Prophecy Fulfilled -- Food Supply Threatened

This prophetic word was given to one who wishes to remain anonymous on Dec. 22, 2004. It was a followup word to the famous 1990 prophecy to the same man:

"The world is now seriously out of conformance with the Will of God and what He created and intended. There are those who would reconfigure the very creatures He has formed, and who meddle with the texture of life. For this reason, the Lord will allow a huge reorientation. If not for the action of Heaven, what God has created on earth will soon be damaged beyond recovery. A very dramatic effect already is in progress as regards the support structures of what man calls nature. Such cannot be allowed to take the final realization of total realignment when it comes to the very way elements and life forces interact."

Did you know that a great deal of the food products on store shelves today contain genetically modified ingredients? (For shorthand we will call them GM.)

Did you know that in some parts of the world the soil is becoming sterile because GM plants that produce their own weed killers and bug killers are also killing the helpful bacteria in the dirt in which they are planted? (The very definition of "Soil" includes the presence of living organisms.)

Author and webmaster Mike Brown today posts an eye-popping, fact-filled analysis of what is happening to our food supply. If you care about your health, and that of your family, you need to read this.

We have long wondered what that could be, and now are looking at a dramatic effect that indeed is in progress: the genetic alteration of our crops and food supply.

Unbeknownst to most Americans, scientists at some of the same chemical companies that gave us dangerous substances like dioxin and PCBs are now patenting and producing large volumes of genetically-altered seed, especially soy, corn, and cotton.

So widespread is genetically-modified food -- which does not have to be labeled as such -- that it is in much of the popcorn, soy sauce, and candy in the U.S

This is not food from hybrid plants; this is food from crops that have been fundamentally altered -- often with genes not only from other plants but from animals. The boundaries between what God created -- the species boundaries -- have been breached.

"With biotechnology, roses are no longer crossed with just roses," frets one natural food website. "They are mated with pigs, tomatoes with oak trees, fish with donkeys, butterflies with worms, orchids with snakes."

Read carefully.

Are we, as our president now proclaims, "restoring science to her rightful place," or are we elevating science to the rightful province that belongs to Nature's God alone?

Some bullet points:

-- In the span of one three-year period, according to a report, seventy million acres of American land were converted to raise genetically-altered crops. This was all occurring in the precise time period of the alleged prophecy (the evaluation went to 2005 -- a month after the alleged "word").

-- Ten corporations now control companies supplying 55 percent of the planet's commercial seeds.

-- genetically-altered pollen has wafted from significant distances, contaminating organic crops. Support structures indeed: 12,000 years of sustainable agriculture is on the brink of changing overnight.

-- According to the Grocery Manufacturers of America, between seventy and seventy-five percent of processed grocery products will soon have genetically-modified products. Anything derived from corn, canola, soy, or cottonseed is suspect.

"All you can say is that a lot of these processed foods are suspect," says Andrew Stocklinski --- Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry, former professor at the University of Georgia, former researcher for a major drug company and a self-made organic farmer, gesturing with a box of corn dogs. "There is no way any shopper can tell for certain whether genetically modified material is present in any of these products. There's nothing on the label to tell you, so all we can do is make an educated guess."

These are just the highlights of the article, and of the problem facing us. Forget global warming, the nationalization of the auto and health care industries, the takeover of the banking system. If our food system collapses because of big corporations and their scientists meddling for profit, you won't have to worry about any of the other.

What can you do? First, inform yourself. Then pray. Then get active.

This is an issue that transcends politics and party. There is no left and right when it comes to eating.

There is only right or wrong; survival or disaster.

A Lab Accident May Have Caused New Flu

An Australian scientist with a long history of serious research says the new A-H1N1 (Mexican swine) flu may be the result of an "oops" in a lab.

May 12 (Bloomberg) -- The World Health Organization is investigating an Australian researcher’s claim that the swine flu virus circling the globe may have been created as a result of human error.

Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu drug, said in an interview today that he intends to publish a report suggesting the new strain may have accidentally evolved in eggs scientists use to grow viruses and drugmakers use to make vaccines. Gibbs said that he came to his conclusion as part of an effort to trace the virus’s origins by analyzing its genetic blueprint.

