Mysterious white goo repeatedly found blanketing cancer-stricken Turkish city — are chemtrails to blame?

(NaturalNews) Residents of Dilovasi, an industrial suburb just outside of Istanbul, Turkey, have been looking for answers concerning a mysterious substance that, on numerous occasions, has been found covering cars, trees, clotheslines, and vegetable gardens throughout the city. Milliyet , a Turkish newspaper, reports that government officials are currently trying to identify the source of this sticky goo, which has reportedly made a number of people ill and ruined local crops. According to Hurriyet Daily News (HDN), the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey is conducting an investigation into the matter, but only after local media began to report that the substance could not be washed or removed from clothes, crops, and other contaminated items. “My products were worth at least 20,000 Turkish Liras (about $10,695), but they are all destroyed now. Cabbage, leeks, and other produce items were ruined by the goo. I cannot sell these to anyone. I have to throw them away. This substance also covered the windows of my greenhouse and it blocks the sunshine,” said Alaattin Illik, a Dilovasi resident and greenhouse owner. According to Digital Journal , local officials in Dilovasi, which is a heavy industrial area with roughly 200 industrial plants around the area, have been accused of covering up the severity of toxic pollution in the area. This fact is made evident by the higher-than-usual cancer rate in the area, which is roughly 30 times higher than the national average. But another possible explanation for the unidentified chemical blankets is “chemtrails,” a chemical spraying program in which jets deliberately release various materials into the stratosphere. Following days of heavy chemtrail spraying, anomalous materials and substances similar to the kind found in Dilovasi have been observed in a variety of places around the world. Unlike normal jet exhaust contrails that dissipate quickly, chemtrails linger in the sky and often spread into artificial clouds. In some instances, these chemtrails actually leave behind what appears to be particle dust residue, spider web-like filaments, and slimy goo similar to what is being found in Dilovasi (http://www.willthomas.net/Chemtrails/Articles/chemtrails_over_america.htm). Be sure to watch the following segment from a 1997 episode of Unsolved Mysteries where residents of Oakville, Wash., were sickened by unidentified goo falling from the sky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRusfXUaW4 Sources for this article include: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=white-material-to-be-searched-by-officials-2011-11-09 http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/chemical-snow-blankets-cancer-hit-turkish-town.html

Freedom alert: "Occupy" protests may turn violent, followed by reactionary decline into martial law

