Enjoy the health benefits of raw cheese (Opinion)

(NaturalNews) Cheese is one of America’s favorite foods. The saturated fats involved in cheese give it a rich flavor and a comfortable feel. This popular food can be extraordinarily good; however, it is often highly processed and made out of an inferior dairy supply. Choose raw cheese from grass-fed cows for the incredibly good taste and the powerhouse of nutrients. Cows naturally eat grass; however, 90% of dairy cows are raised in a tight, confined stall and fed a diet of genetically modified corn and soy. This grain diet is not genetically congruent for the cow’s internal ecosystem and the cows build sickness and disease. They become very acidic, which creates an ideal breeding ground for infectious bacteria such as E Coli. In the mainstream dairy feedlots, illness and infection are very common. Powerful antibiotics are used to keep infectious bacteria down, but these also damage the natural micro flora the animals need to maintain good health. This creates an even lower natural immunity and contaminates the dairy with antibiotic substances and other dangerous chemicals. The majority of industrial farms utilize Bovine hormone injections to increase size and weight. Increasing hormone levels boosts milk production. This also increases levels of utter infection, pus formation, antibiotic residue and a cancer accelerating hormone called IGF01. Grain-Fed Dairy Products are Inflammatory Grain-fed cows produce dairy and cheese that is very high in omega 6 fatty acids. The average ratio for a cow on a grain-fed diet is roughly 25:1 (omega 6:3). This is genetically incongruent for all mammal species. Humans should naturally have an omega 6:3 ratio around 4:1 or 2:1. When these ratios become skewed, they trigger cellular inflammation and accelerated cellular degeneration. This environment causes an individual to become highly inflamed and to build degenerative disease. When the cows have this acidic, inflammatory environment, they become very thirsty. They drink significantly more water than grass-fed cows (as there is natural hydration in the grass). This water helps to increase dairy production, but the milk is thinner and less tasty. Years ago, a well-treated cow may have lived close to 20 years. Consider that the typical cow begins lactating around age 2; that is 18 years of dairy production. In 1950, typical cows lived around 10-15 years. Today, the average dairy cow in an industrial farm lives 5 years (3 years of lactation). During these 5 years, the cows are massively fed and stressed to produce the absolute maximal amount of dairy. Natural grass-fed cows produce between 3-5,000 gallons of milk a year while grain-fed, hormone injected cows can easily produce over 20,000 gallons a year. This is a huge advantage for dairy production because they can feed the cows on government subsidized grains while massively producing dairy. Grass-fed Dairy is Anti-Inflammatory: Cheese from 100% grass-fed cows has a perfect omega 6:3 ratio of 2:1. It also contains 5x the amount of Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA), which is an extraordinarily powerful cancer fighting nutrient. CLA is known to boost metabolism and fat burning while enhancing natural immunity. This form of cheese is also a great source of highly bioavailable calcium and magnesium, amino acids and vitamin A, D3, and K2. Raw cheese is naturally processed through old world traditions. This means that the cheese process begins minutes after the morning milking. Because the milk is so fresh, it isn’t necessary to pasteurize it. The natural heat (around 101.5 degrees F) involved in the cheese-making process preserves the naturally beneficial enzymes in the milk which aid in the digestion of lactose and in the absorption of protein, calcium and other critical nutrients. Raw cheese also has a richer and deeper flavor than pasteurized dairy. Sources for this Article Include: http://www.ejnet.org/bgh/nogood.html http://www.kennyscountrycheese.com/ Mendelson A. “The Astonishing Story of Real Milk,” Mother Earth News, October/November 2011. Pg 34-39. http://products.mercola.com/produce/cheese/

Five health-enhancing foods that don’t even seem like health foods: Mustard, cole slaw and more

(NaturalNews) When observing the typical diet of American consumers, with all the fried foods, aspartame-laced “diet” products and pasteurized, hormone-ridden dairy products that typical people consume, I sometimes ask myself a question that perhaps you’ve pondered, too: What on Earth is keeping all these people alive? The answers may surprise you. Hidden inside the typical western diet of highly-toxic processed foods are gems of natural medicine that you’d never suspect are really health foods . So here, I’ve assembled a short list of the five most powerful health-enhancing foods that don’t seem like health foods but which are quite possibly the one remaining source of natural medicines for mainstream consumers. #1 – Mustard Mustard, believe it or not, is a medicinal paste made from the seed of the mustard plant. It’s a superfood that’s been around for at least 5,000 years, and it’s one of the few common sources of cancer-busting selenium , a trace mineral often missing from over-farmed soils. (http://www.naturalnews.com/030916_mustard_health_food.html) Mustard is known to help in reducing migraines, and it’s a natural anti-fungal and antiseptic. Another benefit of mustard is that it’s never made with MSG or yeast extract. Mustard products — even conventional products from non-health-food companies — are still very healthful to consume. You can also make your own mustard using nothing more than a Vita-Mix blender. Check out this handy video where Annmarie Gianni shows you how to make raw mustard : http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8D94800B310B70E1F3C5C77FD06C5F59 (Jump to 2:45 to skip the crowd socializing part…) As Kevin Gianni explains in this video, you can get bulk mustard seeds from Mountain Rose Herbs, one of the top suppliers of bulk natural products: www.MountainRoseHerbs.com #2 – Cole Slaw Cole slaw is made out of one of the most powerful natural medicines in the food kingdom: Raw cabbage . (http://www.naturalnews.com/032377_cabbage_anti-cancer_food.html) Raw cabbage is a proven cure for stomach ulcers. It’s also an amazing anti-cancer food with that can help prevent (or even reverse) many types of cancer. Throughout the history of the civilized world, cabbage has been one of the most medicinal foods ever consumed. It’s also good for you when cooked (cabbage soup) or fermented (sauerkraut). Check out this story we recently published about the astounding health benefits of fermented cabbage: http://www.naturalnews.com/033659_sauerkraut_health_benefits.html Cabbage is rich in indole-3-carbinol (I3C), one of its many anti-cancer nutrients. Click here to read more about I3C: http://www.naturalnews.com/023081_indole-3-carbinol_broccoli.html It’s best to make your own cole slaw at home, but if you purchase store-bought cole slaw, be sure to avoid processed ingredients often used in cheaper cole slaw recipes such as high-fructose corn syrup and canola oil (which is often GMO). #3 – Cinnamon, cloves, rosemary, paprika and other spices Nearly all the pungent cooking spices are actually powerful medicines. Cinnamon, for example, helps regulate blood sugar in diabetics (http://www.naturalnews.com/031133_cinnamon_diabetes.html). Cloves are the No. 1 source for the highest density of antioxidants found in the entire food supply. (Yes, they have a higher ORAC value than any other food or spice.) (http://www.naturalnews.com/028518_cloves_antioxidants.html) Rosemary is a powerful digestive tonic and internal detoxification herb. Ginger is legendary as an immune-boosting, circulation-enhancing tonic herb that’s also fantastic for beating winter colds and flu. Ginger even works to relieve muscle pain! (http://www.naturalnews.com/029986_ginger_muscle_pain.html) If you’re into curry , then you’ll be glad to know that turmeric , the main ingredient in curry, is also an amazing source of natural medicines. It’s a powerful anti-cancer as well as an anti-inflammatory medicine. If you really want great pricing on curry powder and other spices in bulk, visit a Middle Eastern food store in your local area, where these aromatic spices are often sold at the best prices in town. In Southern and Midwestern cuisine, barbeque sauce is a surprisingly good source of bitter alkaloids and health-enhancing spices (often including mustard and paprika), but this is only true with the rich, homemade sauces, not the processed “Kraft Foods” sauces (which are usually loaded with sweeteners and highly processed ingredients). Nearly all the common spices you find in grocery stores are medicinal foods. But avoid common table salt (or white “sea salt”) because it’s just a processed, refined combination of two poisons. The only salt you should regularly consume is a full-spectrum salt that’s off-white in color, such as Celtic salt or Royal Himalayan Pink Crystal salt (http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=0&keyword=himalayan). #4 – Raisins Raisins may not sound super cool, but if you think about what they really are, it becomes obvious how powerful they can be as natural medicine. Raisins are dried grapes , of course, meaning they contain all the natural medicine of grape skins . Remember: Most of the medicine in grapes is found in the skin (and the seeds, but most raisins are made from seedless grapes). This is why it’s so important to buy only organic raisins , because grapes sprayed with fungicides have low levels of resveratrol . Organic grapes have the highest levels of resveratrol, which is one of the most miraculous natural medicines in the world (http://www.naturalnews.com/033349_red_grapes_resveratrol.html). Raisins are also very high in naturally-occurring antioxidants, making them a fantastic overall source of nutrition. When consumed with nuts, their glycemic index is slowed, so I recommend eating raisins with things such as pecans or walnuts (both of which superfoods in their own way, as you’ll see below). #5 – Common nuts: Walnuts, pecans, peanuts and more Once again, nuts may not be on your list of the “coolest” foods, but they probably should be: Walnuts are an amazing natural medicine that helps reduce the risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease. They’re very high in natural antioxidants and also help reduce the risk of prostate cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/028584_walnuts_prostate_cancer.html). Pecans boost brain protection and also help lower cholesterol levels (http://www.naturalnews.com/031815_pecans_heart_health.html). Almonds are now being widely used to make almond milk (a natural anti-cancer milk beverage), and even peanuts are now making a comeback as a health food (http://www.naturalnews.com/024925_protein_risk_fat.html). Just remember: When you buy nuts, raw is best because heat processing destroys the natural medicine found in foods. Avoid “salted” nuts because they’re almost always salted with toxic sodium chloride (simple table salt). Avoid “flavored” nuts because they almost always — yes, nearly ALWAYS — are made with MSG flavor enhancers such as yeast extract or autolyzed proteins. Just look for plain, simple, unsalted nuts… then find ways to work those into your recipes or smoothies. I like to blend cashews into smoothies to give them a creamy milk-like flavor! The five common health foods in review So there you have it, the five health foods that you probably didn’t even know were health foods! The good news about these is that they’re available in virtually every grocery store in North America (and around the world). Once again, they are: • Mustard • Cole Slaw • Common spices: Cinnamon, cloves, paprika, etc. • Raisins • Walnuts, pecans, almonds and other nuts Eat more of these (and less processed junk food) and you’ll be healthier as a result!

