Pharma-backed legislation to allow secret vaccinations of children without parental consent about to become law in California

(NaturalNews) Growing and widespread public awareness about the dangers associated with vaccines has naturally resulted in the steady decline of this once-lucrative sector of conventional “medicine.” And in a desperate effort to preserve the financial viability of vaccines, Big Pharma has switched gears and is now attempting to legislate the secret vaccination of young children without parental consent — and we must band together now to stop this horrendous affront to health freedom from becoming law. According to The Healthy Home Economist (HHE), California’s Assembly Bill 499 has already quietly passed both the California House and Senate, and today sits on the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown where it awaits his signature. The bill, which is only a single page in length, contains specific language that will allow children as young as 12 to opt for sexually-transmitted disease (STD) vaccines like HPV (Gardasil, Cervarix), Hepatitis B, and any future vaccines developed to treat STDs, without having to attain parental consent. You can view a full copy of the bill, as it was passed, here: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_499&sess=CUR&house=B Apparently devoid of all conscience, soul, and any trace of respect for human life and dignity, the drug industry is now resorting to new lows to force its deadly vaccines on the unsuspecting public. If Big Pharma cannot convince people to take the deadly shots of their own free will, then the poisons must be secretly injected into the weakest and most vulnerable members of society, the children, without their parents knowing about it. Drug giant Merck and Co. attempted a similar approach back in 2007 when it influenced political lackey Gov. Rick Perry to sign an egregious executive order mandating that all young girls in the Lone Star State receive the HPV vaccine Gardasil upon being enrolled in school. Since that effort ultimately failed, a new and more devious tactic was inevitably the next course of action (http://www.naturalnews.com/033571_Rick_Perry_HPV_vaccines.html). Also, be sure to watch the important YouTube video linked at HHE, which explains a little bit more about the situation and the bill: http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/2011/09/secret-vaccination-of-children-with-no-parental-consent/ HHE is urging everyone to immediately begin flooding Gov. Brown’s office with calls and faxes of opposition to the unconstitutional and illegal passage of Assembly Bill 499: Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 445-2841 Fax: (916) 558-3160

Exclusive: NaturalNews obtains documents proving FDA abducted an American citizen in illegal war against herbal cancer cures

(NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration masterminded an illegal international abduction of an American citizen as part of its illegal war against natural cancer treatment products, NaturalNews can now reveal. (This is an exclusive NaturalNews story, so please credit NaturalNews as the source.) Gregory Caton, an herbal product formulator living in Ecuador, was kidnapped at gunpoint in 2007, forced onto an American Airlines commercial jet in Guayaquil, and flown to Miami as part of an “extraordinary rendition” operation which involved U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials knowingly providing false information to Interpol (among other crimes) and recruiting FBI agents who illegally operated on the ground in Ecuador. This revelation fits the pattern of rising criminality throughout the U.S. federal government, where even the ATF was recently caught running guns into Mexico and specifically arming Mexican drug gangs as part of its now-exposed Fast and Furious operation (http://www.naturalnews.com/032934_ATF_illegal_firearms.html). NaturalNews has now acquired documentation proving that Greg Caton was illegally stalked and then abducted in Ecuador by U.S. State Department agents who bribed local officials and military personnel in Ecuador to help carry out the criminal acts. Some of those co-conspirators within the Ecuadorian government are named below. The documentation proving all this hinges on Greg Caton’s Direccion Nacional De Migracion report, which can be viewed at: http://www.naturalnews.com/images/Policia-Nacional-Del-Ecuador-Scan2.jpg The Ecuadorian migratory report As a former resident of Ecuador, I have considerable personal knowledge and experience on the workings of the Ecuadorian government. All foreign residents of Ecuador have their travel entry and exit events recorded in something called a “migratory report” or a “movement report.” This report records what day you entered or exited the country, allowing immigration officials to accurately calculate your visa status. (Ecuador has a very serious problem with illegal immigrants from Peru, Colombia and surrounding nations, so it tracks immigration movement quite diligently.) If you leave Ecuador, your exit is processed through immigration. This is unlike the USA, where you can fly out of the country without passing through immigration checkpoints. In Ecuador, they have tighter controls on people leaving the country, and they record the date that you left. So any person leaving the country through any lawful process must have an exit event recorded on their migration movement report . The movement report of Greg Caton, however, shows no official recognition that he ever left Ecuador in 2007. That’s because he was kidnapped by U.S. officials who violated international law and violated Ecuador’s own legal process in forcibly removing Greg Caton from Ecuador. This document proves it. Notably, Greg Caton was not doing anything considered illegal by Ecuador. In fact, the idea of creating your own herbal salve products using plants from Mother Nature is considered perfectly normal throughout Central and South America. The idea that someone could be branded an “international criminal” for selling a plant-based cancer salve is considered ludicrous! Ecuador actually welcomed Greg Caton because he was manufacturing his Casema product there, hiring workers and providing jobs for Ecuadorian locals. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, on the other hand, which is a criminal racketeering organization that protects the financial interests of the drug companies, has always tried to paint herbalists as criminals (see below). The proof that Caton was illegally kidnapped: Extraordinary rendition Examine Greg’s movement report: http://www.naturalnews.com/images/Policia-Nacional-Del-Ecuador-Scan2.jpg To read it correctly, you need to realize that Ecuador uses the DD/MM/YYYY format for dates. So 02/09/2007 does not mean February ninth, but rather September second. “Fecha” means date, and you can clearly see the date on this report is September 7 , 2011 (it was produced just last week, when Caton returned to Ecuador). The last movement recorded on this document is from September 2, 2007 , showing he entered Guayaquil from the United States four years ago. Importantly, there is no record that Greg Caton ever left Ecuador when he was abducted by U.S. State Dept. officials. In fact, as far as Ecuador was concerned, Greg Caton had never left the country at all. Of course, in reality, he has spent roughly the last two years sitting in prison in Louisiana , because once U.S. officials successfully kidnapped and flew Caton back to the United States, they threw him in prison to serve out the remaining two years on his probation sentence. Caton was convicted of selling “unapproved drugs,” you see. And those unapproved drugs were none other than the plant-based anti-cancer herbal salves that have, for decades, infuriated both the FDA and the AMA. These are the same herbal formulas advocated by Harry Hoxsey, who was intimidated and threatened by the AMA many decades ago (www.HarryHoxsey.com). Hoxsey is the cancer cure pioneer featured in the book When Healing Becomes a Crime co-authored by Kenny Ausubel (http://www.amazon.com/When-Healing-Becomes-Crime-Alternative/dp/0892819251). It is an extraordinary book about how the medical establishment condemned, threatened and then outright criminalized the efforts of Hoxsey to offer an alternative cancer cure that really worked. Not much has changed in almost a hundred years, it seems, as the FDA is still engaged in outright criminal behavior in order to achieve its aims of destroying any person who attempts to sell cancer cures that are safe, effective and affordable. This is why the FDA went after Greg Caton in the first place, and the lengths to which the FDA has gone to persecute this individual demonstrate just how terrified the agency really is of people who try to educate the public on the truth about cancer . What truth is that? Cancer can be cured. Numerous cures already exist right now, and Greg Caton offered one of them in his Cansema product. There are many others. FDA provided false information to Interpol As part of its effort to criminalize Caton, the FDA conspired with the U.S. Dept. of Justice to provide false information to Interpol, the international criminal investigation group. Through this false information effort, the FDA managed to get Greg Caton listed as an international fugitive who was wanted for “drug-related crimes.” He was even given a “red notice” status which is normally reserved for mass murderers, serial rapists and escaped war criminals. This is all detailed in an article I wrote in 2009: http://www.naturalnews.com/027750_Greg_Caton_FDA.html There, I wrote: NaturalNews contacted Interpol to inquire as to how Gregory Caton, an herbal formulator violating nothing more than probation, could have been listed with Interpol as a wanted international fugitive with a so-called “Red Notice” — Interpol’s highest alert level. This is the kind of alert level someone like Osama Bin Laden might normally merit with Interpol. We were told by the U.S. Interpol office (under the DOJ), “those individuals placed on a Most Wanted List are the ones who have allegedly committed the most heinous of crimes for a very long period of time.” In other words, the Interpol “Red Notice” designation — which was applied to Greg Caton’s listing — is never applied to people who merely skip probation. The Greg Caton listing with Interpol, NaturalNews learned, was off protocol. Someone, it seemed, had managed to exploit the DOJ / Interpol system to get Caton listed as an international fugitive when he was merely guilty of skipping out on the last 18 months of his probation. To make the Interpol listing sound more serious, paperwork was submitted to Interpol decision makers that listed Caton’s offenses as “drugs related crimes, fraud.” Caton places on World’s Most Wanted list with Osama Bin Laden In addition to that Interpol stunt, the FDA managed to get Greg Caton listed alongside Osama Bin Laden on Parade Magazine’s “World’s Most Wanted” list, which you can see here: As you can see, this list features mass murderers, Ponzi scheme operators, defense contractor bribery con men, rapists and other outrageous criminals. And then there’s Gregory Caton, who is falsely described as “convicted of selling fake, harmful cancer drugs… to duped consumers.” Gee, that actually describes the entire chemotherapy industry! As a point in fact, Greg Caton was selling real cancer cures to fully-informed consumers, many of which had their lives saved by Cansema! It is through the FDA’s outright lies and false propaganda efforts that Greg Caton even made it onto this “World’s Most Wanted” list. But of course, the U.S. government is all about promoting counterfeits while attacking anything that’s real. I wrote a whole story on this called the Counterfeit Culture (http://www.naturalnews.com/033491_counterfeit_culture.html). Remember when the U.S. government recently raided a small company that manufactured gold coins (Liberty coins) and then claimed that gold coins were “fake” while paper dollars were real? (http://www.infowars.com/feds-may-seize-liberty-dollars/). This is the kind of “reality reversals” in which the U.S. federal government is now steeped as part of its runaway criminality. If all this continues, we’re going to see the World’s Most Wanted list soon listing organic gardeners, raw dairy farmers and non-GMO seed sellers. They’re all criminals in the evil eyes of the FDA, you see. Make no mistake: The U.S. government is a criminal organization Now, thanks to the migratory movement report from Ecuador, we now know with certainty that the U.S. government plotted and carried out the criminal abduction of Gregory Caton from Ecuador, violating U.S. law and Ecuadorian law, and completely denying Greg Caton his rights. If the U.S. had followed the law, it would have worked through the legal system in Ecuador to apply for extradition, then it would have argued in favor of extradition during Ecuadorian court proceedings. This is the normal extradition process pursued under international law. But the U.S. government, of course, completely bypassed lawful extradition proceedings and simply kidnapped Greg Caton using armed Ecuadorian military personnel who were bribed into taking part in this insidious FDA plot. Other criminal violations of Greg Caton’s rights Here are details on some of the other criminal acts pursued by the U.S. government against Greg Caton, in total violation of his legal rights: • U.S. agents convinced Ecuadorian officials to create a warrant by a “Fiscal” (prosecutor) of Migration with investigative matters, even though Greg Caton did not commit any crime in Ecuadorian territory. • Judge Angel Rubio, the presiding judge in Ecuador, after reviewing the facts of the case, issued an immediate release order for Caton. In other words, the result of the extradition hearing was that Judge Rubio did not find any evidence against him. There was no evidence presented that Mr. Caton had done anything that would warrant his extradition. This order was never fulfilled, as U.S. agents simply threw Caton onto an American Airlines airplane and fly him out of the country (illegally). Caton legal rights as a legal permanent resident of the country of Ecuador were completely violated. • The police officer, Captain Wilson Reyes of the Ecuadorean National Police, deprived Caton of his freedom for more than 24 hours without the benefit of trial, imprisoning him for a period of time that exceeds the time allotted by Ecuadorian law, before the benefit of his extradition hearing. He did not allow Caton any change of clothes, or access to food. • No one read Caton his rights in his native language, as required by Ecuadorian law. Instead, Reyes relied upon information from an Interpol alert that stated that Caton was fluent in English, Spanish, and Russian , none of which is true. Caton’s only language of fluency is his native one: English. • Greg Caton was put on an American Airlines plane — Flight # 952 on Friday, December 11, 2009 — thereby illegally deporting him. When Caton asked Reyes where they were going, after being taken from the prison in Guayaquil, Reyes stated in clear, understandable English that he was being taken to see the judge for his hearing. Instead of taking Caton to his hearing, Reyes took Caton immediately to Guayaquil International Airport. He was deported on a non-stop flight from Guayaquil to Miami. About an hour before the flight, Caton was able to acquire cell phone and notify his wife of what was transpiring. Calls were made to Caton’s legal team which resulted in none other than the Tenth Judge of Criminal Guarantees, Dr. Edgar Salazar Vera, who requested that Caton — who by that time was on the tarmac — be immediately released. The plane’s pilot refused to release him, claiming to be on American territory , even though the plane was clearly sitting in Ecuador. Thus, an American Airlines pilot refused to honor the orders of an Ecuadorian judge on Ecuadorian territory. • Greg was escorted by two Ecuadorian policemen, one of whom was Capitan Wilson Reyes, who himself refused to obey the order from an Ecuadorian judge. Thus, Reyes committed treason by opting to follow orders by the U.S. State Dept. over those of an Ecuadorian federal judge. FBI agents spotted as part of the illegal abduction operation in Ecuador In addition to U.S. State Dept. agents who took part in the illegal abduction and kidnapping of Gregory Caton, FBI agents were found to be involved in a manhunt to find Greg. What follows is a police report (translated