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Wednesday, 23 April 2025

THE BEATLES WERE AN ILLUMINATI CREATION


The Beatles were an Illuminati creation. Their songs were written for them and handlers scripted their actions and words.

(When Paul became Faul he got taller and his face changed shape!)

They’ve demonstrated that popular culture is really mind control.

In his book, The Committee of 300, former MI6 officer John Coleman reveals that the Beatles were a psychological operation run by the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations.

The Beatles were created to advance the formation of a corrupted Brave New World-style slave populace. This agenda kicked in big time during the 60s, with rock groups acting as social agitators.


The cover of the 1966 “Yesterday and Today” album: The Beatles seemed to get a good laugh from abortion

Free love, drugs and rock music were promoted. To replace Christianity, the Illuminati introduced the New Age Movement: spiritual doctrines that do not require the individual to follow the Moral Law.

The Beatles were presented as anti-establishment but received endless mainstream media attention. In 1965, they received MBEs (Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) from the Queen.

Occult References

 
   Paul displaying the 666 sign and John the “Il Cornuto” (aka devil horns) – both Satanist signs

The occult references in the Beatles work prove they were Illuminati puppets. A promotional photograph for the Yellow Submarine album shows John Lennon flashing the devil horns. Paul McCartney makes a ‘666’/EYE OF HORUS hand sign.

The front cover of the With The Beatles album shows their faces half in shadow. This is the ‘One Eye of Horus’ that is epidemic in the music industry today. The black/ white duality is the Masonic doctrine to balance good and evil.

A Beatles compilation was released in 1988 titled ‘Past Masters’. Past Master is a Masonic term used to describe the former Worshipful Master of a Masonic Lodge. The album contains exactly 33 songs!

In the film, ‘The Magical Mystery Tour,’ the Beatles use a magic wand to cast spells on unsuspecting members of the public. Magic wands are made from holly trees (hence Holly-wood) and are the instrument of the occult magician who has his audience (the populace) in a trance. The film features several Masonic handshakes.

The songs also feature occult lyrics. The song ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ refers to Lucifer in the sky with “diamonds” (aka “stars”, the Dogstar Sirius representing Lucifer).

Rare photo of Yoko, John and Andy Warhol having a gay time

The track ‘Across The Universe’ is about demon possession. John Lennon sings ‘gai guru deva’ (all hail to the devas). In Theosophy, a deva is a spiritual entity, i.e. demon, which exists behind the scenes manipulating and directing human behavior. Luciferians believe they are possessed by these entities when they rape, torture and kill innocent victims.

Four working class young men could not have written these songs! The Beatles were originally a hack rock ‘n’ roll cover band playing in the red light district in Hamburg. We are supposed to believe that only a few years later they composed songs with deep occult meanings!

The Script

The Beatles behavior was scripted by handlers who knew the agenda behind the group. The drug agenda was pushed in the infamous interview Paul McCartney gave with the BBC in 1966, when he ‘admitted’ to taking acid four times.

The interview was intended to cause controversy, which it did, and encourage young people to try LSD. If the BBC were really against drug use, they wouldn’t have broadcast the interview to millions of people.

Once we realize that the Beatles were supposed to turn young people against Christianity, their anti-Christian sound bites look scripted.

In 1963 Paul said, “Christianity doesn’t fit in with my life.” In 1966 John was more forthcoming, telling Newsweek, “Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that. I’m right and will be proved right.”

In the 60s, the big record labels had total control over artists. Do we believe the Beatles could have spouted anti-Christian sentiment in opposition to their label EMI?

Their photo shoots were also clearly designed by Illuminati handlers.

A good example is the alternate cover to the ‘Yesterday/ Today’ album that pictures the Beatles covered in the body parts of dead babies. This was a sick laugh at abortion, the inevitable result of the free love agenda the Beatles were promoting.

The front cover of the Sgt. Pepper album features the Beatles ‘heroes.’ They include a whole host of Illuminati stooges: Aldous Huxley, Karl Marx, Aleister Crowley, HG Wells and George Bernard Shaw among others. Tellingly, it includes cutouts of the Beatles from their early days. Is this an admission that they also served the Illuminati?


PS. REVISITING THE BEATLES YET AGAIN

As a music fan and a “conspiracy theorist” I have had long been confused and conflicted about The Beatles. Maybe part of what keeps pulling me back to look at them is that I know I have never fully understood this story, but I suspect that it ties into almost every deep state cover up for the past 60 years.

