Occupied America: Senate bill 1867 would allow U.S. military to detain and murder anti-government protesters in American cities

(NaturalNews) I don’t know if you’re all getting this through your heads yet, but Senate Bill 1867 — the National Defense Authorization Act — would openly “legalize” the U.S. government’s detainment and murder of OWS protesters and the assassination of talk show hosts, bloggers, journalists and anyone who holds a so-called “anti-government” point of view. This is the open and blatant declaration of war against any who do not going along with TSA thugs reaching down your pants, the Goldman Sachs economic takeover of nations, the secret arrest and torture of American citizens, and other acts of outright tyranny waged by an out-of-control government. Those who have been burying their heads in the sand over the coming police state need to wake up and face the music. That U.S. Senators would knowingly and willfully attempt to pass a bill that legalizes the indefinite detainment, torture and killing of American citizens with no due process whatsoever — and on American soil! — is nothing less than a traitorous betrayal of the once-free American people. These are, our founding fathers would have said, acts of war against the People. They reveal the insidious plan to put in place a legal framework to end the Bill of Rights, murder protesters, and overrun America with total police state brutality. And yet the sheeple are still asleeple I grow weary of trying to warn the American people to wake up and see what is now right in front of their eyes, so for those who want to read these words themselves — right in the Senate bill — you can read it at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.1867: And YES, it has now been confirmed that the indefinite detainment and murder provisions do apply to American citizens on the streets of American cities. As Sen. Lindsey Graham explained in plain language on the Senate floor: “…1031, the statement of authority to detain, does apply to American citizens and it designates the world as the battlefield, including the homeland.” That means America, for those of you who are still wondering what “homeland” means. It’s a phrase borrowed from Nazi Germany, of course, which is the source of much of this legislation as you might have noticed. “The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself,” says the ACLU (http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/senators-demand-military-lock-american-citizens-battlefield-they-define-being). Homefront: The U.S. government’s war against the People If this bill passes and is signed into law, it would mean that America’s war machine could then be turned against the American people — liberal, conservative, libertarian… it doesn’t matter. If you question the government, you are suddenly an “enemy combatant” and they will cite this law as the legal justification for putting a bullet in your head, fire-bombing your little protest group, or literally running over you and your buddies with tanks. (And they won’t stop like China did in Tiananmen Square when that one brave citizen stood up against tyranny there in 1989.) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inWKFKv9UA) The premeditate murder of U.S. protesters (Occupy Wall Street, anyone?) is now being codified into law as the government’s “right.” Of course, your rights to Free Speech, due process, owning a firearm and other rights are being obliterated in the process. Only the government has “rights” now, didn’t you know? The slaves of the nation (i.e. the citizens) are being stripped of all rights, including the right to grow your own food, have a picnic or even buy fresh dairy products from a farmer. Governments routinely murder far more people than terrorists Right now, every history teacher in America should be absolutely outraged about all this, as they know what always comes next in the history of nations. Once any government “legalizes” the murder of its own citizens, it is inevitably followed by a mass-murder holocaust-style event. Tyrants, you see, always like to “legalize” their mass murder before they pull the trigger. Just read the history of Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao and others. In every case, they worked diligently to put into place a legal framework for the mass murder that was about to be unleashes on their own citizens. That legal framework looks strikingly similar to Senate Bill 1867, which is about to be passed. This also brings to mind the mathematical reality that, statistically speaking, governments are orders of magnitude more deadly than terrorists . While terrorists sometimes success in taking out a few thousand people at a time, governments routinely murder tens of MILLIONS of people . It’s called GENOCIDE, and there’s a long and well-documented history of how governments have committed genocide year after year, one nation after another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history See more statistics at: http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html So if the People of America had any courage at all, they would be running the People’s road blocks and searching government vehicles for weapons! It is the government agents, after all, who are statistically at the highest risk of engaging in mass murder, and very soon the U.S. Senate looks likely to effectively legalize that mass murder. At the airports, We the People should be searching the TSA employees and checking them for illegal drugs, child pornography and stolen electronics. At government buildings, We the People should be searching all the government employees who come and go to make sure they don’t stage the demolition of their own buildings as a way to blame whatever convenient enemy they want to discredit — patriots, conservatives, “conspiracy theorists” or what have you. It’s no longer a conspiracy theory, you see, that the government wants to have the legal right to openly murder U.S. citizens right on the streets of America. It’s written right into the Senate