Naturally, a spokeswoman at the U.S. Center for Disease Control says "there's no evidence" to support Gibbs' statement. I'm not sure this version of the CDC would know evidence if it bit 'em on the behind.

A researcher for the World Health Organization, Keiji Fukada, is reviewing Gibbs' study.

A virus that resulted from lab experimentation or vaccine production may indicate a greater need for security, Fukuda said.

You think?

A Modest Proposal ... for Horrific Evil

If human babies are going to be aborted, isn't it wasteful not to use their organs for transplants?

That's the proposal of the leading embryonic stem cell expert in Great Britain.

Professor Sir Richard Gardner of Oxford University, an advisor to the Royal Society and the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, made his comments at an Oxford International Biomedical Center conference, the Daily Mail reports.

Expressing surprise that the possibility has not been considered, he said using fetal tissues for organ transplant is “probably a more realistic technique in dealing with the shortage of kidney donors than others.”

Experiments in mice, he said, have shown that fetal kidneys grow extremely quickly when transplanted into adult animals.

Sir Gardner says it would be "at least a temporary solution." Oh sure. There is nothing more permanent than evil perpetrated as a temporary solution.

London obstetrician Professor Stuart Campbell has Sir Gardner's back.

“If they are going to be terminated, it is a shame to waste their organs,” he claimed.

“I am sure very few of those on the transplant list would rather die than accept an organ from an aborted fetus,” he told the Daily Mail.

This article illustrated two important points.

First, there is a direct link between embryonic stem cell research and abortion, which most people do not realize. This is where the embryonic stem cells originate. That's the first part of a loop in which some researchers clone the cells, begin the creation of a new embryo, and then kill that life. One goal is to produce spare parts tailored exclusively for individuals willing to pay for it. Kind of like the "insurance policies" in the movie, "The Island." Some die so that others can live.

Second, you can argue all you want about a woman's right to choose, and the unfairness of a family being saddled with too many (expensive) children, but the real issue for the "scientists" and the new industry of fetal harvesting is the potential profit from developing a new economy of spare parts from surplus people deemed insufficiently matured to be called human. And since the unborn are considered to be mere byproducts ("blobs of tissue") and even "diseases," according to some, no one is going to ask permission of the woman who have abortions whether their valuable byproducts can be harvested.

But you will know that we will have entered a new realm of depravity when someone starts paying women to abort their unborn children.

So many people who support abortion are also the same people who care about alleviating human suffering, who are genuinely horrified by man's inhumanity to man in places like Darfur, etc.

And I wonder, is it because they have not been told the truth about what is taking place in the laboratories, in the women's health clinics? Do they not understand that our loss of humanity begins at any point where we insert ourselves into the life chain?

Yes, there are potential wonderful life-saving procedures looming in the future. But are they worth the price of our humanity? Is it right that some can live enriched, extended lives because they are rich enough to afford the byproducts of the demise of other human beings?

Even for those who do not believe in a higher power, do they not have higher principles? Do they really wish to live in this Brave New World of class distinctions based on scientific worthiness?

And for those who do believe in a higher power, how long do you think we will be allowed to continue down this headlong rush to that Brave New World?

Update: Frozen Embryos & Stem Cells

As expected, Mr. Obama has signed an executive order allowing federal funding -- that's your money and mine -- of embryonic stem cell research, but at the same time declaring that human cloning is "dangerous and wrong" and has no place in society.

Some critics say the research can lead to human cloning. Obama said the government will develop strict guidelines for the research because misuse or abuse is unacceptable.

He said he would ensure that the government never opens the door to the use of cloning for human reproduction.

Would it not have been prudent to develop the regulations against cloning and then issue your executive order? Doesn't this imply that there is a window of opportunity for cloning right now?

And will Mr. Obama's assurances that cloning will be banned be just another on his list of promises that come with an expiration date?