(NaturalNews) The signs of escalation are unmistakable. In Oakland, Portland, St. Louis, New York, Denver and other cities, local authorities have begun a “crackdown” on Occupy protesters. A woman was raped at Occupy Philadelphia (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/11/woman-raped-at-occupy-philadelphia/), and BayCitizen.org is now reporting: “Labor organizers and community activists — including the husband of Mayor Jean Quan — are engaged in a desperate behind-the-scenes effort to prevent a violent showdown between police and protesters at the Occupy Oakland encampment.” (http://www.baycitizen.org/occupy-movement/story/last-minute-attempt-occupy-violence/) In Oakland, the city issued a cease and desist order for protesters to clear out, and similar declarations are being heard at other cities such as New York. But it’s obvious from the talk and demeanor of the protesters that many aren’t going to leave, no matter what! While this alone might already be a recipe for violence, there’s the far more concerning reality of undercover agent provocateurs who work for the government and who are hired to stir up violence! We’ve seen this over and over again, where government agents use persuasion engineering tactics to try to convince innocent protesters to throw pipe bombs, for example, or hurl rocks at windows and unleash a wave a violence. Slouching towards Martial Law The purpose of all this, of course, is for government to intentionally escalate the violence so it can justify a violent crackdown. This crackdown, in turn, might unleash even more violence as protesters fight back, at which point all the mainstream news media networks focus their cameras on the “bloodied police” (while ignoring the bloodied protesters), all while calling for government to “do something about it!” That’s how we end up living under martial law, of course. All it takes is one sufficiently hyped-up violent act for a city, state or even the federal government to issue a state of emergency followed by martial law. This is what they’ve been pushing for all along — they just need an excuse to enact it! Under martial law, all your rights and freedoms are suspended . The Bill of Rights, in other words, is put on hold, and the government could issue a nationwide ban on sales of gold, guns and ammo (among other things). Anyone caught possessing a simple pocket knife could be thrown in the slammer. Anyone caught trading in “contraband” (silver coins) could be arrested at gunpoint and dragged away to be interrogated. This is what’s coming in Amerika if we’re not careful. Martial law is the ultimate condition of government power, and it can stay in place for years . This is what the government wants — to strip away any remaining rights and powers of the People and concentrate those powers in the hands of the corrupt, fascist state. Remember: Even in North Korea, government agents don’t reach down your pants at the airport! Amerika has become the most obscene police state North Americans could have imagined, and under the stench of Napolitano, it’s only going to get worse. A call for peace In order for “Occupy” to achieve its aims, it must remain non-violent . Descent into violence would be an utter failure, and it would give the government the excuse it needs to end all Occupy protests and turn Amerika into a runaway police state nation. That’s why Occupy protesters must resist violence at every turn. They must resist bloodshed and even be willing to be bloodied themselves without striking back. This is the essence of peaceful protest against tyrannical empires. The “success” of such protests would be the national publicizing of government agents beating innocent non-violent protesters who don’t fight back. The emotional power of such imagery would turn the entire nation against the government and would rally millions more to join the cause. But the opposite is also true: If protesters become violent and begin shooting at police or striking back at them, the totally corrupt and morally inept mainstream media will, of course, just focus on acts of violence by the protesters and use that to push a national crackdown agenda. Martial Law may be coming soon In 2008, I publicly predicted riots in the streets would appear in America as the corrupt financial system began to crumble. Even at that time, I urged people to avoid violence and to work toward peace, not violence. Today, we are seeing signs that this situation is escalating. I am concerned that we may soon see eruptions of violence across the nation , fomented in part by government agents themselves. This means all the rest of us should prepare for martial law , because it seems increasingly likely to be arriving soon. How do you prepare for martial law? For starters, you stock up on all the items that will be illegal to buy or sell under martial law. Get squared away with gold and silver, for example. It could suddenly become extremely difficult to acquire, which would also make its value skyrocket in the underground economy. Secondly, make copies of all your important documents and keep them in a safe place (that’s also fireproof). Under martial law, you will be required to “show your papers” at frequent checkpoints, just like under Nazi Germany. And if you lose your documents, it will be a total nightmare to try to get new ones issued if you don’t have copies. Thirdly, speak out about the injustices taking place in America today. Why are the banksters given trillion-dollar bailouts while the People are burdened with billions in student loan debt that they are unable to repay? Why does government money go to the wealthy elite instead of helping the people it’s supposed to serve? Or, better yet, why does the Federal Reserve run the U.S. money supply in the first place? Why is government running every little detail of our lives, and reaching down our pants at the airport, and telling us that we can’t grow gardens in our front yards? If there is any conclusion to come out of these “Occupy” protests, it’s that big government is dangerous government . The only real way to protect our interests and our freedoms is to slash the size and power of government and thereby return power to the People where it belongs. There is only one Presidential candidate who believes this, by the way, and his name is Ron Paul. The media conspiracy against Ron Paul is now so arrogant and obvious that in the last debate, they only gave Ron Paul 89 seconds to speak during the entire debate! (http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-gets-89-seconds-to-speak-in-cbs-debate/) This, it turns out, was a deliberate CBS News policy to try to muzzle the only presidential candidate who makes any sense at all. This is why mainstream media morons are humorously called presstitutes or “news whores” by those who are informed. CBS News might as well be called KGB News at this point, since it functions as nothing more than a dictatorial extension of corrupt state power. The mainstream media, you see, doesn’t want people to tell the truth. That’s why they won’t dare mention NaturalNews, for that matter. NaturalNews is to the mainstream media what Ron Paul is to the presidential debates — we tell the truth and appeal to the informed, rational thinking of free people who wish to break free from the shackles of government lies and propaganda. “Occupy” protesters want much the same thing — an end to crony capitalism and secret government deals that favor powerful corporations. They want real freedom and justice for all people, not the slanted, state-run “freedom lite” that government thugs like Janet Napolitano try to sell us through telescreen broadcasts that urge everyone to spy on their neighbors. America is on the verge of being won back … or lost forever… depending on which way this all goes. But violence will only lead to more government tyranny. Only peace can bring us out of this police state nightmare and move us toward the non-violent revolution that will be necessary to restore liberty and justice in America. Keep the peace, folks. It is the only way out of this mess.