bill. It’s public record. So all those out there still clinging to their pathetic denialist “conspiracy theorists” rants can now clamp shut their pie holes and throw themselves off a cliff or something. It’s time to face the reality of the total police state tyranny that’s now written in black and white, plain as day. All of you who are still obsessed with your narrow world view of fashion, dancing with the stars, microwaveable processed food and fake mainstream news are about to be rocked out of your easy chairs and dumped into the cesspool of tyranny at your doorstep. Just know that when they come for you, there will be nobody left to speak for you, because you remained silent as all this was rolled out. And I won’t be there for you, either, because I’ll be holed up in Texas, handing out emergency food supplies to the local churches and performing emergency medicine procedures on those protesters wounded by U.S. government military attacks — the ones that are still alive, anyway. You think none of this is coming? Why would the U.S. Senate write this into law if they didn’t intend on using it to murder Americans? Maybe you need to clear the cobwebs out of your head and open your eyes to what’s really happening right now in the U.S. Senate. Read between the lines, folks. It’s not that difficult to get the full picture here. The very idea that the U.S. Senate is even considering such a law to “legalize” the detainment and murder of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil by U.S. troops is, all by itself, a complete and utter crime against the American people. The U.S. Senate is about to declare WAR on the American people . And I don’t mean that metaphorically. They are trying to make this a military war where anyone who opposes the U.S. government — even if they have nothing at all to do with “terrorism” — is now a fair game target for precision bombings, assassinations and heavy military armor (i.e. tanks rolling down your driveway). Some good news: Congressman Dennis Kucinich has publicly spoken out against the bill (even though he’s not in the Senate). So has Sen. Rand Paul. His father, Ron Paul, has also stated his opposition to the illegal detainment provision of the bill. There are hints that if the bill passes, President Obama may veto it. If he did, that would be one of the most profound freedom-protecting actions of his administration, but don’t hold your breath on that count. You never know what these politicians will do when they think they have the power to murder their own citizens — they’re drunk with power, after all, and they love to rule over the masses with a kind of devilish insanity. Remember: Obama already has a “kill list” of Americans to be murdered overseas, but this new Senate Bill 1867 would legalize that right on U.S. soil . So one day you call in to talk radio and express your discontent with the President, let’s say, and the next day a U.S. marine scout sniper sets up his .338 sniper rifle a couple hundred yards from your house, waits for you to sit down to watch Anderson Cooper vomit out the evening’s news propaganda, and then he pulls the trigger and blows your neck off, causing your head to land smack dab in that bowl of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese you were just trying to shovel down your threat because someone told you it was “food.” This will all be LEGAL under the new Senate bill 1867 because they will claim you were a “terrorist collaborator” who questioned the wisdom of the executive leadership of America. Once due process is stripped away, anything can be justified by the government, including the open murder of its own citizens. This is the whole point of a nation of LAW . The laws describe specific legal rights afforded to citizens, but most importantly they describe the LIMITS of power of government . It is those limits that the government is now trying to completely obliterate, turning America into a complete military dictatorship / fascist nation where laws are only applied to the People, not to the government itself. These are practically the exact words recently uttered by Newt Gingrich during a recent debate, in which he said due process and the Bill of Rights should only apply to people who engage in common criminal acts such as stealing or robbing people. But no such rights or due process privileges should exist when there is a “war” going on, Gingrich insisted! And the U.S. Senate is about to declare the entire USA “homeland” to be a battlefield of a never-ending war, get it? Are you grokking all this yet? These tyrants are about to declare the entire USA a battlefield where NO ONE has any due process, no Bill of Rights, no protections under any law, nothing! And if Gingrich becomes President — oh my God please don’t let this happen — then we are looking at the runaway militarization of everything in America, including a huge ramping up of the so-called “war on drugs” which we’ve already exposed as a total failure and a complete hoax (http://www.naturalnews.com/034289_Afghanistan_opium_trade.html). If this bill passes and is signed into law by the President, the USA is officially at war with its own People, and you can expect the government will immediately begin staging false flag bombings so they can justify a multi-year campaign of total genocide against all who refuse to cower down to the (now admitted) anti-freedom tyrants in Washington. We are on the verge of losing America, my friends. I ask: What the hell are YOU going to do about it? Here’s the list of traitors in the U.S. Senate who have supported this bill: http://www.truthistreason.net/sb-1867-worldwide-indefinite-detention-and-the-senators-who-betrayed-you Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/196207-senate-votes-to-advance-department-of-defense-authorization-bill http://www.infowars.com/bill-allows-military-to-arrest-permanently-detain-torture-kill-american-citizens/ http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/tag/kill-s-b-1867/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2813837/posts

