Federal agents raid Mormon food storage facility, demand list of customers storing emergency food

(NaturalNews) As was the plan all along, the so-called “War on Terror” has officially devolved into a war on the American people (http://www.naturalnews.com/034321_war_on_terror_paranoia_hoax.html). This was clearly illustrated by the recent traitorous passage of the egregious National Defense Authorization Act by the US Congress (http://www.naturalnews.com/034302_indefinite_detention_National_Defense_Authorization_Act.html). But in order to fully implement the ultimate goal of total control and tyranny, the federal government is now actively collecting the names of individuals that are preparing for the future by buying and storing emergency food supplies. Oath Keepers , an association of active servicemen devoted to upholding their oath of guarding the republic and protecting individual liberty, has reported that federal agents recently paid a visit to a Latter Day Saints food storage cannery in Tennessee. Though they had no reason to be there, these agents allegedly interrogated the facility’s manager and demanded to see a list of customers that had purchased, and were storing, food there. Oath Keepers Tennessee Chapter President Rand Cardwell confirmed the incident, according to reports, as he is in close contact with a fellow veteran who happens to store his own food at the facility in question. According to the man’s account, agents entered the facility and began demanding payment records and personal information for everyone connected with the operation. “The manager informed the agents that the facility kept no such records and that all transactions were conducted on a cash-and-carry basis,” Cardwell is quoted as saying, concerning the incident. “The agents pressed for any record of personal checks, credit card transactions, etc., but the manager could provide no such record. The agents appeared to become very agitated and after several minutes of questioning finally left with no information.” Watch the full interview between Steward Rhodes and Alex Jones at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSeYJtTLaKU This unprovoked act of intimidation is highly concerning, but it is also somewhat contradictory. On the one hand, the federal government has been instilling fear into the American public for years, and has even made announcements urging the public to be prepared. But on the other hand, this same government is now pursuing those who are heeding these precautions as if they are terrorists. Oath Keepers suggests the government might be trying to gather intelligence on food-storing Americans in order to later come and confiscate that food, or worse — after all, freedom-loving patriots who are preparing for social upheaval are a threat to the power structure that seeks to tighten the noose of tyranny around the neck of society. You can read the entire account pf the incident at: http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/report-federal-agents-demand-customer-lists-from-mormon-food-storage-facility_12092011

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

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

Exposed: Military contractors hired to create fake Facebook accounts, infiltrate opposing groups

(NaturalNews) A secret campaign to take out groups and organizations that oppose the policies and agendas of the US Chamber of Commerce (USCC) and the US government has been outed, thanks to an archive of private emails obtained by Think Progress . According to reports, USCC hired HBGary, Federal and several other defense contractors to create fake accounts on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter in order to sabotage progressive groups critical of the organization’s platform. Top secret government efforts to thwart opposition are nothing new, especially as they involve social media sites. Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, for instance, recently told Russia Today that Facebook is “the most appalling spying machine ever invented,” and that it is routinely used by US Intelligence to illegally collect private information on individuals (http://www.naturalnews.com/032373_Facebook_spying.html). But now it has been revealed that some of the same contractors employed by the US government are now selling their information gathering and spying services to the highest private bidders, which in this case includes USCC. Private emails obtained by the infamous “Anonymous” group bring to light plans by HBGary’s executive Aaron Barr to partner with several other organizations, and create fake online identities, mine personal data, and even hack personal computers. HBGary’s hacking escapades included creating the phony Facebook persona “Holly Weber,” a fictitious 27-year-old woman that was to be used to troll progressive groups critical of USCC. Upon exposure, however, USCC quickly withdrew from its dealings with HBGary, and the account was shut down. Screenshots of the account, though, have been archived (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/18/298081/hbgary-federal-us-chamber-persona/). Besides its work with USCC, HBGary has also been exposed for selling its “persona management” services to the US government as well, presumably for the purpose of spying and infiltrating groups that oppose US-instigated wars and foreign occupation, for instance. According to reports, some of the other firms that had worked with HBGary in such persona management endeavors include Palantir and Berico Technologies. Sources for this story include: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/18/298081/hbgary-federal-us-chamber-persona/

