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One thing you don’t want to be during the coming “crunch” – a polite word for “collapse” – is dependent on the system. The more you can take care of yourself, the better off you’ll be physically, financially, emotionally and even spiritually. Here are 20 ways to become more self-sufficient while you still can:

1) Get a small solar system that can be used to run a laptop or recharge batteries

2) Drill a water well and install a hand pump or solar-powered DC pump

3) Set up a rainwater collection system or barrel

4) Stash some cash: stock away some green dollar bills and lots of U.S. nickels

5) Own and learn how to use a handgun, rifle and shotgun

6) Store some ammunition

7) Own and know how to use a water filter

8) Start a garden this spring and acquire more food production skills

9) Save garden seeds so you can plant the next generation of food

10) Acquire a wood-burning stove for heat and cooking

11) Possess a large quantity of stored food; enough for at least 90 days

12) Get to know your local farmers and ranchers

13) Store up valuable barter items that are relatively cheap today: Alcohol, coffee, ammo, matches, etc.

14) Safely store extra vehicle fuel (gasoline, diesel) at your home or ranch Be sure to use fuel stabilizers to extend their life.

15) Learn emergency first aid skills and own first aid supplies This could save a life or possibly save a trip to the emergency room.

16) Start growing your own medicine Plant and grow aloe vera, oregano, garlic, cayenne pepper and other medicinal herbs that can replace a surprisingly large number of prescription drugs. Oregano, for example, is a potent antibiotic. Aloe vera treats cuts, scrapes and burns.

17) Own emergency hand-cranked radios so you can tune in to news and announcements My #1 recommended brand is Freeplay.

18) Boost your immune system with vitamin D and superfoods

19) Increase your level of physical fitness

20) Learn how to raise animals such as rabbits, chickens, goats or cows.

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In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater shooting, a surveillance video has surfaced that shows the simple, obvious answer to the question on everybody’s mind: How do we stop a massacre?

The answer is revealed in the stunning short video shown below. This remarkable solution:

• Requires no police. • Costs the taxpayers no money. • Requires no up-front paperwork. • Protects innocent lives. • Is deployed in as little as FIVE seconds. • Works everywhere. • Deters violent crime. • Makes bad guys flee immediately. • Is easy to learn. • Functions at the local level. • Does not require control or intervention by the United Nations or any government entity.

Watch the video

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Two
days ago I asked the commonsense question, “Why didn’t anyone
fight back against James Holmes, the shooter who shot so many people
in the Batman movie theater?”

Now the answer
has become clear: Because Aurora, Colorado already has strict gun
control laws on the books that make it:

• Illegal
  to carry a concealed weapon, even if you’re a law-abiding citizen.
• Illegal
  to discharge a firearm in public unless you are a peace officer.

Thus, any
person who would have shot James Holmes and stopped the massacre
would, themselves, have been arrested as a criminal!

In Aurora,
Colorado, it is illegal to stop a massacre

“I cannot help
but think, if one person in that audience was carrying a gun with
them, that person could have saved lives. Unfortunately – despite
what some of the Left have said – this tragedy is an example
of the importance of our Second Amendment Rights,” reports
Ron Meyer at CNS News.

“Crime rates
alone of cities such as Chicago and Washington D.C. prove that gun
bans only increase crime. The D.C. police response rate is eight
minutes; most crimes are done in less than one. Gun bans create
a trouble-free world for criminals considering no one can defend
themselves.”

As a lawful,
FBI-background-checked individual with a concealed carry permit,
if I had been present in the Aurora, Colorado movie theater during
this shooting, I would have been arrested and charged as a felon
for discharging my own firearm aimed at James Holmes. It is apparently
a “crime” to defend innocent lives, protect children, stop a shooting
and end a massacre in Aurora Colorado. It is a crime to protect
your own children from violence.

Violent criminals
now know to target Aurora, Boulder, Broomfield, Longmont and other
“gun ban” cities in Colorado

According to
current Colorado law, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon
in all the following cities:

Aurora, Boulder,
Broomfield, Colorado Springs, Denver, Englewood, Lakewood, Littleton,
Longmont, Northglenn, Pueblo, Thornton, Westminster, Wheat Ridge.

It is illegal
to even OWN a large number of firearms in Thornton and Lafayette.
In Aurora, it is illegal to carry a firearm in a vehicle! Thus,
even driving to a movie theater with a firearm in your own car makes
you a criminal.

These laws
did not stop James Holmes from driving with a loaded gun in
his car, along with explosives that were also found in his car.
Once again, this demonstrates that gun control laws only disarm
the public while allowing criminals to have “free reign” over
a completely helpless public.

Here are some
of the other
gun control laws that already exist in Aurora.

1. “Dangerous
weapon” includes firearm
2. Revocation of license for furnishing a firearm to a minor or
someone under the influence.
3. Window displays cannot include firearms with barrels less than
12 inches long.
4. Unlawful to carry concealed “dangerous weapon”
5. Unlawful to discharge firearms, unless by law enforcement on
duty or on shooting range.
6. Unlawful to possess firearm while under the influence of intoxicant
7. Unlawful to have loaded firearm in motor vehicle.
8. Unlawful for a juvenile to possess a firearm.

By definition
criminals do not abide by such laws

Notice, again,
that none of these laws stopped James Holmes. By definition criminals
do not follow these laws. Thus, the only real impact of gun disarmament
of the public is to create yet more victims by making sure the honest,
law-abiding citizenry is completely defenseless against criminals.

So this answers
my previous question of why nobody shot back. The answer is that
all law-abiding citizens left their guns at home in order to “comply”
with Aurora gun control laws!

This is precisely
what allowed the massacre to produce such a high body count. Had
just one person been in that audience with a concealed carry permit
and a loaded firearm, they could have shot back and ended
the massacre. The number of dead could have been sharply reduced.
Lives could have been saved.

“Mass shootings
can be stopped. People need to arm themselves with the facts (and
with weapons). If one law-abiding person in the theater had been
carrying a gun, lives could have been saved,” writes
Hillary Cherry at CNS News.

And she’s
right.

Gun disarmament
really means gun concentration in the hands of government

A disarmed public
is helpless against crazed shooters. But the government wants you
to believe that the answer to all this is yet more gun confiscation
from law-abiding citizens.

This makes
about as much sense as trying to fight a fire by throwing gasoline
on it. If the reality is that police can’t protect you and
that honest, law-abiding citizens are forced to leave all their
guns at home, then how are violent criminals (who ignore laws, of
course) supposed to be stopped by forcing even more restrictive
gun control laws onto the victims themselves?

The Aurora,
Colorado shooting victims died in their seats because they could
not shoot back. Now, Obama, Bloomberg and others want to actually
promote those same victim conditions across the entire nation, practically
ensuring more violent crime takes place against a disarmed and helpless
public.

Washington
D.C., it seems, will not be satisfied until we are all placed in
the same seats under which the victims of Aurora, Colorado helplessly
died. We are all to be made powerless, defenseless and totally dependent
on government employees with guns (i.e. police) instead of having
the right to defend our own families against random acts of sudden
violence.

Now it all
makes sense: Aurora, Denver and Boulder will be the perfect targets
for future massacres because violent criminals who want to
kill as many people as possible are smart enough to understand their
odds are better when nobody can shoot back.

This is why
Hitler disarmed the Jews, of course, before sending them to the
gas chambers. It’s so much easier to load people onto railroad cars
at gunpoint if they can’t shoot back. Disarmament has always been
the aim of every government that sought total power over the People.
Historically, this has almost always led to mass murder or genocide
at the hands of corrupt, criminal government.

Self defense
is a DIVINE right

The right to protect
your person, your children and your family is a divine right, granted
in alignment with the principles of our Creator. We see self defense
reflected throughout nature, from the spines on a cactus plant to
the ability of nearly every plant or animal to fight back against
predators that would cause it harm.

The United
Nations, which is an evil, destructive force of global domination,
does not recognize the fundamental human right of self defense.
Instead, it pursues a philosophy of a “monopoly of violence” in
the hands of world governments.

The United
Nations, in other words, is not truly “anti-gun,” it simply wants
all the guns in the hands of government workers and none of the
guns in the hands of the people.

Remember this
about gun control: No government seeks to eliminate ALL guns.
It only seeks to monopolize the guns in the hands of government
and thereby create a so-called “monopoly of violence” to be used
against the People.

You don’t
hear governments, for example, say they’re going to disarm all their
police, disarm the FBI, disarm the ATF and disarm the military.
That would be “disarmament” if really true. No, what they propose
is selectively disarming only the public while concentrating
the “monopoly of violence” in the hands of the government.

This creates
a dangerous imbalance of power, especially given that cities and
states are sharply cutting back on law enforcement budgets due to
increasing debt. The police simply can’t protect private citizens
from violence, and the recent shooting in Aurora, Colorado absolutely
proves it. Let there be no doubt that dialing 911 and screaming
for help does about as much good as crossing your fingers and wishing
for a magical genie to appear and take out the bad guy.

But we don’t
need magical genies to do that job. We already have millions of
law-abiding citizens all across the country who responsibly carry
concealed weapons, acting as a powerful deterrent to outbreaks of
violence. Those citizens pass background checks, they get fingerprinted,
they must pass training courses to show competency in handling firearms.
But citizens who can stop crime are not welcomed in Aurora, Colorado!

Because stopping
a massacre in Aurora is a crime!

Aurora, the
city of surrender to violent crime

Aurora, Colorado
should rename itself “the city of surrender” to violent crime. Welcome
to Aurora! Disarm yourself and prepare to be shot, because even though
you’re not allowed to protect yourself, our police force is so thin
and spread out that we can’t protect you either. Good luck!

Mass shootings
CAN be stopped. They can be stopped by private citizens working
with the same aims as peace officers: to stop the violence
immediately, thereby saving lives.

It is astonishing
that cities like Aurora, Colorado do not allow citizens to protect
themselves against violence. The deaths of those 12 victims rest
squarely on the officials of the city of Aurora who deliberately
created an environment of total helplessness that directly led to
the unnecessary deaths of innocent people, including young women
and children.

City and state
officials of Colorado are, in my view, negligent in these
deaths and should be sued by the families of the survivors for criminalizing
self defense. Shame on these officials! Shame of those who demand
that we all become victims of violent crime. Shame on those who
call for yet more disarmament of the public which will inevitably
lead to yet more violent crime that can’t be stopped.

Think about
these FACTS for a second

• The massacre
  in Aurora took only two minutes to carry out.
• The average
  response time of police is, at minimum, six minutes (and
  getting worse).
• A typical
  concealed carry holder can draw, aim and shoot back in less than
  five seconds.

Do the math.

One of the
most shocking realization emerging from the James Holmes Batman
movie shooting rampage in Aurora, Colorado is the fact that nobody
apparently tried to stop the shooter. This is absolutely baffling.
Out of at least 70 moviegoers (and maybe more, as numbers remain
sketchy at the moment), it appears that nobody tried to tackle him
to the ground, shoot back with their own gun, or even fight back
in any way whatsoever. The accounts of witnesses are those of people
fleeing, ducking and screaming… but not fighting for their lives.

This story
is in no way intended to blame those present at the theater for
what was obviously a horrifying, shocking and probably very confusing
event, but at the same time we must ask the question: Why did
no one fight back?

See
my previous story, by the way, which asks other questions about
this shooting, such as where did Holmes get the training and the
funds to build a complex maze of flammable booby-traps?

“There were
bullet [casings] just falling on my head. They were burning my forehead,”
Jennifer Seeger told reporters in an LA
Times article. “Every few seconds it was just: Boom, boom,
boom,” she said. “He would reload and shoot and anyone who would
try to leave would just get killed.”

Another bizarre
quote appears
in the Daily Mail:

A baby
was shot at point blank range, the family were gathered around screaming.

Huh?

If the baby
was shot at point blank range, that means the shooter was right
there beside them. Instead of gathering around and screaming,
why didn’t the family tackle the shooter?

This is not
any sort of insensitive attempt at satire or blaming anyone, by
the way. This is purely an effort to ask a deeply disturbing question
that has been bothering me ever since this whole thing went down:

How can
a lone gunman fire off at least 100 rounds in a crowded theater
full of people and have NOBODY fight back, shoot back or attempt
to tackle him?

The guy literally
walked in, tossed a couple of smoke bombs, started shooting everybody
in sight, and for some reason that remains entire unexplained, they
let him do it. When he finished, he walked out the door and
calmly surrendered to police, mission accomplished. He was never
shot at, stabbed, kicked, punched, tripped or attacked in any way
whatsoever, apparently.

It would
have taken at least two full minutes to carry out the attack

Importantly,
this shooting had to have taken several minutes to carry out.
To fire 100+ rounds of ammunition from any weapon requires multiple
reloads, each of which takes several seconds to carry out. There
would have been long pauses in the shooting. There has even been
a report that the AR-15 rifle used by the shooter jammed, which
would have created an even longer pause.

These pauses
are opportunities to bum rush the guy, or shoot back, or throw something
at him, or just punch him right in the jaw with everything you’ve
got. Holding a gun does not make you invincible. If anything, it
makes you very, very vulnerable to all sorts of attacks. As I learned
in my own defensive training, often alongside peace officers:

• Nobody
  has eyes in the back of their head. Attacks from behind are very,
  very effective.
• A gun only
  points in one direction at a time. It cannot shoot backwards,
  behind the person holding it.
• A gas mask
  SEVERELY limits angle of perception of vision. Someone wearing
  a gas mask, as is reported in this incident, is ridiculously vulnerable
  to attacks from behind, from above, from the sides and from below.
• No man
  can ignore a deliberate knee to the groin (from the front), or
  a “kickball” kick to the groin from behind. Such moves are taught
  in martial arts such as Krav Maga, and they are very, very effective
  at bringing any man to his knees, either screaming or even vomiting
  in pain.
• At close
  range, guns are LESS dangerous than knives. A knife can cut along
  an entire geometric plane, but a gun can only fire at a single
  point in space. Guns jam, guns run out of ammo, guns need to be
  reloaded. A knife, on the other hand, has none of these limitations.
  Disarming someone with a gun is MUCH easier than disarming someone
  with a knife.

Something
doesn’t add up

It is bewildering
that during the several minutes it would have taken for Holmes to
fire 100+ rounds into the crowd, nobody fought back.

Again, I’m
not blaming the people there, I’m just bewildered that nobody fought
back. It doesn’t make sense. Unless, of course, the very fabric
of American culture is now so passive and afraid that people
have forgotten how to take action in the face of fear.

I think I
speak for a great many concealed carry permit holders when I say
that if I had been in that theater, I would have been emptying magazines
in the direction of the threat (i.e. putting sights on target and
repeatedly pulling the trigger). Like many concealed carry weapon
holders, I would have turned that scene into what we sometimes jokingly
call a “two-way range.”

Like all other
concealed carry holders, I am reluctant to ever draw a weapon on
anyone, but I’m absolutely willing to do so in order to try to stop
a massacre from taking place.

What I can’t
understand is how apparently NOBODY in the entire theater had the
training or the presence of mind to fight back. This is truly astonishing
at every level. In America today, do people just lay down to
die when there’s a gunman in the room? I’m not asking this to
be insulting in any way, I’m simply bewildered by the lack of action.
This is an honest question: WHY did no one act?

Shattering
myths: Guys with guns can be physically assaulted, even if you’re
unarmed

Here’s a news
flash for those who have never trained in these scenarios: Guys wielding
guns are very, very easy to disarm during reloads – far easier
than trying to disarm someone with a knife, as mentioned earlier.
“Weapon takeaways” are routinely taught in Krav Maga, for example,
and they are fast and effect, usually breaking the bad guy’s trigger
finger in the process.

Taking away
a weapon from a gunman is surprisingly easy. Forcing him to the
ground takes almost no effort at all. This shooter could have been
easily disarmed and pummeled to the ground by a single person,
not to mention two or three working together.

Instead, the
only reports we get from this incident are those of people screaming
and hiding, or sometimes fleeing. To my knowledge, there are
no eyewitness accounts of anyone rushing the gunman, shooting back,
or trying to even trip him to fall on the floor. And yet empty shell
casings were literally falling right onto people within arms’ reach
of the guy.

As the
Daily Mail reports:

Twenty-five-year-old
Jennifer Seeger, of Aurora, says she was in the second row, about
four feet from the gunman. She says she ‘was just a deer in headlights’
and ducked to the ground.

Tactically
speaking, there is absolutely no way that one person can shoot 70
people unless those 70 people just lay there and let it happen.
To shoot 70 people, the guy must have pulled the trigger at least
100 times, probably a lot more, as accuracy in these situations
is usually quite poor. Most likely we’re going to find up to 200
rounds expended, once a final forensic count is completed.

News reports
say he used as 90-round ammo “drum” for the AR-15. These drums are
notoriously bad at feeding ammo, making them useless on the battlefield,
which is why soldiers never use them on their personal AR-15s (they
use 30-round mags). According to reports, Holmes’ AR-15 drum jammed
during the shooting (no surprise) and he had to abandon that weapon
and start using something else. All this would have taken time for
him to sort out, during which the shooter is completely vulnerable
to all sorts of grappling attacks, punches, kicks to the groin,
eye gouges, weapon takeaways, etc.

Yet, strangely,
nobody rushed the guy. Nobody shot back. Nobody tried to punch him.
I honestly don’t understand this.

A culture
of passive victims

It occurs to me
that maybe I’m different from most Americans today in the fact that
I am willing to fight back. For some reason, that seems to
be a rarity these days. Too many people have bought into learned
helplessness, where they depend on the government to take care
of them, keep them safe and solve all their problems.

Once you outsource
your personal security to the government – usually by having
no defense skills and hoping 911 will respond quickly – you
make yourself an easy victim for violent criminals.

The true path
to personal safety and security is to learn how to protect yourself
and your loved ones. There are many ways to do that, from basic
hand-to-hand combat and martial arts skills to learning proficiency
in the “American martial art” of hand-gunning. I’ve personally trained
with numerous instructors who could have taken Holmes out from 20-30
meters away with a single shot to the head, with about 90% accuracy
even under pressure. There are lots of proficient firearms owners
across America, and a great many of them are carrying those weapons
into movie theaters, shopping malls, retail stores and even at the
airport. Why was no one carrying a concealed weapon at the Batman
movie theater in Aurora? I have no idea.

Again, it’s
difficult to second guess what really went down there with all the
confusion, the screaming, the smoke and so on. Maybe there were
concealed carry weapon holders in the room but they couldn’t get
a clear shot. One thing concealed carry holders are always taught
is to never shoot at a bad guy if there are innocent civilians behind
him. (You’re always trained to know what’s BEHIND your target.)
This might have made target acquisition difficult, but given the
reality of what was unfolding, it would seem logical to pull the
trigger anyway, as allowing the shooter to stand would clearly result
in a great number of additional deaths.

Also, there
is the distinct possibility that perhaps someone did pull a gun
on Holmes, but they got shot by him first. We don’t know the real
story on this until more information is released by investigators.
So perhaps there was someone who had the courage to fight back and
we just haven’t learned about them yet.

What we do
know, so far at least, is that no stories of attempted heroism have
emerged. Not a single account that I’m aware of, and I’ve been scanning
the stories. This is very, very strange. Something doesn’t add up
yet again.

Is American
culture now one of total surrender?

What I’m starting
to think really happened is that the American culture is becoming
one of total surrender to criminals. Why do people line up
at the airports and allow the TSA go grope their genitals? Because
they’re passive and they’ve surrendered instead of fighting back.
Why do stay silent when runaway criminality is happening all around
them in the form of armed
raids on raw milk farmers and government
hit squads trying to kill farmers’ ranch pigs in Michigan? Because
people are scared into silence.

Americans,
it turns out, are easy to terrorize. They’re easy to freeze into
a state of fear-based non-action. That fear can and will be used
against them, again and again. Look at the post 9/11 effort to crush
freedom and destroy the Bill of Rights. It succeeded because Americans
were terrorized and willing to give up all their liberties for the
false promise of a little security.

The police
cannot protect you

This is concerning
for lots of reasons beyond the Batman shooting. It means the population
is just cannon fodder for armed gangs of looters when the next collapse
comes, and the debt spending of the U.S. government absolutely guarantees
a financial collapse is just around the corner. (It’s only a matter
of time.)

It’s beginning
to look more and more like only those of us who have the natural
instinct to fight back – and who are willing to acquire fundamental
skills of personal defense – will be left standing in the long
run. Even those of us who have such skills will need to be both
well practiced and, to some extent, lucky. But luck has a way of
bending your way when you’re prepared, I’ve noticed.

I hope YOU,
the readers, are among those of us who are survivors. We need more
good people to survive and help lead our nation into a future of
liberty, abundance and lasting health. We need more good people
to survive social unrest, the aftermath of natural disasters, the
coming economic collapse, food shortages, roving bands of armed
gangs and so on. If anything, right now is a time for more people
to go out and get trained on personal defense, whether that’s with
martial arts, rape prevention classes, or even quality firearms
training.

It should
hopefully be obvious at this point that the police cannot protect
you. Calling 911 is about as useless as crossing your fingers
and hoping you won’t die. And that’s even if 911 answers, because
911 services are easily taken offline even by wind storms (as we
saw recently in Washington D.C.). If you cannot protect yourself
and your family, you’re not ready for what’s coming, I believe.
Get prepared. Get some skills. Practice to the point of proficiency.
Decide to survive rather than surrendering to violence.

Much of this,
after all, is simply a mental decision. I have no idea why that
mental decision did not take place inside the Batman movie theater,
but I know that you and I can make that decision right now –
the decision to SURVIVE – and we can move forward in life with
the strength and power of sticking with that decision.

YouTube video
posted:

Listen to
my YouTube explanation of all this:

The Hunger
Games is a wildly popular new movie set in a dystopian future where
an all-powerful, high-tech centralized government rules over "districts"
of impoverished populations barely surviving in third-world conditions.
The film, based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins,
is important to understand because it depicts the very future that
the global elite are trying to create. In fact, much of what is
shown in The
Hunger Games has already begun (see below).

The film is
set 74 years after a popular uprising that failed to overthrow a
corrupt, centralized federal government. As punishment for the attempted
uprising, the all-powerful government now requires each of 12 districts
to "volunteer" a young girl and boy each year to participate
in the Hunger Games – a bloodsport "breads and circuses"
event that serves as the opiate of the masses to distract society
from the fact that they are all slaves living under tyranny.

Spoiler
alert: This article reveals plot elements that may spoil the movie
for you if you haven’t yet seen it.

