Book summary “Population control”: summary

Introduction

You live in a world where daily necessities such as food, water, and medicine seem designed to cause illness rather than sustain life. You might notice that modern health problems, invasive surveillance, and constant economic crises feel manufactured rather than accidental. Jim Marrs argues that a wealthy global elite views your existence as a threat and actively deploys covert depopulation agendas.

A wealthy global elite deploys toxic food, environmental manipulation, mass surveillance, and propaganda to enforce population reduction and absolute control over humanity.

The book investigates how hidden powers manipulate your environment and bodily autonomy. You will discover the mechanisms behind contaminated supplies, aggressive policing, and corporate media deception.

• How do powerful entities weaponize food and water against the public?
• What evidence links modern vaccines and medicine to population reduction?
• How does the surveillance state track and control your daily choices?

1. Globalist Agendas and State-Sponsored Population Reductions

A wealthy global elite views overpopulation as the primary threat to the planet and orchestrates covert depopulation policies, state-sponsored birth control initiatives, and surveillance architectures.

The global elite believes that too many people are consuming limited earth resources. This viewpoint leads them to implement tactics aimed at involuntary population reduction and increased wealth hoarding.

The Georgia Guidestones

The Georgia Guidestones monument explicitly mandates maintaining the human population under five hundred million people in perpetual balance with nature.

Commissioned in 1979 in Elbert County, Georgia, by a man using the pseudonym R. C. Christian and completed in 1980, the monument features a ten-part message. The very first admonition calls to keep humanity under 500,000,000 against the backdrop of an approximate world population of 7.5 billion persons in mid-2014.

The monument was defaced by vandals in 2008 with the spray-painted words Death to the New World Order after critics connected its astronomical alignments to secret societies and the global elite's push for depopulation.

The Kissinger Report

National Security Study Memorandum 200 outlines a classified U.S. government plan to curb population growth in developing nations through birth control and other means.

Issued in 1974 by the U.S. National Security Council under the title Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests, the study was adopted as official policy in 1975 by President Gerald Ford to target Lesser Developed Countries. Brent Scowcroft and CIA Director George H. W. Bush were ordered to assist in implementing the covert population reduction plan outlined in the document.

The GOD Syndicate

The financial backbone of the global elites consists of Guns, Oil, and Drugs, known as the GOD syndicate. These three internationally trafficked commodities generate massive revenues and form the primary revenue-generating backbone supporting the master plan of the global elite.

America has engaged in wars for oil, supplied firearms widely, and remained complicit in the global drug trade.

2. Poisoning the Food Supply and Water Networks

Corporate food producers and chemical conglomerates have contaminated staple foods, artificial sweeteners, water supplies, and agricultural practices with toxins designed to induce disease and cognitive decline.

Processed foods are stripped of vital nutrients and formulated with substances that drive consumers mentally insane, cause infertility, and eliminate rational thinking. Mike Adams analyzed over one thousand foods at the Natural News Forensic Food Labs using atomic spectroscopy, uncovering what he termed scientific proof of intentional toxic formulations.

Deadly Grains and Sweeteners

Modern wheat is heavily contaminated with glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, because farmers routinely apply it as a drying agent right before harvest. A USDA report showed that 99 percent of durum wheat, 97 percent of spring wheat, and 61 percent of winter wheat were doused with Roundup during the harvesting process. Today's wheat has 28 percent fewer health-providing minerals compared to previous generations.

Consumer Reports tested 223 samples of rice products in 2012 and found high levels of arsenic, leading to subsequent petitions that established voluntary heavy-metal limits in the natural products industry. Inorganic arsenic levels reached 200 parts per billion, common even in rice-based baby cereals.

The sugar substitute Truvia contains erythritol derived from genetically modified corn, which has been discovered to function as a potent insect pesticide. Simon D. Kaschock-Marenda and Daniel Marenda found that fruit flies fed Truvia had an average lifespan of less than one week instead of the normal 38.6 to 50.6 days. Cargill agreed to put 5 million dollars toward refunding consumers in a false advertising settlement.

Aspartame breaks down into free methanol and formaldehyde in human body temperatures, acting as a neurotoxin that triggers numerous adverse medical symptoms. It accounts for over 75 percent of adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. One quart of an aspartame-added beverage contains an estimated 56 milligrams of methanol.