Is natural gas ‘fracking’ responsible for the recent earthquake swarms in strange locations?

(NaturalNews) The natural gas industry and its advocates claim that hydraulic fracturing, the modern technique for extracting natural gas, also known as “fracking,” is beneficial to the interests of American energy independence. However, a simple report recently issued by KARK 4 News in Little Rock, Ark., suggests that fracking operations, which involve pumping large amounts of water and chemicals deep underground, may be responsible for triggering the mysterious earthquakes that have been striking in unusual locations across the nation in recent months. One of at least 14 US states where fracking operations are currently active, Arkansas is not exactly the most seismically active region in the US. Though the state sits near the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), a fault that is considered to have the highest earthquake risk outside the West Coast, the area typically only experiences a few small shakes in an average month, with larger ones occurring on an even more sporadic basis. However, the area around Greenbrier, Ark., had experienced an unusually high frequency of small-to-mid sized earthquakes in recent months — that is, until several local fracking operations ceased operations. While fracking was still taking place in the area, it was common to experience hundreds of earthquakes in an average month. But now that all fracking wells have been closed, the earth surrounding them has calmed significantly. During one three-week period when fracking was still occurring in the Greenbrier area, for instance, the Arkansas Geological Survey (AGS) recorded an astounding 919 earthquakes. After the first two fracking fluid disposal wells were closed, earthquake frequency dropped to 312. And following the closure of all four wells, the number or earthquakes that occurred dropped to a mere nine, none of which clocked in above a 2.5 magnitude. Similarly, some have suggested that fracking operations in Pennsylvania may have been at least partially responsible for the recent 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck near the unusual location of Mineral, Va., on August 23, 2011 (http://www.opednews.com/articles/Did-Fracking-Cause-the-Vir-by-Dr-Stuart-Jeanne-B-110823-993.html). There will, of course, always be natural earthquakes that occur without the help of man-made intervention. But in this case, it appears as though a modern technology that pumps millions of gallons of toxic fluids deep into the earth’s upper crust may be helping to jostle things a little bit more than usual. Sources for this story include: http://arkansasmatters.com/news-fulltext?nxd_id=461097 http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/fracking-across-the-united-states http://www.opednews.com/articles/Did-Fracking-Cause-the-Vir-by-Dr-Stuart-Jeanne-B-110823-993.html

Jumping rope and 9/11 truth – how the sheeple have been trained to avoid unpopular truth about WTC 7