Download these FREE ‘truth about fluoride’ handouts to distribute during Halloween

(NaturalNews) The annual Halloween tradition is known primarily for children dressing up like their favorite characters and eating unhealthy candy from their neighbors. But the Journal of Natural Food and Health (JNFH) has developed a unique tradition of its own that involves educating trick-or-treaters and their parents about the dangers of fluoride. Since Halloween is one of the few times of year when neighbors interact with pretty much all their other neighbors during a single evening, it is a perfect opportunity to get the word out about important issues like water fluoridation. And what better way to do that than to throw in a small handout along with candy that explains in simple terms the dangers of fluoride? The simple four-by-five inch printouts contain concise information about fluoride’s toxic effects, which include dental fluorosis, lowered IQ, thyroid dysfunction, neurological disorders, infertility, arthritis, and cancer. They also explain why adding fluoride to water is mass medication without informed consent, and that cavity rates are largely the same among both fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities. You can download the flyers here: http://journal.livingfood.us/2011/10/23/fluoride-free-water-campaign-for-halloween-nifty-free-handouts/ “If you swallow a pea-size amount of toothpaste, on the tube FDA says to call Poison Control,” says the flyer. “[T]his is the same amount of fluoride in one 8-ounce glass of water!” At the bottom of the flyers is a link to the Fluoride Action Network’s (FAN) “Overview Page” on fluoride, which contains 500 cited references about the dangers of fluoride. And these include, of course, many of the same studies about fluoride that we here at NaturalNews have covered throughout the past several years (http://www.naturalnews.com/fluoride.html). The best thing about these nifty flyers is that they are absolutely FREE! The only thing JNFH asks of is that those who download them provide the city and state in which they live, as well as a rough estimate of how many flyers they plan to print so the group can track the effectiveness of the campaign and report on it later. JNFH suggests that parents both hand out the flyers to trick-or-treaters who come to their doors, and also have their own children hand out the flyers to neighbors while they themselves are trick-or-treating. The flyers are also handy for passing out at schools, farmers markets, health food stores, churches, rallies, workplaces, sporting events, and pretty much anywhere else. To download the flyers, visit: http://journal.livingfood.us/2011/10/23/fluoride-free-water-campaign-for-halloween-nifty-free-handouts/

Texas city puts an end to water fluoridation

(NaturalNews) A city of roughly 100,000 people and home of Texas A&M University, College Station, Tex., is definitely no backwoods town. In fact, Money magazine named the city, which is located in a metropolitan area populated with more than 200,000 people, the 11th most educated city in the US. And now that city officials have decided to axe fluoride from the water supply, people everywhere are taking notice. One by one they are falling like dominoes — the cities across America that have decided to stop injecting a toxic, endocrine-disrupting halogen into their water supplies, that is. According to a recent announcement by WTAW NewsTalk 1620, six of the seven city council members in “Aggieland” voted to end artificial water fluoridation, a practice that has been taking place there for more than two decades. The decision will not only save College Station more than $40,000 a year, which is what it costs to purchase fluoride chemicals from industrial waste producers, but it also means that, officially, there will be no more cities in the Bryan – College Station metropolitan area that fluoridate their water supplies. College Station joins a host of other towns and cities across the US that are ending the practice as well, including Spring Hill, Tenn. (http://www.naturalnews.com/033479_fluoridation_Nashville.html), Pottstown, Penn. (http://www.naturalnews.com/033496_Philadelphia_water_fluoridation.html), and potentially even New York City (http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Environment/fluoridation_0908110833.html). With momentum building, now is the time for concerned citizens everywhere who live in fluoridated communities to bombard their city officials with information about the dangers of fluoride, and about why removing it is in the best interests of public health. Together, we can put an end to this archaic and barbaric practice. The Fluoride Action Network (FAN), a nonprofit group devoted to broadening public awareness about the toxicity of fluoride, has put together a helpful Top Ten Arguments Against Water Fluoridation guide that will be useful in persuading officials to reconsider water fluoridation. You can view that report here: http://www.fluoridealert.org/top-10-reasons-against-fluoride.aspx FAN has also put together a piece called Why we are Opposed to Water Fluoridation , which contains a wealth of useful information about fluoride, as well as signatures from over 3,000 health professionals who are in agreement about fluoride’s toxicity, and the need to immediately remove it from water supplies: http://www.fluoridealert.org/opposed-water-fluoridation.aspx Be sure to investigate the entire FAN website, which is loaded with useful fluoride information: http://www.fluoridealert.org/ Sources for this story include: http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/128651668.html http://www.wtaw.com/2011/09/22/college-station-council-votes-to-stop-adding-fluoride-to-water-supply/

Chicago forces city employees to participate in ‘wellness’ plan or pay more for health insurance