GMOs and Corporate Lobbying

Genetically modified organisms pose serious, uninvestigated health risks, as corporations have avoided rigorous long-term testing while hiding hazards from the public. Up to 80 percent of processed food contains GMOs, and over 64 countries require labeling of GMO foods. French molecular biology professor Gilles-Éric Séralini published a two-year study showing that mice fed Monsanto’s genetically modified maize NK603 developed increased body and liver weight and organ problems.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Monsanto, and DuPont spent over $27 million in the first half of 2014 to lobby against GMO labeling. Proposition 37 in California was narrowly defeated after opponents spent an estimated $46 million. A 2012 Mellman Group poll showed that 91 percent of consumers wanted GMO labeling.

Overreliance on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops has failed to reduce chemical usage, instead creating toxic superweeds and destroying environmental ecosystems. The use of toxic chemicals like Roundup has increased fifteenfold since GMOs were introduced.

Water Contamination and Fluoride

Public water supplies are heavily contaminated with agricultural runoff, heavy metals, industrial waste, and trace pharmaceutical drugs. Nearly two billion people worldwide drink harmful contaminated water, and one-third of U.S. water systems contain traces of at least eighteen unregulated and potentially hazardous contaminants. Pacific Gas & Electric Company dumped twenty-six tons of chromium-6 into unlined ponds in Hinkley, California, affecting the water supply of up to seventy million people.

Multinational banks and billionaire investors are aggressively buying up global water rights, utilities, and infrastructure. Oregon resident Gary Harrington was convicted and served a thirty-day jail sentence and received a $1,500 fine for collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his property in private reservoirs.

Over 70 percent of Americans drink water containing sodium fluoride. A Harvard School of Public Health and China Medical University meta-analysis of twenty-seven studies involving over eight thousand children found that high fluoride content in drinking water negatively affected cognitive development and lowered IQ scores, mirroring 42 out of 49 human studies that found reduced IQ.

To protect yourself from packaging hazards, you should follow specific steps:

• Remove frozen TV dinners, instant ramen, and soups from their plastic containers before heating.
• Use glass containers, such as CorningWare, Pyrex, or ceramic containers, for heating food instead of plastic.

3. Environmental Hazards, Radiation, and Geoengineering

Global populations face severe, unacknowledged environmental hazards, ranging from Fukushima radiation leaks and cell phone microwave radiation to covert aerial chemtrail spraying.

According to World Health Organization and World Bank statistics, air pollution is the world's biggest environmental health risk, driven largely by burning coal, wood, and animal waste. Research published by the National Academy of Sciences reveals that outsourcing manufacturing to China does not protect Western countries, as wind currents carry dust, ozone, and carbon across the Pacific to accumulate in western U.S. states.

The British School of Beijing installed a giant inflatable dome complete with air locks for sports activities because Beijing continually recorded very unhealthy air quality. In 2012, 7 million people worldwide died from air pollution. EPA rules target a 30 percent reduction of carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants by 2030. In the U.S., 1 in 10 kids suffers from asthma, while the total public cost of pollution reached an estimated $200 billion yearly in 2007.

Nuclear Radiation Risks

Following the 2011 tsunami, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors suffered three core meltdowns and continue to leak radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. The Fukushima number one plant sits 136 miles northeast of Tokyo. In September 2013, officials admitted to 18 times higher radiation readings around the power plant. Surface water in the Pacific Ocean showed radioactive Caesium-137 levels 10,000 times higher than levels found after Chernobyl. Scientists and researchers attempting to study the ecological devastation face government censorship and funding blocks, while insurance companies have quietly begun issuing nuclear-energy-liability exclusions. The estimated cost for damage and repair of Fukushima reactors reached $250 billion.

Australian yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen reported sailing for three thousand nautical miles with no visible signs of marine life or birds, and later encountering dead oceans and floating garbage.

Numerous domestic nuclear sites have experienced unreported or downplayed leaks of enriched uranium and radioactive water. Many U.S. nuclear plants utilize older General Electric Mark-1 reactor designs originally recommended for discontinuation due to containment vessel vulnerability. In March 2006, 9 gallons of highly enriched uranium leaked from a pipe at the Nuclear Fuel Services facility in Erwin, Tennessee. The public only learned about it a year later because the NRC inadvertently mentioned it in an annual report. The United States operates 23 GE Mark-1 BWR reactor nuclear plants, while nuclear power generation accounts for 20 percent of U.S. energy needs.

