NaturalNews names award winner for 2011 Book of the Year: The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy by Jim Marrs

(NaturalNews) If you’re looking for a way to make sense of the world, look no further than the book, The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy (by Jim Marrs). It reveals a hard-hitting, big-picture overview of how things really work behind the scenes of our modern world (and who’s pulling the levers). The title of the book is actually a bit of a misnomer. Jim’s original title was going to be “Zombie Nation” which I think is actually a better title because the book talks about “zombie banks” that are steeped in debt, “zombie politicians” who are totally controlled by a corporate agenda, and even “zombie people” who are drugged up on psychiatric medications. The publisher, however, insisted on the current name, and that’s why it isn’t called Zombie Nation . Listen to my interview with Jim about his book at: http://snd.sc/nrGd3P How things really work behind the curtain If you want to know why the world seems to be so crazy these days, just read this book and you’ll gain a keen understanding of the zombification of modern civilization and why it’s taking place. The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy touches on all the big issues and industries of our modern world: War and defense contractors, Big Pharma and the FDA, the fluoridation of the water supply, GMOs and the genetic pollution of our planet, the criminal banking industry and the Federal Reserve, stolen elections, corrupt politicians and a whole lot more. It is, without question, the best book I’ve read all year. And that’s why I’m giving this book the NaturalNews Book of the Year Award . I’ve never actually given out this award before, but I’m planning on giving this out once a year to the most important book of each year. Of course, 2011 isn’t over yet, so there could still be some amazing books in 2011 that deserve consideration. It’s possible I may give out the award more than once if there’s another deserving book that comes along. The next book for consideration of this award, in fact, is Bill Faloon’s upcoming book called Pharmacracy , scheduled to be released later this month. That’s a hard-hitting book on the tyranny of the FDA and the outrageous damage that has been caused by chemical medications. (www.LEF.org) Getting back to Jim Marrs’ book, his website can be found at www.JimMarrs.com and there, you’ll find details on some of his other books. You can also just search Amazon.com for “Jim Marrs” or follow this link: Click here for the Jim Marrs section on Amazon.com . Jim Marrs is an award-winning journalist and his book is a shining example of the great lost art of factual journalism in America. He honestly deserves to win a Pulitzer prize for this latest book — it’s really that good. It’s also extremely well researched and cited. This isn’t some loose compilation of conjecture or conspiracy ranting; rather, it’s a coherent, well-organized presentation of the shocking details of how the world really operates (it’s far stranger than you might suppose). Jim Marrs is also widely recognized as a top researcher of 9/11 truth and the Kennedy Assassination . Listen to the interview with Jim Marrs I recently interviewed Jim Marrs to discuss the financial chaos happening in our world, the coming debt collapse, and details about the growing “zombie nation” in which many of us live. You can hear that interview through SoundCloud at: http://snd.sc/nrGd3P Or listen to it by clicking the PLAY button in the object below: Interview with Jim Marrs, author of the Trillion Dollar Conspiracy by NaturalNews Through this interview, you’ll learn a wealth of information about where our world is really headed. I might also mention that you can buy Jim’s latest book, The Trillion Dollars Conspiracy , as a downloadable audio book through Audible.com, which is of course owned by Amazon.com. Here’s the audio book link at Audible.com: http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B003S84RNM& Enjoy!

Radiation-induced mutation breeding of plants was precursor to modern-day GMOs

(NaturalNews) The motives of feeding the world and ending hunger are expressed to keep critics at bay. Although some real issues are occasionally addressed successfully, scientists are prone to meddle with nature without investigating potential hazards. And there are those, including this author, who say the short sighted technocrats who gleefully meddle with nature are serving a larger vision of depopulation. The Atomic Energy Plant Mutation Breeding Not many know about the precursor to today’s GMO madness. Shortly after WW II, a movement for peaceful applications of atomic energy, “atoms for peace,” began. Before atomic energy for electrical power or vessel propulsion would manifest, atomic gardens began exposing plants with gamma ray radiation in large circular gardens to produce desired specialty plants or necessarily hardier plants that could resist certain diseases. Some efforts were also put into garden variety plants and flower, selling “atomic energized seeds” to amateur gardeners and professional nurseries. The circular gardens surrounded a cobalt source of gamma rays on a pole in the center of that circle. The pole could be remotely controlled to slide down into a led shielded tube whenever workers walked in. Fences and alarms were installed to keep others from wandering in. Obviously, they knew of the dangers, but assumed it would be okay to radiate food plants. The plants being radiated would be in wedges with the largest part at the edge of the circle and the smallest part in the center. Plants closest to the center often died. Plants farther away mutated excessively and were deformed. Farther back plants looked the same but were unpredictably genetically modified. The stolons (horizontal stems at the base of plants) of those exposed plants would be inserted into a crop field that wasn’t exposed to radiation. This created a short cut to hybrid plants or crops which were considered more desirable than the originals. We know now how none of those experimenting with seed radiation fully considered the implications of the atomic beast providing its energy. Gamma rays were used in atomic gardens or small labs to genetically alter seeds. External exposure to gamma rays is dangerous, leading to radiation sickness and cancer. Ingesting items emitting gamma rays creates an internal exposure that is more dangerous and difficult to remove. As these dangers became more evident, atomic gardens and seeds fell out of favor as a solution to food supply issues. A Couple of Survivors However, two mutated varieties from that era are still prominent. One is the Rio Star grapefruit. It was atomically hybrid in Texas to create a grapefruit whose fruit and juice were more red than any grown in that state previously. Another atomic survivor is the peppermint plant Mentha piperita . It was susceptible to the fungal disease Vericillium wilt . Thousands of stolons were irradiated at the Brookhaven National Laboratory from the mid-1950s and planted in wilt infested fields. By 1971, Todds Mitcham cultivars (specially cultivated plants) emerged as the peppermint that would resist the wilt fungus. Most global production of mint oil, used in gum, toothpaste, candies, scented oils, soaps and candles is produce from the atomically modified Mentha piperita. Mint oil is a multimillion dollar business. Garden historian Paige Johnson, who was interviewed about atomic energy gardens, explained that we don’t know the genetic line of lots of foods we take for granted. Someone’s garden plants or veggies from what were thought to be heirloom seeds may have anomalies generated by stolons from decades old gamma ray exposed plants. And we don’t know how much current bad health could be attributed to those decades of plant radiating experiments that were the precursors to our modern GMO menace. Then and Now It seems the atomic garden hazards have left the agricultural scene. Instead, radiation from nuclear power and radiation from spent military ammunition made with “depleted” uranium threaten us all more than ever. The current GMO monster menaces human health and more. The health issues from GMO’s main gene transfer promoter alone, Ca35S, guarantees immune system dysfunction by ruining gut flora. GMO production scientists assumed the Ca35S would be neutralized in the stomach. It is just another example of a half-baked premise. As more GM crops and trees infest pristine crops and forests, all plant life is threatened. Once infested, those crops or trees stay that way. There is no return to nature. The GMO monster threatens all of plant life. A recent UN agricultural study concluded that small organic farms were capable of producing more yield per acre while maintaining topsoil health than large mono-culture Big Ag farms that destroy the topsoil. The UN study proposed this as the future solution to world food supply shortages. This won’t happen if Monsanto succeeds with its stated goal of controlling the food supply. In addition to GMOs, Monsanto is buying up normal seeds and, by way of convoluted corporate legalese, getting those seeds patented too. Monsanto’s 100 year product legacy is nothing but toxic chemicals and food additives that endanger plant and human life. And now after a few short years, GMO farming has proven disastrous. But Monsanto marches on with government support. Are we approaching the end, my friend? Sources for more information include: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-04/atomic-gardens-biotechnology-past-can-teach-lessons-about-future-farming Paige Johnson interview http://pruned.blogspot.com/2011/04/atomic-gardens.html http://gardenhistorygirl.blogspot.com/ http://www.naturalnews.com/030305_food_crisis_Monsanto.html Scientific paper on CaMV 35S promoter from cauliflower mosaic virus http://www.ask-force.org/web/S35/Powell-Rebuttal-Ho-1999.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding

All Jacked Up is must-see food documentary for teens and parents

(NaturalNews) If you haven’t yet seen the powerful (yet shocking) food documentary All Jacked Up , catch the video trailer right now at: http://programs.webseed.com/All_Jacked_Up_Hungry_for_the_Truth__NN.htm This documentary follows five teenagers who are struggling with health, obesity and mental focus, then it lays out the underlying cause of their problems: THE FOOD SUPPLY! All Jacked Up , in which I’m one of the main experts interviewed for the film, reveals the utter insanity of the modern food supply and why it’s making American kids and teens so sick. As I wrote about the film when it was first released: “If you thought you knew the whole story on food corporations, the processed meat industry and the harmful health effects of junk foods on children, think again: You’ll be stunned, shocked and outraged over what you’ll see in this film — how the food corporations use manipulative marketing messages to take advantage of children and teens, how processed ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup rapidly accelerate diseases like diabetes in youngsters, and how junk foods destroy families, cause depression and even make kids suicidal. Once you start watching this film, you won’t be able to walk away.” This is an absolute must-see documentary for parents and teens, and we’ve got it on sale right now at WebSeed.com where you can INSTANTLY view the film online, through your web browser, and you’ll have unlimited access to the film in the future. Watch the trailer now at: http://programs.webseed.com/All_Jacked_Up_Hungry_for_the_Truth__NN.htm All Jacked Up – Available now for 40% off This documentary is on sale now at WebSeed.com! Get it at 40% off the price of the DVD, and have instant access through the electronic delivery system at WebSeed.com, where you’ll have unlimited access to All Jacked Up as part of your personal film library. We’re adding new documentaries and how-to guides to WebSeed.com every day. All the programs deliver important information for improving the quality of your life. For example, right now there’s also a new program on WebSeed.com called METAPHORS: The Driving Force Behind Your Life . It shows you how to “Change Your Life By Changing Your Metaphor.” It’s a very powerful program for personal transformation, and it consists of five audio programs that can all be downloaded and played on any MP3 player. Hear the introduction audio at: http://programs.webseed.com/Metaphors_The_Driving_Force_Behind_Your_Life__NN.htm We have a long list of other programs coming soon to WebSeed.com, including programs from David Wolfe, Peter Ragnar, Daniel Vitalis, Jonathan Landsman and much more. Plus, the next installment of my “Be Prepared, Not Scared” series with Robert Scott Bell will also be launched soon on WebSeed.com, too! Watch NaturalNews.com for more announcements. In the mean time, catch the trailer for All Jacked Up at: http://programs.webseed.com/All_Jacked_Up_Hungry_for_the_Truth__NN.htm

Cell phone towers may be ultimate cause of honeybee population collapse

(NaturalNews) It’s one of the signs of the approaching food collapse our world will soon be facing: Honeybees are disappearing at a truly alarming rate all around the world. Up to 30 percent of the honeybee population is collapsing in North America every year , and there’s no end in sight to “the silence of the bees.” Honeybees, of course, pollinate about a third of all the food consumed by first-world nations. Without them, the global food supply crashes and food prices skyrocket. The human population, not surprisingly, would plummet. Honeybees are absolutely crucial to the chain of life on planet Earth, and they are dying in record numbers. Efforts to understand the cause of the honeybee population collapse (sometimes called “Colony Collapse Disorder”) have so far pointed to pesticides , air pollution and even GMOs. All of those are no doubt important factors, but new research carried out at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology may have unveiled the real key: Cell phone signals . How cell towers cause honeybee hives to collapse Researcher Daniel Favre and his colleagues performed 83 experiment recording the reaction of honeybees to cell phones in their off state, standby state or active talking state. It turns out that when cell phones are in their “active” state (sending or receiving signals), honeybees are strongly disoriented and suffer from widespread miscommunication that causes them to stop seeking out food and begin swarming. Specifically, their “worker piping” activity increases by 1000 percent (ten times). This was determined with a detailed scientific approach that’s outlined in his paper: http://www.kokopelli.asso.fr/documentation/favre.pdf As Favre explains in his paper, entitled “Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping:” Worker piping in a bee colony is not frequent, and when it occurs in a colony, that is not in a swarming process, no more than two bees are simultaneously active. The induction of honeybee worker piping by the electromagnetic fields of mobile phones might have dramatic consequences in terms of colony losses due to unexpected swarming. Favre went on to tell Fast Company: (http://www.fastcompany.com/1752894/are-cell-phones-killing-all-the-bees) “Among other factors such as the varroa mite and pesticides, signals from mobile phones and masts could be contributing to the decline of honeybees around the world. I am calling the international scientific community for more research in this field.” Of course, by the time additional studies are done, it may simply be too late. If the honeybee population collapse continues for just a few more years, pollination of the global food supply may become nearly impossible. That will lead to the great die-off of human beings. Funny how that works, isn’t it? Imagine the narrative of future historians: Humans multiplied and expanded their cell phone towers to the point where the pollinators all died. Then human civilization collapsed and the cell towers went silent. Within a decade, the honeybees were once again prolific and healthy… Honeybees don’t need humans, you see. But we need them. The arrogance of science and technology In Rome, the scientists manufactured the municipal water delivery canals and pipes out of lead, thereby causing the widespread lead poisoning of the population without even knowing it. Science and technology has always come with a heavy dose of arrogance and willful ignorance. Today, the pesticide chemical companies keep producing toxics that poison our planet, and they keep doing it in the name of “scientific agriculture.” See my related documentary – The God Within – to understand just how dark and deep this abandonment of life by the scientific community reality goes: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=E3B38227225F9FC62BAEA9CC81BE1D12 Whether it’s pesticides, cell towers, GMOs or some other technology, scientists always insist their technologies are harmless to the natural world, even while the sixth great extinction is now under way on planet Earth. But no one can deny that the collapse of the honeybees is indeed taking place, and the beauty of Mother Nature is that when so-called “scientific advancements” get completely out of balance with the natural world and actually become a threat to life on Earth, the world has a way of keeping the expansion of the human race in check. It’s called population collapse . And it’s coming soon. If we could turn off the cell towers, halt the GMOs, stop the spraying of pesticides and end the mass pharmaceutical contamination of our planet, then our honeybees (and other important animal species) might have a chance. But human beings are too shortsighted to understand their role in causing almost anything that impacts the delicate web of life on Earth. So humans will deny any responsibility for their actions, cover up the truth about what’s really going on, and even accelerate their own global population collapse. Science cannot turn a seed into a living food plant It will all be led by “science” and “technology,” of course. And yet all the science in the world can’t create one scrap of real food that will keep you alive . Only Mother Nature can grow a plant from a seed, pollinate it, produce a flower and then a vegetable or fruit. Only Mother Nature can keep us alive, not science and not technology. And in the end, when the history of our modern world is fully written, it will show how the scientists nearly wiped out the human race through their arrogance, their mass poisoning of the world, and their complete disregard for the value of life. All these things have been carried out under the name of science: Genetically Modified crops, terminator seeds that self destruct, chemical pesticides, cell towers, water fluoridation, mercury fillings, psychiatric drugs and much more. Each one of these, in its own way, threatens the sustainability of life on our planet. And that’s why “science” as practiced today has become the pathway to our own self destruction. The disappearing honeybees are merely a symptom of what’s wrong . The real cancer in our civilization is the arrogance and widespread destruction of the scientists who play God with our world while having absolutely no clue about the consequences of their actions. Watch my documentary to learn more about the soulless, mindless and utterly insane philosophy that underpins modern-day science: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=E3B38227225F9FC62BAEA9CC81BE1D12 Sources for this story include: http://www.kokopelli.asso.fr/documentation/favre.pdf http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1385907/Why-mobile-phone-ring-make-bees-buzz-Insects-infuriated-handset-signals.html http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/13/cell-phones-caused-mysterious-worldwide-bee-deaths-study-finds/

