White tea, witch hazel proven by scientists to reduce inflammation and fight cancer

Rose, witch hazel and white tea may sound like the refrain from a folk song, but the trio of natural substances delivers both health and skin benefits through their ability to halt inflammation say British researchers. Health issues including cancer, arthritis and diabetes…

British town grows all of its own vegetables, witnesses improved civic life and reduced crime as a result

When the small British mill town of Todmorden, tucked in between Yorkshire and Lancashire, first began installing fruit and vegetable gardens all around the area as part of the Incredible Edible program, it likely had no idea that the novel, yet simple, concept would…

TSA strip-searches 85-year-old woman in wheelchair while National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) remains shamelessly silent

(NaturalNews) For a federal government that has gone insane with criminality, no act of violating fundamental human rights is too outrageous anymore. In the latest chapter of the U.S. government’s police state humiliation of innocent American women, an 85-year-old woman in a wheelchair, Lenore Zimmerman, was strip-searched by TSA agents who left her bleeding from a painful gash in her leg. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/04/woman-claims-strip-search-jfk-airport) “They took me into a private room and strip-searched me,” says Zimmerman. “They took my pants down… and then they took my underwear down.” (http://www.local10.com/news/85-year-old-says-she-was-strip-searched-at-JFK/-/1717324/4870970/-/4dg4fk/-/index.html) The TSA responded with what can only be a carefully-worded lie, claiming, “While we regret that the passenger feels she had an unpleasant screening experience, TSA does not include strip searches as part of our security protocols and one was not conducted in this case.” Oh, so now Lenore is a liar? Why would an 85-year-old grandmother lie about being strip-searched by the TSA? So the TSA blames her for inventing all this, claiming it essentially never happened. (http://www.local10.com/news/85-year-old-says-she-was-strip-searched-at-JFK/-/1717324/4870970/-/4dg4fk/-/index.html) “Why would I make up this story?” Zimmerman responded in a NY Daily News article. “In my wildest dreams, I couldn’t think of such a thing happening.” (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/lenore-zimmerman-outraged-tsa-denies-strip-searched-85-year-old-long-island-grandmother-article-1.986437) Let me get this straight: So if the TSA takes your grandmother into the back room and has their way with her, she might have an “unpleasant experience” but it’s all 100% approved by the TSA which then denies the whole incident even took place? This is the yet another sign of the runaway criminality of the TSA and the entire federal government which now feels it is above the law and answerable to no one. That more people aren’t engaged in a massive outcry against this also shows the extreme desensitization of the public which has already been achieved. Had this event happened just a decade ago, the national media would have been in an uproar. That it happened in 2011, during an era when the TSA routinely conducts illegal molestations of air travelers, apparently doesn’t even raise eyebrows anymore. And that’s pathetic (more below…). Secret laws that can never be challenged The federal government currently claims that when you enter an airport, you are essentially “government property” and its agents can do anything to you that they want, with zero protections, no boundaries and no recourse. In fact, in dismissing Gov. Jesse Ventura’s recent lawsuit against the TSA, a federal court recently put forth the following astonishing points in its ruling: 1) TSA’s laws are “secret” and you cannot know what they are. (It’s “national security” didn’t ya know?) 2) TSA’s laws can be changed at any time without notice. (And you still can’t know what they are.) 3) You must abide by these secret laws even though you do not have any right to know what they are. (We don’t have to tell you what the rules are, but you have to follow them anyway!) 4) These laws may never be challenged by anyone, even if they violate federal law, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution or even basic human rights. In other words, technically speaking the TSA could pass a “secret” administration rule right that gives all TSA agents the right to have unrestricted deviant sexual intercourse with all selected air travelers as a “right” that cannot be challenged (just like with the kings in the Dark Ages). Under these perverse rules, the TSA could declare all Middle Eastern people to be a sub-human species, or require all teenage boys to be “thoroughly searched” Sandusky-style. I’m not making this up. The TSA now has the “administrative right” to do all these things, according to federal courts. And none of it can be challenged. (Outrageous!) This is obviously a total violation of U.S. law and the very principles of freedom upon which this country was founded. The Fourth Amendment means what it says. It is not subject to “administrative nullification.” We are living under a police state system right now, as you read this… Obscene violations of the rights of women Getting back to the grandmother in the wheelchair, she had asked to avoid the microwave radiation naked body scanner because she has a heart defibrillator surgically implanted in her chest, and she was concerned the machine’s radiation might interfere with her medical