(NaturalNews) In an effort to cut in half the $500 million-a-year healthcare bill precipitated by Chicago’s city employees, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has initiated a new public employee wellness program that he hopes will turn things around. But according to the Chicago Sun-Times , the program is mandatory for nearly all of the city’s unions and its members, including even those members that already abide by their own personal wellness programs — and individuals that do not comply with it will be subjected to added fees on their health insurance premiums. According to Emanuel, the bulk of Chicago’s health care costs are associated with treating diseases like obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure, all of which can be effectively “managed,” as he puts it, through improved lifestyle factors like getting more exercise and eating better. But these same diseases can also be effectively prevented as well, a fact that we have written about on many occasions (http://www.naturalnews.com/002706_health_care_costs_reform.html). “Six-to-eight percent of the city’s employees drive almost two-thirds of the health care costs around five chronic illnesses that are all manageable,” said Emanuel in defense of the plan. “We are going to be the first city to implement a citywide wellness plan for our employees because health care costs are being driven [up] by ten percent a year and we’re not seeing revenue growing that way.” While the program may help to encourage healthier lifestyles, and thus reduce healthcare costs, some say that its structure gives too much control into the hands of the government to tell people what to do. The Chicago Sun-Times explains that part of the program involves health coaches checking up on every single employee, for instance, to make sure that they are all following their prescribed “nutritional, medical and physical fitness regimens.” These overarching requirements, which represent a type of healthcare dictatorship, could quickly devolve into a forced adherence to conventional medicine. If “wellness” coaches decide that all workers must get vaccinated, for example, in order to abide by the “medical regimens,” then freedom of healthcare choice for public employees will have all but vanished in the name of promoting “wellness.” “If you don’t participate and do every aspect of what wellness is telling you, at some point, they’re gonna turn around and say, “You have a higher premium,” said Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police president Mike Shields, concerning why his union will not be participating in the program. “We have to make sure we’re protecting our membership from having to pay more of a premium than our current system.” Sources for this story include: http://www.suntimes.com/7679419-417/city-to-workers-join-wellness-program-or-pay-50-a-month-more.html

Freedom to gather freely annulled: City threatens to fine couple up to $500 every time friends come over for Bible study

(NaturalNews) Chuck and Stephanie Fromm of San Juan Capistrano, Cal., have long enjoyed having their friends over for weekly dinner, fellowship, and a time of studying the Bible together. But according to a recent report from CBS 2 in Los Angeles, the city is not so pleased, as it considers such gatherings to be illegal. Since more than three people typically come over to the Fromms house every week, the city claims the couple is violating a local ordinance, and must obtain a conditional use permit if it wishes to continue having guests on the property. But to obtain such a permit, the Fromms would have to jump through all the same regulatory hoops as a local business or church would have to, including conducting extensive traffic and environmental impact reports, making their home accessible to wheelchairs, and paying additional fees. “We’re just gathering and enjoying each other’s company and fellowship. And we enjoy studying God’s Word,” said Stephanie Fromm to CBS 2, emphasizing the fact that she and her husband have done everything possible to make sure that the gatherings and presence of their guests are not a nuisance to nearby neighbors. The city has already fined the Fromms twice for their weekly gatherings, however, having never even notified them prior to the first citation that they were in violation. The combined total of the two fines is $300, but if the couple continues to hold meetings without getting a conditional use permit, the fines could escalate to as high as $500 an incident. “This is about a city trying to get a family to pay fees — to pay fees and pay money to them — just to be able to have friends over to read the Bible,” said attorney Brad Dacus of PJI to CBS 2. In its defense, the city claims that having too many people at one’s residence is a nuisance, and that it obstructs street access and parking. But the Fromms have said they are careful to have their friends park in open areas, and have even set up cones to accommodate neighbors that do not want vehicles parked in front of their homes. Sources for this story include: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/09/20/oc-couple-threatened-with-500-per-meeting-fines-for-home-bible-study/

Obama tells farmer no need to worry about government over-regulation of agriculture

