Big government gone wild: Social Security on the verge of insolvency

(NaturalNews) Do you remember the recent debate in Congress and the White House to raise the government’s ability to borrow even more money? The “debate” that was long on raising the debt ceiling but short on actually cutting government spending ? It wasn’t enough that our leaders failure to effect long term, meaningful budget reform resulted in a leading credit rating agency downgrading U.S. credit for the first time in our history, but now the budgetary chickens are really coming home to roost. High unemployment, combined with the rapid growth in baby boomer retirements has strapped Social Security for cash and it is now being pushed to brink of insolvency . The longer the economy remains in the tank, the more strain it will put on this massively expensive entitlement program. We have known for more than a decade that Social Security was going broke . As far back as 1997, the Brookings Institute, among many other think tanks, predicted that an enormous amount of seniors born in the years following World War II were about to retire, and that doing so would put an equally enormous fiscal strain on Social Security. What many analysts didn’t predict, however, is the amount of Americans who would come to rely on Social Security’s disability benefits (and others) as a result of a tanking economy. It’s all adding up, and it’s doing so much faster than anyone anticipated. The government says applications for benefits are up 50 percent from a decade ago, and that there is such a backlog now some people wait two years before their cases get resolved. New estimates by Congress aren’t encouraging; they forecast that the trust fund that supports Social Security will run out of money in just a few short years, by 2017, meaning the system will be unable to pay full benefits by then. The long-term prospects for this aren’t any better. In about 20 years, Social Security’s retirement fund will run out of funds too, meaning it also won’t be able to pay full benefits. Unless Congress acts, that is. And what are some of the proposals? Raise the retirement age. Conduct means testing to see if wealthier Americans (who are still paying into the benefit) can be denied. Raise taxes. Most lawmakers and policy wonks are suggesting everything to save or extend this costly entitlement, but nothing to privatize or end it so the taxpayer can get off the hook financially for funding it. At the rate the system is being drained, even if the economy improves and fewer Americans seek benefits in the short term, the system will still have to pay out trillions in benefits for baby boomers. The best way to prevent the system from bankrupting itself is to reduce the amount of benefits it pays. That seems pretty simple. But when you demonize the issue for the sake of votes, there isn’t much chance that’s going to happen. So the next best thing is to eliminate the liability altogether, and that means adopting a small-government, personal liberty solution. Give workers the right to opt out of the government system by giving us choices in how to save for our own retirement. The Congressional Budget Office has studied how other nations, including Chile, Argentina and Great Britain, have done so, and successfully. It’s clear we can’t afford this forever. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. Sources: http://news.yahoo.com/social-security-disability-verge-insolvency-090119318.html http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=1065&type=0&sequence=7 http://www.brookings.edu/articles/1997/summer_saving_gale.aspx

Disappearing act: Job approval ratings for Congress, Obama sinking

(NaturalNews) In past election years, there was a joke that the choices for president were so bad someone ought to put Mickey Mouse on the ballot because he’d probably win. Based on the most recent public opinion polls, Mickey is looking better and better. A sinking economy, coupled with stagnation in Washington, a downgraded credit rating, a devalued dollar, a declining stock market and stubbornly high unemployment are among the most prominent reasons why President Barack Obama’s job approval numbers are at historic lows . As bad as Democrat Obama’s numbers are getting – and they are bad – that doesn’t necessarily translate into good news for Republicans. “Currently, a majority of states show approval ratings below 50 percent. Whether Obama is victorious will also depend in part on who his GOP challenger is, whether a significant third-party candidate runs, and the degree to which the president’s supporters turn out to vote,” says Jeffrey M. Jones, a political poll analyst at Gallup. In short, most Americans aren’t happy with anyone in Washington – so much so that they are even beginning to question the very fabric and functionality of American government . A recent Washington Post survey found that barely one in four Americans – 26 percent – had any confidence that Congress and the president could solve the nation’s most pressing problems, and that more than three in four, or 78 percent, were genuinely dissatisfied with their government in general. And, in true “bipartisan” fashion, both of the country’s major parties are equally loathed. More than seven in 10 Americans, the poll said, believe Washington is “mostly focused on the wrong things,” and – as the recent debt ceiling debacle and resulting legislation only proves – is incapable of enacting long-term solutions that will not simply keep our country solvent, but enable it to even survive. None of this should be surprising, considering the trend in government confidence over the past several years . “The american ratings of the two major parties in Congress are at or near their worst levels in a decade, in part because of heightened Republican discontent with both sides in Congress,” said a USA Today/Gallup survey – from two years ago . And while congressional popularity has waxed and waned throughout our history, this time seems different – because this time, Americans are questioning our very form of government. They are wondering whether representative democracy even works anymore, and judging by the political process in D.C., it’s no wonder more of us are beginning to have doubts about the ability to govern ourselves. Case in point. When our leaders have a lengthy, rancorous debate about how much to raise our national debt when we’re already in debt more than $14 trillion , while cutting spending becomes a secondary issue at best, then clearly Washington’s priorities are obscenely misplaced. In the military there is a saying: There are no bad units, just bad leaders. And while individual cases may vary, in general that’s true. For the most part, a squad, platoon or company is only as good as its leadership, and when its leadership fails, the unit will fail to accomplish its mission. Our country is beset with poor leadership, and it shows. To paraphrase a line from the movie, “The Distinguished Gentlemen,” serving this country in Congress is no longer about doing the right thing for the nation, it’s just about being there .