14 signs that the collapse of our modern world has already begun

(NaturalNews) A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it has already begun . And it doesn’t mean the end of the world; it means the closing of one era and the birth of a new one. It is a transition between the ages. This particular transition, however, promises to be the most tumultuous and costly transition humankind has ever seen. But don’t wait around for December 2012 to look for the signs. Here are 14 signs that the world as we know it is unraveling right now. We are living through the end of one era and the birth of a new one . In the future, they’ll look back and call this all one moment in history, but when you’re living through it, it seems to move forward at almost a snail’s pace. But make no mistake: We are living through the opening chapters of the end of the world as we know it, and on the other side of all this will emerge a new world that’s very different from the one we know today. #1 – Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis – At first it seemed like a fluke; but now it’s a pattern. The weather is becoming increasingly extreme. Over 120 tornadoes recently struck the U.S. Midwest. Texas is on fire and suffering through an extreme drought. And where there aren’t fires and droughts, there are floods. This is only the beginning… watch for more freak weather over the next 18 months. #2 – The silence of the bees – Colony Collapse Disorder continues to accelerate across North America. We already know it’s being caused in part by chemical pesticides (and possibly worsened by GMOs), but the chemical industry is engaged in a full-on cover-up to deny this truth while the pollinators of our world suffer a devastating population collapse. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028218_pesticides_honeybees.html) #3 – The failure of nuclear science – The Fukushima catastrophe proves one thing: Scientists are dangerously arrogant in their planning of large-scale projects, and they fail to account for the awesome power of Mother Nature. Nuclear science promised us clean, green energy — but now it has delivered a silent, invisible poison that’s infecting our planet. #4 – The vicious pursuit of Wikileaks – In an age of such rampant deceit, there is no room for the truth. So those who tell the truth (Wikileaks) are viciously pursued as if they were criminals. #5 – The rise of the medical police state – The armed SWAT raids on Maryanne Godboldo in Detroit are only the beginning (http://www.naturalnews.com/032091_Maryanne_Godboldo_gun_rights.html). The truth is that the medical system uses guns to force its vaccines and chemotherapy onto children and teens across America. The medical system has become so utterly useless, corrupt and dangerous that it must actually invoke guns in peoples’ faces just to “convince” people to take its medicine. This is a gunpoint-enforced medical monopoly that exists as a threat to our health and our freedoms. #6 – The increasing frequency of food shortages and crop failures – Notice the spike in food prices? That’s just the beginning: Food prices will continue to skyrocket in the years ahead due to extreme weather, the loss of pollinators and the global contamination of crops by GMOs. Real food is becoming increasingly scarce in our world. You might want to think about starting a home garden… #7 – The runaway destruction of the world by energy companies – The radioactive fallout from Fukushima isn’t the only way in which energy companies are destroying our world: Don’t forget about the Deepwater Horizon and the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — a spill that isn’t over, by the way. They’re still spraying Corexit in the Gulf one year later! #8 – The continued GMO contamination of our planet – This may be the worst chapter in the coming collapse: The widespread genetic pollution of our planet through GMOs. This is a crime against nature and against humanity. It is a “gene spill” that may never be contained as it spreads its deadly DNA across the world’s food crops, leading to crop failures and starvation (http://www.naturalnews.com/032167_gene_spill_GMOs.html). The use of GMOs is the closest thing to “Satanic” that you’ll find in modern agriculture. The agenda behind this is pure evil. #9 – The tyranny and criminal crackdowns targeting real food (raw milk) – When you can’t even sell honest farm food to your neighbors without being targeted and arrested by the cops, something is terribly wrong with the world. But this is happening today, all across America. Now the feds are even targeting the Amish! (http://www.naturalnews.com/029322_raw_milk_Amish.html) #10 – The escalation of the counterfeiting of the money supply – In a failed economic system approaching collapse, the moronic leaders can only think of “solutions” that actually accelerate their own downfall. The runaway counterfeiting of money by the Federal Reserve (with its “quantitative easing” and other counterfeit methods) is a classic sign that the end of our current system is fast approaching. The economic insanities are obvious to anyone who can still do math. #11 – The plummeting intelligence of the masses – One of the most disturbing signs that we’re already in the collapse is the great dumbing-down of the masses. The drooling, CNN-watching television zombies who dominate our landscape offer absolutely nothing of value to the world. They are the “mindless consumers” who get vaccinated, watch television and eat processed, pasteurized junk food. They’re on psychiatric meds and believe everything the government tells them. Most of these people, of course, won’t make it through the collapse. #12 – The complete and utter fabrication of the mainstream news – Much of the mainstream news is now utterly and completely fabricated these days: The reporting on Obama’s long-form birth certificate; the news about the war in Libya; the coverage of the economy and the U.S. debt… it’s all so utterly false and unbelievable that an intelligent person watching the news can’t help but explode with laughter. It is a sign of this collapse that the information sources relied upon by the masses are unable to report the truth anymore and must resort to weaving politically expedient fictions on everything from health care and medicine to the fate of the U.S. dollar itself. #13 – The ongoing pharmaceutical pollution of our world – Beyond the GMO contamination and the radiation contamination of our world, we are also experiencing the mass pharmaceutical contamination of our planet. It’s not just the pharma factories that dump their products into the rivers (http://www.naturalnews.com/025415_water_Big_Pharma_chemicals.html); it’s also the fact that well over half the population is now taking drugs almost daily, and those drugs pass right through their bodies and end up in the water supply where they contaminate the fish (http://www.naturalnews.com/025933.html). Even beyond that, the drugs end up in the human sewage sludge that’s packaged and sold as “organic soil!” (http://www.naturalnews.com/029504_organic_biosolids_toxic.html) #14 – The radioactive contamination of the global food supply – Here’s one that’s really insidious: The global food supply is now contaminated with the radioactive fallout from Fukushima. We’re told the levels are “low,” but we’re not told the truth of how radioactive cesium isotopes persist in the food supply for centuries . How is the human race going to survive its exposure to CT scans, radioactive food, chest X-rays, TSA body scanners and even the secret DHS mobile X-ray vans that can penetrate your body with X-rays as you’re walking into a football stadium? The total radiation burden on the human race is now reaching a point of mass infertility . That may be the whole idea, actually. It’s accelerating, too December, 2012 may be a useful date as some sort of mid-point in the crisis, or perhaps as a trigger date for some further acceleration of society’s rapid unraveling. But make no mistake: We are already living in the collapse of our modern world. And you have a front-row seat! (Exciting, huh?) Think about what’s happening around you these days. These are the signs of the last, desperate clutches of a civilization built on utterly unsustainable practices that don’t value life on our world. These are the End Times of the corporate oligarchy; the monopolistic for-profit corporation machine that destroyed everything in our world in exchange for a slightly higher quarterly earnings report. In the quest for more money, humanity has sacrificed its food supply, its pollinators, it’s oceans, forests and soils. Greed-driven humans have used other humans as medical experiments and cannon fodder. We have created wars to sell more bombs, and we’ve invented disease to sell psychiatric chemicals. These are the practices of a failed civilization… and one whose days are numbered. Watching it all crumble is far more interesting than watching it continue its destructive ways, of course, because those of us paying attention realize a future civilization must rise up in the place of this one after the collapse . Say goodbye to the false power of institutions It would be nice if our future leaders remembered the importance of liberty and personal responsibility, of course. The answer to all the world’s problems, it turns out, is freedom — freedom in medicine, freedom in economics and freedom from government tyranny. Because, let’s face it: The root cause of most these problems that are bringing down our world right now is bad government . It is bad government (Big Government) that approved the GMOs. Bad government enforced the medical monopoly and allowed the pesticides to kill the honeybees. Bad government drove us into inescapable debt and costly foreign wars. Bad government outlawed health freedom and protected the monopolistic practices of the food companies, drug companies and chemical companies. The downfall of modern human civilization is, as you probably guessed, also the downfall of the very idea that Big Government creates a better society. Because if there’s one idea that needs to stay dead after the collapse, it’s the idea that We the People somehow need another group of people (government workers) to live off our hard work while hounding us with their false authority, directing every little detail of our lives. What we need in our world isn’t more government, but more freedom . If we had freedom, integrity and personal responsibility, we wouldn’t even be facing the global collapse that has already begun. But alas, the human race is an infant species and it must learn some lessons the hard way, it seems. This lesson should be long remembered: If you let the corporations, the banks and the governments run your economies, your farms and your lives, they will enslave you and steal your future while you sleep; they will inject silent poisons into the very world around you until you awaken one day to find that all you created has been destroyed. They will promise you paradise but deliver only death. Beware of any entity that is not a living person — no government, no institution, no corporation has a soul, nor a heart, nor a conscience. They are forces of organized destruction that decimate those things we hold dear while delivering to us things that will only enslave us or harm us. Beware the corporation; the government; the non-profit institution working as a front group for private industry. Never allow yourself to be ruled over by any institution which exists only as a fictional construct organized from the projection of human greed. And be ready for the acceleration of the collapse. Because if you are reading this, you are the future of the human race . You have a duty to stay alive, keep your genes intact, and be around to help create the Next Society after this one crumbles into history.

