11 shocking things you now realize to be true (but you never would have believed them just three years ago)

(NaturalNews) We are living through a time of great awakening . The people of our world are beginning to open their eyes and realize the stunning depth of the scams and collusion taking place all around them. These scams that steal their wealth, poison them with chemicals, enslave them with financial trickery and control their minds with propaganda. These scams are the very fabric of modern government , the mainstream media, universities and so-called “science” institutions. Here are 11 of those scams that you probably never would have believed just 2-3 years ago; but now you probably realize these are true! Welcome to the real world, my friends. Now that we recognize the depth of the scams, let’s change things for the better. (Occupy America!) #1 – Most of the honey you buy in the grocery store contains no actual honey whatsoever It’s true, the so-called “honey” isn’t even technically honey. Most of it is made of cheap “mystery” sweeteners, illegally imported from China, right under the nose of the FDA. http://www.naturalnews.com/034123_honey_pollen.html http://www.naturalnews.com/034102_honey_consumer_alert.html #2 – The fluoride that’s dripped into municipal water supplies is actually a highly toxic industrial chemical byproduct This scam is exploding in the faces of all the ignorant dentists and doctors who have been pushing this poison for years. Once again, they were wrong; the “conspiracy theorists” were right. http://www.naturalnews.com/033753_water_fluoridation_hidden_camera.html http://www.naturalnews.com/031547_fluoride_industrial_waste.html http://www.naturalnews.com/031602_fluoride_tooth_enamel.html #3 – Flu vaccines often contain live flu viruses and actually cause the flu as a way to worsen the flu season and scare more people into buying vaccines It’s also true with MMR vaccines, which cause the measles. Flu vaccines are the greatest medical hoax that has ever been perpetrated on the world: http://www.naturalnews.com/033998_influenza_vaccines_effectiveness.html http://www.naturalnews.com/033816_swine_flu_vaccines_neurological_disorders.html http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html http://www.naturalnews.com/031043_flu_vaccines_quackery.html #4 – Ron Paul is deliberately stripped out of mainstream news reports, online polls and debate coverage in order to “game the system” against him The power elite don’t really want “fair and open” elections in America, you see. It’s all about rigging the system to make sure a globalist puppet gets elected instead of a Man of the People. http://www.naturalnews.com/033528_Ron_Paul_smear_campaign.html http://www.prisonplanet.com/realclear-politics-skews-ron-pauls-poll-numbers.html http://www.prisonplanet.com/cnbc-cans-debate-poll-because-ron-paul-was-leading.html #5 – The United States government openly trafficks illegal guns into Mexico as a way to cause gun violence in the USA It all seemed so very clever until they got caught , and now it just seems flatly criminal . So why can the federal government run illegal guns and nothing happens to them, but if you or I do it, we go to prison for a long, long time? http://www.naturalnews.com/032934_ATF_illegal_firearms.html http://www.naturalnews.com/033802_Fast_and_Furious_scandal.html http://counterthink.com/Fast_and_Furious.asp #6 – Prestigious U.S. hospitals are widely engaged in black market organ trafficking and organ transplants And why not? It’s profitable, and they can claim they’re “saving lives!” Make no mistake: the organ transplant industry is steeped in dark, psychopathic criminal activity . http://www.naturalnews.com/028994_organ_transplants_black_market.html http://www.naturalnews.com/034060_organ_trafficking_transplants.html #7 – The child sex slave industry is huge, highly profitable, and found everywhere across America (and the world) You wouldn’t have believed this, probably, until the whole Penn State scandal recently made headline news around the world. As everybody now knows, Penn State sports officials routinely raped young children , even pimping them out to other criminal rapists who paid big money to rape young boys. This went on for 15 years right inside a prestigious university, right here in America. Are you shocked? You shouldn’t be. Alex Jones has been sounding the alarm about this for a decade . Nobody listened to him. They couldn’t believe it was real. People would rather bury their heads in the sand than face reality. And yet, this Penn State scandal just scratches the surface. The far deeper horrifying truth of all this is that Child Protective Services routinely kidnaps young American children and sells them into sex slavery — so-called “white slavery.” That story has not yet been covered by the mainstream media. http://www.naturalnews.com/032501_Maryanne_Godboldo_Child_Protective_Services.html http://abcnews.go.com/US/penn-state-sex-scandal-spreads-texas-alleged-alamo/story?id=14932340 http://www.prisonplanet.com/archive_elite_sex_ring.html http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/10/justice/pennsylvania-coach-abuse/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/who_knew_what_about_jerry_sand.html #8 – Commercial chickens are routinely fed arsenic, and commercial cows are routinely fed chicken poop Oh, you didn’t know that? When you eat conventional beef, you’re eating meat from cows who created that meat by consuming chicken poop. Yumm! Can I have some more poop on that burger, please? http://www.naturalnews.com/032659_arsenic_chicken.html http://www.naturalnews.com/000987.html http://www.naturalnews.com/028675_beef_chicken_poop.html #9 – “Natural” foods and cereals are routinely made with genetically modified ingredients Oh, you thought “natural” meant better than organic? Non-GMO? Stop getting suckered by the cereal companies and dishonest food conglomerates. Know what you’re really eating: http://www.naturalnews.com/033838_breakfast_cereals_GMOs.html http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=15C9C662CC545B8E96934878801B85DF #10 – The global banking industry is a criminal racket that steals wealth from working class People and redistributes it to the global wealthy elite You wouldn’t have believed this five years ago, but now, looking at your own bank account, the job you lost, the house you can’t sell and the health care you can’t afford, it’s all sinking in: The global financial system is an engineered con that suckers working-class people into giving up all their wealth, piece by piece, until they die bankrupt. Indentured servitude… http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000564_Federal_Reserve_financial_bailout_money_supply.html http://www.naturalnews.com/025672_money_WHO_government.html http://www.prisonplanet.com/goldman-sachs-rules-the-world-with-trader-alessio-rastani.html #11 – The U.S. government routinely conspires with pharmaceutical giants to conduct criminal, inhumane medical experiments on innocent people Recent revelations about the U.S. government’s secret medical experiments in Guatemala are just the tip of the iceberg here. Dr. Jona Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine, also ran unethical medical experiments on people. In fact, the entire history of modern medicine (pharmaceuticals, vaccines, chemotherapy and more) is something of a “house of horrors” of inhumane medical experiments on innocent victims. http://www.naturalnews.com/033483_Guatemalan_prisoners_medical_experiments.html http://www.naturalnews.com/031564_Jonas_Salk_medical_experiments.html http://www.naturalnews.com/033988_anthrax_vaccine_medical_experiments.html http://www.naturalnews.com/019189.html http://www.naturalnews.com/019187.html What else is true? Ever wonder what else might be true about our world that you never would have believed just a few years ago? Maybe it’s time you started reading books by Jim Marrs or even David Icke . Now is a good time to start listening to the Robert Scott Bell Show on www.NaturalNewsRadio.com where you’ll also hear news from Patrick Timpone . Perhaps it’s time we all started questioning history , medicine, corporate science, banking institutions and all governments. Discard your blinders. Maybe it’s time we opened our eyes to reality and stopped lying to ourselves about the depth of corruption and evil in our world. And why would we do that? Because that’s the first step to positive revolution where we work together to create a better world … a world where such criminality and suffering is ancient history. Accept reality, in other words… and then CHANGE it for the better. Open your eyes at the following websites: www.NaturalNews.com www.AlternativeNews.com www.InfoWars.com www.LewRockwell.com www.CCHRint.org www.ActivistPost.com

