California family ambushed by school officials, TV news crew after they refused to vaccinate their daughter

A Sacramento, Cal., family was recently bombarded by a news crew from KXTV News 10 and several officials from the Natomas Unified School District (NUSD) in Sacramento County for not vaccinating their daughter. Cayleh Morrison was one of several students in her neighborhood…

Is the war on terror a complete hoax? Paul Craig Roberts reveals how social engineers infected America with mass paranoia

(NaturalNews) What if there weren’t any real terrorists threatening America and the whole thing was just made up to justify a military agenda? A rational person might say that if we’re all going to give up our rights, and our Fourth Amendment, and have U.S. troops in the streets running checkpoints, then logically there should at least be some evidence that America has been infiltrated with terrorists, right? Or, more specifically, evidence from a reliable source that has not already been caught lying about terrorism , which would exclude the federal government, of course. Look around you today: Do you see any terrorists? Any “towel heads” aiming guns at your family? Anybody walking around with a vest full of explosives? Nope. Have you ever seen the TSA catch a terrorist at the airport? Ever read a news report of the TSA catching a terrorist? Ever heard of an Air Marshall stopping a terrorist in-flight? Nope. Have you ever heard of the FBI halting a terrorist plot that they didn’t fabricate, plan and carry out themselves? (All the terror plots “stopped” by the FBI are, on the record, planned and carried out by the FBI itself.) (http://www.naturalnews.com/033751_FBI_terrorism.html) Seriously. Clear the cobwebs out of your head for a moment and think logically: Where are all these “terrorists” that we’re supposed to be afraid of and give up our rights for? Where are they? Now, of course, the government can and will, from time to time, stage some sort of terrorist event to remind everyone to be afraid. That’s a given. In classic Orwellian protocol, any war that grants a government unlimited power will be indefinitely sustained. This is why the “War on Terror” was declared against a tactic , not a nation or a person. That way, the so-called “war” can be carried out indefinitely. A war with no end. Perpetual tyranny. At first, if you remember, we were told we needed TSA agents at the airports because of Osama Bin Laden, remember? He was the “mastermind” who was going to cause airplanes to fall out of the sky. So what happened after he was killed and removed from the picture? The U.S. government announced the terror threat was now “even higher” because Bin Laden’s loyal supporters would now seek revenge! Do you see how, under this brand of sick logic, the war on terror will go on indefinitely? They can always claim someone else is dangerous… there’s always a new boogeyman when it serves the interests of the state. That’s why it’s now obvious that this war has been entirely fabricated to achieve specific political and social agendas. The war on terror is a hoax The best article yet written on this subject was penned by none other than Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. As Roberts explains: (http://www.infowars.com/?p=62008) “The US government creates whatever new bogeymen and incidents are necessary to further the neoconservative agenda of world hegemony and higher profits for the armaments industry.” He goes on to provide details: “If we look around for the terror that the police state and a decade of war has allegedly protected us from, the terror is hard to find. Except for 9/11 itself, assuming we accept the government’s improbable conspiracy theory explanation, there have been no terror attacks on the US. Indeed, as RT pointed out on August 23, 2011, an investigative program at the University of California discovered that the domestic “terror plots” hyped in the media were plotted by FBI agents.” “As there apparently are no real terror plots for this huge workforce to uncover, the FBI justifies its budget, terror alerts, and invasive searches of American citizens by thinking up “terror plots” and finding some deranged individuals to ensnare. For example, the Washington DC Metro bombing plot, the New York city subway plot, the plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago were all FBI brainchilds organized and managed by FBI agents.” Robert goes on to explain the real motivation behind the war on terror. It’s not to fight terrorism, as has been publicly claimed, but rather to scare Americans into a state of blind obedience to a police state government: “When I observe the gullibility of my fellow citizens at the absurd “terror plots” that the US government manufactures, it causes me to realize that fear is the most powerful weapon any government has for advancing an undeclared agenda. Apparently, Americans, or most of them, are so ruled by fear that they suffer no remorse from “their” government’s murder and dislocation of millions of innocent people. In the American mind, one billion “towel-heads” have been reduced to terrorists who deserve to be exterminated.” And commenting on the TSA’s total thuggishness and criminality, Roberts writes: “One of America’s finest moments is the case, documented on YouTube, of a dying woman in a wheelchair, who requires special food, having her food thrown away by the Gestapo TSA despite the written approval from the Transportation Safety Administration, her daughter arrested for protesting, and the dying woman in the wheelchair left alone in the airport.” A nation of gullible, paranoia-stricken slaves What’s really amazing in all this is how easily the American people are sucked into believing all the imaginary fairytale terrorists. These stilted beliefs are driving national decisions about security, defense spending, Presidential elections and even the Bill of Rights. What America needs to do right now is wake from its dreamy slumber and realize The Emperor Has No Clothes! The war on terror is a fabrication. The whole “if you see something, say something” campaign is a hypnosis script for mass paranoia . The airport security checkpoints are not designed to make flying safer but to make the American people more terrified. Every element of the so-called “war on terror” is a complete fabrication, just as the original war on Iraq was a total fabrication with its WMDs and fabricated yellowcake uranium claims which turned out to be utter falsehoods. Of course, if the American people