Congress nullified as new, illegal "supercommittee" pushes secret farm bill that will cost billions

(NaturalNews) The concentration of elite legislative power in America is well under way today as the new “supercommittee” is working on an end-run around Congress to put together a “secret farm bill” that would prop up failed agricultural policies with yet more billions in taxpayer dollars. The “supercommittee” is the newly-formed (and utterly illegal) committee of 12 members of Congress who engineer new debt-related legislation that’s only allowed an up or down vote by the full Congress. This bypasses the traditional debate process by elected representatives, effectively concentrating the power to shape laws in the hands of a mere dozen members of Congress. The very structure is elitist from the start, and it directly contradicts the United States Constitution. Because the committee concentrates yet more power in the hands of the few, it is being heavily lobbied by various groups and industries that want more government handouts. The farming industry, of course, is lined up at the trough of government slop just like everyone else, and this secret farm bill could cost taxpayers billions of dollars in government subsidies that are tied to commodities prices (which are extremely volatile and could unexpectedly rise). Bypassing representatives to concentrate power with the elite What this latest move demonstrates is that the supercommittee will now be used as a way to bypass the rest of Congress with yet more bloated government spending legislation that puts America further into a debt hole that increasingly appears to be headed toward total financial collapse . That this is all being done without open debate in Congress , and without any public scrutiny of the actions of the 535 members of Congress is yet another disturbing sign that the very fabric of power in America is being deliberately destroyed and re-concentrated into the hands of the few — the “global elite” who now consider themselves kings who rule over the slave masses. Read more at TheHill.com: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/193581-secret-farm-bill-primed-for-passage-in-debt-deal America needs hemp farming, not more bailouts for growing low-value crops Of course, the ultimate farm bill for America would be the legalization of industrial hemp farming — a move that would unleash a whole new era of agricultural abundance across the nation. Presently, the USA imports thousands of tons of hemp products each year from Canada, China and other countries. These products include hemp seeds, hemp fibers, hemp clothing and hemp oils. Why on earth is it illegal for U.S. farmers to grow these products when we import them from Canada anyway? If anybody in Washington could pull their head out of the clouds, they would legalize hemp farming for American farmers. So instead of farmers earning pennies a bushel for growing corn or soybeans, they could earn dollars a bushel for growing hemp. This would put hundreds of millions of dollars back into the economy and create new jobs in farming, agriculture and hemp products. Legalizing hemp farming is the ultimate “jobs bill.” Better yet, hemp grows without pesticides and requires little to no chemical fertilizers, either. It’s environmentally friendly, it makes money for farmers, and the demand for hemp products is absolutely huge. The U.S. Constitution is written on hemp. Sails and ropes from the ships that brought America’s original explorers were made out of hemp, and the earliest renditions of the U.S. flag itself were also made out of hemp. Ever wonder why? Because hemp lasts! It’s more rugged than cotton and far easier to grow and harvest. So why isn’t hemp legal in America? And why is the supercommittee in Congress secretly scheming behind closed doors to spend even more taxpayer money propping up a failed agricultural subsidy system that traps farmers in financial slavery while denying them the freedom to grow a crop that’s just begging to be met with additional supply? The answer is simple: Because the U.S. government doesn’t want Americans to have economic freedom! And the DEA, in particular, doesn’t want to give up its tyrannical power over everything related to marijuana. Yet another reason to rise up against tyranny and government oppression If the People of America are to have any hope of restoring their freedom to farm, freedom to garden, and freedom to consume plant-based medicine, they are going to have to take those freedoms back (with protests and Free Speech, not with violence) and remind the government that it has no right to tell the People what they can or cannot grow on their own land, with their own hard work. Heck, the U.S. military is in Afghanistan right now helping the locals grow heroin crops! This is on the record. It was openly reported on Fox News by Geraldo Rivera. Watch the video report here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b3pB6M7s So why is the U.S. government guardian opium farms in Afghanistan while criminalizing industrial hemp farming in America? Because Washington is insane , of course. Agricultural policies are set not to help the American farmer, but to centralize power in Washington and either criminalize or financially enslave as many American citizens as possible. It’s all about stripping power away from the People and delivering it to the hands of the few. Once again, the only man who takes a consistent stand against all this insanity is Rep. Ron Paul . If you support the legalization of hemp farming, the legalization of food freedom and the ending of the ludicrous “war on drugs” and all the millions of innocent people rotting in our prisons today for merely growing and selling a medicinal plant, then your only logical candidate is Ron Paul. Legalize freedom! www.RonPaul2012.com