The central
themes of domination and control

The movie reflects
numerous central themes of government control over the masses, including:

• Control
  over food: Residents of the 12 districts are not allowed to eat
  more food than they are allotted by the government. Being caught
  catching a squirrel for food results in severe punishment.
• Control
  over land: The 12 districts are fenced off with high-voltage power
  lines, much like you might find in North Korea today. Most of
  the world is "conserved" as wild forest and grasslands,
  with humans only being allowed to populate confined regions where
  resources are sparse and starvation is a daily reality.
• Control
  over the media: The government controls all media, and every broadcast
  is a staged theatrical event, completely fabricated by the government
  to serve the interests of the government itself. This, of course,
  is a reflection of present-day mainstream media which is completely
  whored out to corporate and political interests.
• Control
  of technology: While the masses live in squalor, the techno-elite
  enjoy advanced hovercraft ships and live in gleaming high-tech
  cities. Advancements in medicine, 3D displays and weapons systems
  are available only to the centralized government, never to the
  People. Also in the film, RFID chips are used to track the game
  participants.
• Control
  of DNA: Residents of the districts are identified through the
  taking of DNA blood samples. The government stores their DNA in
  a database in order to track and identify individuals. Insects
  are genetically engineered to serve as weapons, such as GMO wasps
  that cause wild hallucinations to those who are stung.
• Control
  over life itself: The government toys with human life and seems
  to be amused by expressing heartless power over the masses. Their
  priorities are simultaneously focused on fashion, status and meaningless
  cuisine. In one scene, when the teenage girl (Katniss Everdeen)
  is trying to ask her mentor how she might survive the games, her
  elitists coordinator can only spout about how much she loves "chocolate
  truffles" and why they should all enjoy a round of desserts.

A parade
of fashion, makeup and style gone wild

The style and
fashion of the elite class who live in the high-tech cities seems
to be echoed right out of a modern-day parade. People are adorned
with bright, extravagant clothing and accessories, and they’re painted
up in outlandish makeup and hair color. They literally prance around
like frolicking maniacal members of royalty, and they experience
great joy from causing others to suffer.

The government-worshipping
elite class see themselves as intellectually superior to everyone
else, yet they lack any real-world skills. They also lack anything
resembling ethics, and they see nothing wrong with cheating or lying
their way to positions of ever greater power in their warped society.

Enslavement
through the illusion of hope

At the top
of the government, the leader played by Donald Sutherland is a Rockefeller-type
master of deception and human emotions. As he explains in the film,
the purpose of the Hunger Games is to keep people enslaved while
giving them "a little hope, but not too much." A little
hope keeps the enslaved masses in line, but too much hope might
actually make them think they have real power.

The threat
of government violence against the enslaved masses is carried out
by a class of enforcers who, in contrast to most other dystopian
films, are actually clothed in white, not black. They are the TSA
of the Hunger Games, and their job is to oppress the people, bash
in a few heads, and remind the masses who’s really in charge.

One can’t help
but notice in this film that the elite class of prancing government
worshipers is the logical extension of today’s irrational worship
of government as the savior of society. Where government is put
in charge of everything, the People are forever enslaved. And that
seems to be the goal of the government-worshippers in society today
who desire to make all people dependent on the government, hand
over all power to the government, and destroy individual human liberties
(and the Bill of Rights). It is no coincidence that the enslaved
masses in The Hunger Games are entirely disarmed and only
the government is allowed to own high-tech weaponry. This is a key
provision of the leftist "anti-gun" movement witnessed
in society today, which says that all guns should only be in the
hands of government, not individuals. Such a centralization of weaponry
in the hands of corrupt government, of course, only leads to tyranny,
as history repeatedly shows.

Human dignity

Most interesting
to me is the idea that government elitists have no ethics, no morals
and no basic dignity. In contrast, the only real expression of dignity
comes from the District 12 volunteer, Katniss Everdeen (the female
lead). She enjoys a closeness with nature and a respect for life.
When other participants in the Hunger Games are killed around her,
she shows them respect with a makeshift burial ceremony. She only
takes life as a last resort, yet she’s also quick to act out of
self defense, and she’s willing to take action to kill others if
they are truly intent on killing her.

This reflects
a fundamental human right to self defense. When we are attacked,
we have the right to hold our ground and return fire as her character
demonstrates several times throughout the film. By doing so, she
saves her life and ultimately shows the elitist government that
it cannot control her.

That point
comes out strongly at the end of the games, when she and her male
partner are the last two survivors. The elitists government commands
them to try to kill each other so that only one victor emerges.
But instead of giving in to this command, the two decide to eat
poison berries together and thus demonstrate to the global audience
watching the event (which is practically the entire population)
that the government shall not have the freedom to decide when we
live or die, and that even a slave can still decide when to end
their own life, independent from an oppressive government regime.

Unexpectedly,
the government suddenly halts the games before the two can eat the
berries, announcing them both as winners. This is obviously a last-ditch
effort to make sure no one expresses any power over their own lives
– not even the power to end your own life because such expression
of individual power would embarrass the government.

Throughout
the film (and the book), the government is obsessed with total oppression
of the people, denying them food and resources and carrying out
mind games against them that sap their courage and convince them
they have no personal power.

Actors,
writing, photography and screenplay

On the technical
side of things, the acting in this film is superb. The key female
character in the film is played by Jennifer
Lawrence who delivers a convincing, heartwarming performance.
She demonstrates both strength and vulnerability with astounding
authenticity. This film succeeds largely because of her performance.

Woody Harrelson
also delivers a convincing performance, but that’s not surprising
given his reputation and experience as a performance professional.

Screenplay
is surprisingly solid, considering that this film is based on a
novel. It’s rare to see a novel translated well onto the screen,
but The Hunger Games pulls it off nicely with compelling
pacing and well-planned editing of the book’s detail.

I also want
to give props to two departments that typically don’t get the attention
they deserve: Costume design and sound design. In The Hunger
Games, both of these departments went far beyond the norm, showcasing
a masterful assembly of visual and auditory highlights that add
great depth to the on-screen artistry.

The Hunger
Games is coming true in America today

When watching
the Hunger Games, you can’t help but think about the recent
armed raids on Rawesome Foods in California. There, armed government
thugs confiscated and destroyed $50,000 worth of food and poured
gallons of raw milk down the drain even while a food bank that could
have used all that food was right next door.

This destruction
of food carried out by the government of California is also routinely
carried out by the oppressive government in The Hunger Games.
One of the most powerful strategies for total government domination
is to deny people access to real food. That’s exactly what we’re
seeing today in the government’s attacks on raw milk, raw almonds
and other nutritious foods. In
Michigan, for example, state bureaucrats there have announced
their plan to start destroying all the pig livestock of small, local
ranchers and arrest them as felons.

We also see
in society today a growing class of the ruling elite who express
total disdain for humanity, the natural world or anything resembling
dignity or ethics. This is perhaps best reflected in the philosophy
of Goldman Sachs, a financial investment giant so steeped in the
culture of greed that they reportedly think of their own customers
as total idiots to be viciously exploited for dishonest profit.

We also see
the key elements of tyranny and oppression reflected in the Obama
administration, where Obama himself signed the NDAA on New Year’s
Eve, 2011. This
law nullifies the Bill of Rights and eliminates any right to
due process for Americans. It allows the government to arrest, detain,
interrogate and torture any person, for any reason, even if they
are never charged with a crime. It really is like something ripped
right out of a dystopian sci-fi film. The mass population, meanwhile,
seems to have no idea this has already been signed into law.

Similarly,
on
March 16 of this year, President Obama signed into effect an
executive order that seizes control over all food resources across
the country, including food, seeds, livestock, farm equipment, food
processing facilities, and animal feed. This is written in clear
English, right in the order itself.

Once again,
virtually the entire U.S. population seems to have no idea that
this executive order was signed by Obama. In modern society, as
in The Hunger Games film, most people live in a world of
delusion, oblivious to the reality of how government is creepily
expanding into a totalitarian dictatorship with each passing day.

We are already
living in the early stages of The Hunger Games

The real kicker
in all this is that, to a great extent, we have already begun to
live in the early stages of a "Hunger Games" society.
Those who worship government and believe in total government power
over the People are pushing us in that direction every single day.

Here are other
signs of a Hunger Games type of government growing all around us:

• The
  TSA reaching down your pants and calling it "security"
• Staged
  false flag security events to keep people afraid
• Janet
  Napolitano on giant TV screens at Wal-Mart
  warning everyone to spy on their neighbors and only trust government
• Armed government
  raids on farms and food distribution centers
• Corporate
  control over seeds and all intellectual property
• The push
  to disarm the People and centralize all weapons in the hands of
  government
• Mad science
  genetic engineering of crops and animals
• The total
  theater of fabricated "humanitarian" causes (Kony 2012)
  which are really nothing more than a tactic to get public support
  for mass murder by governments
• The total
  worshipping of sports figures and sports events by the dumbed-down
  masses who watch football, basketball and the UFC while having
  no clue whatsoever that their government is raping their future
  and destroying their liberties.

Big Government
will accelerate us into a Hunger Games dystopian future

Ask yourself:
What political position does all this sound like? End the Second
Amendment, put government in charge of all food, give up liberties
in the name of security, surrender individual power to state power…
ring a bell? It’s the platform of America’s political elite, whether
you’re talking about the left or the right. Both political parties
believe in big (and bigger) government, dis-empowered people, and
total government control over all resources (including land).

Only people
who believe in small, limited government can reverse this trend.
Ron Paul supporters, in other words. A small government is a safe
government, as any government that gets too big and too powerful
becomes a clear and present danger to the People.

Each day that
our government becomes larger and more powerful – which almost
automatically happens following staged terror events such as 9/11
– we are hurled ever close to a Hunger Games type of future
reality.

Let us hope
that We the People can stop the insanity of bad government and find
a way to restore liberty before this fictional movie called "The
Hunger Games" becomes far too real for comfort.

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With their guns draw and packing live ammo, police officers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport surrounded a man smuggling a bomb in a carry-on bag. Although details are sketchy because the TSA is trying to downplay this incident, the cops were no doubt yelling at the man to hit the floor and surrender. Had this man acted in any sort of threatening-looking way, the cops would have certainly opened fire on him.

This all took place at a TSA security checkpoint at the airport. There’s only one problem with it: The whole thing was a TSA security drill – but nobody informed the cops!

Gee, let’s stage a bomb drill but don’t tell the cops

So here are the TSA morons, who behave as if they are cops even though they are not in any way sworn law enforcement officers, running their own bomb drill in an airport, surrounded by innocent members of the public. They send a guy into the TSA security checkpoint, at which point he probably screams out “I have a bomb!” or something similar. The airport cops, who are of course on the lookout for precisely this kind of threatening behavior, pull their pistols and hit their radios to bring in more cops. The result was a surrounding of the bomb carrier and a tense scene of law enforcement getting very, very close to letting loose with live fire in an international airport.

I’m sure every beat cop and law enforcement professional reading this will agree with me on this point: These TSA goons are complete morons. You don’t run a bomb drill in a public airport without notifying the cops first!

TSA endangers police officers

Through their completely idiotic actions, they put the lives of both police officers and members of the public in great danger. The TSA actually engineered a situation that could have very easily resulted in a loss of life. Had the “bomber” made a sudden move, he could have easily been shot by a cop who would then, no doubt, be investigated for the killing and probably stripped of his badge and retirement merely for doing his job.

This is yet another reason why the TSA is so dangerous. It is a rogue agency that runs around acting like law enforcement but has absolutely NO law enforcement training or skills. The TSA is a group of perverts, criminals, pornography distributors and power-trip wannabe cops who suddenly and magically have been given the obscene power to reach down your pants and feel your genitals. If a Sheriff, a cop, or an FBI agent pulled that maneuver, they’d be fired from their job and probably brought up on criminal charges. But for some reason the TSA is allowed to pull this stunt every day, even though TSA agents are not sworn law enforcement officers!

The TSA is a rogue agency that now threatens not just the safety of the public, but also the safety of legitimate law enforcement personnel. This is why the TSA must be stopped, and Texas is trying to do something about it by passing a law to criminalize the TSA’s actions.

TSA’s actions are already crimes under federal law

Technically, the TSA reaching down your pants is already a federal crime, it’s just that no one has yet been prosecuted for it. Jesse Ventura has a lawsuit pending against the TSA for sexual assault, but that has not been resolved yet.

TSA agents have been caught stealing items out of peoples’ luggage and, planting fake cocaine in their bags, feeling up infants and now running bomb scares right in the middle of an international airport, with innocent people standing around and potentially in harm’s way. What’s next for this rogue agency? Are they going to run LIVE bomb drills and demand they start carrying their own pistols and rifles?

You are watching the rise of the secret police

The American people don’t get this yet, and the mainstream media is totally clueless about this, but what’s really happening right now is that we are watching the rise of the new Amerikan Secret Police. They are the TSA. They’re already expanding into train stations and stadiums. Soon, these government goons will be the people checking your papers at every street corner, lifting cash out of your wallet or feeling down the pants of young women just because they can.

If we don’t stop the TSA right now, they will rise up to become the new Nazi criminals in America. We’ve seen it all before in history, and history is now repeating itself. This is the Nazi police state growing and expanding right before our very eyes.

Remember, the TSA already claims it rules supreme over state law and that the states have zero power to stop the TSA from reaching down your pants and molesting you and your children. Right now, there is absolutely nothing stopping the TSA from becoming the new secret police organization that conducts illegal searches and engaged in routine sexual molestation of innocent people, all while claiming it has the “supreme” right to do so under the U.S. Constitution! Incredible…

Folks, if you’re not listening to Alex Jones on this topic, you’re not fully informed about the depth of the TSA tyranny. Alex pulls together an amazing spectrum of relevant facts from history that teach us how the TSA is becoming the new Nazis of Amerika. If we don’t stop these tyrants now, we are going to be overrun by these federal agents who will stop at nothing to expand their power.

Was the TSA testing the police response?

I wouldn’t be surprised if the TSA is already planning to fake a bomb incident in order to make itself seem more important. This drill in Minnesota may have actually been a way to test the police response to determine how much the TSA can get away with.

All it will take is one TSA plot to set off a live bomb at some airport in America, and suddenly they will be granted the power to carry guns or conduct full-body cavity searches without any warrants or reasons whatsoever. We are just one engineered “terror event” away from the next expansion of TSA tyranny. You can bet the people who run this agency – who are already lawless tyrants with zero respect for the Fourth Amendment – are working on ways for them to take away more rights of the people, hire more enforcement agents and become even more powerful throughout American society.

I pray we can stop these thugs before it turns to bloodshed. Because in the end, I know the American people will not tolerate tyranny for very long, and a public backlash could end up being quite bloody. To avoid that, we need to pass laws right now across all the U.S. states to outlaw the TSA and their criminal activities. Evict the TSA from our states immediately!

Stay tuned to NaturalNews.com and InfoWars.com to learn more about the tyranny of the TSA. We will absolutely not stop reporting on this issue until the TSA is evicted from our states and prevented from abusing us any longer.

The cops, by the way, are with us on this issue. Same with active and retired military. Nobody likes the TSA except the TSA itself. Even the media has to largely fabricate positive spin stories on this rogue agency to try to create the impression that people actually enjoy being treated like terrorists at the airport. Even the pilots are fed up with the whole thing.

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Have you herd
about the Sheeple Quiz? Although most NaturalNews readers will easily
beat it, it’s a fun quiz to find out how smart (or gullible) your
friends really are. So let ‘em take the Sheeple Quiz! And then you’ll
know whether they’re independent thinkers or just zombie-minded
sheeple like the rest of the flock.

Here’s the
quiz. Choose "A" or "B" as the answer for each
question, then check your score below.

The Sheeple
Quiz

#1) The
purpose of the mainstream media is to:

A) Keep you
informed.
B) Feed you misinformation while keeping you distracted from the
real issues our world is facing.

#2) Social
Security is:

A) A financial
safety net that makes sure people have a retirement income.
B) A government-run Ponzi scheme that requires more and more people
to keep paying in just to stay afloat and will ultimately collapse
into total bankruptcy.

#3) The
fluoride dripped into municipal water supplies is:

A) A naturally-occurring
mineral.
B) An industrial chemical waste byproduct.

#4) When
you donate money to find the cure for cancer, that money goes:

A) To fund
research programs that assess actual cancer cures for the purpose
of freely sharing them with the public.
B) To fund mammogram campaigns that actually irradiate women’s breasts,
causing the very cancers that earn huge profits for the cancer treatment
industry.

#5) The
national debt is:

A) Under control
and will be paid off in a few years.
B) Out of control and will spiral into a runaway debt collapse.

#6) GMOs
will:

A) Feed the
world and prevent starvation.
B) Threaten the future of life on our planet through genetic contamination
and widespread crop failures.

#7) The
FDA protects:

A) The people
from dangerous medicines.
B) The financial interests of the drug companies.

#8) The
EPA’s real agenda is to:

A) Protect
the environment.
B) Protect the financial interests of the chemical companies whose
toxic products destroy the environment.

#9) The
Federal Reserve functions to:

A) Stabilize
the economy and keep America strong.
B) Loot the economy and control America’s economy for the interests
of the few.

#10) The
purpose of TSA checkpoints at airports is to:

A) Keep air
passengers safe and secure.
B) Indoctrinate Americans into surrendering to police state invasions
of their privacy.

#11) The
practical function of the U.S. Supreme Court is to:

A) Protect
the constitutional rights of the citizens.
B) Legitimize federal tyranny over the People by ignoring the Constitution
and its Bill of Rights.

#12) Vaccines
are based on:

A) Gold standard
science that conclusively proves their safety and effectiveness.
B) Quackery and fraud combined with a persistent medical mythology
that utterly lacks a factual basis.

#13) Herbs
and superfoods:

A) Are medically
useless and cannot treat, prevent or cure any disease.
B) Contain powerful plant-based medicines that can help reverse
and prevent disease.

#14) In
Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq, America:

A) Led a humanitarian
effort to save innocent people from tyranny.
B) Waged an illegal imperialist war to occupy foreign nations and
control their oil.

#15) The
U.S. Bill of Rights:

A) Grants you
rights and freedoms.
B) Merely acknowledges the rights and freedoms you already possess.

Score your
Sheeple Quiz

To score your
Sheeple Quiz, simply count the number of times you answered "A"
to the questions above.

If you answered
"A" 10 times or more…

You are a total
news-watching, gullible fairytale swallowing Sheeple! Be sure to
keep taking those medications and watching more network news. Don’t
bother thinking for yourself because you seem to be incapable of
accomplishing that.

If you answered
"A" fewer than 10 times…

You are sadly
Sheeple-minded but there is hope for your rescue. Learn more about
the world around you and train yourself to think critically so you
can depart from the herd mentality.

If you answered
"A" fewer than 5 times…

You are an
unusually intelligent free-minded thinker who questions the world
around you and doesn’t buy into the usual propaganda. You still
got suckered on a few items, so there’s more yet to learn. But you’re
on the right track!

If you answered
"A" exactly zero times…

You are the
complete opposite of a Sheeple. You’re independent minded, well
informed and probably a regular reader of NaturalNews.com. Stay
on track and question events in the world around you. Eat more superfoods
to maintain your healthy immune system and cognitive function. Avoid
the toxic chemicals in foods, medicines and lawn care products.
Keep reading the alternative press and voice your intelligent views
to others willing to listen. (But don’t waste your time on those
who aren’t.)

Thank you for
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It can now
be revealed by NaturalNews that the TSA faked its safety
data on its X-ray airport scanners in order to deceive the public
about the safety of such devices.

As evidenced
by recent events in Washington, we now live in an age where the
federal government simply fakes whatever documents, news
or evidence it wants people to believe, then releases that information
as if it were fact. This is the modus operandi of the Department
of Homeland Security, which must fabricate false terror alerts to
keep itself in business – and now the
TSA division has taken the fabrication of false evidence
to a whole new level with its naked
body scanners (see below).

Even physics
professors question the TSA’s obvious cover-up

The evidence
of the TSA’s fakery is now obvious thanks to the revelations of
a
letter signed by five professors from the University of California,
San Francisco and Arizona
State University.

The letter
reveals:

• To this
  day, there has been no credible scientific testing of the TSA’s
  naked body scanners.
  The claimed “safety” of the technology
  by the TSA is based on rigged tests.
• The testing
  that did take place was done on a custom combination of spare
  parts rigged by the manufacturer of the machines (Rapidscan)
  and didn’t even use the actual machines installed in airports.
  In other words, the testing was rigged.
• The names
  of the researchers who conducted the radiation
  tests at Rapidscan have been kept secret! This means the
  researchers are not available for scientific questioning of any
  kind, and there has been no opportunity to even ask whether they
  are qualified to conduct such tests. (Are they even scientists?)

TSA operates
in complete secrecy

None of the
Rapidscan tests have been available to be subjected to peer review.
They are quite literally secret tests using secret techniques
engineered by secret researchers. We the People apparently have
no right to see the data, nor the methodology, nor even the names
of the researchers who supposedly carried out these safety
tests.

The final testing
report produced from this fabricated testing scenario has been so
heavily redacted that “there is no way to repeat any of these
measurements,” say the professors. In other words, the testing violates
the very first tenant of scientific experimentation which is that
all experiments
must be repeatable in order to be verified as accurate.

As the professors
state in their letter:

The document
is heavily redacted with red stamps over the words and figures.
In every case the electric current used which correlates one to
one with X-ray dose has been specifically redacted. Thus there is
no way to repeat any of these measurements. While the report purports
to present the results
of objective testing, in fact the JHU APL personnel, who are unnamed
anywhere in the document either as experimenters or as authors,
were not provided with a machine
by Rapiscan. Instead they were invited to the manufacturing site
to observe a mock-up of components (spare parts) that were said
to be similar to those that are parts of the Rapiscan system. The
tests were performed by the manufacturer using the manufacturer’s
questionable test procedures.

You got that?
Where is the outrage from the “scientific” community
on all this? This quack science
TSA testing is so atrociously and inexcusably bad that if this fabricated
evidence were presented at any sort of scientific meeting, they
would be laughed off the stage and publicly vilified in the media.
And yet, somehow, when the TSA
engaged in this sort of quack science, virtually the entire scientific
community says nothing. Only a small group of especially courageous
scientists has stood up to this obvious quackery, and even these
professors are of course being blasted in the press and called un-American
for merely questioning the obviously flimsy evidence being laughably
fronted by the TSA.

I mean, seriously:
Can you imagine the total outcry if an herbal product company claimed
that its products cured cancer,
and it did all the testing itself, and all the names of the researchers
were kept secret, and the methodology was a secret, and the whole
document was 50% redacted to protect “proprietary information?”
They would actually be arrested by the federal
government for running a criminal scam! So why can the TSA get
away with the exact same scandalous junk science distortions and
virtually no one in the mainstream
media asks a single question?

The complete
fabrication of safety in the name of false science

It’s amazing what
America has come
to these days, folks. The federal government
isn’t merely counterfeiting money every day (or stealing from your
retirement accounts to keep itself afloat, which just started happening
yesterday), but the feds are also fabricating scientific evidence
to keep pushing their utterly fabricated “war
on terror.” The feds in Washington aren’t really fighting
a war on terror… they ARE the terror! When the feds reach down your
pants and feel your junk; when they force you to be fried with high-powered
X-rays at the airport;
and when they threaten anyone who stands up to their Nazi-like marching
orders, they have become the very terrorist organization they
claim to be fighting.

