in a sense becomes ‘bound for zero’ too). [See Zimbabwe dollar below].
CPI 101: Decreasing Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a helpful indicator of possible deflation, because it allows us to watch the ‘prices consumers pay’ drop (as consumers and business hold off making purchases until the nebulous ‘bottom’ is reached.
We need to remember that the Federal Reserve can and will intervene with another of their ‘policy instruments’ to artificially keep the CPI from decreasing: By simply increasing the supply of paper dollar bills in circulation, consumers ’spending behavior’ will increase. Unfortunately, however, with more worthless paper dollars in circulation, the cost of goods and services (the price -- the number of paper dollars -- citizens pay for the goods and services) will go up (’inflate’). With a fiat monetary system like the Federal Reserve (instead of America having a gold standard and allowing free market events to take their course), we are guaranteed to eventually have periods of deflation (and possibly depressions) and inflation (and possibly hyperinflation).
CPI Deflation Watch (see Dr. Evan’s post at the top of this link): We had a decline of the core CPI of -0.1% in October 2008, and only a 0.02% increase in November, 2008. According to Professor Evans at Brigham Young University, two consecutive declines in the CPI may signal an increased likelihood that we’re faced with a destructive deflationary period (the precursor of a depression). It is noted on Dr. Evan’s CPI Deflation Watch post that 0.02% is practically zero, but “at least…we dodged the deflation bullet for the month of November.” When this installment of TGM was initially posted last month, we wrote:
“The data for the next CPI report, for December (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics) comes out on January 16th, 2009. Let’s hope the CPI turns out to be in the positive direction, not negative. Professor Evans certainly understands being ‘zero bound’ when he wrote: “The scary thing about the January release is that the Fed can’t lower the fed funds rate anymore to try and stimulate the economy. The next CPI report comes 4 days before Obama’s inauguration. It will be interesting to see if the events of the inauguration eclipse important CPI news, especially if it indicates a drop in the CPI.”
Unfortunately, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) did decrease by 1.0 percent in December, 2008. And it is likely that President Obama’s inauguration (and the latest ‘war’ between Israel and Palestine, and the downed U.S. Air flight, etc.) did eclipse this news about the declining CPI. Regardless, if Professor Evans is correct -- that two consecutive monthly declines in the CPI could signal an increased likelihood of deflation (which can be the precursor of a depression), then the the current CPI trend of…
-0.1%(October) → +0.02% (essentially zero percent in November) → -1.0% (December)…
Should probably be a big concern to us all (CPI → ?percentfor January…
Current Recession → Deflation → Depression? We are now officially in a recession. And 7 years ago we were told by Ben Bernanke in his address, that it would be ‘unlikely’ that an ongoing fall in prices (like we are now seeing) would continue into an all-out deflation (a collapse, a ‘depression’). But I wonder what Mr. Bernanke is thinking now, what with the Federal Reserve, and thus America, being ‘zero bound.’ All of the preconditions for a collapse are here, especially the fact that the Federal Reserve has no more ‘manipulative wiggle room’ to lend our money at lower interest rates to try to stimulate the economy (since there’s nothing lower than a 0.0% rate).
According to Reed Construction Data, deflation -- and a stagnant economy -- has become a much larger risk in the last few months. And ”ominously, some of the leaks from the Obama transition team [many of whom are Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission folks], suggest an inclination to stop the recession at any cost, even if this means [using fiat dollars to eventually be 'substantiated' by our tax dollars] to prop up failed enterprises and households.”
Excuse me? “An inclination“? It’s called the ‘bailout,’ and it already started during the Bush administration. Regardless, the ultimate result is this: Those ‘economically-compromised crippled enterprises and houses’ will remain a significant drag on our economy for many years to come.
And what if this is the beginning of a deflationary period leading to ‘Great Depression #2′? Well, believe it or not, there are liberal (’socialist’?) thinkers in Washington -- like Stephen Leeb -- who appear to be ‘fine’ with the consideration of a World War III as a solution to a next depression!
Federal Reserve to the ‘Rescue’?: Mr. Bernanke assured us 7 years ago in his address that the Federal Reserve system “ensures that the financial system will remain resilient if financial conditions change rapidly.” His promises and talk are cheap. America’s ‘Federal Reserve’ is now ‘zero bound.’ So now, what are ‘the Fed’s’ only recourses -- to 1) achieve prevent deflation and possible depression, 2) provide a $700 billion bailout and 3) a $500 billion tax cut -- when there is no tangible, real value to our dollars in the first place?
