Readers stunned to learn that conventional scientists don’t believe in mind, spirit, free will or consciousness

(NaturalNews) The response to the release of our new mini-documentary, The God Within , has been extraordinary. In just the first 16 hours after its release, we have received an inflow of positive comments from people who are elated that we have helped pull back the veil of secrecy and expose the mindless, soulless core philosophies of the conventional scientific community. People were shocked, they wrote, to discover that most conventional scientists believe human beings are mere “biological robots” with no mind, no soul, no free will and no consciousness. “Now it makes sense,” one reader told us, “that the GMOs and vaccines are done in the name of science, because scientists have no respect for conscious living creatures.” See it for yourself! Watch part one of this mini-documentary at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLywJd5x3AE or NaturalNews.TV: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=E3B38227225F9FC62BAEA9CC81BE1D12 In it, you’ll see the disturbing truth of how conventional scientists not only disavow the existence of God and spirit, but they also claim that human beings have no minds, no free will and no consciousness. In fact, the core philosophy of “science” is a Godless, mindless, soulless, empty chasm of pointless despair utterly lacking in ethics and empathy. This is why so much destruction is unleashed upon our world in the name of “science” — pesticides, vaccines, mercury fillings, GMOs, nuclear weapons and much more. Because it is all based on a system of belief that is devoid of meaning. The father of the atomic bomb: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Even J Robert Oppenheimer, the “father” of the atomic bomb, ultimately realized the destruction that science had unleashed upon the world. After the dropping of the science-based atomic bomb on innocent civilians in Japan, Oppenheimer said: We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘ Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds .’ I suppose we all thought that one way or another. Watch Oppenheimer yourself at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f94j9WIWPQQ Oppenhiemer was right: Science has become the destroyer of our world . Through its runaway genetic pollution of our planet (GMOs), the chemical contamination of our world (pharmaceuticals), the destruction of our soils (pesticides) and the very denials of our own conscious existence, science has become a diabolical, wicked mechanism of destruction that has delivered suffering, despair and death to our world. Father of DNA says free will is just a delusion This denial of our consciousness, free will and even our humanity is a thread that permeates the thinking of modern science. As another example of this, Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, is on the record saying: “You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.” – The Astonishing Hypothesis (book) Yet Francis Crick is the “god” of the conventional scientific community which says DNA and evolution explain how life came to be on our world — without a higher power, without spirit, without conscious intention and without even a creative force in the universe. It all just randomly assembled itself, including the random assembly of mindless, soulless human beings who only suffer under the illusion of being truly “alive” with free will and consciousness, they claim. It is this kind of mindless, soulless belief that probably allowed another intellectual giant of the scientific community to commit crimes against children. Dr. Jonas Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine has been exposed as someone who can only be called a criminal-minded doctor who conducted illicit medical experiments on children (http://www.naturalnews.com/031564_Jonas_Salk_medical_experiments.html). In one of his diabolical experiments, Dr. Salk “injected experimental flu vaccine in male patients at a state insane asylum in Ypsilanti, Mich., then exposed them to flu several months later.” The victims of this medical experiment were described as “senile and debilitated.” The history of “science” is replete with accounts of insanely evil madmen who carried out crimes against humanity as part of their “scientific” advancement. For example, the former Chairman of the drug company Bayer (yes, the aspirin company) was a Nazi war criminal who was convicted of crimes against humanity during the Nuremberg trials . As reported on NaturalNews.com: Dr. Fritz ter Meer, a director of IG Farben who was directly involved in developing the nerve gas, Zyklon-B, which killed millions of Jews, was sentenced to seven years in prison but was released after four years through the intervention of Rockefeller and J.J. McCloy, then U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. An unrepentant Fritz ter Meer, guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, returned to work in Bayer where he served as Chairman for more than 10 years, until 1961. In fact, here’s a quick summary of just a few of the “scientific” medical experiments carried out on innocent human beings over the last 150 years or so: http://www.naturalnews.com/029924_medical_experiments_Guatemala.html The psychopathic insanity of science All of these evil, even downright demonic medical experiments were done in the name of “science.” And it was all made possible because science believes there is no such thing as a real, conscious human being. Therefore, murdering them (or using them for medical experiments) is of no ethical consequence. But this belief that human beings do not have a mind, a soul, or even free will stands at odds with the core beliefs of the vast majority of human beings. Most people believe either in God or in some higher creative force that permeates our universe. Most people believe they are, themselves, conscious beings with free will. But scientists do not! They insist that there is no such thing as a “mind” and only the human BRAIN controls your actions, thoughts and words. The brain is a deterministic biochemical machine, they proclaim, and YOU do not even exist as a soul, or spirit, or reflection of God or anything resembling a conscious being. Do you now understand how these core, distorted beliefs of the scientific community are evil in nature? They are diabolical. They deny the value of you and everyone else as a living, conscious being. This is why science offers the perfect pretext for genocidal crimes against humanity . This is why the Nazi war machine and its IG Farben chemical experiments on Jews were all carried out in the name of science. This is why “science” can give us atomic weapons, GMOs, population control vaccines, mass chemical poisoning and the rampant destruction of our world — because science is based on an empty, mindless, soulless philosophy that denies our conscious existence. This is why “scientific medicine” can conduct medical experiments on monkeys, rats and even human children. To the scientists working for Big Pharma, there is no consciousness in a monkey, a rat, or a human baby. Therefore, causing them suffering, pain or death is of no importance. YOU and your children are no more valuable to them than vermin. Many of the greatest evils our world has known were carried out in the name of “science” and its empty, mindless distortions. Why this mindless philosophy is a danger to us all In his recent book, The Grand Design , Physicist Stephen Hawking reiterates that human beings are not conscious beings at all, saying: “It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion .” And yet Hawking is celebrated as one of the brightest and most influential minds in the physics community today. He is the “God” of popular astrophysics and is quite literally worshipped by many of his followers. Yet he denies the existence of not merely God, but also your human soul! To him, you are nothing more than an organized walking bag of skin cells and organs, with biochemical impulses swishing around your head that give you the illusion that you are somehow a real person with a real mind and soul. These people like Hawking are a danger to humanity . They put forth these dehumanizing ideas that claim we are all delusional for recognizing our own consciousness. They disparage those who believe in spirit (or God) and demonize anyone who talks of free will. These scientists are evil soulless people who attempt to strip away our humanity and convince people that life has no value because consciousness doesn’t exist in the first place. Science today has become technology without ethics… …mathematics without understanding… …engineering without empathy. “Science” has become the Godless, mindless, soulless platform from which the darkest evils of our world now fester and attempt to expand their domination. GMOs, chemical pesticides, rampant over-vaccination of children, fluoride chemicals in the water, chemotherapy poisons… the list seems endless. “Science” has found a way to measure the electrical impulses of a heart beat but is incapable of understanding what it means to have a heart in the first place. “Science” says you should abandon any belief in your own God or spirit or creative force in the universe and instead put your faith in them as if they were gods! Believe in science, they insist, but nothing else. And yet it’s not difficult to realize science is not the answer to our questions. Science has no real answers. It only has the mathematics to pretend that it knows something, but underneath the math it is devoid of understanding . We must seek not just technical knowledge but an integrated understanding of our existence The real answers to the questions that matter can only be found through channels that are more advanced than science itself: philosophy , spirituality, consciousness and even meditation — these are all channels through which knowledge and wisdom can be gained. These are the pathways of true understanding where the integration of mind, body and spirit takes place. One person undergoing a spiritual journey in a single afternoon can learn more about life, consciousness and the universe than what would be gained by a scientist with three PhDs and a lifetime of mindless “scientific” research. While “scientists” spend their days blowing things apart in supercolliders, the real knowledge seekers of our world spend their time integrating mind, body and spirit to achieve a holistic and fully-integrated understanding of our existence. As a civilization, we have followed these scientists too far down the path of delusion and destruction. It is time that we changed our course and sought a different path — a path of wisdom that requires, at its outset, the simple and obvious recognition of the existence of consciousness. Even this rudimentary step in the journey toward wisdom cannot be achieved by all the sciences in the world, it seems. Virtually the entire scientific community stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the existence of anything it cannot see, weigh or measure. So ideas of prayer, intuition, precognition, connection with spirit, and even empathy are considered worthless fragments of nonsense that are cast aside by the “scientific” community. This is why science can never enhance our understanding of our existence . It has no tools to explore those things that supersede the physical universe, and it has no interest in opening the door to those spooky questions that invoke anything resembling intention, conscious creation or a higher power in the universe. Only a small fraction of actual scientists operating today are even asking questions about consciousness, mind-matter interactions or “quantum mind” effects. And those few scientists — bless them all — are being widely disparaged by the arrogant conventional scientists who are desperately trying to convince us all that they are our gods and there’s nothing else out there. Well, I say they’re wrong. And I say that as a conscious, free-thinking and fully aware spiritual being inhabiting a human body. Which is more than I can say for any of them. If you’re intrigued by all this, watch The God Within to learn more: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=E3B38227225F9FC62BAEA9CC81BE1D12 or on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLywJd5x3AE