(NaturalNews) During a town hall meeting yesterday, when an Illinois farmer told President Obama he was concerned about upcoming regulations regarding the Food Safety Modernization Act and would rather be farming than “filling out forms and permits,” Obama had choice words to offer in reply: “Don’t always believe what you hear.” For once, Obama has told the truth. “Don’t always believe what you hear” should be the rally cry for all the farmers, raw dairy producers and consumers harmed by government actions taking place under the Obama administration — actions which can only be called war against the People and crimes against nature. It was Obama’s USDA, for example, that approved genetically modified alfalfa to be openly planted everywhere, thereby contaminating non-GMO alfalfa crops with DNA pollution that’s impossible to remove from the harvest (http://www.naturalnews.com/031196_GE_alfalfa_GMOs.html). This is the same USDA that also recently said it would do nothing to halt the release of GMO yard grass seeds into the marketplace (http://www.naturalnews.com/033022_Scotts_Miracle-Gro_GMO_seeds.html). Because of that decision, by the Spring of 2012, we could see genetically engineered lawns spouting up in neighborhoods all across America, where they will be frequently sprayed with toxic Roundup herbicide chemicals. It was under President Obama that the FDA masterminded the recent armed raids on American raw dairy farmers by bringing a SWAT team to an L.A. food distribution center (http://www.naturalnews.com/033220_Rawesome_Foods_armed_raids.html). There, under the watchful eye of federal government thugs, agents proceeded to pour all the milk down the drain then seize and destroy tens of thousands of dollars worth of cheese, watermelons, mangos and other valuable food (http://www.naturalnews.com/033225_Rawesome_Foods_photos.html). Obama, of course, could have stopped this outrageous incarceration of raw dairy farmers at any time, but he stood back and said nothing. Perhaps he was too busy going on vacation (http://www.prisonplanet.com/trump-obama-takes-more-vacations-than-any-human-being-ive-ever-seen.html) to take any meaningful action trying to protect American farmers from gun-toting government tyrants. It was under Obama’s watch that Michigan gardener Julie Bass was threatened with 93 days of jail time for growing tomatoes in her own front yard (http://www.naturalnews.com/032960_Julie_Bass_home_gardening.html). While this wasn’t a federal case (it was drummed up by local tyrants who run the city of Oak Park), Obama could have easily intervened with a national message about “the freedom to garden.” Where was Michelle Obama on this point in particular? The President’s wife can grow a garden on the White House lawn, but a mom in Oak Park Michigan can’t do the same on her own private property? Insane. It’s only going to get worse as the FDA gains more power under the FSMA Just watch as the Food Safety Modernization Act really kicks in, folks, because that’s when Obama’s words will really ring true: “Don’t always believe what you hear.” For starters, all the official talk about this food safety act claimed that small farms and growers would be exempted from the new FDA regulations. This, of course, is a complete lie: No commercial grower is exempt from the act. Small farms must apply to be granted an FDA exemption from only two provisions of the bill, and even that exemption is only offered at the pleasure of the King (the FDA). (http://www.naturalnews.com/030808_food_safety_bill_American_farmers.html) Secondly, the FDA’s view on “safe food” is perverted to begin with. The FDA admittedly believes that the only safe food is dead food . Anything that’s pasteurized, fumigated or irradiated is made safer, according to the FDA; but “live” foods are all considered dangerous and even pathogenic! An FDA spokesperson recently told the New York Times that drinking raw milk would cause children to become “paraplegics.” This is an example of precisely the kind of disinformation fear tactics campaign the FDA is waging against producers of raw or unprocessed foods. According to the FDA, Americans should be eating dead foods while taking patented prescription medications to cover any symptoms that might appear from malnutrition. The FDA is on the record stating that there is no such thing as any food, plant or herb that has any biological function whatsoever for treating, curing or preventing any disease! (http://www.naturalnews.com/029698_censorship_FDA.html) It is this kind of nutritional insanity