(NaturalNews) I think I was in the second grade at the time. We were in gym class, and the teacher had encouraged us to jump rope and count out 10 jumps as part of an obstacle course. It was an ambitious plan, we soon learned, as very few second graders can jump rope at all. Even worse, it turns out they can’t count either, because to my great surprise, some classmates stood there counting rapidly from 1 to 10 as they attempted to jump the rope, regardless of how many revolutions of the rope were actually achieved. This frustrated my gym teacher, and he asked us to halt our little exercise and listen up for a moment. He queried a student to determine why they were counting from 1 to 10 even though they weren’t actually jumping the rope 10 times. The student had no idea what he was talking about. So he decided to do a little counting test in front of us all. “I’m going to turn in circles, and I want you to count out loud how many times I turn around.” Fair enough, right? So he proceeded to slowly rotate to his right, and after having achieved not more than 45 degrees of rotation, to my great astonishment my classmates started counting out numbers . “One! Two! Three!” He continued rotating into 90 degrees, and then 180 degrees, at which point some of my classmates were already at “four!” and “five!” By the time he reached 360 degrees (one complete rotation), some of my second-grade classmates had already counted to 10. It was at this point that I shouted out, “One!” The teacher looked at me and said, “You’re the only one who got it right” and I can only imagine he spent that evening pulling his hair out, trying to understand why second graders could be so stupid on basic concepts such as counting. I have long since wondered the same thing myself. Although the core answers to that remain a mystery, some good did come out of the experience. It was on this day — and this is a true story from my childhood — that I realized America has a serious IQ deficit . And, importantly, the intelligence-impaired individuals in America outnumber the rest of us by a frighteningly large factor. This ratio has not appreciably changed in the 35 years or so since I was in the second grade, it seems, and the really scary thing is that those very same people who couldn’t count in the second grade are now running the country — where they still can’t count because we’re now deep into the nation’s deepest financial deficits ever! 9/11 is a modern-day IQ test Those second-grade classmates I grew up with, you see, are all in the forties now, and they’re probably working in government, or local businesses, or perhaps even at the FDA. And while they probably eventually learned how to properly count rotations and such, they no doubt fail to see the obvious in other things such as the readily evident fact that the WTC 7 building was brought down by demolition charges . Here’s a great (and short) video introducing all this. It’s called “This is an Orange” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv7BImVvEyk Today’s “national IQ test,” if you will, is whether people yet realize 9/11 was an inside job. To watch the WTC 7 building fall into its own footprint, demolition style, and somehow fail to grasp that this was a carefully-planned demolition job is just as idiotic as not being able to count how many times you jump rope. IQ-impaired people may grow up and look like adults, it seems, but they are no more intelligent at understanding events in the world around them. And 9/11 is perhaps the best test in recent times at exposing the lack of raw intelligence that’s still surprisingly common in our society today. At times, people who cannot understand the simple things around them are described as “morons.” This is not meant to be insulting; just factual. “Moron” is a description of a very low IQ individual, having an IQ between 50 and 70. It means they can “work under supervision,” says TheFreeDictionary.com. This is the perfect description of people who think 9/11 was pulled off by terrorists and that WTC 7 collapsed due to office fires. They are able to think “under supervision” — to believe what they are told — because they can’t think for themselves. In contrast to all this, thousands of architects and engineers have proven they are not morons by publicly stating that the government’s official story on WTC 7 is complete nonsense. They’re part of the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth movement, which you can read about at: http://www.ae911truth.org Watch the videos there and give yourself America’s IQ test! Anyone who watches WTC 7 fall and then thinks that the perfectly synchronized free-fall collapse of a every single support column in that building could have been caused by a small office fire is clearly running a serious IQ deficit. The government thinks we’re all morons, of course, which is why the government weaves these fantastical and truly unbelievable stories of what happened on 9/11. Like the fairytale that there were no black boxes recovered from any of the planes that crashed that day. Or that one terrorist’s passport was blown out of the explosion and landed on the sidewalk unscathed. Or that a man on one of the planes called someone with his cell phone from 31,000 feet and reported the plane was under attack by terrorists with box cutters. In 2001, airplanes had no cell phone service , duh! In fact, in 2001, cell phones hardly even worked if you walked to the wrong side of the office or drove under a bridge. But the government wants us to believe multiple crystal-clear calls were made from a plane flying at 31,000 feet even though cell towers are only designed to handle calls from the ground (their antennas don’t even cover high-altitude callers because there are none! ) The fairytales go on and only become increasingly ridiculous with each one. They’ve become so absurd, in fact, that the U.S. government has now been forced to rewrite the laws of physics in insisting the fireproofed steel beams used to construct the WTC 7 building magically melted from common office fires and all experienced total structural failure at exactly the same moment! Here’s a video that shows you what really happens with a steel-and-concrete building burns: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEPjOi2dQSM For anyone to believe that WTC 7 collapsed from a few office fires (which were extinguished at the time of the collapse, by the way), they seriously have to be a complete moron. And yet, to my great surprise, a great majority of the public actually believes all this. They’ve swallowed this official story hook, line and sinker. Like good little marks lining up in the drive-through lane of Brainwashes-R-Us . But remember: These are the same people who couldn’t count a jump rope in elementary school. These are the same people who don’t understand basic economics and how their money is stolen from them through the printing of fiat currency. These are people who have no idea there’s fluoride in their water, or that the mainstream media consistently lies to them and runs complete hoaxes as actual news. If you get right down to it, you see, most people simply aren’t able to understand even the fundamentals of the world around them. Abandoning science in order to stay politically correct My favorite part in all this is when you see mainstream “scientists” and physicists come out and declare that questioning 9/11 automatically qualifies you as a “conspiracy theorist,” by which they maliciously attempt to discredit everything you say by tagging you with a label. You see, they’re so desperate to remain popular and go along with the conventional storyline on 9/11 that they’re willing to make themselves look like complete morons by denying WTC 7 was a controlled demolition. To these scientists, I suppose, being politically correct is far more important than being scientifically accurate. If the White House announced that the wind was created by trees moving their branches , all these scientists would no doubt go along with that, too. Or, hey, maybe the sun is a giant woodstove in the sky and we need to send it more wood or it will burn out and leave our planet a lifeless block of ice. But such is the fabric of the modern scientific community, which is steeped in all sorts of downright hilarious fictions and fairytales about vaccines, psychiatric drugs, consciousness and even the laws of physics itself. I say that any scientist who is willing to abandon the process of asking scrutinizing questions and examining the actual evidence isn’t really a scientist at all. Rather, they are merely cult members in a politically-motivated cabal of morons who all agree to defend the “official” announcements on 9/11, no matter how much those conclusions violate the laws of physics. Perhaps they should just announce the Sun orbits around the Earth and be done with it. Reality be damned, there’s politically-expedient science to defend! The simultaneous collapse of 24 support columns and 57 perimeter columns The primary argument about WTC 7, by the way, really has nothing to do with the temperature at which structured steel loses its integrity, or how hot the fires burned in WTC 7. Rather, it is a question of how did all the support columns for the entire building simultaneously shatter and bring the building down at free-fall acceleration into its own footprint? Only an IQ-challenged individual would say this could happen from anything other than a deliberately planned demolition job. Even in severe earthquakes, large concrete-and-steel buildings don’t fall straight down into their own footprints. To achieve that kind of symmetry requires careful planning and weeks of preparation where you drill into the columns of the building and plant explosives which are all wired up to a rather complex control board. The detonation sequence also needs to be meticulously calculated so that the 24 inner columns are shattered just moments before the 57 outer columns in order to make sure the building falls into itself rather than “peeling away” and expanding its outer walls as it falls. Demolitions is a rigorous scientific endeavor, and to achieve the symmetrical collapse of a large concrete-and-steel structure like WTC 7 required strict adherence to understanding explosives, support structures, architectures and the laws of physics. Thus, the people who brought down WTC 7 honor the laws of physics, while those quacks who claim WTC 7 was caused by “office fires” stand in total violation of the laws of physics. To say that the WTC 7 collapse wasn’t a carefully planned demolition job is to announce to the world that you are a complete and total moron. This, of course, includes nearly all the mainstream media talking heads, government officials, and a surprisingly large number of bobble-headed people who mistakenly refer to themselves as “scientists.” In times of great deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act Once you realize the truth about WTC 7, you realize that 9/11 had to have been an inside job . Whether that statement is popular or not, it is the only conclusion supported by the rather obvious facts. And just as I dared to shout “One!” in the second grade, even as all my moron classmates were counting to ten, today I dare to shout the same obvious truth about 9/11. WTC 7 was brought down by controlled demolition . It is as obvious as the sun in the sky (which isn’t a woodstove, by the way), and no amount of blabbering idiocy by a crowd of wannabes can change the cold, hard facts about the laws of physics. I would also say to those who still somehow believe the government’s ridiculous story on 9/11 that if your opinions are formed primarily by what’s popular, then you’re not a clear thinker . Politically correct opinion is almost always flat wrong. But some sheeple feel so compelled to go along with the herd that they will actually delude themselves into believing anything as long as their peers go along with it. Can you say “Weak-minded?” I prefer to operate with a strong mind powered by clear, independent thought. I operate a lot like Galileo in that I will declare the Sun to be the center of our universe even if everybody else says the Earth is in the center. I don’t care whether declaring the truth is popular at the moment or not. Even a thousand people shouting in disagreement with the laws of physics does not alter those laws . Crowds can be dead wrong. In fact, history shows they usually are. I’m the kind of guy who openly shouts the Emperor has no clothes. Why? Because on the 9/11 issue, the Emperor is walking through the streets butt naked, even as the rest of the IQ-challenged people hold their fantastical delusions of seeing whatever they’ve all agreed should be there. The economy is in a recovery! America is a land of freedom! The terrorists are out to get you! Television news reports the truth! If you see something, say something! And sure, the Emperor wears glorious flowing robes made of magic thread, and the government is creating new jobs, too! Additional evidence cinches the case Just in case you want to be really, really sure about WTC 7 actually being a demolitions job, here are two other bits of evidence you’ll want to see on this. The first is the video interview with Larry Silverstein who comes right out and openly admits “they made the decision to pull it.” This term — “pull it” — is the term used by demolitions teams when they make the decision to bring the building down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WYdAJQV100 But here’s the real gotcha in all this: The BBC, in a live news broadcast, reported the collapse of WTC 7 20 minutes before it happened! How could this happen? They apparently got their time zones mixed up and ended up airing video of a reporter declaring the Saloman Brothers building (WTC 7) had collapsed even while it was standing in the background behind her! This clearly and obviously indicates prior knowledge that the building was about to be brought down. Watch that video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltP2t9nq9fI And read an accompanying explanation at: http://www.wtc7.net/bbc.html This video is a truly hilarious example of total 1984-style propaganda and media theater, much like CNN’s outrageously faked reporting from the Gulf War. Watch it by clicking the link below. It features a comedian reporter named Charles Jaco who looks like he’s playing the lead role in a bad S&N skit, but it was aired as “live” CNN television news from Saudi Arabia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTWY14eyMFg Click forward to 6:45 to see a particularly hilarious bit when Charles Jaco fakes like he’s been attacked with poison gas and he furiously puts on his gas mask — while his guest slaps on a helmet! It is possibly the funniest moment of fake CNN news that has ever been broadcast in history. This is totally FAKE news, folks. A complete network news psy-op that could only be believed by complete and utter morons mainstream media viewers. Stay informed and stay sharp If you want to read a fantastic book on all this, check out the recently updated book by Jim Marrs: The Terror Conspiracy Revisited: What Really Happened On 9/11, And Why We’re Still Paying The Price (http://www.amazon.com/Terror-Conspiracy-Revisited-Really-Happened/dp/1934708631) In the mean time, keep your wits about you, folks. All the really smart people out there — the independent thinkers and sharp-minded people — read Alternative News sources such as NaturalNews. We’ve even launched a new website about Alternative News called — you guessed it — www.AlternativeNews.com There, you can find a daily serving of news for sharp-minded thinkers who rise above the morons and actually think for themselves. People like you, I would imagine, since NaturalNews is only really enjoyed by free-thinking individuals who absolutely refuse to act like morons. And never abandon common sense in a quest to be popular or politically correct. Stick with what the evidence reveals, no matter how many morons on the other side attack you for it. Only a true idiot would abandon the evidence and declare WTC 7 to have collapsed from “office fires” (even though it was made out of fireproofed steel and concrete). By attacking you for sticking to the truth, these people only out themselves as morons. Remember, every time you see someone denying WTC 7 was a demolition job, ask in your mind, “Are these the same people who couldn’t count to ten while jumping rope?” They are, indeed. In fact, the really really shocking realization in all this is that most Americans have no idea what WTC 7 is! They’ve all been trained to focus on the collapse of the TWO buildings hit by airplanes, not the third building which was brought down with demolitions charges. WTC 7 has been almost completely kept out of the minds of the public because the government doesn’t want people to be aware of it at all. Videos to watch that reveal more 9/11 Truth: What Happened to Building 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuJimaumW4 WTC 7: The Smoking Gun of 9/11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwSc7NPn8Ok How did WTC 7 fall? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T2_nedORjw This is an Orange http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv7BImVvEyk WTC 7 – Showing shaped charge explosions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-c-6qkbxd0 WTC 7 Free Fall Collapse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml_n5gJgQ_U