And another aspect is that despite living on the opposite side of the globe(I’m not a flat earther), my mother is from Liverpool, and I spent some time there staying with relatives as a child. People I spoke to who lived there in the early 60’s never saw or heard of them back then, and were stunned when they became “bigger than Jesus” all around the world.

On the one hand I think they performed some of the greatest pop songs ever written. They have influenced most of my favourite bands – everyone from Split Enz to Joy Division. But my favourite Beatles track, “Rain” was never even on an album…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=cK5G8fPmWeA

On the other hand I think some of their music is ghastly. For example, I think the whole album “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart’s Club Band” is really creepy. And that is just based on the music, let alone the fact that it’s filled with satanic and deep state references from the cover to the final track.

They put out all sorts of amazing and really advanced music, but as soon as you start delving into the rabbit hole that is The Beatles, the cover ups and mismatched stories are endless.

There are so many conflicting theories it’s hard to know where to start. But here are three things I'm pretty certain of. There was more than one person playing the role of “Paul McCartney”, they did not write nor play all the music that is credited to them, and John Lennon was not really assassinated in 1980.

http://mileswmathis.com/paul8.pdf

http://mileswmathis.com/lennon.pdf

https://www.frot.co.nz/design/conspiracies/revisiting-the-beatles-yet-again/

Tuesday, 22 April 2025

RESISTING GAOTEAROA

Aotearoa = Gaotearoa

I figure one of the best ways to resist the use of the WOKETURD name for NEW ZEALAND, "Aotearoa", is to mock the use of it, so I'm going to start adding a "G" to the front of it, and here are my new memes for today:


Aotearoa = Gaotearoa



See more SIFT memes in the SIFT MEME GALLERY

Monday, 21 April 2025

AMPUTATION FREAKWORLD


"Amputation Freakworld" by SIFT (2025)

This is an edit of one of my drawings that I was playing around with yesterday. I want to start doing more blog posts featuring my art, and was tossing up just how involved about describing it all to get.

The process usually involves starting out with one of my drawings or photos, or an edit of a found image, and then using about half a dozen different apps to edit it, before saving the final copy in a relatively small 750 x 750 px size, and signing it with the www.sift.co.nz URL of my blog.

So I could potentially post images from each stage of the editing, describing how it was done. But that might get anal and boring. I'm not trying to reveal a conspiracy here, and have nothing to prove. So I'm not going to do that, but am just going to post the finished image with a title and year. I'm also not going to try an explain what any of them mean, because I usually have no idea. 

Having said that, I think this particular image may have originally been triggered by seeing a bunch of diabetes patients in wheel chairs at the hospital, with their legs amputated (another horrible medical scam). But everything I come up with as far as art goes is like a dream, which I don't really understand, so am probably best off not to attempt to explain.

I'm just having a bit of fun with these pictures and they are not intended to be in any way professional "art works" for sale. They are also not NFT's, because although I'm into crypto trading, I think NFT's are just a massive scam. I think regular cryptos are as well really, but I draw the line at meme-coins & NFT's, and stick to trading top 100 by market cap cryptos, which I've sometimes done well with over the past decade.

NFT's are non-fungible tokens which include assets like artworks or digital content that has been tokenized via a blockchain. These tokens have unique identification codes and are stored on a digital ledger. They can be traded and exchanged for money, cryptocurrencies, or other NFTs. Whoever has the private keys to a token owns the rights to it.

Cryptocurrencies are similar to NFTs, in that both are secured on blockchain networks. The key difference is cryptocurrencies are fungible, or interchangeable. There is no real difference between one bitcoin and another, for example, but no two NFTs are identical.


Sunday, 20 April 2025

COFFEE IS A POISON

More than 20 years ago, I drank a cup of coffee. My excuse was I had a long drive ahead and wanted to be alert. Unfortunately I ended up feeling sick for the whole drive, and couldn’t sleep that night. Or the next night…

Despite being surrounded by coffee shops I’ve avoided it ever since. I actually quite like the smell but it’s clearly a toxic drug, and feeling like I wanted to hurl for two days really sucked. This article helps explain what it’s actually doing.