Rick Perry loses his mind during national debate, can’t name third federal agency to shut down

(NaturalNews) Rick Perry is now history as a Presidential candidate. No one wants a President who can’t even remember what he stands for, and during last night’s debates, Texas Governor Rick Perry proved himself to be frighteningly absentminded. Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6an4zSj8LhU Perry: “And I will tell you, it’s three agencies of government when I get there that are gone. Commerce, education, and the uh… uh… what’s the third one there? Let’s see…” Then Ron Paul, who of course actually knows what he’s talking about, says, “You need five!” Perry: “Oh, five? Okay. Commerce, education, and uh, the uh… uh…” Another candidate suggests, “EPA?” Perry: “EPA, there you go, no.” Then the mainstream media guy running the debate says, “Seriously? Is EPA the one you were talking about?” Perry: “No sir. We were talking about the uh… agencies of government… EPA needs to be rebuilt…” Media guy: “But you can’t name the third one?” Perry: “The third agency of government I would do away with the education, uh, the uh… commerce, uh… let’s see, the… I can’t, the third one. The third one I can’t, sorry.” This truly pathetic performance made the front page of the Drudge Report this morning, which featured a link to the 53 seconds of video that will likely go down in history as the moment the whole nation realized Rick Perry was not mentally qualified to be President. Watch it again at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6an4zSj8LhU Ron Paul’s message never changes and is never forgotten The thing about lying all the time as a Governor is that sooner or later all those lies become too difficult to sort out, and your brain goes on the fritz. It’s so much easier to just tell the truth, isn’t it? Ron Paul’s message remains consistent and simple: End the Fed. Cut a trillion dollars out of the federal budget. Restore liberty. Get the government out of our private lives. It’s not hard to remember because it’s based on core, fundamental principles upon which our nation was founded. Ron Paul needs no teleprompters to give a speech. He needs no cue cards to answer a question on live television. And most of the time when he’s talking to the press, he’s schooling the reporters on fundamental economics, bringing them up to speed on the way reality operates. Here at NaturalNews, we endorse only one candidate for President, and that’s Ron Paul. Not as a Republican or a Democrat, but as a person with wisdom and character, a person who tells the truth, and a person who stands head and shoulders above the crowd of professional liars and globalist puppets who are trying to fudge their way to the finish line. You can bet Ron Paul could name five federal agencies to eliminate , right off the top of his head, with plenty of time to spare! Rick Perry couldn’t even name the third government agency he wanted to eliminate. But even then, why not just make one up on the spot instead of looking like a fool? Couldn’t you just whip out an answer like “The Post Office!” Or “The Pentagon!” Or how about the FDA? Or the USDA? Or take your pick among every other agency that’s run by a pack of tyrants or criminals: DEA, ATF, FTC… the list goes on. How could you NOT think of a single federal agency to eliminate? Heck, you could probably name ANY government agency to eliminate and it would make sense. From a field of over a dozen likely targets, how could Rick Perry have failed to come up with number three? It is with great relief, however, that Perry has now violently thrown himself out of the race. This vaccine-pushing, globalist-agenda-pimping miscreant deserves no place in the U.S. White House, and the fact that he even got this far is a terrible indictment of the gullibility and foolishness of the donors who supported him so far. There’s only one real candidate for U.S. President, folks. His name is Ron Paul. He stands for health freedom, legalized medical marijuana, legalized hemp farming, legalized raw milk, lower taxes, greater freedom, the ending of imperialist wars and numerous other examples of liberty and common sense. If you don’t vote for Ron Paul, don’t bother voting at all. www.RonPaul2012.com

First Germany, now Belgium: Nuclear energy to be phased out by 2015

(NaturalNews) In the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, some countries have decided to rethink their energy policies and initiate moves towards safer energy alternatives. Following in the footsteps of Germany, the European nation of Belgium has reportedly decided to phase out its nuclear energy sector, beginning with the shutdown of three of its oldest reactors by 2015. Back in March, Germany, the fourth-largest economy in the world, vowed to end its nuclear program by as early as 2020, and later revised that date to 2022 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13592208). Belgium now intends to do the same thing with its two nuclear power stations that together house seven nuclear reactors, by 2025. BBC News reports that Belgian officials reached an agreement to shut down two older reactors at the nation’s nuclear facility in Doel, as well as another older reactor at its Tihange plant, by 2015. From there, it will gradually phase out the remaining four reactors by 2025 which, together with the first three, currently generate 5,860 megawatts of power. “There is a confirmation that the plants will close, and nuclear will become a transition energy in Belgium,” an unnamed government official told The Wall Street Journal recently. “The government will set out a plan for the move to alternative power sources in the six months following its installation.” Reports say the phase-out dates are somewhat flexible, and that the process of switching from nuclear to safe alternatives will take time. In the meantime, the Belgian government, which is currently being reformed after its collapse in 2010, plans to implement a nuclear tax that will generate revenue for investing in alternative energy technologies. Electrabel, the company that runs Belgium’s nuclear facilities, claims that the Belgian government has changed course from its previous intentions. The Belgian government had actually recommended extending the lives of the old reactors based on studies it released prior to Fukushima — but now its plans have changed. GDF-Suez, which is part of Electrabel, has made a conditional agreement with the Belgian government to only follow through with the phase out if energy shortages and price jumps will not come about as a result. It remains to be seen if Belgian officials will come up with effective energy alternatives. Sources for this article include: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15521865