actually got close to waking up and realizing the whole war on terror was a complete fabrication, you can rest assured an event would be staged to instill fear in the minds of the people once again. All the FBI would have to do, for example, is allow one of their many engineered terror plots to continue all the way. The FBI, as you probably know, already provides the terror plots, the weapons, the money, the grenades, ammunition, and anything else necessary for its chosen terror suspects to carry out these acts of violence. It then takes credit for halting these attacks, pretending to be protecting us from the very plots it engineered in the first place (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyAXrJ7LT1M) (http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-usa-terrorism-portland/). It obviously wouldn’t take much for the FBI to simply allow a mass shooting in a mall or a sports stadium, for example — even as such acts were carried out with hardware supplied by the FBI itself! Here, crazy kid, take some antidepressant drugs, an AR-15 and some FBI ammunition, and go shoot up the local mall, they might say. And there are crazy enough youngsters in America who would carry it out, sadly. Such an act would immediately be heralded by the corrupt mainstream media as yet more evidence that we’re “losing” the war on terror and therefore we need police checkpoints at every street corner; we need military personnel strip-searching everyone in U.S. cities; and we need to eliminate cash from society so that we can track everybody’s purchases via electronic instruments. Heck, we need to just end the entire Bill of Rights! Who needs “rights” when all these police are everywhere to protect us, right? So you can expect such acts of violence to be engineered and unleashed upon America in the very near future by the very institutions that claim to be protecting us from terror. In reality, they are the real terrorists in the classic sense of the word. “Terrorism” means, by definition, the use of fear tactics to achieve a political or social goal. There is no better example that fits the definition perfectly than the Department of Homeland Security itself, which is far more interested in figuring out how to INFECT people with fear rather than to PROTECT them from real terrorism. America’s government owes the Arab-American community a huge apology What is especially insidious in all this is how these government elements who fabricate all these terror plots specifically work to entrap Arab Americans and others who “look” like terrorists because they are of Middle Eastern descent. Through these actions, the U.S. government has unleashed a generation of hatred against Arab-Americans, Iranian-Americans and other groups of completely innocent people who are now subjected to social shunning, ridicule and suspicion by the rest of American society. People of Middle Eastern descent are looked at in America today with the kind of condescending disdain that blacks once suffered under just a few generations ago (and in some areas, even today). Some of the demeaning vocabulary has even been grafted onto the new victims, who are viciously called “sand niggers” as if that somehow justifies marginalizing their very existence. On this historical point, by the way, at least when African Americans were held as slaves, they knew they were enslaved! But all the delusional white people running around America today dialing 911 because they saw some guy using CASH — OMG! — still don’t realize that they are far more enslaved than the plantation workers ever were. All these CNN-watching, clock-punching, government-worshipping morons are slaving away 60 hours a week to feed their money into a system that has already plotted to destroy them (and steal their wealth, too). They are the “mindlessly enslaved masses” of our modern world, and they have no clue they are enslaved at all. Government is guilty of hate crimes Getting back to the condemnation of Arab-Americans and others of Middle Eastern descent, that the government has specifically targeted these people to be entrapped in terror plot crimes is one of the most outrageous examples of a hate crime against an entire society. It is shameful beyond belief that a government which wants to make it illegal for citizens to engage in “hate crimes” against other citizens has effectively unleashed the greatest hate crime in history by demonizing huge swaths of American citizens whose parents happened to be Persian, or Kuwaiti, or Iraqi, or Saudi. You know who is carrying out the real terror in America today? It’s not the “towel heads” to borrow a vulgar a highly inappropriate phrase from those who push this agenda. No, it’s the beer-bellied, white-faced, ego-driven, child-molesting TSA agents who terrorize tens of thousands of innocent air passengers every single day by stripping them down in those secret little rooms behind the security checkpoint naked body scanners — which are themselves another form of electronic strip searches that violate fundamental human rights. And all the people out there who acquiesce to the tyranny, the in-your-pants searches by the TSA, the restrictions of free speech protests, and the coming “secret detainment” provisions just passed by the U.S. Senate (http://www.naturalnews.com/034291_SB_1867_war_on_terror.html), you are all fools and suckers who have been brainwashed into a state of irrational paranoia . Those who foolishly believe the fabricated war on terror are the ultimate pessimists You who have bought into all this fabricated terror nonsense are the worst “doom-and-gloomers” of our time, living your lives in a constant state of fear and despair, fretting about invisible imaginary terrorists who you think are going to magically leap out of your luggage and blow up an airplane. You’ve been indoctrinated by the “if you see something, say something” paranoia, and you’ve been hoodwinked by a bunch of social engineers who know how to manipulate fear to achieve their desired political (and military) agendas. It’s pathetic. And it’s the oldest trick in the government book, of course: Use the fear of terror to manipulate the public into supporting a police state agenda which concentrates power in the hands of the executive branch, which quickly becomes a military dictatorship. Read your history, folks, or you will stupidly repeat it. It might also be worth your time to read George Orwell’s 1984 novel, as it’s very nearly a blueprint for the Department of Homeland Security’s “perpetual war” fraud.

