TSA agents gone wild: fondling little children, planting cocaine in passenger bags and more

(NaturalNews) TSA agents stand accused today of fondling the genitals of women and little children as part of their “enhanced pat-down” procedures being rolled out at airport security checkpoints. Today, Michelle, an employee working at the Alex Jones’ InfoWars studios, has gone public with accusations that a male TSA agent felt up her crotch and fondled her breasts at a security checkpoint in Denver. A male agent attempted to feel up the crotch of her little girl, too. You can watch the full video report on this at http://www.infowars.com/tsa-fondles-women-and-children-refusing-airport-naked-body-scanners/ I’ve actually met Michelle in person, so I know she’s a real person and I recognize her voice from the video. She’s the customer service person at the Alex Jones studios where I was a guest several weeks ago. She’s a regular American mom just trying to go from point A to point B without being sexually assaulted by TSA agents. What TSA agents did to her, according to her interview with Alex Jones, is consistent with a felony crime of “sexual assault.” So now you have a choice at the airport: You can either go through the X-Ray machine, or you can subject yourself to an X-Rated pat-down by TSA agents. Watch the video in the link above to learn more shocking details about what’s happening at TSA checkpoints today. TSA agent drops cocaine into travelers’ bags In a related story about the criminal behavior of TSA agents, TSA documents released through a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) now reveal that one TSA agent working the security checkpoint at Philadelphia International Airport planted a white powdery substance that appeared to be cocaine in the bags of air travelers . (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/memos-detail-tsa-officers-cocaine-pranks) This was no entry-level employee, either — released documents reveal he was a “bomb appraisal officer.” He pulled this cocaine stunt multiple times, too. One time he confronted a 22-year-old college girl with the apparent cocaine and asked if she was carrying anything she wasn’t supposed to. After the prank, the student broke down in tears from the terror of the event and eventually lodged a complaint with the airline. (TSA agents are the new terrorists, see?) TSA officers think it’s funny to plant cocaine in your bags or feel up your breasts. It’s all part of the police state training, of course: It’s not merely about getting people to follow orders; it’s also about humiliating individuals to make them feel inferior to police state authorities. The body searches these TSA agents conduct might be described in some cases as sexual molestation and pedophile activities that would land anybody else in federal prison. Just for the record, however, when I was subjected to a TSA pat-down recently, they did not fondle my testicles at all. (http://www.naturalnews.com/030100_naked_body_scanners_airport.html) They actually swept my crotch with the back of their hand. I don’t agree with it, but I didn’t feel as if I was being sexually molested. That was out of the airport in San Jose, California. So it appears that some TSA agents may be handling this very differently than others. I might have felt different about the crotch sweeping if I were a woman being felt up by a man, of course. I think what the TSA is doing is highly inappropriate, especially when done to women and children. We are not the terrorists here! The TSA needs to stop with these ridiculous “enhanced pat downs” and end the use of naked body scanner.