Just launched: Surthrival Series features Daniel Vitalis, Health Ranger teaching lifesaving principles of urban preparedness

(NaturalNews) As protests continues to grow in major cities worldwide, those who are paying attention know that a time of rioting and collapse is fast approaching . European banks are on the brink of default, and a collapse in Europe will drag the U.S. even more deeply into its own downward spiral of financial insolvency. How long can the system hold out before we see massive protests, riots and even a “second American revolution” begin to unfold? More importantly, how will you not only survive the inevitable disruptions in basic resources (water, electricity, heating oil, local law enforcement, etc.) but how will you THRIVE through any crisis and always come out ahead? Real solutions for people who live in cities or suburbs My friend Daniel Vitalis is not only the founder of one of the most innovative nutritional supplement companies in America (www.Surthrival.com), he’s also an expert in primitive skills such as food foraging, fire starting, and shelter construction. One day as we were talking about primitive skills and the coming “reboot” of society (as he calls it), I asked the question, “Why isn’t there a course on preparedness and survival for people living in the cities or suburbs?” Most of the preparedness information available today is geared toward wilderness survival . But most people don’t live in the wilderness — they live in the city or surrounding suburbs. They might have a small yard to grow some veggies, but they don’t have huge acreage to go foraging for wild food, for example. They have a roof over their heads, but when the electricity and heating oil stops, they don’t necessarily know how to stay warm and well fed inside their house or apartment. In other words: How do city people survive the crisis that we all sense is coming? Introducing the Surthrival Series To help answer this question, Daniel Vitalis and I (the Health Ranger) put together a totally unique preparedness and survival course that teaches and even demonstrates the skills you need to survive in any city, suburb or even a ranch setting. Most importantly, this is not a “Rambo survival course” that tries to dramatize Man vs. the Wild . This is not a “run around a shoot everybody and be the last man standing” survival course. Instead, this is a thoughtful, thorough instructional course that focuses on the real skills you will need to survive and thrive: Skills like food preservation, bartering, staying warm in a cold climate, redundant systems for light and heat, how to deal with refugees who need help, how to rig your own non-lethal self defense weapons, and other valuable topics. Better yet, we don’t just show you the skills you need to thrive in any crisis, we share with you the principles of strategic thinking that will get you through almost any situation imaginable. We’ve packaged it all in an online course that you can watch instantly through NaturalNews.TV, our highly popular video site. This course consists of 10 online videos that you can watch on any PC or Mac, plus 3 downloadable audio files (MP3) that you can download and listen to on your iPhone, MP3 player or any computer. Click here for more details on the Surthrival Series course , available exclusively through NaturalNews.TV. What you’re about to learn may help keep you and your family alive How useful is the information you’ll find in this course? It could spell the difference between life and death. And yet, most people don’t know this information. They assume the tap water will always function; that the electrical grid will always be available; and that 911 emergency services will always respond. But in a breakdown scenario, none of these things are likely to be operational, leaving us all to fend for ourselves. How will you do that? The Surthrival Series gives you practical, low-tech solutions that really work to protect your safety, support your basic necessities, and keep you and your family warm and well fed. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this information-packed course: • Why you need a Surthrival course: The most likely causes of disruption or collapse. • How you can feel more confident and prepared in facing the future with the skills and knowledge you need to stay safe. • Why society may be more fragile than you think, affecting banking and trade, food deliveries, municipal infrastructure and more. • Did you realize this? Urban planners never planned cities to suffer functional breakdowns. • Extraordinary tip: How to get FREE courses in emergency medicine , first aid, emergency rescue and much more — right in your own local community! • Why we are already IN the collapse. It has begun! • Why preparedness transforms fear into confidence. • How to stay balanced in being “prepared” for possible breakdowns in society while also remaining positive enough to stay confident. • How to prepare right now even if you life in an apartment or condo in a high-population city. • What simple source of carbohydrates you can store that will literally last for hundreds of years in storage . • How to use “counter thinking” to acquire supplies and resources when they are cheap and readily available. • Key barter items that are cheap now but will be almost invaluable in a collapse scenario. … learn all this and much more in the Surthrival Series . Click here for instant access (start viewing it immediately.) A wealth of survival and preparedness information at your fingertips In The Surthrival Series , you will also learn: • How to protect yourself from radiation, GMOs, petrochemicals, contaminated water and other planet-wide threats to your health. • Why modern society is so distorted that it promotes and favors sociopaths and narcissists — and why that will quickly shift in the post-collapse reality. • Why you should think about your stored food in terms of “thermal units” for heat and not just calories for powering activity. • Why SURVIVAL food is not HIKING food. And why granola bars are basically horse food ! • Why the water infrastructure in every major city is likely to suffer disruptions (or total failures) in almost any survival scenario. • Why to think seriously about the water supply of where you live: Huge regions of North America, Australia and other countries will quickly return to deserts in a collapse. • Why typical “survival kits” are just toys. They won’t keep you alive when you need them. Learn what works better. • Why most survival foods (MREs, etc.) are loaded with genetically modified vegetable oils and other garbage ingredients. • Why “people skills” are crucial survival skills. • Why a post-collapse world could actually lead to healthier people in the long run. • How to intelligently assess your local climate to prepare for the proper shelter and temperature variation. • How to survive in your home through any winter even without your furnace working! • How to source and easily assemble the Health Ranger’s secret light beam weapon for temporarily blinding groups of attackers — no one else is talking about this! • The four elements — earth, water, wind, fire — and what they have to do with Surthrival. • Why traditional “survival” foods are often extremely toxic and may even harm you! • Strategies for getting out of the city during a crisis, including finding alternative routes and practicing escape routes. • Great advice on light-producing devices which should always be in your carry kit. • Key strategies for redundancy for your most high-priority tools or systems. • Why you have to change your food buying habits when thinking about preparedness foods — you’ve got to aim for MORE calories in your food, not less. This is the opposite of the food purchasing habits people follow right now. • Inexpensive preparedness food items you can find at a regular grocery store. • Why merely STORING food isn’t a complete solution — you need to GROW food to live sustainably. Stored food is merely “transition” food, says Vitalis. • Which skills will suddenly become extremely valuable in a post-collapse scenario. Click here to learn even more about what’s in this course. (Watch the preview trailer!) The Surthrival Series also includes downloadable audio programs covering the following: How to create your own GO BAG ($19 value) In this audio program, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) reveals his own personal recipe for creating a food preparedness GO BAG — a bag that you can grab and go in any emergency, supplying you with food, cooking supplies, water filtration equipment and basic food prep utensils. In this 90-minute downloadable MP3 audio program, you’ll learn: • Which foods you can buy at any grocery store that should be part of your go bag. • Which superfoods will boost your emergency nutrition during a crisis. • Why you should avoid glass containers and actually go with plastic. • Which food basics to be sure to include in your bag. • Recommendations on the actual brand of super heavy duty duffel bags to consider as your go bag. • Details on the world’s best portable water filtration equipment that you’ll want to include. • Which water bottles, cups and boiling pans to consider including. • The exact brand name of the portable camp cooking device to include in your go bag (it can boil water and make soup, tea, or hot beverages). • A list of the exactly cooking utensils to include in your go bag — it’s just enough to get the job done while staying light in weight. • Advice on lighters, matches, soaps, bleach, cleaning devices, plastic storage bags and much more. • How to protect your go bag from mice, ants or other pests. • How to find “processed food” that’s actually decent for your health and will have a long shelf life. • Which food bars to consider including in your go bag — high-density nutrition without the chemical additives. • Advice on items to AVOID putting in your food go bag. • Strategies for carrying water in a vehicle, and which storage containers to consider. • Additional authentic commentary from Mike Adams on the coming collapse, the need to prepare, and why most people won’t listen until it’s too late. Five Mental Strategies for Surviving Anytime, Anywhere In this additional audio program, the Health Ranger reveals his most protected secrets that kept him alive during episodes of being stalked and threatened by Big Pharma operatives. You’ll learn some of the most powerful methods for avoiding conflict and getting your business done without attracting attention. Inside, you’ll learn: • How to blend in and avoid drawing unnecessary attention to yourself. • The importance of setting your ego aside and backing down from a fight. • How to observe the people around you and then mimic them to fit in. • How to anticipate the warning signs of imminent collapse. • Which basic skills can increase your total resourcefulness , allowing you to accomplish more with less. • Why you need to be