• The dose
  rates of X-rays
  being emitted by the Rapidscan machines are actually quite high
  – comparable to that of CT
  scans, say the professors. Yes, the dose duration
  is significantly lower than a CT scan, but the dose intensity
  is much higher than what you might think. And as anyone who knows
  a bit about physics and biology will tell you, the real danger
  from radiation is a high-intensity, short-duration exposure.
  That’s exactly what the TSA’s backscatter machines produce.
• The radiation
  detection device used by Rapidscan to measure the output of the
  machines – an ion chamber – is incapable of accurately
  measuring the high-intensity burst of radiation produced by
  the TSA’s naked body scanners, say the professors.
• At the
  same time, the radiation field measurement device used by the
  TSA – a Fluke 451 instrument – is incapable of
  measuring the high dose rates emitted by backscatter machines.
  The measurement devices, in effect, “max out” and cannot measure
  the full intensity of the exposure. Thus, the TSA’s claims of
  “low radiation” are actually fraudulent. By the way, the device
  mentioned by the TSA really is an F 451. Does
  that ring a bell in terms of fiction novels?
• The amount
  of electrical current applied to the X-ray tubes has been redacted
  by the TSA (working with John Hopkins). This makes it impossible
  for third-party scientists to accurately calculate the actual
  radiation
  exposure, and it hints at yet more evidence of a total TSA
  cover-up. As explained by the professors:

…the
X-ray dose is proportional to the current through the X-ray tube.
Not having access to the current used in the JHU test, or in the
field application of the scanner means that the measurements at
JHU are irrelevant to the dose at the airport. There is also no
data on the pixel size and overscanning ratio, which also bear directly
on the dose delivered to subjects. The statement in the HHS letter
that the fluence is not a relevant quantity ignores fundamental
physics.

There shall
be no independent testing whatsoever

The TSA adamantly
refuses to allow independent testing of the radiation levels
being emitted by the machines. The agency is using the cover story
that “terrorists
might be able to circumvent the technology” if anyone is allowed
to actually test the machine.

Hilarious!
This is the very definition of quack science. You have to
trust our in-house fabricated experiments, and we won’t tell you
how we even arrived at our test
results, and we won’t release the names of the scientists who
even ran the tests, but we can’t tell you more because of the terrorists.

Notably, this
is after Osama Bin Laden has already been killed, and he
was the whole reason the TSA started up in the first place. The
terror mastermind is dead, in other words, and still the TSA can’t
trust university
physics professors to conduct credible science on its naked
body scanners.

Actual radiation
emitted by the machines is far higher than what the TSA claims

John Sedat,
a professor emeritus in biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF and
the primary author of the letter says, “..the best guess of the
dose is much, much higher than certainly what the public thinks.”
This indicates the public has been deeply misled by the actual amount
of radiation emitted by the machines.

• Peter Rez,
  the physics professor from Arizona State, says that the high-quality
  images described
  by the TSA could not be produced with the low levels of radiation
  being claimed by the TSA. The images, in other words, don’t match
  up with the TSA’s cover story. Rez estimates the actual radiation
  exposure is 45 times higher than what we’ve previously
  been told.
• The TSA
  machines are capable of firing even higher levels of radiation
  into a “region of interest” (such as your anus or scrotum, in
  which the TSA seems to be taking great interest these days), thereby
  exposing that region to even higher levels of radiation
  than the rest of your body.

Mechanical
failure and software bugs

The backscatter
scanning devices uses a high-powered X-ray beam that is quickly
moved back and forth across your body by reflecting the beam off a
moving wheel. If that wheel fails for any reason and stops moving,
the traveler could be pierced with a deadly X-ray beam that
focuses extremely high levels of radiation on a small group of cells,
mutating their DNA.

This means
the backscatter devices are mechanical systems, and all mechanical
systems eventually fail (just like airplanes). The TSA has done
absolutely nothing to address the reliability of these mechanical
wheels nor to allow independent testing of the reliability of these
wheels.

The TSA refuses
to allow independent scientists to review its software code
that controls the radiation beam. Thus, the software and its capabilities
also remain a complete secret. What if there’s a software bug that
causes 10,000 times the usual radiation exposure for some unlucky
traveler? Suppose the pervert TSA agent zooms in on some 9-year-old
child’s junk to capture a picture for his own private collection…
does that result in yet more radiation? (Fact: One
TSA agent has already been arrested for distributing child
pornography.)

See more at
www.TSAgoons.com
(warning: graphic language and imagery on that site.)

What science?
We don’t need no stinkin’ science!

As we’re all now
learning, the TSA completely bypassed the normal procedure for independent
testing of equipment to be used on the public. As explained by the
professors:

The independent
testing of the safety of these specific scanners has not been rigorous
nor has it been held to the standards usually associated with new
devices before approval for utilization in the public sector. Usually
the exact technology, as installed, is sent to a university, national
laboratory or other outside facility that has the expertise to test,
for an extended period of time to enable an in-depth study –
usually by several independent groups.

The U.S. government,
however, no longer feels it needs to engage in any “scientific”
testing whatsoever. Why bother? The government can simply fabricate
whatever results it wants and then release those to the mainstream
media which will dutifully reprint the government’s lies as if they
were facts. The truth is no longer relevant to the government’s
tyrannical agenda. As long as no one questions the lies, it hardly
matters how unreasonable or bizarre those lies become. Government
can always play the terrorism
card and force people to shut up and stop asking questions, you
see. “How dare you question our integrity. We’re the government!
We’re protecting YOU from terrorism!”

Sure they are.
By feeling up my anus? Seriously? If it wasn’t actually true, it
would be hilarious.

What is the
TSA hiding?

NaturalNews
asks the obvious question: Why won’t the TSA subject its backscatter
scanning machines to independent testing? Why won’t it allow five
different university physics departments to conduct five independent
tests – using documented equipment and methodologies – and
thereby assure the public, with credibility, that its machines are
perfectly safe?

I can tell
you why: Because the TSA is lying. The agency has fabricated
its test results. It has conspired to deceive and mislead the American
public over the safety of these machines, and it has done so through
an agenda of government secrecy and scientific fraud.
The TSA, lacking any credibility whatsoever, has resorted to routine
lying about its machines, its procedures and its intentions.
When 6-month-old
babies have their rear-ends searched by TSA
agents wearing evil grins, you know it’s all gone too far.

The TSA refuses
to allow independent testing of its machines because it knows what
NaturalNews readers already know: That if the machines were honestly
and accurately tested, they would show far higher levels of radiation
exposure than what we’ve been told. It would show that the TSA’s
body scanners significantly increase the risk
of cancer to a population that is already over-irradiated with
medical imaging tests such as CT scans and chest X-rays.

The TSA, like
virtually every other department of the federal government, is now
actively engaged in the routine falsification of the scientific
data concerning a device that is exposing millions of Americans
to an increased risk of cancer. And as long as the federal government
claims to have “supreme power”
while refusing to answer to the People, we’re only going to get
more of this tyranny
in the months ahead.

The TSA has
become the terrorist organization

This is not merely
unacceptable; this is a CRIME against the American
people. These TSA body scanners are, effectively, Weapons of
Mass Destruction that are unleashing ionizing
radiation upon an unsuspecting public.

And they are
doing it right in your face; telling you it’s all perfectly safe
while, behind the scenes, they had to engineer a specially-rigged
unit just to run their rigged tests using measurement devices that
can’t even record the high levels of radiation actually being emitted.

The public
backlash against
these devices is so strong and so loud that news crews have to interview
dozens of people
on camera just to find one person to actually say something positive
about the TSA’s pat-down and ionizing scanners. That’s the report
from Alex Jones, who has also been covering TSA tyranny in
great detail. The popularity of his www.Infowars.com
website is exploding in the wake of the government’s increasingly
bold lies and disinfo campaigns that frankly are backfiring on them.
A lot of people are easily fooled, but just as many aren’t. Probably
95% of all travelers are absolutely opposed to everything the TSA
forces them to go through at the airport.

That’s why
Texas is about
to pass a law that would criminalize TSA agents who reach
down your pants and molest you or your children.
But the TSA has put out a preemptive statement on its blog that
claims none of this matters. “States cannot regulate the federal
government,” the TSA claims. And it actually quotes the U.S. Constitution
as the source of its power! (What about the Fourth Amendment of
the Constitution? How convenient that they forgot all about that
part, eh?)

The passage
of this law could lead to a fascinating showdown in Texas. What
we need is a group of Texas Rangers to march into the airport
in Dallas and arrest the TSA agents, handcuff them, and march them
off to jail. Then let’s see the feds try to invade Texas to free
their criminal TSA agents. That should be amusing. I’ve spent some
time in Texas, talking with the locals, and I can guarantee you
that a bunch of tyrant feds trying to invade Texas are going to
be absolutely shocked at the intensity of the public resistance
they will meet.

The growing
TSA resistance movement

By the way, with
the TSA’s molestation of children and outright lying about the safety
of its machines, the federal government is vastly overestimating the
stupidity of the general public. People are taking notes of
the encroaching tyranny, and while they may pretend to voluntarily
walk through the TSA’s security
checkpoints right now, there will come a day when the American people
simply refuse to be herded like cattle anymore. I predict a widespread
backlash against the TSA, reflected through state legislative efforts
and public protests that will demand an end to the TSA which has now
come to mean “Touch Some Ass!”

The hilarious
ending to all this, by the way, is that the backscatter machines
are also dosing all the TSA workers with regular bursts of ionizing
radiation, meaning that the very people working for the tyrannical
TSA are, themselves, victims of its deception.

Somehow, that
seems incredibly fitting.

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Don’t let
anyone from the cancer industry lie to you about PSA screening:
The test is completely bogus and offers zero improvement in your
lifespan. That’s the conclusion from a 20-year study that followed
over 9,000 men. After 20 years of follow-up, guess what the results
were? No significant difference in the rate of death between those
screened for prostate cancer versus those who weren’t.

In other words,
prostate cancer screening is really a bogus test used to exploit
men’s fear and recruit them into unnecessary and potentially harmful
cancer treatments. That’s why the cancer industry uses the PSA test,
of course: It’s a powerful recruiting tool! It scares men into agreeing
to expensive, high-profit treatments which are then billed to their
insurance companies, Medicaid or Medicare. (Gee, no wonder our health
care system is bankrupting the nation…)

This study,
by the way, was published
in the British Medical Journal. I don’t personally trust
the BMJ on most issues, since it seems to so strongly favor
vaccines and pharmaceuticals in its selective publication of research.
But that’s what makes this so remarkable: Even the BMJ is
effectively admitting that PSA tests don’t work!

Why are
hospitals still using a bogus quack test for prostate cancer?

Given that
the PSA test simply doesn’t work, it makes you wonder: Why are hospitals
are cancer centers still using the PSA test? Isn’t that quackery
to keep using something that doesn’t work while marketing it to
patients as if it did work? It’s not just false advertising –
it’s bad medicine! And if it were being done in any other
industry, someone would probably get arrested.

If you sold
a car that turned out to be a lemon and didn’t run, you could be
sued. If you sold a financial product but completely misrepresented
it to your customers, that would be considered criminal fraud.
But why can hospitals and cancer clinics sell PSA prostate cancer
tests that are completely bogus while getting away with it?

The answer
is because modern medicine has zero accountability. Most of it is
simply fabricated quackery. Flu vaccines, for example, are based
on completely fabricated quacked-up evidence that has absolutely
no connection to scientific reality. ADHD screening programs are
absurdly transparent as psychiatric drug marketing tools. Mammograms
actually cause breast cancer, and the No. 1 side effect of
chemotherapy is – get this – cancer itself!

It’s all
"pretend medicine" in a grand health care fairy tale

Nothing in
medicine, you see, has to have any actual scientific evidence behind
it at all. The reason PSA tests are so popular is precisely the
same reason that flu vaccines are so heavily pushed: Because modern
medicine pushers suffer from a deeply-ingrained cult-like irrational
belief in everything they were taught in medical school, regardless
of whether it has any basis in fact. PSA tests, in other words,
are a kind of medical voodoo which works no better than sticking
pins in a rag doll.

And as literally
dozens of studies have found over the last decades, antidepressant
drugs are a kind of "brain chemical voodoo" that works
no better than placebo either. Let’s face it: Much of modern medicine
is based entirely on a virus of the mind – a contagious yet false
idea that somehow disease is caused by a lack of chemicals, radiation
or surgery. It’s an insane idea, of course, yet it is the foundation
of virtually the entire modern system of "health care"
(sick care).

A psychic
would probably get you better results

If you want
to go get screened for all these various diseases, that’s your choice,
of course. But just know as a scientific fact that most of the medical
screening being offered today is no more scientifically valid than
a tarot card reading. A tarot card reading might be more valuable,
actually, as it would remind you to consider your inner journey
and perhaps take responsibility for your life rather than handing
it over to a group of utterly incompetent cancer doctors who are
still using bogus prostate cancer tests that have been proven utterly
useless again and again.

Heck, your
cancer doctor might as well use a dousing rod to diagnose your cancer.
And even then, if you’re told you have cancer, the only rational
thing to do anyway is to change your lifestyle and start pursuing
anti-cancer activities such as juicing, walking in the sun, avoiding
toxic synthetic chemicals and so on. And those things should be
pursued whether you have cancer or not!

This is why
I never get screened for any disease. I’m in my 40′s, and I follow
a very healthy lifestyle. I eat massive quantities of anti-cancer
superfoods and I completely avoid (to the best of my ability) synthetic
chemicals in foods, personal care products, gardening and so on.
Why would I even need to get screened for cancer in the first place?
There’s no valid reason for it.

Cancer isn’t
something that strikes you like a bolt of lightning, folks. It’s
something your body can grow over decades until it becomes noticeable
– and it only grows cancer tumors if you let it. The easiest way
to stop growing cancer it to boost your vitamin D levels to 70 –
90, eat lots of fresh sprouts, drink fresh juices, get exercise
and avoid cancer-causing chemicals. Get plenty of sleep, avoid excessive
stress and eat superfoods such as berries (which are loaded with
anti-cancer nutrients). And stop eating refined sugars, too, because
cancer tumors just love sugar.

It’s not a
difficult recipe. And when truly followed, it will reduce your risk
of cancer to nearly zero. Of course, a stray piece of plutonium
from Fukushima could still get inhaled into your lungs and cause
cancer, but even in that case, antioxidants help protect you from
radiation damage, greatly reducing your risk of cancer even from
nuclear fallout radiation.

Nutrition and
lifestyle is the answer here, not useless disease screening quackery.
Don’t fall for the bogus PSA screening and mammography tests. They
are designed to scare you into becoming a high-profit cancer patient.
They do nothing to improve your health, and they may in fact harm
you. Prostate cancer is not a very aggressive cancer in most cases.
It can be easily and reliable reversed with the help of any
competent naturopathic physician, herbalist or natural medicine
practitioner.

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It’s the largest
underground freshwater supply in the world, stretching from South
Dakota all the way to Texas. It’s underneath most of Nebraska’s
farmlands, and it provides crucial water resources for farming in
Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even New Mexico. It’s called the
Ogallala Aquifer, and it is being pumped dry.

See the map
of this aquifer here.

Without the Ogallala Aquifer, America’s heartland food production
collapses. No water means no irrigation for the corn, wheat,
alfalfa and other crops grown across these states to feed people
and animals. And each year, the Ogallala Aquifer drops another few
inches as it is literally being sucked dry by the tens of thousands
of agricultural wells that tap into it across the heartland of America.

This problem
with all this is that the Ogallala Aquifer isn’t being recharged
in any significant way from rainfall or rivers. This is so-called
“fossil water” because once you use it, it’s gone. And it’s disappearing
now faster than ever.

In some regions along the aquifer, the water level has dropped so
far that it has effectively disappeared – places like Happy,
Texas, where a once-booming agricultural town has collapsed
to a population of just 595. All the wells drilled there in the
1950′s tapped into the Ogallala Aquifer and seemed to provide abundant
water at the time. But today the wells have all run dry.

Happy, Texas
has become a place of despair. Dead cattle. Wilted crops. Once-moist
soils turned to dust. And Happy is just the beginning of this story
because this same agricultural tragedy will be repeated across
Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and parts of Colorado in the next
few decades. That’s a hydrologic fact. Water doesn’t magically reappear
in the Ogallala. Once it’s used up, it’s gone.

“There used to be 50,000 head of cattle, now there’s 1,000,” says
Kay
Horner in a Telegraph report. “Grazed them on wheat,
but the feed lots took all the water so we can’t grow wheat. Now
the feed lots can’t get local steers so they bring in cheap unwanted
milking calves from California and turn them into burger if they
can’t make them veal. It doesn’t make much sense. We’re heading
back to the Dust Bowl.”

The end of
cheap food in America?

It’s a sobering
thought, really: That “America’s breadbasket” is on a collision course
with the inevitable. A large percentage of the food produced in the
United States is, of course, grown on farmlands irrigated from the
Ogallala. For hundreds of years, it has been a source of “cheap water,”
making farming economically feasible and keeping food prices down.
Combined with the available of cheap fossil fuels over the last century
(necessary to drive the tractors that work the fields), food production
has skyrocketed in North America. This has led to a population
explosion, too. Where food is cheap and plentiful, populations
readily expand.

It only follows that when food becomes scarce or expensive (putting
it out of reach of average income earners), populations will fall.
There’s only so much food to go around, after all. And after the Ogallala
runs dry, America’s food production will plummet. Starvation will
become the new American landscape for those who cannot afford the
sky-high prices for food.

Aquifer depletion
is a global problem

It’s not a problem
that’s unique to America, by the way. The very same problem is facing
India, where fossil water is already running dry in many parts of
the country. It’s the same story in China, too, where water conservation
has never been a top priority. Even the Middle East is facing its
own
water crisis. This has caused food prices to skyrocket, leading
directly to the civil unrest, the riots and even the revolutions we’ve
seen taking place there over the last few months.

The problem is called aquifer
depletion, and it’s a problem that spans the globe. It means
that today’s cheap, easy food – grown on cheap fossil water –
simply isn’t sustainable. Once that water is gone, the croplands that
depend on it dry up. Following that, erosion kicks in, and the winds
blow away the dry soils in a “Dust Bowl” type of scenario.

A few years after that, what was once a thriving agricultural operation
is transformed into a dry, soilless death pit where nothing lives.

“The Ogallala supply is going to run out and the Plains will become
uneconomical to farm,” says
David Brauer of the Ogallala Research Service, part of the USDA.
“That is beyond reasonable argument. Our goal now is to engineer a
soft landing. That’s all we can do.”

Such is the legacy of conventional agriculture, which is based
almost entirely on non-sustainable practices. Its insane reliance
on fossil water, petroleum fertilizers, toxic pesticides and GMOs
will only lead our world to agricultural disaster.

Be prepared
and be safe

I want all NaturalNews
readers to be prepared, informed and safe when facing our uncertain
future. We know that trouble is stirring around the world, and much
of it is either caused by or will lead to food shortages.

The GMO companies, of course, will exploit this situation to their
advantage, claiming that only GMOs can grow enough food to feed the
world. This is a lie. GMOs and patented seeds only enslave
the world population and lead to great social injustice. The days
of food slavery are fast approaching for those who do not have
the means to grow at least a portion of their own food.

As part of our
effort to help people become more self-reliant – with greater
food security – throughout 2011 and 2012 I plan to bring you
more articles, videos and webcast events that focus on home food
production, self-reliance, family preparedness and sustainable
living. Recently we announced a live webcast event on financial
preparedness but the available seats at that event sold out
in a matter of days.

Based on the huge demand for this event, we have decided to roll out
a second preparedness event in April, focused on food preparedness
and security. Watch for an announcement on that soon.

In the mean time, I am personally working on growing more of my
own food and will be creating a new series of videos and articles
based on some of what I learn along the way. From living in South
America and producing quite a large amount of food there, I have a
fair amount of experience on home food production, but of course there’s
always more to learn, right?

My gut feeling on all this is that learning to grow and store some
portion of your own food is going to become a crucial survival
skill over the next few years. And that means understanding water,
soil, open-pollinated seeds, organic fertilizers, soil probiotics,
insect pollination, growing with the seasons, sprouting, food harvesting,
food drying, canning, storage and much more. It’s a whole set of skills
that have faded away in America in just two generations, leaving very
few people who now know how to live off their own land.

What’s becoming increasingly obvious from events such as the drying
up of aquifers is that home food production is going to become
a critical survival skill. I want NaturalNews readers to know
and practice these skills as much as possible so that you can experience
the comforts (and freedoms!) of genuine food security.

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The reign
of censorship and suppression against vitamin D is now coming to
an end. Even though the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and many institutions
leading the cancer industry (including the ACS) have intentionally
tried to downplay the ability of vitamin D to prevent cancer, a
new study appearing in the journal Anticancer Research lays
out the simple, powerful truth about vitamin D that we’ve been teaching
at NaturalNews for years: A typical adults needs 4,000-8,000
IUs of vitamin D each day to prevent cancer, MS and type-1 diabetes,
not the ridiculously low 400-800 IUs recommended by the U.S. government.

The new research was conducted by scientists at the University of
California,
San Diego School of Medicine and Creighton University School of
Medicine in Omaha. It is groundbreaking research
because it establishes the relationship between vitamin D dosage
and circulating vitamin D levels in the blood.

This is a first. It is crucial information
for the health care revolution that will be necessary to
save states and nations from total health
care bankruptcy in the coming years. Vitamin
D turns out to be one of the simplest, safest and most affordable
ways to prevent degenerative disease
and sharply reduce long-term health
care costs.

Up to 8,000
IUs needed daily

“We found
that daily intakes of vitamin D by adults
in the range of 4,000 to 8,000 IU [international units] are needed
to maintain blood levels of vitamin D metabolites in the range needed
to reduce by about half the risk
of several diseases – breast cancer,
colon cancer, multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes,” said
Dr.
Cedric Garland.

Dr. Garland is the professor of family and preventive medicine
at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. He went on to say:

“I was surprised
to find that the intakes required to maintain vitamin D status for
disease prevention
were so high – much higher than the minimal intake of vitamin
D of 400 IU/day that was needed to defeat rickets in the 20th century.”

Study reveals
90% vitamin
D deficiency rate across U.S. population

This particular
study involved over 3,000 volunteers who were taking vitamin D supplements.
Researchers drew blood samples from them in order to determine their
levels of 25-vitamin D (the common form circulating in the blood).

The results
were shocking even to the study authors, revealing that 90 percent
of those studied were deficient in vitamin D, falling below
the 40-60 ng/ml range now considered healthy. (Most nutritionally-aware
experts in the natural
health world recommend higher ranges of 60-70 ng/ml, actually.)

The U.S. government’s
Institute
of Medicine has intentionally downplayed vitamin D recommendations,
seemingly in an effort to keep boosting the profits of the cancer
industry by denying any real benefit to vitamin D. The IOMs
most recent recommendations seemed designed to actually cause
vitamin D deficiency
in the U.S.
population.

The IOM has
even gone out of its way to artificially lower the threshold of
vitamin D deficiency by claiming that 20 ng/ml is a sufficient level.
This magically transforms a “deficient” person into a “non-deficient”
person by merely changing the definition. So a person with a level
of 22 ng/ml, for example, is not considered “vitamin D deficient”
by the established medical system, even though their vitamin D levels
are so low that they may not be able to prevent cancer, MS or type-1
diabetes.

Why the
truth about vitamin D is a huge threat to the established for-profit
medical system

As NaturalNews
has documented and reported many times over the last several years,
the medical establishment – and especially the cancer industry
– has willfully engaged in attempts to prevent people from
learning the truth about vitamin D in order to protect the lucrative
profits generated from sickness and disease. Vitamin D represents
a greater threat to the medical establishment than any other single
nutrient for three reasons:

1) Vitamin D is FREE (you can get it from the sun,
without a prescription).

2) Vitamin D prevents over a dozen high-profit diseases and health
conditions (osteoporosis, cancer, diabetes, MS, and others).