into English) filed in Ecuador by a local Ecuadorian citizen who was hassled by U.S. FBI agents working in conspiracy with local Ecuadorian police officials to try to find Greg Caton: (NaturalNews has the original email on file, and the date of this original email was December 15, 2008. We have removed the name of the sender of this email for their own protection.) While driving my car taking my 16 year old son to school, I was suddenly intercepted by a pickup truck: double cabin, light beige, with license plate number RYA 003. In the vehicle were 4 National Police Agents, dressed in civilian clothes. They told me they had received a report of a stolen grey Volkswagen with Pichincha license plates. I showed them the necessary documents which confirmed I was the owner of the car. I showed them my ID, passport, car documents. After that they asked for my residency papers which I showed to them and they saw that everything was in order. Since all my documents were in order, I thought I could go home. That’s when they told me I had to be detained and go to the Migration Office so they could check and compare my documents with theirs, even though I had presented all documents and all were clear and up to date. These agents said that this was routine procedure, making me sit in the back seat of their pickup truck; one agent sat with me while another one drove. Meanwhile they put my son in the back seat of my car; one agent sat in the back with him and another one drove. When we entered the Migration Office property, the doors were opened immediately to allow the vehicle to enter. The Migration Office Police recognized the agents’ faces. Once the two vehicles entered, we drove to the back side of the building through the parking lot and stopped there. They left me inside the vehicle with the doors locked, telling me I had to wait until they compared my documents with Migrations documents. They then placed four heavy black boxes on the ground on the front, sides and back of car. Meanwhile, my son was locked up in my car separated from me. Thirty minutes later, after sitting inside the car without knowing what was happening, they opened the door and told me to get out. A man approached, he looked like some kind of Migration Office authority dressed in a blue suit. He was accompanied by three Ecuadorians wearing black bullet proof vests with white FBI letters on them . The man in the suit was holding a folder and he approached me, opens the file and I notice that the first page was a document with a US Consulate or Embassy emblem on it with the heading written in English. I could see they were documents of deportation and arrest for Gregory James Caton . At that moment a man, evidently American, comes out of the Migration building wearing a light brown suit. I realized this guy had something to do with the Ecuadorian agents; he spoke to them in Spanish and ordered them to put away the folder immediately. Immediately after that, the American ordered me to go back to the vehicle and asked me in English if I knew Greg James Caton and if I knew where to find him. He said he didn’t have a problem with me and to give them Greg’s phone number. I told them I knew nothing and that even if I did, I would not tell him. This American grabbed my cell phone from my hands and gave it to the Ecuadorian agent that was dressed in a blue suit; he checked all of the numbers that were on my cell phone while the other Agent wrote them down. I was getting calls on my cell phone and the Agent was answering them. They once again put me inside the vehicle and the agent who had been at the driving wheel kept on saying, be patient, be patient and wait. The reason why they did that was to give the other agents time to get to Greg James Caton’s home in Urbanizacion Torres del Salado. That is why they took my cell from me so that I could not communicate with Greg. They saw I was irritated; I told them that all of this was going directly to the Minister of National and International Security [NAME REDACTED]. When they heard this, these police agents and the American gave me back my cell phone and they said that they didn’t want any problems with anyone. They let me go at 17h30. I will add that the Ecuadorian agents seemed quite familiar with the American; they demonstrated that his wish was their command. After this, I immediately called [NAME REDACTED] who works with me as a translator. I told her what happened. Immediately she went to Caton’s residence where she saw a brand new dark blue Ford Explorer with black windows and without license plates that had 4 agents inside, one of them wearing white FBI letters. Two other brand new silver pickups with dark windows, double cabin, without license plates with four agents inside joined them and parked in an outside of Greg James Caton’s home. The guard at the entrance to the Ubanizacion said that the agents were there to look for Greg Caton because his visa had expired, which is false because all of his documents are in order. What you are reading about here, folks, is an eyewitness account of a criminal U.S. government operation involving FBI agents illegally placed on the ground in Ecuador . This is a total violation of both U.S. law and Ecuadorian law, and I can only imagine that once President Correa of Ecuador is made aware of the full details of all this, he will be nothing less than furious. (And rightly so.) What does it all mean? What all this means is that the FDA is masterminding a shockingly large-scale international crime ring that uses FBI agents, Interpol, U.S. Marshalls, propaganda magazines and many other resources to carry out abductions, bribery, kidnapping, intimidation and other crimes — all in the name of protecting pharmaceutical profits. It is an extraordinary true story that the mainstream media absolutely refuses to cover. You will never see this story covered in the old dinosaur media. Only the alternative press dares conduct actual journalism in questioning the FDA’s actions. NaturalNews has been leading the way on this issue, exposing the criminality of the FDA, producing the documents, gathering the interviews and testimonials, and showing the true nature of this outright mob-style criminal gang known as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Every fact, every document and every allegation leveled in this story is provably true . This can only lead to the conclusion that the FDA is a rogue terrorist organization operating far outside the bounds of U.S. law, and yet it is funded by U.S. taxpayers, many of which are targeted as victims of the FDA’s intimidation schemes. The FDA knowingly engages in felony crimes (abduction, kidnapping, bribery, etc.) in order to achieve its aims, it knowingly provides false intel to Interpol in order to unlawfully frame and innocent person, and it does all this for the sole purpose of protecting the cancer industry in the United States, which is a multi-billion-dollar industry that preys upon the pain and suffering of the American people. As this example clearly shows, we are witnessing out-of-control government becoming increasingly criminal in its operations. The FDA, of course, played a pivotal role in the recent raids on Rawesome Foods in California, which resulted in three people being charged with felony crimes for the “crime” of distributing raw dairy products. (http://www.naturalnews.com/033220_Rawesome_Foods_armed_raids.html) This same government also recently raided Gibson Guitars at gunpoint, seized millions of dollars in “illegal wood” and then ordered Gibson to fire its U.S. workers and move its operations overseas (http://www.naturalnews.com/033454_Gibson_Guitar_armed_raid.html). This is all part of the U.S. government’s program to destroy the U.S. economy and create widespread unemployment in America (http://www.naturalnews.com/033506_Gibson_Guitar_American_workers.html). It’s impossible to know how many innocents have been assassinated, intimidated or falsely imprisoned by the FDA and other federal agencies, but you can bet it’s a disturbingly large number. A government that was once created to serve the People has now devolved into a gang of criminals who routinely violate the law in their quest for more police state powers over everyone else. The outright criminality of the conspiracy leveled against Greg Caton — involving the FBI, FDA and State Dept. — can of course be redirected to anyone seen as a threat to the ever-growing power base of the government itself. U.S. government is attempting to destroy America Governments are like cancers , you see — the grow like tumors, expanding their reach until they take over and kill the host. That’s why America has no real future under the current system of criminal government. Freedom is all but lost, and it can only be restored when the Republic is restored. A Republic is a nation ruled by law, not by tyrants. And America is nothing like a Republic anymore. It has devolved into a police state nation ruled by a cabal of bureaucratic criminals who carry government badges and collect government paychecks. The greatest threat to the health and freedom of the American people is government itself, far dwarfing any threat created by “terrorists.” In fact, as I recently published here on NaturalNews, there’s little doubt the federal government is currently plotting its own terrorist attacks against the American people in order to continue its fictitious narrative about “terrorism threats” and convince the people to give up yet more freedoms (http://www.naturalnews.com/033545_government_terrorism.html). Such attacks, I have publicly predicted, will most likely take place on a Monday or Tuesday. Because, think about it folks: If the U.S. government would run illegal kidnapping and abduction ops in Ecuador, do you seriously think it wouldn’t plant nuclear bombs in U.S. cities and kill a few million innocent Americans if it meant usurping more power? Do not be timid in your understand of this issue: All governments are inherently evil in that they incessantly seek to grow their power by any and all means, including the deaths of innocents. All governments see their power as far more important than your freedoms or rights, meaning governments are capable of anything if it means protecting their power or their interests. The FDA is right on board with this program of total tyranny over all things related to health and medicine. It is, technically, a Nazi-style secret police organization that seeks to expand its power at any cost, including running a domestic spy network made of women who are trained in KGB-style infiltration techniques (http://www.naturalnews.com/033428_FDA_secret_war.html). Knowing the history of human cruelty in recent years (World War II, for example), it is not a stretch to imagine armed FDA agents swarming across the countryside, targeting home gardeners and small organic farmers, then lining them up against their own barns and shooting them in the head, Nazi-style, then dumping them into makeshift graves. This is what’s coming if we don’t put a stop to the FDA’s repugnant and willful abandonment of law and its use of force and intimidation to achieve its political aims. The FDA is very, very close to becoming America’s food SS (secret police), and it has already achieved holocaust-scale death and destruction through its longstanding policies of keeping deadly chemical drugs on the market while seeking to destroy the natural products industry. Even right now, the FDA is attempting to outlaw virtually all dietary supplements in America. You absolutely need to get informed about this and read this crucial article at LEF.org: http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/0719_FDA-views-supplements-as-synthetic-food-preservatives.htm There, you can find action items to help resist the FDA’s criminal efforts and help restore food freedom in America. Also, please frequent the Alliance for Natural Health (www.ANH-USA.org) which is helping spread the word about the FDA’s dark agenda while pushing for serious regulatory reform. The ANH is doing outstanding work on the legal front, and they deserve your support. In addition, share this story on NaturalNews and raise awareness about these issues among your friends, many of which will no doubt fail to even believe this is happening at all. The American people, for the most part, simply cannot grasp the depth of enslavement under which they now labor. They live out their lives under the false belief that the FDA is somehow “protecting” them and make their food safe, while in reality, the FDA is betraying them at every opportunity and actively working to criminalize and imprison the very people who have made available natural cancer cures that really work. I can only pray that FDA operatives and bureaucrats will soon be arrested and prosecuted for their crimes against the American people. This is an agency so steeped in criminal activity and a psychopathic mindset that it is beyond saving. There is no way forward now other than the dismantle the entire FDA , convict its leaders of crimes against humanity, and find a better way to help protect the food freedoms and natural medicine options for American consumers. Every day that we allow the FDA to continue operating is another day that innocent Americans are murdered, abducted or threatened by this rogue “terrorist” agency. Shame on those many members of Congress (including ALL Democrats) who actually voted to give the FDA even more money and power under the Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed into law last December. Here is the full list of all U.S. Senators who voted to expand the FDA’s power under that bill: http://www.naturalnews.com/030577_Senate_Bill_510_voting_record.html