ahead of the crowd when the financial collapse comes (and ways to make sure you really are). • Why “gearing up” alone won’t save you during the collapse. You also need these crucial skills… • A lifesaving lesson the Health Ranger learned from his knife instructor (and why you should always remember this lesson if conflict looks imminent). • Understanding personal space boundaries and using them to stay safe while blending in. • How to project an unconscious message that you are not a person to be messed with (and why this is important). • The philosophy of the ethical warrior: Helping others when they are in need, yet viciously defending yourself, your family and your property when absolutely necessary. Learn all this and more in the Five Mental Strategies for Surviving Anytime, Anywhere . The full download is available FREE as part of this package. Listen to the MP3 file on any mobile device: iPod, iPad, mobile phone or MP3 player. All MP3 files are downloadable to your iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac or MP3 player All the MP3 files in this course are FULLY DOWNLOADABLE so you can download them all and listen to the course at your leisure, on any device that plays MP3 files. These are high-quality MP3s (320k) that are far superior to typical MP3 files used with audio books, for example. Load ‘em up on your favorite MP3 player and enjoy the program! The videos in this course are streamable (viewable) on any Mac or PC. Watch them any time you wish, and watch them an unlimited number of times from today into the future. They stay permanently in your NaturalNews.TV library so you can access them any time in the future. Tremendous value — get INSTANT ACCESS now In all, you can’t really put a price on the value of this course. You get: • 10 streamable videos • 3 downloadable audio files • 2 valuable bonus items • Huge money-saving discount codes that more than pay for the entire cost of this course Click here to get the Surthrival Series now. Here’s more of what you’ll learn in the Surthrival Series • How to use silver to “preserve” your stored water and protect it from pathogens. • Tips on how to transport water. • How to avoid being ripped off by cheap tools, cheap knives and other cheap tools that will fail when you need them most. • An awesome cordage tying technique, demonstrated by Daniel Vitalis. This technique allows you to keep long cords without tangling them! • The importance of eating clay (yes, eating CLAY) to protect yourself from toxins and radiation. • Why the trace element iodine is so crucial to stock in your preparedness medicine chest. • Unusual nutritional strategies for removing BPA (bisphenol-A), radiation and toxic chemicals from your body. • Why “success” in surthrival is not merely about surviving, but also protecting your genetic code. • How to choose a properly-sized backpack to carry just the right amount of gear. • How to choose a water carrier that protects your water and keeps it cool. Why to consider ceramic… • Why most people vastly underestimate the temperature variation in nature, especially at night. • Why you need to own and carry a thermal under layer made partially from merino wool . • Why you should cover your body’s “pulse points” with thermal protection during cold nights or cold weather. • Why you should never buy a bright color backpack if you really want to survive in the wilderness. • Key preparedness gear that can protect you from dust, keep you warm and even hide your face out in the woods. • Why natural wool is a far better material for warmth and protection compared to synthetic fibers like polypropylene. • Why you should always carry a map of the area in which you live (and add it to your kit). • Important tips for navigation, using a compass, having a declination chart, etc. • Which brand of compass works the most reliably year after year. • Light, portable, high-value items that are perfect for barter. • Why you need a small, portable magnifier • Watch Daniel ignite wood with a magnifying glass. • How to reduce the noise level of your pack and gear, to be quiet as you move through any environment. • The most practical multi-tool for using both in the wilderness as well as urban environments. • Tips about the ultimate wilderness tool – the “survival knife” and why it’s not what you think. • Advanced techniques for using a survival knife to split wood, cut trees for shelter, shave wood for starting fires and much more. • Why you need a dry sack to protect important documents and tools. • The importance of cordage and why you need to stock up on the right kind of cord. • Cold weather strategies for staying warm or treating hypothermia . • Which brand and models of LED lights are highly recommended for reliable, long-term use. • How to wear a knife so that it is accessible yet secure. • Why you are probably vastly underestimating your need for quality cutting edges (knives). • What kind of survival / preparedness gear to AVOID buying. • Demonstration video of using a woodsman knife to chop a tree for firewood, shelter construction, a fence post, etc. Also includes a video demonstration of a technique called “batoning.” • The ultimate toothpaste — it’s made with clay! Here’s the product that protects your gums, cleans your teeth, and provides protection against toxic substances. • Information about zeolites and how they can be used to pull toxic material out of your body . (These were used to help clean Chernobyl.) • Why the food supply may experience severe disruptions in a collapse scenario — and how we can become more independent with our own food supply. • Why it’s important to know your local food providers before a crisis appears. • Strategies for raising your own meat on a small scale. • Tips for gathering wild food: Foraging and hunting. • Why using your lawn to grow grass is a waste of resources: In the near future, lawns will be used to produce FOOD. • Strategies for food storage and how to make sure the food you store is the food that will power you through realistic situations you are likely to encounter. • Why you should sprout all stored grains before you eat them! • Why you should consider storing large quantities of OILS for preparedness — and we’ll reveal the No. 1 best oil to store (hint: You can’t usually find it at the grocery store.) • Strategies for choosing storable foods that last for years on the shelf and yet provide high-density calories when needed. • Why SALT will almost certainly become scarce in a collapse scenario — and where to get it right now dirt cheap from a surprising source. • How to source and store hard-to-get omega-3 fatty acids for long-term preparedness. • How to become proficient in wild plant medicine and food in a relatively short period of time. • Tips for choosing seeds to grow your plants, and then how to “evolve” your plants generation after generation to be better suited to your local soils and climate. • Fascinating thoughts on how the human species has been altered and why the gene pool is shifting. • How to avoid losing stored food to rodents or insects. • Understanding your body’s needs for clean water — and how to provide the very best water in the world. • Busted: the “Spring Water” hoax — most of it is actually well water! • How to find water-producing springs using a clever online map. • Why nearly all surface water on our planet has been contaminated with nuclear fallout from decades of nuclear bomb tests. • Why it’s important to actually store water in your home . • The coming age of water wars. • Important strategies for sourcing and owning water filters — how to make sure you always have one accessible. • What happens when Los Angeles runs out of water? Vitalis discusses various scenarios… • A video demonstration of the Katadyn Expedition ceramic water filter (hand pumped, filters enough water for a whole neighborhood). • Why “nice neighbors” suddenly transform into something very different when water or food becomes scarce. • The coming phase of collapse: People will begin to abandon the cities . • Why all these cities are completely unsustainable: Phoenix, Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, San Diego, Tucson, and more. • Why “earth changes” are completely normal and common, and why the coming changes will make major cities uninhabitable. • Why this course goes BEYOND mere “survival” and teaches how we stay healthy and thrive through any crisis or collapse. This isn’t about guns and ammo as much as it is about seeds and strategies. • Estimates on the survival count following a global economic collapse. • Why mental preparedness is just as important as physical preparedness. • What will happen to the “shelter” properties of your house if electricity and heating oil supplies are disrupted? • Learn about the No. 1 killer in the outdoors and how to avoid it with proper planning and equipment. • Why your current level of body fat dramatically affects your ability to survive in different temperature climates. • The physics of conduction and how to leverage these principles to stay warm in the winter or cool in the summer. • Strategies for “base layer” clothing – the best materials and layering tips. • Tips for easily and affordably generating short-term heat in your home. • Tips for using FOOD to boost your body heat and stay warm. • Why growing your own food requires huge calories and necessarily alters the way you think about food and caloric intake. • How to create your own insulated sleeping gear even if you don’t have a sleeping bag around. • Myths about camp fires and fireplaces — they’re mostly cosmetic and really don’t keep you warm (we explain why). • Why it’s smart to become familiar with using a woodstove for heat and cooking. • Advice on sourcing practical, lightweight tents in case you need shelter that’s mobile. • How to use heat to “sweat out” radiation and toxins. • My #1 top recommended flashlight: Lasts a lifetime and can also be used as a self defense tool. • How to use LIGHT as a powerful defensive tool. • How to project a sense of confidence in public to avoid being targeted by bad people. • How to out-intimidate would-be attackers to make them think twice about attacking you or your property. • The really big preparedness issue almost no one thinks about: Dealing with refugees from the cities . • Strategies for growing a “stealth garden” that isn’t easily recognizable as a sign of being “stocked up” on food. • Why disruptions in 911 and emergency services can cause “normal” people to suddenly become criminal minds. • The best fire-starting gear — what really works (and this may surprise you). • Important safety tips for storing fuels, candles or lighters. • Who to be sure to network with in your local community to make sure you’re considered part of the solution and not the problem. 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Former top Democrat says when Obamacare takes effect, small businesses will drop employee health coverage

