Medical marijuana program ‘could save US taxpayer $1bn’ – study — RT America

A new study claims that medical marijuana use directly correlates with a decline in prescription drug use, which could save the US taxpayer up to $1.1 billion a year on Medicaid prescriptions.

The research follows up on another study carried out last year by Ashley Bradford and W. David Bradford which found that taxpayers would save half a billion dollars each year through the provision of medical marijuana.

“Patients and physicians in the community are reacting to the availability of medical marijuana as if it were medicine,” the father-daughter team wrote in their latest findings, published online this week in the Health Affairs publication. Medical marijuana is legal in 28 states and in Washington DC.

4 governors ask Trump admin to chill out on marijuana enforcement https://on.rt.com/87te 

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4 governors ask Trump admin to chill out on marijuana enforcement — RT America

Governors in four states that have legalized marijuana in some form have written a letter to two Trump administration officials requesting they consult with states before making any changes to…

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“Using quarterly data on all fee-for-service Medicaid prescriptions in the period 2007–14, we tested the association between those laws and the average number of prescriptions filled by Medicaid beneficiaries,” the researchers wrote…

 

Source: Medical marijuana program ‘could save US taxpayer $1bn’ – study — RT America

Is the Western Medicine “Standard of Care” really eliminating disease?

Are we better off than we were a century ago or are we being drugged for profit? By Thomasina Copenhaver Sometime about a hundred years ago, the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations decided to “reform” medical education in America by engineering medical school curriculum through their grants and donations. When money comes from a donor—the curriculum…

via Is the Western Medicine “Standard of Care” really eliminating disease?  — The Event Chronicle

We must all push to make sure the criminal US corporate government is shut down on May 1st – Weekly geo-political news and analysis Message from Benjamin Fulford

Although hard experience has taught me not to fixate on particular dates, multiple independent sources are all saying something huge might happen on May 1st. In the corporate propaganda media this is the day when a US government shut down will happen unless the debt ceiling is raised.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-21/trump-administration-begins-quiet-preparations-government-shutdown

It is also the day when Puerto Rico, a wholly owned subsidiary of the US corporate government, is expected to go bankrupt.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-puertorico-debt-bankruptcy-analysis-idUSKBN17E0GN

Sources in the CIA, the gnostic Illuminati, Japanese military intelligence and the Pentagon say this is the day when the world has a fighting chance to permanently shut down the US corporate government and re-establish the Republic of the United States of America known popularly as “the gold ole USA.”

The White Dragon Society is lobbying the US corporate government’s main creditors, Japan and China, to not grant the corporate government any more extensions as long as they remain under Khazarian mafia control. They are being told the controlled demolition of the US corporate government would end financing for endless wars, Daesh, false flag terrorism, the spread of bio-weapons etc. etc.

The Khazarian mafia has become what can only be described as institutionally insane in recent days as the bankruptcy deadline looms. Recent attempts to start World War 3 in Syria and North Korea are being followed up with repeated threats of nuclear and bio-terror and such insanity will no doubt continue until they are permanently put out of business.

It is no coincidence that a new head of the Knights of Malta will be selected on April 29th, just before the US Corporation’s bankruptcy deadline. The Grand Master of the Order, Mathew Festing, was fired recently by the pope ostensibly in a dispute over condoms.

http://alcuinbramerton.blogspot.jp/2017/02/in-knights-of-malta-land.html

However, sources in Japanese military intelligence, the Italian P2 Freemason Lodge and MI6 all confirm the fascist faction of the Knights of Malta, headed by Festing, was deeply involved in the March 11, 2011 tsunami and nuclear terror attack against Japan. The self-described Satanist Leo Zagami, who sent this writer e-mails threatening to sink Japan into the sea immediately after Fukushima, also claimed to be a leader of the Knights of Malta.

As a side note, a friend recently visited Fukushima with a Geiger counter and was unable to detect anything other than normal background radiation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMomGiER3OE&feature=youtu.be

In any case, The Knights of Malta, ostensibly a charitable organization, are the oldest military order in the Catholic Church and the fascist faction of that order has been secretly responsible for controlling world leaders through a combination of bribery, threats and murder. In other words, they have been one of the main the enforcement arms of the secret world government. They have also exercised strong influence over the US military as many top brass are Knights of Malta.