Playing chicken with the nation: The U.S. debt ceiling fiasco and the total abandonment of leadership in Washington

(NaturalNews) For the last few decades, it all seemed so simple for the USA: We’ll spend other people’s money, and when we run out, we’ll just borrow from yet more people. It worked for a while… until all those “other people” (foreign central banks) got sick of buying U.S. debt. So lately, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner and other arsonists at the Federal Reserve have simply been counterfeiting new money instead: A whopping $16 trillion of it in just the last couple of years. How much money is $16 trillion? Here’s a great visualization of a similar mount ($15 trillion) that really drives the point home: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us/ Now, every time the U.S. government needs more money to prevent itself from going into a total financial collapse, it turns to the Federal Reserve which simply print more money and hands it over to the government in exchange for IOUs (debt), meaning that the Fed creates money for FREE, and then the taxpayers owe it the same amount of money it just created. Huh? Yeah, it’s like that. But that’s not even the real theft issue here. By printing all this money and injecting it into the circulating money supply, the Fed devalues all the current dollars in circulation while eroding the value of the dollar-denominated paycheck you’re receiving, too. So all the money you worked for and saved is being stolen by the Fed through dollar devaluation coupled with the fact that you the taxpayer now OWE the Fed trillions more! (A double theft scam. They steal your money twice!) Why Washington loves to steal your money In Washington, our so-called “leaders” are not even negotiating a way to end this system. They love the fiat currency / Federal Reserve / counterfeit money machine system! It’s what keeps all politicians popular: Simply print more money, then spend it on their favorite pork projects while claiming to be bringing “jobs” to their local states and districts. Every corrupt government needs an unlimited stream of money (created out of nothing) in order to stay in power through perpetual spending . This is why corrupt governments always — ALWAYS — abandon the gold standard (which limits the creation of new money). That’s why Boehner, Reid, Obama and others aren’t even talking about the commonsense idea of, “Hey, how do we STOP being financially burdened by this whole system?” The answer, of course, is actually quite simple. Ron Paul already suggested it when he said, “We simply write off all the debt to the Fed.” Cancel those IOUs and let the Fed eat the loss for a change. The Fed created all that money out of nothing anyway… why should we “pay it back?” Doesn’t even make sense. Better yet, as Ron Paul has suggested, what we really need to do is end the Fed and put control of the money supply back into the hands of Congress as it was before 1913 (the year the Fed was created, which started a century of looting of the U.S. economy by global banksters). The Federal Reserve, you see, is a criminal gang of international money thieves who are now engineering a total economic collapse of the USA. This has been their plan from the very start, of course. Read “The Creature From Jeckyll Island” by Ed Griffin (http://www.realityzone.com) to learn some rather shocking details about the origins of the Fed and why it always intended to suck the money out of this nation. Or watch this amazing animation film, The American Dream at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWH5TlbloU The parasites who are destroying our financial future Globalist bankers are parasites on society, and if you give them control over your money supply, they will always find a way to loot your economy and drain the value of your currency. They’ve done it dozens of times throughout world history, and now their plot to destroy America’s currency is nearly complete. As Ron Paul has accurately stated, we are already in default . The only question now is HOW we’re going to experience the total financial blowout of the nation. There are essentially two options: Option #1) Stop sending government checks. The government goes into total default and simply collapses because it stops paying all government salaries, too. This option is not likely because option #2 is so much more devious and satisfying for control freak bureaucrats. Option #2) Keep sending out all the checks, but devalue them by printing more money under the table. This option will keep the government in business for a while longer, thereby protecting the cushy jobs of all the corrupt bureaucrats running the system. The ultimate effect of this option, however, is unavoidable: Total hyperinflation of the currency . We are almost certainly going to be dealing with option #2. The crooks in Washington will find a way to keep raising the debt ceiling, keep printing more money, and keep eroding the savings and benefits of all the taxpayers while they oversee the greatest financial collapse in the history of human civilization . What will happen when the collapse comes? This outcome is now all but certain. It is only a matter of timing: For how long can they keep printing fiat currency? For how long can they keep eroding the value of the dollar without the people rioting in anger? To extend this time and try to keep things under control, the U.S. government will put troops on the streets , increase the police state surveillance, and do everything in its power to try to stop riots from breaking out. As I stated on the Alex Jones Show last night (www.PrisonPlanet.TV), if the American people fully realized what was really happening with the Federal Reserve and the money supply, they would be rioting right now! It is only ignorance of the truth that keeps the nation’s wage slaves working away in their dimly-lit offices, oblivious to the reality of what is unfolding around them (and how they’re being royally ripped off). From an historical perspective, by the way, we are watching the financial collapse of a great empire . It is happening before our very eyes, in slow motion. We are learning, yet again, what happens when you put a bunch of corrupt socialists in charge of a nation and allow them to confiscate the wages of the workers (social security) and tax the businesses out of existence. The corporate elite, of course, pay virtually no tax (GE, Google, etc.) while the real tax burden is thrust upon all the medium and small businesses where business owners are just barely scraping. The whole point of this engineered financial collapse (and yes, it is engineered) is to confiscate all the wealth of the working class and concentrate it in the hands of the ultra wealthy elite. It is to leave the working class people destitute, starving, jobless and totally enslaved while the global elite have all the money, all the power and all the control — even control over the food supply. Five years ago, such talk would have been considered loony conspiracy fear mongering, but today, virtually everyone can now see it unfolding just as we warned. In Washington right now, the crooks are trying to figure out how to avoid an imminent financial collapse of the government , which could be just a handful of days away. They will resolve this short-term crisis, by the way. The government won’t collapse on August 2nd. But the eventual financial collapse will only be made worse by a higher debt ceiling and the continued out-of-control spending by a government that has long abandoned any real sense of serving the People. This government will not stop its debt addiction until it is forced to stop either through a popular revolt or a total financial collapse (or a military coup, for that matter). I can only hope that NaturalNews readers have the wisdom and the foresight to recognize what’s coming and plan accordingly. If you don’t yet have my audio course, Be Prepared, Not Scared – Financial Preparedness , then you may want to consider it now more than ever before. For less than the price of a full tank of gas, you can learn some extremely valuable insider knowledge of what’s coming and how to insulate yourself against the collapse of the dollar (which will leave most Americans penniless). I don’t give out that course for free because twenty years of business experience has taught me that most people don’t value something they get for free . So we charge a nominal fee, and we offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee so that you know it’s worth every penny. In the coming collapse, the information you learn in this course can save your assets and keep you financially alive. Get details at: http://premium.naturalnews.tv/Be_Prepared_Not_Scared_Financial_Preparedness__NN.htm Once you get the course, you can download the MP3 files, listen to them, and (YES!) share them with family members so they’re informed, too. A financial crisis is upon us. Most people are asleep at the wheel and don’t realize what’s coming. The August 2nd deadline is just a warning sign, but not the big collapse. While the USA may still be able to run on financial fumes for several more years, there is now absolutely no question that those fumes will eventually fade out, and the total financial implosion of the American empire will soon follow.