Mobile phones soon required to receive, display White House propaganda messages

(NaturalNews) If you’re tired of all the half-truths, the propaganda and the complete disinformation that has been spewing from the White House for at least the last twelve years, you can always turn off your television. Switch off the radio. Or just like everybody else, stop reading printed newspapers. But the U.S. government has decided it must reach you with its official propaganda one way or another, so now it is mandating that all mobile phones sold in the United States automatically receive and display “terror messages” from the White House. Verizon and AT&T have already signed on to the scheme, and starting in 2012, all mobile phones will be required to have this capability. This “feature” will continue for as long as the U.S. federal government continues to exist. Can you imagine what Bush would have done with this technology? The very idea that the White House is the best source of emergency information is unbelievably arrogant to begin with. If anything, over the last several presidents we’ve seen that the White House is probably the worst source of information you can possibly find. It is the least likely to dish out information based on facts because it always has a one-sided political agenda. To think that the White House is a credible source of information about anything is to exist in an elaborate fairytale land where facts don’t matter at all. Alerts are mandated Interestingly, you can’t turn off the White House alerts , meaning you’ll be forced to read whatever current disinfo is being passed off as some kind of alert. Watch out! Bin Laden is in your refrigerator! No wait, he’s stealing your light bulbs! Or as former president George Bush was fond of saying, “Today’s terror color is ORANGE!” Get ready for a barrage of utterly fabricated, socially-engineered propaganda to be “pushed” to the population via their mobile phones. This is George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in full operation mode, clued right in to people’s fingertips. If you’re going to control the sheeple, after all, you have to have a way to push your disinfo into their heads, and this mobile phone push technology is about as good as it gets. The FCC also says the system can push Amber alerts and any other information the government wants to put in front of your face. So on the day the dollar is crashing, you’ll all be sent a message, “Everything is fine. The banks are merely on a short holiday. Do not be concerned…” Or I suppose the next time a nuclear power plant goes Chernobyl in the USA, and there’s radioactive fallout threatening America, the White House can send out an alert that says, “Do NOT prepare. There is nothing to be concerned about. We have it all under control.” Someone needs to write a White House alert translator that takes the official alerts and translates them into reality. “Do not be concerned” would translate to, “The nation is on the verge of panic,” for example. “Your money is safe” means “your money is about to disappear.” And “We have it under control” means “it’s completely out of control.” So the alert that reads, “Do not be concerned. Your money is safe. We have it under control.” actually means your money is about to become worthless and the nation will break down into a panic that will get completely out of control. What we really need is an alternative news push What America really needs is for mobile phones to carry an alert system from the alternative media. We’d push messages like, “Did you know mammograms cause breast cancer?” Or, “There is cancer-causing poison in hot dogs and bacon.” One tip each day, you see, based on solid facts that people really need to know. “Have you read the warning label on that vaccine?” But of course the FCC would never allow truthful messages to be broadcast through this alert system. It only exists for propaganda, not factual information that might be useful to people. Speaking of pushing information, NaturalNews is working on an iPhone app that will push alerts to users, but of course you have to want the alerts (and install the app) in order to receive them. The White House, on the other hand, will be pushing alerts to everyone, even if they never signed up for them. And you can’t turn them off, either. It’s a forced system in the same way that the federal government uses force for everything else: FDA raids on vitamin companies, DEA arrests of licensed medical marijuana growers, FTC threats on herbal product companies, and so on. They’d better make sure to get their timing right on these alerts. If they send out an alert that says, “There has been a dirty bomb terrorist attack in New York” but they accidentally send it before the attack happens, some people will do the math and figure out what’s up. You can bet the White House won’t send any alerts that you really need to know. “The U.S. national debt has hit $16 trillion and your economic future is now in doubt.” Don’t hold your breath waiting for that alert to appear on your mobile phone anytime soon. “The U.S. dollar has been devalued yet again today by the quantitative easing of the Federal Reserve, which keeps printing trillions of dollars in new currency that dilute the value of YOUR currency.” Again, don’t sit around waiting for that message to show up, either. “The chemical and pharmaceutical companies have polluted our farms, streams, rivers and oceans, rendering the future of life in North America questionable.” Hmmm… probably not gonna see that message, either. What you’re likely to get instead is a steady drone of “sheeple alerts” that keep people living in fear and not knowing what to do: Red alert! Terrorists are now saying they will attack TRAINS and STADIUMS using BUTT CRACK BOMBS. So to protect you, we will install TSA checkpoints at all the train stations and sports stadiums. Please open your butt crack for inspection. Thank you for your cooperation. What’s coming next: White House takes over internet DNS to force people to view messages online To take this one step further, the White House could force ISPs to remap DNS requests so that all web browsers automatically point to the White House website, no matter what web address you type in. Searching for sports scores? You’ll be rerouted to the White House alert page. Checking your sinking stock portfolio online? You’ll get the White House page. Researching how to grow your own medical marijuana using hydroponics? You’ll get the White House page yet again. This type of technology can be implemented right now, by the way. It’s more than an internet “kill switch,” it’s an internet “reroute switch.” And it may already be in place without us even knowing about it. The only way to circumvent this tactic and get directly to the web server you want is to know the IP address of the server . For example, NaturalNews.com can be reached at: http://174.132.185.226 If you keep this address handy (bookmark it or whatever), then the White House cannot reroute your website requests via DNS. This is why it’s a good idea to know the IP addresses of all the key websites you’ll need to access to get good information during a “total information blackout” attempt by the U.S. government. Remember: The Internet is the last place on Earth where you can get truthful information about what’s really happening. That is exactly why it will be targeted for a shutdown during the next big crisis to strike America. Because the very last thing any government wants its people to have is access to truthful information . Hence the assaults on Wikileaks and anyone who dares to question the status quo.