So, an election involving 60 knights will in fact have a decisive influence over the future of the planet, especially the USA.
In a related development, international fugitive Henry Kissinger contacted the WDS las week to say that…

Source: We must all push to make sure the criminal US corporate government is shut down on May 1st

Le Pen, Macron Progress To Second Round As Establishment Parties Crash | Zero Hedge

 

With more numbers coming from the French Interior Ministry, as of 11:31 p.m. local time Macron’s lead is growing to 23.61% as more city votes are counted, vs Le Pen 22.20%, with 41 Million votes counted, or 85.4% of the total. The gap is likely to expand as the final votes are tallied.

Earlier, in a race that was too close to call up to the last minute, Macron, a pro-EU ex-banker and former economy minister who founded his own party only a year ago, was projected to get 23.7 percent of the first-round vote by the pollster Ifop-Fiducial and 24 percent by Harris. Le Pen, leader of the National Front, was given 21.7 percent by Ifop and 22 percent by Harris. Other pollsters projected broadly similar results.

Defeated Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon, Socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and defeated right-wing candidate Francois Fillon all urged voters to rally behind Macron in the second round. A new Harris survey saw Macron winning the runoff by 64 percent to 36, and an Ipsos/Sopra Steria poll gave a similar result.

According to Bloomberg, the key takeaways are as follows:

  • Winners: Independent centrist Emmanuel Macron, in his first run for office, and the National Front’s Marine Le Pen, who succeeded in detoxifying her anti-immigrant party enough to make the second round (as her father did in 2002). The runoff campaign over the next two weeks will feature a stark contrast between Macron’s pro-EU, pro-globalization world view, and Le Pen’s call to close borders and quit the euro currency. Polls show Macron winning handily.
  • Losers: Francois Fillon and Benoit Hamon of the Republicans and the Socialists, respectively, the parties that have dominated French politics for decades. Fillon, the man to beat as recently as January, was undone by a scandal involving an alleged no-show government job for his wife. Hamon was a surprise winner of the Socialist primary after President Francois Hollande decided not to run again, but he never gained traction. At last count he was a distant fifth. Leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon also lost momentum in the campaign’s closing days.
  • Euro soared against both the dollar – rising to the euro’s highest level since Nov. 10, the day after the results of the U.S. presidential election. – and especially the yen, as investors priced in a win for Macron and the receding threat of a far-left or far-right candidate winning the presidency…

Source: Le Pen, Macron Progress To Second Round As Establishment Parties Crash | Zero Hedge

Free Thought Project 4-23-17… “Paradigm Shift: RFK Jr Goes Off on Vaccine Safety Live on TV, No One Attacks Him”

Dr. Steve Pieczenik 4-23-17… Addresses the “Yale Psychiatrists saying they ‘recognize dangerousness’ about Trump” deal (from a mile away, no less)

Office of Poofness 4-23-17… “Earth Day”

Preston James VT 4-20-17… “Big Stories the Controlled Major Mass Media refuses to report truthfully”

DR WILLIAM MOUNT: Atomic Intel Brief – What’s Really Going On

https://youtu.be/s5aAeJtCr9o

Source: DR WILLIAM MOUNT: Atomic Intel Brief – What’s Really Going On

Massive Space Storm That Brought Down San Francisco Grid Paves Way For US Collapse

April 23, 2017 By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A very technical, but fascinating, Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief (MChS) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the massive geomagnetic space storm that struck our planet this past Friday (21 April) crippling many large American cities showed the “extreme liability” inherent in the so-called “revolutionary circuit breaker” foisted upon the West by the world’s most secretive family empire as a means to curtail the hoax called “global warming”—and that, also, exposes a heretofore never seen critical flaw in the national defenses of the United States that could very well cause its total collapse.  [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

 

Power outages reported across the United States after the massive  21 April 2017 space storm

 

According to this report, on 20 April, our planet began to feel the effects of a massive space storm whose Planetary K-Index ratings were recorded greater than 5—with the K-index quantifying disturbances in the horizontal component of earth’s magnetic field with an integer in the range 0–9: with 1 being calm and 5 or more indicating a geomagnetic storm is occurring.

 

 

Our planets electrical grids are protected against such massive geomagnetic storms, this report says, by their universal use of what are called “circuit breakers”—which are described as automatically operated electrical switches designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by the excess current these storms create by their interrupting the electrical flow when surges are detected.