Huge public outcry over TSA forcing 95-year-old cancer patient to remove adult diaper

(NaturalNews) The TSA has once again shown itself to be an agency utterly lacking in respect for human dignity by forcing a 95-year-old cancer patient to remove her adult diaper during the screening procedure. Jean Weber, a leukemia patient, underwent the humiliating procedure at the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport where TSA agents, as usual, claim to be “protecting the public from terrorism.” (You have to question the intelligence, obviously, of any federal employee who believes that terrorists are hiding weapons inside the diaper of a 95-year-old cancer patient. More on that below…) Outrage over the “adult diaper pat-down” has rapidly spread across the internet as more and more people are waking up and realizing the TSA has no concept of human dignity and can justify anything — yes, anything — as part of the “war on terror.” The TSA even justified this adult diaper pat-down, claiming what they did was conducted in a “respectful and sensitive manner.” Is respectful and sensitive raping next? That’s the same phrase they’re going to use when they start conducting even more invasive body cavity searches on American travelers. It’s no stretch to imagine the TSA soon explaining, “We reached into the anus of those 43 passengers to look for explosives in a respectful and sensitive manner.” Or better yet, “We raped those teenagers by fondling their genitals and exploring their body cavities in a respectful and sensitive manner .” Adding the words “in a respectful and sensitive manner” to the crimes they are committing does not magically nullify the crimes themselves. TSA agents are criminal perverts, molesters and rapists who combine an over-inflated sense of their own importance with a stunningly sick lack of respect and dignity for fellow human beings. They’re also ridiculously ineffective at actually increasing the security of air travel: While they’re busy checking infant diapers for poop bombs and adult diapers for terrorist weapons, they routinely miss handguns and other items that are blatantly thrown in carry-on bags and carried right onto airplanes. Singling out the elderly for extensive pat-downs To give you a glimpse into the world of idiotic logic used by the TSA to justify its pathetic existence, this adult diaper pat-down was explained by Sari Koshetz, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration in Miami, who said, “During any part of the process, if there is an alarm, then we have to resolve that alarm.” Wheelchairs, it turns out, always trigger an alarm. So the TSA spends an inordinate amount of time checking the underwear of all the people who can’t walk . It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that 95-year-old people who can’t walk are probably not likely to carry out terrorist attacks on airplanes. But this concept is apparently too advanced for the TSA geniuses who have mastered the art of stripping common sense out of every rule and regulation they’re given. But here’s the most asinine part of this whole event: After the TSA took off her diaper, they complained that it was “soiled” and was impeding their search. (“How can we find bombs with all this crap in the way?”) They then requested the diaper be changed to a new, unsoiled diaper, but the traveling family did not have a spare diaper available. What? No diaper? That’s probably because they didn’t expect their own government to treat their 95-year-old grandma like a terrorist and remove her only diaper! Perhaps the TSA should issue new guidelines to travelers so they’ll be better prepared: • Bring a spare set of diapers in case we make you change them. • Bring a spare set of underwear in case we accidentally rip your existing set as we remove it. • Leave your dignity at home. You won’t be needing it anymore. TSA says it did no wrong! TSA spokesperson Sari Koshetz, meanwhile, explained the fascinating reasoning behind all this by babbling like an idiot robot: “TSA cannot exempt any group from screening because we know from intelligence that there are terrorists out there that would then exploit that vulnerability.” In other words, TSA agents are too stupid to assess the risk of terrorism by looking at people (or talking to them, like Israeli security forces do), and they are equally terrified by everyone. Imagine moving through the world with this level of mental retardation — TSA agents who walk down the street on a dark night are just as terrified of a 95-year-old woman in a wheelchair as they are by a young gang banger wearing gang clothes and carrying a large knife. The TSA seems to have lost the ability to distinguish between high security threats and low security threats… and these are the people running airport security! Any terrorist that actually tries to get on an airplane with explosives must be amused by the fact that all the TSA agents are busy checking the diapers of senior citizens for poop bombs and are therefore too distracted to deal with real terrorism threats. TSA employees need new work as diaper changers While TSA employees absolutely suck at security, they do seem to be particularly well-skilled at changing the diapers of incontinent senior citizens. This brings up a new job opportunity for them, actually: Fire the TSA and offer their ex-workers new jobs changing diapers at nursing homes and assisted living centers. It would be far more helpful to society and might actually teach these people something about caring for fellow human beings. It’s time for America to stand up against the undignified and truly outrageous treatment of our veterans, grandmothers, and even infant babies at the hands of utterly idiotic TSA agents who claim to be “merely following orders.” That was the excuse of every Nazi Germany soldier, of course, who committed atrocities against humankind. Any idiot can “just follow orders.” What we need is some intelligent people who will refuse those orders if they violate basic human rights (not to mention Constitutional law). TSA agents are reincarnated Nazi soldiers who merely follow orders What the TSA’s behavior really proves is that some human beings will do ANYTHING if their government hires them to do it. TSA agents would shoot Jews if they were so ordered. They would sexually molest babies if that was a TSA rule. They would arrest and torture travelers using high-voltage electricity if that was required in the TSA manual. (The Milgram experiments readily proved this, by the way.) (http://www.naturalnews.com/025141.html) There is nothing these TSA agents won’t do in the name of “security.” And that’s what makes them such an Orwellian nightmare. These are not people, they are animals because they lack the basic prerequisites of humanity: Compassion for fellow human beings, empathy and a recognition of basic human dignity. But they’re perfect for government jobs, of course, because government doesn’t care about human dignity either! I’ve warned you many times here on NaturalNews about the TSA and its rise to Nazi-like power. This is the agency that’s becoming the new secret police in Amerika . If we do not stop this insanity right now, this agency will treat us all like their own private sex slaves, all while justifying it under some idiotic security regulation. Remember: These events prove that TSA agents will do anything they are ordered to do. If so ordered, they would round people up and send them off to gas chambers. They would put a bullet in your head if there were a TSA regulation requiring such an act. They would kidnap and torment fellow human beings merely out of some sort of twisted, sadistic pleasure they get from exerting power over others. If you ever wondered how Nazi soldiers could have committed such heinous crimes against humanity in the 1930′s and 40′s, look no further than the TSA! You are witnessing Nazi soldiers reincarnated as American government employees. The TSA is hiring, by the way. You get full government benefits for as long as the U.S. federal government still exists and the dollar has any value. You also get to fondle people’s junk and assert your false authority over innocent travelers. That’s a huge turn-on to the class of thuggish perverts who now heavily populate the ranks of the TSA.