Urgent radiation preparedness action items for California, Oregon, Washington, B.C., Yukon and Alaska

(NaturalNews) The New York Times report that a radiation plume will reach California by Friday has a lot of people asking us for more information about what to do. (See http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/science/17plume.html?_r=1) Fortunately, the amount of radiation that would actually fall on California (or Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, etc.) is currently very small. Too small to pose a serious health risk for right now. The time to get really concerned is if — and only if — the Fukushima reactors suffer a fuel rod “meltdown” event which would release a massive amount of radiation into the atmosphere. The United Nations has calculated that such an event would send a cloud of very powerful radiation headed eastward , arriving on the shores of the United States and Canada within 2-3 days after the meltdown, depending on wind patterns. Importantly, this will give you some time to take action should such an event occur. The next 24 – 48 hours are crucial in Japan’s effort to stop the nuclear fuel rod meltdown. It is entirely unknown whether Japan can succeed in stopping it. The situation remains dire. Important action items to take right now If you live in the western states or provinces of North America, it is extremely important to be prepared by taking the following actions RIGHT NOW: 1) Fuel up your vehicle(s) and be ready to hit the road for a possible evacuation (or hunker down if you’re out in the country and feel like you would be safer there). 2) If you plan to stay put, go to the hardware store TODAY and buy large amounts of plastic sheeting and duct tape to seal up your windows and doors. This will help protect you from radioactive fallout. You will also need to store water, food, and all the usual emergency supplies because outside help probably won’t be available. 3) If you plan to evacuate, have a “Go Bag” ready to go at a moment’s notice. This go bag should include a water filter, emergency radio, flashlight, duct tape, emergency knife, spare cash, whatever medical supplies you might need, extra food and water, spare fuel cans and so on. Have it ready now in case you need it. 4) Significantly increase your intake of iodine-containing foods and superfoods starting right now: Seaweeds are a great source. We’ve listed our entire inventory of what we have available at our store (http://www.naturalnews.com/031730_iodine_radiation_poisoning.html), but I would actually prefer you to go out and get this locally TODAY at your local health food stores, where possible. You may not have time to wait on a UPS delivery. Fortunately, our store ships from Ojai, California, meaning that if you order foods from us today that are in stock, and you’re in California, you could receive them very, very quickly (within 1-2 business days). 5) If you have potassium iodide pills (radiation pills), don’t take them yet . Keep them ready to take if and only if a meltdown event occurs and a massive dose of radiation has been released into the atmosphere. 6) Have a plan for you and your family. Where will you meet if you need to evacuate? Don’t count on cell phones working. Have a plan of where to go, how to get there and how to survive once you get there. Why you probably won’t be told the truth on all this by “official” sources Hopefully none of this will be necessary. If they can stop the meltdown at Fukushima, there is virtually no real radiation risk in North America. That’s the outcome we’re all hoping and praying for. But if a meltdown takes place, it is almost certain that strong winds will push a massive radiation cloud right into North America within a matter of days, potentially dropping an extremely dangerous quantity of radioactive material on California or other regions. That’s the scenario that we all need to be prepared to guard against. Do not rely on your government to tell you the truth about what’s happening. Governments are in the business of “preventing panic” by withholding information you need to know . Governments believe that if too many people know the truth, it might start a panic, and even more people could die in the panic than from the event itself. They may actually be correct at some level on that, but I believe that people have a right to know what’s really going on. And the sober, shocking truth of the matter is that as of right now, our world is facing an unprecedented nuclear meltdown event that could dwarf the Chernobyl catastrophe of 1986. We’re talking about as many as 600,000 spent fuel rods which are now threatened by fires and loss of cooling fluids. This is not a set of circumstances to be taken lightly. I urge all NaturalNews readers to take this seriously. Get prepared now . Get your go bag ready just in case. Start boosting your natural iodine intake TODAY. Be ready to head out of Dodge if you’re in a geographic area that could be impacted. And then watch the news on this to stay informed (and read NaturalNews for an honest analysis of the situation). The sad realities of the evacuation of large cities Another thing: If a meltdown does occur and an evacuation is announced for parts of the west coast of North America, you will need to be one of the first to head out if you expect to get out at all. The highways around Los Angeles in particular do not have the capacity to handle a mass evacuation. They barely have the capacity to handle rush hour! Imagine what happens if half the people in L.A. try to leave all at the same time… that will be a week-long traffic jam, and people will run out of gas on the highways, abandon their vehicles, and make the highways impassable. I don’t mean to paint this as a worst-case scenario, but I’m trying to give you an accurate description of what might realistically happen if a radiation cloud is headed toward LA and an evacuation effort is announced. If you aren’t out of LA by the time the government announces an evacuation, you’re probably too late. By the way, this is actually a good time to own a Prius because a Prius can idle without the engine running and use virtually no gas. A Prius is a great getaway vehicle for jammed evacuation highways where traffic is barely moving. Of course, if you had a Hummer, you could probably just off-road it and bypass all the stalled traffic, but that’s a debate for another time… Be safe and be smart about all this. Think ahead. Get real about what might unfold if a meltdown occurs. This is a time to interrupt your regularly-scheduled programming and start thinking seriously about what you can do to protect yourself and your family. It’s better to be prepared than to be caught by the unexpected. We are lucky in one sense right now because we have forewarning of all this. There is time right now to take preparedness steps to deal with a meltdown event should one occur. I strongly advise all NaturalNews readers to use this time wisely and get squared away for what might be coming. Just in case, you see. Most of the time, when I preach preparedness, I do so in the context of just getting prepared for “the unexpected.” But today, we have the expected! We know Fukushima is about to melt down. We know the winds will carry the radiation to North America. We know that evacuation of major U.S. cities in 48 hours is virtually impossible. And we also know that the supply inventories of certain preparedness items are strictly limited, meaning that not everybody who wants emergency supplies will be able to get them . These are the sobering realities of emergencies in our modern, high-population-density world. Watch NaturalNews.com for more updates throughout the day. We’ll be posting stories at an increased frequency during this Fukushima catastrophe to help bring people information more rapidly.