These “circuit breakers”, this report continues, are contained in what are called “electrical substations” that are central to all electrical generation, transmission, and distribution systems—but where “strangely/mysteriously” on 21 April, and as this massive geomagnetic storm was buffeting earth, fires began erupting in throughout the United States—including San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles and Michigan

 

 

Source: Massive Space Storm That Brought Down San Francisco Grid Paves Way For US Collapse

GoldFish Report No. 91, Week 14 POTUS Upade with Kent Dunn

https://youtu.be/qwLfOdair10

Published on 23 Apr 2017

On GoldFish Report No 91, Kent and Louisa discuss the meeting in DC of the IMF, BIS, and World Bank regarding the SDR, the POTUS’s recent Executive Orders particularly regarding the H-1B Visa and their implications, Rumored Operation Gotham Shield possible EMP false flag planned for New York City and New Jersey beginning tomorrow. Also the power outages earlier in the week in NY, LA and SF, implications of the French Election on the RV-GCR, and the theory of incrementalism in public Policy and where it came from and what its agenda is…..And much more.

Captains of Dollar Are Panicked, US Govt Will Default -Bill Holter, Greg Hunter Video 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqatg5WNIvc

Market expert and financial writer Bill Holter says elite were in a “panic” last week to try to push down the price of gold and silver. Holter explains, “You have to understand that gold is the direct competitor versus the dollar.  Other currencies in the world compete with the dollar, but the dollar is the reserve currency.  It supplanted gold in 1971.  Gold and the dollar are direct competitors or arch enemies, or whatever you want to call them.  The best way to make the dollar look good is to make gold look bad.  That’s what the purpose of all these naked sales or contracts are to suppress the price (of gold and silver).   That’s the purpose of it. . . . Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were three big sales back to back to back, which shows the captains of the dollar are panicking.  The dollar definitely looks like its rolling over and has been taking some fairly sizable drops intraday.”

Holter also contends, “The gold market is at an inflection point. The silver market is at an inflection point, and the stock market is at an inflection point.  There are inflection points everywhere, and the dollar is definitely starting to look weak.”

Holter says the financial and geopolitical landscape is a minefield that could detonate at any time. Holter says, “I have long said that because of the derivatives outstanding today, once something blows up, the whole system blows up within 48 hours.  The globe will spin twice, and basically the markets will close.   It really amazes me that there are so many potential fire events out there, and yet there is zero concern. . . . You are going to wake up one morning and something somewhere will have already happened.  At that point, it will be too late for you to do anything.  You are going to wake up and find out there was a dog fight between a Mig and U.S, fighter jet or a sub was sunk or a big bank becomes insolvent.  Who knows what it’s going to be or where it’s going to come from, there are just too many of them.  The point being is it’s here and now.  It’s a dry barn, and they are flicking matches all over the world.”…

Source: Captains of Dollar Are Panicked, US Govt Will Default -Bill Holter, Greg Hunter Video | Economy

Abel Danger: Le Pen Supports State Money French Election

https://youtu.be/cncrazL62Oo

Source: Abel Danger: Le Pen Supports State Money French Election

Field McConnell On Elite Global Child Abuse Rings & How They Get Away With It. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=856sLAgkZvk

Source: Field McConnell On Elite Global Child Abuse Rings & How They Get Away With It. | Galactic Connection

‘Retail Bubble Has Now Burst’: Record 8,640 Stores Are Closing In 2017

Thousands of new doors opened and rents soared. This created a bubble, and like housing, that bubble has now burst.”

– Richard Hayne, Urban Outfitters CEO, March 2017

The devastation in the US retail sector is accelerating in 2017, and in addition to the surging number of brick and mortar retail bankruptcies, it is perhaps nowhere more obvious than in the soaring number of store closures.

While the shuttering of retail stores has been a frequent topic on this website, most recently in the context of the next “big short”, namely the ongoing deterioration in the mall REITs and associated Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities and CDS, here is a stunning fact from Credit Suisse:“Barely a quarter into 2017, year-to-date retail store closings have already surpassed those of 2008.”

According to the Swiss bank’s calculations, on a unit basis, approximately 2,880 store closings were announced YTD, more than twice as many closings as the 1,153 announced during the same period last year. Historically, roughly 60% of store closure announcements occur in the first five months of the year. By extrapolating the year-to-date announcements, CS estimates that there could be more than 8,640 store closings this year, which will be higher than the historical 2008 peak of approximately 6,200 store closings, which suggests that for brick-and-mortar stores stores the current transition period is far worse than the depth of the credit crisis depression…

Source: ‘Retail Bubble Has Now Burst’: Record 8,640 Stores Are Closing In 2017 | Economy

Rockwall, Texas – Inhabited by giants before Noah’s flood? 