device. So in what now appears to be a clear punishment for daring to request “special” treatment, Lenore Zimmerman was subjected to an 11-minute humiliation and psychological torture session by thuggish, criminal-minded TSA agents who have been repeatedly caught engaging in other criminal acts such as distributing child pornography (http://www.naturalnews.com/030787_child_pornography_TSA_agents.html), stealing the valuable electronics of air travelers (http://www.naturalnews.com/032947_TSA_thefts.html), planting fake bags of cocaine in travelers’ luggage (http://www.naturalnews.com/030302_TSA_naked_body_scanners.html), and even flashing their TSA badges and then raping women (http://www.wjla.com/articles/2011/11/harold-rodman-tsa-worker-arrested-for-sexual-assault-69420.html). The TSA is an out-of-control agency that openly violates the rights of women in particular, respecting no boundaries of human decency or personal privacy. It openly violates the core tenants of the United States Constitution and its Bill of Rights which specifically protects the People from “illegal search and seizure” schemes dreamed up by tyrannical government. In fact, the Fourth Amendment was written into the Bill of Rights for precisely this kind of scenario which also existed pre-1776 when occupying British soldiers raped and fondled colonial women as they pleased, then claimed they had the “king’s right” to engage in such behavior. Our forefathers said, “Enough is enough!” And before they put this rule on paper, they put more than a few musket bullets through the thick skulls of the British soldiers who learned the hard way what “justice” really means. Such is history of revolution. All for a “terror” threat that’s 100% imagined The real shocker in all this is that the TSA’s security mandate was put in place in response to an imagined threat that was entirely fabricated by the U.S. government itself. This government has virtually the entire nation running scared of imaginary “terrorists,” believing there are terrorists hiding under ever bed, around every dark corner, and plotting to kill everybody if not for the presence of all these thuggish police who are somehow protecting us from terrorists and maybe demonic leprechauns, too. OMG, there could be terrorists hiding in your pants! Hadn’t we better check there? And yet, look around you. Have you ever seen a terrorist? Seriously. Have you EVER seen a terrorist? Have you ever seen a mad bomber? Have you ever seen the FBI actually stop a terror plot that it didn’t dream up itself to begin with? (http://www.naturalnews.com/033751_FBI_terrorism.html) Don’t you get it? There is no terrorism in America other than what the government itself has been creating! The whole thing is an “Emperor Has No Clothes” mirage that has the public acting out some sort of shared delusion that we’re all under assault by these evil, imaginary terrorists. Janet Napolitano insists “if you see something, say something” but in reality, nobody even sees anything because the war on terror is a complete fabricated fraud . To see something, you’d have to dream it up first, just like the FBI does. The very best article ever written on this topic was penned by Paul Craig Roberts , former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associated editor of the Wall Street Journal. Entitled, “In the War on Terror a Hoax?” (http://www.infowars.com/?p=62008), this article exposes the total fraud and fabrication of this falsely engineered war. I’ve posted comments on that spot-on analysis at: http://www.naturalnews.com/034321_war_on_terror_paranoia_hoax.html Only read it if you really want to know the real truth behind the fabricated war on terror. For how long will the American sheeple allow government criminals to strip-search their wives, mothers and grandmothers? Even in North Korea, the tyrant police state administrators don’t reach down the pants of civilians who are merely trying to travel. That form of sexually-perverse tyranny is unique to the United States of America, to the great shock of the rest of the world. It is astonishing that woman’s rights groups aren’t marching in the streets over the TSA’s sexual molestation of women — palming their breasts, back-handing their genitals, strip-searching them for no logical reason. These are not merely crimes against Americans, they are crimes against women in particular. Where is the National Organization for Women in all this? The utter silence of the N.O.W. on this issue — as grandmothers are being strip-searched, detained, bloodied and badgered — is nothing less than a total indictment of the false agenda of that entire organization. If the N.O.W. will not stand up for women in their time of need right now, as they are being physically and mentally abused by the federal government in airports across the nation, then the organization’s entire reason for existence is a total fraud . It might as well just dissolve itself and admit it only “selectively” stands up for women when such a stance is politically expedient. Or perhaps it should rename itself to be the “National Organization for Women Except for Those Being Abused by Government.” N.O.W.E.T.B.A.G, in other words. Why are women who travel by air not given the same protections as those who work in offices? What is it about N.O.W. that prevents it from speaking out against corrupt, criminal government in the first place? If N.O.W. existed in 1943 as a non-profit in Germany, I suppose it would have stood for “protecting women unless they are Jewish, in which case they