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.

Consolidation of seed companies leading to corporate domination of world food supply

(NaturalNews) Throughout the history of agriculture across the globe, farming has always been a diversified sector of the economy. Small, self-sustaining, family farms were the order of the day in most cultures. Even as small farms grew larger and more specialized over time, many of them still saved seeds or purchased them from other farmers, which kept control of farming in the hands of the people. But today everything has changed, as large chemical and agribusiness firms have acquired or merged with seed companies and other agricultural input companies. They have successfully gained a foothold on genetically-modified (GM) crops with transgenic traits. These primary factors and several others have facilitated a crescendo towards the global domination of agriculture by corporations, and thus the world’s food supply. The dismal state in which we find ourselves today did not come overnight, of course, but it did pick up rapid speed after the introduction of GM crops in the mid-1990s. Since that time, multinational corporations like Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta have seized a significant amount of control over the global seed industry, which has greatly limited agricultural diversity and freedom. The ability to patent both seeds and seed traits has also added injury to insult, as the ability to obtain natural or heirloom seeds is becoming increasingly difficult, and many farmers feel they have no choice but to go with the flow. Professor Philip H. Howard from the Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies at Michigan State University published a study in 2009 entitled Visualizing Consolidation in the Global Seed Industry: 1996 – 2008 that analyzes the trend in agriculture towards corporate dominance. The report, which was featured in a special issue of the journal Renewable Agriculture , provides both an extensive data analysis of agriculture’s dramatic transformation over the past several decades, as well as a highly-informative visual analysis of this truly shocking hostile takeover situation. The ‘Big Six” pharmaceutical and chemical companies have acquired, created joint ventures with hundreds of seed companies over the past 15 years In order to help assist his readers in understanding the state of the seed industry, Prof. Howard developed a very informative graphic that displays the reality of who really controls the seed industry. Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow, and BASF collectively own or partially-own hundreds of formerly-independent seed companies — and Monsanto, of course, dominates them all. You can view the graphic for yourself at the following link: http://www.naturalnews.com/files/seedindustry.pdf As you will see, the blue circles in the diagram represent seed companies, while the red circles — which happen to all be chemical or pharmaceutical companies — control the vast majority of them. Solid gray arrows indicate complete ownership of a company, while gray lines indicate partial ownership. One of the most obvious first impressions to be gathered from the diagram is Monsanto’s excessive and widespread control over the seed industry. According to Prof. Howard’s analysis, Monsanto acquired more than 50 seed companies just during the time represented by his study period, which spans the years between 1996 and 2008. Monsanto had little-to-no involvement in the seed industry prior to the mid-1980s, but since that time has been rapidly eating up seed companies and furthering its development and control over the food supply through GMOs. Today, Monsanto is the world’s largest seed company, and the transnational behemoth continues to acquire or otherwise create “partnerships” with various independent seed companies that are still in existence. Behind Monsanto, the other five of the “Big Six” that Prof. Howard illustrates — DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow, and BASF — collectively own or control a great portion of the remaining major seed companies not owned or controlled by Monsanto. And one of the biggest factors that has contributed to this dismal setup is GMOs and transgenic, patentable seed traits that are shared among the industry players. The “Big Six” each have agreements with one or more of the others; their overall success has largely hinged on GMOs and increased control of agricultural inputs The only thing worse than Monsanto and the dominance of the seed market are the cozy relationships with one another. Prof. Howard’s analysis reveals that every company in the “Big Six” has at least one mutual relationship with one another, and they together share corporate control of the seed industry. Monsanto has established cross-licensing agreements for its transgenic patents with every single other company in the mix, while Dow has agreements with all except for Bayer. And Syngenta has agreements with Dow, Monsanto, and DuPont, while BASF has agreements with Dow and Monsanto. What does this all mean? It means that the already-disturbing oligarchy that controls the seed industry is shaping up to become a total monopoly with Monsanto at the helm, of course. And as transgenic technology continues to develop, which forces farmers to either go with the flow or leave the business, there may soon be no other choices in farming besides whatever Monsanto has to offer. One would think that farmers would be more aware of this takeover and resist it. But the “Big Six” effectively fly under the radar, in most cases, by selling their seeds and chemicals through various vendors and under different names. According to Prof. Howard, this is how they effectively maintain an illusion of competition and choice in the midst of their takeover. How things got this bad and how the situation can be fixed Real competition in the seed industry has been systematically deconstructed over the years for numerous reasons. Besides blatant industry consolidation and takeover by drug and chemical companies, many farmers have simply been willing to accept the latest seed technologies, even when it has meant having to give up their seed saving freedom, and being forced to rely on the intensive use of chemicals and other synthetic interventions in order to farm. Prof. Howard explains that a concept known as the “agricultural treadmill” has been a major contributing factor in the demise of the seed industry. Because demand for food is largely inelastic, any increase in production will cause crop prices to fall. So as new farming technologies emerge, farmers that adopt them first inadvertently force all the other farmers to adopt them as well, just to maintain the same level of revenue. If they do not adopt them, or fail to keep up with other farmers on the treadmill, they will eventually fall off, or be forced out of the farming business altogether. Other factors include changes in policy that have decreased the barriers to accumulation that have prevented agricultural takeover in the past. By developing patented, transgenic traits, seed companies have been able to overcome a barrier to accumulation in agriculture. When farmers cannot save their GM seeds, the corporate owners can effectively maintain a continual, yearly cash flow just from selling seeds and their corresponding pesticides and herbicides, which in turn makes agriculture a vastly more profitable enterprise for preying corporations like Monsanto than it used to be. So what is the solution? Prof. Howard suggests improving antitrust enforcement, which will prevent the continual shift of seed company ownership and gradual accumulation of the food chain by a few large companies. Another idea is to create policies that fight against the agricultural treadmill phenomenon, and that instead promote independent, self-sustaining agricultural systems that maintain control of food with the people rather than the corporations. Perhaps the most effective suggestion — and one that we here at NaturalNews strongly advocate for as well — is to end the practice of granting patents on living organisms. By re-establishing this most-effective obstacle to accumulation, there will be no more incentive for multinational biotechnology companies like Monsanto to focus on dominating agriculture because there will be no more opportunity for the massive accumulation of wealth and capital through patented seeds. Sources for this story include: http://www.seedbuzz.com/knowledge-center/article/visualizing-consolidation-in-the-global-seed-industry-1996%E2%80%932008 http://www.naturalnews.com/files/seedindustry.pdf