Published on Apr 21, 2017

Rockwall, Texas, mentioned in a recent article, is the county seat of Rockwall County. Located at the intersection of State highways 66 and 205, it is a town shrouded in mystery. The town name of Rockwall comes from a geologic formation in the town.
“A stone archway on private property a few block west of the town square is all that remains visible, and even that is overgrown by vines and brush.” In 1949, the archway got filled in with dirt and forgotten.
Source: http://daysgoneby.me

Source: Rockwall, Texas – Inhabited by giants before Noah’s flood? [VIDEO] | Galactic Connection

Thousands Sue Merck Over Dangerous Shingles Vaccine – Your News Wire

Thousands of victims are suing shingles vaccine manufacturer Merck for giving them the very virus the vaccination was supposed to protect them against. 

According to massive lawsuit, the shingles vaccine Zostavax attacks a persons central nervous system causing a painful rash, which can then lead to encephalitis, vision loss and postherpetic neuralgia.

Attorney Troy Bouk was recently interviewed to discuss the dangers of the shingles vaccine and the reason why thousands of its recipients are seeking to hold big pharma accountable for the damage it has done…

Source: Thousands Sue Merck Over Dangerous Shingles Vaccine – Your News Wire

Backfire! Facebook Accidently Identifies Real Fake News! 

Don’t you love it when globalists accidentally turn on one another??

Back in December we wrote about the efforts of Facebook to combat the spread of “fake news” over social media with the introduction of a filter intended to flag ‘fake’ content so that users wouldn’t haven’t to go through the hassle of critically analyzing information on their own.  As we noted at the time, it was a genius plan, except for one small issue:  who determines what is considered “fake news” and how exactly do they draw those conclusions?  From our prior post (see “Facebook Launches Campaign To Combat “Fake News”“):

The first problem, however, immediately emerges because as NBC notes, “legitimate news outlets won’t be able to be flagged”, which then begs the question who or what is considered “legitimate news outlets”, does it include the likes of NYTs and the WaPos, which during the runup to the election declared on a daily basis, that Trump has no chance of winning, which have since posted defamatory stories about so-called “Russian propaganda news sites”, admitting subsequently that their source data was incorrect, and which many consider to be the source of “fake news”.

Also, just who makes the determination what is considered “legitimate news outlets.”

Now, it seems as though the first confirmed victim of Facebook’s ‘fake news’ crusade may be none other than the Chicago Tribune, a newspaper that undoubtedly considers itself a “legitimate news outlet.”

The discovery was highlighted in an article written by the Chicago Tribune’s own Deputy Editor for Digital News, Kurt Gessler, who noted that a curious thing happened back in December when Facebook first changed up its algorithms to target fake news, namely their traffic crashed.  Per the chart below, the typical Tribune post went from attracting the interest of 30-35k people down to 15-20k people in a matter of months.

Meanwhile, the number of Tribune articles shared over Facebook that reached less than 10,000 viewers (i.e. the “duds”) skyrocketed while the number of highly successful articles, those reaching 50,000+ people, simultaneously plunged.

So, either the Chicago Tribune suddenly started producing a lot of garbage that no one wanted to read, which just happened to coincide with the implementation of Facebook’s new “fake news” algo, or the media outlet was pumping out content that Facebook suddenly figured to fit the definition of ‘fake’.

Certainly, the issue couldn’t be attributed to a loss of followers….

…or less content creation.

Perhaps Facebook’s algos are better at identifying “fake news” than we thought.

Source: Backfire! Facebook Accidently Identifies Real Fake News! | Alternative

Fit Comedian Suddenly Dies After Taking on ‘Fake News’, ‘Alternative Facts’

Kiwi Comedian John Clarke recorded his final TV comedy show in Australia last week, featuring fake news and alternative facts before suddenly dying. “He was very fit,” his heartbroken friends and family say. Clarke and Bryan Dawe ran a satirical segment on Australia’s ABCTV every Thursday for 25 years.

The final Clarke and Dawe episode ran this week, days after Clarke’s unexpected death. A note before the special says it was recorded April 5, days before Clarke’s death at age 68 “of natural causes” while hiking in the Grampians National Park in Victoria on April 9.

Friend and former colleague Ross Stevenson said Clarke died from a heart attack.

In the popular two-man ABC series each week, Bryan Dawe interviewed Clarke, who would pretend to be a prominent spokesperson on a particular subject. He often played the role of prime minister in the series, covering the latest political news with a comical flare only his remarkable wit and talent  could achieve.

After Australia’s then-Prime Minister John Howard refused to formally apologize to indigenous Aboriginal people for past human rights abuse atrocities, the actor, who happened to have the same name as the nation’s leader, read a moving apology on television. The 2000 skit on The Games was one of many culturally iconic moments created by John Clarke, beloved comedian and satirist.