Microwaves and Chemtrails

Cell phones function as handheld microwave transmitters, and studies link prolonged usage to gliomas and meningiomas, particularly when use starts at an early age. As of 2010, the U.S. had 303 million subscribers to cell-phone service, alongside 5 billion estimated worldwide cell-phone subscriptions and 190,000 towers in the country. Researchers associate usage exceeding 15 hours per month over a five-year period with an increased risk of brain and spinal tumors. Living in close proximity to cell-phone towers exposes populations to constant electromagnetic radiation, leading to adverse neurobehavioral symptoms and sleep difficulties.

A study published in the British Medical Journal concluded that living within 1,600 feet of cell-phone towers resulted in a lack of concentration, vertigo, irritability, and difficulty sleeping.

Persistent high-altitude aerial trails containing toxic heavy metals and polymers are being systematically sprayed across North American skies as part of covert geoengineering or military programs. Unlike normal condensation trails that quickly evaporate, chemtrails persist, spread out into grid patterns, and form an artificial haze. Independent laboratory tests of rainwater, snow, and fallen sticky residues have repeatedly identified toxic elements such as barium, aluminum oxide, and synthetic polymers. At Mount Shasta, snow tests revealed 61,000 parts per billion of aluminum against a normal level of about 7 ppb. Analysts estimate the annual cost of a fleet of high-altitude aircraft spraying particles into the upper atmosphere at 10 billion dollars.

KSLA-TV News in Shreveport, Louisiana, tested water captured under a crosshatch of aerial trails and found exceptionally high levels of barium.

Energy and Fracking

Hydraulic fracturing extracts natural gas at the heavy cost of severe groundwater contamination, toxic chemical pollution, and induced seismic activity. Each fracking site requires 1 to 8 million gallons of water mixed with an approximate mix of 40,000 chemicals. This practice leaches hazardous substances into drinking water wells and dramatically increases the frequency of man-made earthquakes. Out of 155,000 wells in the U.S., about 80 percent use wastewater for hydro-fracking. The yearly rate of quakes above 3.0 on the Richter scale jumped from an average of 21 earthquakes between 1967 and 2000 to an average rate of 100 quakes per year between 2010 and 2012.

The Oklahoma Geological Survey reported an unprecedented twenty earthquakes on a single day in August 2014, linked to injection wells following a massive magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Prague, Oklahoma, in November 2011.

Thoughtful people in America have begun treating their cell phones like credit cards—useful in emergencies but used only on occasion with protective measures like headsets. You must take proactive precautions to minimize exposure to environmental pollutants and radiation hazards:

• End any dependence on nuclear power and promote clean individual air maintenance.
• Keep cell phones away from children and severely limit their use for adults.
• Use a headset when making phone calls to keep heat and radiation away from the brain.
• Recognize the dangers of aerial spraying programs and demand full, honest investigations from government and media.
• Restructure political power first at the local level to ensure a safe and clean environment.

4. The Rise of the Surveillance State and Police Militarization

The federal government exploits post-9/11 fears to expand mass surveillance, militarize local police forces, and subject citizens to aggressive SWAT raids and civil asset forfeiture.

The fall of the Soviet Union left the U.S. without a competing superpower. The state used post-9/11 fears to justify permanent war, massive intelligence budgets, and the creation of a national surveillance state. Author Chris Hedges notes that defense spending totals over 50 percent of the national budget. Globalization and neo-feudalism require spying on citizens to prevent revolt. Courts have legitimized unlawful acts like torture and blanket surveillance.

The NSA covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans, including Faisal Gill, a former Department of Homeland Security official and top-secret clearance holder. Whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA shifted from targeted searches to total blanket collection of global communications. More than 80 percent of global fiber-optic cables pass through the U.S. Over 80 percent of audio calls are recorded and stored by the NSA. Programs like PRISM and RTRG vacuum up phone calls, emails, and internet data of millions of ordinary citizens without warrants. Snowden revealed that NSA employees frequently passed around intercepted intimate nude photographs of citizens among themselves due to weak auditing systems.

The U.S. government maintains secret emergency internal security databases containing detailed personal and financial data on millions of Americans considered potential threats. A database known as Main Core stores names and intelligence data gathered by the FBI, CIA, and NSA. The military would use this data in the event of martial law or a national catastrophe, allowing for quick tracking or detention. Christopher Ketchum reported that approximately 8 million Americans were listed in the Main Core database as potentially suspect in 2008. The FBI's NGI biometric database includes 52 million American faces.