3) Vitamin
D is extremely safe, even when taken in supplement
form, because it’s a natural
vitamin / hormone that the body recognizes.

Read more in our downloadable special report, “The
Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D.”

Or watch the
incredibly popular video from the Health Ranger that explains
how African Americans, Asians and Latinos are being exploited by
the cancer industry through vitamin D censorship
and encouraged nutritional deficiencies.

Highlights
from the study

The following
summary is extracted from the results
of the study:

• The study
  examined 3,667 people and their vitamin D intake habits.
• Vitamin
  D intake of 10,000 IU / day had no toxicity.
• For those
  severely deficient in vitamin D, each 1,000 IU / day of increased
  supplementation resulted in an increase of 10 ng / ml in vitamin
  D blood levels.
• For those
  with existing blood levels above 30 ng / ml, each 1,000 IU / day
  of increased supplementation resulted in an increase of 8 ng /
  ml in vitamin D blood levels.
• For those
  with existing blood levels above 50 ng / ml, each 1,000 IU / day
  of increased supplementation resulted in an increase of 5 ng /
  ml in vitamin D blood levels.
• In other
  words, vitamin D supplementation has a curve of diminishing
  returns. Those with existing high levels of vitamin D do not
  experience as much benefit from vitamin D supplements as those
  with low levels (which is roughly 90% of the population).
• Vitamin
  D sales have increased 600% since 2001 (due largely to the efforts
  of those in both the natural health and honest science
  communities who are telling the truth about vitamin D).
• Vitamin
  D is remarkably safe! From the conclusion of the study:
  “Universal
  intake of up to 40,000 IU vitamin D per day is unlikely to result
  in vitamin D toxicity.”

Yes, that’s
40,000 IUs per day.

See the abstract
reprinted below.

Why nearly
everyone in first-world nations needs more vitamin D

Thanks in large
part to this remarkable research, it’s now clear that all the intelligent
people are going to up their vitamin D intake to something in the
range of 8,000 IUs per day (or more), especially through the winter
months.

Based on this study, I am personally increasing my intake to 10,000
IUs per day from October through April (in North America). And
I’ll be sure to get plenty of sunshine during the other months.

“Now that the results of this study are in, it will become common
for almost every adult to take 4000 IU/day,” said Dr. Garland. “This
is comfortably under the 10,000 IU/day that the IOM Committee Report
considers as the lower limit of risk, and the benefits are substantial.”

“Now is the
time for virtually everyone to take more vitamin D to help prevent
some major types of cancer, several other serious illnesses, and
fractures,” said Robert P. Heaney, MD, of Creighton University,
an experienced biomedical scientist.

It seems the
conventional cancer industry, the IOM and even the FDA will not
be able to censor the truth about vitamin D much longer. The
truth is getting out, thanks in large part due to you, the NaturalNews
readers who share these stories and help educate and inform your
friends and family members.

Spread the news: Take more vitamin D! Please share this story
on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere. Let people know that the research
is in, and vitamin D is a remarkably safe “miracle” nutrient
that nearly everyone needs to be supplementing. This is especially
true if they have darker skin.

(We recommend vitamin D3 from quality nutritional supplement companies.
Beware of cheap “multivitamin” sources that you find at common retailers.
Go for quality supplements from reputable sources.)

Here’s the title and abstract of the original study:

Vitamin
D Supplement Doses and Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D in the Range Associated
with Cancer Prevention

CEDRIC F. GARLAND,
CHRISTINE B. FRENCH, , LEO L. BAGGERLY, and ROBERT P. HEANEY,

“This paper
provides a long awaited insight into a dose-response relationship
between orally administered vitamin D3 and the resulting levels
of serum 25(OH)D in over 3600 citizens. The results will allow new
definition of high vitamin D dose safety and reduce concerns about
toxicity. This is a landmark contribution in the vitamin D nutrition
field!” – Anthony Norman, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry
& Biomedical Sciences, Emeritus, University of California Riverside

Abstract. Background: Studies indicate that intake of vitamin
D in the range from 1,100 to 4,000 IU/d and a serum 25- hydroxyvitamin
D concentration [25(OH)D] from 60-80 ng/ml may be needed to reduce
cancer risk. Few community-based studies
allow estimation of the dose–response relationship between oral
intake of vitamin D and corresponding serum 25(OH)D in the range
above 1,000 IU/d. Materials and Methods: A descriptive study of
serum 25(OH)D concentration and self-reported vitamin D intake in
a community-based cohort (n=3,667, mean age 51.313.4 y). Results:
Serum 25(OH)D rose as a function of self-reported vitamin D supplement
ingestion in a curvilinear fashion, with no intakes of 10,000 IU/d
or lower producing 25(OH)D values above the lower-bound of the zone
of potential toxicity (200 ng/ml). Unsupplemented all-source input
was estimated at 3,300 IU/d. The supplemental dose ensuring that
97.5% of this population achieved a serum 25(OH)D of at least 40
ng/ml was 9,600 IU/d. Conclusion: Universal intake of up to 40,000
IU vitamin D per day is unlikely to result in vitamin D toxicity.

The recent
increase in interest in vitamin D by the general public has fueled
a better than 200% increase in sales of over-the-counter vitamin
D preparations from 2008 to 2009, and a more than 6-fold increase
since 2001 (1). Additionally, products
with progressively increasing content of vitamin D have been introduced
with similar rapidity. There seems to have been little precedent
for a change of this magnitude and duration for other nutrients
(e.g., vitamins C and E) that have enjoyed brief periods of popularity
among the general public. There is essentially no information on
how the public uses these products or on their impact on the vitamin
D status of consumers.

GrassrootsHealth
(GRH), a non-profit community
service organization dedicated to promoting public awareness about
vitamin D, has assembled a database that includes information on
supplemental vitamin D intake by a self-selected population cohort,
and links these intakes to measured values for serum 25(OH)D, various
demographic variables, and a variety of health status measures.
GRH data include values from many individuals with daily supplemental
intakes in and above the ranges often used today for cancer
prevention and co-therapy (2, 3).

This study
used the GRH database to describe the relationship of measured vitamin
D status to vitamin D supplementation, both as practiced by health
conscious individuals and as related to cancer prevention.

Read
more.

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Watch out
for the word “unscientific” in propaganda that’s pushing GMOs, pesticides
or other dangerous chemicals onto our world. In a joint letter to
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, three Republican members of Congress
(Rep. Frank Lucas, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Sen. Pat Roberts) attempted
to spin GMOs as being “scientific.”

They urged the USDA to “return to a science based regulatory system”
and claimed that “science strongly supports the safety of GE alfalfa.”

The implication, of course, is that anyone who opposes GMOs
is “unscientific” (and therefore stupid). The letter further implies
that any USDA opposition
to GMOs is purely political in nature and not based on science.

Apparently the cabal of GMO
pseudoscientists have forgotten one of the most important principles
of science: The Precautionary Principle which states that
when dealing with large-scale unknowns (such as modifying the genetic
code of the world’s food crops),
it is wise to err on the side of caution.

Intellectually
dishonest spin

This effort to
characterize GMO opposition as “unscientific” is just the latest outlandish
spin campaign that attempts to reframe the entire GMO debate
as “scientific versus unscientific.” You’re either in favor of GMOs,
the twisted logic goes, or you’re against science!

In reality, it’s not actually science that’s behind GMOs but rather
corporate greed, public relations, lobbying and the financial
influence of members of Congress.
Today, Frank Lucas, Saxby Chambliss and Pat Roberts all effectively
painted signs on their foreheads that read, “GMO sellout.”

Another key
phrase: “Unscientific restrictions”

This isn’t
the first effort to frame the GMO battle as a defense of science,
of course. The phrase “unscientific restrictions” has cropped up
in the GMO debate throughout the EU, where anyone who opposes GMOs
– even for perfectly rational reasons – is immediately
branded “unscientific.”

NaturalNews
was the first to break the story about how GMOs were being forced
into European nations by the U.S. ambassador to France who plotted
with other U.S. officials to create a “retaliatory target list”
of anyone who tried to regulate GMOs.

Astonishingly,
virtually the entire mainstream media has still failed to report
this groundbreaking story, which just goes to tell you how deeply
in bed the media is with corporate interests. (Since when did the
media not cover a Wikileaks
cable?)

Commonsense
restrictions would be a “dangerous precedent”

Continuing
with the “science” gobbledygook, another
letter put together by a group of seven Big Ag monoculture crop
giants claimed:

Agriculture regulators would set a “dangerous precedent” by imposing
unscientific restrictions on alfalfa
growers who plant genetically modified seed, harming farmers using
other biotechnology-based crops.

There’s that
term again: “Unscientific restrictions.”

This is the GMO industry’s carefully-crafted spin phrase to try
to hammer away at any policy that attempts to protect natural crops
from GMO contamination.
It also serves to halt any real debate over the issue. Rather than
engaging in an intellectually-founded discussion of the potential
risk factors associated with GMOs, the GMO camp simply shouts, “Unscientific!”
and demands that the debate be halted.

This is the playground equivalent to saying, “Everything you say
bounces off of me and stick on you. Nah nah nah!”

It’s actually the same tactic used by the vaccine industry.
Any attempt to reasonably question the safety
or efficacy of seasonal flu
vaccines is immediately and savagely branded “unscientific” before
any real debate can take place at all.

The bludgeon
of “science” admits intellectual weakness

This is the tactic,
of course, of the intellectually inferior who have no solid
science to back up their intellectual playground bullying. Rather
than debating on the merits of good science, they seek to stifle
discussion by accusing their opponents of questioning all science.
It is, of course, a fallacious argument, and it only makes the so-called
“scientists” appear to look even more like desperate zealots pushing
their own particular twisted dogma.

That’s what the pro-GMO position is, of course: A zealot-infused dogma
backed by lots and lots of dollars but absolutely no legitimate science.

And yet, GMO zealots continue to argue as if they have scientific
truths on their side.

The most astonishing
spin letter you will ever read

Take a look at
this
astonishing letter from Big Agro giants which literally
claims that any regulation of GMOs would “…undermine the public’s
trust in the integrity of the scientific process that the president
directed all executive branch agencies to uphold.”

The letter goes on to say that “coexistence” (of GMOs and non-GMO
crops) would “set a dangerous precedent” and that all the following
regulations and restrictions on GE crops are entirely unacceptable:
“Isolation distances, geographic planting restrictions, limitations
on harvest periods and equipment usage, seed bag labeling, seed coloration,
and the listing of seed production field locations on a national data
base.”

This same letter even boldly insists that regulating GMOs would harm
America’s international trade! “If USDA moves forward with injecting
non-science-based criteria into the regulatory process it will undermine
our international trade efforts,” it claims.

Linguistic
contortionism

That letter, in
fact, is one of the most grotesque examples of pseudoscientific linguistic
contortionism I’ve ever seen. The author of the letter, whoever he
may be, is an intellectually dishonest individual who is knowingly
bastardizing the use of the word “science” to try to hide the real
agenda of corporate domination over the world’s food
crops.

The whole point of the letter, by the way, is to request that genetically
engineered alfalfa be exempted from regulation by the federal government.
This particular pesticide-ready alfalfa is designed to withstand exposure
to Roundup. Care to guess which corporation is likely behind this
particular bit of nefarious deception?

What the letter essentially states is that GE alfalfa seed bags need
not be labeled as such; that GE seeds can be the same color
as non-GE seeds (so that farmers can’t tell them apart), that GE alfalfa
can be planted right next to non-GE alfalfa crops (where DNA cross-contamination
will obviously occur), and that the location of GE alfalfa fields
should remain a secret.

All this has been hidden underneath the veil of “science.”

“Science,” you see, is no longer what it once was. In fact, the abandonment
of ethics and honesty by those who invoke the term is now so severe
that the entire scientific community is seeing its reputation erode
by the day.

That brings me to the second part of this article,
called “The
downfall of science and the rise of intellectual tyranny.”

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journalist. He has authored and published thousands of articles,
interviews, consumers’ guides, and books on topics like health and
the environment. He is the editor of Natural
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How do you
eat more while losing more weight at the same time? One of the best
answers is to eat “negative-calorie” foods, meaning that these foods
actually take more energy to digest than they deliver to your body.
While these foods may be an important source of phytonutrients,
they are not sources of fat-packing calories.

Because of
their surprising lack of calories, these foods can essentially be
consumed in unlimited quantities without you gaining weight
(body fat). That works because your stomach senses when it is physically
full, and it will trigger your brain to stop eating when you can’t
handle more food. You know that “I feel stuffed” feeling? That’s
your stomach (which has its own complex nervous system, by the way),
telling your brain to tell you to stop eating.

This is why,
believe it or not, the simple act of drinking a glass of water
before each meal is a proven weight loss strategy. It fills your
belly with water, thereby reducing the amount of space left for
other foods. So your stomach gets full more quickly, triggering
the “stop eating” signals in your brain.

Eating an
apple before each meal also works in much the same way. This is
true even though apples are not negative-calorie foods. But they
are rich in water, and water takes up space in your stomach.

In fact, that’s
the common property among all negative-calorie foods: They all
contain a lot of water locked in a fibrous matrix. Apples are
essentially “water fruits,” as are grapes and watermelons (hence
the name). Many vegetables are also “water vegetables,” meaning
that they’re loaded with water. Celery, for example, is the classic
example of a water-rich negative-calorie food (see below).

As you read
this list, remember that all foods contain calories, and
that the term “negative-calorie food” is a bit of a misnomer. It
refers to the effective net calories subtracted from your
body through the preparation, eating, digestion and elimination
of these foods. In other words, you expend more calories eating
them than they deliver to your body.

The upshot
is that the more water you consume in your foods, the more
quickly you’ll feel full and stop eating. Water, it turns
out, is the most effective appetite control substance in the world.

So here’s
the list of the five best negative-calorie foods that you can enjoy
every day as part of a healthy weight loss diet:

#1) Celery

One cup of
celery (120g) contains only 19 calories. It takes far more than
19 calories to prepare, eat, digest and eliminate this one cup of
celery, and that’s what qualifies it as a negative-calorie food.
You can eat as much celery as you want, and you won’t gain body
fat.

Even though
celery contains effectively no contributing calories, it does contain
powerful medicine. Celery juice is a powerful anti-inflammatory
medicine, and one of the active constituents in celery –
apigenin
– slashes the risk of ovarian cancer, too.

Celery juice
is fantastic for your health, but if you want to feel more full,
eat whole celery with simple seasonings (see below).

#2) Lettuce,
onions and greens

Lettuce is basically
just structured water locked into a vegetable matrix. One cup
of typical iceberg lettuce contains just 8 calories, meaning
you can munch on this to your heart’s delight and you’ll never gain
an ounce of body fat.

Much the same
is true with onions, which contain only 64 calories per cup
and yet deliver an amazing assortment of anti-cancer
nutrients and immune-boosting medicine.

Virtually
all salad greens are “negative-calorie” foods, meaning you can eat
as many of them as you want. But be careful: Slopping on 300 calories
worth of oily salad dressing changes the entire equation. While
lettuce by itself is a negative-calorie food, salad dressing is
mostly definitely NOT. In fact, salad dressings are often loaded
with cheap soybean oils and even MSG (monosodium glutamate), a chemical
taste enhancer linked to neurological damage and obesity. MSG is
almost always found in “Ranch” flavor dressings, in particular.

#3) Kelp noodles

Eating noodles
is not normally known as a way to lose weight. That’s because traditional
noodles are made with calorie-rich starches derived from grains like
wheat. But even spelt noodles, brown rice noodles and quinoa noodles
still contain a lot of calories.

That’s why
kelp noodles are so amazing: They’re made out of sea kelp,
and they’re packed with water. Yet they perform amazingly well in
soups, raw noodle dishes and even Italian-style dishes like spaghetti.

Kelp noodles
contain just 6 calories per serving, and yet they take up
a lot of physical space in your belly, contributing to that “full”
feeling that reminds you to stop eating.

You may be
able to find kelp noodles at your local health food store. You can
also find them at the
NaturalNews Store, where we’ve just introduced them to readers
who have replied with an overwhelmingly positive response. I’ve
personally been eating these kelp noodles as part of my own health
maintenance program. For example, during the week between Christmas
and New Year’s Day, I went on a juice fast that involved
drinking fresh vegetable juice every morning, then eating steamed
broccoli and cabbage with kelp noodles every evening.

It was a very
cleansing and healthful experience. I also used several key supplements
such as Oxy-Powder from Ed Group’s Global Healing Center (www.GlobalHealingCenter.com)
to help speed my cleansing.

Kelp noodles
are also great for adding substance to light soups or vegetable
broths. They make a broth eat like a full soup (and they make you
feel full, too).

#4) Pickles

Pickles are, of
course, made from cucumbers, and cucumbers are themselves a
“negative-calorie food” because they’re so sparse in calories. One
cup of cucumbers contains a mere 16 calories.

Does that
mean one cup of pickles contains 16 calories, too? Well, not exactly.
You have to watch out for the sugar content in some brands of pickles.
Just pickling cucumbers in vinegar, water and spices won’t add any
calories, but a lot of today’s most popular pickle brands contain
added sugar. This typically adds only a slight amount of calories
to the food. Dill pickles made from cucumbers, for example, have
17 calories per cup.

So they’re
still a negative-calorie food because it takes more than 17 calories
to consume and digest them. If you’re looking to lose body fat or
maintain a healthy weight, eat all the pickles you want.

Beware, however,
of this: Many pickles are made with artificial yellow food coloring
chemicals. In fact, I recently checked this out at the grocery
store and found that 95% of the pickles sold there were contaminated
with FD&C Yellow #5. This chemical should be avoided by everyone
– especially children.

So only buy
natural pickles made without the yellow #5 food coloring!

By the way,
speaking of pickled foods, you can also eat unlimited kimchi
and raw sauerkraut as those are also negative-calorie fermented
foods (they’re actually good for your digestive tract because of
all the probiotics they contain).

#5) Grapefruit

Grapefruit
technically isn’t a negative-calorie food, but it deserves mention
for another reason as you’ll soon see. For starters, it’s still
fairly low in calories, delivering only 74 calories per cup.

But the best
part is that grapefruit contains naringenin, an antioxidant
derived from the bitter flavor of grapefruits, which triggers the
liver to break down fat. So as part of a fat-loss strategy, grapefruit
is truly essential to your daily diet!

Fascinating
research about the fat-reducing properties of grapefruit was just
published in the online journal PLoS. It shows that naringenin
activates two kinds of PPARs (dubbed PPAR-alpha and PPARy) and blocks
LXR-alpha – resulting in fasting-type benefits to the
body.

“It is a process
which is similar to the Atkins diet, without many of the side effects,”
Martin L. Yarmush, MD, PhD, director of the MGH Center for Engineering
in Medicine and one of the paper’s authors, said in a media statement.
“The liver behaves as if fasting, breaking down fatty acids instead
of carbohydrates.”

To get more
grapefruit into my diet, I like to peel it, remove the seeds, then
blend the whole grapefruit into a fruit smoothie. This is
how I get the white grapefruit inner skin, too. And that contains
the best medicine of the grapefruit!

Drinking so-called
“grapefruit juice” does not offer the same benefits, especially
if it’s pasteurized. Only raw grapefruit that includes the
white inner skin (the bitter part) offers these health benefits.

Don’t forget
full-spectrum sea salt

Believe it
or not, full-spectrum salt (not processed salt) is actually a kind
of negative-calorie substance. I’m including it as an addition to
the list of five for reasons you’ll see below.

There’s a
lot of mythology surrounding salt that needs to be dispelled here.
First off, I’m not talking about processed white salt (sodium chloride).
That’s a dietary poison and should never be consumed. Only full-spectrum
salt that’s rich in sea minerals can be considered real food.
In fact, many food cravings are really just cravings for
minerals.

All land animals
(and humans) have an innate biological need for real salt. That’s
why animals go crazy over salt licks. It’s also why deer
wander onto the roadways when they’re salted in the winter. Land
animals need salt, just like you and I. When we lack the trace minerals
found in salt, we get cravings for salt.

Many cravings
for salty snack foods are really just your brain telling you to
eat more salt. And yet the salt used in processed foods isn’t
real salt – it’s fake salt; a shadow of real salt that lacks
the trace minerals found in real salt.

So if you’re
craving chips or salty snack foods, you’re probably deficient in
real salt minerals and need to correct your nutritional deficiency.
So sprinkling full-spectrum salt on your meals (steamed veggies,
smoothies, etc.) can actually satisfy your cravings and reduce
your consumption of unhealthful snack foods.

That’s why
full-spectrum salt is, for many people, an effective “negative-calorie”
substance; because in those who are mineral deficient, eating full-spectrum
salt can ease cravings by satisfying your body’s desire for minerals.

However, if
you show symptoms of high blood pressure, be sure to check with
your naturopathic physician before adding salt to your diet. Most
people consume far too much (processed) salt and need to drastically
reduce their consumption of it before adding full-spectrum salt
to their diets.

Some recommended
full-spectrum salts include Royal Himalayan pink crystal salt, Celtic
sea salt and other truly natural brands. Watch out for cheap “sea
salt” at your grocery store – it turns out that any salt can
claim to be “sea salt” even if it’s highly processed white salt.
The thing to look for in salt is the color of the salt. Real
salt will look pinkish, sandy or brown. The “dirtier” the color
of the salt, the more real it is. The whiter it looks, the less
healthy it is, just as in white bread versus wheat bread.

Feel full
and drop the pounds anyway!

To summarize,
then, here are the five negative-calorie foods that may help you
feel full while greatly reducing your caloric intake:

• Celery
• Lettuce,
  onions and greens
• Kelp noodles
• Pickles,
  kimchi and sauerkraut
• Grapefruit
  .. and the additional item of:
• Full-spectrum
  sea salt

Isn’t it nice
to know you don’t have to starve yourself to reduce your calories?
Just eat more of these negative-calorie foods and you’ll
get the benefits of calorie restriction with all the suffering.
Fill your grocery-shopping cart with these foods, and you’ll be
the healthier for it!

Watch for more
healthy tips and strategies here on NaturalNews. And be sure to
check out some of the amazing juicing videos on www.NaturalNews.TV

For example,
watch
this video to learn a cool recipe for making fresh, healing
juice right in your own kitchen.

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Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning
journalist. He has authored and published thousands of articles,
interviews, consumers’ guides, and books on topics like health and
the environment. He is the editor of Natural
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Regardless
of what you think about the Wikileaks release of state secrets,
there’s no debating the astonishing fact that the internet made
these leaks possible. Without the internet, no single organization
such as Wikileaks would have been able to so widely propagate secret
government information and make it public. In the old model of information
distribution – centralized mainstream media newspapers and
news broadcasts – such information would have been tightly
controlled thanks to government pressure.

But the internet
allows individual information publishers to bypass the censorship
of government. In the case of Wikileaks, it allowed an Australian
citizen to embarrass the U.S. government while sitting at a laptop
computer in the United Kingdom.

Governments
don’t like to be embarrassed. They don’t like their secrets aired
on the internet. Sure, it’s okay for governments to tap all of your
secrets by monitoring your phone calls, emails and web browsing
habits, but every government seeks to protect its own secrets at
practically any cost. That’s why the upshot of this Wikileaks release
may be that governments will now start to look for new ways to
censor and control the internet in order to prevent such information
leaks from happening in the future.