State Department uses taxpayer money to push GMOs in other countries

(NaturalNews) It is no secret that the vast majority of subsidized corn, soy, canola, and cotton grown in the US is of genetically-modified (GM) origin. But it has now been revealed that the US government is also using millions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize the promotion of GMOs across the globe as well. The administration of so-called “change” has actually taken the previous Bush Administration’s promotion of GMOs to a whole new level. Rather than push for mandatory labeling of GMOs like he promised, Barack Obama instead padded his administration with pro-biotechnology lackeys like US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Senior Adviser to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner on Food Safety Michael Taylor (http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda_watch.cfm). So is it any surprise that the head of the State Department’s Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (EEB), Jose W. Fernandez, is also a pro-biotechnology expert lawyer that once held a key role in facilitating mergers and acquisitions in Latin America? His expertise, of course, is now being used to manipulate other countries into accepting GMOs, and the agency he heads is using taxpayer dollars to do it. According to AlterNet , Fernandez recently spoke at an event attended by high-level government officials, agribusiness CEOs, and others from around the world concerning the supposed benefits of biotechnology. During his speech Fernandez essentially lied to the group by implying that, without GMOs, it would be impossible to produce enough food to feed the world. Numerous recent studies have shown this to be false, of course, including a comprehensive report conducted by the Rodale Institute which found that organic, small-scale farming methods actually produce higher yields for less cost (http://www.naturalnews.com/033925_organic_farming_crop_yields.html). But why should we let facts get in the way of Big Biotech’s agenda to inject its “Frankencrops” into the agricultural economies of countries around the world? And EEB’s Office of Agriculture, Biotechnology, and Textile Trade Affairs (ABT) has been facilitating this agenda by promoting biotechnology for almost ten years now, which includes distributing roughly half a million in taxpayer-sourced “Biotechnology Outreach Funds” to thrust GMOs on foreign countries. AlterNet reports that in 2010, a US embassy in Ecuador petitioned ABT for $22,900 to fly five Ecuadorian journalists to the US to participate in a pro-biotech brainwashing retreat. That same year, US embassies in both Brazil and Mozambique requested $64,590 to hold a pro-biotech seminar in Maputo. Sources for this article include: http://www.alternet.org/story/152921/why_is_the_state_department_using_our_money_to_pimp_for_monsanto

Dental surgery causes American woman to speak with British accent

(NaturalNews) “When I talk now people ask me where I got my accent from. Well, I got it from a dentist in Toledo.” jokes Karen Butler. Butler believes she has foreign accent syndrome, a condition so rare that there are only 60 known cases worldwide. Butler, a 56-year-old tax consultant who grew up in Toledo, Ore., woke up with the strange accent, which could be taken for anything from Eastern European to Swedish or British, after dental surgery in November 2009. Butler had the surgery to remove her top teeth and front bottom teeth due to gingivitis. After the swelling went down the following week, she had still not regained her original accent. Her dentist told her that it was a matter of getting used to the new teeth. But a year and a half later the accent remains. “I had just had surgery, so at first we assumed it was because of all of the swelling, but within a week the swelling went down and the accent stayed,” said Butler. The accidental accent is usually fleeting and goes away within weeks or months, said Dr. Ted Lowenkopf, a neurologist and medical director of Providence Stroke Center in Portland, Ore. But the longer it lasts, the more likely it is to stick for good. The syndrome is often the result of brain injury, but Butler believes she hasn’t had a stroke or any brain trauma. She said she has not been able to get a brain scan because her medical insurance will not cover it. “We don’t know exactly how or why it happens, but it simply affects rhythm of language,” said Dr. Helmi Lutsep, professor and vice-chair of the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health and Science University. He says that in some cases the speech just sounds a bit “off” while other cases are far more extreme. “I’m absolutely convinced this is a real phenomenon. These people are not making it up.” “Although we think it sounds like a British accent, if you had a language expert listening to her, they would say that’s not an English accent,” said Lowenkopf. “It’s sort of an amalgam of different-sounding speech that sounds like a foreign accent. But it’s not truly typical of any one foreign accent.” Butler said she can’t hear her own accent when she speaks, but can feel herself forming words differently. She talks about her daughter, Jamie, as a “twenty-VUN” year old. Although speech therapy could help Butler regain her old accent, she said she is used the new one. “I appear to be completely normal otherwise and I’m quite OK with [the accent],” she said. “With a sense of humor, you can face anything.” She feels the accent is a benefit to her in a way. “I used to be painfully shy,” she said. “And now there’s always something to talk about” Sources for this story include: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/foreign-accent-syndrome-oregon-woman-wakes-surgery-accent/story?id=13518030 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FOREIGN_ACCENT_SYNDROME?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-06-05-16-55-04