You can protect your privacy by bypassing conventional search engines that build personal profiles and trap you in filter bubbles. DuckDuckGo, a search engine that does not store previous searches or build profiles, handled over a billion queries in 2013. You can rely on alternative tools to avoid data collection:

• Use nontraditional search engines like Startpage, ixquick, and DuckDuckGo that do not track searches or store data.

Militarization of Police and SWAT

Through Department of Defense support programs, local and state police departments have been heavily armed with surplus military combat equipment. Their role has shifted from peace officers to military-style warriors. Under the 1033 program administered by the Defense Logistics Agency, thousands of police agencies receive billions in surplus military hardware. The Defense Logistics Agency disposes of $28 billion of military equipment per year. Over 8,000 state and local police agencies received hardware through the 1033 program, including 432 MRAP vehicles and 93,763 machine guns.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department signed a $24 million contract with NEC Corporation of America to create a high-tech biometric database. The dramatic increase in SWAT team raids has shifted their primary function away from rare hostage crises toward routine property searches. There has been a 15,000 percent increase in the use of SWAT teams since the early 1980s. U.S. SWAT teams conduct 45,000 raids each year according to a 2014 ACLU report. Only 7 percent of SWAT raids relate to hostage situations, barricades, or active shooters, while 80 percent are intended to serve a search warrant targeting someone suspected of a crime.

In May 2014, a SWAT team in Habersham County, Georgia, tossed a flash-bang grenade into the crib of nineteen-month-old Bounkham Phonesavanh during a botched drug raid. The blast severely injured the infant and resulted in nearly $800,000 in medical expenses which the county later refused to pay. Many of these groups operate as unaccountable private corporations or under law enforcement councils to evade public records laws. American police forces have increasingly adopted aggressive crowd control, interrogation, and counterterrorism tactics taught by Israeli military and border police units. In October 2011, joint training exercises code-named Urban Shield took place at the University of California at Berkeley between American police and the Israeli Yamam border police unit. Since the Department of Homeland Security began distributing military weaponry and training, there has been a 500 percent increase in shootings of unarmed civilians.

Civil Asset Forfeiture and Over-Criminalization

Civil asset forfeiture laws allow law enforcement agencies to seize and permanently keep cash and property from citizens without ever charging them with a crime. Driven by municipal desires for revenue, police and federal entities use asset forfeiture to confiscate property suspected of drug involvement. Property owners face immense legal hurdles to recover possessions. Seized funds are frequently funneled directly into police pension funds or departmental budgets. New York police raided Gerald Bryan's home without a warrant, seized $4,800 in cash, and later dropped the charges. Bryan discovered the money had been deposited into the NYPD pension fund under asset forfeiture rules. A former Bronx DA prosecutor noted that 85 percent of civil forfeiture cases involve property owners who are never charged with a crime.

An overwhelming proliferation of complex federal laws, administrative regulations, and obscure local ordinances makes it possible for completely innocent citizens to face severe criminal charges. The U.S. Code contains 50 titles spanning 27,000 pages. The American Bar Association notes that Congress has issued nearly 10,000 administrative regulations. You can be prosecuted for victimless technicalities or honest mistakes while interacting with overzealous authorities. Abner Schoenwetter was sentenced to six years in federal prison for importing fish in plastic bags instead of cardboard boxes, allegedly violating an obscure Honduran regulation that the Honduran attorney general stated did not apply to him.

Communities must return to non-militarized policing, implement independent oversight, and address the root economic causes of crime to dismantle the emerging police state. You can defend yourself and demand accountability using specific practical steps:

• Build a three-foot waiting area extension to the front door as a buffer against no-knock police or intruders.
• Use cell-phone cameras to judiciously monitor police actions.
• Lodge formal complaints when situations warrant police accountability.
• Implement public works projects similar to the WPA to put the unemployed to work on public infrastructure.

5. Deadly Medicine, Vaccines, and Psychiatric Drugs

Conventional medical care, heavily influenced by pharmaceutical profits, serves as a leading cause of death through toxic vaccines, unnecessary surgeries, and dangerous psychiatric medications.

Medical Errors and Chemotherapy

Dr. Barbara Starfield's 2000 JAMA report estimated 225,000 yearly deaths from conventional medical care. Some researchers suggest the actual toll reaches one million preventable deaths annually.