What governments
around the world are suddenly beginning to realize is that a
free internet is ultimately incompatible with government secrets,
and secrets are essential to any government that wants to remain
in power. That’s because, as even Noam Chomsky stated in this DemocracyNow
video interview,
most government secrets are based on information governments wouldn’t
want their people to discover – secrets that might threaten
the legitimacy of government if the people found out the truth.

How the FCC
plans to seize authority over the internet

As part of a long-term
plan to control content on the internet, the FCC is now attempting
to assert authority over the internet in the same way it has long
exercised content censorship authority over broadcast television and
radio.

The reason
you can’t say those seven dirty words on broadcast television, in
other words, is because the FCC controls broadcast television
content and can simply revoke the broadcast licenses of any
television station that refuses to comply. This is the same tactic,
in the internet world, of yanking a web site’s domain name, which
the Department of Homeland Security has already begun doing over
the last several weeks.

The FCC also
controls content on the radio and can yank the broadcast licenses
of any radio stations that refuse to comply with its content censorship.
This is why operators of “pirate radio stations” are dealt with
so harshly: For the government to allow any radio station to operate
outside its censorship and control is to invite dissent.

The internet,
of course, has been operating freely and without any real government
censorship for roughly two decades. In that time, it has grown to
be what is arguably the most influential medium in the world for
information distribution. Most importantly, the internet is the
medium of information freedom that is not controlled by any
government.

The U.S. government
wants to change all that, and they’ve dispatched the FCC to reign
in the “freedoms” of the internet.

How to crush
internet Free Speech

The first step
to the FCC’s crushing of internet freedom is to assert authority
over the internet by claiming to run the show. The FCC, of course,
has no legal authority over the internet. It was only granted authority
in 1934 over broadcast communications in the electromagnetic
spectrum – you know, radio waves and antennas, that kind of thing.

There is nothing
in the Communications Act of 1934 that grants the FCC any authority
over the internet because obviously the internet didn’t exist then,
and it would have been impossible for lawmakers in the 1930′s to
imagine the internet as it operates today.

So instead
of following the law, the FCC is trying to “fake” its way into
false authority over the internet by claiming authority in the
current “net neutrality” debate. By asserting its authority with
net neutrality, the FCC will establish a beachhead of implied
authority from which it can begin to control and censor the
internet.

This is why
“net neutrality” is a threat to internet freedom. It’s not because
of anything to do with net neutrality itself, but rather with the
FCC’s big power grab in its assertion that it has authority over
websites just like it has authority over broadcast radio.

The FCC may
soon tell you what you can post on the internet

Where is this
all heading? Once the FCC establishes a foothold on the ‘net, it can
then assert that it has the power to tell you what to post on the
internet. Here’s how it might unfold:

First, the
FCC will simply ban what it calls “information traitors,” which
will include people like Julian Assange (Wikileaks) who publish
state secrets. (Technically Julian Assange can’t be a traitor since
he’s not even American in the first place, but don’t expect the
FCC to care about this distinction.)

Once the public
is comfortable with that, the FCC will advance its agenda to include
“information terrorists” which will include anything posted about
Ron Paul, the federal reserve and the counterfeit money supply,
G. Edward Griffin, or anything from true U.S. patriots who defend
the Constitution. The anti-state website www.LewRockwell.com
(where some of my own articles have appeared from time to time)
would also be immediately banned because its information is so dangerous
to government control.

After that
censorship is in place, the FCC will likely begin to push the
corporate agenda by banning websites that harm the profits of
large corporations. This will include, of course, websites like
NaturalNews.com which teach people about health freedom,
nutritional cures, natural remedies and alternatives to Big Pharma’s
high-profit pharmaceuticals.

The way this
will come about is that the FCC may require a license to publish
health
information on the web, in much the same way that states
currently license doctors
to practice medicine. This is how conventional medicine has operated
its monopoly for so long, by the way: By controlling the licensing
of doctors at the state level. Any doctor who dares prescribe nutritional
supplements or suggest that medication might be harmful to a patient
immediately gets stripped of his license to practice medicine (and
thereby put out of business). The FCC will likely do the same thing
across the internet. Sites that publish health information without
a license will be deemed “a threat to public health” and be seized
by the government.

The first
target? Anti-vaccine websites. Vaccines are so crucial to the continuation
of disease and medical enslavement in America that any site questioning
the current vaccine mythology will be deemed a threat to public
health – or perhaps even a “terrorism” organization.

Essentially,
once the FCC has gained power and authority over the internet, it
will use that power to push a Big Government / Big Business agenda
that censors the truth, keeps people trapped in a system of disinformation,
and silences anyone who challenges the status quo.

The FCC
is poised to become the FDA
of internet information, banning alternative speech and enforcing
an information monopoly engineered by powerful corporations.

Think of the
FCC as the new the Ministry
of Truth from George Orwell’s novel 1984.

This is not
about net neutrality, it’s about the FCC power grab

Remember, I am
not arguing here for or against the principle of net
neutrality itself, but rather warning about the FCC’s imposition of
false authority over the internet in the first place. The idea of
net neutrality has merits, but granting the FCC the power to control
the internet is a disastrously bad idea that will only end in censorship
and “information tyranny” – especially now that governments around
the world are witnessing the “dangers” of information freedom via
the Wikileaks fiasco.

If there’s
one thing governments hate, it’s real freedom. Sure, they all talk
about freedom and publicly claim their allegiance to it, but behind
the scenes what they really want is total information control.
That’s because freedom gives people the ability to say what they
want, to whomever they want, and even to oppose the doctrine of
the government.

Just look
at China and how it has censored the internet to the point where
you can’t even log in to Facebook from that country.

Governments
hate freedom because freedom threatens centralized power and control
over the People. And because governments hate freedom, they
also hate the internet as long as it’s free.
This is why bloggers and internet journalists are right now imprisoned
all over the world for merely posting the truth.

As Noam Chomsky
said in his DemocracyNow interview (link above), what the recent
Wikileaks releases really show is that the U.S. government has “a
profound hatred for democracy.”

It also happens
to have a profound hatred for actual freedom, because people who
are free to think for themselves and write whatever they want are
always going to be a threat to a government that wants people to
conform, obey and acquiesce.

All government
agencies seek to expand their power

What do the FCC,
FDA, TSA, DEA, FTC and USDA all have in common?

They all
want more power. They want more authority, bigger budgets and
more control over the world around them. They are like cancer tumors,
growing in size and toxicity while they consume more and more by
stealing resources from a healthy host. The bigger these cancer
tumors become, the more dangerous they become to the health of the
host body, and the more urgently they need to be held in check or
excised from the body entirely.

There is no
such thing as a government agency that wants to be smaller, with
shrinking budgets and fewer employees on the taxpayer payroll. Government
departments – just like people – incessantly seek more
power even at the expense of freedom among those they claim to serve.
And this move by the FCC to assume control over the internet is
one of the most dangerous power grabs yet witnessed in the short
history of the information age.

By the way,
one of the reasons we created and launched www.NaturalNews.TV
was because we wanted a video site that could not be turned off
by YouTube. You’ve probably heard the horror stories of famous
content producers like Alex Jones having their YouTube accounts
suddenly terminated. NaturalNews.TV
is a safe haven for alternative health content that cannot
be turned off by a large corporation that doesn’t recognize the
value of health freedom.

Feel free
to participate by uploading videos or viewing the many thousands
of free videos available right now at www.NaturalNews.TV

By the way,
I recommend reading another outstanding article
on this topic
written by John Naughton at The Guardian. Here’s a taste
of what he writes:

Consider,
for instance, how the views of the US administration have changed
in just a year. On 21 January, secretary of state Hillary Clinton
made a landmark speech about internet freedom, in Washington DC,
which many people welcomed and most interpreted as a rebuke to China
for its alleged cyberattack on Google. “Information has never been
so free,” declared Clinton. “Even in authoritarian countries, information
networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments
more accountable.”

She went on
to relate how, during his visit to China in November 2009, Barack
Obama had “defended the right of people to freely access information,
and said that the more freely information flows the stronger societies
become. He spoke about how access to information helps citizens
to hold their governments accountable, generates new ideas, and
encourages creativity.” Given what we now know, that Clinton speech
reads like a satirical masterpiece.

Reprinted
with permission from Natural
News.

Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning
journalist. He has authored and published thousands of articles,
interviews, consumers’ guides, and books on topics like health and
the environment. He is the editor of Natural
News.

The age of
pharmaceutical microchipping is now upon us. Novartis AG, one of
the largest drug companies in the world, has announced a plan to
begin embedding microchips in medications to create “smart pill”
technology.

The microchip technology is being licensed from Proteus Biomedical
of Redwood City, California. Once activated by stomach acid, the
embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting
data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a
transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.

The idea behind all this is to create “smart pills” that can sense
what’s happening in the body and deliver that information
to the patient’s doctor. Novartis plans to start microchipping
its organ transplant anti-rejection drugs
and then potentially expand microchipping to other pharmaceuticals
in its product lineup. This same technology could soon end up in
pills made by other drug
companies, too.

The best
laid plans…

It all sounds
good on the surface, but NaturalNews
readers no doubt have lots of skeptical questions about this technology.
For starters, Novartis
apparently isn’t planning on conducting any clinical
trials that might take into account the safety issues of swallowing
microchips.
“Novartis does not expect to have to conduct full-scale clinical
trials to prove the new products work,” reports
Reuters. “Instead, it aims to do so-called bioequivalence tests
to show they are the same as the original.”

But I have
a question: What chemicals
or heavy metals are contained in the microchip itself? A microchip
that transmits data obviously must have a power
source, meaning it needs to have a very small battery or capacitor
of some sort. The materials used in capacitors and batteries, to
my knowledge, are toxic to the human body
and should never be eaten.

Microchips
are not food,
and to swallow them seems risky to your health,
especially if you’re swallowing several microchips per day.

Data privacy

Another huge
concern with microchips that transmit data is data privacy.
If these microchips are broadcasting information, then obviously
that information can be picked up by anything nearby, including
potentially unscrupulous individuals or organizations who might
put it to a nefarious use.

For example, suppose a local pharmacy store installs a microchip
signal detector in their main door entrance in order to track people
who are broadcasting medication
data. They could then theoretically decode that data and use it
to determine what health condition that customer might be suffering
and then push competing generic pharmaceuticals as a replacement.

Government
agents could carry “pharma microchip scanners” that determine what
pills you’re taking right now. This could be used to violate your
privacy by sharing that data with other government
agencies or it could even be sold off to third-party marketing companies.

I very much doubt the data being broadcast by the microchips in
these pills will be encrypted because encryption requires
real processing power, and there isn’t room for much of a CPU or
power source inside these tiny microchips. Most likely, they are
going to broadcast raw signal data that can be detected and
decoded quite easily.

Remember
to take your meds

But the really
scary part about these microchipped medications
is that this technology will be used to make sure people are
taking their medication. Drug companies lose billions of dollars
a year (in their minds) from patients
not remembering to take their pills. Of course, half the reason
they can’t remember to take their pills is because many pharmaceuticals
damage cognitive function, but that’s another story.

So this smart-pill
microchip technology will likely be used to track what pills patients
have taken so that they can be “gently reminded” to take more pills
they may have forgotten. In the marketing business, this is called
a “continuity program.” It’s a way to make sure repeat sales happen
on a regular basis.

In this context,
microchipping the pills benefits the drug
companies, not necessarily the patients. This is especially
true when considering those pharmaceuticals that are harmful to
human health – and we all know the pharmaceutical market is
full of pills that have later been found to be extremely dangerous
or even deadly (Vioxx, anyone?).

Coming soon:
Police drug scanners and employer drug scanners

Now, there
may be one interesting side effect to all this: Employers who are
interviewing potential job candidates might be able to buy (or make)
simple drug scanning devices that detect the presence of a pharmaceutical
microchip broadcast signal. (You could probably make one in your
garage from electronic parts purchased at Radio Shack.)

This might be very useful for employers
who don’t want to hire people taking medications. They invite
you in for an interview and quietly scan for drug broadcast data.
A red light tells them you’re broadcasting medication data, and
they calmly tell you the interview is over and “we’ll get back to
you.”

With employers
right now drowning in health
insurance costs, this could provide a simple, easy way for corporations
to avoid taking on anyone who might create a cost burden on their
health insurance
plans (from their point of view). I don’t necessarily agree with
this use of the technology; I’m just saying this is one way in which
it is likely to be used by employers to screen out employees who
are on medications.

Cops, too, could use a similar scanning device to determine if a
driver at the scene of an accident might be medication impaired.
Now this is a use I actually do agree with. Today’s roadways are
filled with mentally impaired drivers who are doped up on
medications. The problem is actually far worse than drunk drivers,
by the way, and yet virtually nothing is being done to combat this
problem of “medicated
drivers.” (Most people don’t even know the problem exists.)

If people taking medications are broadcasting that fact through
all the little microchips they swallow, then scanning for the presence
of medications is simple. It’s even easier than a breathalyzer test
because it requires no action on the part of the test subject. The
cop just presses a button, waits two seconds, and can then determine
whether you’re broadcasting medication data. At that point, you
might be arrested under suspicion of “driving while medicated.”

Another
reason not to take meds

There are clearly
a lot of unanswered questions and even some potential risks involved
in taking microchipped pharmaceuticals. For some people, privacy
issues may be the biggest factor of all, because who wants to broadcast
the fact that they’re taking meds in the first place?

I don’t take any pharmaceuticals, obviously, and most NaturalNews
readers avoid them, too. The fact that drugs will soon be microchipped
is yet another good reason to find more holistic ways to take care
of your health. Don’t bet your life
(and your privacy) on Big Pharma’s pills. Choose a healthy, holistic
lifestyle based on nutritious, organic foods,
regular exercise and the avoidance of all man-made (synthetic) chemicals,
and you most likely won’t ever need pharmaceuticals for your entire
life.

The age of microchipping people and microchipping medications is
now upon us. Given what the
TSA is doing right now with
naked body scanners, you can only imagine what Big Brother will
do with any medication data you might be broadcasting from inside
your body.

In fact, the very idea that there is a microchip inside your body
that’s broadcasting data might get you flagged as a possible terrorist
by the TSA, which
would then proceed to finger your genitals and palm your breasts
as part of their new
“enhanced pat-down” groping technique.

The best way to avoid all this risk
is to simply eat your veggies and drink your superfoods.
Don’t become a trackable, traceable, microchipped subject of the
medical industry that wants to turn your body into a chemical profit
center.

Sources for this story include
Reuters.

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I encountered
my first airport naked body scanner while flying out of California
today, and of course I decided to “opt out” of the scan. You do
this by telling the blue-shirted TSA agents that you simply wish
to opt out of the body scanner. Here’s what happened after that:

A TSA agent
told me to step to the side and stay put. He then proceeded to shout
out loudly enough for all the other travelers and TSA agents to
hear, “OPT OUT! OPT OUT!” This is no doubt designed to attract attention
(or perhaps humiliation) to those who choose to opt out of the naked
body scanner. I
saw no purpose for this verbal alert because the same TSA
agent who was yelling this ultimately was the one who patted me
down anyway.

For the pat
down, first I was required to walk through the regular metal detector.
From there, I was asked if I wanted to be patted down in a private
room, or if I didn’t mind just being patted down in full view of
everyone else. Not being a shy person in the first place, I told
the agent I didn’t need a private room.

He then explained
to me that he was going to pat down my entire body, including my
crotch and my buttocks, but that he would use the back of his hands
to pat down the crotch and buttocks areas. This is probably designed
to make the pat-down seem less “personal” and more detached. That
way, air passengers can’t complain of being felt up by TSA agents
who might get carried away with the pat-down procedure. He asked
if it hurt for me to be touched anywhere, and I told him no, at
which point he proceeded with the pat down.

It was a well-scripted
pat-down, covering all the areas of my body, including a mild crotch
sweep (it wasn’t especially invasive or anything, as doctors will
do far worse during a physical exam). He swept my arms, legs, hips,
back of the neck, ankles and everywhere else. To the TSA’s credit,
this guy was fast, efficient and only used a light touch that was
in no way disturbing. But it did take an extra five minutes or so
compared to walking through the naked body scanner.

Speaking of
the naked body scanners, as I was having my crotch swept by the
back of the hand of this TSA agent, I was observing other air travelers
subjecting themselves to the naked body scanners. They were told
to walk into the body scanner staging area and then hold their arms
in the air in a pose as if they were under arrest. They were told
to freeze in this position for several seconds (perhaps 10 seconds)
during which they were being blasted with ionizing
radiation that we all know contributes to cancer.

The TSA, of
course, will tell you that these machines can’t possibly contribute
to cancer. But they said the same thing about mammograms,
and we now know that mammograms are so harmful to women’s health
that they actually harm
ten women for everyone one woman they help. So I’m not exactly
taking the U.S. government
at its word that naked body scanner radiation is “harmless.”

As these air
travelers were being scanned, their naked body images
were appearing on a screen somewhere, of course. Some TSA agent
was examining the naked body shape and contours of all these people,
and even though we were told by the
TSA that the image viewing machines cannot store
images, we have since learned that the machines actually do have
the capability to
store those images. In addition, rogue TSA employees could simply
use their cell phones to take snapshots of what they see on the
screen. There are no doubt rules against such behavior,
but it’s bound to happen sooner or later.

Meanwhile,
my own security screening
was proceeding fully clothed. I don’t want to broadcast my naked
butt cheeks on the TSA’s graphic monitors, thank you very much!

Very few people
opt out of the naked body scanners

The most fascinating
part about this entire process was not the verbal broadcast of my
opt out status, nor having my crotch swept by the latex-covered
back hand of some anonymous TSA agent, but rather the curious fact
that I was the only one opting out. Although I must have
watched at least a hundred people go through this particular security
checkpoint, there wasn’t a single other person who opted out of
the naked body scan.

They all
just lined up like cattle
to have their bodies scanned with ionizing radiation.

To me, that’s
just fascinating. That when people are given a choice to opt out
of being irradiated, they will choose to just go along with the
naked body scan rather than risk standing out by requesting
to opt out.

You see, I’m
not convinced that the TSA’s naked body scanners enhance air
travel security at all. Previous security tests
conducted by the FAA show quite clearly that the greatest threat
to airplane
safety isn’t from the passengers but from ground crews, where bombs
and other materials can be quite easily smuggled onto planes.

But even though
naked body scanners may not enhance air travel
security, they do accomplish something far more intriguing: The
successful completion of an experiment in human behavior.
If you were to pose the question “Will people line up like cattle
to be electronically undressed in front of government security officers?”
The answer is now unequivocally YES!

Most people,
it turns out, will simply do whatever they’re told by government
authorities, even if it means giving up their privacy or their freedoms.
Almost anything can be sold to the public under the guise of “fighting
terrorism” these days, including subjecting your body to what is
essentially a low-radiation CT scan at the airport!

I don’t know
about you, but I don’t think I should be required to subject myself
to ionizing radiation as a condition of air travel security. Of
course, the more technically minded readers among you might counter
by saying that high-altitude travel is, all by itself, an event
that subjects you to low levels of ionizing radiation (which is
true). But that’s all the more reason to not add the body’s radiation
burden any more than necessary. Americans already get far too much
radiation from CT scans and other medical imaging tests (not to
mention mammograms). Do we really need to dose peoples’ bodies with
yet more radiation every time they board an airplane?

Trusted traveler
program?

I don’t know
why the TSA never pursued its “trusted traveler” program. I actually
suggested this years ago, and there was word that the TSA was working
on something similar. The way it worked was very different from
the current system. Under the current system, every person entering
an airport security line is assumed to be a terrorist, and it is
only through the various security screenings that you are eventually
deemed to be innocent. This is a “guilty until proven innocent”
approach to air security, and it’s the system in place all across
America (and
around the world) today.

Under a trusted
traveler program, people who pass rigorous background screening
procedures, criminal history checks and other similar tests would
be assumed innocent unless suspected of being guilty. They might
carry “trusted traveler” cards linked to a federal database so that
their status could be verified as they pass through a security checkpoint.
They might even have their fingerprint scanned at that checkpoint
in order to biometrically verify their identity.

For whatever
reason, the TSA is no longer pursuing any such trusted traveler
program (at least not to my knowledge). Perhaps the agency just
figures it can trust no one. Hence the need to have everybody line
up in front of the naked body scanner machines and raise their arms
in a humiliating “I’m being arrested” pose.

It’s actually
just like the scene from the movie called The
Fifth Element starring Bruce Willis. Remember the scene
where the cops are searching the apartment block and they use an
X-ray scanner to see through the walls? As they search the apartment
building, they announce that all residents must face the wall and
place their hands inside the yellow circles on the wall. This scene
eerily resembles what the TSA makes U.S. travelers do right now.

And virtually
no one protests. That’s the really amazing part about this.

Seasonal flu
shots offered at the airport, too

After completing
my security pat-down, by the way, I entered the terminal where I
walked by a kiosk offering a seasonal flu
shot. There was a big sign claiming that the
flu shot would prevent you from catching the flu, and a nurse
of some sort stood right behind the kiosk, ready to inject you with
a vaccine for just $35.

First the
naked body scanners, and then the flu shot propaganda.
It reminded me that the U.S. government really is trying to push
people into self-destructive behaviors that will ultimately benefit
the sick-care industry. After all, the more cancer and Alzheimer’s
disease people
develop (from radiation and vaccines, of course), the more business
gets generated for Big Pharma.

I know enough
about health and freedom
to avoid these little disease bombs, but most Americans don’t know
enough to resist the propaganda. They just allow themselves to be
irradiated, injected and poisoned, and they think it’s all okay
because the government tells them it’s good for them.

It’s odd that
people trust the government when the government doesn’t trust them
at all. If the government treats you like a criminal, a terrorist,
a lab rat and a vaccine depository, doesn’t that only prove they
don’t honor you as a sovereign individual?

And that sends
a powerful message confirming that the U.S. government has forgotten
it is supposed to serve the People, not rule over
them.

Just wait
and watch how this gets even worse. Today, you can opt out of the
TSA’s naked body scanners, but after a year or two – once the sheeple
get comfortable with giving up all their freedoms – these scans
will become mandatory. That’s the day I give up air travel for good.

Gee, I sure
will miss having my crotch swept by the latex-covered back hand
of some anonymous TSA agent who’s wasting taxpayer money by treating
me like a terrorist.

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Did you or
someone you know test positive for HIV? If so, they probably weren’t
told that they might test negative if a different test were used…
or even if the same test were conducted in another country. HIV
tests, as you’ll see here, are a wishy-washy, pseudoscientific gimmickry
that has unfortunately ensnared many innocent victims into a false
AIDS diagnosis.

This is now
being revealed in some rather shocking video footage released by
Brent Leung, creator of the House of Numbers documentary
(HouseOfNumbers.com)
which tears apart the inconsistencies and dogmatic non-science found
in the conventional HIV / AIDS industry.

Watch
the footage yourself right now.

There, you’ll
see world-renowned scientists discussing the so-called “western
blot,” a highly subjective test that is now being used around the
world to falsely diagnose people with HIV and, subsequently, AIDS.
This western blot, as you’ll learn below, is a spectacularly laughable
test that seems to have been designed to make “positive” criteria
as loose as possible in order to label perfectly healthy people
as having AIDS.