can all be gassed to death” because that was the government’s policy at the time, right? I ask: What gives the government the right to abuse women who would otherwise be protected if they were subjected to similar behavior in the workplace? Why is it WRONG for a suit-wearing executive to grab the tush of a co-worker in the office, but it’s perfectly okay for a butch TSA she-brute to fondle the vagina of an innocent traveler and smirk while she calls it “security?” The silence of the N.O.W. in all this is so shameful that I wonder how the top executives and directors of that organization can look themselves in the mirror each day, remaining silent while their own sisters, daughters and mothers are being groped, fondled, abused and tormented by thuggish, psychopathic government agents known as the TSA? Just because the TSA claims to be fighting an imaginary war on an imaginary enemy that they claim lives inside your pants doesn’t make it true. It’s absurd from the start. The situation with N.O.W. is actually even worse than what I’ve describe here: The TSA was an exhibitor at a National N.O.W. Conference in 2009 where it maintained an information table or booth (http://www.now.org/organization/conference/2009/exhibitors.html). Is the TSA recruiting at the N.O.W. conference? Is this not the ultimate in total hypocrisy and a conspiracy of crime against women? Hey women: If you’re sexually abused in a GOVERNMENT workplace, that’s suddenly okay The upshot of all this is apparently that if you are a woman, and your “workplace” is a government office claiming to be fighting terror, you can now be sexually abused, groped, tormented and even stripped naked against your will and the N.O.W. won’t say a word , apparently. Suddenly it’s all magically okay because of an imaginary “terrorist” enemy that’s no more real than the Easter Bunny or the cartoon elves from Rice Krispies. Shame on N.O.W. for its inexcusable silence as our nation’s women are being sexually and psychologically abused — even bloodied — by government agents. Shame on the thuggish abusers who take these TSA jobs and carry out this police state agenda in exchange for a paycheck and the promise of a pension (which will one day be stolen from them, of course). Shame on the mainstream media for whitewashing this story, ignoring the muffled cries of all the women, teenage daughters, moms and grandmothers who are being routinely abused in all this, almost as if Penn State’s football coaching staff were directing the TSA’s strip-search protocols. Shame on America for allowing this to go on, day after day, in complete and blatant violation of the Peoples’ Fourth Amendment rights (not to mention fundamental human rights). A nation of people who will routinely let the government stick their hands down their pants — and excuse it all by claiming there are invisible “terrorists” hiding around every corner — is a nation of cowards who have forgotten what freedom really means. While tyrants run rampant, America sleeps… Will America ever awaken to protecting innocents against tyrants? I can only wonder, what event of overreaching tyranny will awaken the sleeping People? Will it take a TSA agent openly raping little boys in the back room? Or would that be okay, too, as long as somebody claims they’re “fighting terror”? Maybe Napolitano should be replaced by Sandusky, and then we’d have even better security in America because all the young boys would be checked for bombs inside and out, huh? Yeah, it’s sick. I apologize for even needing to draw these parallels, but this is the level of insanity that has now been achieved by the TSA and its open molestation and torture of innocent travelers. At what point has it gone too far, I ask you? If the TSA claims it can merely write its own supreme rules that are subject to no law, no legal review and no courts challenge , then what’s to stop the TSA from just ruling over the entire nation as a criminal police force that routinely rapes daughters and children on street-corner TSA checkpoints? Is there no requirement for the TSA to abide by any laws whatsoever? Are we honestly supposed to believe that the actions of the TSA will be held in check solely by the “ethics” of the TSA itself? Are you kidding? Are you insane? This is the whole point of checks and balances, folks. The Bill of Rights is a check against tyrants who, throughout history, have “gone TSA” on their own populations and ended up raping their own innocent civilians merely because nothing stopped them from doing so. The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to HALT government attempts to overreach its limited mandate, and today, nothing is stopping the TSA from getting worse by the day. If the courts will not intervene, and all laws are openly ignored, and the local police and sheriffs will do nothing to stop these criminals operating at the airports, then I must ask the inevitable question: At what point must obedience to the LAW be enforced by the citizens themselves? I can only wonder what it’s going to take before the sheeple of America decide they’ve had enough and they march into their local airports with the local Sheriff and bunch of armed deputies carrying M4 rifles and they ARREST THE TSA AGENTS and charge them with not just the crimes they have committed, but conspiracy to commit those crimes as well. TSA agents, after all, would feel right at home in prison where getting gang raped is part of the culture. Heck, it might be so familiar to them all that they would mistake prison for a “federal workplace!”