Climate ‘science’ gone wild: UK researchers to pump toxic sulfates into sky to promote global cooling

(NaturalNews) Deniers of geo-engineering, or man-made weather manipulation, truly are the real conspiracy theorists, as climate “scientists” have once again openly admitted that they have the technology to alter weather at will. And a recent piece in Scientific American highlights a new geo-engineering endeavor being undertaken by UK scientists, who plan to pump toxic sulfate particles into the sky to supposedly thwart natural sunlight back into space, and ultimately prevent the earth from “warming.” The report explains that the Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Change Engineering (SPICE) program (yes, this is a real program that confirms the existence of “chemtrails”) has been given $30,000 to build a giant pipe that spews water and sulfates a mile up into the stratosphere. Supported at the end by a giant “stadium-size hydrogen balloon,” the pipe will allegedly mimic the effects of a volcanic eruption, which the team building it insists will help to “cool” the earth. The obvious idiocy of such a ridiculous project would be laughable if it were not for the fact that money, presumably derived from taxpayers, is going to be used to pump the sky with toxic particles. Any supposed “reflection” of sunlight back into space that might occur by such actions (a hypothesis that is highly disputed and is most likely a myth ) will hardly make up for the damage done to our skies in the name of climate science. Nevertheless, the team plans to move full-steam ahead with the project, regardless of its environmental impact. And if initial tests are successful, the team plans to develop a larger version of the device that reaches 20 kilometers, or about 12.5 miles, into the sky. Besides the strangeness of the project itself, the Scientific American report’s admission that airplanes have already been used as one of the delivery modes for sulfate particles in the past also confirms the existence of chemtrails, or the deliberate aerosol seeding of the sky by planes with unknown particles. The report clearly cites Russia as a purveyor of chemtrails back in 1999, and also talks about how the new pipe project will cost less than what it would cost to “launch thousands of high-altitude aircraft” into the sky for spraying purposes. In reality, though, “high-altitude aircraft” chemtrail operations have been taking place for years. But in order to gradually condition the public into accepting the concept itself as normal, government and media are pretending as though chemtrails are not yet widely used, while simultaneously admitting that the technology exists (after denying it for years). Their end goal, of course, is to systematically convince the public that poisoning the sky is necessary to prevent climate change. Sources for this story include: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=uk-researchers-to-test-artificial-volcano-for-geoengineering-the-climate

Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns

(NaturalNews) Forget about the 2012 Mayan calendar, comet Elenin or the Rapture. The real threat to human civilization is far more mundane, and it’s right in front of our noses. If Fukushima has taught us anything, it’s that just one runaway meltdown of fissionable nuclear material can have wide-ranging and potentially devastating consequences for life on Earth. To date, Fukushima has already released 168 times the total radiation released from the Hiroshima nuclear bomb detonated in 1945, and the Fukushima catastrophe is now undeniably the worst nuclear disaster in the history of human civilization. But what if human civilization faced a far greater threat than a single tsunami destroying a nuclear power facility? What if a global tidal wave could destroy the power generating capacities of all the world’s power plants, all at once? Such a scenario is not merely possible, but factually inevitable . And the global tidal wave threatening all the nuclear power plants of the world isn’t made of water but solar emissions . The sun, you see, is acting up again. NASA recently warned that solar activity is surging, with a peak expected to happen in 2013 that could generate enormous radiation levels that sweep across planet Earth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has even issued an urgent warning about solar flares due to strike in 2012 and 2013. IBtimes wrote, “With solar activity expected to peak around 2013, the Sun is entering a particularly active time and big flares like the recent one will likely be common during the next few years. …A major flare in the mid-19th century blocked the nascent telegraph system, and some scientists believe that another such event is now overdue.” (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194166/20110808/solar-storms-severe-solar-storms-earth-paralyse-carrington-event.htm) The story goes on to explain: “Several federal government studies suggest that this extreme solar activity and emissions may result in complete blackouts for years in some areas of the nation. Moreover, there may also be disruption of power supply for years, or even decades, as geomagnetic currents attracted by the storm could debilitate the transformers.” Why does all this matter? To understand that, you have to understand how nuclear power plants function. Or, put another way, how is nuclear material prevented from “going nuclear” every single day across our planet? Every nuclear power plant operates in a near-meltdown state All nuclear power plants are operated in a near-meltdown status. They operate at very high heat, relying on nuclear fission to boil water that produces steam to drive the turbines that generate electricity. Critically, the nuclear fuel is prevented from melting down through the steady circulation of coolants which are pushed through the cooling system using very high powered electric pumps . If you stop the electric pumps, the coolant stops flowing and the fuel rods go critical (and then melt down). This is what happened in Fukushima, where the melted fuel rods dropped through the concrete floor of the containment vessels, unleashing enormous quantities of ionizing radiation into the surrounding environment. The full extent of the Fukushima contamination is not even known yet, as the facility is still emitting radiation. It’s crucial to understand that nuclear coolant pumps are usually driven by power from the electrical grid . They are not normally driven by power generated locally from the nuclear power plant itself. Instead, they’re connected to the grid. In other words, even though nuclear power plants are generating megawatts of electricity for the grid, they are also dependant on the grid to run their own coolant pumps. If the grid goes down, the coolant pumps go down, too, which is why they are quickly switched to emergency backup power — either generators or batteries . As we learned with Fukushima, the on-site batteries can only drive the coolant pumps for around eight hours. After that, the nuclear facility is dependent on diesel generators (or sometimes propane) to run the pumps that circulate the coolant which prevents the whole site from going Chernobyl. And yet, critically, this depends on something rather obvious: The delivery of diesel fuel to the site. If diesel cannot be delivered, the generators can’t be fired up and the coolant can’t be circulated. When you grasp the importance of this supply line dependency, you will instantly understand why a single solar flare could unleash a nuclear holocaust across the planet. When the generators fail and the coolant pumps stop pumping, nuclear fuel rods begin to melt through their containment rods, unleashing ungodly amounts of life-destroying radiation directly into the atmosphere. This is precisely why Japanese engineers worked so hard to reconnect the local power grid to the Fukushima facility after the tidal wave — they needed to bring power back to the generators to run the pumps that circulate the coolant. This effort failed, of course, which is why Fukushima became such a nuclear disaster and released countless becquerels of radiation into the environment (with no end in sight). And yet, despite the destruction we’ve already seen with Fukushima, U.S. nuclear power plants are nowhere near being prepared to handle sustained power grid failures. As IBtimes reports: “Last month, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said U.S. plants affected by a blackout should be able to cope without electricity for at least eight hours and should have procedures to keep the reactor and spent-fuel pool cool for 72 hours. Nuclear plants depend on standby batteries and backup diesel generators. Most standby power systems would continue to function after a severe solar storm, but supplying the standby power systems with adequate fuel, when the main power grids are offline for years, could become a very critical problem. If the spent fuel rod pools at the country’s 104 nuclear power plants lose their connection to the power grid, the current regulations aren’t sufficient to guarantee those pools won’t boil over — exposing the hot, zirconium-clad rods and sparking fires that would release deadly radiation.” (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194166/20110808/solar-storms-severe-solar-storms-earth-paralyse-carrington-event.htm) Now, what does all this have to do with solar flares? How the end of modern civilization will most likely occur As any sufficiently informed scientist will readily admit, solar flares have the potential to blow out the transformers throughout the national power grid. That’s because solar flares induce geomagnetic currents (powerful electromagnetic impulses) which overload the transformers and cause them to explode. You’ve probably witnessed this yourself during a lightning storm when lightning unleashes a powerful electromagnetic pulse that causes a local transformer to explode. Solar flares do the same thing on a much larger scale. A global scale, in fact. The upshot of this situation is that suddenly and without warning, the power grid infrastructure across nearly the entire planet could be destroyed. As a bonus, nearly all satellites will be fried, too, leaving GPS inoperable and causing millions of clueless drivers to become forever lost in their own neighborhoods because they never paid attention to the streets and always relied on a GPS voice to tell them, “In fifty feet, turn right.” Communications satellites will be obliterated, too. This, of course, will halt nearly all news propaganda distribution across the planet, causing tens of thousands of people to instantly die out of the sheer fear of suddenly having to think for themselves. As another bonus, nearly all mobile phone service will be disrupted, too, meaning all the teenage text junkies of the world will, for the first time in their lives, be forced to lay down their iPhones and interact with real people in the real world. But the real kicker in all this is that the power grid will be destroyed nearly everywhere . What happens when there’s no electricity? Imagine a world without electricity . Even for just a week. Imagine New York City with no electricity, or Los Angeles, or Sao Paulo. Within 72 hours, most cities around the world will devolve into total chaos, complete with looting, violent crime, and runaway fires. And if you think you can just drive away from the chaos, think again: The solar flare will fry all automobiles that rely on ignition electronics , which means probably 98% of the vehicles on the road today will be instantly rendered scrap metal (or plastic, as it turns out). But that’s not even the bad news. Even if all the major cities of the world burned to the ground for some other reason, humanity could still recover because it has the farmlands: the soils, the seeds, and the potential to recover, right? And yet the real crisis here stems from the realization that once there is no power grid, all the nuclear power plants of the world suddenly go into “emergency mode” and are forced to rely on their on-site emergency power backups to circulate coolants and prevent nuclear meltdowns from occurring. And yet, as we’ve already established, these facilities typically have only a few hours of battery power available, followed by perhaps a few days worth of diesel fuel to run their generators (or propane, in some cases). Did I also mention that half the people who work at nuclear power facilities have no idea what they’re doing in the first place? Most of the veterans who really know the facilities inside and out have been forced into retirement due to reaching their lifetime limits of on-the-job radiation exposure, so most of the workers at nuclear facilities right now are newbies who really have no clue what they’re doing. There are 440 nuclear power plants operating across 30 countries around the world today. There are an additional 250 so-called “research reactors” in existence, making a total of roughly 700 nuclear reactors to be dealt with (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf01.html). Now imagine the scenario: You’ve got a massive solar flare that knocks out the world power grid and destroys the majority of the power grid transformers, thrusting the world into darkness. Cities collapse into chaos and rioting, martial law is quickly declared (but it hardly matters), and every nation in the world is on full emergency. But that doesn’t solve the really big problem, which is that you’ve got 700 nuclear reactors that can’t feed power into the grid (because all the transformers are blown up) and yet simultaneously have to be fed a steady stream of emergency fuels to run the generators the keep the coolant pumps functioning. How long does the coolant need to circulate in these facilities to cool the nuclear fuel? Months. This is also the lesson of Fukushima: You can’t cool nuclear fuel in mere hours or days. It takes months to bring these nuclear facilities to a state of cold shutdown. And that means in order to avoid a multitude of Fukushima-style meltdowns from occurring around the world, you need to truck diesel fuel , generator parts and nuclear plant workers to every nuclear facility on the planet, ON TIME, every time, without fail, for months on end. Now remember, this must be done in the middle of the total chaos breakdown of modern civilization, where there is no power, where law enforcement and emergency services are totally overrun, where people are starving because food deliveries have been disrupted (all the vehicles got fried in the solar flare, remember?), and when looting and violent crime runs rampant in the streets of every major city in the world. Somehow, despite all this, you have to run these diesel fuel caravans to the nuclear power plants and keep the pumps running. Except there’s a problem in all this, even if you assume you can somehow work a logistical miracle and actually deliver the diesel fuel to the backup generators on time (which you probably can’t). The problem is this: Where do you get diesel fuel? Why refineries will be shut down, too From petroleum refineries. Most people don’t realize it, but petroleum refineries run on electricity . Without the power grid, the refineries don’t produce a drop of diesel. With no diesel, there are no generators keeping the coolant running in the nuclear power facilities. But wait, you say: Maybe we could just acquire diesel from all the gas stations in the world. Pump it out of the ground, load it into trucks and use that to power the generators, right? Except there are other problems here: How do you pump all that fuel without electricity? How do you acquire all the tires and spare parts needed to keep trucks running if there’s no electricity to keep the supply businesses running? How do you maintain a truck delivery infrastructure when the electrical infrastructure is totally wiped out? Some countries might be able to pull it off with some degree of success. With military escorts and the total government control over all fuel supplies, a few nations will be able to keep a few nuclear power facilities from melting down. But here’s the real issue: There are 700 nuclear power facilities in the world, remember? Let’s suppose that in the aftermath of a massive solar flare, the nations of the world are somehow able to control half of those facilities and nurse them into cold shutdown status. That still leaves roughly 350 nuclear facilities at risk. Now let’s suppose half of those are somehow luckily offline and not even functioning when the solar flare hits, so they need no special attention. This is a very optimistic assumption, but that still leaves 175 nuclear power plants where all attempts fail. Let’s be outrageously optimistic and suppose that a third of those somehow don’t go into a total meltdown by some miracle of God, or some bizarre twist in the laws of physics. So we’re still left with 115 nuclear power plants that “go Chernobyl.” Fukushima was one power plant. Imagine the devastation of 100+ nuclear power plants, all going into meltdown all at once across the planet. It’s not the loss of electricity that’s the real problem; it’s the global tidal wave of invisible radiation that blankets the planet, permeates the topsoil, irradiates everything that breathes and delivers the final crushing blow to human civilization as we know it today. Because if you have 100 simultaneous global nuclear meltdowns , the tidal wave of radiation will make farming nearly impossible for years . That means no food production for several years in a row. And that, in turn, means a near-total collapse of the human population on our planet. How many people can survive an entire year with no food from the farms? Not one in a hundred people. Even beyond that, how many people can essentially live underground and be safe enough from the radiation that they can have viable children and repopulate the planet? It’s a very, very small fraction of the total population. Solar flares far more likely to hit nuclear power plants than tidal waves or earthquakes What’s the chance of all this actually happening? A report by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory said that “…over the standard 40-year license term of nuclear power plants, solar flare activity enables a 33 percent chance of long-term power loss, a risk that significantly outweighs that of major earthquakes and tsunamis .” (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194166/20110808/solar-storms-severe-solar-storms-earth-paralyse-carrington-event.htm) The world’s reliance on nuclear power, you see, has doomed us to destroy our own civilization. Of course, this is all preventable if we would only dismantle and shut down ALL nuclear power plants on the planet . But what are the chances of that happening? Zero, of course. There are too many commercial and political interests invested in nuclear power. So the power plants will stay, and we will therefore be vulnerable to a solar flare which could strike us at any time and unleash a global nuclear holocaust. Planet Earth has been struck by solar flares before, of course, but all the big hits in recorded human history took place long before the age of modern electronics , so the impacts were minimal. Today, society cannot function without electronics. Nor can nuclear facility coolant pumps. Once you realize that, you begin to understand the true danger in which humanity has placed itself by relying on nuclear power. By relying on nuclear power, we are risking everything. And we’re doing it blindly, with no real acknowledgement of the dangers of running 700+ nuclear facilities in a constant state of “near meltdown” while foolishly relying on the steady flow of electricity to keep the fuel rods cool. If Fukushima, all by itself, could unleash a tidal wave of deadly radiation all by itself, imagine a world where hundreds of nuclear facilities go into a total meltdown simultaneously . A repeat of the 1859 solar storm — called the Carrington Event — would “devastate the modern world,” admits a National Geographic article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110302-solar-flares-sun-storms-earth-danger-carrington-event-science/ What can you do about any of this? Build yourself an underground bunker and prepare to live in it for an extended period of time. (Just a few feet of soil protects you from most radiation.) The good news is that if you survive it all and one day return to the surface to plant your non-hybrid seeds and begin rebuilding human society, real estate will be really, really cheap . Especially in the radiation zones. Take this seriously! Read more from NASA http://www.space.com/12580-sun-unleashes-major-solar-flare.html http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare/ From NASA: “Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes over Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El Salvador, and Hawaii. Even more disconcerting, telegraph systems worldwide went haywire. Spark discharges shocked telegraph operators and set the telegraph paper on fire. Even when telegraphers disconnected the batteries powering the lines, aurora-induced electric currents in the wires still allowed messages to be transmitted…” “…as electronic technologies have become more sophisticated and more embedded into everyday life, they have also become more vulnerable to solar activity. On Earth, power lines and long-distance telephone cables might be affected by auroral currents, as happened in 1989. Radar, cell phone communications, and GPS receivers could be disrupted by solar radio noise. Experts who have studied the question say there is little to be done to protect satellites from a Carrington-class flare. In fact, a recent paper estimates potential damage to the 900-plus satellites currently in orbit could cost between $30 billion and $70 billion.”