Death’s door

(NaturalNews) Before jumping into today’s essay here is the latest news: Radioactive levels at Fukushima were about 250 times higher than a month before . TEPCO said the levels of caesium-134 and -137 increased about 250-fold and iodine-131 increased about 12 times compared with one month ago, after the accident had already happened. The water level in the No. 4 reactor’s turbine building rose by 20 centimeters in 10 days. TEPCO has detected 8,100 becquerels of caesium-137 and 7,800 becquerels of caesium-134 per cubic centimeter in the water in the turbine building’s basement. The utility company said on Tuesday the 26th of April that the water level in the tunnel of the No. 3 reactor rose by 10 centimeters over three days. Beyond that door is death. It’s death’s door and it has brought us a new hell on earth. What’s behind this door and several others like it is so hot, in terms of death, that its effects can be seen 10,000 miles away. Though thanks to the media we almost forgot about this and other similar doors and the nuclear meltdowns that are occurring right here right now on planet earth. Today you have to be a hound dog to sniff up any credible news about what is actually going on at that destroyed nuclear plant. It’s very scary how the media has clamped down on most of the news so it seems like multiple nuclear meltdowns are not a big deal. On April 21 radiation levels stood at up to 110 microsieverts per hour in the air in the town of Okuma in Tokyo, some 3 kilometers southwest of that door you see above. If a person is exposed to this quantity of radiation for about nine hours, the cumulative dose is estimated to reach one millisieverts, the annual safety limit set by the government. Do the math. In just 30 days a person living there would have a lethal dose! On Sunday, April 24, 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) disclosed a map of radiation levels at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Radiation levels around the No. 3 reactor building, which was damaged by a powerful hydrogen explosion, are higher than in other locations, and 300 millisieverts per hour of radiation was detected in debris on a nearby mountainside. Stand near that and 30 hours later kiss life goodbye. Work started on April 6th to remove contaminated rubble that had been obstructing the restoration process. TEPCO says much of the debris around the former office building has been removed, and it has started clearing the rubble around the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors. Enough debris has been removed to fill 50 containers, and it is being kept in a field on the mountainside. The radiation levels one meter away are 1 to 2 millisieverts per hour. Gee, that would be a walk in the park, meaning we could hang around endlessly until 20 days go by and then we too are radioactive toast. Okay so let’s translate that into a bit of practical reality for people 10,000 miles away on the east coast of the United States. We’re getting pretty far away from that damn door and yet its nuclear wretchedness is reaching around the world just like Chernobyl did. Radiation a Personal Account “I am a retired biologist who used to work in radiation biology. Just wanted to share with you what we’ve been doing lately. We live in the mid-Atlantic area of the U.S. We have a Geiger counter and have been testing daily for radiation (am and pm) since the Fukushima incident. Since March 11, our numbers normally are 25-30 cpm inside and 31-35 cpm outside (Geiger counter sits at an open window). This is within background radiation numbers. When it rains, the numbers rise to about 35 cpm for inside and 40 cpm for outside. Our grass reads around 50 cpm. I noticed today after I did some weeding (sunny day) and washing my hands that they read around 50 cpm. I had to wash them 3-4 times before the reading went down. “Also noticed a couple of dandelions looking abnormal (their stems were twice as thick as others and heads were joined). Never saw that before. “We had ordered kelp granules from the company Maine Coast three weeks ago. We typically use kelp in our foods, and this was a bigger order than usual because of the nuclear incident. Just got the shipment today! We tested the bags of kelp for radiation and they tested 182 cpm! We called the company but they had their answering machine on, stating that they won’t be open until April 25th because they’re doing inventory. We plan to return the kelp! Noticed the expiration date is April 16, 2013, which makes us wonder if they filled the order after the Fukushima incident (maybe April 16, 2011?). Patty” Video with Radiation test in Waterville. Life with Geiger counters will become much more common in our futures as well as nuclear weather reports. They might as well have ripped a hole into another universe with so much hell to be released each month for as long as we can see into the future. Best-case scenario at this point would be several years of relentless radiation buildup around the world but most particularly in the northern hemisphere where it will be increasingly difficult to get uncontaminated food. Let’s not even think of worst-case scenarios for not many of us will be around for long if such were to occur. Authorities will keep everything under their hat for as long as humanly possible to avoid panic and migrations. With financial collapse on the horizon, private citizens will not be able to afford any movement anyway and will have to dig in and weather the radiation. With the help of the media, the entire populations of the north are caught like deer in the headlights and are totally unaware of and unprepared for this increasing nuclear radiation. In case no one has informed you, radioactivity makes it harder for our bodies to live. Today’s Nuclear News The Number 4 spent fuel pool stores 1,535 fuel rods , the most at the nuclear complex . TEPCO says it will inject 210 tons of water into the pool on Monday, after finding on Sunday evening that the temperature in the pool had risen to 81 degrees Celsius. The utility firm had earlier limited the amount of water being injected into the pool to 70 tons a day, saying the weight of the water could weaken the reactor building, which was already damaged in last month’s hydrogen explosion. On Friday, TEPCO found that the pool’s temperature had reached 91 degrees, so it began injecting 2 to 3 times the amount of water. TEPCO says the pool’s water temperature dropped to 66 degrees on Saturday after water was injected, but started to rise again, to 81 degrees. The operator says the water level in the pool was 2.5 meters lower than normal after 165 tons of water was injected on Sunday. Conclusion But there is absolutely nothing to worry about! Doctors are not worried that iodine deficiency will make you much more vulnerable to death rays in the form of radioactive iodine, which your thyroid will mop up like a sponge. But what do doctors or our friendly governments care? “I have been trying to get a prescription for iodine from a medical doctor, but I can’t find one that will do it. They tell me BS like you don’t need it; it’s dangerous to take supplemental iodine without a battery of thyroid tests, and a bunch of other BS ad nauseum. I used to be able to get it over the counter at a drugstore, but no longer. I need to find an MD with common sense that will actually help me. David Ostrander” Photograph: Robert Brook/Alamy/Alamy Radiation Hell at the disused plutonium reactors at Sellafield, England are a ” slow motion Chernobyl ” according to Greenpeace campaigners against nuclear energy. The BBC says, “There are about 440 operational reactors in 32 countries, generating 16 percent of the world’s electricity. Only 27 new reactors are under construction, mainly in Eastern Europe and Asia. Not one of the remaining 22 countries with nuclear power is currently building any new reactors, including the USA, Canada and all of Western Europe. The western world has put its nuclear power program on hold. This is arguably due at least in part to the Chernobyl accident and the ensuing perception that no matter how small the risk, it is just not worth it.” For all the references, sources and more articles on radiation and chemical toxicity please visit Dr. Mark Sircus blog .