UPDATE -- That didn't take long. It was pointed out to me that I did not pay close enough attention to Mr. Obama's words. He said the government would close the door to cloning for human reproduction, not research! So in reality research can go full speed ahead and, if in the course of research, humans are reproduced through cloning, well, that's progress. If this sounds Clintonian ...

Frozen Embryos, Research & Warning Signs

All the ridiculous media fuss over the "OctaMom" (why must we find a single person upon whom to heap our national scorn?) nevertheless brought an opportunity to think about the thousands of frozen embryos kept across America that will never, ever live natural lives as the Creator intended. Some of these human lives, kept in stasis just a few days from their origin, run the ever-present risk of becoming fodder in science.

One of the questions I've had is how many frozen embryos are there? Earlier today I saw a startling headline: "The U.S. Has More Embryos Than Living People." Could this be true? The article itself provided no facts to back it up, so I did some more searching and came across this at the website for the Rand Institute .

• Nearly 400,000 embryos (fertilized eggs that have developed for six or fewer days) have been frozen and stored since the late 1970s.
• Patients have designated only 2.8 percent (about 11,000 embryos) for research. The vast majority of frozen embryos are designated for future attempts at pregnancy.
• From those embryos designated for research, perhaps as many as 275 stem cell lines (cell cultures suitable for further development) could be created. The actual number is likely to be much lower.

The web page is dated 2003, so even allowing for reasonable growth there are probably a lot fewer than one million frozen embryos. That's a lot better than 300 million but still a sad commentary. Most of the embryos are designated for "family" use but will never be used.

This may explain why some scientists are chomping at the bit for President Obama's executive order promised next week to unleash federal funds for embryonic stem cell research (and loosen restrictions on the available stem cell lines). They are going to find ways to "use" some of these frozen embryos.

If human life begins at conception, then what is happening is horrific, even before Mr. Obama's magic pen makes the situation worse.

And for those of us acquainted with the 1990 Prophecy, the push for embryonic stem cell research (putting science back in her rightful place, I suppose) accelerates a coming chastisement against America. We are failing the test allowed us by the Eternal:

How mankind responds to this new evil will determine the extent, length, and severity of the first chastisements. These chastisements will differ according to regions, and like the great evil, will not always or usually be immediately noticeable for what they are. In the period also will be a warning that involves not fire from the sky but fear of fire from the sky, and strange loud rumblings. This, according to mankind's response, will then be followed by another chastisement, or the inevitable onset of the change of era. Your era is ending. Soon the world will not be the world you know. I am not speaking of a barren world, or one depopulated, but of the end of your technological era. Many inventions of mankind will be broken down and there will be more of a peasant attitude and way of life everywhere. After this breakdown of false society will come persecution of Christians and also a new world order.

Naturally you are free to discern on your own. Believe or disbelieve as you see fit. It is, after all, your free will at play.

But as for me and my house ...

Today's Meme: Science Against True Humanity

Have you picked up on today's Twilight Zone meme in the news cycle?

EUROPE: Scientists warn of nanotechnology threat

Morgellons: Terrifying New Disease Reaching Pandemic Status

Kids Made-to-Order: Science Gone Awry

The first two articles may be inadvertently related. Both are serious expositions of perceived public health threats brought on, in theory, by the commercial application of new technologies.

The third article reports on a retired bishop's reaction (on Vatican Radio) to a new fertility clinic in Los Angeles that promises "designer babies."

What nanotechnology threat?

European scientists are starting to identify tangible health concerns associated with the use of nanoparticles in consumer products. [SNIP]

In particular, the committee has focused on a common type of nanoparticle called nanotubes, noting that when they have "similar characteristics as some types of hazardous asbestos...similar inflammatory reactions can be induced by the nanotubes as asbestos."

This threat is serious because a wide range of industries - from food packagers to pharmaceutical companies, textile manufacturers and paint makers - have been examining the potential benefits of using tiny nanoparticles to improve the quality and physical characteristics of their products. Research in this area has been booming and the commercial spin-offs could be very profitable. However the fly in the ointment is health. [SNIP]

... nanotubes, a common form of nanoparticle, could be manufactured into "long thin fibrous forms (length >20 micrometre), rigidity, and non-degradability", in which case they really would resemble asbestos fibres.