that the Obama administration has unleashed upon America’s agricultural industry with the Food Safety Modernization Act, which only emboldens the FDA with more power — power that will be used to destroy nutrition in America and wipe out providers of healthful food products. Where is Obama on the biggest agricultural issue of the century? If you really want to revitalize agriculture in America, legalize hemp farming . That single action would pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the hands of farmers and turn the USA into a huge producer of hemp seeds, hemp oils, hemp fibers and other valuable hemp products. Even though Obama promised to move on this issue during his campaign, he has done absolutely nothing to push for legalizing hemp farming in America. The farmers be damned! No President can credibly claim to support American agriculture if they aren’t pushing for the total legalization of hemp farming. (It’s legal in Canada. So why do we import all those hemp products from Canada when we could be growing them in the United States?) On this issue — just as with ending wars, closing down Gitmo, pushing for medical marijuana legalization and just about everything else the political left has been pushing for — Obama has been a disappointing failure. But wait, there’s more! Get ready for the FDA to go Nazi on the nation Thanks to the Obama administration’s push for the Food Safety Modernization Act, we will soon see an army of FDA agents sweeping across America, ransacking organic gardens, pillaging raw dairy producers, vandalizing local food distributors and intimidating innocent farmers at gunpoint, using tactics that can only be called acts of terrorism . Any who refuse to comply with the FDA’s new tyrannical rules will be arrested and handcuffed while their inventory is destroyed and their offices ransacked. FDA agents are on the record stealing cash and computers, seizing business records, confiscating customer email lists and addresses, then forcing to these very same businesses to pay for the FDA’s own surprise inspections just to make sure they’re still obeying orders (http://www.naturalnews.com/033280_FDA_raids_timeline.html). These are the actions of a government-run terrorist organization , and these actions are being conducted with a nod and wink from the Obama administration which actually went out of its way to push for giving the FDA even more power and more money! No more Bushes or Obamas, please… Even though Obama was elected under the banner of “hope” for real change, it turns out this President is a pro-war, pro-GMO, pro secret prisons, pro Federal Reserve president who repeatedly seeks to expand the power of the very same government regulators that are terrorizing innocent Americans right now. Only Presidential candidate Ron Paul dares point out the outrageous abuses of freedom being pursued by the FDA today. In this interview on CNN, he called out the U.S. government for denying people the freedom to “drink raw milk”: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=00F7C086AFAB902425583F5567988F88 So stop putting your misplaced faith in the latest fad Democrat or Republican, folks. What we need in America is leadership based on PRINCIPLE . There’s only one candidate who stands on principle, which is why he’s being lambasted by the totally corrupt press: His name is Ron Paul. Ron Paul stands for legalizing hemp and medical marijuana , ending FDA tyranny in America, protecting our rights to buy and sell raw milk , ending the completely corrupt EPA and restoring liberty and freedom to America. I don’t agree with Ron Paul on every single thing, but when it comes to 2012, there’s no other candidate that even comes close to the honesty, integrity and liberty-loving actions of this man. If he’s not on the ballet, I won’t even vote! Because let’s face it: Bush was a war-mongering psychopath. Obama is an inept corporate sellout. And Rick Perry — God forbid he should somehow end up on the ballot — is a Big Pharma lackey who pushes vaccines onto little children. There’s only one choice who makes any sense at all to those who believe in liberty, freedom and a restoring of commonsense principles in America: www.RonPaul2012.com Left and Right Unite! Forget the partisan politics. It’s ultimately about freedom, folks. And only Ron Paul has the courage to defend and preserve it. Sources for this story include: http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/08/17/obama-dismisses-farmers-concerns-about-regulations-dont-always-believe-what-you-hear