Rootworms defy Monsanto and eat away at GMO Corn in U.S. Midwest

(NaturalNews) Farmers in the big corn states watch in dismay as their “bug proofed” corn once again is being eaten by rootworms. As evolution would have it, the Western rootworm beetle, one of the most serious threats to corn, has developed resistance to the bioengineered “Roundup ready” crop, and is picnicking once again on corn roots. Currently, three fourth’s of our nation’s corn crop are genetically modified, but thousands of farmers in the United States are wondering if they should switch back to older methods of pest control, like changing back and forth from corn to soy each year, because these rootworm beetles feed solely on corn. If the worms hatch in soybean fields they quickly die. Farmer’s options, unfortunately, are becoming more limited than in recent years. One major contention for farmers is that they face lawsuits if they try to save and replant genetically modified seed because they don’t “own” the technology, yet most don’t complain when they reap in the profits from the Roundup Ready crops. In the United States, current estimates show that 30 of the 80 million acres of corn are infested with these corn rootworms. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates this infestation can cause a billion dollars in lost revenue each year. The Western corn rootworm was also brought to Europe in the early 1990′s. Most European countries now require labeling of imported GMO foods, but there’s no such labeling in the United States. GMO veggies are sometimes referred to as a Trojan horse, and there’s virtually no way to recall them should they “breed” their own crisis. Over the past 15 years, Monsanto has built up its seed empire by focusing its technology on widely planted crops like corn, soy, and cotton. Large scale farmers of these commodities, operating on very thin profit margins, jumped at the chance to streamline their operations by farming out their pest management to Monsanto, but now the this is wearing thin. Dumping one kind of herbicide onto millions of acres of farmland has also given rise to “super weeds” that are resistant to that herbicide. Farmers are now resorting to highly toxic herbicide and pesticide concoctions, and some are even hand-weeding. In case you’re not in the know, Monsanto corn is a wicked, laboratory created combination of toxic pesticide and seedlings, and the end result is what many organic consumers nicknamed Franken-corn. According to the Journal of Pesticide Reform , Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate can cause eye and skin irritation, dizziness, heart palpitations, salivary lesions, and stomach lining irritation. A 1998 study on mice concluded that Roundup is able to cause genetic damage. A 2011 report by Earth Open Source asserts that glyphosate has caused birth defects in laboratory animals. So, should humans really be eating fruits and vegetables that genetically contain this pesticide? In addition to unwanted vegetation, glyphosate inhibits growth and development of mycorrhizal fungi, the microbe that fixes nitrogen in the soil and makes it available to plants, so this soil is now tainted for years. Glyphosate has also been linked to genetic damage, cancer, and negative reproductive effects, like miscarriage and reduced sperm count. The latest “solution” is to genetically modify crops to resist the weed killer 2,4-D, which has exponentially more toxicity to mammals than Roundup. Initially formulated for weed control in 1947, 2,4-D is comprised of 50% of the ingredients in Agent Orange, which is infamous for its massive destructiveness in Vietnam. For now, it seems as though nature herself is pulling in the reigns. Just as Roundup-resistant super weeds rapidly bloomed into a major problem over the past ten years, the new super insects may be just getting started. Sources: http://www.grist.org/list/2011-08-29-monsanto-fail-gmo-crops-are-losing-their-pest-control-powers http://www.gmo-safety.eu/science/maize/254.western-corn-rootworm-europe.html http://coto2.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/monsanto-gm-corn-in-peril-beetle-develops-bt-resistance/Ingredients in Roundup Weed Killer | Garden Guides http://www.gardenguides.com/112081-ingredients-roundup-weed-killer.html#ixzz1WXbJJiyE http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/08/17/rootworm-larvae-could-be-resistant-to-toxin-in-geneticallymodified-crops/ http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/08/monsanto-gm-super-insects http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122498255 http://www.safelawns.org/blog/index.php/2011/03/admitting-the-failure-of-roundup-ready-crops-dow-plans-further-genetic-mutation/ http://www.lightparty.com/Health/GeneticFoods.html