(NaturalNews) In regard to the health care “reform” measure in 2009, President Barack Obama assured the nation that the 1000-plus page measure was vital – vital – to ensure that all Americans were finally covered by health insurance. In praising its passage in the House, Obama said the measure “will begin the process of fixing what’s broken about our health care system, reducing costs for all, building on what works, and covering an estimated 97 percent of all Americans.” That prediction isn’t likely to come true, for even a former head of the Democratic Party says not only will millions of Americans lose their preferred coverage after the so-called “Obamacare” legislation kicks in completely, but its price tag is liable to double. Howard Dean, a physician, onetime Democratic candidate for president and former head of the Democratic National Committee, said this week that when Obamacare takes full effect, as many as one-third of the nation’s small businesses will opt to drop their employee coverage. “This is very good for small business,” Dean said. “There was a McKinsey study, which the Democrats don’t like, but I do, and I think it’s true. Most small businesses are not going to be in the health insurance business anymore after this thing goes into effect.” The study pointed out that one of Obama’s key promises – that employees would be able to keep their employer-provided insurance plans – won’t be true for employees of about 45 percent of small businesses, because those same businesses are planning to drop employee coverage because it’ll be cheaper for them to do so. Which leads to the second of Obama’s two main promises – that his healthcare reform measure won’t add to the nation’s deficit. As it turns out, employees who are tossed off their employer’s plans will then be eligible to sign up for one of those government (read taxpayer ) provided health insurance exchange pools. And that, as they say, is where the real money is. Regarding Dean’s comment that dropping employee coverage would help small businesses, former New York Gov. George Pataki said, “The only way it’s a help is if they drop coverage and their employees would all of a sudden have to go on the exchange, which is what of course the president promised wouldn’t happen.” Most estimates of the healthcare reform bill is that it would cost about $970 billion over 10 years, about half of which would be paid for in new taxes. But that was based on a relatively small amount of employees – something like 7 percent, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates – being moved off their employer-provided coverage and into the exchange pools. But with millions more employees likely to wind up in the exchange, that is liable to add nearly $1 trillion more to the cost of “reform.” Wasn’t Obamacare supposed to reduce costs?