Folic acid during pregnancy may reduce baby’s cancer risk

(NaturalNews) The importance of maintaining high intake levels of folic acid during pregnancy has been established by numerous scientific studies, all of which verify that the vitamin directly affects the intelligence and physical health of the child later in life. And now a new study adds to this body of evidence, showing a 64 percent reduction in colon cancer rates among children whose mothers supplemented with folic acid during pregnancy. Published in the journal Gut , the new study exhibits positive benefits to taking folic acid, a B-vitamin which is found naturally in leafy-green vegetables, lentils, and beans. Besides helping to prevent birth defects, folate is known to make and help replicate DNA, as well as aid in the production of new blood cells. “It appears that giving folic acid during pregnancy and lactation reduces DNA damage and suppresses the proliferation of cells in the colon,” said Dr. Young-in Kim, gastroenterologist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and author of the study. “It actually increases the stability of the DNA and this might be one of the mechanisms of how folic acid in utero may protect against colon cancer.” A 2010 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that folic acid supplementation during pregnancy aids in producing children with improved brain development and better motor skills (http://www.naturalnews.com/030843_folic_acid_motor_skills.html). And in 2006, a study published in the peer-reviewed journal CANCER found that folic acid helps to prevent and treat cancer in general (http://www.naturalnews.com/019986_cancer_folate_folic_acid.html). “Folic acid … is essential in DNA synthesis and in the way in which genes are expressed,” writes James Scala, PhD, in his book 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer: A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being . “Data … indicates folic acid shortfalls predispose people to cancer.” Sources for this story include: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-05/tes-dmh052711.php