US Energy Department panel endorses shale fracking, suggests pumping ground with millions of gallons of chemical water will help save environment

(NaturalNews) Hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” for the purpose of extracting natural gas from the earth involves flooding it with millions of gallons of chemical-laden water, a practice that by all estimates is damaging the environment to some extent. But a US Energy Department (ED) advisory panel, which happens to be padded with members connected to the natural gas industry, insists that fracking is safe, and even contends that it will help to lower the carbon dioxide emissions allegedly responsible for so-called climate change. A recent report in The Washington Post (WP) explains the ED panel’s notion that, despite continual outcry over fracking operations polluting rivers and groundwater supplies, natural gas fracking can safely continue as long as fracking companies agree to be more open about their actions, and comply with monitoring requirements that track environmental impact and make this information publicly available. But in an industry that is already knowingly hiding the truth about its polluting activities — and secretly dumping its toxic waste directly into the environment, for instance — it is naive for ED committee members to purport that simply telling drilling companies to be more forthcoming is going to have a substantially beneficial impact. Fracking, no matter how closely monitored, pollutes the environment in devastating ways. In order to release oil and gas from shale rock deep underground, giant machines must force large amounts of water, sand, chemicals, and radioactive elements deep into the earth’s upper crust in order to crack the rock that potentially holds this valuable fuel. But in the process, the resultant radioactive chemical cocktail seeps into water tables, wells, rivers, and lakes, as well as the various drinking water supplies to which these sources are fed. Even if the fracking industry suddenly decides to be more open and honest about the fact that drilling fluids are severely contaminating soil and water, the only thing that will change is that now everyone will be aware of it. Thanks to an energy bill passed by Congress back in 2005 that exempts the natural gas drilling industry from having to comply with the US Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), fracking operations are free to pollute as much as they please — they just might have to disclose this fact at some point in the future. The Shale Gas Subcommittee of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SGS) which put out the recent report endorsing fracking does not even address this SDWA exemption. As a result, its recommendations are meaningless in all practical terms, as they will do absolutely nothing to stop the tide of environmental pollution being spewed by the fracking industry. Current water purification techniques are unable to capture methane and radon, for instance, both of which come from fracking. Consequently, drinking water supplies throughout Pennsylvania, which is a fracking hot spot due to its location in the Marcellus Shale Formation region, are becoming increasingly toxic with no end in sight. So as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues its ongoing investigation into the environmental impacts of fracking, the SGS committee comes along and makes a few useless recommendations that it says will address the problems with fracking, but that in reality will do absolutely nothing to solve them. At least six SGS committee members have ties to the natural gas industry The mindless recommendations made by SGS in support of the fracking industry make a lot more sense, however, in light of the industries to which many of its members are connected. According to a recent report issued by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), at least six SGS committee members are known to have connections to the oil and gas industries. Signed by 28 scientists from 22 universities and institutions in 13 states, all of whom object to the SGS panel’s recommendations, the EWG report explains that Chairman John Deutch, Stephen Holditch, Kathleen McGinty, Susan Tierney, Daniel Yergin, and Mark Zoback all have financial ties to the oil and gas industries, a blatant conflict of interest for a committee that is supposed to offer unbiased counsel to the ED. SGS Chairman John Deutch, for instance, currently serves on the board of the natural gas firm Cheniere Energy. According to the WP, Deutch was paid more than $1.4 million by both Cheniere and Schlumberger, another oil and gas firm, between 2006 and 2009. And Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who was appointed directly by President Obama, chose Deutch for the SGS Chairman position knowing full well his connections to the oil and gas industries. So just like the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is filled with officials connected to the pharmaceutical industry, and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), which is filled with officials connected to the biotechnology industry, the Energy Department, is filled with officials connected to the oil and gas industries. And so it goes in the “land of the free,” where special interests run the government and its powerful regulatory agencies. Driven by greed and an insatiable lust for power, corporate snakes have quietly infiltrated the very agencies that were designed to protect the interests of the people, and have restructured them to serve corporate interests instead. Sources for this story include: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/energy-department-panel-to-endorse-shale-gas-exploration/2011/08/10/gIQAXqbh7I_story.html

Interview with Sally Fallon from the Weston A Price Foundation

(NaturalNews) Sally Fallon Morell is the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a non-profit nutrition education organization. Weston A. Price was a dentist, a cultural researcher and author of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration . He discovered that every society on planet Earth began to experience a rapid decline in dental health and physical integrity when its population began to consume western processed foods (bleached flour, corn syrup, pasteurized milk, etc.). I spoke with Sally Fallon the day after the Rawesome Foods raid, where Victoria Bloch, a representative of the Weston A. Price Foundation, was arrested by government agents and charged with conspiracy. That “conspiracy,” it turns out, was a conspiracy to advocate raw milk and dairy products! You can listen to my complete interview with Sally Fallon at: http://snd.sc/nrPlAb Here’s some of what you’ll find in the interview: • Details on the arrest of Victoria Bloch and the charge of “conspiracy” that was leveled against her. • California’s 40-year secret war on the raw milk industry. • Principles of the Weston A. Price dietary guidelines (which include consuming pasture-raised animals). • Why the industrial agricultural system is not just cruel to animals but also cruel to the humans who eat the food produced by that system. • Details on other armed SWAT-style raids against farmers and their families. • Why there needs to be a counter suit against the government agents who masterminded the Rawesome Foods raids. • Why natural selection will remove from the gene pool those people who eat dead processed foods and avoid high-density superfoods. Listen to more interviews from the Health Ranger at: www.SoundCloud.com/naturalnews Click the PLAY button on the object below to hear the interview without leaving this page: 2011 Interview Sally Fallon Raw Milk by NaturalNews