FDA targets numerous supplement manufacturers, falsely accuses them of selling drugs

(NaturalNews) In the eyes of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there is no difference between a legitimate, scientifically-backed health claim, and a phony, made-up claim, as it concerns food and dietary supplements. Only FDA-approved drugs, you see, provide real health benefits, according to the agency. And in its continued assault against health freedom, the FDA has sent warning letters to five different companies that produce natural treatments and cures for sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) because those companies dared to make unauthoried health claims, many of which are backed by peer-reviewed, journal-published scientific studies. The companies being targeted — MedaVir, Herpaflor, Viruxo Anti-Viral Support, C-Cure, and Never an Outbreak — all made the mistake of telling their customers about the health benefits of their products without going through the laborious, multi-million dollar FDA drug approval process. As a result, the FDA has accused them all of selling unapproved drugs, and ordered them to withdraw the statements or face further regulatory action. What is worse, though, is the fact that the FDA has decreed that any food or dietary supplement that provides any sort of health benefit is automatically a “drug.” Ordinary foods like almonds, cherries, or walnuts literally become recategorized as drugs when accompanied by claims that they cure, heal, or prevent disease — and this is currently the law of the land in the US. “While some of the companies market these products as dietary supplements, these products are all drug products under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), as they are offered for the treatment of disease,” stated the FDA in a press release about the STD supplements. “These drug products, which are offered for the treatment of STDs, may not be introduced into interstate commerce without an FDA-approved new drug application (NDA).” In other words, no food or supplement product can bear health claim labels without first gaining the FDA rubber stamp of approval, and being recategorized as a drug. It does not matter if scientific studies have verified that an herb, substance or food has health-promoting properties — if the FDA has not first been paid to approve it, then there is no place for it in the medicinal realm. This is why groups like the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) are urging those in the natural health community to support the Free Speech about Science Act (https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=698), which will end the censorship of legitimate science and restore freedom of speech to natural health. Sources for this story include: http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-accuses-supplement-manufacturers-of-selling-drugs/

Tell Congress to support the Free Speech about Science Act of 2011

(NaturalNews) Last year, the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), a nonprofit organization that works very hard to promote and protect freedom of health speech, came up with a very important piece of legislation called the Free Speech about Science Act (FSAS) that is designed to lift the restrictions on health speech that muzzle natural food and supplement producers from telling the scientific truth about their products (http://www.naturalnews.com/028879_censorship_healing_foods.html). This year, Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Jared Polis (D-Colo.) have introduced the bill, also known as HR 1364, before the 112th Congress, and they need your help to get it passed. As many NaturalNews readers probably already know, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has severely limited the free speech of practically everyone besides drug companies. Supplement manufacturers, natural food companies, and even produce growers are prohibited from making honest, scientifically-proven health claims about their products , even when such claims are supported by peer-reviewed studies. As a result, millions of Americans are left in the dark about how natural foods, herbs, and supplements can help them prevent and cure disease. This is where FSAS comes in. If passed, the bill will amend current law to allow growers and manufacturers to freely share honest information about food and supplements with their customers . While the bill will still allow the FDA and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to go after companies that are truly making false claims, the agencies will no longer be able to tyrannize those companies that simply share the truth with the public . On numerous occasions, the FDA has aggressively pursued companies for making legitimate health claims. In 2010, for example, the FDA went after Diamond Nuts for making honest health claims about its walnuts. The agency claimed that because Diamond was making health claims about walnuts, those walnuts automatically became “unapproved drugs” — even though such claims were based entirely on results from legitimate scientific studies (http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/ucm202825.htm). The FDA did the same thing to cherry growers in 2005 when it sent cease and desist letters to 29 cherry growers that were including scientific studies about the health benefits of cherries on their product packaging. Such claims included the truthful statement that cherries help reduce inflammation, which they absolutely do (http://www.naturalnews.com/019366.html). These examples and more clearly illustrate the need to pass FSAS as soon as possible in order to help restore freedom of health speech. The good news is that, according to ANH, the FSAS bill has a much better chance of passing this year than it did last year . However, in order to make its provisions a reality, concerned citizens will need to bombard their Congressmen and urge support for the bill right away. And ANH has created a convenient Action Alert page through which you can do so here: https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=698 You can also read the complete text of HR 1364 here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.1364: Sources for this story include: http://www.takebackmedicine.com/news/new-legislation-protects-your-right-to-know-about-the-scienc.html http://www.anh-usa.org/free-speech-in-health-science-may-become-a-reality-but-with-help/