Young girl left unable to talk or walk, sleeps 23 hours a day after getting Cervarix vaccine for HPV

(NaturalNews) Much of the attention concerning the dangers of getting vaccinated for human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer has been focused on Merck and Co.’s Gardasil. But a recent report in the UK’s Daily Mail explains that GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Cervarix, a competing HPV vaccine, recently left an otherwise healthy girl in a “waking coma” where she is now unable to talk or walk, and sleeps 23 hours a day because of a complete lack of energy. Lucy Hinks’ parents, Steve and Pauline, say their 13-year-old daughter used to be a straight-A student with an excellent school attendance record, and a penchant and adeptness for math. Everything changed, however, after Lucy received her third installment of the HPV vaccine Cervarix back in May, which has left her in a near-vegetative state and in need of 24-hour care and monitoring. Beginning in September 2008, the UK Department of Health began a national vaccination program that included vaccinating young girls against HPV with Cervarix. All young girls in school are subjected to the shot unless their parents take the time to deliberately opt out of it — but just like in the US, most parents are pressured into accepting it for their daughters based on empty reassurances about its alleged safety. “I was concerned about the potential side effects because Lucy had a severe reaction from the MMR vaccine. But I was reassured by the school nurse that side effects were extremely unlikely,” said Lucy’s mother Pauline to the Daily Mail . “We feel betrayed because, like most parents, we trust the health authorities with our children’s lives.” Pauline and her husband Steve now have to provide continuous bedside care for their daughter, who can no longer take care of herself. Initially, Lucy was able to at least limp her way to the bathroom, but now her parents say that she can only lie in bed. The Hinks have even had to install a mechanical lift connecting the second story of their home with the first so that Lucy can at least come downstairs and spend some time with her family every once in a while. According to available data, nearly 4,500 of the four million HPV vaccinations that have been administered since the vaccination program began have caused known negative side effects — and these are just the reported cases. Among the more severe have been cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, as well as Lucy’s now confirmed diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) / chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Sources for this article include: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2061267/Schoolgirl-left-waking-coma-sleeps-23-hours-day-severe-reaction-cervical-cancer-jab.html