Fukushima update: Radiation danger continues

(NaturalNews) Five months ago today, the nuclear crisis began in Fukushima, and the government began lying about the threat and the dangers to its people. Now they are beginning to build a gigantic tent over reactor number one. We do not have any information from Japan about people dying but the plants are dying in the middle of central Tokyo and it could be because of the increase in radiation. One irony of the radioactive fallout from Fukushima is that people in Japan are starting to pay more attention to nature. The picture above was taken on the sidewalk of Hakusan Dori in Bunkyo-ku in Tokyo, and was uploaded on July 30. The air radiation in Bunkyo-ku has been higher than the official Tokyo number (measured in Shinjuku-ku, western central Tokyo), along with several other eastern “ku” (special wards of Tokyo). The person who took the picture says, “About 30% of azaleas on the sidewalk are completely dead. Ginkgo leaves are browning.” Japan is considering the possibility of creating a back-up capital city in case they need to abandon Tokyo . A new panel from Japan’s Ministry of Land and Infrastructure will consider the possibility of moving some of Tokyo’s capital functions to another big city, like Osaka. They talk about earthquake threats, which are quite real but mention nothing about the persistent radiation driving parts of the government out of the city. The story only gets worse and this one could eventually bring down the Japanese government, which withheld important information from residents of Tsushima. ?Tamotsu Baba, the mayor of Namie, said that the withholding of information was akin to ” murder .” Japan’s system to forecast radiation threats was working from the beginning but they did not warn the people when a radiation plume hit the Karino Elementary School.? The school, just over six miles from the plant, was not cleared out. Instead it was turned into a temporary evacuation center. For three nights, while hydrogen explosions at four of the reactors spewed radiation into the air many Japanese stayed in Tsushima district where the children played outside and some parents used water from a mountain stream to prepare rice. The radioactive “winds, in fact, had been blowing directly toward Tsushima but this vital information was left unpublicized by bureaucrats in Tokyo, operating in a culture that sought to avoid responsibility and, above all, criticism,” published the New York Times . Three men in charge of nuclear power safety and policy have been sacked. Trade and Industry Minister, Banri Kaieda, said the three senior officials would be held responsible for mishandling the plant and its problems. Japanese officials have withheld information and denied the facts of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster to its own citizens and they are doing that in coordination with other governments around the world who are also withholding and hiding information. Not a Good Time for Rice and other Crops Japan started trading rice futures this past Monday but suspended the market after the price of the staple grain soared on fears that radioactive contamination from the Fukushima disaster will restrict supply. Rice, Japan’s staple crop has not been spared exposure from Fukushima’s radiation. Rice planting has been banned in areas close to Fukushima and tests will be done on the crops before being sold. Questions remain over how much is being revealed to the public, as radiation seeps deeper into the food chain. Fallout from the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant has spread to crops — We learned that after it was found that cattle had been fed cesium-tainted rice straw. The Problem that is Not Going Away Meanwhile radioactive material is still leaking from the plant nearly five months later, and last week workers at the plant discovered the hottest radioactive spot seen since the disaster began , a company spokesman said on Tuesday, July 28, 2011. The ultra-high levels of radiation were measured on the grounds of the facility, between reactors No. 1 and 2. The lethal radiation was found at the bottom of a ventilation tower. The power company immediately cordoned off the area and is currently investigating the cause of the high radiation and how it will affect the recovery work at the plant, Tsunoda said. The radiation levels — 10,000 millisieverts per hour — are high enough that a single 60-minute dose would be fatal to humans within weeks. The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant might have suffered a second nuclear meltdown , Kyodo news agency reported. According to the study, which was conducted by nuclear safety expert Fumiya Tanabe, fuel inside one of the plant’s nuclear reactors might have breached the bottom of a pressure vessel after melting again. The current guidelines for workers’ compensation due to radiation exposure only certify leukemia among the various types of cancer that will be covered. In these cases compensation is granted only when an applicant is exposed to more than 5 millisieverts of radiation a year and develops leukemia more than one year after being exposed to nuclear radiation. The operator of Japan’s damaged nuclear power plant says the area where potentially lethal levels of radiation were detected has been sealed. Iodine Truth or Consequences Health Canada’s radiation webpage offers some striking data from the five stations monitoring specific radioactive substances. This data shows the air at the five stations contained an average of 33.3 millibecquerels of radioactive iodine per cubic metre during 30.4 days of elevated radiation. That works out to double the 16.7 millibecquerels per cubic metre of iodine-131 that would be permitted over those 30.4 days, according to the maximum limit set by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. (The commission’s ceiling is 200 millibecquerels per cubic metre of exposure in the air on a daily basis for an entire year. That equates to 16.7 millibecquerels per cubic metre over 30.4 days.) The station in Sidney, B.C. detected 19.4 millibecquerels per cubic metre of iodine-131 in the air during a 22-day-long spike in radiation. That was 61 percent higher than the maximum dose of 12.1 millibecquerels per cubic metre permitted for 22 days . At the end of April I cautioned all my readers that there is nothing more important in the entire world now than taking our daily iodine supplements. An appropriate public health response to the nuclear disaster in Japan starts with iodine because any lack of the nutritional type of iodine will attract the radioactive type like honey attracts bees. The last thing anyone wants to be walking around with is a thyroid so starving for iodine that it will readily take on the nasty radioactive isotope of iodine when exposed to it. Dr. David Brownstein has tested 5,000 of his patients and has found out that 95 percent of them are iodine deficient and other iodine researchers he has talked to found similar trends in their patients as well. If you have any doubt about the importance of iodine please read my book on iodine, which also presents the views of Dr. David Brownstein who has more experience with iodine with patients than just about any other doctor in the world. The original publication of my iodine book was dedicated to him and a short list of doctors who have championed the recent renaissance of iodine supplementation. Iodine also helps against infections and is an important asset for all cancer sufferers. So take your iodine and take it at appropriate doses to supply your body’s needs. Please be aware that there are many different kinds of iodine on the market, and some are not appropriate for oral ingestion and others are available at varying strengths. For radiation protection I recommend all forms of iodine, even the tinctures that can only be applied topically. For children and thyroid-sensitive people I recommend Nascent iodine , which is in the I1 atomic form, or Lugol’s , which is more affordable for heavy topical treatments and the different tablets that are out there. Even topical iodine tincture may be used but cannot be taken orally. For all the references, sources and more articles on radiation and chemical toxicity please visit Dr. Mark Sircus blog .

Health Ranger interviews Julie Bass – all charges dropped against Michigan gardener