Police grant Apple security officials unlawful access to private home in search of missing iPhone 5 prototype

(NaturalNews) Just weeks before the speculated launch of Apple Inc.’s long-awaited iPhone 5, the technology giant has once again lost a critical prototype of the unreleased smartphone, according to SF Weekly . After supposedly tracing the device back to the home of a San Francisco man, undercover Apple security agents were reportedly accompanied by San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officers to the man’s home, where they proceeded to search the home as if they were law enforcement. According to SFPD Lt. Troy Dangerfield, “three or four” SFPD officers accompanied two Apple security agents, one of whom was later identified as Anthony Colon, to the Bernal Heights home of Sergio Calderon, the man believed to have possession of the missing prototype. The SFPD officers remained outside, but allowed the Apple employees to search Calderon’s home, car, and computer for evidence of the phone. They never found anything. “When they came to my house, they said they were SFPD,” said Calderon to SF Weekly . “I thought they were SFPD. That’s why I let them in,” adding that if he had known the two agents were from Apple, he would have refused their entry. Neither one, according to Calderon, identified himself as being a private security officer. Calderon had allegedly been visited previously by officers, six of whom came to his house in July and offered him $300 if he returned the device. But Calderon claims he has never had the device in his possession. Dangerfield has admitted that SFPD officers accompanied the Apple agents to Calderon’s house, and agrees that they remained outside. However, if it is later confirmed that the group failed to properly identify the two men that searched Calderon’s home, the incident could be determined a misdemeanor crime for illegal impersonation of police officers. Sources for this story include: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/09/iphone_5_apple_police.php

Meet your new Federal Family (and don’t use the word "government" please) (satire)