Fukushima is now the radioactive Deepwater Horizon of the Pacific

(NaturalNews) With its massive, ongoing release of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, Fukushima has become the Deepwater Horizon of the Pacific . As finally admitted by Japanese authorities, Fukushima is releasing massive quantities of radioactive material into the ocean on an ongoing basis. This highly contaminated water (7.5 million times) being released today is just the beginning: At least 200 tons of water are being poured onto Reactor No 2 every day , and that extremely radioactive water is, of course, ultimately getting dumped directly into the ocean. If you do the math, that’s 48,000 gallons of highly radioactive water being flushed into the Pacific Ocean each and every day. Remember the video of the dark, cloudy oil gushing out of the hole in the ocean floor underneath BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig? Now imagine an invisible cloud that’s far more deadly because it’s radioactive! That’s essentially what we have now with Fukushima. The seafood is somehow still safe to eat, we’re told Not surprisingly, the fish being caught off the coast of Japan are already showing high levels of radioactive contamination. (And remember, they all told us that the seafood would be perfectly safe!) So-called “sand lance” fish are now being detected with 4,080 becquerels of iodine-131 per kilogram. (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/asia/06japan.html?src=mv) Japan was quick to announce new levels of allowable radiation in fish that make up to 2,000 becquerels of iodine-131 legal. This official limit will no doubt be rapidly adjusted upward as more and more radiation contaminates the oceans. Before long, we’ll all be eating fish with a hundred thousand becquerels of iodine-131 , and the government will say it’s somehow actually good for you! The Pacific Ocean is like a giant swimming pool, we’re told The explanations of why this is all no big concern border on the comically insane. Hidehiko Nishiyama, the official excuse-maker for Japan’s nuclear industry, is now on the record saying, “We’ve decided that discharging the contaminated water into the sea poses no major health hazard.” What a relief! Now that a bureaucrat has decided it’s safe for us, we have nothing to worry about! I suppose that if Nishiyama were a Jedi master who could move oceans with his mind, then maybe his wishful thinking might actually have some measurable impact, but given that the man appears to possess no telekinetic powers (or even powers of rational thought, for that matter), we might want to get a second opinion from someone whose nose isn’t shoved two meters up the anus of the nuclear power industry. The Americans, too, are getting in their brown-nosing licks in while the nuclear contamination of the world continues. Timothy Jorgensen, chair of the radiation safety committee at Georgetown University Medical Center, believes the Pacific Ocean is like a collection of trillions of swimming pools. And he says flushing huge quantities of radioactive water into the ocean is essentially no big deal: “To put this in perspective, the Pacific Ocean holds about 300 trillion swimming pools full of water, and they are going to release about five swimming pools full.” Except there are three huge problems with this fairy tale explanation. First, they’re releasing 48,000 gallons of radioactive water EVERY DAY into the Pacific, with no end in sight. Even according to Japan’s own reluctant admissions, this process could go on for years — even decades! Secondly, if releasing radioactive water into the ocean is no big deal, then why don’t we just build all our nuclear power plants on the coast and have them all routinely dump their radioactive water into the ocean instead of bothering with recirculating radioactive coolant liquids? Thirdly, the Pacific Ocean is not a giant swimming pool, and the water isn’t all “churned up” and homogenized. In fact, the circulation of the water in the Pacific is actually limited to some surprisingly narrow channels. For example, most of the deep water in the Pacific Ocean hasn’t seen the surface of the planet for thousands of years. There is a very long cycle of water movement at work in the ocean, and any assumption that somehow a massive dump of radiation into the ocean is magically and instantly going to be dispersed across tens of trillions of gallons of ocean water is just pure lunacy. Once again, we see scientists resorting to describing what they wish would happen rather than what will actually happen. I suppose we can all play that same game, no? I wish all the Fukushima radiation would simply stop being emitted, and that the laws of physics will be suspended in Fukushima so that spent nuclear fuel rods magically and suddenly stop engaging in nuclear fission. There. That’s my wish. Did it work? Probably no better than Jorgensen’s wish that radioactive water will be magically dispersed across the entire Pacific Ocean. When wishful thinking collides with the laws of physics, the laws of physics usually win unless you’re an ascended master who can literally part the seas with the power of intention. And Japan’s nuclear engineers are not ascended masters. Oh, now we’ll just dilute all the poison to spread it around! But the wishful thinking will continue nonetheless. Says Jorgensen, “So hopefully the churning of the ocean and the currents will quickly disperse this [radiation] so that it gets to very dilute concentrations relatively quickly.” By that same logic, we could all just dump raw sewage into the oceans, too, and hope that the trillions of gallons of ocean water would just disperse it all. This was, of course, precisely the strategy of BP following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: Let’s just dump a few million gallons of toxic chemicals in the gulf and then hope the ocean just disperses it all! (Oh, never mind all the dead sea turtles or the human side effects of Corexit… we’ll just pretend those don’t exist.) In both cases — Fukushima and Deepwater Horizon — was have a human-made disaster being managed by morons, covered-up by governments and misreported by the mainstream media. And we’ll all told there’s nothing to worry about… we should all just return to our normal lives of watching television, eating processed irradiated FDA-approved food, and doing what we’re told. Be an obedient worker That’s the Japanese way, you see: Order and obedience. Stay calm while your government lies to you about just how badly you’re being poisoned. But it’s also the American way, too, thanks to our “do nothing” government that’s spending us into financial oblivion while pretending all the big problems don’t exist. Runaway debt spending? Deepwater Horizon? Fukushima radioactive fallout? It’s all just in your head, you see. According to our governments, none of these problems exist at all. And anyone who even talks about them is just fear mongering, didn’t you know? Because you’re not supposed to talk about nuclear catastrophes. You’re supposed to just pretend it doesn’t exist and wish it all away. And if the radioactive numbers get too high and scary, don’t worry: Your government will either just turn off the radiation detectors or raise the limits of allowable radiation in order to accommodate the new sky-high levels of ionizing radiation you’re being exposed to. See? Who said governments don’t solve problems? They seem to be doing an outstanding job with Fukushima, just as they did with Deepwater Horizon. The drilling of the ocean floor underneath Deepwater Horizon, by the way, just began anew last week. But the screwing of the people of the world by the energy industry will, of course, go on forever. P.S. If you’re not yet subscribed to NaturalNews, sign up now (it’s free) to receive a daily email from me, containing the breaking news for that day. I personally send each email with my own comments and analysis of world events. We protect your email address and do NOT sell it to anyone. You can unsubscribe at any time. 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Fukushima beyond point of no return as radioactive core melts through containment vessel