Mushrooms made into green packing material

(NaturalNews) It sounds like a futuristic sci fi idea: a non-toxic, earth friendly packing material that grows itself and, after it’s used, makes a great garden compost. But this isn’t fiction — it’s mushrooms. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), two former Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute undergraduates, Gavin McIntyre and Eben Bayer, came up with the idea to make a composite of mushroom roots that could be used as a packing foam substitute. Their product, which they dubbed Mycobond, is now hitting the market and, according to a NSF press statement, has several advantages for the environment. First of all, the manufacture of Mycobond requires just one eighth the energy and one tenth the carbon dioxide of traditional foam packing material. In fact, most of the manufacturing process is virtually energy-free with the mycelia (the vegetative parts of the mushrooms which consist of masses of branching, thread-like hyphae) simply growing by digesting agricultural starter material (mostly cotton seed or wood fiber) in a dark, room temperature environment. The growth take place within a molded plastic structure which can be customized for whatever needs to be packed with the mushroom material. That means no energy at all is required for shaping the products. “We don’t manufacture materials, we grow them,” McIntyre explained in a statement to the media. “We’re converting agricultural byproducts into a higher-value product.” The material has another economic benefit as well, he added, because the cost of mushroom packing material isn’t tied to the price fluctuations of synthetic materials that are derived from sources like petroleum. “All of our raw materials are inherently renewable and they are literally waste streams,” McIntyre said. “It’s an open system based on biological materials.” Once fully formed, each Mycobond piece is heat-treated to stop the growth process and then delivered to the customer. Bayer and McIntyre, whose business is called Ecovative, are working to turn the entire process into a packaged kit that will eventually allow shipping facilities, and even homeowners, to grow their own Mycobond materials. With support from NSF, McIntyre and Bayer are also developing an even less energy-intensive method to sterilize the agricultural waste starter material they use. Sterilization is a necessary step for enabling the mycelia to grow because it kills any spores that would compete with the growing-for-packing-material mushrooms. McIntyre and Bayer have been using a steam-heat sterilization process but they’ve now come up with a treatment made from cinnamon-bark oil, thyme oil, oregano oil and lemongrass oil that will allow the Mycobond mushroom product to grow in the open air, instead of their current clean-room environment. “The biological disinfection process simply emulates nature in that it uses compounds that plants have evolved over centuries to inhibit microbial growth,” McIntyre said in a press statement. “The unintended result is that our production floor smells like a pizza shop.” For more information: http://ecovativedesign.com/ http://www.research.gov/