Caffeine is a pesticide

1. Caffeine is an alkaloid that the coffee plant uses to kill bugs, which eat its seeds.

The coffee plant also uses caffeine in the coffee pods to kill surrounding plants, so the coffee plant can attain more sunlight and grow larger. Caffeine is a pesticide, which causes genetic termination in living cells that come into contact with it.

2. MRI images taken before and after 1 cup of coffee showed a decrease in blood flow to the brain by 45%. When the blood flow reduction was measured exactly, it was actually 52% less blood flow to the brain, after just one small cup of coffee. http://abcn.ws/2ipmLj7

3. Brain imaging studies of chronic coffee drinkers showed they presented the same degradation of their brains as chronic alcoholics, cigarette smokers, Parkinson’s patients and marijuana users. http://dailym.ai/1qjSqi0

4. Coffee can cause an urge to move one’s bowels because this is one way the body tries to eliminate poison from the system. The sudden urge to take a big dump after drinking coffee is one of the body’s defense mechanisms to poison.

5. Coffee increases energy via the human fight or flight metabolic response, because the body is afraid of the caffeine based poison. Coffee doesn’t give energy, it removes it from the body.

The energy a person feels when they drink coffee is the body going into overdrive because caffeine is a poison and all poisons activate an energy release in the body. (fight or flight)

Coffee removes energy from the system, leaving the person progressively more and more exhausted each day that passes, therefore setting up the world’s most dangerous energy stimulation addiction… coffee dependence for energy.

6. When the fight or flight response is triggered in the body, the lower IQ centers of the brain are activated as well as hormonal systems in control of aggression, violence, irrational and illogical decision making, jealousy, rage, anger, fear and paranoia.

Coffee generates lower end mental functioning with a side of every negative emotional response the body can generate.

7. When measured, one coffee activated the fight and flight response for three consecutive weeks, even though no other caffeine was consumed after that one cup of coffee. One cup of coffee poisons the body for three consecutive weeks, on a decreasing scale.

8. When coffee (caffeine) is consumed, the limbic part of the brain is hyper activated and the higher learning centers of the mind inhibited. The limbic part of the brain is only concerned with sex, reproduction, protection of territory, food acquisition and personal safety.

The limbic portion of the brain is the most primitive and least developed portion of the mind complex. When you want to out smart or dominate another person, it’s best that their limbic system is activated, because it brings them to a mental state equal to that of a child.

9. The birth control pill inhibits clearing of ingested caffeine. This effect is increased dramatically by alcohol or pain killer use, therefore causing many cases of caffeine poisoning, which get treated as other things once the person reaches the hospital.

10. Coffee is proven to cause an enlarged prostate, high anxiety, insomnia, depression, birth defects, pain syndromes, unnatural breathing patterns, brain damage, hyperactivity, learning disorders (from the brain damage) behavior disorders, fatigue, certain types of cancer, Crohns, IBS, colitis, carpel tunnel, ulcers, low iron, heart disease, headaches, PMS, increased incidence of muscle and tendon injury, joint pain, heart attack, stroke,TIA’s (mini strokes)… and that’s a short list.

11. Coffee causes fat gain and cellulite because by triggering the body’s flight or fight system (which any poison or threat does). This eventually changes the body’s primary fuel source requirement to one of fat.

When the body is threatened, it prefers fat as its primary fuel source, over sugar or protein.

Constant activation of the body’s fight or flight system (via the daily ingestion of caffeine poison) aids in a metabolic shift to fat storage and fat conservation, because again the body prefers fat as a fuel source when fighting any toxic intruder… because fat contains 9 calories per gram for the fight, as opposed to 4 calories per gram housed by sugar and protein.

Welcome to the land of caffeine)induced fat gain, weight gain and cellulite. Coffee also destroys muscle, as the body purposely flushes muscle, when it’s poisoned, to facilitate additional fat storage.

12. Caffeine blocks iron absorption, causing the vast majority of anemia today.

The entire threat of caffeine in general includes caffeine teas, chocolates, caffeine based energy drinks, caffeine based pre work out drinks and over 2000 over the counter and prescription medications that PURPOSELY include caffeine.

13. An investigation conducted by the author of the most extensive book on coffee ever written, reviewed almost every scientific research piece regarding coffee and his conclusion was that there’s absolutely no scientific evidence what so ever that coffee provides any health benefits to the human body, on any level, in anyway.