(NaturalNews) The battle to save the Fukushima nuclear power plant now appears lost as the radioactive core from Reactor No. 2 has melted through the containment vessel and dropped into the concrete basement of the reactor structure. This is “raising fears of a major release of radiation at the site,” reports The Guardian , which broke the story (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/29/japan-lost-race-save-nuclear-reactor). A former General Electric nuclear expert told The Guardian that Japan appears to have “lost the race” to save the reactor. The only feasible interpretation from this analysis is that radiation emissions from Fukushima could suddenly become much greater . It is also now obvious that the radioactive fallout from Fukushima will last for decades , if not centuries. Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan last night admitted the situation at Fukushima remains “unpredictable.” Meanwhile, the presence of plutonium in soil samples is proof that the nuclear fuel rods have been compromised and are releasing material into the open atmosphere. (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.35c2caa5efa0e183b7b38a2d0e2b7f40.191&show_article=1) But don’t worry (and don’t prepare) How many times were we told over the last two weeks that the Fukushima situation was solved? How many times were we assured there was “no danger” to the world? President Obama even went out of his way to tell Americans they should not prepare for anything, since there was nothing to worry about. Don’t acquire any potassium iodide, people were told. The situation is completely under control and nuclear power is safe, clean and green! That’s the GE spin machine talking, of course, and I don’t mean the spin cycle on your rusty old washing machine. It’s the network of corporate lies that has characterized the nuclear power industry for at least the last three decades. And now those lies are coming back to haunt us all. What’s next: Radioactive gas So what happens now that the fuel core from Reactor No. 2 has burned its way through the containment vessel and dropped to the concrete floor? It follows the laws of physics, of course: The super-heated nuclear fuel reacts with the concrete material in the floor, producing highly radioactive gas which now runs the risk of escaping into the atmosphere if it gets through the outer containment wall. But that’s precisely the problem, you see. The outer containment wall was partially destroyed by the original hydrogen gas explosion that rocked Reactors 2 and 3. So we may be looking at a situation right now where there is nothing in the way of a massive release of radioactive gas from Fukushima. It all has the makings of a ticking (dirty) time bomb. When should Americans actually start preparing? Never! It makes you wonder: At what point will the worsening situation in Fukushima cross the threshold of President Obama’s resistance to urge Americans to take prudent precautions against the possibility of serious radioactive fallout? The policy in Washington today seems to be that no event is serious enough to warrant preparedness actions among the American people. Our Nobel Peace Prize-winning President seems to be too busy declaring illegal wars in Libya to spend even five minutes urging people on the West Coast to take sensible precautions against the increasing possibility of increased radiation exposure. That’s what the alternative press is for, of course: Bringing people the news and information they won’t get from “official” sources that have strong financial ties to the nuclear power industry. While Obama tells Americans to do nothing, NaturalNews urges Americans to take basic preparedness precautions to be ready for any event the world may throw our way. Preparedness is a rarity in modern cities As the citizens of Japan have recently learned the hard way, virtually no one has any extra stored water, food or medicine in the cities these days. Very few people are prepared for even small disruptions in basic infrastructure and supply lines. The average American living in a city today would die in less than 7 days if cut off from the grid supply of food and water. Their entire preparedness plan is to “trust the government.” That’s what the Japanese people did, too. And now they’re paying for that misplaced trust with what may soon become the most catastrophic nuclear disaster in the history of human civilization. Although Fukushima doesn’t look likely to suffer a large, one-time radiation explosion like Chernobyl, it’s now clear that the Fukushima nuclear complex is going to emit radiation for a very, very long time. It now seems almost certain that Japan must bury the facility under millions of tons of concrete and sand. How do you bury Fukushima for good? The problem is that there’s not even enough concrete in Japan to handle the job. To accomplish such a task, Japan would have to import not only thousands of pieces of industrial concrete-handling trucks and machinery; it would also have to import concrete materials by the ship-load. We’re talking about millions of tons of concrete materials, shipped in by ocean, from all over the world. Has anybody done the math on how long that will take to coordinate? Just getting the materials shipped to Japan within 30 days would be a miracle. And you can’t just plop down concrete and hope it sticks: You have to engineer the concrete effort so that it can resist future tsunamis and earthquakes. Normally, this would be at least a five-year project. Essentially, you have to build a whole new massive concrete containment structure on top of the existing nuclear complex . And remember: It was the corruption and cover-ups from the first such engineering project that helped cause this situation in the first place! That’s why this situation in Fukushima looks a lot more like Fubar than Fukushima. Fubar, of course, is an endearing snippet from American slang which means “don’t worry; the government is here to save you!” Watch for more reporting on this incident here at NaturalNews.com, and subscribe to our daily email alerts to be kept up to date on this developing situation: http://www.naturalnews.com/ReaderRegistration.html

Quadruple-dose seasonal flu "super" vaccine now being aggressively pushed onto senior citizens