A true American hero: Woman grabs, twists breasts of TSA agent in response to ‘enhanced’ screening protocols

(NaturalNews) The next time you are assaulted by TSA agents at the airport that try to force you through the naked body scanner or perform a full-body grope down on you, why not just grab them back? This is exactly what 61-year-old Yukari Mihamae recently did at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PSHI) after TSA agents tried to subject her to the unlawful and unconstitutional “enhanced” security protocols — but when she decided to essentially perform the same procedures on a TSA agent, police arrested her on suspicion of sexual abuse. A regular air traveler, Mihamae is quickly building a reputation for herself as a true American patriot, and one that refuses to allow the TSA to violate her personal privacy no matter how often she travels. During her most recent attempted travels through PSHI, she decided to give the TSA a little dose of its own medicine, and she paid the price. After getting into an argument with TSA agents following her refusal to go through the naked body scanner, reports indicate that Mihamae grabbed a TSA agent’s breasts with both hands, and proceeded to squeeze and twist them. The incident ended up landing her in jail overnight, but she was released the next day with no charges were filed against her. At the prompting of her lawyer, Mihamae has decided not to publicly explain why she grabbed the TSA agent’s breasts. But based on her history of fighting back against TSA tyranny, it seems clear that Mihamae is just a no-nonsense traveler who demonstrates a little extra “pizazz” every now and again — she apparently flies routinely and almost always ends up getting into an altercation with TSA agents for violating her rights. Supporters of Mihamae have set up a Facebook support page for her entitled “Acquit Yukari Mihamae” (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Acquit-Yukari-Mihamae/193771357344518?ref=ts). As of this writing, the page had 1,834 supporters and counting. Sources for this story include: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2011/07/18/longmont-woman-draws-national-attention-in-tsa-groping-case/

