You're So Bain, Part I (The Vetting Of Mitt Romney,...)

A promise is a promise, and I promised you something on presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, Mormon leader Joseph Smith, and his love (and his cult's love) for con games and scams - and here it is. If you click on the links - and you'd better if you plan to understand the totality of what I'm saying here - you'll be getting information on LOTS of cultists, cultish thinking, and cult networks, all in an effort to assist you in seeing a more complete picture of The NewAge Movement, than what is merely on the surface of the post. Have you ever heard a NewAger say, "It's all connected"? Well, Chillin's, this is exactly what they're getting at - but re-engineered to expose information rather than obscure it.

Go slow, check out each link, and wait for the "A-ha!" moment. It might take some time as you surf the site but it'll happen - I promise - and, unlike with conspiracy sites, you can rest assured my stuff is all 100% true. It's just a vaguely understood topic, deliberately "occult" (hidden) and so, rarely covered as a whole, rather than in bits and pieces.

So where to begin? (I like how Mitt is all, "Must you?" in this photo above. Yes, I must,…) Let's start with a post I did some time ago on Dan Hurley's outstanding book, "Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry," back when I was attempting to give you a glimpse at the kinds of criminal lowlife's behind the scam of supplements and vitamins. Birds of a feather always flock together. And look - here's another one now, in the Nutraceutical International promotional link provided by my reader, (Miss) PW:

Nutraceutical's beginnings date to 1993, when Bain Capital, Inc.--a Boston-based private equity company--paired with senior management to organize Nutraceutical and consolidate what its leaders thought was a very divided nutritional supplements industry. Bain Capital's leader was Mitt Romney, the Mormon Republican,...

Well, fancy that. And while Bain Capital is located in Boston, where is this nutritional supplements consolidation machine, Nutraceutical, located? According to it's website, it's plopped down right in the power center of Mormon country, just outside of Salt Lake City:

1400 Kearns Blvd., Second Floor, Park City, UT 84060.

How am I doing so far? You following me? Mitt-Mormon-Bain-Nutraceutical-supplements. Oh, baby, we're cooking with fire now! Let's turn up the flame a bit, because, dammit, I promised you people some Mormon-fried weinies:

When Nutraceutical was founded in the early 1990s, it joined a natural products industry in Utah that had a long and colorful history. For example, in a 1979 article, writer Elaine Jarvik said that six Utah herbal companies were not only "the first companies in the world to put herbs in capsules, but they now account for 85 percent of the nation's herb business,…" 

In 1998, the Los Angeles Times ran a four-part series on alternative health. The third article focused on how Utah became what writer David R. Olmos called the "Silicon Valley of herbs." He pointed out that the state's herbal and supplement industry was "bigger even than the skiing trade." In addition to entrepreneurship, Olmos credited Utah's Mormon culture. Although the LDS church had long accepted modern scientific medicine, many of its members used herbs and other forms of alternative healing, partly due to the church's "Word of Wisdom" found in founder Joseph Smith's Doctrine and Covenants. Thus, herbalism, capitalism, and religious factors all took part in creating the history of Utah's herbal products industry.

O.K., that's already a lot to unpack, but I don't mind because it gives me a chance to show you the deceptive game these "nice" Mormon folks are playing on us. Let's look at a previous quote again:

Bain Capital, Inc.--a Boston-based private equity company--paired with senior management to organize Nutraceutical and consolidate what its leaders thought was a very divided nutritional supplements industry.

If that's true, then why are we, all of a sudden, talking about herbs? Who doesn't like herbs? Herbs aren't even "alternative" medicine - real medicine is made from herbs.

The use of the term "herbs" is a Trojan Horse to lure you in. See, it's like when you're nailing some Left-wing alarmist on "global warming" and they immediately switch to the more slippery "climate change" (and I hate when they do that!) their hope is that you won't catch on to the movement of the goalposts:

"Quackery is a pejorative term. Some time ago we recognized that words raise emotions and mental pictures. We recognized the cognitive dissonance raised by them, so we tried to eliminate quackery. We recognized the cognitive dissonance raised when one discusses acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, and healing at a distance as if they were quackery when we made claims. For a century, most people just could not allow for the possibility that these things really work. 

So over time we recognized that we had to do something about our language. That would be the first step in enabling the thought revolution that is upon us, and changing the paradigm in medicine and science. We simply changed the adjectives, and gave alternate names to the methods, added a few phrases to eliminate negative reactions, and shifted the negative terms to descriptions of the Medical Establishment (and, note the caps in that one.) 

We now use words like unorthodox, nonstandard, unconventional, alternative, complementary, and the latest, “integrative.” They produce no emotional reaction. Along with this we invented false dichotomies, which became accepted facts; like holistic vs. reductionist, Western vs. Eastern medicine, linear vs. non-linear thinking. The dichotomies reinforced people’s feelings that these things were opposites, but of equivalent linguistic and scientific value."

But, of course, they aren't. Herbs and supplements are two totally different things - and Mitt Romney is in the business of supplements - it says so, right there on his company's website:

Welcome to Nutraceutical, one of the nation's largest manufacturers of nutritional supplements sold in health and natural food stores.

Not a word about herbs - or herbs and supplements - are we clear?

ARE WE CLEAR?

Yeah, Big Head, because you won't come clean with us on your own - and nobody else is going to vet you - I'm going to have to do it myself. And I'm the guy who knows EXACTLY what you're doing.

To be cont'd,...