(NaturalNews) As the reputation of the U.S. government is now in shambles, the feds are turning to the same bait-and-switch tactics used by the Corn Refiners Association as they tried to rename High Fructose Corn Syrup to the more innocent sounding “corn sugar.” The federal government no longer wants to be called a “government” at all. Instead, you’re supposed to refer to them as your “federal family.” Seriously. This is the word from FEMA, which announced last week, “Under the direction of President Obama and Secretary Janet Napolitano, the entire federal family is leaning forward to support our state, tribal and territorial partners along the East Coast.” Family? Really? Sort of like an organized crime family , perhaps? Let’s take a look at this family, shall we? Note: This article is obviously satire. All photos used herein are presented under Fair Use for the purpose of public commentary and satire. Father Obama First there’s Father Obama. He runs the family’s finances, and that’s why the entire family is irreversibly bankrupt and forever on the verge of being evicted from their home which is about to be repossessed by the bank. Father Obama sounds like he knows what he’s talking about, but he’s actually completely clueless. Every time he mandates that the family do something, the outcome is disastrous. One time he ordered everybody in the family to buy all their own health insurance, threatening to take away their allowance money if they didn’t. Another time, he launched bottle rockets at the neighbor’s house on July 4th, setting their roof on fire and burning their house to the ground. It turned out he was trying to get the local kids hired as part of the house reconstruction team and claimed to be engaged in “creating jobs” for the neighborhood. Big Sis Janet Napolitano Don’t wrestle with your big sis Janet. She’s got the skin of a mutant rhinoceros and the face of a Roman battering ram. She’s the “muscle” of the criminal family, complete with bad breath and everything. When you come home late on a Friday night, she insists on searching your pockets for weed, then interrogating you on where you’ve been and why you think you have the right to travel at all. She’s also big on surveillance, so she runs a series of secret nanny cams throughout your house to gather evidence on you and tattle to your parents. She keeps a secret database of all your violations and threatens to use them against you to get what she wants, which just happens to be personally conducting “enhanced pat-downs” on other women. When she’s not busy spying on her siblings, Big Sis Janet is hanging out behind the local bowling alley, selling the weed she confiscated from her brother to raise money to support her S&M fetish. She wields a baseball bat and carries a set of brass knuckles to remind the locals who’s in charge. Uncle Ben Bernanke Uncle Ben Bernanke is the dodgy white collar criminal of the family who runs an illicit printing press in the basement, cranking out counterfeit hundred dollar bills and hoping he won’t get caught by the U.S. Treasury Department. When he’s not printing counterfeit money, he’s running financial scams on little old ladies by selling them derivates, or purchasing mail order goods with counterfeit money orders and cashier’s checks. Like any con man, he’s clean-cut and sounds intelligent, but behind the scenes, he’s always running “get rich quick” schemes that only end up stealing money from people. Even though his ideas never work, he always thinks he’s smarter than everyone else, and he struts around the house with an attitude of total arrogance, screaming about how he’s going to “save the world!” The rest of the family members just scowl and him and scream in return, “Grow some hair where it counts!” “Crazy” Grandpa Harry Reid Harry Reid (US Senate Majority Leader) is that grumpy old grandpa of the family who still thinks he’s running the household but has long since been labeled “demented” by the rest of the family. His ideas about the world are universally wrong, but he can’t stop blabbing at the family dinner table about how brilliant he is and how the whole family would be better off if everyone would just listen to him. Grandpa Harry also has an integrity problem. He once convinced the family members to all pitch in and hire a neighbor kid to mow the lawn, but it later turned out Grandpa was getting a kickback equal to 25% of the kid’s wages, then using that money to buy vodka. He also went racist on everyone and insisted that the family hire no “negroes” to do the mowing, unless they were “light skinned” and spoke with “no Negro dialect.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid#Criticism) “Mommy” Margaret Hamburg Margaret Hamburg (current head of the FDA) is the psychopathic, medication-addicted mother of the household. She’s a total hypochondriac who keeps trying to put all the kids on psychiatric medications, and she hoards pain pills in her own medicine cabinet then gobbles a handful when life just gets to be too much. She starts up an argument any time Father Obama brings home vitamins or herbs, claiming that “vitamins are deadly” and that the family needs to receive annual vaccination shots to avoid colds and the flu. She suffers from migraine headaches herself, though, and every time she experiences one, she runs around the house screaming about how she wants to leave this world “and take the children with me, dammit!” Predictably, the family gets sick every year during the flu season, during which “Mommy” Margaret goes crazy blaming everybody else for “not taking their prescribed antibiotics!” The rest of the family has pretty much decided that Margaret is mentally deranged and they are seriously considering asking a court judge to declare her incompetent. Cousin “Good ol’ boy” Tom Vilsack Cousin Tom is a corn-fed, barbeque-eating country boy from Iowa. He seems okay on the outside, but his prostate is the size of a Fukushima-mutated canteloupe because he’s been dining on genetically engineered corn and sucking down hormone-injected beef products for too many years. As suspected, Cousin Tom is becoming a mutant. One time at Thanksgiving, Father Obama told a joke about the economy that made Cousin Tom laugh so hard, he coughed up his own scrotum. He’s also growing a sixth finger on his right hand and a curious appendage from his tailbone that seems to wag when you laugh at it… which happens a lot when Cousin Tom starts talking about how his “genius” ideas are helping so many people (http://www.cagw.org/newsroom/porker-of-the-month/). On the science front, Tom is currently overseeing a small patch of “experimental lawn grass” in the back yard, using seeds he got from Monsanto. That patch of grass has grown to five times its normal size, and small animals recently began disappearing when they wandered nearby. The family dog has gone missing, too, but Cousin Tom seems excited about the new GMO grass and plans to expand the plot to cover the entire perimeter of the house where it can function as “security grass,” he says, with the added benefit that it will “eat intruders.” Gotta love Monsanto technology, eh? Don’t you love your new Federal Family? Your new “Federal Family” isn’t the only family we all know about, is it? There are other famous families in U.S. history that might also right a bell, such as: The Chicago mob boss crime syndicate family. This was a group of families, actually, who surged into power during the era of Prohibition and made money off the fact that alcohol was illegal. The scheme failed to stop alcohol and only made violent crime war worse, so the federal government decided to end prohibition. At about the same time, it enacted prohibition-style laws that outlawed marijuana, and it then began trafficking all the illegal drugs itself, taking over as the “Federal Family” of drug trafficking. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking) The difference between the mafia crime families and the government “Federal Family” is that at least the mafia knows it’s stealing from you. The federal government, on the other hand, claims YOUR money is automatically THEIRS! That’s why they steal a little bit out of every paycheck you earn and then promise to send you checks for your retirement someday… but behind the scenes, they’ve already spent your retirement money on their own bloated salaries and pet pork projects. The federal family, it turns out, steals from you just like real family … but without the annual picnic and mandatory wedding attendances.