Superbug horror — scientists discover gonorrhea superbug that defies all known antibiotics

(NaturalNews) The danger of superbugs — infectious germs that are resistant to a host of Big Pharma’s drug arsenal — a growing and deadly problem in the 21st century. For example, as NaturalNews covered earlier this year, the U.S. meat supply is contaminated with disease-causing bacteria, including the superbug variety (http://www.naturalnews.com/032099_poultry_superbugs.html). And hospitals are now breeding grounds for the antibiotic resistant germs. In fact, the heartbreaking truth is that newborn babies are acquiring these superbug infections at an alarming rate in neonatal units (http://www.naturalnews.com/026587_infections_infection_superbug.html). But while superbugs are resistant to most antibiotics, a new superbug strain has been found that is completely resistant to every antibiotic . That’s the finding of an international research team who just announced their discovery — a superbug form of gonorrhea — at the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Disease Research (ISSTDR) currently underway in Quebec City, Canada. In a statement to the media, Dr. Magnus Unemo of the Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, warned that the new strain is likely to transform a common and once easily treatable infection into nothing less than a global threat to public health. Dr. Unemo, Dr. Makoto Ohnishi and their colleagues have identified a variant of the bacterium which causes gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, that has never been documented before. And, as the researchers analyzed this new strain, (called H041, for short) they found genetic mutations in the bacterium that have resulted in a fearsome superbug that shows what the scientists called “extreme resistance” to all cephalosporin-class antibiotics — the only drugs that, until now, have remained effective in treating gonorrhea. “This is both an alarming and a predictable discovery,” Dr. Unemo said in the media statement. “Since antibiotics became the standard treatment for gonorrhea in the 1940s, this bacterium has shown a remarkable capacity to develop resistance mechanisms to all drugs introduced to control it.” “While it is still too early to assess if this new strain has become widespread, the history of newly emergent resistance in the bacterium suggests that it may spread rapidly unless new drugs and effective treatment programs are developed,” Dr. Unemo continued. The new superbug strain is especially dangerous because gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases on the planet. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of cases in the U.S. alone is around 700,000 annually. It’s a particularly insidious STD because it doesn’t immediately produce symptoms in around half of infected women and approximately 2 to 5 percent of men. When symptoms occur, they include a burning sensation during urination and a discharge of pus from the genitals. If it is left untreated — or, in the case of the new strain, can’t be treated, gonorrhea can cause serious, irreversible health complications in both sexes, including skin, blood, joint and heart problems leading to death. Not only can infection with gonorrhea result in chronic pelvic pain and ectopic pregnancy, it can cause infertility in women (and, to a lesser degree, in men). It also increases the risk of HIV transmission. Babies born to mothers infected with gonorrhea are at high risk for developing serious blood and joint infections and may be blind, too. While the discovery a new strain of gonorrhea superbug is worrisome, don’t panic. Remember that your first line of defense is safe sex and a healthy immune system bolstered by good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. In addition, you can search the NaturalNews archives for natural approaches to fighting superbugs without relying on Big Pharma’s drugs. For more information: http://www2.ulaval.ca/en/press-room.html http://www.naturalnews.com/superbugs.html http://www.naturalnews.com/027879_superbugs_disinfectants.html

Mike Adams, Jonathan Landsman to discuss breakthrough healing innovations in June 29th special broadcast