Detroit mother Maryanne Godboldo found in neglect for refusing to medicate daughter with psychiatric drugs

(NaturalNews) Detroit mom Maryanne Godboldo, who was subjected to an armed SWAT team assault on her home during an attempted kidnapping by Child Protective Services, has been found in neglect today by a Wayne County juvenile court. The jury of that court was somehow persuaded to believe that Maryanne’s refusal to continue drugging her daughter with Risperdal, a mind-altering psychiatric drug used to “treat” ADHD, equated to parental neglect. It is a sad day in America when even juries are so brainwashed by Big Pharma advertising and mainstream media propaganda that they believe refusing to drug your own teenage daughter is proof of poor parenting. Judge Ronald Giles of Detroit’s 36th District Court is now due to rule on whether Godboldo should stand trial to face multiple felony charges that were leveled against her after she allegedly fired a gun in self defense when police smashed through her door and tried to kidnap her daughter at gunpoint (http://www.naturalnews.com/032091_Maryanne_Godboldo_gun_rights.html). The court system in Detroit appears to be trying to make an example out of Godboldo by sending a message: “Don’t resist tyranny.” When the state orders you to drug your children, don’t even think about saying no! If you do, armed SWAT teams will raid your house, CPS will kidnap your child, and you will be brought up on felony charges for resisting. Stay up to date on the effort to free Maryanne Godboldo at: www.justice4maryanne.com And join in the national protests happening Friday at: www.Govabuse.org CPS masterminding child trafficking network? Most Americans do not realize this, but Child Protective Services uses private contractors to kidnap children and steal them away from their homes (http://www.infowars.com/cps-warrior-nancy-schaefer-gunned-down/). These private contractors are paid “reward money” that can add up to millions of dollars a year. Many of these children are then sold into sex slavery . Even Maryanne Godboldo has now openly accused CPS of being engaged in child trafficking (http://www.naturalnews.com/032501_Maryanne_Godboldo_Child_Protective_Services.html) as well as sexually molesting her daughter (listen to interviews below). CPS child trafficking is one of the biggest untold stories in America, and the old media won’t touch it. NaturalNews continues to receive evidence pointing to the existence of a network of CPS workers and private contractors who kidnap children and sell them for profit. Far from protecting children, CPS frequently exploits those children for private gain. Listen to important interviews with Maryanne Godboldo at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8B81912F9B1AD317AE3DBBD4896C61AA and http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=97774F5C3850CF921CBD4919305AE67C And visit www.Govabuse.org to help put an end to crimes against children being committed under the name of “public welfare.”

May I Be Frank? Stunning new film documents the food-powered life transformation of a 54-year-old Brooklyn man