Incredible answer from Bernanke 7 years ago: “Government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost…. [Federal Reserve 'alchemy' to the rescue!]…. We conclude that, under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation.”
Notice he doesn’t say the ‘printing press’ is a cure to economic woes, only that it will ‘generate higher spending and create inflation‘! Oh, and a ‘determined government‘? The Federal Reserve operates autonomously and secretly from ‘we the people’ and the ‘government’ (which is supposed to mean by our representatives in the U.S. Congress.
Incredibly, Mr. Bernanke says that simply printing more money is the solution! Bernanke even goes so far to say, “we can take comfort that the logic of the printing press...must assert itself, and sufficient injections of money will ultimately always reverse a deflation.” Of course that ‘policy instrument’ will ‘ultimately always reverse a deflation,’ but is “the logic of the printing press” really logical? Isn’t it hard for you to believe what your reading? Bernanke and his minions are pulling the wool over the eyes of us Americans and they know it:
Notice from Bernanke’s 2002 address, that in his very same ‘breath’ (read it yourself) he says, “By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation…the U.S. government…reduce[s] the value of the dollar…, which is equivalent to raising the prices…of…goods and services.” I’m no economist, but how can reducing the value of America’s currency -- and raising the prices of all its goods and services -- be a sound, long-term solution? And yet then Bernanke cites “academic literature warning of the possibility of an uncontrolled deflationary spiral, in which deflation feeds on itself and becomes inevitably more severe.”
And what Mr. Bernanke didn’t describe, resulting from his ‘logical’ ‘printing press’ solution (the printing of more worthless, fiat dollars), is the opposite extreme: an ‘uncontrolled inflationary spiral’ (runaway inflation). Printing more and more paper money ‘dollars’ may be perceived as helping initially, but it won’t be the solution to bailing out America in the long run. Are Americans really too stupid and/or complacent to see what’s going on here? And who gets all those paper dollars before we do? The ‘trusted’ bankers (whoever they are).
Got milk? Let’s learn from the Zimbabweans who have allowed their corrupt, fiat monetary system to bring them to the point of now paying $24 billion of their own ‘dollars’ for a gallon of milk (see the link). Is this possible for the U.S. ‘dollar’?
Federal Reserve Hijack of America: Some analysts are saying the three most egregious Constitutional compromises we are allowing include: 1) America’s foreign interventionism/occupation/’nation building,’ 2) The massive financial bailouts of companies and banks (’nationalization’ of economies = ’socialization’), and 3) Especially the ‘Federal Reserve’ system for America’s ‘currency.‘
Is it possible that the powers of the U.S. Constitution are being hijacked by ‘our own’ Federal Reserve? For example, see this video where Congressman Ron Paul asks why Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke cancels a Congressional hearing on the Federal Reserve to attend a secretive meeting in Switzerland:
I would think Bernanke’s ’solution’ for us Americans (’the logic of the printing press’) should be leading to a revolt, even American Revolution #2 (links to book, The Revolution by Ron Paul). That is if there are enough patriotic, independently thinking Americans left in this country. Please consider joining the Campaign for Liberty (it’s free), and get their regular email updates about what is going on with America, and what you can do to try to save ‘her.’
Faith in ‘The Government’ Does Not Mean Faith in the Federal Reserve Because ‘The Fed’ is Unconstitutional: America’s ‘Federal Reserve’ is not officially ‘federal’. Nor does it have a ‘reserve.’ And now this corrupt monetary system is ‘zero bound.‘ Should we still sit back and believe Ben Bernanke’s conclusion seven years ago that “the chances of a serious deflation in the United States appear “remote’because of our economy’s underlying strengths, and because of the determination of the Federal Reserve and other U.S. policymakers to act preemptively against deflationary pressures”?
Final Words: If the CPI declines again in January, we may be in for deflation. And ‘the Fed’ -- to try to prevent us from going into another great depression -- will rev up essentially the only ‘policy instrument’ it has left in its bag of tricks: ‘the printing press.’ That’s not good medicine for America. Instead of allowing for banks and companies to collapse (let free enterprise and competition operate), and getting America back to a gold standard (like other countries appear to be doing), we’ll sit back and watch as the counterfeit, fiat monetary system of the secretive Federal Reserve starts printing gobs and gobs of valueless ‘dollars.’ That sound’s logical? According to Ben Bernanke it is.