There may be a Rapture, but it won’t be this Saturday

(NaturalNews) You’ve probably heard the news that the Biblical Rapture is supposed to happen tomorrow (Saturday), May 21, 2011. A minister from the group Family Radio Worldwide has raised a lot of attention lately, campaigning from city to city with the message that the Rapture is coming this Saturday. Those who have accepted Christ will ascend to Heaven, the narrative goes, while those who have not will be “left behind.” It’s all supposed to happen this Saturday. There is truth to Minister Harold Camping’s message, but the date is wrong. The collapse of modern civilization and the spiritual enlightenment of humanity isn’t something that will happen in one day or even one week. Rather, it’s something we are already living through right now . Read my story 14 signs that the collapse of our modern world has already begun at http://www.naturalnews.com/032258_economic_collapse_2012.html Over the weekend, the spiritually-advanced are not vanishing into Heaven. You’ll see all the same people still here on Monday morning (unless they decide to go out in some other way, of course). And the world will still be pretty much all jacked up on Monday morning, too. While it would be nice if the Rapture happened in one instant, the frustrating truth is that we are all witness to the long, drawn-out transition in human history that will see the collapse of evil (corporations, rogue governments, etc.) and a new awakening in the human mind and spirit. The story of Rapture The story of the Rapture is, I believe, a metaphor for the actual events we will witness with our own eyes. Much of the Biblical scripture is, of course, written in the form of a metaphorical lesson. What is meant by accepting Christ is, in a larger sense, the idea of embracing love and compassion in your heart rather than pursuing greed, destruction and selfish desires. Most of the human world today operates on principles of greed and destruction. That’s the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA, the chemical manufacturers and even how most of the top CEOs clawed their way to the top of the corporate ladder. That system of exploitative self interest will not last. It will sooner or later collapse along with much of what we now call “modern human civilization.” The truth is that we are living through the collapse right now . It has already begun, and it will continue for quite a few more years before there is a real awakening. From observing the state of our world today, I have no doubt things are going to get a lot worse before they begin to turn around and get better. Humanity needs to grow up Today, the human race is an infant race with very little wisdom and no maturity. It is a race of arrogant little children who play with nuclear power (and nuclear weapons), who rape the planet of its resources and who endanger all forms of natural life on the planet. These are the traits of an infant race that hasn’t yet learned how to act like adults. The great awakening that is coming will see the human race advance a bit. From catastrophe comes wisdom… if anyone is paying attention, that is. And there is a lot of catastrophe coming our way soon. Much is it is truly Biblical in its scale. We’re already seen the unleashing of floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and tornadoes in just the last few months. Many of those events exceed what would normally be expected to occur over 500 years or so. Perhaps even a thousand years. But that’s only the beginning. Now we have to deal with the genetic contamination of our food crops that has been unleashed through the pursuit of GMOs (http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=29315DF17DC44267949234EA7262ED2F). We also have to deal with the mass chemical contamination of the human race, the oceans, the waterways and virtually all the agricultural land in the world. We have deforested the Amazon, ravaged ocean ecosystems, burned through most of the world’s petroleum supply, and crippled basic human rights through oppressive governments. In the eyes of God, human civilization has so far proved itself to be a wretched bunch of little children with virtually no understanding of the true nature of the universe (and no respect for life). Heck, to this day, most of the conventional scientific community still obscenely denies the existence of the human soul, the mind, free will and even consciousness! (http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=E3B38227225F9FC62BAEA9CC81BE1D12) The Rapture is a time of great transition, not a weekend event A sudden Rapture would sure be convenient if it did take place on Saturday. In one Biblical moment, all the good people ascend to a higher realm of spirituality while all the evil people are left to suffer with each other on the material plane. It has a kind of poetic justice to it. But I’m afraid that very little in our universe is so instantly gratifying. The Rapture is simply not a weekend event. It is a transitional time when human civilization goes from being a moronic infant race of mindless destroyers to a slightly wiser, more adult race that begins to truly embrace the deeper truths about life, spirit and reality. And by the way, just because someone goes to church doesn’t mean they would be automatically included in the spiritual ascension promised by the Rapture. There are more than a few false Christians running around these days — people who go to church on Sunday but betray their fellow man Monday through Saturday. They treat their own bodies like junk food repositories, violating one of the most important tenants of religious instruction, which is to treat your body as a temple, not a chemical playground. If there is a Rapture, it’s going to be based on who you truly are, through your actions and thoughts , not the fakery that far too many people put forward in public. Just clocking in your attendance at church is not a free pass to anything in the spiritual realm. You actually have to live with love and compassion in your heart and act upon that in your daily life. Even if there were a Rapture, I wouldn’t mind sticking around here on planet Earth for a while. I enjoy the berries, for one thing. And I don’t mind spending another few years inhabiting a physical body. It might also be amusing to sit back and watch all the lower morons of humanity try to figure out what to do as a Biblical transition unfolds. Plus, on top of that, I’ve got plenty of zombie ammo (http://www.naturalnews.com/032454_zombie_apocalypse_CDC.html). Shooting zombies does not violate the Ten Commandments, I’ve been told, because they are beings of darkness. I say this in jest, of course. Because there won’t be a Rapture this Saturday anyway. As I’ve already explained, the Rapture is really more of a metaphor for a time of tumultuous transition, and the duration of it is far longer than one day. Metaphor as teacher The Bible has a lot of valuable lessons to teach about morality, ethics and spirituality. But the language of the Bible is sometimes a riddle. It’s not always a literal explanation. Adam didn’t necessarily take a bite out of a physical apple, for example. That Garden of Eden story was allegory for a far deeper overview of good versus evil. The “forbidden fruit” was almost certainly not a piece of fruit. The “Tree of Knowledge” was probably not a physical tree. Although many people can certainly interpret the Bible literally (and some choose to do so), it is readily apparent that its teachings hold far deeper meanings and lessons that are not readily evident if you take every word literally. Even then, there’s nothing in the Bible that literally says the Rapture will happen on May 21, 2011. Even that is a somewhat far-reaching human interpretation of some of the Bibles passages. As you will surely see by Sunday, May 22, that interpretation was a misinterpretation of the scripture, not something plainly written on God’s calendar. We are spiritual beings This sudden publicity of the Rapture, however, is a useful reminder that we are all spiritual beings experiencing a temporary life as a physical human, and that in this lifetime our actions matter . There is a judgment, or a “karma” if you will, that stays with us beyond this earthly lifespan. The decisions we make — to honor life or destroy it; to assist others or betray them; to help others versus only helping ourselves — become part of our “galactic record.” And the impact of those decisions will no doubt come back to us many times over, either positive or negative, depending on what we have chosen to pursue. This is why I have no hesitations serving my role as NaturalNews editor, working hard to teach people about healing, about freedom, and about moving human civilization forward to a brighter future. The protests of the soulless science skeptics, the criticisms of the mainstream journalists and the threats by all the pharma and chemical companies who we have called out as destroyers of life on our planet are but minor distractions in the bigger picture. Those sad souls will have to answer for their own sins against life. And the Hell they are creating for themselves is a Hell I would not wish upon any being. What I know is that I continue to act, each and every day, in the protection of life on our planet — through articles, videos, cartoons and even music. To serve the protection of life and the advancement of meaningful knowledge in our world is, in a very real sense, to serve a higher purpose and a higher power. It is, quite literally, to serve God. That why, Rapture or no Rapture, I’ll be here on Sunday and all next week, continuing my efforts to fight against the diabolical evils of our world while promoting the higher truths of life, consciousness, free will and personal responsibility. And I’m not afraid to call out the mindless, soulless agents of evil in the scientific community, or government, or the corporate world. I’m not afraid to tell the truth because I know that we will all ultimately be judged on the truth, not the fictions some people attempt to weave. For however long I am blessed with life on this planet, I intend to use it wholly in the protection of other life on our planet. I think that’s all we can ever do. If we live a life with purpose that serves a higher good, then it hardly matters whether the end of life as we know it comes today, tomorrow or in fifty years. As far as this weekend’s plan goes, I have some seeds to plant and baby chickens to take care of (which you’ll soon see on video).

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