Twelve unsustainable things that will soon come to a disastrous end on our planet

(NaturalNews) If you look around what’s really happening in our world today, there’s an inescapable pattern that curiously emerges: Much of what’s going on is simply unsustainable . It can’t go on for much longer, in other words. And it must collapse due to the laws of economics or physics. Here, I’ve put together a collection of twelve systems that are utterly unsustainable on our planet. Each of these twelve is scheduled for some sort of collapse or shut down in the coming years. They range from economics to medicine, population and the environment. And interestingly, the collapse of just one of these twelve would have devastating consequences across human civilization. What happens when two, three or ten of these things collapse? This article doesn’t cover the consequences of the collapse of these unsustainable things, but we’ll work on covering that in future articles. Here are the twelve: 1) Debt-based banking and economic systems There’s little question that our global fractional reserve banking system is headed for a catastrophic collapse. It’s a system based on debt rather than sound money principles, and the laws of economics dictate that the global multiplication of money and debt is entirely unsustainable. This system will collapse, and when it does, it will be so large that the economic devastation will be global. Governments have actually made this worse, of course, by bailing out the dishonest investment institutions that have made the situation worse. The coming financial collapse will teach humanity some hard lessons about honest money. When it comes to money, banking and debt, Ron Paul has always been right, after all. 2) Conventional agriculture and “rape the planet” farming The current agricultural system that feeds the planet is simply unsustainable. It is a “rape the planet” model that clear-cuts forests to grow GMO soybeans that feed factory cattle which are turned into processed meat. Even the plant crops grown through conventional agriculture depend on chemical fertilizers from sources that are running out (fossil fuels, phosphate mines, etc.). Furthermore, the mass application of chemical pesticides, fungicides and Monsanto’s Roundup chemicals is destroying the viability of soils while polluting the world’s farms, rivers, streams and oceans. This system is unsustainable. When it collapses, humanity will learn (the hard way) that only sustainable agriculture can sustain human life on our planet. 3) Mass-consumption economies based on buy-it-and-trash-it behavior When children are raised to be good little Americans (or Canadians, or Australians, etc.), they’re taught to consume more stuff . In America, it was even called “patriotic” by former President George Bush. To support your local economy, you’re supposed to go out and buy stuff that you don’t need, then chuck it into the trash after you use it, then go out and buy more! Virtually the entire first-world economy is based on this idea that people need to consume more stuff, then throw it away, then consume more. That’s what all the corporate advertising is for, to convince people that they are inadequate unless they buy and consume more high-priced cars, designer jeans, electronic gadgets and throwaway home cleaning supplies. This system is insane . And it cannot continue indefinitely. 4) The accelerating loss of farming soils There’s a great documentary you need to see on this called Dirt. (www.DirtTheMovie.org) It explains the value of dirt (soil) and why conventional agriculture methods are destroying the dirt upon which our civilization depends. We even wrote about the movie here: http://www.naturalnews.com/031597_Dirt_movie.html No dirt = no food. Get it? And the dirt is disappearing at an alarming rate, thanks to the unsustainable practices of conventional agriculture, with all its tilling, soil destruction, poisons and GMOs. I wonder what the people will plant their seeds in when all the cropland dirt is either dead or gone? 5) The mass poisoning of the oceans and aggressive over-fishing Oceans ecosystems are collapsing. This isn’t some future prediction, it’s happening right now. Ocean acidification is destroying the coral reefs and mollusks all across the globe. At the same time, human civilization treats the oceans as giant planetary toilets into which all the toxic chemicals of modern civilization are flushed: Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, fertilizers, heavy metals, hormone-disrupting chemicals and a whole lot more. Massive fish die-offs are becoming increasingly common (http://www.naturalnews.com/031645_dead_fish_Redondo_Beach.html), and fish populations are plummeting across several species. We are beginning to see the results of mankind’s ongoing poisoning of the oceans. 6) Mass genetic pollution of the planet through GMOs It will be the great, dark legacy of our modern civilization: The widespread genetic contamination of the planet through the use of GMOs. Genetically engineered seeds are spreading their altered genetic code all across the world. The DNA of GMO crops is now detectable in soils, foods and water systems. What’s the upshot of all this? It’s a big unknown, of course, and that’s the frightening part: No one before has ever “played God” with the planet, right out in the open, and then observed what happens after a few years (or decades). Thanks to companies like Monsanto, we are the experiment , and no one know if it might ultimately lead to something like a widespread crop failure or even the alternation of natural web-of-life interactions across multiple ecosystems. And if genetic pollution causes problems, how do you “clean” that pollution? You can’t! Genetic pollution endures. Once crops become infected with GE seeds, it’s all but impossible to eliminate the DNA contamination. 7) The drugs-and-surgery conventional medical system Big Pharma’s days are numbered — based on economics if nothing else. The monopolistic pricing, the deadly side effects and the corrupt, criminal operations of the industry make it all utterly non-sustainable. Big Pharma and the whole chemical approach to medicine is bankrupting companies, cities, states and nations. No nation can economically survive in the long run if it keeps spending its money on Big Pharma sick care schemes. Ultimately, those nations that hope to survive will need to ditch Big Pharma and return to natural medicine and preventive nutrition. That day is coming. Sooner that you think, probably. Widespread pharmaceutical contamination of the human population and the environment Until the day comes that Big Pharma collapses into ruin, the pharmaceutical pollution of the planet will continue. Right now, pharmaceutical factories in India (which export their pills back to the states to be sold as brand-name drugs) are dumping untold thousands of gallons of dangerous chemical drugs into the waterways there (http://www.naturalnews.com/025415_water_Big_Pharma_chemicals.html). In the U.S. and Canada, the water near every major city is heavily contaminated with pharmaceuticals. (http://www.naturalnews.com/025933.html) The situation is so bad that Big Pharma’s chemical runoff threatens the future of life on our planet! (http://www.naturalnews.com/029314_waterways_contamination.html) Fortunately, this sad chapter in human history will soon come to an end. 9) Runaway human population growth Here’s the one nobody wants to talk about. But make no mistake: The human population growth we see right now is entirely unsustainable. The available of cheap food and fossil fuels over the last century has contributed to an unprecedented population explosion that is now nearing its end. There are only so many acres of farmland, after all, and only so many acre-feet of water to irrigate it. Don’t misinterpret this, however, of thinking that I support some sort of population reduction measures a la Bill Gates and his quote about reducing the world population by 10 – 15 percent through the use of vaccines and health care (http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_vaccines_Bill_Gates.html). Unlike some of the truly evil world leaders, I don’t believe in killing off human beings just to reduce global population. Rather, it makes more sense to teach sustainable living practices along with good parenting and well-considered parenthood. Strangely, most of the new children brought into the world today are not the result of stable, well-prepared parents choosing to have children, but rather the unintended consequences of casual copulation. 