If these were then inhaled - say in a factory manufacturing or processing nanoparticles - then a risk of mesothelioma (the cancer usually caused by asbestos) cannot be excluded, the committee paper noted.

Okay, don't breathe in the nanoparticles. Good safety tip. But the next story, on Morgellons, will make your skin crawl:

(NaturalNews) It sounds like something from a bad sci-fi movie. People report the sensation of creatures crawling under their skin, mysterious moving fibers appear, and finally bugs and worms pop out. Unfortunately, these terrifying symptoms are all too true. The people having them are experiencing Morgellons, the latest and scariest in the series of bizarre diseases appearing in the last few years, seemingly from nowhere. Morgellons is now reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. and abroad.

Morgellons starts with relentless itching, stinging or biting sensations. Cotton-like balls may appear on the body with no reasonable explanation. Soon skin rash develops along with lesions that will not heal. Many sufferers report string-like fibers of varying color popping out through the skin lesions. These fibers can be black, white, red or even iridescent blue. Others report black specks falling from their bodies that litter their sheets and bathrooms. Eventually a variety of bugs and worms begin to find their way out of the body through the lesions. Other accompanying symptoms include hair loss, debilitating and chronic fatigue, hard nodules beneath the skin, and joint pain. [SNIP]

Oakland A's player Billy Koch and his family all have Morgellons. They have been open about their disease and have made some attempt to educate others. Billy had to retire from his baseball career as a result of the disease. Singer Joni Mitchell also has Morgellons, and the disease has negatively impacted her career as well.

The Morgellons story has an Oklahoma tie: one of the first researchers, Randy Wymore, is associated with Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Science. He and others, including the forensics team for the Tulsa Police Department, have done scientific studies on Morgellons fibers.

The team identified the chemical structures of the fibers and compared them to their database of 800 fibers. They found no match, so they used gas chromatography to compare the fibers to their data on 90,000 organic compounds. The fibers did not match up with any of them. They concluded that the fibers were unknown, and not contaminants from clothing sticking to scabs on the lesions as had been thought by those so ready to dismiss what their patients were saying. Wymore and the forensic team concluded that the disease producing these fibers was very real and very frightening.

There's much more, and it's not only worth reading, but I think you owe it to yourself to be at the least aware of the existence of this disease. It's possible that this is the result of bio-weapons research gone awry, or it is the unfortunate result of genetically-modified crop usage.

What it is not is a figment of the imagination.

We mess around with God's created order to our great peril. That's also the theme of Bishop Elio Sgreccia's talk on Vatican Radio about the new fertility clinic:

... The Fertility Institutes, [gives] would-be parents the physical traits they want in their child -- green eyes, for example, or dark skin or blonde hair.

The process screens babies at the first stages of life -- applying technology already used to kill children for sex selection, or who have or could develop genetic defects -- and selects those embryos that meet the tastes of the buyer. The rest are eliminated. The price tag for the process is about $18,000. The Fertility Institutes claims to already have some half-dozen requests for the service. [SNIP]

"... it is about an ethically mistaken operation, and one that wounds the dignity of the offspring, since it is oriented toward manipulating the body, dominating it and transforming it according to one's tastes."

The bishop said that just as it is illicit for a child that has or could develop defects to be eliminated by negative selection, "it is also illicit to make a selection that obeys only the wishes of the parents."

"This is a typical example of science that is not placed at the service of the good, but rather at the desires of those who buy its services; meanwhile those who pay the price in this case are the children," he lamented. "When a norm of creation that is so delicate is violated, the law should take interest in this field."

Bishop Sgreccia said the situation points to the "instinct of manipulation," an instinct that can be detected in the times of Nazism "to a certain degree, since they didn't know everything that is known today." This instinct to manipulate, he affirmed, "continued beyond the abolition of the totalitarian regimes."

I think it could be argued that the eugenics movement came into being well before the Nazi regime, and never really went away. It just went into "deep research mode" and is reappearing, perhaps in time to help spawn new totalitarian regimes, since we are "putting science back into its rightful place."