The debt ceiling fiasco: It’s not about compromise; it’s about principle

(NaturalNews) An armed man approaches an innocent old lady on the street, shoves his gun in her face and screams, “Give me everything you own!” The little old lady, flummoxed but determined, angrily answers back, “Screw you! I’m not giving you one red cent!” The mugger pauses for a moment and then retorts, “Well then let’s compromise. Just give me all the money you’re carrying right now and we’ll call it even!” This is the nature of the Democrats’ “compromise” over the looming debt ceiling. Over the last three days, we’ve heard that word belligerently repeated over and over: “Compromise! Compromise! Compromise!” And yet all their compromise will really deliver to us is a compromised future where spending remains completely out of control and our children inherit total financial bankruptcy. Some compromise, huh? Maybe we don’t need a compromise . Maybe what we need is to stand firm on principle . In this case, I’m talking about the principle of living within your means . Taking responsibility for your spending. Honoring the taxpayers by not eroding the value of their own dollars with incessant Federal Reserve “quantitative easing” (just a code phrase for counterfeiting money and dumping it into circulation). Standing firm on principle takes more courage than compromise Compromise is not always the answer. If a heroin addict is at a recovery center and says to the doctor there, “I want 10 hits of heroin today” and the doctor says, “You’ll get zero,” then it’s certainly not a good idea to “compromise” with the addict by giving him five hits of heroin. When an addiction is out of control, compromise is destructive, not constructive. And America’s debt spending is, much like a heroin junky, an out-of-control addiction. We’re addicted to debt, and too many people in Washington (both Democrats and Republicans, by the way) don’t really want to quit that addiction. They just want more hits, which is the whole purpose of raising the debt ceiling. Increased spending results in increased power, you see. The more money the government pays out to the citizens in “benefits,” the more control it has over their lives. And the more money the government spends on military spending or other projects, the more easily members of Congress can funnel taxpayer dollars into the pockets of their evil corporate campaign supporters. No government ever wants to get smaller. It always wants to grow and expand, consuming all the resources around it like a runaway cancer tumor . It is the very nature of power to seek expansion of its own power. What America needs right now is radical cancer surgery to remove the tumor. That tumor is made up of power-hungry bureaucrats, lawmakers, and federal officials who all want to expand their power, collect more money and leave less on the table for the taxpayers who are footing the entire bill. And right now as we watch Boehner, Obama and Reid argue over the debt ceiling, we are really watching three cancer tumor cells argue over how to divvy up the rest of the healthy tissue they’ve already infected . To expect Big Government to solve the problems caused by Big Government is to expect cancer tumors to magically and spontaneously create their own cancer cures. It’s just not gonna happen, folks. Even full-blown chemotherapy couldn’t bring down this runaway debt spending monstrosity… The cure for cancerous government growth The cure for Big Government can only be found in the People, not in government itself. This is why America was founded on the idea that when government becomes too oppressive, too powerful or too arrogant, it is the right and the duty of the People to seize control and bring that government back down to a reasonable size — all while reminding the government to “fear the People” (and serve the People) rather than trying to enslave the People. That’s where this is all headed: A massive social revolt against Big Government’s ineptitude, arrogance and cancer-like tendencies. Because even if a new debt ceiling is reached by August 2nd (and it probably will be), that doesn’t change the fact that the problem of runaway debt spending still looms over us… nor the fact that the Federal Reserve is gutting our economy , looting our nation and stealing our purchasing power away from us while stuffing the pockets of rich banksters with trillions of dollars in money that actually should belong to the American people. We have been robbed blind, my friends. We have mugged at gunpoint, essentially, by the Fed, Big Government and the incompetent fools (criminals?) in Washington who claim to be working on your behalf while laughing their way down the halls of the Capitol building. They are crooks who make the crimes of Richard Nixon pale in comparison. Real change may still be possible There’s only one member of Congress today who has the vision, the integrity, and the understanding of economics and the money supply to steer us away from the massive financial catastrophe that lays ahead, and his name is Ron Paul . Only Ron Paul gives us even a chance of making it through this financial challenge without a total collapse, and even Paul himself will admit it may already be too late regardless of who is in the White House. Support Ron Paul at www.RonPaul2012.com — or get ready for a total financial blowout that will leave most Americans penniless and rioting in the streets. It’s coming, folks. The incompetence in Washington has potentially reached a point of no return. The thieving Federal Reserve criminals and Wall Street banksters have stolen your wealth without you even knowing it. The end of the dollar approaches. The end of America as we know it won’t be far behind. Today we stand on the verge of financial doom, and all the Democrats can demand is that we “compromise” yet again. It’s time to end the compromises. It’s time to stand for principle — to stand up against runaway debt spending, against the criminal money creation of the Fed, and against the crooks and cowards who claim to be “leading” America today. I say it’s time for a real leader who stands firm on principle — a man like Rep. Ron Paul. I personally endorse Ron Paul as the only Presidential candidate who stands on principle. He is perhaps the last true leader left in Washington, and he needs your support. www.RonPaul2012.com

US government spends millions administering street drugs to monkeys in the name of research

(NaturalNews) Government abuse and waste of taxpayer dollars takes many forms. Perhaps one of the most outrageous is the countless millions that are spent in the form of grants that fund “scientific research.” A recent report by CNS News explains that, just in the past decade, the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has spent more than $3.6 million on research involving the administration of street drugs like cocaine and heroin to innocent monkeys, whose behaviors are then observed over lengthy periods of time. The purpose of such research, of course, sounds pretty good on paper. By studying the “physiological effects” of the drugs on monkeys, both researchers and the government claim that better drug treatment models for humans will eventually be developed. But does endlessly funding the same seemingly-obvious studies, where monkeys are trained to develop serious drug addition, really achieve anything significant or breakthrough? In 2001, for instance, the NIH gave more than $328,000 to a drug research project initiated by Dr. Marilyn E. Carroll, a psychiatry professor from the University of Minnesota. Entitled “A Primate Model of Drug Abuse: Intervention Strategies,” Carroll’s study, which is still taking place, involves feeding rhesus monkeys cocaine, ethanol, heroin, methadone, and phencyclidine (PCP), and observing how these drugs affect the menstrual cycle of female monkey, among other things. The findings, which basically confirm what everyone already knows about drug addiction, are obvious, but the NIH is still funding the project to this day, having recently supplied another $386,907 in funding back in March. “My research is directed toward developing behavioral and pharmacological methods of reducing and preventing drug abuse,” writes Carroll on her website in defense of the research. “Animals are trained to self-administer drugs that humans abuse, and several phases of the addiction process are modeled, such as acquisition, maintenance, withdrawal, craving, and relapse.” When asked by CNS News how it would explain to the average American household, which according to the US Census Bureau earns roughly $52,000 a year, how it justifies spending millions on such research, the NIH claims it will eventually alleviate “the financial burden on society caused by drug addition” by discovering new treatment solutions. Dr. Carroll, however, who was asked the same question via telephone voice mail and email, never provided a response to CNS News. Sources for this story include: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spent-36-million-research-studies-d

At-cost special on certified organic Chia seeds offered by the NaturalNews Store – 60% off retail