This is TGM post #18 and installment #3 for the topic Political Health and Healing.
Would Tom Daschle’s Fed Health Dash Our Hope for Health Freedom? TGM is About Integrative Medicine and freedom of choice in health care: having the freedom to integrate the best evidence-based therapies and diagnostics from all medical disciplines. Secrecy cannot be a part of that approach. However, according to a recent article in Medical News Today, submitted by the Citizens’ Council on Health Care, President-Elect Barack Obama’s choice of Senator Tom Daschle – to head up the department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – might entirely dash our hopes of real, lasting holistic reform of our health care system, since our health freedoms under Daschle may be severely compromised under his Fed Health plan.
The article says this: “If Mr. Daschle succeeds with Fed Health, Americans can expect that all private medical decisions-and their doctors-could soon be under federal control.” Mr. Obama’s choice for Secretary of HHS “signals a plan to eliminate free-markets and resurrect national health care….”
If the Federal Reserve and its banks are secretive about what’s going on with our tax dollars, how could we think anything different for our health care under a Federal Reserve model? And if this is true, why isn’t mainstream media warning us? Maybe there’s just too much other bad news to report.
Senator Tom Daschle: Our New Representative at HHS.Here’s what he apparently wants:
A national health board modeled after the Federal Reserve’s board! This Federal Health Board would oversee the entire health care system. Mr. Daschle calls it “Fed Health“. If this is true, it should be alarming to any American who has a functional brain. The ‘Criticisms’ section on Wikipedia’s Federal Reserve page reminds us that Milton Friedman outlined how the Federal Reserve caused the great depression. Is ‘The Fed’ repeating its history today? Regardless, do we want our national health care to be modeled after a corrupt, counterproductive organization like the Federal Reserve that operates as an organization largely autonomously, outside of Congressional oversight? We’re with Ron Paul who wisely recommends that the Federal Reserve be abolished. Here’s what else Daschle apparently wants:
Federal government to direct the practice of medicine and control all facets of health insurance.
Ongoing surveillance of your personal health for government research purposes.
Government officials to have access to your patient records online for monitoring of physician treatment decisions.
No Thanks, Obama and Senator Daschle. Integrative medicine doctors will be tempted to use various explicatives at the thought of what Daschle wants. Take for example #5 (above): monitoring your doctor’s treatment decisions? Integrative medicine doctors base treatment decisions on their experience with their patients and on published clinical research. Many treatments are often outside the realm of ’standard’ ‘allopathic’ medicine – drugs and surgery – and do not fall within what Daschle’s ‘Fed Health’ would dictate as being their ’standard of care.’
Fed Health’s Standard of Care = Fed Health’s Standard of Scare. What if, for example, you want the freedom to choose EDTA chelation as a treatment for your cardiovascular disease – angina or claudication – or simply for prevention? (TGM #15, 14, 13) Or if the anticipated flu epidemic arrives and you and your integrative medicine doctor decide to treat you with an intravenous infusion of dilute hydrogen peroxide to cure your flu?
[Click image to download full Lancet report]
Or what if you become infected by MRSA or one of the other growing numbers of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics, and you request that your doctor treats you with photoluminescence (UV light-energized blood)?
[Image links to the book Dr. Douglass' father's wrote.
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Or what if you and your doctor decide to try high-intensity magnetic therapy to treat a stubborn, hard to treat condition you may have?
[Image links to A.M.R.I. of Washington]
These are just a few examples of evidence-based ‘integrative medicine’ therapies out of thousands. You probably want and need the freedom to choose. Good medicine is NOT about limiting our therapeutic armamentarium to only drugs and surgery. But what if Daschle and other ‘big brothers’ with HHS and ‘Fed Health‘ scare you and your doctor with: “That’s not the standard of care. You can only use anti-bacterial and anti-viral drugs for your condition. Cease your practices or be fined or go to jail” That’s what may be in store.