TEPCO to cover damaged Fukushima reactors with useless polyester tents

(NaturalNews) In a demonstration of the company’s shocking ignorance concerning the nature of radioactive particles, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has announced that it is going to place large polyester domes — yes, you read that right — around the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in an alleged attempt to help contain radioactive particles. The polyester domes will begin appearing next month, and all are expected to be in place by the end of the year, say reports. The TEPCO announcement, of course, is an insult to the intelligence of billions of people worldwide that understand that a thin layer of polyester fabric will do absolutely nothing to contain radioactive particles. Nevertheless, the company is moving forward with its plan to tent the facility, which also happens to conveniently hide from the public the true condition of the reactors behind a layer of opaque plastic material (http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/news/japan-nuclear-reactors-giant-tents-dpgonc-20110513-fc_13185892). The announcement comes just one day after TEPCO announced that the Reactor 1 cooling pools are dry, and that its nuclear fuel rods have melted (http://www.naturalnews.com/032378_nuclear_meltdown_TEPCO.html). So while most of the world falsely believes that the Fukushima crisis is over, TEPCO has quietly admitted that it basically lied about the dire condition of the plant, and that it now plans to cover up the facility with plastic tents. TEPCO still insists, however, that things are under control, and that the constant stream of poured water — despite the admitted cracks and holes in Reactor 1 — is helping to cool other fuel rods and prevent additional meltdowns. But others question the legitimacy of these claims, especially considering TEPCO dismal record of dishonesty in this ongoing saga. “The reactors can NEVER be placed in ‘cold shutdown’ because the cores are partially melted together. We are talking about hundreds of tons of fissile material inside reinforced concrete containment vessels,” wrote Tom Burnett in a recent Hawaii News Daily piece. “The containment vessels are cracked. They are releasing radiation. Fission excursions are still occurring and no one can go inside those containments for hundreds of years — even if they could get to the fuel” (http://hawaiinewsdaily.com/2011/05/will-fukushimas-next-earthquake-start-a-global-extinction-event/). Meanwhile, the Japanese government has announced it will provide financial aid to TEPCO in order to prevent the company from going bankrupt (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-05-13/japan-to-help-tepco-with-fukushima-payouts-s-p-lowers-rating.html).