He openly declares that any positive promotion of coffee consumption is a blatant lie, doing grave harm to our entire society. The publication of any positive effects of coffee are false and all can be traced back to a very powerful, covert and secret “coffee lobby”, which has both commercial and ruling family origins.

The author reviews the research in the book at this link. How many coffee shops have opened near you in the last 20 years?

So why the lying about coffee? Think of government and how governing a brain damaged population is easier than governing a healthy population. Start there and keep connecting the dots. Coffee is only one brain damaging weapon used against an uninformed slave class.

The 10 most popular brain damaging weapons used against the slave class are listed below.

Although personally I would add in social media misinformation and mind control at #2, shift coffee down a few rows, and remove cigarettes which are no longer very popular in New Zealand these days.

1) vaccines
2) coffee and caffeine products
3) alcohol
4) medical drugs
5) sugar
6) fluoride
7) cigarettes
8) processed junk foods and genetically modified foods
9) EMF radiation from wireless devices and
10) chemtrails.

If you’ve ever posed the question, “why are people so stunned, as to not figure any of this out?”… you’re missing the point that the brain damage of the slave class is the primary agenda of the ruling 1%.

Coffee and vaccines are the elite’s 1-2 punch within “operation brain damage” down here on the human farm. The best slave is a brain damaged slave, unable to think or care for themselves without the help from slave master.

A helpless population guarantees a need for government. This is why the ruling families do everything in their power to create a helpless population, day in and day out. Governments exist because they perpetually create the conditions for their own existence.

Ancient ruling families, who masquerade as modern altruistic governments, are not there to help the people progress, evolve or become more. You live on a chemically controlled slave based control grid.

Coffee is just another massive lie inside the human control operation. Want to shut the human farm down? Want to really become more than the stereotypical diseased, overweight, dis-empowered, depressed, and dysfunctional human mess? Reject the poisons!

http://humansarefree.com/2017/08/13-little-known-facts-about-coffee.html

 

Saturday, 19 April 2025

DOW CHEMICALS

 Manufacturing Toxins and Breast Implants

What is it about powerful US companies and their tendency to do absolutely anything to maximise their profits with no regard to how many people they kill off if it makes them a buck. Could it be that they are just like the American government? Could it be that they actually run the American government?…. It certainly looks like they are helping to fund it….. Without doubt, Dow blows goats, and silicone breast implants are not a good idea, even if they did once work wonders for that tranny Pamela Anderson…


DOW CHEMICALS

Number two in chemical sales in the U.S. Employees: 58,000. Sales: $20 billion. Headquarters: Midland, Michigan, U.S.

Dow, the manufacturer of Napalm and Agent Orange during Vietnam War, and now the target of a billion dollars worth of lawsuits over their highly destructive silicone breast implants, is partners with the drug firm Ely Lilly in Dow Elanco, a spinoff company that is the largest producer of insecticides and fungicides in the U.S.

Dow must have a magnetic attraction for severe defoliants. Having distanced itself from Agent Orange — its partner Lilly now makes Tebuthiuron, an herbicide that kills soil so that no plants can grow on it in the future. Sounds like a weapon of war.

Of course Dow also tries to distance itself from dioxin (contained in tis Vietnam era Agent Orange), but Greenpeace reports that hugely produced chlorine based Dow products — pesticides, solvents and PVC plastics — are the single largest source in the world of dioxin today.

Dow owns Marion Merrell Dow (MMD), a major pharmaceutical house. Like all drug companies, whether you know it or not, the commercial output of MMD is chillingly toxic. Let’s start there.

Examples:

  • MMD’s vaginal supository AVC cream is used to treat candida albicans. The PDR states that there is no data available on the long term potential of AVR for causing cancer or birth defects, but “deaths associated with administration of oral sulfonamides (such as AVC) have reportedly occured form hypersensitivity reactions, agranulocytosis, aplastic anemia and other blood discrasias.” . . . Comforting.

  • Bentyl, Dow’s drug for irritable bowel syndrome, also has in the PDR listing “no known data” for long term potential carcinogenicity or birth defects, but “psychosis has been reported in sensitive individuals.” There are also, the PDR says, reports of deaths from respiratory collapse.

  • Cardizem, the Dow drug for hypetension and angina, carries the PDR caution: “Worsening of congestive heart failure has been reported in patients with preexisting impairment of ventricular function.”