(NaturalNews) Meet Frank Ferrante – a boisterous 54-year-old Sicilian from Brooklyn, NY, living in San Francisco. Frank has a love of great food, beautiful women and a good time, but he is also a former drug and alcohol addict, overweight, and fighting Hepatitis C. Estranged from his daughter, Frank is suffering from depression, has been single for many years, is taking a long list of prescription drugs just to manage his sickness symptoms. Frank’s instincts tell him life can get much better than this, but he doesn’t know where to begin. His zest for living has been diminished by his health issues, self-loathing and disconnect from himself and his family. And yet… Frank’s life is about to be profoundly reconstructed by 3 young men from Cafe Gratitude in San Francisco who decide to make his positive metamorphosis their personal quest. “May I Be Frank” is a documentary about the radical transformation of Frank Ferrante’s life. Using a healing plan based on a raw vegan diet, positive affirmations, spiritual practices, holistic health methods, and unconditional support and love, the boys foster Frank’s courageous transformation, helping him reinvent his health, his weight, his relationships, his view of himself and the world, and eventually assist him in learning to love again. The full documentary of Frank’s amazing journey of transformation is now available through NaturalNews.TV. See the video trailer at: http://premium.naturalnews.tv/May_I_Be_Frank__NN.htm Frank’s path to wellness Frank’s journey begins at Cafe Gratitude , a mostly raw, vegan, organic local cafe in San Francisco. At Cafe Gratitude, Frank finds a retreat from his suffering and oppressive personal life, quickly establishing a fast friendship with the compassionate staff who in return takes a compassionate interest in him and his life. One day he is asked the question of the day by Ryland, one of the servers – “what is one thing you want to do before you die?” – and Frank replies “I want to fall in love one more time, but no one will love me looking the way I do.” Drawn to the prospect of helping Frank, Ryland invites him to return to the cafe every day for the next month. Ryland and two other young men from the cafe, his brother Cary and best friend Conor, decide to personally take on Frank’s healing process, establishing a 42-day contract with the goal of his eventual mental, physical, and spiritual renewal. All Frank has to do is put his life into the hands of the 3 young men and trust them to guide his total transformation, the entirety of which is filmed and documented. Frank’s health quest is a testimonial to the power and life-changing abilities of healthy organic food, good community, and true determination. By eating only organic, raw food, visiting local holistic practitioners, getting weekly colonics, practicing gratitude and being loved and encouraged by himself and these 3 compassionate young men committed to his healing, Frank’s life is truly transformed in just 42 days. “May I be Frank” shows the four men going on the ride of a lifetime as Frank is given not only a new body, but a renewed mind, wide open heart and a rejuvenated spirit. It’s one of the most amazing and inspiring life transformations I’ve seen, and yet it’s also readily available to everyone! Because by watching this documentary, you’ll come to the same realization I did: If Frank can do it, so can I. (And so can you!) Watch the amazing video trailer at: http://premium.naturalnews.tv/May_I_Be_Frank__NN.htm

Armed agents kidnap child from mother who used holistic treatments instead of pharmaceutical drugs to treat condition

