{"id":999,"date":"2012-07-17T07:44:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T11:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2012-07-17T07:44:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T11:44:39","slug":"the-unholy-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-unholy-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unholy Alliance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I have to tell myself not to be so paranoid.\u00a0 As you will have figured out by now, when it comes to food and health, I’m no fan of the government, Big Ag and the drug companies.\u00a0 Now a writer has developed some history that indicates we need to throw Big Banks into the mix as well.<\/p>\n

There’s no question that we’re an over-weight, over-medicated nation, but I hesitate to blame it on a “grand conspiracy” put in motion 100 years ago.\u00a0 Nevertheless, that’s the claim.\u00a0 You can read and decide for yourself.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2012\/07\/15\/ellen-brown-discusses-money-system.aspx?e_cid=20120715_SNL_Art_1<\/a><\/p>\n

When you consider today’s “insider relationships”, cronyism and the revolving door involving people at the very top of the financial industry, Big Ag and the government, it’s hard to resist the thought that this has all been in the works for some time and we have been blissfully ignorant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I have to tell myself not to be so paranoid.\u00a0 As you will have figured out by now, when it comes to food and health, I’m no fan of the government, Big Ag and the drug companies.\u00a0 Now a writer has developed some history that indicates we need to throw Big Banks into the mix as well. There’s no question that we’re an over-weight, over-medicated nation, but I hesitate to blame it on a “grand conspiracy” put in motion 100 years ago.\u00a0 Nevertheless, that’s the claim.\u00a0 You can read and decide for yourself. http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2012\/07\/15\/ellen-brown-discusses-money-system.aspx?e_cid=20120715_SNL_Art_1 When you consider today’s “insider relationships”, cronyism and the revolving door involving people at the very top of the financial industry, Big Ag and the government, it’s hard to resist the thought that this has all been in the works for some time and we have been blissfully ignorant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-government","category-on-the-soap-box","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}