What Does Fed Health Have to Do With Unions and Corruption? ‘As a man thinketh, so is he.’ Or put another way: the character of a man = his thoughts + feelings combined. It is our opinion that to be even somewhat ‘okay’ with plans like Fed Health, politicians who devise or endorse plans like this – and U.S. citizens who support them – would have to think and feel like labor union bosses, mobsters and Federal Reserve members who are clearly sacrificing U.S. Constitutional principles for the sake of total power and control. Their thinking goes something like this: “We’re entitled to these powers, like locking in higher wages for workers, and dictating how medicine is practiced. Therefore, we’ll act irrespective of local, state or federal law. In fact, our wants/our entitlements supersede the U.S. Constitution. What if we want money? We’ll get it outside Congressional negotiations. We’ll get it from the Federal Reserve.” The perverted thinking may become most obvious from what we may be about to see happen with American health care: Daschle’s Fed Health, or some version of it.
How Quickly Fed Health Cometh? States are already having to cut Medicaid coverage during these economic hard times. More cuts are expected in 2009. Yet here’s the clincher: Some of our representatives in Congress are seeing a need to allow the millions of growing unemployed U.S. citizens who have lost health benefits to start receiving Medicaid benefits with our tax dollars paying the entire bill, of course. How quickly might a ‘Fed Health’ be implemented? As soon as enough emergency departments around the country start reporting increases in ‘crisis level’ volumes and casualties, as increasing numbers of U.S. citizens resort to the ‘ER’ as last resort for their acute health care needs.
Where does this type of unAmerican, ‘Fed Health’ thinking and planning come from? As noted on TGM #16 post, this article from American Free Press clearly indicates that Senator Tom Daschle is part of the ‘One World Government Bilderbergerite’ mentality. To find Daschle in the list of other Bilderberger meeting attendees, see this Wikipedia link. One World Health Care anyone? It appears that Senator Tom Daschle is not good for your health or good for good medicine either.
The only solution: We predict that health care – socialized medicine under a Fed Health-like plan – may be the final straw that breaks America’s back. If it’s not to late, the only solution is to restore honor and integrity in Washington, with the likes of Representatives like Congressman Ron Paul and do away with the secretive, unconstitutional Federal Reserve – if that’s still possible. Please see TGM #16 and 17.
Good Medicine Word of the Week. It’s disgusting in our opinion: ‘Fed Health‘ – the concept for Senator Tom Daschle’s health care plan for America, using the Federal Reserve as the model. All of your private medical decisions could soon be under federal control. Is this the kind of change America wants and needs?
This is TGM post #17 and installment #2 for the topic Political Health and Healing.
Editor’s note: Audio for this show is forthcoming. At this time, other than the YouTube videos, no other audio is included with this installment of Political Health and Healing.
Coming Soon: Fed Health. Last week we spotlighted how Obama + unions + organized crime + the Federal Reserve could = a situation not good for America. On the next installment of Political Health and Healing we’ll focus more on Obama’s choice to represent us and our ‘health freedoms’ at HHS -- Senator Tom Daschle -- and his dubious plans for our brand new health care system, based on the Federal Reserve model: ‘Fed Health’ as it’s called. Brace yourself for an unpleasant shock.But Before that: the Solution….
Current U.S. Political Situation like a Cancer in Need of a True Surgeon. The unions, the mob, the current IRS, the FDA, the Federal Reserve -- and the politicians these entities influence -- are like the cells comprising an insidious cancer that has metastasized into the vital organs of our country. And it seems like the cancer is growing ‘hyperplastically.’ So what good medicine do we have to heal the pathology? Dr. Douglass thinks the only hope and solution to saving America and our health care system is a ‘Ron Paul revolution’ -- if it’s not too late. Unfortunately, mainstream media -- and thus -- mainstream America -- largely ignore Congressman Dr. Ron Paul.
Ron Paul tells it like it is: The doctor-turned-Congressman appears to be our only representative in Washington willing to use his ’scalpel’ to excise the cancers in government that are killing us. There are many YouTube videos of Congressman Paul at work. In this recent one he proclaims how embarrassing the ‘nationalization’ of U.S. industries -- like the auto industry -- really is:
Ron Paul Answers the Question: Where’s the Bailout Money Going (4.5 min):
End the Federal Reserve? The Fed is unconstitutional, it’s secretive and it’s destroying America. With the exception of Ron Paul, most of our other representatives in Congress don’t seem to care. Or might the Federal Reserve be secretly ’sharing the wealth’ of our tax dollars with many of our representatives in Washington?Ron Paul is surprised at how many young Americans understand the dire need to End the Fed.