War on drugs revealed as total hoax – US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan

(NaturalNews) Afghanistan is, by far, the largest grower and exporter of opium in the world today, cultivating a 92 percent market share of the global opium trade. But what may shock many is the fact that the US military has been specifically tasked with guarding Afghan poppy fields, from which opium is derived, in order to protect this multibillion dollar industry that enriches Wall Street, the CIA, MI6, and various other groups that profit big time from this illicit drug trade scheme. Prior to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Afghanistan was hardly even a world player in growing poppy, which is used to produce both illegal heroin and pharmaceutical-grade morphine. In fact, the Taliban had been actively destroying poppy fields as part of an effort to rid the country of this harmful plant, as was reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on February 16, 2001, in a piece entitled Nation’s opium production virtually wiped out (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=gL9scSG3K_gC&dat=20010216&printsec=frontpage&hl=en). But after 9/11, the US military-industrial complex quickly invaded Afghanistan and began facilitating the reinstatement of the country’s poppy industry. According to the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP), opium cultivation increased by 657 percent in 2002 after the US military invaded the country under the direction of then-President George W. Bush (http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-makes-excuse-for-cias-afghan-opium-cultivation/). CIA responsible for reinstating opium industry in Afghanistan after 9/11 More recently, The New York Times (NYT) reported that the brother of current Afghan President Hamid Karzai had actually been on the payroll of the CIA for at least eight years prior to this information going public in 2009. Ahmed Wali Karzai was a crucial player in reinstating the country’s opium drug trade, known as Golden Crescent, and the CIA had been financing the endeavor behind the scenes (http://www.infowars.com/ny-times-afghan-opium-kingpin-on-cia-payroll/). “The Golden Crescent drug trade, launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liaison with NATO occupation forces and the British military,” wrote Prof. Michel Chossudovsky in a 2007 report, before it was revealed that Ahmed Wali Karzai was on the CIA payroll. “The proceeds of this lucrative multibillion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan” (http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Afghanistan/US_Forces_Narcotics_Trade.html). But the mainstream media has been peddling a different story to the American public. FOX News, for instance, aired a propaganda piece back in 2010 claiming that military personnel are having to protect the Afghan poppy fields, rather than destroy them, in order to keep the locals happy and to avoid a potential “security risk” — and FOX News reporter Geraldo Rivera can be heard blatantly lying about poppy farmers being financially supported by the Taliban, rather than the CIA and other foreign interests. You can watch that clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b3pB6M7s So while tens of thousands of Americans continue to be harmed or killed every year by overdoses from drugs originating from this illicit opium trade, and while cultivation of innocuous crops like marijuana and hemp remains illegal in the US, the American military is actively guarding the very poppy fields in Afghanistan that fuel the global drug trade. Something is terribly wrong with this picture. Sources for this article include: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b3pB6M7s http://www.InfoWars.com

BMJ had secret financial ties to Merck during publication of articles attacking Wakefield