(NaturalNews) In a special broadcast on June 29th to NaturalNews Inner Circle subscribers, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) will discuss some of the most amazing cutting-edge healing solutions and breaking discoveries on health and longevity. It’s a free program for all subscribers to the NaturalNews Inner Circle program, available at: http://www.NaturalNews.com/InnerCircleSpecial.html In his June 29th broadcast, Mike Adams says he will, “explore several innovative topics that the general public is not yet ready to hear, but which promise to reveal life-changing opportunities for radical rejuvenation and performance improvement.” Those topics include: • The concept of the “resonance” of food and nutritional supplements: How the history of your food impacts the emotional and energetic effects it will have on your body. • The alarming dangers of electropollution and how cell phones, computers and even wi-fi is now causing a new disease called type-3 diabetes . • Breaking down the mythologies of aging and revealing how “medical programming” causes people to age far faster than they biologically should. Also covers the false hypnotic language of modern medicine and how it tricks people into believing false realities about disease. • An introduction to consciousness and the existence of parallel universes through which all variations of your physical and spiritual experience are played out. Touches on the power of consciousness to alter your apparent experience of reality. • The importance of the Placebo Effect and how mind-body medicine is now proving to be far MORE powerful than chemical-based medicine. To hear this live program, simply subscribe to the Inner Circle , which delivers an astounding monthly collection of exclusive interviews and live health revelations events featuring the world’s top experts on natural cures, longevity and more. Subscribe at: http://www.NaturalNews.com/InnerCircleSpecial.html The Inner Circle is a paid (but very affordable) subscription for premium content that delivers high-end information entirely focused on practical health solutions and disease reversals. The large library of video and audio content available to new subscribers covers cures for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and many other degenerative health conditions.

Feds to start directly targeting drug company execs in health care fraud schemes

(NaturalNews) The days of drug companies simply settling out of court every time they break the law may soon be coming to an end. In a move that represents a significant shift toward punishing individuals for crimes rather than faceless corporations, federal officials say they will begin personally going after CEOs and other company executives whose companies fraudulently bilk Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs out of millions of dollars, or that falsely market dangerous drugs. When a 1996 law was passed that banned drug companies convicted of felony charges from further participating in any federal health programs, Big Pharma quickly devised creative ways to get around it. As a result, drug companies for years have been able to continually break the law without much consequence by simply settling for a few million dollars, and continuing on with shady dealings that raked in a whole lot more (http://www.naturalnews.com/001867.html). But now, company execs could face criminal charges for crimes committed by their companies, even if they claim to have had no awareness that any crimes were being committed. And drug companies will no longer be able to skirt by after breaking the law — if they cheat the government health system, they will lose any eligibility to participate in it. After all, ignorance of the law or of the illicit dealings of one’s company have never been a legitimate excuse for anyone else to evade justice — why should it be any different for drug companies? “When you look at the history of health care enforcement, we’ve seen a number of Fortune 500 companies that have been caught not once, not twice, but sometimes three times violating the trust of the American people, submitting false claims, paying kickbacks to doctors, marketing drugs which have not been tested for safety and efficacy,” said Lewis Morris, chief counsel for the inspector general of the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), to The Washington Post . “To our way of thinking, the men and women in the corporate suite aren’t getting it. If writing a check for $200 million isn’t enough to have a company change its ways, then maybe we have got to have the individuals who are responsible for this held accountable. The behavior of a company starts at the top.” Sources for this story include: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/getting-personal-feds-pursue-top-execs-in-health-care-fraud-cases-previously-settled-for-cash/2011/05/31/AGg6QHFH_story.html

25 Amazing Facts About Food revealed in free downloadable report

(NaturalNews) Did you know that a common ingredient in commercial breads and pizza dough is made from human hair ? Or that Chicken McNuggets are made with an ingredient that’s also an industrial chemical? In cooperation with the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org), NaturalNews has just released a free downloadable report (PDF) called 25 Amazing Facts About Food that unveils a collection of astonishing and little-known facts about the food we eat very day. Available now as a FREE download, this report reveals: • How confectioner’s glaze (used on medicine pills and candies) is actually a body fluid secretion from an Asian Beetle called the “lac bug.” • The crucial role of the date palm in the history of human civilization and how it allowed our ancestors to branch out from North Africa. • Details about the world’s most expensive spice, which sells for up to $5,000 a pound! • The truth about how Coca-Cola, to this day, imports thousands of tons of coca leaves into the USA every year, resulting in hundreds of pounds of cocaine being produced. • Which common sweetener substance is actually a powerful first aid wound treatment and effective antibacterial that can even kill superbugs! • The secrets of food-based deodorizers that can clean your breath and body smells simply by eating a few simple foods and supplements. • The miraculous anti-cancer medicine found inside the pit of everyday peaches — and why it’s being ignored by the medical profession. • The shocking truth about a dangerous chemical used in microwaveable popcorn that causes a crippling lung disease. • The little-known secret about High-Fructose Corn Syrup: It’s actually made using a toxic chemical catalyst that’s so dangerous it can burn a hole in the human stomach! • Why some junk foods can be more addictive than heroin due to the use of chemical additives. These amazing facts about food are available through the free downloadable report 25 Amazing Facts About Food at: http://www.naturalnews.com/RR-25_Amazing_Facts_About_Food.html Also available: An expanded report, 100 Amazing Facts About Food offered at WebSeed.com: http://programs.webseed.com/100_Amazing_Facts_About_Food__NN.htm The report was researched and authored by the editors of NaturalNews.com, including editor Mike Adams, an award-winning journalist and nutrition advocate. Years ago, Adams cured his own prediabetes using the healing medicines found in natural foods, and now he shares a message of nutritional healing with the world through reports, articles, animations and much more. Adams serves as the executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center, which offers annual grants that support worldwide nutrition programs for children and expectant mothers. See the success stories of grants from 2009 and 2010 at www.ConsumerWellness.org Download 25 Amazing Facts About Food now at: http://www.naturalnews.com/RR-25_Amazing_Facts_About_Food.html