Music Video: End the Fed:
Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve: 40-minute movie showing the sad truth.
Americans can do something: Start by getting free updates from Congressman Ron Paul and get involved in the Campaign or Liberty. On June 15, 2007, Ron Paul introduced HR 2755, Federal Reserve Abolition Act. Unfortunately -- and not entirely surprisingly -- there were no co-sponsors to the bill and no further action was taken. The legislation was referred to the House Committee on Financial Services and effectively ignored. Ignorance is bliss for only so long. Assuming HR 2755 is best for America, then who is to blame for this? Is it our representatives in the House of Representatives or is it U.S. citizens who are too uninformed and complacent to demand that their representatives take action on what they feel is best for their country? Please look into the Campaign for Liberty!
Next installment of Political Health and Healing: Daschle’s Federal Reserve-based ‘Fed Health’ is an insult to thinking Americans. We’ll address in more detail how upcoming HHS secretary Tom Daschle plans to use the Federal Reserve to model America’s ‘new and improved’ US health care system. Incredible. Watch out America. Your hopes for health freedom may soon be dashed by Daschles ‘Fed Health’.
This is TGM post #16 and installment #1 for the topic Political Health and Healing.
Introduction: Given the recent alarming and disappointing news about Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, selling Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder – just before President-elect Barack H. Obama takes residence in Washington – we thought it important to spotlight on this and the next two installments of Political Health and Healing, what mainstream media might underplay: how in some ways similar thinking – amongst Barack Obama, Senator Dashle, labor unions, organized crime and the Federal Reserve – is required to accept what is apparently being planned for our health care, ‘Fed Health’, and ultimately how it may negatively affect our health freedoms.
“For youz Americans it’s Obama, Daschle and Fed Health.
That’s the deal for health care. Gotta problem with that?”
Image from www.gamespot.com
Will Unions, Mafia and Federal Reserve be Largely to Blame for the Collapse of U.S. Dollar? It is understandable how unions can protect workers from unfair corporate labor practices, yet it is not fair to America how labor unions fix wages. Fixing the price of labor is incompatible with free enterprise. And combining such price fixation with organized crime threatens our freedoms as protected by the U.S. Constitution. Recent case in point: A fundamental concern of the bailout of the ‘Big Three’ auto makers is “whether the legislation would force concessions from the unions.” The euphemistic way of saying this is to ask if the unions will be ‘competitive,‘ i.e. will they lower union workers wages? This is nothing new to Americans. We’ve become accustomed to unions exerting their negative influence and power on free markets by essentially fixing wages, but in reality, to even be asking unions to lower wages in the United States is incongruous with American principles.
On TV recently United Auto Workers (UAW) president Ron Gettelfinger said the UAW wont commit to lower wages for union workers, and stated erroneously that their wages are already the same as foreign auto companies. And then Mr. Gettelfinger announced that the UAW will ‘go to the Federal Reserve‘ if the bailout bill is not passed by the Senate, which is exactly what they are doing: trying to get their way through ‘auto czar Paulson’, since the ‘balance of powers route’ (Congress) didn’t work for them. So now, the finance arms of Chrysler and G.M. are to be morphed into government-regulated financial institutions so they become eligible for direct loans from the Federal Reserve. It’s called the nationalization of the auto industry. Maybe after this, the impact of the nationalization of health care – a ‘Fed Health’ – wont seem so bad.
The joke is on all Americans though because the ‘Federal Reserve’ is a quasi-private fiat monetary system without a ‘reserve’ of ‘funds,’ i.e., it has NO MONEY – unless ‘the fed’ prints more, for the money tree. After doing away with the gold standard, our monetary system is all ’smoke and mirrors.’
Regardless though, shouldn’t we be shocked as Americans? The UAW essentially said, “If we can’t get the money through Congressional legislation, we’ll get it from our friends at the Federal Reserve”! So now we have two systems of government in the U.S. to choose from, the legislative branch and the ‘Federal Reserve’ branch? Apparently yes. We’ll be addressing what all this seems to mean for the advancement of medicine during this and the next two installments of TGM. And as we’ll see on TGM #18 – as unbelievable as it is – the Federal Reserve is to be the model for our new health care system – Fed Health! Few people seem to be asking, ‘Who’s running the show here, anyway?’