(NaturalNews) When a corrupt medical group wants to discourage dissidence from within, it targets a high profile figure to disgrace. This intimidates others from doing the right thing if it disrupts the lies and profits of Big Pharma. Dr. Andrew Wakefield was a high profile scapegoat, smeared with lies from the media and medical journals to protect the UK from vaccine injury payouts while maintaining high profits for the vaccine industry. Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s Research Dr. Wakefield arrived at Royal Free Hospital in London to coordinate and record research that had already started for seven children. This number increased to twelve and consequently was called the Wakefield 12 two years later. The gastroenterology treatments and study had started on the original seven and was headed by Dr. John Walker-Smith. Parents of those twelve children took them to the Royal Free Hospital because of its reputation for Pediatric Gastroenterology. Their family doctors had failed to diagnose and/or treat their kids. The kids were suffering terribly from bowel disorders and exhibiting autistic behavior, pushing the parents to the limit. These were not mere tummy aches and diarrhea. After Dr. Wakefield joined them, he published his findings in a paper for the 1998 British medical journal Lancet . A few years later, Wakefield’s Lancet paper’s conclusion was intentionally twisted by journalist Brian Deer in order to launch a government/vaccine industry attack on doctors Wakefield and Walker-Smith. Claims that Dr. Wakefield and his team concluded that MMR vaccinations are totally responsible for autism are completely inaccurate. Wakefield’s Lancet paper simply advised that measles, mumps, and rubella vaccinations should be done separately instead of all at once until further research is done on the safety of MMRs. The parents had voluntarily mentioned that their children’s unusual and intense bowel disorders as well as autistic behaviors occurred shortly or immediately after the kids received their MMR vaccination. Dr. Wakefield simply included the parents observations in his Lancet report. Dr. Wakefield also included the medical fact that the same viral strain of measles was found in all of the children’s intestinal tracts in his journal report. These discoveries were made after the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) shots were given to those twelve children and their symptoms were apparent. Wakefield’s Published Findings Confirmed by Others The viral measles discovered by the Wakefield/Walker-Smith team of doctors were not wild virus measles. They were of the type prepared for MMR vaccines. Recently, even the London Mail reported similar results from other studies of children with autistic behaviors and strange, severe bowel disorders. One study was in Dublin, Ireland in 2001. The other report was from Wake Forest Medical School in the USA in 2010. In the USA study, 70 out of 82 autistic children were found with the same unusual bowel disorder, autistic enterocolitis, and the same non-wild measles strain. You’d think this would create a public vindication and restore Doctors Wakefield and Walker-Smith’s right to practice medicine in the UK. But it hasn’t. That’s the tragedy. The vaccine industry/government conspiracy succeeded. The Point Man for the Conspiracy Against Wakefield and Walker-Smith Brian Deer is a self professed independent investigative journalist. He is not independent, according to Age of Autism He has over a decade’s history of working for different vaccine industry front groups, both in America and Great Britain. And he doesn’t really investigate. It appears he fabricates. Yet, he is the author of articles condemning the Wakefield Lancet 1998 paper, publishing in both the London Sunday Times and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) starting in 2004 and continuing into 2010. Brian Deer also filed a formal complaint to the GMC (General Medical Council), the group responsible for medical licensing in the UK. Not one of the parents filed any complaints anywhere. They all praised the Wakefield/Walker-Smith team for the understanding and relief that medical team had provided. But they complained bitterly about being denied their testimony on the Wakefield/Walker-Smith team’s defense in the GMC hearings, which Brian Deer attended daily for several weeks. The Lancet was compelled to publically retract Wakefield’s paper. The GMC removed both Doctors Wakefield and Walker-Smith from medical practice in 2010. The BMJ and Brian Deer defend their lies to this day by accusing Wakefield of lying. Screaming sensationalism seems to get the mainstream media’s attention over calmly delivered facts. For more on Brian Deer’s nasty aggressive manner against the Wakefield 12 children’s parents, who speak their version of events, see the short version of the documentary “Selective Hearing” here: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=B04E670B2B566343D1CE5D822CFB22E8 The full documentary is viewable from the sources section below. It is compelling. So how does one sociopath vaccine industry shill hack journalist manage to pull this off? He was supported by friends in high places. Big Pharma’s Vaccine Hit List The pharmaceutical industry has hit lists, and apparently Brian is one of their hit men to stir up trouble with the help of vaccine industry supporting medical journals and public media publications. A lawyer in an Australian class action suit against Merck’s Vioxx spoke of threats from Merck to intimidate critics or cut off research funding. The attorney read the following from a Merck internal memo: “We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live.” There was also memo content that mentioned “neutralizing or discrediting” doctors who spoke out against them. Merck is a major provider of MMR vaccines in the UK and USA. Following the Money High Court Judge Sir Nigel Davis wouldn’t permit parents who wanted to testify on Wakefield’s behalf. Nigel’s brother is a board member of the publishers of the Lancet who is also on the Board of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). GSK is a pharmaceutical giant also heavily involved in vaccine manufacturing. GSK now has James Murdoch on its Board. He’s the son of Rupert Murdoch and editor of the Sunday Times . This was Deer’s first platform to launch attacks on Wakefield. The Murdoch family has strong financial interests with GSK. Deer used Medico-Legal Investigations to gather information for his evil spin. This private company seems to be a front group for Big Pharma, since their only source of funding is the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry. Reuters is a news agency rivaling the Associated Press (AP). The head of Reuters is a Merck Board member. Miriam Stoppared’s husband, Christopher Hogg, was Chairman of GSK in 2004. Miriam is feature writer for the Daily Mirror. Dr. Kumar, the chairman of the GMC Fitness to Practice Panel that ruled against Wakefield would not answer questions about his known GSK holdings. He declared that there is no such thing as vaccine damage and parents who claimed such should be treated with scorn. There have been allegations of financial connections between Merck and BMJ and its editor Dr. Fiona Godlee. It’s certain Merck funds award to BMJ’s selected MDs and researchers. Both the BMJ and Lancet journals serve as advertising forums for Merck and GlaxoSmithKline. Meanwhile the UK medical system, which is completely supported by government financing, can breathe a sigh of relief for not having to be held liable for vaccine injury complaints by parents of MMR shots or other vaccinations. After all, purchased and promoted vaccines are already paid for. They don’t want them to go to waste. And no need to add the expense of awarding compensation for vaccine injury if it’s been declared they don’t exist. Regarding the Wakefield case, Fiona Godlee recently announced: “Many other medical frauds have been exposed but usually more quickly after publication and on less important health issues.” Really? How important is childhood measles or mumps? What is important is evidence from several international sources have determined a causal link to unusual bowed disorders and autistic behavior. The real fraud is denying this research. The real crime is profiting heavily while causing enormous suffering for millions of children and their parents. Sources for this article and your perusal include: The full Brian Deer vs. Wakefield 12 parents documentary “Selective Hearing” http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=21C9E60E7A00D3D8B3DF37796B661886 Recent Daily Mail report on findings similar to Wakefield’s http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-388051/Scientists-fear-MMR-link-autism.html Exposing the Murdoch Empire’s crimes and vaccine industry investments http://coto2.press.com/2011/07/17/murdoch-and-vaccines-exposure-of-murdochs-crimes-expose-a-much-larger-story/ Natural News Mike Adams on what Wakefield actually did at Royal Free Hospital http://www.naturalnews.com/033425_BMJ_Andrew_Wakefield.html Mike Adams on documents proving BMJ and Deer’s lies against Wakefield’s innocence http://www.naturalnews.com/031116_Dr_Andrew_Wakefield_British_Medical_Journal.html Merck hit list memo http://www.news.com.au/story-0-1225699594111#ixzz1WpVwgg3a