10) Fossil water consumption for agriculture We just published a story on this issue, talking about how the Ogallala Aquifer is running dry, threatening the agricultural output of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and even parts of Colorado and Texas (http://www.naturalnews.com/031658_aquifer_depletion_Ogallala.html). This is a global issue, affecting India, China, North America, South America and nearly every nation that produces any significant agricultural yields. Fresh water is running out all across the world, and while additional water supplies can always be created through desalination, for example, that’s a very expensive way to replenish the water, and it’s almost entirely dependent on fossil fuels (see below). Even if you could build enough desalination plants to irrigate the world’s croplands, the resulting food prices would still result in mass starvation by those who couldn’t afford the food which might cost ten times the current price. Imagine paying $20 for a loaf of bread and you get the idea of what’s coming. 11) Fossil fuel consumption I realize this is a highly contentious issue, with some people claiming that there’s an “unlimited supply of oil” in our planet because it’s replenishing itself all the time. This idea simply doesn’t square with what we know: The Earth is a finite object, occupying finite space. Inside it can only be a finite amount of fossil fuels. The recharge rate of fossil fuels is on the scale of millions of years, meaning we can’t simply wait around for more fuel to reappear if we use up the current reserves. There is convincing evidence right now that Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, has been lying about its output capacity for at least the last decade. It can’t reach its production targets, and there is reasoned speculation that its own best-producing oil wells are approaching their end. Even if oil remains available for a few more decades, it still becomes increasingly expensive oil, meaning that everything else down the supply chain becomes more expensive, too: Food, fuel, consumer goods, etc. The era of cheap fossil fuels is coming to an end. Although fossil fuels will no doubt be around for several decades more, the cheap stuff is long gone, it seems. The citizens of Earth will soon need to find an alternate way to power their cities, cars and businesses in the 21st century. Oh, and by the way, solar probably isn’t the answer, as solar panels depend on rare earth metals that are entirely dependent on Chinese mining operations (http://www.naturalnews.com/028160_rare_earth_metals_mining.html). Wind energy also hasn’t panned out as it should have. And the governments of the world continue to suppress free energy technologies such as Cold Fusion , which has now been proven to work by even the U.S. Navy (http://www.naturalnews.com/025925_cold_fusion_science_Amazon.html). 12) The widespread destruction of animal habitat Here’s one that drives some people nuts. What? We can’t keep clear-cutting the rainforests to plant genetically engineered soybeans? Not if you want the planet to survive, actually. There’s a delicate web of life on our planet upon which human life ultimately depends. The more animal habitat we destroy, the more it ultimately comes back to haunt us. Now, I’m not in favor of the insane green police and the UN’s freedom-stealing efforts to pigeon-hole human beings into centrally-controlled behavior boxes. The key here is finding ways for people to live in balance with nature while still maintaining their freedoms. And that depends on education. We need to continue to teach people how to make sound decisions about where they buy their wood furniture (to avoid the slashing of old-growth forests). We need to teach people who eat meat to buy truly free-range, grass-fed meat rather than factory-farmed meats that depend on soybean mega-farms. And of course, we also need to make people aware of the benefits of getting more plant-based foods into their diets where possible, because when properly prepared, plant foods provide a lot of nutrients with a smaller ecological footprint than most meats. I’m not against those who eat meat, by the way. I just think that people need to consider where their food comes from no matter what they’re eating , and then take steps to reduce the ecological footprint of the food they’re choosing to consume. The best answer to this is to buy local food . In fact, I would argue that eating some beef steaks from a local farmer is more ecologically sound than juicing up organic fruits and vegetables grown and imported from Chile (unless you live in Chile, of course). That’s an arguable point, of course, and opinions differ sharply on this, but I believe that we really need to focus on eating local foods just as much as we do on what we’re eating . Personally, I don’t eat cows, but even for the plants I consume, I’m working hard right now on growing more of my own so that I’m acting with integrity — “walking the talk” so to speak — to be aligned with what I’m advocating for others. While we’re at it, one of the best ways to reduce the destruction of animal habitat is to grow your own food by turning your yard into a garden. Reduce your demand for store-bought food and you unquestionably reduce your ecological footprint on the planet. And reconsider how much seafood you eat. Most seafood is extremely damaging to ocean ecosystems. I don’t have space to discuss it all right here, but we’ll cover it more on NaturalNews in the near future. Life is on the line So those are 12 of the biggest things that are entirely unsustainable on our planet right now. Human life depends on most of them. It makes you wonder: How will humans survive when these systems and resources upon which we depend have run out or collapsed? That is a question we’d all better be asking ourselves right now. Because the age of cheap fuel, cheap money, cheap water and cheap food is fast ending. The future of life on our planet will require something far more evolved than the infantile, selfish and self-destructive mindset that humanity has so far demonstrated. Debt-based money systems don’t cut it. Burning up all the fossil fuels is only a fool’s abundance. Medicating the humans and animals with toxic, synthetic pharmaceuticals is a form of medical insanity. These things will all come to an end. The question is: Who will survive the end of these things and be around to help shape the next society which must operate with far greater humility and wisdom?