Nothing could prepare a sane person for the PDR’s description of Dow’s Clomid, a drug that attempts to produce ovulatory stimulation so that pregnancy can occur in women for whom that would otherwise be unlikely.

Here is a partial list of Clomid’s post-marketing adverse effects:

  • seizure
  • stroke
  • psychosis
  • cataracts
  • posterior vitreous detachment
  • arrhythmia
  • tachycardia
  • hepatitis
  • liver, breast, pituitary, ovarian, kidney, tongue & bladder cancer
  • brain abscess
  • tubal pregnancy
  • uterine hemorrhage
  • ovarian hemorrhage

In the babies born to the mothers taking Clomid, there have occurred:

  • neuroectodermal tumor
  • thyroid tumor
  • leukemia
  • abnormal bone development including skeletal malformations of the skull, face, nasal passages, jaw, hand, limb and foot joints
  • malformations of the anus, eye, lens, ear, lung, heart and genitalia
  • dwarfism
  • deafness
  • mental retardation
  • chromosomal disorders
  • neural tube defects

Lorelco, Dow’s drug aimed at lowering cholesterol, has this ominous PDR caution: females should be warned not to become pregnant for at least six months after discontinuing Lorelco. Lorelco’s adverse effects?

  • Gastrointestinal bleeding
  • vomiting
  • low hemoglobin
  • fetid sweat
  • impotency
  • anorexia
  • diminished sense of taste and smell.

Dow makes Norpramin, an antidepressant. The PDR states: “It is important that this drug be dispensed in the least possible quantities to depressed outpatients since suicide has been accomplished with this class of drug.”

Some of the effects of Norpramin are:

  • both elevating and lowering of blood sugar levels
  • heart block, myocardial infarction, stroke
  • sudden death
  • hallucinations, delusions
  • tremors, ataxia, peripheral neuropathy, seizures
  • dilation of urinary tract
  • bone marrow depression
  • vomiting, black tongue, hepatitis
  • impotence, painful ejaculation, testicular swelling
  • weight gain or loss.

(Note: In these drug summaries I don’t even bother to comment about the uniform unworkability of the drugs on the causes of the illnesses for which they are prescribed nor will I comment on a further danger: the effects of combining several drugs at once. Nor on the fact that OTHER non-toxic remedies and approaches to health would eliminate the need for these drugs and their poisonous effects.)

Dow makes Rifadin, a “semi-synthetic” antibiotic for the treatment of tuberculosis. The PDR comments, “Rifadin has been shown to produce liver dysfunction. Fatalities associated with jaundice have occurred in patients with (previous) liver disease.” The PDR further issues a bizarre warning — “Rifadin can cause the urine, feces, saliva, sputum, sweat, and tears to turn red-orange. “Permanent discoloration of soft contact lenses may occur.”

The suggested Rifadin dosage for people with TB is 600mg a day for six to nine months. Yet the PDR gives this warning: “High doses of Rifadin greater than 600mg given once or twice a week have resulted in high incidence of adverse reactions, including leukopenia (abnormal decrease in white blood corpuscles), thrombocytopenia (abnormal decrease in blood platelets), acute hemolytic anemia, shock, renal failure.”

Among Rifadin’s other advese effects are anorexia, vomiting and menstrual disturbances.

I have tried in listing adverse effects to avoid dipping into the explicit PDR category “rare” and the category, “has been found to occur in less that 1% of people taking drug and vanishes upon discontinuing drug.” That leaves the open categories of “general adverse effects” or “we don’t really know how many people on the drug suffer from these effects” or the “these effects are reported to occur after drug is marketed to the public and there is no way to prove the effects are caused by the drug.” I have relied for the most part on these three last categories.

Dow and Ely Lilly and Company of Indianapolis are partners in a corporation called Dow Elanco, one of the largest producers of agricultural chemicals in the world. As a 40 percent partner Lilly falls within the purview of Dow and so I have justifiably included its drug products under the umbrella of Dow in this section.