Land around Fukushima now radioactive dead zone; resembles target struck by atomic bomb

(NaturalNews) It is nothing short of astonishing that the nuclear catastrophe we’ve all been told was “no big deal” has now escalated into the worst nuclear disaster in the history of human civilization. It’s so bad now that soil samples taken from outside the 12-mile exclusion zone (the zone considered safe enough by the Japanese government for schoolchildren to attend school there) are higher than the 1.48 million becquerels a square meter limit that triggered evacuations outside Chernobyl in 1986. In other words, the radiation level of the soil 12 miles from Fukushima is now higher than the levels considered too dangerous to live in near Chernobyl. This is all coming out in a new research report authored by Tomio Kawata, a fellow at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan. That same report also reveals that radiation from Fukushima has spread over 230 square miles . What we’re facing here, folks, is a Fukushima dead zone where life will never return to its pre-Fukushima norms. Radiation levels similar to nuclear bomb test site Bloomberg is now reporting, “Tetsuya Terasawa said the radiation levels are in line with those found after a nuclear bomb test, which disperses plutonium. He declined to comment further.” (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-30/japan-risks-chernobyl-like-dead-zone-as-fukushima-soil-radiation-soars.html) One soil sample taking 25 kilometers away from Fukushima showed Cesium-137 exceeding 5 million becquerels per square meter . This level, of course, makes it uninhabitable by humans, yet both the Japanese and U.S. governments continue to downplay the whole event, assuring their sheeple that there’s nothing to worry about. By their logic, since all the people are sheeple anyway, as long as the area is safe enough for sheep, it’s also safe enough for the human population. Both Japan and the U.S. have made huge efforts to raise the limits of allowed radiation exposure in foods and beverages. This was, of course, a deceitful tactic to try to reclassify radiation contamination as somehow magically being “safe” by redefining it. The outright lying and tactics of deception that have been used to try to downplay the severity of the radioactive fallout from Fukushima are nothing less than despicable. In a time when radiation threatens the safety and food supply of hundreds of millions of people, we are getting nothing but a Fukushima whitewash . Fukushima is now far worse than Chernobyl ever was and yet we’re all being told it’s no problem and that the government has it all under control. I ask: How is 5 million becquerels per square meter not a problem? It’s amazing that we even got this information, considering how frequently TEPCO claims its sensors and meters aren’t working (basically any time they get a reading that’s “too high”). The Japanese government can’t wait to corral the sheeple back onto the radioactive soil, by the way. “Basically, the way in which the current zones have been drawn up aren’t a concern in terms of the impact on health,” said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. “Using Mr. Kawata’s report as a guide, we want to do what we can to improve the soil, so people can return as soon as possible.” (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-30/japan-risks-chernobyl-like-dead-zone-as-fukushima-soil-radiation-soars.html) Barely two weeks ago, TEPCO finally admitted Fukushima suffered multiple core meltdowns in the hours following the tsunami strike (http://www.naturalnews.com/032378_nuclear_meltdown_TEPCO.html) (http://www.naturalnews.com/032437_Fukushima_nuclear_meltdown.html). This was the first time TEPCO openly admitted to something the alternative media had been reporting for months. What has become perfectly clear in the reporting on Fukushima is that: • Governments lie to the people • Mainstream media lies to the people • Only the alternative media was correct in reporting the severity of the core meltdowns and the release of radioactive material into the environment. That’s why more and more people are turning away from traditional sources of (mis)information and instead relying on the alternative media to get accurate information about world events.

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