With your help – Free speech in health science may become a reality

(NaturalNews) The Free Speech about Science (FSAS) Act, HR 1364, would change FDA regulations so that legitimate, peer-reviewed scientific studies can be referenced without changing the food’s regulatory category to an unapproved drug. This will protect access to scientific information, and will protect your right to know about the healthy benefits of food and food supplements. The bill amends the appropriate sections of current law to allow the flow of legitimate scientific and educational information while still giving FDA and FTC the right to take action against misleading information and against false and unsubstantiated claims. Gretchen DuBeau of the Executive and Legal Director of The Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA) says this legislation is critical because “current FDA regulations prohibit dietary supplement manufacturers and food producers from referring to any scientific studies on the health benefits of a food or natural substance.” In the FDA’s view, even providing a link on a vitamin supplement manufacturer or organic food producer’s website to a scientific study converts a healthy food into an unapproved drug. The FDA knows that natural products and supplements are food, not drugs, and they do not fit into the drug regulatory model. The result of this counter productive approach by the FDA is decreased access to safe, natural approaches to staying and getting healthy. “This is what we call the great Catch 22 of contemporary American medicine, the FDA, which is supposed to guard and promote our health, is hostile to the kind of natural medicine — based on diet, supplements, and exercise — that represents the real future of healthcare,” said DuBeau. TO SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Click THIS LINK (https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=698) to go to the Action Alert page.