  • Lilly manufactures Heparin sodium (derived from the intestinal mucosa of pigs), a blood anticoagulant used to prevent clotting. Says the PDR, “hemorrhage can occur at virtually any site in patients receiving Heparin. Patients on the drug can develop an “irreversible aggregation of (blood) platelets . . . (which) may lead to gangrene of the extremities . . . (and) amputation, mycardial infarction, pulmonary emoblism, stroke and possibly death.”
  • Lilly’s Nalfon is an NSAID for (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug). Every year in the U.S. seven to eight thousand people die from the administration of NSAIDs and between 70,000 to 80,000 are hospitalized from their use.
  • Lilly’s Prozac is the wildly popular “in” anti-depressant of the moment. Prior to its release, it was never tested on humans for longer than thirteen weeks. Prozac has been associated with suicidal and murderous behavior, and the dampening of sexual desire. Its other effects include insomnia, anxiety, and anorexia (in 9 percent of the patients in clinical trials). Fifteen percent of the 4,000 patients who received Prozac in pre-release clinical trials discontinued treatment due to “an adverse event.”
  • Diethylstilbestrol, a Lilly drug, is a synthetic estrogenic substance used for breast cancer and prostate cancer (as a palliative only). The PDR states, “WARNING: USE OF ESTROGENS HAS BEEN REPORTED TO INCREASE THE RISK OF ENDOMETRIAL CARCINOMA. ESTROGENS SHOULD NOT BE USED DURING PREGNANCY. ITS USE MAY CAUSE SEVERE HARM TO THE FETUS. More PDR quotes on this drug:
    • “A recent study reported a two to threefold increase in the risk of gall bladder disease occuring in women receiving post-menstrual estrogen therapy . . . “
    • “In a large prospective clinical trial in men, large doses of estrogen . . . comparable to those used to treat cancer of the prostrate . . . have been shown to increase the risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction, pulmonary emobilism. . . ”

Adverse reactions to diethylstilbestrol include breakthrough bleeding, spotting and change in menstrual flow; vomiting; cholestatic jaundice; hemorrhagic skin eruption; corneal curvature; and migraine.

All these effects for a cancer treatment that is admittedly only a palliative?

(Note: The January 28, 1994, Congressional Quarterly in its report, Regulating Pesticides, points out that pollutants in the environment are being found to contain estrogenic substances. And that several researchers have linked exposure to estrogens with cancer, including breast cancer. (Now read the above section the drug diethlystilbestrol again and if you mind isn’t completely blown, check your breath on a mirror.)

The above list and description of medical drugs is certainly not meant to be all-inclusive vis-a-vis Dow. It is just a bitter sample. If you find yourself saying, “Well, even if these drugs have some horrible effects, the doctors who prescribe them must know what they’re doing”, consider that once people said exactly that about the U.S. corporations who were busy spilling poisonous chemicals into the rivers of this land. “They must know what they’re doing. They would never . . .” But they did. And these corporations are manufacturing the kinds of medical drugs I’ve just been describing AND the industrial chemicals AND the pesticides. Wake up and smell the poisons!


Half a billion pounds of toxic waste per year

Who could present a complete and specific portrait of Dow’s yearly industrial wastes? Inform, Inc. (New York City) has done an analysis of quantity in its Toxics Watch 1995 report. It culls the top twenty corporations from a total of 10,840 parent companies in the U.S. Dow ranks sixth in “production-related toxic chemical wastes, carcinogens and ozone depleting chemicals . . .”. How many pounds of waste are we talking about defecated by Dow into the world? 517.5 million pounds for 1992! Half a billion pounds.

Susan Cooper of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides names Dow’s pesticide Dursban as a serious creator of health problems: nausea, headaches, behavioral changes in children. She told the Multinational Monitor that at least one out of every two phone calls that her office takes about pesticide complaints concerns Dursban. The Pesticide Action Network states that Dow produced or sold three pesticides on their “Dirty Dozen” list before 1980. One of these DBCP, ordered to be phased out by the EPA, now shows up being sold by Dow to the Dole Corporation, which has used it on its banana plantations in Costa Rica. DBCP contaminated ground water for several thousand square miles in the California central valley and caused sterility in agricultural workers. Four other Dow agricultural chemicals, Gallant, Verdict, Gauntlet, and Tridal, banned by the EPA, have shown up in Africa, Latin America, Central America, Asia and Europe.

Beyond the products mentioned so far, what to boycott made by Dow?