British government squanders millions conducting secret GM potato trials while non-GM variety already performs spectacularly

(NaturalNews) For the past ten years, the British government has been quietly subsidizing research aimed at developing a genetically-modified (GM) potato resistant to blight, the fungal disease responsible for causing the infamous Irish potato famine. According to Indymedia UK , Sainsbury Laboratory, the group tasked with development, has already spent roughly 1.7 million pounds ($2.7 million) worth of public funds to develop the GM potato, despite the fact that a natural blight-resistant variety has already been successfully bred and in use for the past three years. Unlike in the US where GM crops are widely cultivated, GM crops have never been commercially grown in the UK. Widespread public opposition to their introduction back in 1997, as well as continued opposition, has kept them largely out of food and off the land. And yet reports explains that the GM potato research being conducted by Sainsbury — with public funding — is so secretive that nobody knows for sure whether or not any open-air trials of test GM potatoes have taken place. Meanwhile, a small Welsh research group three years ago successful bred a natural, non-GM potato variety with natural resistance to blight — and that potato variety has been in cultivation ever since that time. As opposed to GM crops, this blight-resistant potato — which is now available in more than six different varieties — is safe for the environment, safe for human consumption, and it does not require the yearly repurchasing of terminator seeds and expensive chemical pesticides in order to grow. But the British government continues to pour money into useless endeavors to develop a GM variety, which has prompted Stop GM, a UK group devoted to ending the spread of GMOs, to take action. The group is holding an event on July 23 to speak out against the abuse of public funds by the UK government, and it needs your help to make it a success. Part of this event will include the dropping off of a trailer full of safe, non-GM, blight-resistant potatoes at the Sainsbury research center where the GM potato trials are taking place. To learn more about how you can help fight GMOs in the UK, visit: http://www.stopgm.org.uk/take-action.html Sources for this story include: http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/06/480991.html