After touching your junk, TSA now wants to scan and harvest your DNA

(NaturalNews) As if it’s not enough for the TSA to feel you up at the airport, now they’re experimenting with rapid results DNA scanners that can scan and analyze your DNA using just a drop of saliva. Spit at the TSA agent who is molesting you, in other words, and they can use that saliva to scan your DNA and then store it in a government database . Why would they want to do that? We can only imagine. Remember, it was Alex Jones who broke the story about hospitals secretly taking blood samples of babies and handing them over to the federal government for use in a national genetic database (http://www.prisonplanet.com/newborns-dna-routinely-harvested-for-government-bio-banks.html). The government routinely steals genetic material from people for its own nefarious purposes, as does the pharmaceutical industry. For example, the medical industry’s so-called “Hela cells” which have been exploited for decades by vaccine and drug companies, were harvested and stolen decades ago from Henrietta Lacks without her permission or consent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa). Hela cells are the foundation of hundreds of billions of dollars in profit for Big Pharma, and they are all based on DNA theft perpetrated by the pharmaceutical industry. Harvesting your DNA at the airport Now that the TSA is experimenting with portable DNA scanners, their real agenda becomes apparent: They will use airport security checkpoints to harvest DNA from the public in order to build up their government “bio bank” database of stolen DNA. Of course, they will assure the public that they aren’t storing the DNA information …and the naked body scanners don’t store images, either. Oh yeah, and the TSA’s security procedures make air travel safer , too, if you can believe that. Our source for this story is a report called “Genetic Patdown” published at TheDaily.com (http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/02/26/news-tsa-scanner-1-2/). That story reveals that a company called NetBio manufactures the portable DNA scanning devices. That same story also reveals that the TSA rolled out these DNA screening devices without even checking with the privacy committee of the DHS . Jim Harper, who serves on that committee, is even quoted in the story saying, “We’re plunging into the unknown here.” But we aren’t actually. It’s not unknown. History has seen this before. It’s called Nazi Germany . It’s called the “Police State” approach to security: Use the power of big government to target the People as if they were all criminals. Then force them at gunpoint to consent to illegal searches and violations of their privacy. Do it all under the name of “homeland security” — or Heimatschutz in German — and keep the American people afraid by terrorizing them with occasional scary-sounding security alerts based on staged terrorism events that are often planned, organized and carried out by the FBI! The recent Portland “terrorism” event, for example, was actually carried out by the FBI itself which recruited and then entrapped an innocent man with a Muslin name (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/12/13/us_recruiting_center_bomb_plot_1). The government agents that carry out these kind of evil schemes — “Verfassungsschtzer” — are the modern-day equivalent of Hitler’s secret police . You don’t think the name “Homeland Security” was chosen by mere coincidence, do you? (http://www.slate.com/id/2066978/) “Mass casualty events” The Homeland Security Newswire publication reveals that, in 2009, DHS awarded grant money (i.e. taxpayer dollars) to a Virginia firm to develop a portable DNA testing device. A DHS spokesperson named Christopher Miles revealed the purpose of the device, explaining it had applications in “…mass-casualty situations, reunification of family members following mass evacuations, identification of missing persons, rapid processing of crime-scene and suspect DNA, and various scientific and educational uses…” Interesting, isn’t it? Back in 2009, they never mentioned “screening the DNA of air travelers at airports.” But today, barely two years later, suddenly it’s no longer for “reunification of family members” but rather the harvesting of DNA from air passengers — almost certainly without their consent! After all, since when did the TSA ever ask for your permission to do anything? And what’s the limit for all these privacy invading searchers, anyway? Where does it end? Can the TSA demand your blood , your saliva, or even your sperm for its tests? Is it soon going to be a condition of flying that you hand over your bodily fluids to the U.S. government so they can determine whether you might be a “genetic terrorist?” GATTACA Hitler would have loved the DNA scanners for his eugenics programs , of course. It would have provided a simple, “scientific” way to determine who was of Jewish descent and therefore who got loaded up and sent away on the rail cars. Fortunately for the world, Hitler didn’t have the technology to conduct DNA searches of people. But Janet Napolitano does! And she’s already proved that she will go to great lengths to spy on the American people (“if you see something, say something”). I’ll tell you where this is all probably headed, if you’re interested to know. Before too much longer, we’re going to see calls for global population controls that deny reproduction “rights” to those who don’t fit the genetic profiles preferred by world governments. Genetic screening will be used to identify and then sterilize both men and women who don’t fit the correct “genetic profile.” These sterilizations will be delivered as vaccine shots — a move that has already been perfectly described by Bill Gates himself, who says that vaccines are the key technology for “population control” and “reducing world population by 10 to 15 percent.” (http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_vaccines_Bill_Gates.html) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in fact, has been hard at work on sterilization technology called “temporary castration” that renders men infertile for six months at a time (http://www.naturalnews.com/028853_ultrasound_fetus.html). But who should you castrate? It’s tough to know. Unless, of course, you have DNA scanners set up at government-run security checkpoints! A “bad” DNA scans earns you a court-mandated sterilization vaccination injection right on the spot. Think that’s fiction? They’re already using similar tactics to draw blood from drivers at DUI checkpoints. This whole scenario with the DNA scanners and population control eugenics won’t happen right away, of course. It’s always step by step… ratcheting up the police state one degree at a time like boiling a live frog. With the recent passenger molestation searches introduced by the TSA, the government was trying to determine just how far they could go without people rioting in response. And it turns out that most people are so brainwashed, so devoid of critical thinking skills, and so ignorant of their own rights and powers that they will do practically anything the government tells them to do. So don’t be surprised if coming soon is the government’s forced extraction of bodily fluids for DNA scanning. I suppose the TSA can pull this off while they’re reaching down your pants, too, eh? Author Mike Adams is also the composer of the popular TSA outrage song called “Don’t Touch My Junk” http://www.naturalnews.com/Dont_Touch_My_Junk.html

Conventional agriculture using up global supply of phosphorus, causing widespread pollution

(NaturalNews) Modern agriculture is heavily reliant on the use of phosphorus, a mineral necessary for proper plant and crop growth. But conventional growing methods have all but depleted this natural mineral from certain areas of farmland, which has resulted in the widespread mining of phosphorus to replace it. This mining and its subsequent overuse in agriculture has led not only to widespread pollution of water supplies, but it also threatens to use up the world’s limited supply of phosphorus within the next several decades, say some. Writing in the journal Environmental Research Letters , Stephen Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW-Madison) and his colleague Elena Bennett from McGill University say that agricultural and industrial use of phosphorus has the negative consequence of polluting rivers, streams, lakes, and other natural water sources. And because only a few areas around the world have natural reserves of phosphorus, supplies will eventually become depleted if current mining practices continue. “There is a finite amount of phosphorus in the world,” says Carpenter, an authority on lakes and streams, and professor of limnology at UW-Madison. “This is a material that’s becoming more rare and we need to use it more efficiently.” Phosphorus is an essential mineral for all living things, including humans. Without it, cells would not be able to function properly. But overuse is causing residues to seep into fresh water supplies and spur algae blooms, which are destroying entire ecosystems. The chain effect of this is the widespread death of aquatic life, animals, and potentially even humans. “If you have too much phosphorus, you get eutrophication,” adds Carpenter. “Phosphorus stimulates the growth of algae and weeds near shore and some of the algae can contain cyanobacteria, which are toxic. You lose fish. You lose water quality for drinking.” The authors say that phosphorus overuse must stop, and that soils need to be carefully analyzed for phosphorus content before adding more of the element. Sources for this story include: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/uow-wpu021411.php

Nearly all drug trials scientifically invalid due to influence of the mind; Big Pharma science dissolves into wishful thinking