(NaturalNews) Maryanne Godboldo of Detroit, Mich., recently learned the hard way that freedom of choice in medicine is no longer tolerated by the medical mafia in the supposed “land of the free.” Recently, armed officers from the Special Response Team (SRT) of the Detroit Police Department (DPD), at the command of Child Protective Services (CPS), unlawfully kicked down the door of Godboldo’s home and kidnapped her 13-year-old child. Her crime? Maryanne chose to follow the lead of a doctor’s recommendation to take her daughter off a pharmaceutical drug treatment recommendation for psychosis that was worsening the child’s symptoms, and instead chose to use natural remedies to treat the condition. It all started back in 2009 when Maryanne’s previously-homeschooled daughter went in for a series of routine vaccinations in order to be enrolled in middle school. Shortly after receiving the shots, the child began to have severe adverse reactions that included “acting out of character, being irritated, having facial grimaces,” and other behavioral problems that Maryanne’s mother says she had never had before, and all of which emerged immediately after the vaccines were administered. Maryanne voluntarily decided to take her daughter to The Children’s Center (CC), a group that claims to “enhance the emotional well being of infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families,” in order to get some treatment ideas. CC prescribed Maryanne’s daughter some very dangerous psychotropic drugs that eventually ended up only only making the symptoms worse. Maryanne then consulted with an outside physician who recommended that she stop giving the drugs to her child, and instead pursue other options. Maryanne agreed and began to use holistic and natural methods instead — and as a result, her child’s overall health and well-being improved significantly. The State of Michigan and CPS, however, decided to go after Maryanne for taking the child off the drugs, even though Maryanne was the one that voluntarily took her daughter to CC, and voluntarily took their recommendation to try the psychosis drugs. In other words, CPS believed that Maryanne needed to continue to give her daughter the psychotropic drugs, even though she is, and never was, under any legal obligation to adhere to the treatment. In fact, no parent is ever legally required to comply with drug or any other treatments that are harm their children instead of helping them. But CPS demanded that Maryanne either resume the treatment of surrender her child to them. She refused this offer, of course, since it is both illegal and unconstitutional. But eventually CPS succeeded in getting the muscle and guns behind an outrageous scheme to actually go and abduct Maryanne’s child from her home. An armed SWAT-style team arrived at Maryanne’s house days after the initial warning. Agents busted down Maryanne’s door, and proceeded to pursue capturing her child — and they actually brought a tank to the house as part of their operation, as well as full protective gear and large assault weapons. In an attempt to defend herself against the unlawful, invading terrorists from the state, Maryanne allegedly shot warning fire in an attempt to dissuade the agents from entering, but her efforts were not successful. In the end, the invaders captured the child ,and proceeded to arrest Maryanne on several alleged, but invalid, felony charges. Maryanne was later released, but now faces a huge legal battle as she seeks to regain custody of her child. She will also have to endure thousands of dollars in legal fees throughout the process. According to Maryanne’s lawyer, Wanda A. Evans, the abducting agents never even produced a valid warrant showing that they had a legal right to take Maryanne’s child in the first place. In fact, they were asked repeatedly to show a warrant, but refused to do so . Based on this fact alone, both CPS and the “police officers” involved this outrageous event are literally nothing more than criminal terrorists that illegally abducted the child of an innocent civilian woman. Supporters of Maryanne have set up a website called “Justice for Maryanne Godboldo” designed to help support Maryanne, and reunite her with her child. Its organizers have created a “Calling Campaign” to demand that urges the public to call every single US representative in Detroit, every single day , to demand an investigation into CPS and the Department of Human Services for their crimes in this case (http://justice4maryanne.bbnow.org/events.php). Those contacts include: Fred Duhal – (517) 373-0844, freddurhal@house.mi.gov Shanelle Jackson – (517) 373-1705, shenellejackson@house.mi.gov David Nathan – (517) 373-3815, davidnathan@house.mi.gov Jimmy Womack – (517) 373-0589, jimmywomack@house.mi.gov Lisa Howze – (517) 373-0106, lisahowze@house.mi.gov Rick Snyder – (517) 373-3400, rick.snyder@michigan.gov The key perpetrators that instigated this heinous crime against humanity include: Michael Patterson, District Manager with the DHS children’s division administration of Wayne County – (313) 852-1700 Michigan Department of Human Services – (517) 373-2035 Also, be sure to check out the “Justice for Maryanne Godboldo” Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-for-Maryanne-Godboldo/178678602179610 Sources for this story include: http://www.freep.com/article/20110406/NEWS01/104060365/Detroit-mom-standoff-puts-spotlight-medical-care-kids?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/03/parental-rights-at-risk-maryanne-godboldo.html http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/03/was_a_detroit_mother_right_to.html http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/police-use-assault-weapons-and-tank-against-home-school-mom-wanting-to-protect-daughter-from-dangerous-medications/