In this final episode (below), Clarke plays the role of Richard Shinery, a specialist from a fictional company who explains things – like crowdfunding, ScarJo, “fake news” and “alternative facts” – to people who “haven’t got it yet”.

All week, Clarke’s death has seen outpourings of grief from family, friends and fans in New Zealand, where he was famous for creating the character Fred Dagg in the 1970s, and from Australia.

Clarke and Dawe had also dedicated a program, one of their best, to the United States presidential election

Source: Fit Comedian Suddenly Dies After Taking on ‘Fake News’, ‘Alternative Facts’ | Alternative

Report: FBI Was Willing To Pay $50,000 For Fake Trump Dossier – Your News Wire

According to a lawsuit filed by Cause of Action, the FBI were willing to pay $50,000 to a British spy in order to obtain the phony Trump Dossier. 

FBI director James Comey authorised the wire transfer of funds to former British spy Christopher Steele, even though the information Steele claimed to have was completely fraudulent.

Thegatewaypundit.com reports:

A new report by The Times claims that the FBI was willing to pay up to $50,000 for it, however; the payment was never made…

Source: Report: FBI Was Willing To Pay $50,000 For Fake Trump Dossier – Your News Wire

Marine Le Pen Warns France Is On The Brink Of Civil War – Your News Wire

Marine Le Pen’s campaign have warned that France is on the brink of a civil war due to the open border policy for terrorists in Europe.

According to Le Pen’s campaign coordinator, Jean Messiha, the constant attacks by ISIS militants in France, including Thursday’s murder of police officer Xavier Jugele, are about to push French citizens onto the streets in protest.

Dailymail.co.uk reports:

And Jean Messiha told BBC Newsnight that a continuation of ‘feeble’ leadership will result in ISIS strengthening their grip
within the country, allowing them to carry out even more attacks on a larger scale…

Source: Marine Le Pen Warns France Is On The Brink Of Civil War – Your News Wire

Insider: Hillary Concocted Russian Hacking Story After Battering Bill – Your News Wire

A new Clinton campaign tell-all book reveals how Hillary concocted the Russian hacking narrative after violently attacking husband Bill Clinton backstage after losing to Trump last November. 

According to the book, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, Hillary devised a devious plan to blame the Russians for her defeat “within twenty-four hours of her concession speech.”

According to a CNN reporter who was with Hillary in the immediate aftermath of her election loss, Hillary flew into a violent fit of rage at Bill Clinton and other campaign staff, using physical violence towards those around her.

It was in the immediate aftermath of this, shortly before her concession speech, that the anti-Russian plan was hatched…

Source: Insider: Hillary Concocted Russian Hacking Story After Battering Bill – Your News Wire

Banker: I Was Told To Sacrifice Children At An Illuminati Party – Your News Wire

Dutch banker Ronald Bernard was asked to sacrifice a child at a party. That is when he quit the Illuminati.

Describing his experiences in the banking Illuminati in an gut-wrenching TV interview, Ronald shared details about the way the cabal uses child sacrifice to test and blackmail its members.

“I was warned off when I got into this – don’t do this unless you can put your conscience 100% in the freezer. I heard myself laugh at it back then, but it wasn’t a joke at all.”

“I was training to become a psychopath and I failed.”

Describing the period his “freezer began to malfunction”, Ronald tells a story about crashing the Italian economy and bankrupting companies leading to suicides and destruction – a success worth celebrating, according to his banker colleagues…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEpcY5JU120

Source: Banker: I Was Told To Sacrifice Children At An Illuminati Party – Your News Wire

Alex Jones Channel 4-22-17… [Gab.ai] “New Twitter Alternative Creates Platform For Opposing Views”

William Shatner Says He Believes Vaccines Cause Autism – Your News Wire

Canadian actor William Shatner has come under fire from Big Pharma after daring to share with the public that he believes vaccines cause autism. 

The Star Trek legend published a series of tweets earlier in April where he spoke out against the dangers of vaccines, directly confronting one of the vaccine industry’s most malicious attack dogs, Dr. David Gorski.

Naturalnews.com reports:

Dr. Gorski, a breast cancer surgeon who preys upon black women in the Detroit area and is a colleague of Dr. Farid Fata, a cancer fraudster who was arrested by the feds, indicted for massive medical fraud, and is now serving 20+ years in federal prison. They both worked in the same facility, and Dr. David Gorski has been reported to the FBI for possible conspiracy involvement in criminal schemes involving medical malpractice and the high-profit maiming of innocent women for profit…

https://vimeo.com/211737394

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDNLsEZiyg

Source: William Shatner Says He Believes Vaccines Cause Autism – Your News Wire