“I don’t think
the western blot is a useful diagnostic test. I don’t think it’s
worth doing,” argues Dr Robin Weiss in the video clip.

Val Turner,
an MD from Australia, adds, “It’s ludicrous that you can be [HIV]
positive in one country and not positive in another.”

Neville Hodgkinson,
the Medical and Science Correspondent for The Sunday Times
(London) adds, “Some people argue that we have a confirmatory test
in some western countries, and that repeated testing can lead you
to a safer diagnosis. But if the very basis of the test is faulty,
then nothing works in fact. …Because of the different criteria
that apply in different countries, you can test HIV positive in
one country and be given an AIDS diagnosis as a result of that,
whereas in another country you won’t test HIV positive and you won’t
be given an AIDS diagnosis.”

A full-blown
AIDS patient will almost always show nine different “bands” on an
HIV test. But in the 1980′s, only one band was required – P24 –
to diagnose someone as HIV positive (and subsequently having AIDS).
The problem is that perfectly healthy people can also test positive
for P24, even if they aren’t HIV positive.

“In the early
days, people developed criteria that were too much like a screening
test. So if you had just P24 [band], they might have called it a
positive,” said Robert Redfield MD, Director, Clinical Care and
Research, Institute of Human Virology.

Doctor Val
Turner adds, “Many people were diagnosed using these criteria, and
then it was realized that forty percent of people who are completely
healthy have one or more western blot bands, most commonly a P24
band.”

A few years
later, the FDA changed its diagnosis criteria for HIV, upping the
requirement beyond a single P24 band. But people who had already
been diagnosed as having AIDS were never re-tested!

Dr Val Turner
explains, “We don’t know how many thousand people were testing using
that western blot criteria before 1987, but … shouldn’t they all
have been tested when the criteria changed in 1987 in case they
were no longer positive? So there are probably people out there
who would not be positive under the criteria which developed subsequently.
Using the FDA criteria which existed before 1993, only 80 percent
of AIDS patients had a positive HIV test, which means 20 percent
were not positive.”

HIV tests
depend on personal opinion, not rigorous science

Even today, HIV
tests are conducted in a wishy-washy, non-scientific manner where
the results depend largely on the opinion of the lab technician
reading the test results! (It’s absurd, of course, but this is what’s
happening right now.)

In House
of Numbers, Brent Leung visited Claudia Kcherer, MD, a Molecular
Biologist at the Robert Kock Institute in Berlin. There, he recorded
this conversation:

Brent: “When
you’re looking at this western blot, how do you determine what is
a positive [result]?”

Claudia: “You
need a certain number of bands being present. It depends a little
bit on the producer of the test.”

Brent: “It
depends on the manufacturer?”

Claudia: “Yes”

Brent: “Is
there a different criteria for what might be a positive?”

Claudia: “Yeah,
there are different criteria from the manufacturer.”

Manufacturers
of the HIV test, in other words, differ in how they define a
“positive.” You might be “HIV positive” on one test, but negative
on another. And the decision on which manufacturer’s test to use
is based on the opinion of the clinic, hospital or doctor ordering
the tests.

Astonishingly,
this House of Numbers footage also includes a scene featuring
two different HIV test lab technicians working in the same lab
who disagree on the criteria for a positive HIV test result. While
one lab workers says two bands are needed for a positive diagnosis,
another worker says three are required. And they work in the same
lab!

Watch
this footage yourself right here.

Western blot
HIV test called into question

But some scientists
feel the western blot is not just a good test, but a great one! Robert
C Gallo MD, Director of the Institute of Human Virology, says
“This has a margin of error if done properly that’s extremely low.
In other words, it’s one of medicine’s better tests.”

One of medicine’s
better tests? Really? And yet it can be interpreted in different
ways by different lab technicians, different definitions in different
countries, different manufacturers and different medical opinions?

The HIV tests,
it turns out, is more a matter of opinion than scientific
fact. And if you or someone you know has tested positive for HIV,
maybe they should get a second opinion.

Why not make
the test more accurate?

So why doesn’t
the industry tighten up its guidelines and require five, six or even
all nine bands to show up before diagnosing someone as HIV positive?
No one seems to know.

I do, though.
Isn’t it obvious? The AIDS industry is much like the cancer industry
in that it’s focused on diagnosing as many patients as possible
whether or not they actually have the disease. More patients equals
more profits and a bigger “scare story” to feed the media propaganda
machines.

We already
know that the AIDS industry fabricated evidence to try
to exaggerate the scope of the AIDS scare. So it’s not surprising
they would be promoting a “loose” test that potentially has already
ensnared potentially tens of thousands of innocent people into a
false AIDS diagnosis.

Once a person
is diagnosed with AIDS, you see, they become a profit-generating
machine for Big Pharma. AIDS pharmaceuticals are extremely expensive,
and because they are protected under an FDA-enforced monopoly, they
can be sold at practically any asking price.

Even better,
once innocent “healthy” people start taking AIDS drugs, they
begin to show AIDS symptoms such as compromised immune systems.
These side effects are caused by the drugs, of course, not by the
disease, but in the minds of doctors and patients, the emergence
of these scary symptoms proves that “they really had AIDS.”

It’s all just
loopy, circular logic with a single purpose: To earn more money
for Big Pharma at the expense of human suffering.

Now, I’m not
saying there’s no such thing as a genuine person with immune deficiency.
Thanks mostly to our toxic environment, there are certainly people
who suffer chronic immune system malfunctions. But it is in the
AIDS industry’s interests to convince even healthy people that they
are ill and need pharmaceutical intervention to survive. And, by
sheer coincidence (not!), today’s HIV tests are specifically designed
in a way that produces a disturbingly high number of false positives.

See the complete
collection of exclusive
clips from House of Numbers at NaturalNews.TV.

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After months
of stalling, the World Health Organization (WHO) has finally revealed
the names of key pandemic advisors who influenced its decision to
declare a phase six pandemic last year – a decision that resulted
in a financial windfall for vaccine manufacturers. As you’ll
see here, that list includes at least five expert advisors who received
money from vaccine companies.

Here’s who
received money from Big Pharma and then influenced the WHO decision
to declare a pandemic:

Arnold
Monto is a professor from the United States who has received
money from virtually all the major vaccine manufacturers: GSK, Novartis,
Roche, Baxter and Sanofi Pasteur. He has specifically been given
grant money by Sanofi Pasteur to study influenza
vaccines.

Nancy Cox
works for the US Centers for Disease Control, which already maintains
a pro-vaccine stance while utterly ignoring the importance of vitamin
D in halting infectious
disease. Nancy took funds from the International Federation
of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) to conduct
work on vaccines.

John Wood
works at Britain’s National Institute for Biological Standards and
Control (NIBSC). They’ve taken money from Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis
and several other companies
focused on influenza vaccine research.

Maria Zambon
is a professor at the UK Health Protection Agency Centre for Infection.
She has received money from Sanofi, Novartis, CSL, Baxter
and GSK.

Neil Ferguson
is also a professor, and he has accepted money from Roche
and GSK Biologicals.

There may
be more to this story, too: The financial ties explained here are
merely the ones that these people chose to publicly disclose to
WHO. There may yet
be other ties that currently remain a secret and will have to be
dug up by some determined reporter…

What’s the
problem with financial ties, anyway?

Why does it matter
that WHO advisors took money from vaccine companies? It’s simple:
The decision to declare H1N1 swine flu to be a phase 6 pandemic
was made by the WHO under advisement from these very people who received
money from vaccine companies. And that decision, we now know, resulted
in a windfall of profits
for the vaccine companies.

Those profits,
in turn, were burdened by the taxpayers whose expenditures were
largely worthless because a huge portion of those vaccines are now
expiring and have to be destroyed. The money was wasted, in other
words.

It all has
the makings of a grand global con: The WHO enlists advisors
with financial ties to the vaccine industry
to decide whether a pandemic is under way and then conveniently
follows their advice in making a decision that many health
experts around the world have been questioning from the start. It
all has the appearance of medical corruption, and it looks
like WHO decisions are based more on politics than medical
science.

It was politically
convenient, in other words, to declare a stage six pandemic. And
if these WHO advisors have already received money from vaccine manufacturers,
it’s certainly within the realm of possibility that they would soon
be financially rewarded with yet more payoffs. (You scratch my back
and I’ll scratch yours…)

The appearance
of corruption

The unfortunate
upshot of all this is that even if these WHO advisors are completely
innocent, their financial ties still create the appearance of
corruption. And that means the
WHO is losing credibility that may compromise its integrity
when a real pandemic comes along. If the world can’t trust the World
Health Organization, in other words, then who should countries
look to for real answers on pandemics and infectious disease?

Sadly, even
the CDC in the US
has now clearly positioned itself as an “anti-nutrition, pro-vaccine”
organization, too. Ignoring the huge importance of vitamin D and
the support of the human immune system, many CDC experts have also
either been on the payrolls of vaccine manufacturers or are looking
to join Big Pharma
when offered a job. The former head of the CDC, Dr.
Julie Gerberding, was recently offered a position as the president
of Merck’s vaccine division.

The frustrating
fact is that modern medicine has been subverted by Big Pharma.
The vaccine industry practically runs the CDC and WHO – or
at the very least, it heavily influences decisions by these two
organizations. As a result, the so-called “scientific” decisions
made by these organizations have very little to do with actual science
but everything to do with protecting (and expanding) the profits
of vaccine manufacturers.

And when public
health policy is decided based on corporate profits, the people
will always suffer.

Did you notice
that the list of WHO advisors did not include even a single naturopathic
physician? Not a single holistic nutritionist?
There was nobody on the board that brought a pro-nutrition point
of view to the discussions. And you know why nutritionists and naturopaths
weren’t invited to join the WHO advisory board? Because the WHO
has already pre-decided it doesn’t want to hear those points of
view. It has stubbornly decided to entertain only vaccines as
the solution to virtually all infectious disease.

And if you
only invite vaccine pushers to the table, guess what kind of advice
you’re going to get? “Push more vaccines!”

Asking a bunch
of vaccine experts whether you should declare a pandemic is sort
of like asking your insurance
agent whether you need more insurance. Well of course you do!

No wonder
the WHO has lost so much credibility. It refuses to look at real
solutions that might work for poor nations (such as low-cost vitamin
D supplements) while strongly favoring the high-profit operations
of the vaccine industry. That’s why the WHO simply can’t be trusted
anymore. It has now become a pawn of the pharmaceutical industry
that will always make decisions that favor the financial interests
of Big Pharma.

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journalist. He has authored and published thousands of articles,
interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and
the environment. He is the editor of Natural
News.

Well, as much
as I hate to say, "I told ya so," it turns out I was right
(and so was Alex Jones and others who spoke out against the TSA’s
naked body scanners). As reported
today by Declan McCullagh from CNET, "The U.S. Marshals
Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens
of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at
the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse."

That same story
points to a recently released
document proving that the TSA
actually requires its equipment to be able to record and store naked
body images. This, despite the fact that the TSA publicly stated,
"scanned images cannot be stored or recorded." It turns
out they were flat-out lying.

So now we have
an admission by the TSA that their equipment is, in fact, capable
of storing these naked body images. On top of that, we have an admission
that federal agents used that same technology to scan tens of thousands
of people while secretly saving those images, too.

More naked
body scanners coming to U.S. airports

Just two weeks
ago, by the way, Big Sis Janet Napolitano announced that these full
body scanners would be installed in nearly every major U.S. airport.
So get ready have your private parts scanned and recorded by TSA
agents, because that’s what could be coming soon to an airport near
you.

Another fascinating
twist in this story concerns the current location of the more than
35,000 naked body scan images stored on the machine used at a federal
courthouse. The machine was apparently returned to the manufacturer.
This means the company that makes the full body scanners now reportedly
possesses 35,000+ pictures showing the nude bodies of American citizens
whose images were scanned and recorded without their knowledge!

"TSA is
not being straightforward with the public about the capabilities
of these devices," said Electronic Privacy Information Center
executive director Marc Rotenberg (in the CNET story). "This
is the Department of Homeland Security subjecting every U.S. traveler
to an intrusive search that can be recorded without any suspicion
– I think it’s outrageous."

Balancing
security with privacy

Now, certainly
we probably need some level of security in our airports. I’m not
disagreeing with that premise. There are some bad people in the
world who will try to do ugly things in order to prove a point.
But magnetometers (metal detector) work just fine, and even a pat-down
is less intrusive than a naked image body scanner. Personally, I
would much rather submit to a pat-down than a naked body scan.

The more important
issue here is that our own government has been lying to us about
all this. They said these machines could not record images, and
now we find out they could record all along. This worsens the privacy
violations by adding a level of deceit. Now how can we trust that
other full body scanners aren’t also recording images?

The truth is,
we can’t.

And besides,
as I suggested before, there’s one really good way to make sure
we’re safe in the air. I call it "Armed Airlines." We
should have the choice of an airline where everybody is armed. You
have to pack a firearm and a concealed carry license (or a police
badge or military ID) just to board the plane. No terrorist or troublemaker
in his right mind would dare pull anything on that flight – not
with 250 other passengers armed, too.

I would gladly
join that flight, and I’d sleep like a baby. Why? Because it would
be the safest airplane in the sky. I also know quite a few airline
pilots who would gladly pilot those flights, and they’d have their
own firearms on the flight control deck, too.

Because right
now, what we really have is a nation of disarmed airlines where
nobody can carry firearms except Federal Air Marshals. They’re good
guys, but there just aren’t enough of them to go around. I’d like
to see "Armed Airlines" flying. And besides, Armed Airlines
would be the only flights guaranteed not to have screaming babies
sitting right behind you.

Reprinted
with permission from Natural
News.

Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning
journalist. He has authored and published thousands of articles,
interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and
the environment. He is the editor of Natural
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Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding
as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land
of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the
assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware
of this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and
Colorado, have long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater
on their own properties because, according to officials, that
rain belongs to someone else.

As bizarre
as it sounds, laws restricting property owners from "diverting"
water that falls on their own homes and land have been on the books
for quite some time in many Western states. Only recently, as droughts
and renewed interest in water conservation methods have become more
common, have individuals and business owners started butting heads
with law enforcement over the practice of collecting rainwater for
personal use.

Check out this
YouTube video of a news report out of Salt Lake City, Utah,
about the issue. It’s illegal in Utah to divert rainwater without
a valid water right, and Mark Miller of Mark Miller Toyota, found
this out the hard way.

It’s also sets
fines up to $1,000 per day for anyone who refuses to submit to quarantines,
vaccinations, decontamination efforts or to follow any other verbal
order by virtually any state-licensed law enforcement or medical
personnel. You
can read the text yourself here.

Here’s some
of the language contained in the bill:

(Violation
of 4th Amendment: Illegal search and seizure)

During either
type of declared emergency, a local public health authority… may
exercise authority… to require the owner or occupier of premises
to permit entry into and investigation of the premises; to close,
direct, and compel the evacuation of, or to decontaminate or cause
to be decontaminated any building or facility; to destroy any material;
to restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons;

(Violation
of 14th Amendment; illegal arrest without a warrant)

…an officer
authorized to serve criminal process may arrest without a warrant
any person whom the officer has probable cause to believe has violated
an order given to effectuate the purposes of this subsection and
shall use reasonable diligence to enforce such order. [Gunpoint]

(Government
price controls)

The attorney
general, in consultation with the office of consumer affairs and
business regulation, and upon the declaration by the governor that
a supply emergency exists, shall take appropriate action to ensure
that no person shall sell a product or service that is at a price
that unreasonably exceeds the price charged before the emergency.

Read
the rest of the article

August
29, 2009

It’s emblazoned
across the front page of USA Today, just underneath a subhead
declaring Michael Jackson was, indeed, killed by a drug overdose:
"Flu could infect half of USA." The article goes on to
describe the predicted number of deaths expected in the U.S. (30,000–90,000
Americans) as well as the actions being taken by the government
to protect Americans from the coming swine flu pandemic.

That advice
reads sort of like a comic book of health care advice for kindergarteners:
Wash your hands, cover your mouth if you cough and let "the
grownups" take care of the rest by injecting you with a vaccine.
Curiously absent from all the health
advice being handed out on the swine
flu by the White House, the CDC,
the WHO and even the FDA is any mention of Vitamin
D or other natural remedies that offer enormous protections
from influenza infections.

The absence
of this information from virtually all the advice being handed out
to the American public is increasingly suspicious. If a pandemic
flu is, indeed, threatening to infect half the U.S. population,
and if most of the population is deficient in a nutrient known to
strongly prevent influenza
infections, wouldn’t it make good sense to make a few announcements
encouraging Americans to raise their vitamin D levels throughout
the coming winter?

It is a well-known
medical fact, of course, that influenza always gets worse during
the winter months North of the equator and the summer months South
of the equator (which are really called their “winter” months).
This is because as sunlight hours lessen during the winter, the
people living there become vitamin D deficient and are susceptible
to influenza infections of all kinds.

Read
the rest of the article

August
27, 2009

Mr. Johnson
weighed nearly a ton.
And drank pop ’til his health came undone.
His kidneys turned blue
But he said, "I’ve got two."
"So I’ll drink ’til I only lose one."

The debate
over health care reform has run smack into a brick wall of economic
reality. There’s just not enough money to pay for all the disease
in America, it seems, and now lawmakers are desperately searching
for new sources that might bridge the financial gaps. Their latest
scheme involves taxing sodas with a three-cent tax to raise an extra
$24 billion over the next four years.

At first, taxing
soda might seem
like a good idea. Sodas, after all, promote diabetes,
obesity, bone loss and many other costly health
conditions. It only stands to reason that people who drink soda
should pay a little more towards a national health
care plan.

But there are
problems with this idea of a soda tax. For starters, it’s a highly
regressive tax that ultimately gets paid mostly by low-income, low-education
people (the kind of people who drink a lot of soda). It’s a tax,
in other words, on those who can least afford it.

Another problem
with such a tax is that if the U.S. government is going to use taxes
to modify consumer behavior, it would seem prudent to first end
the government subsidies on sugar
that have existed since World War II. Why are we still using taxpayer
dollars to lower the price of sugar when refined white sugar contributes
so much to our nation’s health problems?

Read
the rest of the article

August
6, 2009

She was deathly afraid of the flu.
So she asked her doc what she should do.
He jabbed her unseen
With a swine flu vaccine
Blurting, "Darling, I haven’t a clue."
~ by the Health Ranger

Let’s not beat around the bush on this issue: The swine flu vaccines
now being prepared for mass injection into infants, children, teens
and adults have never been tested and won’t be tested before
the injections begin. In Europe, where flu vaccines are typically
tested on hundreds (or thousands) of people before being unleashed
on the masses, the European Medicines Agency is allowing
companies to skip the testing process entirely.

And yet, amazingly, people are lining up to take the vaccine, absent
any safety testing whatsoever. When the National Institutes of Health
in the U.S. announced a swine flu
vaccine trial beginning in early August, it was inundated with
phone calls and emails from people desperate to play the role of
human guinea pigs. The power of fear to herd sheeple into vaccine
injections is simply amazing…

Back in Europe, of course, everybody gets to be a guinea pig
since no testing will be done on the vaccine at all. Even worse,
the European vaccines
will be using adjuvants – chemicals used to multiply the
potency of the active ingredients in vaccines.

Notably, there is absolutely no safety data on the use of
adjuvants in infants and expectant mothers – the two groups
being most aggressively targeted by the swine
flu vaccine pushers. The leads us to the disturbing conclusion
that the swine flu vaccine could be a modern medical disaster.
It’s untested and un-tried. Its ingredients are potentially quite
dangerous, and the adjuvants being used in the European vaccines
are suspected of causing neurological disorders.

Read
the rest of the article

July
30, 2009

These questions
make Americans pause. Most tend to think of public demonstrations
as signs of a political instability. But in fact, public
demonstrations are a sign of a healthy Democratic process.
And Democracy is alive and well in Ecuador (with the usual level
of corruption you find in any democracy).

It is in America,
where the sheeple have been terrorized into staying inside the boundaries
of their little "protest zones," that you find a fragile,
unstable nation.

Through complacency
and fear-mongering, most Americans have become cowards when it comes
to political activism. They think emailing their Senator a few times
a year is all that’s required to defend freedom and preserve a nation.
Marching in the streets is seen as uncivilized… or even unpatriotic!
The government agrees with this, too, now
labeling anyone who protests in public a "potential terrorist"
and targeting them for FBI investigations.

Read
the rest of the article

April
15, 2009

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Adam Lanza’s armed massacre of young students in Newton, Conn. is being celebrated by the mainstream media. It’s also being celebrated by Obama administration officials who publicly shed a tear but behind the scenes are no doubt high-fiving each other over the opportunity to push their agenda of citizen disarmament. The media celebrates mass shootings because they make for great ratings. People tune in to watch the horrifying scenes and share in the grief. This means eyeballs on the screen and that translates into ad revenue for the TV news networks. Over 33,000 Americans are killed each year in automobile accidents, but those deaths warrant virtually no media coverage. Why? Because individual auto accidents just aren’t interesting enough to attract a bunch of eyeballs to the screen. But a mass killing… well, gee, that’s interesting to view in a horrifying “train wreck” kind of way. So that gets the air time.

The media glorifies psychopathic killers

What’s even more horrifying than the massacre itself is the way the mainstream media now glorifies mass shooters, turning them into cult heroes and even ranking their body counts as a sort of achievement score. The Newtown shooting currently holds the “high score” according to the mainstream media, and they have no problem pushing this kind of junk journalism as long as their teleprompter-reading reporters appear to be convincingly saddened for the cameras. Never mind the fact that such local shootings are largely irrelevant to the lives of Americans, especially given the far greater relevancy of issues like the Federal Reserve’s debt creation monopoly, the deadly body count of prescription drugs (100,000+ Americans a year), the mass fluoride poisoning of the American people and so on. Why did the media spend hours broadcasting O.J. Simpson’s white bronco slow-speed car chase on the LA freeways a few years ago? Because it was bizarre, not because it was relevant news. O.J.’s life is irrelevant to almost everyone other than O.J. With school shootings, you see, the killer victimizes the children once, and then the media victimizes them a second time.

“Never waste a good crisis”

Nowhere is the celebration of school shootings more amplified than in Washington D.C. where the federal government desperately wants to disarm the American people. The higher the body count of children in a given mass shooting, the more “moral authority” D.C. politicians will claim to have in destroying the rights of all Americans by demanding they turn in their guns. Right now, there’s a massive call among traitors like Bloomberg to gut the Second Amendment and completely disarm perfectly innocent American citizens who have done nothing wrong (and are actually upstanding citizens who PREVENT crime). Remember: Millions of privately-armed Americans are off-duty cops and returning veterans who have been trained by the government to carry weapons and use them to stop crimes. But people like Obama and Bloomberg want to condemn them all as “potential criminals” and strip away their constitutional right to carry a firearm. This is the idiocy of the Washington agenda to ban all guns from private citizens. The more mass shootings occur, the louder the call becomes for “gun control” which actually doesn’t work but it’s a convenient scapegoat for those who don’t know any better. This is precisely why Eric Holder and the Obama administration staged Operation Fast & Furious as a way to put guns directly into the hands of Mexican drug gangs, with the hope that those guns would multiply the number of violent shootings in states like Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and California. The plan worked: Those guns were used in violent murders in the USA. But Eric Holder got caught, and now the Obama administration is busy trying to sweep the whole thing under the rug. School shootings are secretly welcomed by the Obama administration because they create the necessary emotional impact that will result in irrational public support for citizen disarmament schemes. This is why the federal government keeps pushing for school “gun free zones.” Such signs posted outside schools advertise those schools as easy targets for psychopathic killers. It’s almost like posting a sign that says, “All killers welcomed here!”