DPT vaccine causes permanent brain damage, 150 seizures a day in young girl

(NaturalNews) The father of a 29-year-old woman who was permanently injured as a young child by the DPT vaccine, a combination vaccine for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus, says if he had to do it all over again, he would still get his daughter vaccinated. The girl, who prior to her second dose of DPT was described as a bright young toddler with the vocabulary of a fifth grader, was diagnosed with mental retardation and stopped speaking entirely after receiving the vaccine. She is now permanently disabled. “It was a bad lot,” said the girl’s father to My FOX Houston , concerning the damage caused by the vaccine. “A week after (the shot), we noticed Kristen, at 18-months or two years old, her eyes started rolling in the back of her head.” In addition to losing her ability to speak, Kristen also began having up to 150 seizures a day, many of which are the serious “grand mal” or “tonic-clonic” type that affects the entire brain. According to Dr. Randall Wright, medical director of the Neurovascular Institute at Conroe Regional Medical Center near Houston, Tex., and neurologist at Sadler Clinic in the same area, because such seizures affect the whole brain rather than just portions, they can cause jerking responses throughout the entire body. The Texas state legislature requires that all school-age children receive multiple doses of the DPT vaccine throughout their school years, unless their parents file proper exemptions. Three- and four-year-olds, for instance, are required to receive four doses of DPT before entering school, in addition to 14 other vaccines. The DPT vaccine is known to cause neurological and brain damage, as well as sudden infant death syndrome and even death in older children. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other government agencies insist that the risk is small, but numerous children have died as a result of getting the shot, including the case of Lee Ann Manley, a young girl who died just hours after receiving her first DPT vaccine. Manley was one of the first cases to be acknowledged by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program as having died directly as a result of the DPT. Sources for this story include: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/health/110125-vagus-nerve-stimulation http://thewellzone.org/2010/09/08/dpt-vaccine-has-been-known-to-kill-children/ http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/01/cbs-covers-court-award-for-dtap-whooping-cough-vaccine-death.html

Smoking habits passed from father to son, mother to daughter, study finds

(NaturalNews) Children of parents who smoke are more likely to smoke themselves than other children, but according to a new study published in the journal Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics , the genders of those involved can make all the difference. Maria Loureiro and her colleagues from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC) in Spain found that smoking habits are generally passed from mother to daughter, and from father to son, rather than from other configurations. “Fathers transmit their smoking habits to a statistically significant level to their sons, and the same is true of mothers and daughters,” said Loureiro. “However, if a mother smokes it does not seem to impact on the probability of her son smoking, and similarly a father that smokes does not affect his daughter.” Researchers compiled information from the British Household Panel Survey conducted between 1994 and 2002, because it contains detailed information about tobacco product consumption within households that spanned generations. It also includes both two-parent homes and single-parent homes in its analysis, which offers insight into socioeconomic differences and their effects on smoking habits. The data also revealed that a son whose parents both smoke is 24 percent likely to smoke, while a daughter’s probability of smoking in the same scenario is 23 percent. However, if neither parent smokes, then the probability for both sons and daughters drops to 12 percent. And in a single-parent home headed by a mother, a son is 32 percent likely to smoke while a daughter is 28 percent likely to smoke. “These results have clear importance in terms of designing public policies to combat smoking,” added Loureiro. “Policies that are successful in reducing smoking habits among parents will also affect their children. Anti-smoking policies for young people need to be put in place that will also include the family and social context in which they live.” Sources for this story include: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-01/f-sf-sha012811.php