Three new studies reveal children are dumbed down by pesticide exposure in womb

(NaturalNews) Does it ever seem like the population is being “dumbed down”? Maybe that is literally happening — even before birth. And at least one of the culprits appears to be organophosphate pesticides that are widely used on food crops throughout the U.S. The evidence for the intelligence robbing effect of these poisons isn’t some obscure study in lab animals, either. This is a major discovery involving human children in multiple studies. The results of three separate research papers have just been published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives and all document this alarming fact: pesticides could be robbing many humans of their maximum intelligence potential. “These associations are substantial, especially when viewing this at a population-wide level,” said study principal investigator Brenda Eskenazi, UC Berkeley professor of epidemiology and of maternal and child health, in a statement to the media. “That difference could mean, on average, more kids being shifted into the lower end of the spectrum of learning, and more kids needing special services in school.” This isn’t a problem limited to children living near farms where pesticides are regularly sprayed, either. The other two studies, one conducted by scientists at Mt. Sinai Medical Center and the other by researchers at Columbia University, investigated pesticide exposure in urban populations in New York City. The Mt. Sinai research involved assessing toddlers at 12 and 24 months of age using standardized testing that measures cognitive and psychomotor development in young children. Then, when the children were between six and nine years old, the researchers administered skill and intelligence tests. The results? Just as the UC Berkeley researchers found, the Mt. Sinai scientists discovered that exposure to organophosphates negatively impacted perceptual reasoning. In plain English, that means the children did not have the level of nonverbal problem-solving skills that normal, healthy kids are expected to have. Both the UC Berkeley and Mt. Sinai research teams measured pesticide metabolites in maternal urine; the scientists at Columbia measured umbilical cord blood levels of a specific pesticide, chlorpyrifos. And, it’s important to note, the Columbia study is the first to look at neurotoxicity of chlorpyrifos exposure before birth to see how it impacts cognitive development as children reach school age. Although it was banned for indoor use in homes by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2001, chlorpyrifos was once an extremely popular organophosphate pesticide for residential use and still lingers in the environment. The Columbia researchers found that the amount of chlorpyrifos in babies’ blood was linked to neurodevelopmental problems by age three and these deficits persisted at least through age seven — with possible long-term educational implications. What’s more, consider this extremely important finding: the decline in intelligence test scores began at the lowest exposure to the pesticide. The test scores spiraled down more with increasing exposure levels. This suggests, the scientists said in a press statement, there is “..no evidence of a threshold, below which exposures are completely safe.” “These observed deficits in cognitive functioning at 7 years of age could have implications for school performance,” Virginia Rauh, ScD, deputy director of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH), and lead author of the Columbia study, said in a statement to the press. “Working memory problems may interfere with reading comprehension, learning and academic achievement, even if general intelligence remains in the normal range.” Since the EPA ban took effect, exposure to the organophosphate has measurably declined somewhat. However, agricultural use of chlorpyrifos is still permitted in the U.S. and pregnant women, especially in agricultural communities, are still being exposed to this potentially intelligence-zapping chemical. “Manufacturers withdrew chlorpyrifos and diazinon, two types of organophosphate pesticides, from the residential market. Despite this, general population exposure to organophosphate pesticides is ongoing,” Stephanie Engel, PhD, who led the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine study , explained in the media statement. For more information: Bouchard et al., “Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides and IQ in 7-Year-Old Children,” http://ehponline.org/article/info:doi/10.1289/ehp.1003185. Engel et al., “Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphates, Paraoxonase 1, and Cognitive Development in Childhood,” http://ehponline.org/article/info:doi/10.1289/ehp.1003183. Rauh et al., “7-Year Neurodevelopmental Consequences of Prenatal Exposure to Chlorpyrifos, a Common Organophosphate Pesticide,” http://ehponline.org/article/info:doi/10.1289/ehp.1003160

Pesticides inhibit proper childhood development

(NaturalNews) Mothers exposed to high levels of pesticides bear children with lower intelligence levels than children born to mothers not exposed, says a new study published online in the journal Pediatrics . Piperonyl butoxide (PBO), a common chemical used in thousands of household insecticides to boost the effectiveness of another chemical known as pyrethroid, delays childhood development and causes brain damage. Megan Horton, a postdoctoral research fellow from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and her team tracked 348 mothers from around New York City for their study. They took both air and blood samples of the women to track their exposure to PBO, and compared the intelligence levels of children from each exposure grouping. Based on this assessment, the team observed a significant connection between high levels of PBO exposure and delayed development in children. “Kids who were in the highest quartile range of exposure to PBO were three times as likely to be in the delayed category, compared to kids with lower exposure,” said Horton, noting that the research took into account other factors that may affect development, including exposure to tobacco. Pyrethroid insecticides have largely taken the place of organophosphorus (OP) insecticides, which were used more widely in the past but are now known to cause serious nerve damage and other problems in birds and mammals. But based on the evidence, pyrethroids are not much better as they cause significant harm to both children and adults. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), pyrethroids are used in over 3,500 registered insecticide products. Known side effects caused by exposure include breathing problems, chest pains, rashes, blisters, endocrine disruption, reproductive problems, learning disorders, chromosome damage, blood abnormalities, and thyroid problems. Sources for this story include: http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20110207/hl_hsn/prenatalexposuretopesticidesmayharmkidsdevelopment http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reevaluation/pyrethroids-pyrethrins.html http://www.anapsid.org/pyrethroids.html