U.S. House repeals Obama health care reform

(NaturalNews) The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a repeal of Obama’s health care reform, voting largely along party lines at 245 to 189 (three Democrats supported the vote). The bill now moves to the U.S. Senate where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promises to block it from ever coming to a vote there. Congressional Republicans characterized Obamacare as “job-killing” and called it a “trillion-dollar tragedy.” In response, one Democrat compared Republican rhetoric to World War II Nazi propaganda. Democrats, predictably, attempted to emphasize how Obamacare would “create jobs.” Of course it would create jobs: When the system doesn’t help anybody get healthy, the number of patients needing disease management services skyrockets, and that translates into job creation in the sick-care industry. A person could similarly “create jobs” by unleashing an infectious virus in a major U.S. city and seeing how many people line up for emergency care at the hospitals. But that’s moronic. “Creating jobs” shouldn’t be done on the backs of sick people — especially when that sickness could be prevented through the application of commonsense nutrition. Then again, one should never expect the rhetoric of lawmakers to follow any economic logic in the first place. Both war and disease create plenty of jobs. But those aren’t the kind of jobs that improve the quality of life for the American people. The real story behind health care reform The bitter debate that took place in the House of Representatives today is little more than elaborate cover, of course, for the underlying truth that neither political party supports real health care . Both parties are so strongly influenced by Big Pharma financial interests that passing meaningful health care reform which would serve the best interests of the American people is a political impossibility. Sadly, the U.S. Congress has long passed the stage where legislative votes are conducted in the best interests of the American people. Instead, votes are cast as political ballast, to appease campaign contributors and gain favor with party officials. The very structure of Congress — with its corporate-funded campaign contributions and lobbyists — is no more able to meet the real needs of the American people than a disturbed mental patient is to spontaneously achieve cognitive clarity. Pleasing the corporations What’s wrong with Congress and health care is not that members of Congress don’t want to improve the health of Americans, it’s that they exist in a system of corporate political influence that makes such action impossible. There’s simply too much money to be made from sickness and degenerative disease. The idea of keeping the American people healthy is far too threatening to the profits of the drug companies and cancer industry (not to mention the diabetes industry and heart disease industry) to allow realistic health solutions to become law. This isn’t being cynical; it’s being realistic about the underlying motivations and influences of the U.S. Congress. When you have a nation whose lawmakers are funded by powerful corporations, it should be no surprise that you end up with laws and regulations which strongly favor those corporations. Revoke the personhood of corporations The real problem in all this is that corporations continue to have legal standing as individuals . This long-established precedent has allowed corporations to claim protections under the Bill of Rights as if they were individuals. This is how the corporate funding of politicians has become “protected” by the U.S. Supreme Court as a Free Speech issue. But Free Speech was never intended to apply to corporations. The Bill of Rights enumerated rights of the People , not rights of multinational, multi-billion dollar corporate giants. As a result, the U.S. has become a corporatocracy rather than a democracy. Your puny little vote at the polls, in other words, counts for naught against the never-ending flood of dollars from corporations into the campaign reelection funds of congressmen and Senators. You can’t out-vote a suitcase full of $100 bills exchanged under the table. Vote all you want. The corporations still run Congress and set the legislative agenda. Elaborate theater That’s why all this activity you see on Capitol Hill right now with the repeal of Obamacare is really just elaborate theater designed to create the appearance that members of Congress are somehow standing up for the American people. And it’s all being done under the much larger illusion that you need a government to take care of you in the first place. Why do we need representatives in Washington at all? That structure is a carryover from the horse-and-buggy days when Morse code telegraphs were considered cutting-edge technology. It wasn’t dot-com. It was dot-dot-dash. Today, we could all vote on laws via the internet, without the need for Washington bureaucrats to vote for us (or so they claim). How about a Direct Democracy ? Of course, the other side of that argument is that the average U.S. citizen is incapable of grasping the ramifications of important legislation and would be easily swayed by national television advertising. That’s probably true to some extent. But it’s difficult to see how theoretically ignorant voters could produce worse results than Congressional sellouts who actively vote against the interests of the American people time after time. You can be sure, by the way, that Congress will never vote itself out of power. Its members want to maintain power over you, your health care, your money and your actions for as long as the American people will continue to allow them to do so. The real theater, you see, is not that Congress allows itself to be ruled by corporations, but rather than the People allow themselves to be ruled by Congress!