Big Pharma also welcomes school shootings

The pharmaceutical industry is at least partially responsible for many of these shootings, as it is their own drugs which cause young males to become violent and detached. The vast majority of shooters over the last two decades have all been taking prescription medications such as antidepressant drugs (which are known to cause violent, suicidal behavior). But the real benefit to Big Pharma from the school shootings is that such events traumatize other children who can then be “diagnosed” with fictitious psychiatric disorders which are invented solely for the purpose of selling more prescription medications to children who don’t need them.

Why school shootings will be allowed to continue

School shootings, you see, benefit the media, the drug companies and the power base of the federal government. This is precisely why such shootings will be allowed to continue. The solution to stopping all school shootings is ridiculously simple: allow principles and school office personnel to carry concealed. This would allow them to save the lives of children by halting psychopathic killers with lethal force. And take down those delusional “gun free zone” signs. Posting a sign does not stop a psychopathic killer. If you want to physically stop such a killer, you need something called return fire.

Watch the video: How to stop a massacre

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“An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.” – Adolf Hitler, 1922.

In the aftermath of the recent Sandy Hook shooting, Obama and his cohorts are screaming about how they all despise guns and ammo. Guns are the problem in America today, we’ve been told from every corner of the media, and so the only solution is to get rid of all the guns.

But not exactly. There’s one organization in America that’s loading up on masses of assault rifles and enough ammunition to run a 10-year shooting war. That organization is, of course, the U.S. federal government and its Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has purchased a total of 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition to be used domestically, inside the United States.

It begs the question: Why does the Department of Homeland Security – named after Hitler’s “Office of Fatherland Security” – need 1.6 billion rounds of ammo?

Obama’s government stockpiles weapons of mass destruction

The DHS began all this in April of this year, with the purchase of 450 million rounds of hollow point .40 caliber ammunition. This is significant for two reasons:

1) DHS does not fight wars with foreign nations. It’s entire theater of operations is on U.S. soil, dealing solely with the American people.

2) Hollow point ammunition is banned by the Geneva convention and is not used by the U.S. military. This ammunition can only be used domestically, in the United States, against U.S. targets or people.

Along with these 450 million rounds of ammunition, DHS also purchased $400,000 worth of radiation protection pills and thousands of bullet-proof roadside checkpoint booths. Is it expecting a radiological event? (Or perhaps planning one?)

These 450 million rounds of ammo, Natural News calculated, is enough to wage a 7-year war with the American people.

Obama’s government stockpiling millions of rounds of ammo to arm the DHS and TSA

You can see the original federal purchase document requesting all this ammunition.

The numbers in the document, by the way, are in thousands.

In it, you’ll discover that the U.S. government has also purchased all the following ammunition in addition to the 450 million rounds of .40 hollow point “anti-personnel” ammo:

• Over one million rounds of hollow-point .223 rifle ammo
• Over half a million rounds of non-hollow-point .223 rifle ammo
• 220,000 rounds of 12 gauge shotgun #7 ammo (target ammo)
• Over 200,000 rounds of 12 gauge shotgun #00 buckshot ammo (tactical anti-personnel ammo)
• 66,000 rounds of 12 gauge shotgun slugs (tactical anti-personnel, anti-vehicle rounds)
• Over two million rounds of hollow-point .357 Sig JPH (hollow-point) pistol ammo (anti-personnel)
• Over four million rounds of .40 S&W JPH (hollow-point) pistol ammo (anti-personnel)
• Over 60,000 rounds of .308 match grade anti-personnel sniper rounds (BTHP)
• Plus, hundreds of thousands of additional rounds of .38 special, .45 auto, 9mm, 7.62×39 (AK rifle) ammo, and others.

DHS then buys another 750 million rounds of anti-personnel ammunition

A few months after buying the 450+ million rounds of ammo to be stockpiled by Obama’s government in the United States, the DHS then went on to purchase another 750 million rounds of ammunition.

Additional contracts were added after that, bringing the grand total of government ammo purchases in 2012 to 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. That’s over five bullets for every American man, woman and child. It also includes long-range sniper rounds.

By comparison, a citizen is considered to be a stockpiling “terrorist” prepper if they own just 1,000 rounds of ammo. The government, however, can purchase billions and the mainstream media doesn’t even question it.

Where is all this ammunition going? It’s being stockpiled by the federal government, awaiting some future event during which it will apparently be “activated.” Why else would you stockpile something if you don’t anticipate needing to use it someday?

During all this, Obama and his cohorts in Washington are loudly insisting that American citizens have no right to purchase firearms or ammunition, and that new laws will soon be enacted to make sure you cannot do what the government does: stockpile weapons and ammo.

Obama has armed security personnel for self defense, but YOU can’t have self defense

The United States of America was founded on the idea that an armed citizenry is the only thing that can be trusted to keep government honest, but that idea has now been turned upside down. The new message today is that an armed government is the only thing that can be trusted, and that individual citizens are all potential terrorists and mass murderers.

While Obama, Feinstein, Bloomberg and others are calling for citizens to give up their self defense tools, those very same people all have armed bodyguards to provide for their own self defense. Obama in particular has an entire group of men – the U.S. Secret Service – who are most definitely armed to the teeth and wielding full-auto weapons.

Will Obama now call for his own Secret Service men to give up their guns and ammunition? Will Bloomberg give up his armed police escorts and security personnel? Will the White House be completely disarmed and have a “Gun Free Zone” sign placed outside the White House lawn?

Of course not. What Obama, Bloomberg, Schumer, Feinstein and all these tyrants practice is a cynical double standard. They want YOU to give up all your guns and rights, but THEY refuse to do so. It’s okay for them to be armed, but not you. You can’t be trusted because you’re just a hard-working American taxpayer / slave. Only the government elite can be trusted with guns, you see, because government is so incredibly honest, ethical and trustworthy. And anyone who questions that is obviously a terrorist.

That’s the new insanity in Washington D.C. and apparently across the mainstream media where twits like Piers Morgan smear our TV screens with imbecilic profanity as they rant and rave about American citizens giving up all their guns while the government stockpiles masses of assault rifles and billions of rounds of ammunition.

Piers Morgan, in case you haven’t figure it out, is precisely the kind of traitorous tory America’s founding fathers would have hanged from a tree in 1776. That this frothing talking moron, a British subject, even sets foot in America today and calls for the mass disarmament of the American people is tantamount to an act of deliberate sabotage of the very nation that already defeated the British in one war. Morgan is an enemy of America and a traitor to humanity.

The picture is now becoming clear

The government plan for the use of all these guns and ammunition is now becoming clear. It is a plan to engineer a civil war. Here’s how it works:

Step 1) Obama stockpiles billions of rounds of ammunition, assault rifles, bullet-proof checkpoint booths and sniper rounds for the government while training up a whole new army of psychopathic sex predators known as the TSA.

Step 2) Mass shootings of children are either staged or encouraged to make sure they happen with rising frequency. (Aurora, Sandy Hook, etc.). Schools are advertised as “Gun Free Zone” to make sure mass shooters doped up on psychiatric drugs and hypnotic video games know exactly where to go to achieve the highest body count, unopposed by any firearms.

Step 3) When the shootings take place, the media jumps on board the emotional bandwagon and parades dead children in front of the public to the point of emotional extortion. The public then leaps to the delusion that gun confiscation will be great for everyone!

Step 4) The government then stages a radiological false flag event in a major U.S. city while framing a group of patriots, veterans or “preppers” as patsies.

Step 5) This event, which kills 1+ million people, then provides the pretext to declare martial law, suspend the entire Bill of Rights and roll out TSA checkpoints nationwide. TSA agents, who have already proven themselves to be the most masochistic, sick-minded individuals working in government today, are then handed .40 caliber pistols and rifles (yes, they make rifles that shoot .40 pistol ammo) to start waging a shooting war against the American people.

Step 6) Now it’s all-out civil war: Americans shoot each other up, causing huge casualties on both sides. Much of the weapons and ammo stockpiled by American preppers and patriots is used up in this conflict, and that’s exactly the point.

Step 7) Once the civil war has torn America apart, the United Nations lands UN “peacekeeping” troops to take command and occupy America. This will be accompanied by strict “gun control” mandates and constant surveillance of the American people with facial recognition cameras, audio-recording street lamps in the cities, and airborne drones watching from the sky.

Obama is given another Nobel peace prize – mission accomplished! – for enabling the UN takeover of America. The globalists celebrate.

Why we need the Second Amendment for our own survival

Events like Sandy Hook, you see, are all part of the scripted escalation of violence in America, culminating in the government’s declaration of war against citizens. This is precisely why we need the Second Amendment:

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms,” said Thomas Jefferson, “…is to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”

The only way America has a chance to halt the violence, defend the Constitution and restore the Republic is to stay armed and stay vigilant. Because let’s be clear: the Obama administration is a criminal operation. The signing of the NDAA, all by itself, should have been clear grounds for not just impeachment, but prosecution for treason.

We are dealing with an out-of-control gang of tyrants in the White House, in DHS and TSA. There are some good men and women inside the FBI, the Pentagon and even the CIA, believe it or not. Those men and women are just as frustrated with what’s happening inside the White House as we all are, and they are ready and willing to defend America against criminal traitors like Eric Holder, for example. Once this all starts to unfold, you will see the federal government having a difficult time keeping all its own people in line. There will be internal fracturing in the federal chain of command, and there may even be break-out groups that seek to overthrow the traitors and restore basic liberties in America.

Six undeniable facts

How all this actually plays out in anyone’s guess, but there are several points I can assure you are very real:

Fact #1) The government is arming to the teeth, stockpiling more than five rounds of ammunition for every American man, woman and child.

Fact #2) The American people are also arming to the teeth, buying up millions of firearms and billions of rounds of ammunition at a record pace.

Fact #3) The Obama criminals have become arrogant and stupid, thinking they can pull off anything. They will over-estimate their power and soon overstep their bounds in trying to crush the remaining liberties of the American people. There will be a huge reactionary counter-effort.

Fact #4) There are good people still within the government and especially the military who are loyal to the Constitution and despise the communist-influenced gang that now occupies the White House.

Fact #5) The government can and will stage false flag attacks to blame its enemies and centralize power. This is true throughout human history.

Fact #6) Something much larger than Sandy Hook is in the planning stages, I believe. Look for a radiological attack of some sort, such as a dirty bomb being set off in a major U.S. city by a rogue group working under Obama. This will be used to terrorize Americans and blame patriots, unleashing an all-out war against individual liberty in America.

Reprinted with permission from Natural News.

Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning journalist. He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers’ guides, and books on topics like health and the environment. He is the editor of Natural News.

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Recently by Mike Adams: If Obama Is Opposed To Guns, Why Did His Administration Just Purchase 1.6Billion Rounds of Ammunition and SniperRounds?

People who don’t own guns are wildly ignorant about them, and they’re easily suckered into liberal media myths that willfully repeat total lies such as being able to “buy guns online” or the idea that you can easily buy “automatic weapons” or “assault rifles.” These are all complete lies.

Let’s expose the myths right here:

Myth #1: You can buy automatic weapons at any gun shop

This is completely and utterly false. Automatic weapons are highly regulated, extremely expensive ($15,000+) and VERY difficult to acquire. They’re also extremely rare and have NEVER been used in any school shooting in America.

Just to acquire an “automatic weapon,” you must go through extensive background checks and fingerprinting. You must apply to the federal government (ATF) for permission, then wait six months or longer to be “approved” by the ATF.

I don’t own any automatic weapons and have no desire to. Automatic weapons are wildly inaccurate. Even soldiers almost never use automatic fire. They almost always use their own rifles on either single shot or a three-round burst. Full auto is just a really fast way to waste ammo and hit nothing.

Myth #2: You can buy guns online

Many liberals think you can just buy guns online. This is completely and utterly false. You can PAY for a gun online, but gun dealers cannot (and will not) ship a firearm directly to any customer. All guns that are PAID FOR online must be shipped to FFL dealers, which are federally licensed and regulated by the ATF.

A person who pays for a gun online must go through a federal FBI background check just to pick up their gun at the FFL dealer, and they must fill out an extensive form which includes detailed questions on mental health, criminal history and so on.

It is impossible to buy a gun online, but the liberal media keeps lying about this, hoping people will believe their lies.

Myth #3: You don’t need a background check to buy guns

This is also a lie. To buy a gun from any gun dealer, whether at a local store or at a gun show, a background check is required by law. Gun dealers cannot, under any circumstances, sell a gun to somebody without either an FBI background check or, in some states, proof that the buyer has a concealed carry permit, which itself requires an FBI background check.

The only exception to the background check rule is when an individual, who is not engaged in the business of firearms sales, wishes to sell his own personal firearm to another individual. This person-to-person sale does not require a background check because it is a non-commercial, non-dealer transaction founded on the fundamental right to engage in personal commerce.

Myth #4: You can easily buy “Assault” rifles in America

Although people banter around the term “assault rifle” a bit too casually, in truth you cannot buy an assault rifle in America without going through an extensive ATF investigation and spending $20,000+ (usually $40,000 or more) on a rare firearm.

What makes a rifle an “assault” rifle? It must have a fire selector switch that can select between single shot, a three-round burst shot, or full-auto fire. None of the civilian AR-15s have these features. Neither do any of the “scary-looking” battle rifles sold in gun shops.

Liberals call something an “assault rifle” because of the way it looks. If it looks “scary” (i.e. has a black composite stock instead of wood) then it must be a BAD gun. Seriously. This is how they think. But in truth, even a composite stock AR-15 purchased at a gun shop right now has absolutely no capability for a 3-round burst or full-auto. That firepower is reserved exclusively for the U.S. military.

So when Obama says things like, “We don’t need military rifles on the streets of America,” he is LYING to you. We don’t have military rifles on the streets of America. What we have is semi-auto, single-shot rifles in the hands of Citizens. Virtually no one has a military “assault” rifle. (The media routinely lies about this…)

Click here for an excellent explanation of what an assault rifle really is.

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force: Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”

~ Patrick Henry

Myth #5: The Second Amendment is about hunting

The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting or personal defense. It has to do with the People of America maintaining a military force for the sole purpose of overthrowing a government that becomes too tyrannical. That is the 100% documented, non-debatable intent of the Second Amendment.

Trench Coxe was one of our nation’s founding fathers. He was a consultant to Thomas Jefferson and his newspapers were instrumental in publishing the truth during a time with British troops had DISARMED the colonial populations and banned all guns. Why did they ban guns? So that the people could not fight back against tyranny, of course.

As Coxe wrote in 1788:

Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American…. [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.

~ Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

That same web page goes on to explain how the British General Howe used gun control to oppress the people:

When occupying Philadelphia in 1778, British General Howe had disarmed the population. As reported in Philadelphia newspapers, General Gage had done the same to the citizens of Boston in 1775.

Stewart Rhodes is a modern-day founding father. He’s an award-winning constitutional scholar and a champion of liberty for all Americans. Here’s what he says about the Second Amendment:

Aybody who tells you that it’s okay and constitutional to take away your M1A, your Garand, your FAL, your HK91, your M4 is a liar. They are lying to you. They are either a useful idiot or a traitor who are lying to you, trying to deceive you to think that it’s about duck hunting, or even personal defense. It’s not even about personal defense. It’s about the military capacity of the American people to overthrow a tyrant. That what it’s about.

~ Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers, on the December 19th, 2012 episode of the Alex Jones Show.

A Pledge of Personal Resistance

On December 19th, 2012, Stewart Rhodes published the widely-celebrated article, My Personal Pledge of Resistance Against Any Attempt to Disarm Us by Means of an “Assault Weapons Ban”

We reprint that pledge here, in its entirety:

My conscience, and the urgency of our current situation, compel me to speak out. The victim disarmament freaks are now telling us that they don’t want to disarm us- oh, no! They just want to take away our “assault weapons” – our semi-automatic, magazine fed, military-style rifles – and the “high capacity” magazines that feed them. They want us to believe that so long as we can own some kind of firearm, after our semi-auto military rifles are taken, we are not disarmed. That is a LIE.

The truth is that our semi-automatic, military pattern rifles are the single most important kind of arm we can own, and are utterly necessary for effective defense of our lives, property, and liberty. When you are disarmed of your military rifles, you are DISARMED. At that time, the lion’s share of your military capacity to effectively resist tyranny is removed (yes, accurate bolt action hunting rifles are useful in that role too, but the semi-auto battle rifle is truly the Queen of battle, as Col. Jeff Cooper correctly noted). It is a significant force on the battlefield, and as Patrick Henry said, when you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

It is the height of Orwellian perversion of language and logic to say that disarming you of the most effective arms for combat that you still have is somehow not really disarming you, because you still have hunting rifles and shotguns. And you can bet that if you let them take your military semi-autos, next on their list will be your bolt action rifles, which they will call “sniper rifles” (and by God, that is certainly what they are good for!). And then when they have those, they will go after any weapon that holds more than a few rounds, or is capable of any degree of long range accuracy and penetrating power, telling you that you really don’t need one of those to hunt or target practice (a shotgun will suffice), and then they will take everything except single shot shotguns or .22′s (as was done in England) and on down the line. So long as you have at least a .22, they will say you are not “disarmed” while they take everything else (and then they will take the .22s, or insist that you keep them at a gun-range).

We need to call a spade a spade and teach our fellow citizens that taking away military style semi-autos is disarmament. And we need to throw down the gauntlet and take a hard stand against it, right now. When we, as Oath Keepers, pledged to not obey any orders to disarm the American people, this is what we meant. Any attempt to disarm the people of any arms currently in their possession is illegitimate and must be nullified, refused, disobeyed, and resisted.

And so, in response to this obvious assault on our right to keep and bear arms (as in military arms), I feel compelled to make the following personal pledge:

I Stewart Rhodes, as an American, as a military veteran, and as a father, pledge the following:

I Pledge to never disarm, and in particular, to never surrender my military pattern, semi-automatic rifles (and full capacity magazines, parts, and ammunition that go with them), regardless of what illegitimate action is taken by Congress, the President, or the courts.

I also pledge to pass on those military pattern rifles to my children and my children’s children, as well as the full capacity magazines, parts, and ammunition to needed to use them, regardless of what illegitimate action is taken by Congress, the President, or the courts. As Founding Father Tench Coxe said, while attempting to allay the fears of critics of the proposed Constitution:

The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom?

Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American… [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.

~ Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

And that “power of the sword” – those “terrible implements of the soldier,” includes the people’s battle rifles and carbines – their M1As, their FN-LARs, their HK 91s, their Grandfathers’ M1 Garand, their AK 47s, their ARs and M4s, etc. – all of the weapons listed as being targeted for Feinstein’s new and improved “Assault Weapons Ban.”

The whole point of the Second Amendment is to preserve the military capacity of the American people – to preserve the ability of the people, who are the militia, to provide for their own security as individuals, as neighborhoods, towns, counties, and states, during any emergency, man-made or natural; to preserve the military capacity of the American people to resist tyranny and violations of their rights by oath breakers within government; and to preserve the military capacity of the people to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, including those oath breaking domestic enemies within government. It is not about hunting, and at its core, the Second Amendment is not really even about self-defense against private criminals. It is about self-defense against public criminals – against tyrants, usurpers, and foreign invaders. (and that is the whole point of the crucial upcoming film, Molon Labe).

Above all other firearms currently available to the American citizen, modern military pattern, semi-automatic rifles provide that military capacity. Protecting the keeping and bearing of such arms of military utility is the heart and soul of the Second Amendment. Thus, any attempt to ban their possession, sale, purchase, or transfer, is an attempt to disarm the American people.

Nor will I surrender my accurate, scoped, bolt action rifles, which are also great force multipliers of military utility in the roles of sniper and marksman. Invaders, tyrants and usurpers fear the sniper and marksman for good reason, and millions of American hunters have the well practiced field-craft and marksmanship skills to serve in those rolls most effectively. We must preserve their means of doing so, including preserving our .50 caliber sniper rifles, our .338 Lapua’s, our .300 Win Mags, and other powerful, long-range capable calibers.

Nor will I surrender my semi-automatic pistols with full capacity magazines, which provide me with the capacity to effectively defend against close range, sudden attack.

I will not disarm, regardless of what law is passed by the oath breakers in Congress, or signed into law by the oath breaker in the White House, and I WILL pass on to my children every terrible implement of the soldier currently in my possession.

Further, I will ask my children to also pledge to never surrender those family arms and equipment, regardless of what illegitimate, Bill of Rights violating law is passed by the oath breakers in Washington DC, and regardless of whatever any oath breaking judge may rule.

Further, I pledge to refuse compliance with any and all laws that attempt to strip me and my children of those arms, the full capacity magazines needed to load and fire them, or the parts and ammunition needed to keep them firing. I will use nullification, civil disobedience, and active resistance against all such laws. I will nullify, disobey, and resist as an individual, and I will work with my neighbors to nullify, disobey, and resist as towns, counties, and states. We will not disarm, we will not comply, and we will resist.

Further, I pledge to refuse to vote for, and to actively work to purge from office any elected official, of any party, who violates their oath of office by supporting, endorsing, or voting for any law, action, or decree that attempts to disarm me, my children, or my children’s children of any of the above noted arms. I pledge to root the oath breakers out, in a scorched earth policy. I will not buy into the “lesser of two evils” con game, and regardless of what party an oath breaking politician is in, and regardless of the outcome of elections, that oath breaker will not get my vote, ever again, once they betray my trust and violate their oath by voting for an assault weapons ban or any other attempt to curtail my right to bear arms.

Finally, I pledge to defend myself, my neighbors, my town, county, and state, against any attempt to forcibly disarm them pursuant to any “assault weapons ban” or any other illegitimate “law” passed by oath breakers within Congress, or pursuant to any illegitimate order, action, or decree by the oath breaker within the White House. We will not disarm. We will resist. And if given no other choice but to fight or to submit to abject tyranny, we will fight, just as our forefathers in the American Revolution fought against the tyrants, usurpers, and oath breakers of their day.

If we are presented with the “choice” of submission to tyranny or fighting in defense of our natural rights, we will fight, as our forefathers fought, when the British Empire attempted to disarm them and confiscate the military pattern arms, ammunition, and supplies of their time. We will make the same choice as Patrick Henry made, when he rejected “peace” purchased at the price of chains and slavery, and said “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” I too choose liberty or death.

I hereby reaffirm my oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and pledge my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor in defense of the principles of liberty enunciated in our Declaration of Independence, for which our forefathers spilled their blood. We will not let the Republic fall without a fight.

Reprinted with permission from Natural News.

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One of the more offensive duties of being an investigative journalist is taking out the trash – exposing liars, fraudsters, con artists and scammers for the people they truly are. Each time we investigate a sociopath, we find that they always have a little cult group following of spellbound worshippers who consider that particular sociopath to be a “guru” or “prophet.”