Nature’s Baby Organics, an industry leader in organic personal care products

(NaturalNews) Finding safe, natural personal care products is something for which every parent should be conscious. But in a world full of products claiming to be safe and natural, how does one figure out which brands deliver on their claims and which ones are merely peddling marketing hype? One company, Nature’s Baby Organics, produces organic care products of the highest quality and purity. Founded by Adena Surabian, president and mother of two, Nature’s Baby Organics got its start when Adena realized that her daughter was allergic to the synthetic chemicals commonly used in personal care products. After performing some investigative research into the hard-to-pronounce ingredients on product labels, this concerned mother began to lament about the lack of natural, safe and pure products. “I wanted a natural product that had clean, healthy ingredients that would also perform well, so I could use it too,” she states on her company’s website. Because she was unable to find suitable products already on the market, Adena decided to start formulating her own in order to meet her high standards. Today, her company produces five certified organic personal care products, including diaper ointment, skin soother, chest rub, baby oil and dusting powder. All of her products contain between 70 and 95 percent organic ingredients, depending on the specific formula. The reason why not all of Nature’s Baby Organics products are certified organic, meaning they have at least 95 percent organic ingredients, is because Adena believes the National Organic Program (NOP) preservative guidelines are not entirely acceptable. “A baby product cannot be 100 percent USDA certified organic, in our opinion. We do see companies that are making lotions, shampoos and conditioners, and we just don’t agree with that process. The NOP stipulates that the only approved preservative is alcohol. Alcohol to us is too astringent and can be processed through the skin; it is the one ingredient that passes into the bloodstream. Some alcohols can’t even be processed by the liver. So for us, we think it is an irresponsible process for people to be coming out with USDA certified organic under the current standards for children and infants.” she explained in an interview. A valid position, Adena has chosen instead to use naturally-sourced alternatives like sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate to preserve her products. This brings up another interesting fact about many organic products that Adena finds disturbing. “We’re seeing companies that aren’t even properly preserving, and might even have an anhydrous product without an antioxidant, so those products are going to become rancid. The other thing is that products that have organic content have a higher microbial count, so the need for preservation or an antioxidant is greater. And lots of companies are not even micro-challenging their products to see if they’re going to grow mold or bacteria or even be safe for children.” In other words, companies that produce all-organic personal care products are either using alcohol as a preservative, which can be harmful, or they are not properly preserving their products. This is what sets Nature’s Baby Organics apart from other organic personal care products on the market. Nature’s Baby Organics is a truth-in-labeling company that lists all of its ingredients right on its product labels. None of its products contain parabens, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), phthalates, propylene glycol, or 1,4-dioxane. The bottles are also BPA-free. For more information about Nature’s Baby Organics, please visit www.naturesbabyproducts.com.

The government has your baby’s DNA!

(NaturalNews) According to Brad Therrell, director of the National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center, all babies born in the United States are required to be screened for a host of genetic diseases. The government has mandated that all newborns be evaluated genetically to see whether or not they might be predisposed to developing a genetic disease and most parents are not informed about the tests. The Browns from Mankato, Minnesota, are one such couple who was informed by their pediatrician that their daughter, Isabel, has a gene that allegedly heightens her risk of developing cystic fibrosis. Curious as to how the doctor obtained information about Isabel’s genes, the couple inquired of her about this, only to find out that Isabel had undergone gene tests when she was born without their consent. Many states not only conduct gene tests on newborns but they store them indefinitely in government labs, which has caused an uproar among concerned parents. “Why do they need to store my baby’s DNA indefinitely? Something on there could affect her ability to get a job later on, or get health insurance,” explained Annie Brown, Isabel’s mother. Her concern is shared by millions of parents across the country, many of whom have filed lawsuits in their own states against the government. In Minnesota, the explanation for why DNA is stored indefinitely is so analysts can perform repeat tests if need be. The state claims that in case a child ever goes missing or dies, DNA blueprints can be used for tracking and identification purposes. It also admits that samples are used for “medical research”. Genetic testing on newborns first began in the 1960s to allegedly help detect serious conditions like retardation in order to save babies’ lives. According to records, many newborns’ lives were saved from such testing. However, new tests were gradually added to the panel over the years. In some states, babies are screened for up to 54 different conditions. Their results are then stored in state labs for indefinite periods of time but, according to Therrell, parents need not worry about it. “The states have in place very rigid controls on those specimens,” he explained. “If my children’s DNA were in one of these state labs, I wouldn’t be worried a bit.” In reality, outside researchers often have access to the samples as well as the babies’ names to whom they belong. One study conducted in Minnesota found that over 20 scientific papers published in the U.S. since the year 2000 used newborn blood samples. In many states, parents can request that their babies’ DNA be removed from labs and destroyed. Whether or not the state actually obeys is another story. Sources for this story include: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/baby.dna.government/index.html

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