This total includes 12,000 yearly deaths from unnecessary surgeries and 7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals. Hospital infections claim 80,000 lives, while 106,000 deaths stem from FDA-approved and correctly prescribed medicines.

Pharmaceutical companies pay the FDA user fees for drug reviews. This conflict of interest delays safety warnings and obscures severe side effects. Acetaminophen causes 150 accidental deaths each year in America.

Vioxx caused 60,000 deaths before its 2004 withdrawal, despite generating 2.5 billion dollars in sales in 2003 alone. Merck paid a 321 million dollar fine in a 2012 plea bargain after marketing Vioxx through ghostwritten research studies.

Chemotherapy fails to regress metastatic cancers 97 percent of the time, according to a twelve-year meta-analysis in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Cancer research and treatment expenditures are expected to reach 158 billion dollars by 2020.

Nobel laureate Otto Warburg established that cancer thrives on the fermentation of sugar in low-oxygen environments. Dr. Cristina Sanchez demonstrated that THC from marijuana kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue, yet marijuana remains a Schedule I narcotic.

Childhood Vaccines and Whistleblowers

Children in the early 1950s received 13 doses of 4 vaccines. Today, children receive 37 doses of 14 vaccines by age two, and 48 doses of 14 vaccines by age six.

Rising developmental disorders mirror this schedule expansion. Additives like aluminum, polysorbate 80, and thimerosal burden developing immune and nervous systems.

A 2014 CDC report revealed that 1 in 68 U.S. children is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Former CDC scientist Dr. William Thompson admitted that coauthors omitted data from a 2004 Pediatrics article showing black children faced a 350 percent increase in autism risk after receiving the MMR vaccine before 36 months.

GlaxoSmithKline paid a 3 billion dollar fine in 2012 for criminal charges and improper marketing.

Psychiatric Drugs and Violence

The overuse of prescription psychiatric drugs acts as a common denominator in numerous mass shootings, teen suicides, and violent acts.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors affect 25 million Americans. Withdrawal or use of these drugs triggers severe neuropsychiatric symptoms, emotional numbing, and SSRI discontinuation syndrome. SSRI Stories.org houses 5,000 accounts associated with deviant or violent acts.

Mass shooters such as Elliot Rodger, James Holmes, Ivan Lopez, and Aaron Alexis used psychiatric medications like Xanax, Vicodin, Zoloft, Ambien, or Trazadone.

School-age children face overmedication driven by subjective ADHD criteria and mandatory school screening. Chelsea Rhoades, a 15-year-old student in Indiana, received a TeenScreen psychological test without parental consent and was incorrectly diagnosed with social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Eleven percent of schoolchildren ages four to seventeen take psychiatric drugs. Medicaid spends 3.8 billion dollars annually on antipsychotics, including for 10,000 American toddlers medicated outside guidelines.

The Department of Veterans Affairs suffered from administrative corruption and secret waiting lists. Mid-2014 audits covered 731 medical facilities, revealing 57,000 new patients waiting over 90 days for appointments and 64,000 enrolled patients who had not seen a doctor for a decade.

Military personnel faced mandatory vaccination programs containing squalene, an organic compound derived from shark liver oil. Anthrax vaccine allotments contained 34.2 micrograms of squalene per billion micrograms of water.

Retired air force captain Richard Rovet warned that squalene MF59 caused permanent side effects and contributed to Gulf War syndrome, which affected 25 percent of 697,000 U.S. personnel.

Active-duty troops and veterans receive heavy cocktails of antidepressants, antipsychotics, stimulants, and sedatives. Stimulants generate norepinephrine, which increases vulnerability to PTSD.

The military spent 39 million dollars annually on stimulants in 2010, up from 7.5 million in 2001. Ritalin and Adderall prescriptions surged 1,000 percent between 2007 and 2012, while the military suicide rate increased 150 percent between 2001 and 2009.

Veteran Andrew White died in 2008 of an overdose of Seroquel, Klonopin, and Paxil prescribed by VA doctors.

6. Finance Capitalism, Media Oligarchy, and Coming Collapse

Finance capitalism utilizes secret monetary instruments like the Exchange Stabilization Fund to consolidate global economic control outside of democratic oversight. Global banking networks operate without legislative oversight as slush funds for covert operations.