(NaturalNews) Thanks to the help of NaturalNews readers and the alternative media, Julie Bass has achieved victory against the Oak Park, Michigan city planner’s office that threatened to throw her in jail for 93 days for the “crime” of growing cucumbers and tomatoes in her front yard. All charges have been dismissed, but it turns out the city council may now be plotting to put even more draconian rules in place in the fall of this year. I spoke by phone with Julie and asked her to share how the charges were dismissed, what allowed her to prevail in the case, and what she plans to do from here forward. My full interview with Julie is available right now at: http://soundcloud.com/naturalnews/interview-julie-bass-gardener Some of the highlights of the interview: “The city council recently suggested they should make a rule that everyone in Oak Park now has to run every single landscaping decision by the city council before they can do it. They’ve just reacted time and time again by digging in their heels and getting more draconian and trying to make even more absurd statements.” – Julie Bass Alternative media helps Julie Bass achieve victory In this interview, I asked Julie what role the alternative media (like NaturalNews and InfoWars) played in helping her achieve the dismissal of her charges. She said our public support for her case was essentially the primary reason why the charges were dropped: “I think that if they didn’t know there were so many eyes on them to do the right thing, I think it would have been really tempting to just have it be another citizen that they squashed down and put in her place. If no one was paying attention, it would have been so easy for them to just ride roughshod over us and give us all kinds of consequences and make up all kinds of other rules. I think it’s 100 percent responsible that there was so much public scrutiny on this one, so we appreciated that… more than we can even say,” said Julie. Listen to the full interview at: http://soundcloud.com/naturalnews/interview-julie-bass-gardener Julie learns how even local Big Government can be tyrannical I also asked Julie what she learned about standing up against local tyranny “I never really realized how involved in your life the city government could get. I never realized it would turn into this beast that could persecute you and be very shameless in their desire to basically squash you like a bug,” she said. “This was just a really eye-opening experience about how many things the government does that fly under the radar, that no one pays attention, no one thinks it will ever affect me … so I think this is a good wakeup call for us to just pay attention, and be more aware, and don’t fall asleep at the switch or they’ll run stuff by you that you’ll just wake up with your jar hanging open, like oh my God what happened?” “I hope it really does have a positive effect on government, to remind them that they are accountable to the people they work for. And to remind people that you can stand up. You can stand your ground. I’m glad that I didn’t back down. I’m glad that I can show other people that you can just be a regular stay-at-home mom, but yet I was able to make my feelings carry some weight,” she added. Highlights of the backlash Julie told me she also really enjoyed the comedy video skit I created that poked fun at the Oak Park city planner’s office. You can watch that hilarious Monty Python-style animation satire at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=3A4B88066D390F0EA7C2664E371269D3 “It took a lot of stress off during a really hard time,” Julie told me. Laughter is the best medicine, after all. Some other details that emerged from my conversation with Julie: • For an entire week after Kevin Rulkowski said on TV (twice) that the definition of “suitable” is “common,” the website Websters.com reported that the most frequently searched word definition on their dictionary website was “suitable.” • There was a campaign organized to mail dictionaries to the city of Oak Park, Michigan so that the word-challenged bureaucrats there could see for themselves the definition of the word “suitable.” • The Judge of her case in Oak Park was very fair and took a considerable amount of time to understand the charges and determine the real story of what had happened. Once again, listen to the full interview with Julie Bass at: http://soundcloud.com/naturalnews/interview-julie-bass-gardener … and watch the hilarious satire video at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=3A4B88066D390F0EA7C2664E371269D3 Yes, I did the character voice for the Kevin character. I do quite a few comedy character voices, including the voices in this hilarious skit called “General Mills Mind Games” at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=851519FA1AC72A56F7205D2285CC66CF

UK authorities mimic CDC by revealing self-defense strategy for when ‘zombies’ invade

(NaturalNews) Remember when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a bizarre and cryptic warning back in May warning Americans to prepare for a “zombie apocalypse” (http://www.naturalnews.com/032454_zombie_apocalypse_CDC.html). Well now authorities in the UK have apparently done the same thing, with supposedly “top secret” reports revealing contingency plans should there be an “outbreak” of zombies. According to a recent report in the UK’s Guardian , a man by the name of “P Store” contacted officials in Bristol and asked what plans the city had in place in the event of an invasion by the undead. Peter Holt, the city’s service director of communication and marketing, apparently responded to him by sharing a secret document that outlines preparation tactics for various levels of zombie invasion. “Please note that this document contains various reactions as it has been considered that some information contained therein must be redacted for the purpose of safeguarding national security,” states the letter’s headline. It then goes on to detail instructions for dealing with four stages of zombie invasion: ambient zombie level, enhanced activity level, major outbreak, and zombie pandemic level. The rest of the report notes areas around town that are more prone to zombie invasion than others, and instructs the staff to whom the document was originally written to listen for certain codewords on radio and television that are indicative of a zombie invasion. Even more bizarre are the instructions for dealing with a zombie should an individual run into one. “Fully connect the brain-stem from the body through either blunt force of full head removal,” states the instructions. It also highlights the availability of handcuffs, tasers, protection suits, and other necessary equipment through the staff intranet. The document was released in accordance with a Freedom of Information request, and is oddly similar to the strange announcement made by the CDC back in May. Sources for this story include: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/07/when-zombies-attack-bristol-city-council-undead-invasion?INTCMP=SRCH

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