FDA defeated in federal court over censorship of truthful health claims

(NaturalNews) Health freedom has just been handed a significant victory by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which ruled last week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated the First Amendment rights of a nutritional supplement company when it censored truthful, scientifically-backed claims about how selenium can help reduce the risk of cancer . See the ANH announcement at: http://www.anh-usa.org/court-finds-for-anh-usa-in-stunning-victory-over-fda-thank-you-jonathan-emord/ Essentially, the FDA applied its doctrine of censorship to these selenium supplements in the same way it oppresses truthful and scientifically-supported health claims across all dietary supplements. The purpose of the FDA’s censorship of truthful information about the health benefits of dietary supplements, as NaturalNews readers already know, is to keep the American people nutritionally illiterate and protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. In this court case, ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH, et al. vs. KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, et al. , the judge ruled that the FDA violated the First Amendment rights of the plaintiffs by restricting their free speech about the anti-cancer benefits of their selenium supplements. As explained by health freedom attorney Jonathan Emord who argued the case before the Court: “The decision… reaffirms that FDA is subject to the strictures of the First Amendment in its evaluation of health claims and it faults FDA for failing to follow that standard, holding its suppression of the selenium-cancer risk reduction claims unconstitutional.” Emord goes onto explain: “The Court concludes that the FDA… has not provided any empirical evidence, such as ‘studies’ or ‘anecdotal evidence,’ that consumers would be misled by… plaintiffs’ claims were they accompanied by qualifications. Moreover, the explanation the FDA offers to demonstrate that plaintiffs’ claims are misleading , that the claims leave out pertinent information , is not support for banning the claims entirely…” Attorney Jonathan Emord from Emord and Associates is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential attorneys battling the FDA over free speech and health freedoms. View my video interview with Jonathan Emord here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJSxrOxZ-M (The video quality is poor, but it’s the best we could capture at the Health Freedom Expo.) Emord is also the author of a hugely important book that I strongly recommend. It’s called Global Censorship of Health Information , and you can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/Global-Censorship-Health-Information-Jonathan/dp/0982059531 What it means for health freedom The upshot of this decision is that the FDA has just been handed a significant defeat that will set a precedent for other dietary supplement companies to make their own truthful, scientifically-supported health claims. The FDA, of course, recognizes no law other than its own, so it will likely continue to try to terrorize nutritional supplement companies with its usual threats of imprisonment of company founders and seizure of products unless companies voluntarily agree to comply with the FDA’s censorship schemes. However, this court decision may finally turn the tide against the FDA’s campaign of ignorance that has, for decades, sought to keep the American people nutritionally illiterate while suppressing the dietary supplements industry. Btu achieving a lasting victory over the FDA will require nutritional supplement companies to stop being intimidated by the FDA and start making truthful, scientifically-supported claims — and then stand behind those claims with a commitment to sue the FDA if they are threatened with censorship. Until now, most nutritional supplement and vitamin companies have been so intimidated by the FDA that they dared not challenge the FDA’s authority — even when they knew the FDA was flat-out wrong! The FDA, you see, can always threaten a company using “terrorism-style” tactics such as sending threatening letters that promise to arrest the owners, imprison them, destroy their business, seize their customer records, confiscate their inventory, etc. These tactics have all been used by the FDA to threaten health product companies operating in the United States. See how the FDA runs its own criminal extortion racket right here: http://www.naturalnews.com/024567_health_the_FDA_websites.html Read about how the FDA kidnaps people from other countries in order to incarcerate them for their non-crimes in the USA: http://www.naturalnews.com/027750_Greg_Caton_FDA.html Or view more articles about the FDA here: http://www.naturalnews.com/the_FDA.html These Gestapo-style FDA tactics have been frighteningly effective, given that most U.S. companies don’t have the financial resources to engage in a lengthy legal battle with the FDA in order to stand up for their First Amendment rights. That’s why this victory by the Alliance for Natural Health is so important: It provides a legal wedge by which other companies can now begin to stand up for their own First Amendment rights, too. This could be the beginning of the end of FDA censorship of truthful, scientifically-supported health claims. What we want: Free Speech, not fraudulent speech As the editor of NaturalNews, I want to be perfectly clear what we stand for here. I do not support a Wild West approach to free speech about supplements where any company can claim anything they want whether it’s true or not. That can get entirely out of hand, and it would only encourage the kind of marketing fraud we now see rampant in the pharmaceutical industry. What I support is truthful health claims that can be backed by a minimum of three articles published in peer-reviewed science journals. This threshold of scientifically credibility is high enough to avoid outright fraudulent quack claims while still allowing truthful claims to be reasonably met through scientific inquiry. If such a rule were adopted, it would open the industry to making a wealth of truthful claims about the beneficial effects of foods, herbs and supplements. The FDA’s current oppression of health claims about cherries and walnuts, for example, would cease. Both the FDA and FTC have been attempting to suppress the truth about cherries for many years, intimidating cherry product companies with all sorts of threats to try to force them to remove any links to scientific information about the health benefits of cherries. To learn more, see: http://www.naturalnews.com/019366.html The federal government has also declared war on truthful speech about the health benefits of walnuts . Read more here: http://www.naturalnews.com/028879_censorship_healing_foods.html Why Free Speech can save America from sick-care bankruptcy Most U.S. consumers have no idea that the FDA is operating as a rogue agency , attempting to destroy nutritional knowledge and intentionally keep consumers in the dark about the health benefits of natural products. Given that our nation’s sick-care system is driving us all into bankruptcy, it would seem more important than ever to allow consumers to learn how to prevent disease and improve their own health through safe, natural and low-cost therapies involving healing foods and nutritional supplements. In fact, I would argue that any nation that expects to have a viable economic future MUST protect free speech for its health products companies. If Big Pharma and the disease industry is allowed to monopolize all health knowledge while oppressing truthful health claims on competing products, it will only drive that nation into medical bankruptcy . Coincidentally, that is exactly where America is today: Living under an oppressive, monopolized sick-care system that attempts to criminalize truthful speech about the health benefits of natural products. See my CounterThink Cartoon entitled, The New Mr. America : http://www.counterthink.com/The_New_Mr_America.asp And yet natural products are the solution to America’s health care problems! Read my special report: Nutrition Can Save America! right here (it’s free): http://www.naturalnews.com/028879_censorship_healing_foods.html There’s no question about it: America will be happier, healthier, stronger and more financially solvent if we end FDA censorship and take steps to protect the First Amendment rights of nutritional supplement companies. NaturalNews will continue to work alongside the Alliance for Natural Health to help make this dream a reality. You can learn more about the ANH at http://www.anh-usa.org The European branch of this organization is found at http://www.anh-europe.org Please consider supporting the ANH. It is, in my opinion, one of the most important and effective health freedom organizations on the planet. They are doing fantastic work and they need your financial support to continue fighting (and winning!) these battles against FDA ignorance, tyranny, censorship and oppression.