(NaturalNews) As a way of saying thank you to NaturalNews readers, we have arranged for a one-time ridiculous discount on certified organic chia seeds that allows you to get them AT OUR COST. Yes, we don’t profit a dime on this , and the savings for you are incredible. Why are we doing this when it makes us zip? Keep reading… A one-pound bag of certified organic chia seeds normally retails for $8.95 a pound. At times, you can find them on sale for more like $7 a pound. But for just the next few days, the NaturalNews Store is bringing you certified organic chia seeds at the uber-ridiculous price of $3.51 a pound! (In a 3-pound pack.) OVER 60% OFF the typical retail price This is not a typo, and these are not reject chia seeds or anything like that. These are the very same premium certified organic chia seeds being sold day to day at health food stores and online retailers like Amazon.com. This offer is simply a 100% pass-through at-cost offer to say THANK YOU for all your business and support by giving you a way to acquire one of our favorite all-time superfoods at a RIDICULOUS price discount. There is a quantity limit, however. We ask that each customer limit their purchase to just four of these (12 pounds total) . If you order more than 12 pounds, you’ll be contacted by our store to arrange for additional shipping charges. But if you order quantity of four or less (that’s 12 pounds or less), just pay the standard shipping charges. You will NEVER find this price offered at any retailer anywhere in the world. Not online, not in a store, nowhere. I actually dare you to shop around and see if you can come close to this price anywhere. It’s impossible. And why? Because no one else sells stuff at a break-even price! And normally we don’t either, because we have to make a little bit to pay the salaries, warehouse lease, electricity and so on. But we’ve done well enough from your previous orders to pay all that, and no with this offer we just want to thank you for your support by practically giving away these chia seeds AT OUR COST. Take advantage of this right now at the NaturalNews Store: http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=100370 Fighting food inflation with a near-giveaway price Why are we doing this? I know some people just can’t believe that a business would sell something and make nothing on it. Lots of skeptics out there because most people are selfish, and they don’t understand other people engaging in non-selfish acts. So they miss out on the best price you’ll ever see on organic chia seeds. But the motivation behind this really is simple: WE LOVE YOU and your support of our mission, and we get a lot of joy from bringing you these incredible deals that save you money in a time when food prices seem to be rising by the week. I was on the phone with Matt Monarch who runs our store, and I just said straight out, “Hey Matt, what can we offer people that’s such a screaming good deal that people will thank us big time for doing it?” And Matt replied and said if we have a large enough response, he could get in a ton of chia seeds (actually several tons, quite literally) and we could just blow ‘em out at our cost and make literally zero profit. I said YES! Let’s do it. I’ll spread the word, people will save huge dollars, and we’ll help get this amazing superfood into the hands of yet more people who can benefit from the omega-3s that chia seeds naturally contain. So we set it up, and now you’re seeing it. This probably won’t be repeated — and you’ll never see organic chia seeds at this price again — so if you want some, take advantage of this right now . Here’s the link to our store: http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=100370 Orders are being filled right now with no wait time. Most orders go out the next business day, and we have literally thousands of pounds of these organic chia seeds on hand to ship out right now. YES, you can freeze chia seeds and use them all year long. They freeze extremely well, and you can just pull them right out of the freezer and drop them into a smoothie, a bowl of granola, a Saturday morning pancake mix or whatever you want to use them for. They’re rich in omega-3s and magnesium, and they’re one of my staple superfoods. I eat chia seeds EVERY day. In fact, I’m ordering a huge amount of these for myself (and paying the extra shipping) because even I know I won’t ever be able to find a better price on these again. So take advantage of this, and once again thank you for supporting us so much over the last few months. It is your support that has given us the financial buffer to be able to offer this at-cost special to you. Enjoy your certified organic chia seeds!

A Link Between Bat Deaths and Pesticides?

(NaturalNews) The US Fish and Wildlife Service published a plan in May of 2011 to prevent the spread of white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats. The fast-spreading disease has killed more than one million bats in the US and Canada since it detection in 2006. The new plan is meant to coordinate multiple governmental and research groups in a “swift national effort to avoid irreversible losses to bat populations”. WNS derives its name from the whitish fungus which typically appears on the nose and/or wings of infected bats. However, not all infected bats display these visual symptoms. The disease causes bats to engage in atypical behaviors such as flying during periods when their prey is unavailable, such as sub-zero temperatures in daylight hours. Infected bats will also cluster around the entrances to their hibernacula (caves and other dark places in which they can safely spend the winter months). Once the disease attacks a colony of bats, it spreads quickly and typically wipes out 90% of those sharing a hibernation dwelling. The highly respected journal Science published a study in August of 2010 in which researched predicted that WNS would result in local extinction of some bat species within two decades. Since bats play a vital role in ecosystems, both as pollinators and through their consumption of insects harmful to crops, this could have a devastating effect on the economy. The April 2011 issue of Science included an article reporting on another study looking at the financial impact of potential bat extinction. Researchers estimated that the loss of bat populations could cost the US agriculture system more than $3.7 billion per year. Some scientists predict the bat die-off may require more extensive use of pesticides to compensate for fact that insects destructive to crops will no longer be subject to predation by the night-flying mammals. This is ironic because many environmental experts point to pesticides, along with GMO crops, as a possible culprit contributing to the epidemic threatening the continuation of the bat species. At the same time that one arm of the federal government, US Fish and Wildlife Management, works to contain the disease, other branches continue to rubberstamp their approval of an increasing number of pesticides and genetically modified Frankenfoods whose safety has not been verified. Bats are one of the species serving as canaries in the coal mine of the toxic chemical stew in our environment. Their unique combination of long lifespan (up to three decades) and small size (a little brown bat weighs about 8 grams) makes them especially vulnerable. Boston University bat researcher and PhD candidate Marianne Moore notes, “That’s a lot of time to accumulate pesticides and contaminants. We know they are exposed to and accumulate organochlorines, mercury, arsenic, lead, dioxins but we don’t understand the effects.” Independent research, free of corporate influence, is needed to investigate the link between WNS and pesticides. Sources for this article include: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13438594 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/bat-disease-pesticides_n_848556.html http://e360.yale.edu/feature/behind_mass_die_offs_pesticides_lurk_as_culprit/2228/ http://whitenosebats.wordpress.com/about/

Global food inflation hits hemp seed, coconut oil and other superfoods: Here’s why it’s happening

