Dutch Hunger Winter

In September 1944, trains in the Netherlands ground to a halt. Dutch railway workers were hoping that a strike could stop the transport of Nazi troops, helping the advancing Allied forces.

But the Allied campaign failed, and the Nazis punished the Netherlands by blocking food supplies, plunging much of the country into famine. By the time the Netherlands was liberated in May 1945, more than 20,000 people had died of starvation.

The Dutch Hunger Winter has proved unique in unexpected ways. Because it started and ended so abruptly, it has served as an unplanned experiment in human health. Pregnant women, it turns out, were uniquely vulnerable, and the children they gave birth to were influenced by famine throughout their lives.

“How on earth can your body remember the environment it was exposed to in the womb — and remember that decades later?” wondered Bas Heijmans, a geneticist at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Dr. Heijmans, Dr. Lumey and their colleagues published a possible answer, or part of one, in the journal Science Advances. Their study suggests that the "Dutch Hunger Winter" silenced certain genes in unborn children — and that "they’ve stayed quiet [remained dormant] ever since."

The study of this long-term gene control is called epigenetics. Researchers have identified molecules that cells use to program DNA, but how those tools work isn’t entirely clear. One of the most researched is a molecular cap called a Methyl Group. The theory is that the Dutch Hunger Winter added a methyl group to fetuses born to starving mothers, which made the PIM3 gene less active — and continued to do so for life. The result? “Maybe your metabolism is in a lower gear,” Dr. Heijmans said...

Many researchers have speculated that prenatal conditions can influence people’s health across their lifetime, and some have speculated that methyl groups or other forms of epigenetics put this so-called fetal programming into action.

By Carl Zimmer, Jan. 31, 2018, NY Times

Crime creates business just as destruction creates business in Haiti and many other poor countries. There are roughly 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S. Many are in prisons run by private corporations who trade their stock on Wall Street. Therefore it is incumbent (and highly profitable) upon the U.S. Judicial System to incarcerate as many of its nations poor as it can - guilt or innocence is not a factor. This is a universal malady of what such an evil economic paradigm engenders.

"Planned Obsolescence" is a policy of producing consumer goods that rapidly become obsolete and so require replacing, achieved by frequent changes in design, termination of the supply of spare parts, and the use of nondurable materials.

Planned obsolescence describes a strategy of deliberately ensuring that the current version of a given product will become out of date or useless within a known time period. This proactive move guarantees that consumers will seek replacements in the future, thus bolstering demand.

Obsolescence can be achieved through introducing a superior replacement model, or by intentionally designing a product to cease proper function within a specific window. In either case, consumers will theoretically favor the next generational products over the old ones (see Apple iPhone).

Product sustainability is inverse to economic growth. Efficiency, sustainability, and preservation are the enemies of our global economic system.

The Service Industry operates with an equal rationale. There is no monetary benefit to resolving any problems which are currently being serviced. Similar in the pharmaceutical industry. At the end of the day, the last thing the medical establishment really wants is the curing of diseases, such as cancer. Doing so would eliminate countless jobs and trillions in revenue. 

Crime and terrorism in our economic system are good. Employing police, generating high value commodities for security, increases the value of privately owned prisons, thus increasing profit. The War Industry in America is a huge driver of GDP (Gross Domestic Product), producing weapons of death and destruction. Blow things up, offer contracts to major companies, then go and rebuild for mass profits. Problems are created to generate mass revenue for the global elite. That's just how our manipulative world works. 

From a larger, spiritual perspective, we're actually ok with the malevolence on this terrestrial level. Our ethereal, energetic selves understands that the soul loves experience and doesn't fear suffering. The soul knows it can never be injured. This doesn't mean it isn't natural for people to prefer pleasure over pain. 

We are all characters in this earthly drama and it's all part of the plan. Case in point, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won Academy Awards playing respectively, a rogue drug dealing cop in "Training Day" (2001) by the name of Alonzo Harris, and Ms. Berry played the role of a struggling waitress - Leticia Musgrove, in "Monster's Ball" (2001) - who dealt with unspeakable tragedy most of her life." 

Coined by William Shakespeare, he says,

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

The meaning of this phrase is that this world is like a dramatic Play, and all human beings are merely actors. The undeniable and unfortunate truth in Shakespeare's expression is that everyone cannot always play the "good guy" or the "winner." In one or two (or more) lives you probably played the roles of characters like Alonzo, Leticia (who really wasn't a bad character, just unfortunate), Donald, Idi Amin, and even a starving, homeless Middle Eastern child who did not see his or her 4th birthday. Three-dimensional environments are designed that way.