(NaturalNews) The vaccine industry has now decided that injecting senior citizens with the “standard” vaccine dose just isn’t working. (Gee, really?) So now they’ve decided the way to make it work better is to offer a quadruple viral potency vaccine that packs 400% more viral fragments into one toxic shot. The target for this quadruple vaccine injection? Senior citizens, of course — the very people most likely to suffer the most serious side effects from a vaccine overdose. The FDA reportedly approved the new vaccine in April even though no scientific tests have ever been done to show it reduces flu symptoms. Then again, since when did vaccines have anything to do with real science in the first place? Why do people need a quadruple vaccine all of a sudden? What’s especially entertaining about all this is that the FDA’s approval of this quadruple potency vaccine is a blatant admission that single-dose vaccines just don’t work! Obviously, if the single-dose vaccine was working as advertised, then it would be 100% effective and there would be no need for a double, triple or quadruple-dose vaccine. But all of a sudden, now that the quadruple-dose vaccine is available, the regular single-dose vaccine “isn’t good enough.” So all that propaganda about “get a flu shot and you won’t get the flu” just turns out to be marketing quackery, because what you really need is a quadruple shot now! Forget the single dose. It’s no longer strong enough for you. So where does this end? When they realize the quadruple shot isn’t working either (because seasonal flu vaccines just scientifically do not work on at least 99% of the people), are they going to recommend a ten times the potency flu shot? Seriously… at what point do these vaccine pushers ever stop to consider that maybe the vaccine approach just doesn’t work? More money with higher profit flu shots Of course, flu shots have never been about what works in the first place. They’re about what makes the most money . This new quadruple flu shot is being sold at about twice the price of a regular flu shot. Meanwhile, there have been absolutely no scientific studies demonstrating that the new quadruple vaccine is any more effective than the single-dose vaccine. Come to think of it, there aren’t any scientific studies that prove this year’s seasonal flu vaccine is effective in any way whatsoever at preventing the flu. The science has simply never been done. It’s all just based on “wishful thinking” combined with massive flu shot propaganda. (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html) Taking a flu vaccine is a crap shoot, and taking the quadruple super vaccine is just a quadruple crap shoot. People who enjoy playing Russian Roulette with their health will no doubt line up to be injected. Pseudoscientific quackery Check out the derision of those pushing this vaccine. The LA Times reports that Dr Mobeen Rathore, a vaccinologist at the University of Florida, said, “If you’re somebody who has a reaction from the low-dose vaccine, then I would stick with the low-dose. But if you’ve been taking the vaccine for years and have no reaction, get the high-dose vaccine. Or if there’s nothing else available except the high-dose vaccine, get the high dose. The most important thing is: Get the vaccine. It doesn’t matter which one.” And there you have it: They don’t really care which flu shot you take as long as you’re injecting yourself with something . Pay attention to what they’re NOT telling you about the flu: Doctors, FDA officials and CDC quacks will never admit that the best way to prevent the flu is to take vitamin D3 supplements . It has been scientifically shown to be many times more effective than a vaccine shot (http://www.naturalnews.com/029760_vitamin_D_influenza.html). So why isn’t there a big push for quadruple-dose vitamin D supplementation for senior citizens? Because, gee whiz, that might reduce flu shot revenues, cancer clinic profits and hospital visits by seniors — and they’re the bread and butter of sick-care industry profits. The very last thing our modern medical racket wants is for senior citizens to figure out how to protect their own health without relying on chemical interventions. How to reduce government expenditures on senior citizens And why would that be? Do the math, folks: Social Security is bankrupt. Medicare is bleeding cash. The U.S. government is so deep into debt that it’s now in desperation mode trying to keep the government financially solvent. The quickest way to reduce Medicare and Social Security spending is to, of course, knock off all the senior citizens by lining them up to be injected with something I call “vaccine euthanasia.” It doesn’t kill them right away, for the most part, but it accelerates their deaths and thereby saves the U.S. government billions of dollars in entitlement expenditures. Pretty sick, huh? If the government really wanted seniors to live longer, they’d be handing out longevity nutrients like vitamin D and fish oils. But instead, they’re pushing quadruple-dose flu vaccines that will no doubt be toxic at some level to most senior citizens. Sources for this story include: LA Times http://www.latimes.com/health/os-high-dose-flu-vaccine-20101022,0,5321058.story

It’s not the bugs in Similac that make me sick – let’s recall the other ingredients (opinion)