(NaturalNews) Food inflation is hitting the superfood industry right where it hurts — in the wallet. Thanks to several factors you’ll read about here, prices on hemp seeds, hemp oils, coconut oil and other superfoods are set to skyrocket beginning in just a few days. One of the largest superfood suppliers in the USA, Nutiva , has announced an 11% price increase coming May 27th, and that may be just the beginning of an accelerating trend in steady increases. In anticipation of this price increase, we’ve taken on a huge inventory of Nutiva’s Certified Organic Hemp Seed and Hemp Oil at the old prices , and we have a generous supply available to NaturalNews readers who want to beat the price increase (see below). Why hemp and coconut oil prices are heading into the stratosphere In a letter sent to us by Nutiva, founder John Roulac explains that the price of coconut oil has doubled in the last six months . While coconut oil suppliers are able to absorb some of this cost in the short term, they cannot do so on a permanent basis. This means that the prices consumers pay for coconut oil are headed sharply higher. Impacting hemp seeds and hemp oil, the price of crude oil (up 30% or more over the last few months) adds to the cost of transporting these foods. Remember, thanks to the completely idiotic and utterly anti-American stance of the DEA, President Obama and most of the U.S. Congress, it is illegal to grow hemp seeds in America , meaning all hemp seeds sold as nutritional foods in the USA must be imported from other countries. This policy is not only destroying opportunities for U.S. farmers; it also results in the wasteful expenditure of fossil fuels to transport hemp products to the USA from other countries. (Seriously, you have to wonder just how much Washington is really trying to destroy America these days with its continued ban on the growing of hemp oils, hemp seeds and hemp fibers. This is not a question of whether hemp products are good for America — we already know without question that they are, which is why so many hemp products are imported. This is a question of why the economic morons in Washington have declared war on U.S. farmers and continue to criminalize the growing of a superfood crop with a huge number of industrial and textile applications…) The fall of the dollar means a rise in the price of imported goods The third factor sharply increasing the cost of imported hemp products is the plummeting value of the U.S. dollar versus the Canadian dollar. Much of the hemp imported into the United States is grown in Canada (where it’s legal, see? So Canadian farmers reap the financial rewards while U.S. farmers face bankruptcy…), and as the U.S. dollar loses purchasing power, it’s going to make the domestic cost of imported items increasingly expensive. For those who enjoy following what’s really going on behind the scenes with international currencies, the truth is that the United States is constantly trying to weaken the dollar in order to bolster U.S. exports to other countries. A weaker dollar makes our goods cheaper for foreign buyers. But when combined with the utterly insane domestic policy of the prohibition of hemp farming , it becomes a shell game circus that only ends up hurting American farmers and consumers. The day our elected leaders actually demonstrate an intelligent grasp of the laws of international trade and economics is the day I gobble down an ear of GMO corn on live television… Food scarcity is causing food inflation All around the world, radical weather patterns and the day-by-day losses of topsoils are causing record crop losses. Areas that used to be rainforest have been clear-cut to grow soybeans, and now many of those areas have become deserts due to ecological destruction. Insane corn ethanol subsidies continue to send corn prices sky-high, too. This is yet another example of economic brilliance brought to you by the clowns in Washington. Global food prices have risen 36% over the past 12 months (http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/14/news/international/world_bank_food_prices/index.htm), and there’s no indication this trend is going to reverse. With world water supplies dwindling, the Fukushima disaster wiping out a large portion of Japan’s domestic food production, and the UG99 wheat rust devastating wheat crops in many regions, we are now looking at a new era of food prices where you get to choose between high and higher . The last of the cheap hemp seeds and hemp oil – ON SALE now at the NaturalNews Store Even in the face of these alarming increases in food prices and a shortage in the global food supply, the incredible team running the NaturalNews Store has managed to acquire a large quantity of USDA Certified Organic Hemp Seeds and Hemp Oil, and in an action that is truly a service to our readers, we are discounting this by 41% to help you acquire this superfood before the price increases ripple through the industry. Right now, a five-pound bag of Certified Organic Hemp Seed normally retails for $84.69 . Amazon.com currently sells this five-pound bag at a 30% discount, offering it for $59.52 (http://www.amazon.com/Nutiva-Organic-Shelled-Hempseed-5-Pound/dp/B000GAT6MM). But while supplies last at the NaturalNews Store, we are letting go of these five-pound bags of Certified Organic Hemp Seed at 41% off — just $49.95 — PLUS, we give you a 16 oz. bottle of Nutiva’s Certified Organic Hemp Oil at no extra charge . Click here to take advantage of this hemp seed offer, plus the free bottle of hemp oil, to beat the worldwide price increase. Again, this is a 5-lb. bag of Nutiva’s Certified Organic Hemp Seed, plus a FREE 16 oz. bottle containing Nutiva’s Certified Organic Hemp Oil (liquid) inside dark glass to protect the oils from light. This hemp oil normally retails for around $12.50 per bottle. That puts the total value of this combo at over $97 . You can get it today — and you will NOT see these prices again for years to come — for just $49.95 . Click here to get this organic hemp seed / hemp oil combo at this “last chance” discounted price. Global prices on foods and superfoods are rising quickly. The only way you’re going to see this kind of price on Organic Hemp Seed in the USA anytime soon is if Congress magically legalizes hemp farming across America. Of course, I strongly support such a move, and if someone like Ron Paul ever becomes President, we might actually see some movement toward food freedom and health freedom. But don’t hold your breath: The DEA, FDA and USDA all have vested interests in keeping hemp farming illegal in America, and they will fight its legalization with every (taxpayer) dollar they can muster. How will we afford our food? The simple truth is that we’re all facing far higher food and superfood prices in the years ahead. That’s disturbing information for a lot of folks who are barely scraping by right now, I know. It’s going to mean a lot more Americans end up on food stamps. Even right now, an astonishing one in seven Americans is living on food stamps (http://www.naturalnews.com/032312_food_stamps_Americans.html). It’s also going to mean that more people stop spending money on processed foods and low-nutrition “factory foods.” Instead, they need to shift to more food staples and high-nutrition foods that pack more nutrition per ounce. A whole lot of American consumers are simply going to have to learn how to intelligently shop for groceries for the first time in their lives. No, that Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is not a good investment of your food dollars… To the extent we can, NaturalNews will attempt to find incredible buys on high-nutrition food items (or superfoods) and make them available to our readers. This hemp seed / hemp oil offer is a fantastic deal, and we hope to be able to bring you a more such deals. These are obviously not done on a profit motive, because in the face of rising prices, a profit-minded retailer would always try to charge MORE, not LESS. These deals are being arranged to quite literally help get these superfoods into your hands at the best discounts possible so that NaturalNews readers beat the price increases headed our way. So far, the response of NaturalNews readers to specials like this has been extraordinary. And that huge response has helped us negotiate even better price discounts on very large purchase volumes with suppliers like Nutiva. It is your support of our store in the past, in other words, that has made today’s great deal possible in the first place. As long as you keep supporting our store, we will keep searching for ridiculously great deals that we can pass on to you for the items that matter most: Superfoods, high-nutrition food staples, and even necessary kitchen appliances such as blenders and juicers. Thank you for your support, and here’s our specials page if you want to see everything we have on sale right now: http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=100370 Today, you can beat the coming price increase on hemp seeds and hemp oil. A five-pound bag is a generous supply of hemp seeds that you can use as a superfood supplement for several months. It’s great for smoothies and salads, and it’s a high natural source of plant-based omega-3s, among other nutritional benefits. This pricing is only good while our supply lasts, which may be as little as three days.

US government will soon seize your retirement account

(NaturalNews) – When it comes to your retirement account, you probably keep an eye on Wall Street and the financial markets because when they lose value, your account loses value. Little did you know you are going to have to keep an eye on Uncle Sam as well, because he’s eyeing your retirement too, and he could soon take what he will claim is his fair share of it. If you think that sounds absurd, think again. In fact, it’s a concept that is already being used by some governments , the most recent of which is Ireland. In a bid to finance a “jobs” program, the Irish government, which is heavily in debt, is set to impose a new levy – read “tax” – on private retirement accounts. The accounts of government workers will be exempt. “It’s truly disgusting logic to force private workers to pay for years of political incompetence while absolving government employees,” writes Simon Black, entrepreneur and founder of SovereignMan.com , a Web site about financial and practical independence. Black says the idea of robbing private pension funds by broke governments to pay for existing or expanding government programs is an idea that is catching on. “Pension funds are attractive targets for politicians who have wide eyes and the most carnal thoughts at the site of any large pool of cash,” he says, noting that the French government last year adopted laws “allowing politicians to steal retirement funds from the public in order to pay off other debts.” It’s an idea that is catching on in the United States too, mostly because there are trillions of dollars in private retirement accounts, and the federal government is trillions of dollars in debt – with trillions more promised in benefits like Social Security, Medicare and now a massive new health care law. Black says it’s likely any attempt by the U.S. government to seize private retirement accounts would be preceded by a cataclysmic economic event similar to the 2008 financial crisis, only worse. This time, lawmakers will respond by changing investment law that may force retirement account holders to invest a portion of their savings in, say, 30-year Treasury notes. Some lawmakers are onto this, however. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has recently criticized such efforts in a letter to the Obama administration warning against attempts to confiscate Americans’ retirement accounts.