  • Styrofoam labeled plastic products, agricutlural herbicides (Starane, Spike, Treflan), the soil fumigant Telone, and two insecticides, Dursban and Lorsban.
  • It makes over-the-counter drugs: Norhistamine (cough), Cepacol, Gly-Oxide (antiseptic), Cepastat lozenges, Citrucel laxative, Delbrox (ear care), Gaviscon (antacid), the calcium supplement Os-Cal.
  • Household products include Ziploc Bags, Fantastik Cleaner, Handi-Wrap, Saran Wrap, Spray ‘N Wash, Dow Bathroom Cleaner, Glass Plus Multi-Surface Cleaner, Smart Scrub, Ultra Yes laundry detergent, Vivid bleach and Style and Perma Soft hair products.

It should also be noted that Dow manufactures benzene, widely acknowledged as a carcinogen.

Of course, all this information is faxed and internetted around the world, people outside the U.S. will find the Dow subsidiaries in their countries and the products they make. In the U.S. the reference text The Directory of Multinationals is a good source for the names of these subsidiary corporations.

So to this point, you have much more than sufficient evidence of massive toxicity to justify a boycott of Dow. You can also see that boycotting their products is in some cases awkward, because wholesalers and companies, not individuals, are Dow’s customers. More reason to press disinvestment, making it unconscionable to hold stock of this company.

 


Did someone say “admitting liability for Bhopal”?

 


 But don’t worry, breast implants are safe, healthy, and look great!


Here in New Zealand where American businesses take special care to look after our interests, there is compensation in the unlikely event that anything goes wrong with any silicon implants.

Kiwis paid out for bad implants

By RUTH HILL

A New Zealand breast cancer survivor, who suffered years of pain from a ruptured silicone implant, has finally received her payout from a multibillion-dollar compensation fund – a paltry $600.

The woman, who did not want to be named, said she was “surprised to get anything at all”, after a decade of legal wrangling. “Frankly, I had stopped hoping and just put it behind me.”

In 1999, a United States judge approved a $US6.4 billion ($NZ9.3 billion) settlement deal for worldwide compensation claims (including 1200 New Zealanders) against the American manufacturer Dow Corning. But overseas claimants, including the New Zealanders, were offered only 60% of the amount offered to Americans because they were unable to sue in the US. They appealed, but lost the case in 2002.

Now 564 claims by New Zealand women of between $NZ872 and $17,442 have been settled. It is not known how many claims are still outstanding because some individuals had more than one claim.

In November, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed silicone breast implants to be sold again, 13 years after they were removed from the market because of safety concerns.

While silicone breast implants have remained available in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health does not endorse their use and women must be warned of the risks before consenting to the operation.

The New Zealand woman was persuaded by her doctor to have silicone implants after a double mastectomy in 1984. She was told they would last “forever”.

But within seven years, one implant had ruptured, causing toxic silicone to seep into the surrounding tissue, disfiguring the breast and slowly poisoning her.

“Where the silicone was leaking, hard tissue formed around it, so I had lumps under my arms and all over the place,” she said.

She suffered crippling fatigue, insomnia, night sweats, colitis, numbness in her hands and feet, and her hair started falling out.

Yet it was three years before she could persuade her GP or the surgeon that anything was wrong. Her implants were removed in 1994 – 10 years after they were inserted.

She was unable to work. She could not lift her arms over her head because of the pain. When she joined the class action in 1994, a rheumatologist diagnosed her with atypical connective tissue disease, which he blamed on the implants.

She received an $872 payout reduced to $600 after legal bills.

The former co-ordinator of the now defunct Women’s Implant Information Network, Tanya Brennan-Hodgson, said she was “horrified” the FDA had approved silicone implants.

She said many New Zealand women were still waiting for compensation.

“Frankly, the compensation is a bit of a farce. Foreign claimants are only entitled to a pittance compared with what US women have received, and nothing can ever compensate you for the loss of your health.”


Pure Style

Yes, breast implants are sexy and classy, as hot American actress (American Pie) Tara Reid shows in this picture!

 

Tara Reid’s plastic surgery remained a rumour until November 4, 2004, when she was embarrassed by a wardrobe malfunction. At P. Diddy’s thirty-fifth birthday party at Cipriani’s Restaurant in New York her dress fell, exposing her left breast. Surprisingly, it took a relatively long amount of time for Reid to notice the malfunction, which led some to suspect that she was inebriated. Scar tissue was visible around Reid’s nipple, and her plastic surgery became more publicly evident…