(NaturalNews) It has been a few days since Abbott Laboratories, makers of Similac infant formula, issued a recall after discovering some of its products may have been contaminated with beetles (and beetle larvae). The mainstream media ran with this story and parents everywhere suddenly got concerned that their babies might be drinking beetle parts. But are beetles really the scariest thing in Similac? Not by a long shot if you know anything about nutrition. I purchased a 24-oz container of Similac Go and Grow soy-based formula, emblazoned with a cute teddy bear on the front label and positioned towards “9 to 24 months.” It comes with the claim “balanced nutrition for older babies.” But is it really balanced nutrition? 42.6% corn syrup solids The very first ingredient, shown right on the label, is 42.6% CORN SYRUP SOLIDS. I took a picture of the ingredients label so you can see it for yourself. Click here to see the pic: http://naturalnews.com/images/Similac-Label-Ingredients.jpg Stop right there. Are they saying that Similac infant formula is 42.6% corn syrup solids? That’s a form of highly processed sugar. Is this really what infants need — nearly half their formula to be made of corn syrup sugars? Nutritionists would strongly disagree. But it gets even better: The next ingredient is 14.7% SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE . Most soy protein, as NaturalNews readers already know, is derived from a hexane chemical extraction process that we’ve covered in previous articles: http://www.naturalnews.com/026303_soy_protein_hexane.html Beyond the hexane question, did you know that 91% of the soy fields grown in America contain genetically modified soy? The Similac can does not say “non-GMO soy” because it’s not required to be put on the label (thanks to the FDA shell game). But Consumer Reports actually bought and tested infant formula for genetically engineered DNA and found that Similac was using GMO soy in their products. (http://www.consumersunion.org/food/gefny999.htm) The next ingredient in the Similac can I bought is 11.5% HIGH OLEIC SAFFLOWER OIL , followed by 10.1% SUGAR (SUCROSE) . If you’re doing the math on this, that makes Similac 52.7% sugar (corn syrup solids plus the sucrose) with soy protein. I can hardly think of a better way to raise diabetic, obese children than to feed them a diet that’s over 50 percent sugar . It also seems like a great way to get infants addicted to sugar — a curse that will haunt them through the rest of their lives. Next on the list is 8.4% SOY OIL (most likely from GMO soybeans, too) and then 7.8% COCONUT OIL (which is, in my opinion, the only healthy ingredient in the entire product). Basically, then, this Similac product is sugared-up soy protein with safflower and soy oil . Plus it has some chemical “vitamins” on the label such as CYANOCOBALAMIN, the cheapest form of vitamin B-12 available to food manufacturers. It actually binds the vitamin to a cyanide molecule, just in case you were wondering. As wikipedia explains, “B12 refers to a group of cobalt-containing vitamer compounds known as cobalamins: these include cyanocobalamin (an artifact formed as a result of the use of cyanide in the purification procedures).” It then adds, “the cyanocobalamin form of B12 does not occur in nature normally, but is a byproduct of the fact that other forms of B12 are avid binders of cyanide (-CN) which they pick up in the process of activated charcoal purification of the vitamin after it is made by bacteria in the commercial process. Since the cyanocobalamin form of B12 is easy to crystallize and is not sensitive to air-oxidation, it is typically used as a form of B12 for food additives and in many common multivitamins.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12) Why Similac should have been recalled long before the beetle incident With this in mind, what we really have with Similac infant formula is powered sugars, genetically modified soy protein, more sugar, safflower and soy oils, a bit of coconut oil and some vitamin chemicals made with cyanide molecules. They also throw in some DHA to make moms think it must somehow resemble breast milk fats. Are you beginning to see why the beetles are the least of the problems with this product? Keep in mind that ignorant moms are feeding this stuff to their babies every single day! They think it’s good for their babies because they don’t take the time to read ingredient labels (or they are unable to understand what the labels mean). But make no mistake: I can’t think of a single informed nutritionist who would recommend feeding babies a powder that’s more than 50% sugar combined with genetically modified soy protein. To do so is actually nutritional child abuse in my view. That’s why I say Similac should be recalled just based on what’s on the label! In my opinion, this is a dangerous combination of sugars and genetically modified ingredients that are likely to promote diabetes, obesity and nutritional imbalances in babies. To feed this to babies is to nutritionally cause them harm, in my opinion… and to think that Abbott Laboratories is making money selling this sugared-up GMO soy protein to consumers just makes me sick. I think their slogan should be something like, “Similac – Creating tomorrow’s diabetics, one baby at a time.” See the ingredients label yourself right here: http://naturalnews.com/images/Similac-Label-Ingredients.jpg Help spread the word Please share this story and send it to moms, dads and anyone who has an infant. Don’t let them feed their babies sugars and GMO soy protein! You have my permission to post this story in full, but please give credit back to this page on NaturalNews.com and cite Mike Adams as the author. We need to reach all the parents who are buying Similac and unknowingly feeding their babies corn syrup solids, GMO soy protein, soy oil, sucrose and other ingredients that I consider to be “pure junk.” No society should allow this junk to be fed to their babies, especially if they’re trying to prevent obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic health problems that are already bankrupting the nation. In my opinion, Similac might be the perfect product to raise a generation of Big Pharma customers who will need a whole battery of prescription drugs to “treat” all the degenerative health conditions caused by eating dead, processed, sugared-up and genetically modified foods. To imagine that this could somehow be a replacement for the rich, complex nutritional abundance of mother’s milk is nutritionally insane. Ridiculously overpriced With Similac, there’s also the price issue. Considering how cheap these ingredients are, this product seems ridiculously overpriced. If you really wanted to feed your baby something almost identical to this, you could just buy your own table sugar (cheaper than dirt), isolated soy protein (also cheaper than dirt), safflower oil (almost cheaper than dirt) and some coconut oil or flax oil (not so cheap, but you don’t need to use much) then mix it all up and add water. But what mom in her right mind would do such a crazy thing? No mom in her right mind would mix up 50% table sugar in a bottle and feed it to her baby, but that’s essentially what she’s doing when feeding her baby this variety of Similac that I purchased. Nutritional insanity has reached a new low with Similac, I submit, and the beetles are the least of the problems with this product line that borders on “nutritional child abuse.” There should seriously be a law against infant formula being made with corn syrup solids and sucrose, not to mention GMO ingredients. Spread the word, folks. That’s the only way people will find out the truth about this and start choosing something that’s healthier for their babies. If we hope to have healthy adults in the future, we have to stop nutritionally abusing them when they’re infants.

Tocotrienols (rice bran solubles) deliver a powerhouse of plant-based nutrition

(NaturalNews) Among all the superfoods available today, some are quite well known such as acai and spirulina, but others are lesser known even though they offer remarkable nutritional density. One of these “little known” superfoods is rice bran solubles — it’s a super delicious and highly nutritious superfood that delivers a powerhouse of health supporting nutrients. But to understand why it’s so nutritious, you have to first check out the structure of a grain of rice. A grain of rice has three parts: There’s the endosperm , or the energy compartment which is made mostly of carbohydrates. This is what gives the rice seed its calories to grow into a plant. Then there’s the rice germ . This contains the miniature plant embryo which sprouts a tiny plant when the seed germinates. Finally, there’s the rice bran . This is the real nutritional powerhouse of the rice grain — the bran contains proteins, minerals, vitamins and healthy plant-based fats. This is the “nutritional storehouse” of the rice grain, providing the most important nutrients the sprouting rice plant needs to power its immune system, root system, circulatory system and other important plant metabolic functions. See more about rice in this short animation: http://www.riceromp.com/animations/ricecomposition.cfm Commercial rice lacks its natural nutrition White rice lacks the germ and the bran. It’s all removed from commercial white rice because the germ and bran portions of rice typically don’t have much of a shelf life. The potent oils in the rice bran, in particular, tend to go rancid quickly because they are real food, and real food usually has a short expiration. But through a technological innovation that first surfaced in the 1990′s, one pioneering company was able to stabilize rice bran , giving it a long shelf life while maintaining its powerful nutrients. This gave rise to a new superfood called “stabilized rice bran” or, more commonly, “soluble rice bran.” This soluble rice bran superfood contains naturally occurring Vitamin A (Beta Carotene), Vitamin B1 (Thiamin), Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), Vitamin B3 (Niacin), Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid), Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine), Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Folic Acid, Biotin, Choline, and Inositol. It also contains naturally occurring Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Iron, Zinc, Manganese, Copper, Iodine and other trace minerals. It does not contain the carbohydrate portion of rice, nor does it contain the fiber. This is basically the nutrients of the rice grain without the carbs and the fiber. Note carefully that these nutrients are not added to the product. These are the natural plant-based vitamins and minerals in their original plant form . And most nutritionists agree that plant-based forms of vitamin and minerals are biologically superior to synthetic forms or rock-based forms (many calcium supplements, for example, are just ground-up sea shells… no wonder those are bad for you!). An amazing taste with a thousand uses in your favorite meals and recipes Beyond the stunning nutritional composition, Rice Bran Solubles taste fantastic. It’s like eating a rich, nutty protein mix of some kind, sort of like a whole-grain Chex cereal but even better. You can literally eat it with a spoon right out of the container. Or you can blend it with any smoothie, sprinkle it on yogurt or natural ice cream, toss a spoon into a bowl of cereal, add it to any bread, crust or pastries, etc. Obviously, it’s better not to cook this because you’ll lose some of the nutrition, but you can cook it if you want (although I prefer to eat it uncooked). People who are into superfoods know all about this product, which is also called Tocotrienols , referring to the full-spectrum E vitamins it delivers. This is one of the most impressive natural sources of high-density superfood nutrition. Combine it with things like spirulina, acai berries and chia seeds, and you have an amazing assortment of nutrients for supporting your good health. Remember, too, a lot of superfoods are rich in plant pigments and vitamin C, but very few superfoods deliver a high amount of vitamin E. Tocotrienols contains full-spectrum vitamin E as well as over 100 additional antioxidants. It’s a powerhouse of real nutrition derived from real food. An amazing discount for NaturalNews readers Everybody who’s into superfoods wants some Tocotrienols. It’s one of the best sources of nutrients like natural vitamin E that aren’t commonly found in other superfoods. (Berries, for example, contain virtually no vitamin E.) 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GlaxoSmithKline deliberately hid evidence of Avandia harm, says Senate report