In 2008, the Federal Reserve borrowed $90.3 billion through the Exchange Stabilization Fund to bail out the American International Group. As of December 2014, the ESF held 95 billion dollars in assets. A secretive network of corporate masters coordinates global policies and economic centralization. The Bilderberg Group, discovered in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in Holland, brings together royalty and central bankers annually behind closed doors. Credit Suisse estimates the entire net wealth of the world at $440 trillion, while the top richest one percent owns 46 percent of global assets.

Central banking elites, military contractors, and a five-company media oligarchy manipulate the public through propaganda and economic collapse, forcing citizens toward localized self-sufficiency.

Media Monopoly and Propaganda

The vast majority of media consumed by the public is controlled by just five multinational corporations. Virtually everything seen or heard comes from Disney, News Corporation, Time-Warner, Viacom, and Bertelsmann. A 2013 Gallup poll showed that 77 percent of those polled said they did not trust mainstream television. A 2014 Gallup poll showed confidence in media reporting at an all-time low of 40 percent.

Alternative media and citizen journalists bypass corporate gatekeepers to report real-time events directly to the public. During the 2014 standoff involving Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, corporate media covered the story superficially from the government's point of view. Alternative figures like Pete Santilli, Alex Jones' Infowars, and independent reporters documented unfolding events live. Democratic Party operative David Brock and Media Matters for America used money from George Soros to work directly with establishment journalists.

Defending personal liberty against propaganda requires cultivating critical thinking and questioning authority. You can protect yourself by following clear defensive guidelines:

• Do not just believe the status quo, but question it
• Look for consistency in news reports
• Be wary of fearmongering and media-induced stereotypes
• Search for explanations
• Question all authority

Civilizational Collapse and Survival Preparation

Multiple financial commentators warn that unprecedented national debt levels and global money printing will trigger a catastrophic debt collapse. Analysts predict major economic crashes between 2015 and 2020. Mike Adams' NaturalNews website attracts 5 million monthly visitors. A NASA-sponsored study predicts the collapse of Western industrial civilization due to economic stratification and resource depletion. Congress authorized $17.8 million for the Minerva Initiative in 2014, with a total five-year cost expected to reach $75 million.

To survive societal instability, you should build local self-sufficiency, decentralize away from cities, and maintain basic emergency supplies. The Dervaes family transformed a 1,500 square feet bungalow on one-fifth of an acre in Los Angeles into a microfarm. They grow 350 different vegetables, herbs, fruits, and berries, producing 6,000 pounds of food annually. FEMA states that emergency supplies should last for at least 72 hours. You must prepare a functional emergency kit with essential items:

• Store water at the rate of one gallon of water per person per day for drinking and sanitation.
• Keep at least a three-day supply of nonperishable food.
• Maintain a battery-powered radio and a NOAA weather radio with tone alert, plus extra batteries.
• Keep a flashlight and extra batteries.
• Include a first-aid kit and a whistle to signal for help.
• Pack infant formula and diapers if you have an infant.
• Store moist towelettes, garbage bags, and plastic ties for personal sanitation.
• Include a dust mask or cotton T-shirt to help filter the air.
• Keep plastic sheeting and duct tape to shelter-in-place.
• Have a wrench or pliers to turn off utilities.
• Include a can opener for food if the kit contains canned items.

10 Key Ideas

1. The Georgia Guidestones monument explicitly mandates maintaining the human population under five hundred million people in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Modern wheat is heavily contaminated with glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, because farmers routinely apply it as a drying agent right before harvest.
3. Aspartame breaks down into free methanol and formaldehyde in human body temperatures, acting as a neurotoxin that triggers numerous adverse medical symptoms.
4. The Grocery Manufacturers Association, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Monsanto, and DuPont spent over $27 million in the first half of 2014 to lobby against GMO labeling.
5. A Harvard School of Public Health and China Medical University meta-analysis of twenty-seven studies involving over eight thousand children found that high fluoride content in drinking water negatively affected cognitive development and lowered IQ scores.
6. Following the 2011 tsunami, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors suffered three core meltdowns and continue to leak radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
7. Whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA shifted from targeted searches to total blanket collection of global communications.
8. U.S. SWAT teams conduct 45,000 raids each year according to a 2014 ACLU report, with 80 percent intended to serve a search warrant targeting someone suspected of a crime.
9. Dr. Barbara Starfield's 2000 JAMA report estimated 225,000 yearly deaths from conventional medical care.
10. To survive societal instability, you should build local self-sufficiency, decentralize away from cities, and maintain basic emergency supplies.