Leaked reports reveal US government pushing hard for GMOs in Africa

(NaturalNews) Information obtained from several WikiLeaks reports exposes a potential U.S. government plot to thrust genetically-modified organisms (GMO) on the continent of Africa. According to verbiage found in the leaked messages, it appears that the recent creation by the Pentagon of AFRICOM, a U.S. military command post headquartered in Africa, was at least in part done for the purpose of securing access to the continent’s natural resources, as well as establishing a GMO foothold there. According to a summary of the reports written by Richard Brenneman, former associate editor of the magazine Psychology Today and a longtime journalist, AFRICOM is the brainchild of a retired four-star Air Force general who is now a paid lobbyist for the agrofuels industry. This fact alone suggests that the efforts of the new military post will play at least some role in serving such interests, including those of the biotechnology industry that clearly benefits from the expanded use of GMOs. One report sent by Tom Cunningham, the head of operations at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) on April 9, 2009, explains that the agency desperately needed as much information as possible about any individuals connected with the African Great Lakes in order to formulate “Mission Strategic Plans (MSPs).” These plans includes tackling “Mineral Resources”, as well as “Food Security and Agriculture (FOOD).” Specifically under “Food Security and Agriculture”, the report explains that African officials must be persuaded to accept and propagate GMOs throughout Africa. It also mentions verifying the status of “structural adjustments” and “infrastructure improvements” that needed to take place in order to accommodate the introduction of GMOs. The other reports go on to explain various other political efforts that relate to GMOs and agrofuels, but the main thrust seems to indicate a clear agenda by certain government agencies to take whatever steps necessary to expand GMO use both in Africa and around the world. Sources for this story include: http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/12711-leaked-cables-reveal-gmo-agrofuel-agendas

Improving Your Nutrition on the next NaturalNews Talk Hour

(NaturalNews) The NaturalNews Talk Hour presents A Food Crisis – What the Media Won’t Tell You – with our special guest Hesh Goldstein, health advocate, radio talk show host and contributing writer for NaturalNews.com. This show will reveal the untold truth about nutrition, disease prevention plus how to regain perfect health. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to participate in this LIVE event. Invite your friends to enjoy an evening of free, life-changing information and fun. Watch this video for a special invitation by Jonathan Landsman, host of the NaturalNews Talk Hour. “Thank you again for all that you do.” – Sher The Sugar Conspiracy It’s important to remember that reading labels is essential. Why? That’s because many “non-sweetened” products contain sugar as well. Did you know that half a cup of store-bought spaghetti sauce can have as much as three teaspoons of sugar? By the way, ketchup can have as much as 20 percent sugar content. In fact, when the “food industry experts” take the fat out of a product, like cookies or salad dressing, they replace it with sugar and extra salt! Don’t be fooled by deceptive marketing and labels. The NaturalNews Talk Hour begins this Thursday evening at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern, and registration is FREE. Simply enter your email address in the registration form on the right column of this page and you’ll receive call-in details for the show. A Healthy Diet According to Hesh Goldstein, “all you need for good health is a balanced diet of fruits, veggies, whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, fresh juices, smoothies and some superfoods like chlorella and spirulina. Then add avocados, olive oil, flax and chia seeds and you`ll get your essential fatty acids. It’s not rocket science. It’s just using your intelligence and making informed choices.” This week’s guest: Hesh Goldstein – A Food Crisis – What the Media Won’t Tell You Hesh Goldstein – “A Food Crisis – What the Media Won’t Tell You” – Thu. Nov. 4 Don’t miss this unique opportunity to participate in this LIVE event. Invite your friends to enjoy an evening of free, life-changing information and fun. Watch this video for a special invitation by Jonathan Landsman, host of the NaturalNews Talk Hour. Hesh Goldstein is a vegetarian since 1975, vegan since 1990. Moderator of a weekly radio show in Honolulu called, Health Talk since 1981. He obtained a Master’s degree in Nutrition, in 2007, to silence the so-called “doctors” that called in to his weekly radio show asking for his “credentials”. Over 70 years young, Hesh is in perfect health, has no illnesses, take no meds, play 4 on 4 half court hoops 2 hours a week plus much more! Celebrate with Us! This is part one in a series of shows focused on personal health, happiness and freedom. Tell a friend, get ready to participate (if you like) and enjoy the show. Register now using the email form in the right column, and you will be emailed show details. Register Today!

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