(NaturalNews) A new study in Science Translational Medicine has cast doubt over the scientific validity of nearly all randomized, double-blind placebo controlled studies involving pharmaceuticals used on human beings. It turns out that many pharmaceuticals only work because people expect them to , not because they have any “real” chemical effect on the body. As you’ll see here, when test subjects were told that they were not receiving painkiller medications — even though they were — the medication proved to be completely worthless. This particular experiment involved applying heat to the legs of test subjects in order to cause pain, then adding a painkiller medication to an IV drip while assessing the subjects’ pain levels. When the painkiller drug was present, the test subjects were told about it, and just as expected their pain scores significantly dropped. But when test subjects were told the pain medication had been stopped , their pain levels returned back to the original, non-medicated levels even though the pain medication was secretly still being dripped into their IVs . The mind of the patient, in other words, is what actually determines the “effectiveness” of the pain drug, not the chemical effect of the drug itself. Talking to the BBC, Professor Irene Tracey from Oxford University said, “It’s phenomenal, it’s really cool. It’s one of the best analgesics we have and the brain’s influence can either vastly increase its effect, or completely remove it.” (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12480310). As pointed out by George Lewith, a professor of health research at the University of Southampton, these findings call into question the scientific validity of many randomized clinical trials . He said, “It completely blows cold randomized clinical trials, which don’t take into account expectation.” Many pharmaceuticals only work if you believe they do What the research really means, you see, is that the mind is the main determiner of the effectiveness of many drugs , not the so-called chemical profile of the drugs themselves. This has been proven out again and again with not just painkiller drugs, but also with antidepressant drugs which have consistently failed to out-perform placebo. (http://www.naturalnews.com/022723.html) But it all brings up a question: If many pharmaceuticals only work because the mind makes them real, then why do some drugs appear to out-perform placebo in clinical trials? The answer to that will probably surprise you: It’s because when people are in randomized, placebo-controlled studies, they’re usually hoping to get the real drugs, not the placebo . And how do they determine whether they’re getting the “real” drugs? By the presence of negative side effects! As those side effects begin to appear — constipation, sexual disorders, nausea, headaches, etc — then those participants convince themselves that they received the “real” drugs! And from that point, their mind makes it real! So the blood pressure actually then starts to go down, or their cholesterol numbers drop, and so on. The patients make real whatever expectation they were given when they were recruited for the drug trial in the first place. Even the act of recruiting people for drug trials sets an expectation in their minds. Patients, after all, are recruited for a “cancer drug trial” or a “blood pressure drug trial” or some other trial in which the expected outcome is made evident during the recruitment phase. This is all really important to understand so I’m going to break it down step by step: Why pharmaceutical “positive” effects are actually generated by the minds of the clinical trial participants: Step 1: Clinical trial participants are recruited through a trial that is advertised as testing a drug for a particular outcome such as lowering blood pressure, halting cancer, normalizing blood sugar, etc. This sets the expectation of the drug effects in the minds of the patients even before the trial begins. Step 2: When the trial begins, the clinical trial participants are told that half will be given the “real” drug, and the other half will be given a placebo, but it’s a blind study, so no one knows whether they’re receiving the drug or the placebo. Step 3: Study participants begin to take the pills, but they don’t know whether they’re getting drugs or placebo. Step 4: Those participants who are receiving the real drugs begin to show toxic side effects (because most pharmaceuticals are toxic to the body). This excites them because they conclude that they are on the “real” drugs! Step 5: Those participants who conclude they are on the “real” drugs then, through the power of their minds, cause their bodies to make real the physiological effects that were imprinted in their minds in step one! Whatever drug expectation was explained to them before the trial, in other words, is suddenly made real by the patient’s mind. Step 6: Meanwhile, those patients receiving the placebo pills and having no side effects convince themselves that they aren’t receiving the “real” drugs and therefore they should experience no positive physiological effects. So their mind makes that real, too, and they get no benefit from the whole experience. Step 7: After the end of the clinical trial, the researchers compare the results of the placebo group against the results of the drug group, and guess what? The drug looks like it performed better! But was the drug the actual cause of that? Not at all: It was the expectations of the study subjects that made the effects real. The drugs, in other words, only look good as a result of wishful thinking. As you can see here, this calls into question the scientific validity of every randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled drug study that has ever been conducted . The critical scientific failure they all share, you see, is that as part of the clinical trial, the researchers set the expectations of the drug’s results in the minds of the patients. It is those minds that then made the effects real, not necessarily the drugs. This leads to the fascinating conclusion that in today’s medical system, many drugs may only work when patients expect them to because it is the patient’s mind creating the physiological effects, not the drug itself. So how do you get around this and design a truly scientific trial that eliminates the effect of the mind? How to design a truly scientific clinical trial using drugs The answer to that is simpler than you think: In humans, you must eliminate the trial subjects from learning of any expectation of the drug’s effects. In other words, you can’t sign patients up for a “blood pressure drug trial” because right there you’ve set the expectation that the drug will lower blood pressure. You essentially have to sign people up for a trial of a “mystery drug” with no expectation of any effects whatsoever. That way, the mind of the study participants is no longer a variable in the outcome of the drug trial. From there, all the various physiological effects of the patients must be tracked. With the patients’ minds now out of the picture, you can get an honest assessment of the genuine chemical action of the drug itself. Why most clinical trials are scientifically invalid It is fascinating, of course, that virtually no clinical trials are ever conducted in this way. Today’s drug trials are almost universally described to patients along with the expectations of the outcome. This has been done for decades under the false belief that the mind somehow played no role whatsoever in the physiology of the body . Conventional medical researchers and scientists incorrectly believed that chemistry alone would dictate the outcome of the trial. The mind had nothing to do with it, they claimed. They were wrong. The mind has everything to do with it. In fact, the mind can make a placebo “real” and render a drug useless . The mind has near total control over the outcome of the trial. Because this has almost never been taken into account, all those clinical trials that ignored the influence variable of intention are, technically speaking, scientifically invalid . There’s no way to know whether the outcome of the trial was due to the drug or the mind. And that makes the mind a variable in the scientific question of what is at work in a clinical trial. When the mind is at work, you cannot scientifically claim the achieved results were simply due to the drug itself. Unless, of course, you disavow the influence of the mind. And that is precisely the mistake that has been made since the dawn of modern medical science. The pharmaceutical industry’s “science” falls apart in the presence of the mind Once you understand the power of the mind to either create real physiological effects in the body or nullify the chemicals being administered to the body, you immediately grasp the stunning conclusion: Big Pharma’s “science” is not scientific! Virtually all the results from the tens of thousands of clinical trials that have been conducted over the last several decades must now be called into question. In which trials did patients produce their own positive results simply through the power of their minds after believing that negative side effects meant they were taking the “real” drugs? It is not a question to be taken lightly. This question, in fact, will demolish modern pharmaceutical “science” once it is fully understood. The pharmaceutical industry, you see, needs the power of the mind to make its drugs appear to work! Without the “wishful thinking” factor engaged, it is altogether likely that most pharmaceuticals simply don’t work at all . The truth is that virtually all the effects of the most commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals — diabetes drugs, blood pressure drugs, painkillers, statin drugs and so on — can be achieved without using any drugs whatsoever . The only cause required to produce the positive effects is the expectation of positive results in the minds of the patients. There are certainly exceptions to this, of course. Anesthesia drugs do not appear to require the active mental participation of patients in order to function as expected. Likewise, there are certainly nutrients such as vitamin D that function in a certain way in the human body regardless of whether a person “believes” in vitamin D. The real question, you see, is what happens at the intersection of molecular biology and the expectation of the mind? Modern medical science has near-zero knowledge on that subject because it has denied the existence of the mind. Most so-called “skeptics,” for example, do not believe there is such a thing as the mind. Humans are merely biological robots, they say, and brains are mere molecular machines that carry out deterministic actions based purely on the laws of chemistry and physics. The mind, they insist, does not exist. No wonder their clinical trials fail to take the mind into account. And that is why their clinical trials are now revealed as medical self delusion . They thought their drugs were working, but it turns out it was the patients’ minds that delivered the results. The great censorship of the power of the mind But don’t expect the conventional medical industry to acknowledge any of this. In order to continue its charade of “scientifically validated pharmaceuticals,” the industry must desperately seek to pretend that the mind has nothing whatsoever to do with clinical trials. That is why the pharmaceutical industry is trying to deny the existence of the mind . It’s why medical journals are reluctant to publish studies that invoke the power of the mind, and it’s why medical schools refuse to teach medical students about mind-body medicine. The placebo effect — perhaps the single most powerful tool for healing — is utterly discarded as worthless by the entire medical profession! The mind is so powerful that it can render drugs obsolete. When doctors truly understand and are able to harness the power of the mind, they won’t need routine pharmaceuticals . They will only need to empower patients with the factually correct belief that they have the power to heal within them, and chemical drugs have only been symbolic metaphorical chemicals that allowed the mind to believe healing was taking place. This is a cultural issue , of course. The culture of our modern world is one of reductionism. Western science refutes the power of the mind and denies individuals the power to heal. Healing must come from external intervention, we are taught: through chemicals, radiation or surgery. In a parallel world, with the exact same biology, consciousness and environment, another race of human-like creatures might have chosen a different path — the path of patient empowerment where doctors are mere guides who teach patients how to heal themselves. Healing is a personal art, done from the inside out, not through dangerous chemical interventions. All that is necessary for this parallel world to become a reality is a shift in the beliefs of the people . When society accepts as real the power of the mind, it suddenly becomes believable to the weak-minded masses who always look to figures of authority to tell them what’s real. But the deeper truth of the matter is that what’s real is what you make real . Your mind, all by itself, can alter your physiology, neutralize toxic drugs, halt pain and probably even achieve other seemingly miraculous feats such as re-growing lost limbs. What’s necessary to get there isn’t technology but rather belief in the ability of the mind to shape the outcome of the body. It is especially fascinating that this is no longer merely new age talk: It is the scientifically validated conclusion of rigorous studies involving patient expectations. Now, the interaction of the body and the mind IS the new science!

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