Your dishwasher could be harboring dangerous ‘super’ fungi, says report

(NaturalNews) In many ways, modern home appliances have made life simpler by reducing the amount of time it takes to clean, cook, and perform other routine household activities. But some of these technological advances may be responsible for increasing the prevalence of harmful “super” pathogens that have grown resistant to stimuli that used to eliminate them, suggests a new report in the British Mycological Society journal Fungal Biology . According to the report, household appliances that use water, which include dishwashers and washing machines, have become a new point of infestation for potentially deadly fungi like Exophiala dermatitidis and E. phaeomuriformis . These strains and others, which would normally be killed off by heat and detergents, have become tolerant to them, and are now being found in a majority of the household appliances tested. Researchers from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia gathered samples from the dishwashers, washing machines, and coffee makers of private homes located in 101 cities from six different continents. Upon analysis, they determined that 62 percent of dishwashers contained pathogenic fungal flora in their rubber band door lining. Fifty-six percent contained polyextremotolerant black yeasts that had developed resistance to the high heat, high salt concentrations, aggressive detergents, and both acid and alkaline water, all of which would kill normal varieties of such strains. According to the report, Exophiala dermatitidis almost never occurs isolated from nature, and yet it is now showing up in household appliances everywhere. It is linked to pulmonary colonization of patients with cystic fibrosis, and it can sometimes cause fatal infections, even in healthy humans. It can also cause lesions, heart inflammation and brain abscesses. “Both Exophiala species are known to be able to cause systemic disease in humans and frequently colonize the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis,” write the authors in their report. “We conclude that high temperature, high moisture and alkaline pH values typically occurring in dishwashers can provide an alternative habitat for species also known to be pathogenic to humans.” Sources for this story include: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/e-mdi062011.php http://www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au/Fungal_Descriptions/Hyphomycetes_%28dematiaceous%29/Exophiala/dermatitidis.html

Dental surgery causes American woman to speak with British accent

(NaturalNews) “When I talk now people ask me where I got my accent from. Well, I got it from a dentist in Toledo.” jokes Karen Butler. Butler believes she has foreign accent syndrome, a condition so rare that there are only 60 known cases worldwide. Butler, a 56-year-old tax consultant who grew up in Toledo, Ore., woke up with the strange accent, which could be taken for anything from Eastern European to Swedish or British, after dental surgery in November 2009. Butler had the surgery to remove her top teeth and front bottom teeth due to gingivitis. After the swelling went down the following week, she had still not regained her original accent. Her dentist told her that it was a matter of getting used to the new teeth. But a year and a half later the accent remains. “I had just had surgery, so at first we assumed it was because of all of the swelling, but within a week the swelling went down and the accent stayed,” said Butler. The accidental accent is usually fleeting and goes away within weeks or months, said Dr. Ted Lowenkopf, a neurologist and medical director of Providence Stroke Center in Portland, Ore. But the longer it lasts, the more likely it is to stick for good. The syndrome is often the result of brain injury, but Butler believes she hasn’t had a stroke or any brain trauma. She said she has not been able to get a brain scan because her medical insurance will not cover it. “We don’t know exactly how or why it happens, but it simply affects rhythm of language,” said Dr. Helmi Lutsep, professor and vice-chair of the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health and Science University. He says that in some cases the speech just sounds a bit “off” while other cases are far more extreme. “I’m absolutely convinced this is a real phenomenon. These people are not making it up.” “Although we think it sounds like a British accent, if you had a language expert listening to her, they would say that’s not an English accent,” said Lowenkopf. “It’s sort of an amalgam of different-sounding speech that sounds like a foreign accent. But it’s not truly typical of any one foreign accent.” Butler said she can’t hear her own accent when she speaks, but can feel herself forming words differently. She talks about her daughter, Jamie, as a “twenty-VUN” year old. Although speech therapy could help Butler regain her old accent, she said she is used the new one. “I appear to be completely normal otherwise and I’m quite OK with [the accent],” she said. “With a sense of humor, you can face anything.” She feels the accent is a benefit to her in a way. “I used to be painfully shy,” she said. “And now there’s always something to talk about” Sources for this story include: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/foreign-accent-syndrome-oregon-woman-wakes-surgery-accent/story?id=13518030 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FOREIGN_ACCENT_SYNDROME?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-06-05-16-55-04

Government recruits doctors to become thought police, pinpoint potential terrorists among their patients