All charges dropped against Detroit mom Maryanne Godboldo

(NaturalNews) All charges have been dropped against Detroit mom Maryanne Godboldo, the woman who was SWAT team raided when Child Protective Services attempted to kidnap her daughter because Maryanne refused to “treat” her with psychiatric medications. An armed standoff ensued, and Maryanne ultimately walked out of her house and was charged with multiple felony counts (http://www.naturalnews.com/032090_Maryanne_Godboldo_health_freedom.html). Listen to my interview with Maryanne about the incident at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8B81912F9B1AD317AE3DBBD4896C61AA I also called Maryanne Godboldo, who is African American, a Civil Rights hero for standing up to government thugs who tried to kidnap her daughter. Here my audio commentary on the situation at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=97774F5C3850CF921CBD4919305AE67C In court proceedings yesterday, all charges were dropped against Maryanne. After the decision was rendered, she said, “I was very pleased with what happened today and I’m pleased Judge Giles ruled in the way that he did because justice prevailed.” The state of Michigan, however, still has custody of her daughter, so this battle is not yet won. In fact, I say that the battle is not won until the CPS workers and police officers who conducted the raid are, themselves, brought up on felony charges of attempting kidnapping . Godboldo’s court proceedings reveal the details of how the thuggish, criminally-operated state broke the law in its effort to kidnap her daughter. Low-IQ cops follow orders after looking at scrap of paper What this case reveals is that low-IQ cops, who will apparently follow any orders without any sense of whether their orders are legal, were presented with a scrap of paper by a CPS caseworker who claimed it was some kind of order authorizing the state to use force to take away Godboldo’s daughter. Except CPS was lying, as usual. In reality, “The police met the CPS worker on the street, she hands them a piece of paper that is not officially filed with the county, it has a rubber stamp, and it’s not completely filled out,” said Godboldo’s attorney. The order simply wasn’t valid, in other words. It was just a scrap of paper with no lawful validity behind it. “When you come into someone’s house and you’re taking their child, you have to be lawful,” she explained. Ah, but that’s the whole point, isn’t it? Today’s government tyrants operate OUTSIDE the law. Whether they’re raiding the Gibson Guitar factory to confiscate “illegal wood” (http://www.naturalnews.com/033454_Gibson_Guitar_armed_raid.html), running FDA armed raids on raw dairy food distribution centers (http://www.naturalnews.com/033220_Rawesome_Foods_armed_raids.html) or terrorizing innocent moms who grow tomatoes in their home gardens (http://www.naturalnews.com/032960_Julie_Bass_home_gardening.html), it’s always done outside the law , respecting no constitutional rights of the citizens. What used to be a nation of freedom and law has very quickly devolved into one of government tyrants running around threatening innocents with guns . In every case, civil rights are violated by these tyrants, yet they are never held accountable for their actions. At best, the innocent victims of their threats of violence are let off the hook — but usually only after NaturalNews and the alternative media raise a stink about the injustices being committed. The thuggish tyrants who mastermind these illegal raids are never charged with crimes and never face justice for their own outlandish violations of not just civil rights but human rights. We demand the arrest of the law-breaking cops who conducted the illegal raid on Godboldo I believe it is time the People of America began demanding the arrest and imprisonment of government agents, CPS workers and law enforcement personnel who commit these unlawful acts. We need to see FDA heads rolling and cops put in prison for taking part in these illegal raids. Just as the East German soldiers who manned the Berlin Wall and shot escapees were guilty of war crimes, today’s cops who are merely “following orders” need to be reminded that they, too, must abide by the law of the land. And if they violate those laws by participating in illegal raids that have no basis in law, they must be brought to justice by the People, to face their own charges of criminal misconduct. After all, if we are a nation of law and justice, then those laws must apply to all men and women , not just selected ones. If the People are required to follow the law, then law enforcement personnel, government regulators and even the President himself must also follow the law. That’s what makes America a Republic (a society based on law, NOT majority rule). When those who enforce the law become lawless, then what used to be honest government breaks down into tyranny, and chaos ensues. This is where we now find ourselves in America, where laws are routinely violated by the entire executive branch of government, from the President himself (illegal wars) down to the secret FDA spies and infiltration agents who operate more like the KGB than honest Americans (http://www.naturalnews.com/033428_FDA_secret_war.html). Here at NaturalNews, we fight for justice and the rule of law. We encourage all citizens to abide by the law, and we demand that all those who work in government operate within the bounds of those same laws. And when laws are bad, we serve an activist role in working to get those laws revised (such as current marijuana prohibition laws, which are a complete failure and in desperate need of revision). NaturalNews played a pivotal role in bringing public pressure to this case involving Maryanne Godboldo. I thank all NaturalNews readers for their phone calls of support, their protests and their sharing of these stories so that people learn the truth about what’s really happening to our nation. Visit Maryanne’s website at www.Justice4Maryanne.com

Free energy scientist and NASA astronaut Brian O’Leary passes away (1940 – 2011)

(NaturalNews) Brain O’Leary passed away last week (July 28th, 2011). A former NASA astronaut and PhD recipient from the University of California at Berkeley (1967), Dr. O’Leary was more recently known for his research and advocacy into alternative energy (free energy). Originally trained as a conventional scientist, Brian O’Leary’s investigation of the universe opened his eyes to many advanced theories that aren’t yet recognized by conventional scientists (who remain far behind the curve on over-unity energy research). He eventually bucked the system, left the stifling world of academia and set out on his own to explore alternative science and free energy research. In his later years, he eventually settled in Vilcabamba, Ecuador and hosted several philosophical seminars and brainstorm groups at his Montesuenos retreat. That’s where I first met Brian and came to know him as a friend. I interviewed Brian several times about issues such as free energy and alternative science (which is really “advanced” science). To listen to one of our interviews, see “Health Ranger Show #59″ at http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html Perhaps due to his exposure to toxic chemicals earlier in life as a conventional scientist, Brian battled cancer in his later years. He famously treated a skin cancer tumor on his back using a natural anti-cancer salve named Cansema , made by Gregory Caton who was kidnapped from Ecuador by the FDA, then dragged back to the USA and thrown in prison for selling “unapproved drugs.” (http://www.naturalnews.com/027750_Greg_Caton_FDA.html) Brian O’Leary credits Cansema with removing his skin cancer tumor and even wrote a testimonial for Greg Caton to use in the promotion of the Cansema product. The FDA, of course, considers this to be blasphemy. During several visits to his house in Vilcabamba, I spoke with Brian at some length about holistic nutrition and found that he was new to many of the topics. Being into alternative science doesn’t necessarily mean you’re into holistic nutrition, it seems, but Brian was very interested in learning more about nutrition, especially as his health challenges became more symptomatic. While I wish to respect Brian’s privacy and will not reveal certain medical details that he shared with me, I do think it is important to state that he was still engaged in the consumption of conventional medicine right up to the time of his death. This is important to note because critics might try to point to his death and link it to the Cansema product, when in truth it was Cansema that helped him and most likely toxic chemicals or pharmaceuticals that ultimately led to his death. Knowing Brian, he would definitely want the record set straight on any conjecture about the possible causes of his death, and he would not want alternative medicine to be unfairly attacked. Brian definitely recognized the value of holistic nutrition and would no doubt have pursued it more fully if he had been made aware of it earlier in his life. Also for the record, Brian’s death was definitely not a hit or anything like that. I say this because it is true that many free energy pioneers have been assassinated in order to kill their projects that promised to bring free energy technology to the world. Brian’s health was deteriorating over the last few years, but he continued marching forward, hosting conferences at Montesuenos and pursuing his mission of sharing the promising ideas of free energy creation with the world. I consider Dr. Brian O’Leary a hero of free thinking and a pioneer whose contributions to the world shall not be forgotten. May his work carry on through others who continue to pursue truth through the perspective of science.

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