Obama’s Relations With the Unions and the Mafia. It’s not news that organized crime largely controls the labor unions, but from the Wall Street Journal and CBS just six months ago: Obama favors closing down the official government oversight board created to try to rid the unions of organized crime. Interestingly it wasn’t until after Obama published his ‘pro-mob’ position, that the Teamsters union then endorsed him for U.S. president. As the WSJ piece says, “The Teamsters in Chicago have shown little enthusiasm for rooting out corruption in their ranks.” And Obama’s “warm words to the Teamsters [are] …disturbing.” Note: According to the WSJ Bush appears involved in this too.
The CBS article continues: Obama’s Federal Election Commission records show a “hefty contribution to his…presidential race from Richard Simon who has mob ties.” But “the taint of corruption and of ties to organized crime seemed not to ruffle Obama….” If Obama wants to be portrayed as promoting “good government and higher morality, the place to start may not be Washington, but his home town of Chicago.” We might do well to study this article to see the depth of this unhealthy political situation.
Obama’s Relations with Governor Blagojevich. We’ll probably hear little or nothing about the relationship, or flat denials that there was much of a relationship between ‘the Gov’ and Obama. Or we may hear, “Oh c’mon, you think Governor Rod Blagojevich has significant ties to the unions or that Obama really has any significant relationship with Blagojevich – just because ‘The Gov’ controls his Senate seat in Washington? Naaaah!” Bottom line: Obama is looking pretty weak before assuming office. He said he had no contact with ‘Blago’ about the Senate seat. But his campaign chief of staff, David Axelrod stated last month that Obama spoke with the governor about the vacancy! Obama should tell us all – on mainstream media – about his relationships with any and all thugs who run Chicago politics. To prove his innocence, he should allow himself and his political team to be fully investigated. Otherwise can we trust him and his administration with our health and health care? Hey, at least, ‘Bobo,’ ‘Geuseppi,’ ‘Hoffa’ and ‘Vinny’ and the rest of the “Chicago Outfit” will probably be merry this Christmas at their palaces in Chicago or Las Vegas. And if mafia politics repeats itself, ‘family member’ Gov. Rod Blagojevich will probably be merry too.
Pieces of the Mysterious Puzzle for Health Care: Obama, Dashle, the Mob, Unions and the Federal Reserve. Clearly Obama has relations with America’s labor unions, which are corrupt. And the unions look to a separate entity, the Federal Reserve, for money when they don’t get what they want from what is supposed to be a Constitutionally-based balance of powers in Congress. What you may find interesting, if you read the ‘Criticisms’ section on Wikipedia’s Federal Reserve page, is where Milton Friedman outlined how the Federal Reserve caused the great depression. If the UAW circumvents Congress – and free enterprise – by going directly to the Federal Reserve for their bailout, is the Federal Reserve repeating history today?
And what’s probably most ironic, and adds to the mystery of what will probably be a radically different health care system in the near future: Obama’s choice to head up the department of Health and Human Services (HHS) WAS Senator Tom Daschle who, as mentioned above, wanted to use the Federal Reserve model for America’s ‘new and improved’ US health care system – ‘Fed Health‘. Watch out America. We may be in for a shock. If Mr. Daschle succeeded, you could probably expect that soon, all private medical decisions made on your behalf, by you and your doctor, will be under federal control. “Fed Health“?
Where does this type of alien thinking and planning come from? A friend sent me this article from American Free Press showing that Daschle is part of the ‘One World Government Bilderbergerite’ mentality. To find Daschle in the list of other Bilderberger meeting attendees, see this Wikipedia link.
One World Health Care anyone? It appears that Senator Tom Daschle would not have been good medicine for America! Perhaps the exposure of his improprieties (not paying his ‘fair share’ of income taxes, etc) was a good thing, but don’t expect the end of this one politician to make much of a difference in Washington D&C.
Next installment of Political Health and Healing: The Only Good Medicine for America’s Current Political Situation: Honorable Representatives in Washington Like Congressman Dr. Ron Paul.
Good Medicine Word of the Week: The apparently not-so-good choice to head HHS – Senator Tom Daschle. See TGM #18.
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