Iodine supplement supplies wiped out by nuclear fallout fear – here are the foods that contain high levels of natural iodine

(NaturalNews) It’s happening everywhere now: Potassium Iodide supplements are getting wiped out as people concerned about the possibility of radiation fallout are purchasing them for their own protection. Yesterday evening, we posted a story about an alternative source of iodine — Nascent Iodine — and now it has been completely sold out everywhere in North America, too. (Our store was sold out within minutes and now the product is back-ordered with 1,000 more bottles arriving on Monday and another 1,000 four days later.) The U.S. Surgeon General has even publicly supported the idea of buying potassium iodide as a “precaution” in case the radioactive fallout reaches the United States. In the midst of all this, some sellers are jacking up their prices to exploit the shortage for their own financial gain. One seller hiked his price from $49 / bottle to $499 / bottle on eBay. Another guy was asking $1500! The NaturalNews Store has been the lowest price on the ‘net for Nascent Iodine, and we kept our prices on sale through this entire iodine shortage because we always strive to deliver exceptional values to our customers (and we operate with ethics, too, meaning we don’t price gouge just because people are desperate — shame on all the pricks and shysters who are trying to rip people off in this moment of crisis! They remind me of the price gouging practices of the pharmaceutical industry…). Remarkably, our Nascent Iodine still sells for just $23 even though the exact same product costs at least 50% more elsewhere (http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=100370&products_id=1004147). (The manufacturer will only allow us to run this low price for another week or so, after which we will be forced to raise it back to “regular” pricing, which is just under $36 a bottle. We often negotiate incredible discount deals for NaturalNews readers, but the always have a time limit window of opportunity…) Not surprisingly, at this price we sold out very, very quickly. And now people are asking what else they can consume to increase their intake of natural iodine. Fortunately, there are several key foods that are very high in iodine — and no, table salt isn’t one of them. To boost your levels of iodine from table salt, you’d practically have to poison yourself with an excess of salt. The best forms of natural iodine, it turns out, are sea vegetables . And YES, sea vegetables can provide sufficient levels of iodine to help prevent radiation poisoning of your glandular system. One quarter of a teaspoon of organic kelp granules (see below), for example, provides 3mg of iodine (milligrams, not micrograms). Remember, 1 mg = 1,000 mcg. And the recommended daily intake of iodine is just 150 mcg (micrograms). Dr. David Brownstein recommends a daily intake that is significantly higher — as much as 6 – 12mg per day, which you can reasonably achieve from eating a planned quantity of sea vegetables. Of course, an iodine supplement such as Nascent Iodine (http://www.naturalnews.com/031708_iodine_radiation.html) is going to provide a far larger serving of iodine, which it’s why it’s worth ordering some and having them on hand for the future. Sea vegetables with natural iodine: Kelp, Nori, Kombu and Sea Spaghetti One of the very best natural sources of iodine is Kelp . The NaturalNews Store consistently carries an inventory of Organic Kelp Granules that provide 3mg (yes, milligrams, not micrograms) of iodine in just a 1/4 teaspoon serving. You can find that product at this link: http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=1001062 We are probably already sold out by the time you read this, but we have 1,000 more bottles arriving on Monday, so if you order now, you can most likely receive them within 10 – 14 working days. You can also find this same product sold at health food stores and online nutritional retailers. It will be the next iodine source that’s sold out as soon as enough people realize that kelp is an abundant source of natural iodine. This product is normally used as a kind of natural salt shaker, to add a salty taste to soups, salads or just about any meal, by the way. It’s a regular superfood source that’s also very high in other trace minerals. All seaweeds contain iodine in a natural state. One of the highest is kombu , which contains up to 2500 mcg (micrograms) per gram of kombu. You can find kombu seaweed at many local health food stores, too. Just soak it in water to reconstitute it, then you can cook it into foods, eat it on a salad, or whatever you want. Cooking does not destroy iodine , so don’t be afraid to heat it if you want to. Iodine is a trace mineral, and no minerals are destroyed through high-heat cooking (just vitamins, proteins and other phytonutrients). Nori sheets (the seaweed sheets used to make sushi) are also a source of iodine, although they only contain about 16mcg per gram. So they’re not nearly as iodine rich as kombu. But nori is easy to find and delicious to eat. Make some nori wraps! Nori is often very easy to find at health food stores, and we also sell it at a special sale price at the NaturalNews Store: http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=1001001 Can you overdose on iodine from nori sheets? It’s almost impossible to do so. You’d have to eat hundreds of nori sheets at one setting to get that much iodine. And given that most people are chronically deficient in iodine, a person can safely consume up to 50 mg of iodine per day to restore sufficient levels in the body, according to Dr. David Brownstein (yes, 50 milligrams, not micrograms). The U.S. government’s “official” numbers on iodine are, just like all the other nutrients, kept artificially low (like with vitamin D) in order to encourage people to actually stay deficient in essential nutrients (http://www.naturalnews.com/030598_vitamin_D_Institute_of_Medicine.html). Sea Spaghetti As luck would have it, we just launched a new seaweed-based superfood product at the NaturalNews Store called Sea Spaghetti . It’s made entirely from a natural brown seaweed called himanthalia elongata . It’s made in France, and we just got it into our store yesterday. It’s a natural source for many trace minerals, including iodine. Although it’s not a huge amount, each 5-gram portion (a very small amount) of sea spaghetti delivers 500 micrograms of iodine (333% of daily value). This is not enough to correct a severe iodine deficiency, but every little bit helps, and even seemingly small portions of this food can start to add up to several milligrams of iodine. It can truly help supply a steady source of iodine to meet your body’s nutritional needs. This is also a fantastic product for completely removing grains and pastas from your diet. You can just make your favorite spaghetti sauces using these sea noodles instead! It contains just 12 calories per serving! (Yes, 12.) Pick some up at: http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=100148_100216_100283&products_id=1004150 The nutrition facts on this product are: Serving size 5 g Servings per bag 10 Calories per serving 12 Protein 1.5% DV Fat 0.4% DV Fiber 6% DV Sodium 7% DV Carbs 0.5% DV Vitamin C 7% DV Potassium 13% DV Magnesium 50% DV Calcium 3% DV Iodine 333% DV DV = Daily Value Don’t get ripped off on radiation pills There’s panic in the market right now. People are desperate to find a source of iodine. But that panic is unjustified. Most people simply don’t know you can get plenty of iodine from eating sea vegetables . There are also brown seaweed extracts available on the market today that have their own natural iodine. For years, I’ve been recommending Modifilan (http://www.modifilan.com), which is an amazing brown seaweed that’s naturally rich in iodine. This product also has powerful anti-cancer properties. I can say that because we don’t sell it. You can only get it through Modifilan.com, and we have no financial relationship whatsoever with them. But you can also just go out and buy seaweed vegetables at your local health food store right now. Or get yourself a “seaweed salad.” Or go visit a local Japanese restaurant and order something with seaweed in it. Lots of seaweed. It’s all good for you for lots of reasons beyond the iodine. Do not get ripped off paying $600 for radiation pills! It disgusts me that some people are profiteering off this crisis by jacking up their prices to insane levels. I will have no part of that. That’s why we kept our prices low and even on sale for the Nascent Iodine sold through our store: http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=100151_100431&products_id=1004147 Oh, and by the way, we are donating $5,000 to the relief efforts in Japan in the next 24-48 hours. I hope to have time to post a story about that on NaturalNews. These are funds we acquired through the registrations for our “Financial Preparedness” event that runs this Sunday (which is also sold out). We are trying to do our best here to help people get prepared for what’s coming. We actually had our Nascent Iodine on sale before Japan’s nuclear disaster , but virtually no one bought any at that time. There’s a lesson here in all this: Get prepared in advance and don’t allow yourself to be caught without being ready for what’s coming: Financial collapse, natural disasters, social upheavals and a whole lot more. That’s why I publicly announced BEFORE all this happened that we would be focusing more on preparedness here on NaturalNews. Ten days before Japan’s nuclear disaster, we announced our first preparedness event: http://www.naturalnews.com/031548_financial_preparedness.html The second preparedness event is going to happen in April and will be announced shortly. Watch NaturalNews for updates, and subscribe to our free email newsletter to be kept in the loop on all these important developments: http://www.naturalnews.com/ReaderRegistration.html The world is changing rapidly. There is information you need to know that your government officials are not admitting. They don’t want to cause a panic, so they tell people everything is okay. The problem with that approach is that is lulls people into a false sense of security and discourages intelligent preparedness. I’d rather we be fully informed and aware of the realistic threats out there so that we can be fully prepared to handle the expected events that life seems to throw at us. Preparedness is wise. And right now, a whole lot of people around the world are suddenly wising up to the reality of what the alternative media has been talking about for years. Stay tuned to NaturalNews.com for more updates each day.

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