(NaturalNews) Outrageous new “counter-terrorism” measures being proposed in the UK are receiving a public relations backlash because of their extreme, fascist overtones. The UK government’s “Prevent” program, which allegedly aims to protect against terrorism, is being reformulated to recruit doctors to both spy on their patients , then report to authorities those patients suspected of becoming potential terrorists. In complete contradiction to the private doctor-patient relationship, the new proposals encourage doctors to identify and target patients whom they believe to be “vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism,” and report them to government authorities. Naturally, the UK’s Muslim community stands to be targeted the most under the new guidelines, as doctors who participate in the program will likely falsely accuse and report many of their Middle Eastern patients as potential terrorists. Such heinous actions, of course, are akin to what took place in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, except they may be even worse as they presume guilt upon innocent individuals before any actual crime has even occurred. A doctor’s mere perception that a patient may one day become a terrorist, or may be susceptible to becoming one based on a perceived personality trait, is enough to get that patient reported to authorities under the new proposals. According to the UK’s Guardian , Home Secretary Theresa May has not only laid out the proposed guidelines, but she is also attempted to diffuse criticism of the plan by expanding the scope of potential terrorist profiling to include animal rights extremists and those on the “far right” of the political spectrum. Similar to tactics routinely used by the US Department of Homeland Security (http://www.naturalnews.com/Homeland_Security.html) and the US Transportation Security Administration (http://www.naturalnews.com/TSA.html), the British government’s new “counter-terrorism” scheme is nothing more than a flimsy, false flag excuse to exert more power and control over the British people. The game is simple — invent a boogeyman, scare the people with it, and propose increased “security” measures that strip innocent citizens of their privacy and freedom. Sources for this story include: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jun/06/doctors-identify-potential-terrorists-plans

Is cabbage the ultimate anti-cancer food?

(NaturalNews) Men with early signs of developing prostate cancer were able to prevent tumor growth by eating broccoli four times a week, according to a British study covered on MSN (http://health.msn.com/health-topics/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=100233884&imageindex=4). But broccoli is not the only cruciferous vegetable with anti-cancer properties. Cabbage has a long history of use both as food and medicine, according to The George Mateljan Foundation for the World’s Healthiest Foods. Manual laborers were fed salted cabbage with their rice, according to William Duffy’s “Sugar Blues”, to keep them strong and healthy during the building of the Great Wall of China (http://www.naturalpedia.com/cabbage.html). It was the only food they had besides their rice. Cabbage was also grown in Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations that held it in high regard as a general panacea capable of treating a host of health conditions. Today, epidemiological studies provide evidence that diets rich in cruciferous vegetables are associated with lower risks of several types of cancer, according to Oregon State University (http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/i3c/). Cabbage in particular looks promising, boasting numerous cancer-preventing properties, including antioxidants and glucosinolates. Anti-oxidant phytonutrients Red cabbage contains 36 different varieties of anthocyanins, a class of flavonoid phytonutrients that have been linked to protection from cancer, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (http://www.naturalnews.com/024487_cabbage_red_cabbage_anthocyanins.html). Anthocyanins are naturally occurring pigments that give fruits and berries their red, blue and purple color. Another study by the ARS found that some varieties of the phytonutrient have twice the antioxidant effect of vitamin C (http://www.naturalnews.com/024487_cabbage_red_cabbage_anthocyanins.html). Red cabbage is unique among the cruciferous vegetables in providing about 30 milligrams of the red anthocyanin in each half-cup serving. But even white cabbage — the most commonly eaten variety of cabbage in the U.S. — provides about 50 milligrams in a half-cup serving. The cancer-preventing effects of cabbage are due, at least in part, to the antioxidant richness of the vegetable. Without enough antioxidants, we can experience a metabolic problem called oxidative stress, which can be a risk factor for development of cancer, according to The George Mateljan Foundation for the World’s Healthiest Foods (http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=19). Isothiocyanates The anti-oxidant benefits of cabbage alone secure its position on the list of cancer-fighting foods but cabbage takes it a step further. The glucosinolates found in cabbage can be converted into isothiocyanate compounds, and these compounds show preventative effects for variety of different cancers, including bladder cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, and prostate cancer (http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=19). Isothiocyanates (pronounced eys-so-thigh-o-sigh-an-ate) stop carcinogens in three different ways, according to The Cancer Project: They prevent carcinogens from being activated, they counteract the effects of carcinogens once they have been activated and they speed up the removal of carcinogens from the body. Studies have shown that risks of cancers of the gastrointestinal tract and the respiratory tract can be reduced by consuming isothiocyanate-rich vegetables, and the compounds are especially effective in fighting lung and esophageal cancers (http://www.cancerproject.org/protective_foods/isothiocyanates.php). Indole-3-carbinol Cabbage is also proving to aid in the prevention of cancer due to a compound called Indole-3-carbinol. The compound, I3C, which is released when we chew cruciferous vegetables, has been shown to protect against the adverse effects of estrogen, according to The South African Journal of Natural Medicine . When one type of estrogen is broken down, it divides into metabolites, one which leads to high risk breast cancer and the other which leads to low risk. I3C can reduce the risk of breast cancer by increasing the production of the safer metabolite. 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