Sociopaths are masters at influence and deception. Very little of what they say actually checks out in terms of facts or reality, but they’re extremely skillful at making the things they say sound believable, even if they’re just making them up out of thin air. Here, I’m going to present quotes and videos of some legendary sociopaths who convinced everyday people to participate in mass suicides. And then I’m going to demonstrate how and why similar sociopaths are operating right now… today.

Why cover this subject? I’ve seen a lot of people get hoodwinked, scammed or even harmed by sociopaths, and it bewilders me that people are so easily sucked into their destructive influence. I want to share with NaturalNews readers the warning signs of sociopaths so that you can spot them, avoid them, and save yourself the trouble of being unduly influenced by them.

Much of this information is derived from the fascinating book, The Sociopath Next Door, which says that 4% of the population are sociopaths. The book is a fascinating read.

10 signs for spotting a sociopath

#1) Sociopaths are charming. Sociopaths have high charisma and tend to attract a following just because people want to be around them. They have a “glow” about them that attracts people who typically seek guidance or direction. They often appear to be sexy or have a strong sexual attraction. Not all sexy people are sociopaths, obviously, but watch out for over-the-top sexual appetites and weird fetishes.

#2) Sociopaths are more spontaneous and intense than other people. They tend to do bizarre, sometimes erratic things that most regular people wouldn’t do. They are unbound by normal social contracts. Their behavior often seems irrational or extremely risky.

#3) Sociopaths are incapable of feeling shame, guilt or remorse. Their brains simply lack the circuitry to process such emotions. This allows them to betray people, threaten people or harm people without giving it a second thought. They pursue any action that serves their own self interest even if it seriously harms others.

#4) Sociopaths invent outrageous lies about their experiences. They wildly exaggerate things to the point of absurdity, but when they describe it to you in a storytelling format, for some reason it sounds believable at the time.

#5) Sociopaths seek to dominate others and “win” at all costs. They hate to lose any argument or fight and will viciously defend their web of lies, even to the point of logical absurdity.

#6) Sociopaths tend to be highly intelligent, but they use their brainpower to deceive others rather than empower them. Their high IQs often makes them dangerous. This is why many of the best-known serial killers who successfully evaded law enforcement were sociopaths.

#7) Sociopaths are incapable of love and are entirely self-serving. They may feign love or compassion in order to get what they want, but they don’t actually FEEL love in the way that you or I do.

#8) Sociopaths speak poetically. They are master wordsmiths, able to deliver a running “stream of consciousness” monologue that is both intriguing and hypnotic. They are expert storytellers and even poets. As a great example of this in action, watch this interview of Charles Manson.

#9) Sociopaths never apologize. They are never wrong. They never feel guilt. They can never apologize. Even if shown proof that they were wrong, they will refuse to apologize and instead go on the attack.

#10) Sociopaths are delusional and literally believe that what they say becomes truth merely because they say it! Charles Manson, the sociopathic murderer, is famous for saying, “I’ve never killed anyone! I don’t need to kill anyone! I THINK it! I have it HERE! (Pointing to his temple.) I don’t need to live in this physical realm…”

Watch Charles Manson saying this at the 3:05 mark of this video.

How to dispel illusion and get to the truth

Sociopaths are masters at weaving elaborate fictional explanations to justify their actions. When caught red-handed, they respond with anger and threats, then weave new fabrications to explain away whatever they were caught doing.

A sociopath caught red-handed with a suitcase full of cash he just stole, for example, might declare he had actually rescued the money from being stolen by someone else, and that he was attempting to find its rightful owner. He’s the hero, see? And yet, in reality, he will simply pocket the money and keep it. If you question him about the money, he will attack you for questioning his honesty.

Sociopaths are masters are presenting themselves as heroes with high morals and philosophy, yet underneath it they are the true criminal minds in society who steal, undermine, deceive, and often incite emotional chaos among entire communities. They are masters at turning one group of people against another group while proclaiming themselves to be the one true savior. Wherever they go, they create strife, argument and hatred, yet they utterly fail to see their own role in creating it. They are delusional at so many levels that their brains defy logical reasoning. You cannot reason with a sociopath. Attempting to do so only wastes your time and annoys the sociopath.

Tip for exposing sociopaths: Start fact-checking something they claim

One simple method for dispelling sociopathic delusion is to start fact checking their claims. Do any of their claims actually check out? If you start digging, you will usually find an inconsistency. Confront the suspected sociopath with the inconsistency and see what happens: Most sociopaths will become angry or aggressive when their integrity is questioned, whereas a sane person would simply be happy to help clear up any misinformation or misunderstanding.

Beware of fact-checking the sociopath by asking other people under his or her influence. A sociopath will usually have a small group of cult-like followers who not only believe their fictional tales, but who actually internalize those fictions to the point where they rewrite their own memories to be consistent with them. If a guru-style sociopath talks about his “levitation sessions” over and over again, some of his believers will sooner or later start to form false memories in which they imagine seeing him levitate off the floor. So if you ask those people, “Did you actually ever see this person levitate?” They will enthusiastically say, “Yes!” Because in their own minds, that illusion has become something indistinguishable from a vivid memory.

That’s why fact-checking a sociopath requires evidence from outside his circle of influence. Does anything he say actually check out in the real world, outside his sphere of direct control? If not, you’ve probably spotted a sociopath.

Sociopaths never answer facts; they always attack the messenger

Another very valuable red flag to recognize when trying to spot a sociopath is to see how they deal with attacks on their own integrity. If a sociopath is presented with a collection of facts, documents and evidence showing that he lied or deceived, he will refuse to address the evidence and, instead, attack the messenger!

As an investigative journalist who exposes some of the most despicable sociopaths on the planet, I’ve been attacked on every front imaginable: I’m a secret government agent, they say. Or I’m an alien from planet Zorg. I’ve heard it all, and while the accusations vary wildly, the pattern is the same: Attack the messenger but refuse to answer the documented allegations.

If you really try to nail a sociopath down to answering a documented allegation, they will quickly turn on you, denounce you, and declare that you too are secretly plotting against them. Anyone who does not fall for the brainwashing of the sociopath is sooner or later kicked out of the circle and then wildly disparaged by the remaining members of the cult group.

Inventing bizarre tales

One of the easiest signs to spot is how sociopaths exaggerate things to an irrational absurdity. In the sociopath’s world, every explanation is more intense and more heroic-sounding than the way it really went down. Where a normal person might say, “I vomited last night,” a sociopath would say, “I vomited up a 27-foot tapeworm!”

And a truly psychotic sociopath might even add details such as, “And then the tapeworm climbed up the wall and jumped on me and tried to strangle me!”

You might laugh at such an explanation, but I know lots of similar examples that have been believed by irrational cult followers.

Every story the sociopath weaves, often on the spur of the moment, is impossible to either confirm or deny. No one can prove him wrong, since they weren’t there, so he can spin whatever details into the story he wants. “After eating this, I had a three-hour ejaculation!” Or, “The Dalai Lama wanted to anoint me as a spiritual leader, but I declined, telling him that I only needed faith, not any official recognition.”

How can anyone disprove such a claim? They can’t. So the sociopaths relies on these un-provable, unsubstantiated claims to build up a false aura of authority, spirituality or knowledge. This creeps up on followers like a serpent, slithering into their brains and taking hold of their belief systems before they realize what has happened.

As a survivor of the Jim Jones “Jonestown” mass suicide says in a PBS documentary video (see link below), “Everything was plausible [at the time], except in retrospect the whole thing seems bizarre.”

That’s how sociopaths operate. As they’re speaking, they capture your imagination and sound reasonable, even authoritative. But in the clear light of day, what they are actually saying is absurd… even dangerous.

But no matter what fictions are presented by the sociopath, they always present him in the light of a hero – sometimes even a saint – who sacrifices his life for the good of others. He often talks of “healing” or “detoxification” or being “cleansed.” When he is exposed by truth-tellers, he merely accuses the truth-tellers of being secret undercover agents. When he is accused of sexual assault by one of his own followers (a common occurrence in these circles), he denounces her as an enemy or a spy.

The ultimate destination of a sociopath is to destroy himself and take as many willing victims with him as possible. This is the Jim Jones scenario: Drink the Kool-Aid laced with poison, and thereby prove your worth to your entire cult group.

A common theme of poison, sainthood, redemption

Interestingly, many sociopaths do indeed center their actions around a bizarre food or drink theme, often demanding their members eat or drink poisonous or highly offensive substances that no rational person would otherwise consume. The Heaven’s Gate cult, for example, was led by a classic sociopath named Marshall Applewhite. He managed to convince 38 followers to kill themselves by eating applesauce laced with phenobarbital.

Watch the fascinating video of Applewhite here and ask yourself: Would you follow this man to your own grave? (Other people did!)

Notice how Applewhite speaks with authority, clarity and some level of charisma. Notice the intensity of his eyes? This is another common trait among sociopaths (including Manson, above). Remember, this man gained such influence over his followers that they voluntarily killed themselves in order to maintain his approval!

As Wikipedia explains:

On March 19–20, 1997, Marshall Applewhite taped himself speaking of mass suicide and asserted “it was the only way to evacuate this Earth.” The Heaven’s Gate group was against suicide but they believed they had no choice but to leave Earth as quickly as possible. After claiming that a space craft was trailing the comet Hale-Bopp, Applewhite convinced 38 followers to commit suicide so that their souls could board the supposed craft. Applewhite believed that after their deaths, a UFO would take their souls to another “level of existence above human,” which Applewhite described as being both physical and spiritual. This and other UFO-related beliefs held by the group have led some observers to characterize the group as a type of UFO religion. In October 1996, the group purchased alien abduction insurance to cover up to 50 members at a cost of $10,000.

The cult rented a 9,200-sq.-ft. mansion, located at 18241 Colina Norte (later changed to Paseo Victoria), in a gated community of upscale homes in the San Diego-area community of Rancho Santa Fe, California from Sam Koutchesfahani, paying $7,000 per month in cash. The thirty-eight Heaven’s Gate members, plus group leader Applewhite, were found dead in the home on March 26, 1997. In the heat of the California spring, many of the bodies had begun to decompose by the time they were discovered. The corpses underwent autopsies, where cyanide and arsenic were found. The bodies were later cremated.

The suicide was accomplished by ingestion of phenobarbital mixed with applesauce or pudding, washed down with vodka. Additionally, plastic bags were secured around their heads after ingesting the mix to induce asphyxiation. Authorities found the dead lying neatly in their own bunk beds, faces and torsos covered by a square, purple cloth. Each member carried a five-dollar bill and three quarters in their pockets. All 39 were dressed in identical black shirts and sweat pants, brand new black-and-white Nike Decades athletic shoes, and armband patches reading “Heaven’s Gate Away Team” (one of many instances of the group’s use of the Star Trek fictional universe’s nomenclature). The adherents, between the ages of 26 and 72, are believed to have died in three groups over three successive days, with remaining participants cleaning up after each prior group’s death.

This episode speaks directly to the mind-altering power of sociopaths. Their delusions can be so convincing that followers will even kill themselves in order to stay in alignment with the expectations of the group. I know of a fringe health sociopath operating right now who has killed several of his own followers, but of course he always blames them for their own deaths. It’s never his fault, you see.

Sadly, even when one sociopath kills himself (and takes a few of his followers with him), there is always another sociopath waiting to take his place, seeking power, influence, and sometimes fame. It is common for sociopaths to strongly desire to be on television shows or to desperately seek out opportunities for short-term fame, often from engaging in bizarre acts or staging strange events. This is one of the ways in which they recruit followers to join their cult.

Jim Jones and drinking the Kool-Aid

The most horrifying master of sociopathic delusion was, of course, Jim Jones who convinced 900+ people to kill themselves by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid.

And people loved him for it! They felt inspired, excited, healed and guided. Jim Jones was their savior, their prophet. They believed his every word, and they paid for their foolish belief with their lives.

Watch this powerful PBD documentary video about Jonestown.

As Jim Jones proved, people can be easily swept up into an irrational belief in a guru or prophet who quite literally plans to murder them.

This is the other dominant factor we see in dangerous sociopaths: An odd obsession with dead things, rotting things, putrid things… things that would cause a normal, mentally balanced person to shrink away in horror. Jim Jones, for example, was fascinated with death and would reportedly murder small animals and then hold funerals for them.

Jones was a master at invoking spiritual concepts and presenting himself as spiritually evolved. This is another common theme among sociopaths, and you see it among Applewhite, Manson, Jones and even present-day sociopaths who are operating in America right now.

Historically, perhaps the best example of a delusional sociopath was none other than Adolf Hitler. He showed all the classic signs: A brilliant orator, a congenital liar, a complete lack of compassion for others, a dominant, aggressive personality, and the invoking of spirituality to justify his actions. The Nazi Swastika symbol, in fact, is a derivation of the Flower of Life symbol derived from sacred geometry. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KMxmJVtp2Y)

The modern sociopath: A threat to us all

Sociopaths aren’t just a relic of history; I see their kind operating today, in 2012. A surprising number of people continue to fall for the delusional (but convincing) web of lies spun by wordsmithing sociopaths who may operate in almost any area of society: Science and physics, New Age circles, fringe health, self improvement and even “pop” spiritual development.

People from all walks of life allow themselves to be fooled by these sociopaths, buying into their false narratives, toxic products and destructive behavioral patterns, all driven into their heads through a complex web of social engineering, linguistics and emotional influence. Most people are completely unaware they have been mesmerized into these cult groups, just like the Jonestown people were completely unaware… or the Heaven’s Gate crowd.

There are people today, right now, who are zealous members of fringe cults that advocate drinking toxic metals dissolved in sulfuric acid, eating rotten meat festering with deadly bacteria, playing with poisonous snakes or even dehydrating yourself in a sweat lodge to the point where you suffer hallucinations that are then interpreted as “spiritual guidance.”

These cults are operating right here in America, and they are led by sociopaths who follow in the footsteps of monsters like Jim Jones and Marshall Applewhite. Some of today’s cult followers will pay for their misplaced faith with their lives. Others will eventually come to their senses and wonder how they could have been so completely blinded by a false prophet.

Seven rules for personal empowerment (without joining a cult)

The most shocking realization to take home from all this is that people who live under the spell of a sociopath almost never realize it until after the spell has been broken. Just as the worshippers of Jim Jones believed his organization to be based in love, life and light, people today who worship sociopathic, charismatic leaders usually have no idea they have already surrendered their will to someone who does not have their best interests at heart.

This is why, here at NaturalNews, I have always taught people the following authentic principles of responsibility and power:

#1) Think for yourself. Be skeptical of everything. Most people, corporations, governments and institutions are lying to you. There is much good in the world, but there is far more selfishness and greed which is falsely presented as that which is good.

#2) Follow your inner truth, not some external guru. Any guru who demands your obedience is a false prophet. A real teacher is one who empowers you and sets you free to explore your life experience with complete freedom tempered by a code of morals and personal responsibility.

#3) Serve in the protection of life, with or without a church or spiritual group. You can protect life every day in your own garden. Resist the seduction of profit and power that comes from serving darkness (i.e. working for Big Pharma). Seek to protect life, which is sacred and precious.

#4) Value all living things, including animals and plants. You are their shepherd. Protect the diversity of life and the integrity of the continuation of life. (For example, resist GMO and plant only non-hybrid seeds.)

#5) Live an authentic life. Practice what you teach. Walk your talk. Do not speak with one face and then secretly act out another. Spiritual strength comes from spiritual authenticity, and even if the world isn’t aware of what you do when no one is looking, God and the universe most certainly are. Karma counts.

#6) Defend the innocent. Stand your ground against bullies. Resist tyranny. Promote freedom, liberty and justice. Help others when you can, and seek to empower others with the skills and knowledge they can use to support themselves rather than creating dependency.

#7) Tell the truth. It is powerful… perhaps the most powerful thing in the universe. The truth unfailingly outshines lies and deceptions. And even when the people around you may not see the truth, the greater universe does. By telling the truth, you empower yourself in all areas of your life, and you bring yourself closer to true spiritual understanding.

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In reviewing all the breaking news over the last few months and looking for the “big picture” of where America is headed, one pattern has emerged with striking regularity: America has quietly become less free in many ways than nations like Cuba, China and even Venezuela.

This is especially true in California, where “justice” has become a joke, and the power of the state is unleashed in personal vendettas against innocent citizens who have done absolutely nothing wrong other than refuse to bow down to state-run tyranny.

In California, the most freedom-crushing region of America, a man was recently thrown in jail for four days for photographing police. Photographing or video recording police is not a crime if done in a manner that does not directly impede their actions. But California police simply don’t “like” being photographed, so they throw people in jail, without charge, and let them rot in California’s third-world prisons for a few days as a form of retaliation.

In another case, California’s raw milk man James Stewart has just been released from jail after being forced to sign a plea deal with L.A. County which accused him of the heinous crime of distributing unpasteurized milk. His punishment? Nearly four months in jail, being treated as a terrorist and denied nutrition to the point where he emerged looking like a Nazi war camp prisoner. The state then slapped on two felony charges, five years of probation, and a $300,000+ fine that the man has no way to pay because California raided his business at gunpoint, stole all his cash and then destroyed all the inventory of his business, including over $50,000 in fresh food.

This was all done, remember, for the “crime” of running a members-only club where people could pick up farm-fresh milk, eggs, cheese, melons and other better-than-organic foods. This is the new California, where the government literally destroys your business, your inventory, your livelihood, your freedom and even your health. It’s all done on a whim by truly evil prosecutors like Kelly Sakir, one of the many prosecutors who went after James Stewart using infiltration agents, hidden cameras and other Stasi-style tactics borrowed straight out of the Communist Party.

Consider this for a moment: There is greater food freedom in Russian, Cuba and even China than in California. The idea of arresting people for selling raw milk is unthinkable everywhere else in the world except the United States of America (the new global communist state of oppression). Throughout Mexico, Central America and South America, the idea of arresting people for selling fresh milk is considered total lunacy. But it’s now the status quo in America, the land of the previously free.

Obama’s destruction of the Bill of Rights

On the human rights front, the United States of America has now plummeted to a level approaching that of North Korea.

Thanks to President Obama, who increasingly appears to be a devout communist bent on destroying America culture and economy, the White House now creates secret kill lists of American citizens to be assassinated by government agents. This is not denied in Washington. It is, in fact, celebrated as an “important tool” for the completely fabricated “war on terror.”

With his signing of the NDAA in late 2011, Obama also nullified due process and the right to a fair trial. Now, American citizens who are merely “named” by the White House as being possibly involved in anything they call “terrorism” can be kidnapped and taken away to secret government interrogation centers where they can be held indefinitely, without charge, without a trial and without any civil rights or human rights.

This was all put in place by a president re-elected by over 50% of the American people, cementing an obvious communist into the top position of what one Russian columnist calls an “illiterate society.”

That columnist goes on to say:

President Vladimir Putin could never have imagined anyone so ignorant or so willing to destroy their people like Obama much less seeing millions vote for someone like Obama. They read history in America don’t they? Alas, the schools in the U.S. were conquered by the Communists long ago and history was revised thus paving the way for their Communist presidents. Obama has bailed out those businesses that voted for him and increased the debt to over 16 trillion with an ever increasing unemployment rate especially among blacks and other minorities. All the while promoting his agenda.

And he’s right. America is an illiterate society, where the ability to read, write or think critically has all but vanished. It has been replaced by a mass of zombified, brain-dead, obedient boot lickers who actually lined up and beg to be fitted with TSA shock bracelets and even full-body cavity searches before they fly.

Importantly, America has become the land of the enslaved, illiterate masses because the American people WANT to be enslaved. They beg to be told what to do, how to eat, how much water to flush in their toilets and what to believe about 9/11, the war on drugs, the war on terror, vaccines, public water fluoridation and every other grand delusion you can imagine.

No wonder states like Texas are looking at seceding from the union and forming their own nation states.

TSA’s criminal tyranny

The TSA, meanwhile, has destroyed U.S. tourism by humiliating and molesting air travelers from all over the world who now refuse to come to America.

Not even in North Korea are air travelers sexually molested by overpaid perverts and grown-up morons dressed up in a costume with a fake badge and the fabricated title of “officer.” For the record, TSA employees are not in any way “officers.” They are drooling pedophiles, thieves, child porn distributors, power-hungry bullies and, by any standard, the scum of the Earth who were recruited by ads on pizza delivery boxes. Many of these TSA “officers,” if they weren’t feeling up the genitals of wives, grandmas and little boys and girls, would still be at home in their parents’ basements masturbating to internet porn or humping inflatable dolls.

What Jerry Sandusky did to young boys at Penn State, the TSA does to America every hour of the day.

But as employees of Obama’s ever-expanding federal government and “infrastructure of tyranny,” they receive ridiculously high federal salaries, health care, false authority and of course the power to yell “freeze” at the airport, demanding that all travelers FREEZE IN PLACE for absolutely no reason other than pure, idiotic obedience training.

This happens nowhere in the world except America. Not in North Korea, not in China, not even in the darkest times of Nazi Germany did Hitler’s soldiers sexually molest old ladies and rip apart their colostomy bags. Every other nation in the world holds its war veterans sacred, but in America, returning veterans are cast aside by the failed VA hospital system and even labeled “terrorists” by their own government.

This kind of cruel dehumanizing tyranny is uniquely American, and it is a symbol of not just the Obama administration’s unraveling communist manifesto, but also the tyranny and false flag ideology of the Bush administration before him.

Even in Singapore, where they literally beat criminals with canes in full view of the public, they do not sexually molest their own citizens as a requirement for travel. Only in America is this security theater insanity tolerated by the public.

The microchipping of public school students has begun

As InfoWars.com reports, a high school in San Antonio now requires students to wear RFID tracking chips or be expelled from the school.

Read the letter here, signed by the scum-of-the-Earth principal named Robert Harris and his co-conspirator-scum-of-the-Earth Jay Sumpter. Their phone numbers are listed on this letter. Please call them and let them know just how much patriotic Americans feel that these two individuals should be arrested and tried for their crimes against children, forcing little boys and girls to become electronically-enslaved subjects of a tyrannical system that’s now in the business of indoctrinating little children into the police state society.

The school’s public website has now been hacked by a 16-year-old student working in conjunction with other hactivists who decry the school’s outrageous electronic enslavement of our children.

How bad is it?

Just how bad are things in America, really? Consider this: If God suddenly struck down all the people in America who hold hatred, oppression, destruction and greed as their core values, the population of bureaucrats and politicians in Washington D.C. would plummet to nearly zero. Sacramento would be reduced to a desolate ghost town. And the TSA would flat-out cease to exist.

Some say God is already judging America, and that she is reaping the consequences of generations of fabricated wars, imperialistic military occupation of world nations, the widespread abuse of animals and ecosystems, and even an increasing number of mindless abortions performed each year.

I’m not sure it’s God, however, who is destroying America. Far more likely it is the lazy cognitive convenience of modern-day liberalism, where the convalescent, illiterate masses strive only to achieve a lingering state of feeling comfortably numb as tyranny multiplies all around them. From such vacuous philosophy comes the slow, steady slide from freedom to enslavement, from peace to war, and from truth to delusion. Presiding over this drop into the dark abyss is the perfect man for the job: Obama the Deceiver, the populist wizard of emotional voter voodoo… the man who can transform abundance into enslavement while being worshipped by the stupefied, indolent masses who remain clueless that their Land of the Free has been meticulously replaced, piece by piece, with an oppressive matrix of total enslavement to the state.

Reprinted with permission from Natural News.

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