(NaturalNews) GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the diabetes drug Avandia, knew the drug was linked to tens of thousands of heart attacks but went out of its way to hide this information from the public, says a 334-page report just released by the Senate Finance Committee. (http://finance.senate.gov/press/Gpress/2010/prg022010a.pdf) This report also accuses the FDA of betraying the public trust, explaining that FDA bureaucrats intentionally dismissed safety concerns found by the agency’s own scientists. The report says that Big Pharma’s drugs “put public safety at risk because the FDA has been too cozy with drug makers and has been regularly outmaneuvered by companies that have a financial interest in downplaying or under-exploring potential safety risks.” Sales of Avandia were $3.2 billion (yes, billion) in 2006. According to a statistical analysis in the report, if all the diabetics currently taking Avandia were put on a “safer” drug, it would avert 500 heart attacks and 300 cases of heart failure every month in the United States alone. Presently, hundreds of thousands of Americans are still taking this drug, and hundreds will continue to die each month as a result, according to the report estimates. This report, championed by U.S. Senators Grassley and Baucus, is the result of investigators pouring through more than 250,000 pages of documentation gathered from GlaxoSmithKline and the FDA. The document reveals some rather startling facts about the dangers of Avandia, including evidence from the FDA’s own scientists who concluded that Avandia was associated with 83,000 heart attacks . GlaxoSmithKline intimidates scientists This investigative report also reveals that GSK engaged in the intimidation of physicians, saying: “GSK executives attempted to intimidate independent physicians, focused on strategies to minimize or misrepresent findings that Avandia may increase cardiovascular risk and sought ways to downplay findings that a competing drug might reduce cardiovascular risk.” “Patients trust drug companies with their health and their lives, and GlaxoSmithKline abused that trust.” said Sen. Baucus. (Gee, really? Is anyone really surprised that GSK put its own financial interests ahead of a few thousand human lives?) A separate letter sent to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg by Senators Baucus and Grassley added, “the totality of evidence suggests that GSK was aware of the possible cardiac risks associated with Avandia years before such evidence became public.” The FDA’s own research also showed Avandia to be associated with a significant increase in heart attack risk, yet the FDA did nothing to protect the public. The agency’s own scientists wrote in 2008, “There is strong evidence that rosiglitazone [Avandia] confers an increased risk of [heart attacks] and heart failure compared to pioglitazone [a rival drug on market].” This evidence went completely ignored at the FDA. The FDA’s famous Dr David Graham — the key whistleblower on the Vioxx scandal — concluded from his own research, “Rosiglitazone should be removed from the market.” Even the American Medical Association — a long-time defender of Big Pharma’s drugs — admitted Avandia was dangerous. Its journal, JAMA, wrote in 2007: “Among patients with impaired glucose tolerance or type 2 diabetes, rosiglitazone use for at least 12 months is associated with a significantly increased risk of myocardial infarction and heart failure, without a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular mortality.” The New England Journal of Medicine also warned about the safety of the drug in an article published in 2007. Despite these multiple warnings, an FDA panel voted 22 – 1 in favor of keeping Avandia on the market. This is no surprise, of course, to those who know how the FDA really operates (and where its priorities really lie). Analysis: What does it all mean? Are you kidding me? A drug company hid data that its high-profit drug was linked to increased risk of heart attacks? A drug company intimidated physicians and got away with hoodwinking the public while raking in billions of dollars in sales for a drug that the FDA’s own scientists said should be pulled from the market? Sounds like business as usual at the FDA, the “sweep it under the rug” division of the pharmaceutical industry. Once again, Dr David Graham turns out to be the sharpest guy in the room while having the courage to tell the truth even when surrounded by an agency full of morons and criminals. The drug industry must hate this guy. But they can’t get rid of him because he’s one of the very few scientists in the FDA who is actually committed to protecting the public . Gee, what a concept, huh? The FDA as a whole abandoned that idea so long ago that virtually nobody there even remembers what it means. Protect the public? What do you mean? As in, lose profits by banning dangerous drugs that just happen to be making big money? That’s unthinkable at the FDA as we know it today. The agency exists to promote pharmaceuticals , not to limit their sales just because a hundred thousand people happen to drop dead each year from taking FDA-approved drugs. When it comes to safety vs. profits, the FDA chooses profits for Big Pharma time and time again. Do the math on this: If Avandia is linked to 83,000 heart attacks, and if roughly 50% of those are fatal (that’s just an estimate), then Avandia could conceivably be the cause of 40,000 deaths . The terrorist attacks of 9/11 killed roughly 3,000 Americans, and yet just one drug that has been mysteriously kept on the market by the FDA appears to have killed more than ten times as many Americans as the terrorists . So what does that make the FDA? More dangerous than the terrorists, of course! So why is the FDA still allowed to operate in America if it’s such a dangerous organization that’s killing so many American citizens? Because it’s profitable, of course! There’s one thing that’s true about both WAR and MEDICINE: As long as the right corporations are making money, it really doesn’t matter how many people die in the process. And for all those diabetic Americans struggling to find improved health right now, there’s something you desperately need to know: There’s a price to putting your faith in the FDA, the drug companies and your pill-pushing doctor. That price may very well be your own life. Diabetes has a cure, you know. You can reverse it in as little as four days by changing your diet. Read the books on diabetes by Dr Gabriel Cousens or Dr Julian Whitaker. Or read more about diabetes right here on NaturalNews: http://naturalnews.com/diabetes.html Here’s the full report from the U.S. Senate (PDF): http://finance.senate.gov/press/Gpress/2010/prg022010a.pdf Sources for this story include: CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/20/avandia.study/?hpt=T1 NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/health/policy/20avandia.html PharmaTimes http://www.pharmatimes.com/WorldNews/article.aspx?id=17434