Health Ranger: Fifteen important things I’m thankful for on this Thanksgiving

(NaturalNews) I always enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday because it reminds me to be thankful for what we have. And today, I’m publishing a list of 25 things I’m personally thankful for this year. Just for the record, though, I want to say that I am personally opposed to the widespread killing of factory-farmed turkeys for the Thanksgiving holiday. That is an atrocity against animals, and I take no part in that. (I’m eating a vegetarian meal this Thanksgiving.) Nevertheless, I do like to use this holiday as a time to remember to be thankful for the many things we are blessed with. Here’s my list of the top 15 things, in no particular order, that I am thankful for this Thanksgiving. My top 15 things to be thankful for #1 – Free Speech . Without the Free Speech protections provided under the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights, NaturalNews simply would not exist. Free Speech allows us to pursue other freedoms while exposing the lies of Big Government and corrupt corporations. #2 – Superfoods . Today we have access to more amazing superfoods than at any other time in the history of the world. If we choose, we can be healthier today than our grandparents could have ever dreamed! #3 – NaturalNews readers . I’m incredibly thankful for all the readership and support from NaturalNews fans and readers. Without your feedback, suggestions and support of our sponsors, our work would be impossible and we simply wouldn’t exist. #4 – Medicinal plants and seeds . Mother Nature provides so many answers for us that we haven’t even begun to tap into the full wisdom of medicinal plants. The long-term answers for human survival are to be found in nature, not in synthetic chemicals. #5 – Sunshine . Without the sun, we wouldn’t even be alive, of course. Sunlight gives us vitamin D, mood enhancements, warmth and energy for the plants that sustain life on our planet. #6 – The internet . Yes, the internet. Without it, we would all be information slaves to the corporate-controlled media. But the internet has shifted the playing field to where small, independent publishers like NaturalNews can reach millions of readers without the corporate control that persists in the mainstream media. #7 – Human immune system. I don’t know about you, but I’m extremely thankful for my immune system. When given proper nutrients, it works better than any medical technology in the world, far surpassing the efficacy of vaccines, drugs or anything made by Man. My immune system has kept me healthy and symptom-free through the Bird Flu, the Swine Flu and seasonal flu, and I never get vaccinated . (Why would I?) #8 – Intelligent, informed people . Even though we live in a world of zombie people who forgot how to think for themselves, I’m always impressed by the amazing number of truly intelligent, thoughtful individuals I do meet — people who are natural-born skeptics and who intelligently question everything going on around them in order to arrive at the deeper truths of our world. Kudos to all of you, as I believe you are the individuals who represent the future of human civilization. #9 – The mainstream media . I’m thankful for the mainstream media because it is a daily source of humor, and laughter is good for your immune system. By reading the hilarious stories published in the MSM, you can actually help prevent the flu! #10 – Our good health . I am thankful for the health I have — and the health YOU have — so that each day we may continue our important work of educating others, sharing the good news about natural health and enjoying our long lives as healthy, happy people. #11 – Animal friends . Don’t you love having animals as companions? Let’s all continue to spread the word about how intelligent animals are so that we can work to enlighten others to the simple truth that animals have consciousness . #12 – Organic foods and small family farms . I’m thankful for organic foods and small family farms, including raw milk producers . I’m also thankful for CSA organizations who provide local, organic food grown on local farms. #13 – God, nature and a greater creative force . Call it what you wish — God, Mother Nature, the Creator, etc. — but I’m thankful that we are blessed with a greater creative power in the universe. #14 – U.S. soldiers and veterans . I’m thankful for the fact that soldiers have helped defend the freedoms and interests of America in the past several decades, and I only hope that our government would use these soldiers less and bring them home more. #15 – Human consciousness . I’m especially thankful we have human consciousness, otherwise this would all be some sort of meaningless exercise carried out by automatons. Interestingly, most “skeptics” in the so-called “scientific” community literally do not believe there is such a thing as consciousness, so they technically have nothing to be thankful for! Bonus item #1 – The strong nuclear force “cosmic coincidence.” I’m thankful that the strong nuclear force isn’t slightly stronger, because if it were, the universe would have no hydrogen, which means virtually no stars, no water (H2O, remember?) and no life. We live in a universe full of life that would not be possible if the strong nuclear force constant were off by a mere 2%. Happy Thanksgiving! Watch my Thank You video message I’ve recorded a special “Thank You” video message for NaturalNews readers. You can watch it at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=3DE64215CB0EA0A4AFDD26F844F45D86 Enjoy!

Ron Paul says enough is enough; blasts TSA for obscene pat-downs and police state tactics

(NaturalNews) As we were working on the launch of our new rap song called Don’t Touch My Junk (http://www.naturalnews.com/Dont_Touch_My_Junk.html), Congressman Ron Paul was addressing the House with one of the most scornful and blunt speeches he’s ever given. Here’s most of what Ron Paul said (below). This is one of the most important “set yourself free” speeches that has ever been uttered in the halls of the U.S. Capitol — by anyone! This tells you why Ron Paul is uniquely qualified to be the next U.S. President: He appears to be the only U.S. politician who truly understands the freedoms of the People and why it is the job of the People to keep the government in check: Ron Paul’s speech (edited for brevity) I rise this evening to announce that I introduce some legislation today dealing with the calamity we have found at our airports with the TSA. Something has to be done. Everybody’s fed up. The People are fed up. The pilots are fed up. I’m fed up. What we’re accepting and putting up with at the airport is so symbolic of us just not standing up and saying Enough is Enough! Our government, Congress as well as the executive branch are doing nothing. Can you think how silly the whole thing is? The pilot has a gun in the cockpit, and he’s managing this aircraft which is a missile, and we make him go through this groping X-ray exercise, having people feel inside their underwear, it’s absurd! And it’s time we wake up. The bill I’ve introduced will take care of this. We have to realize that the American people have been too submissive. We have been too submissive. It’s been going on for a long time and this was to be expected even from the beginning of the TSA. And it’s deeply flawed. You can’t take nude photographs of individuals, why do we allow the government to do it? We would go to jail if an individual, he’d be immediately arrested if he did these things, and yet we just sit there and calmly say oh they’re making us safe. And besides the argument from the executive branch is that when you buy your ticket, you’re sacrificing your rights, and it’s the duty of the government to make us safe. That isn’t the case. You never have to sacrifice your rights. The duty of the government is to protect our rights. This is not what makes us safer, this is preposterous to think that the TSA has made us safer. We’re not dealing with it the right way, we’re doing the wrong thing, and groping people at the airport doesn’t solve our problems. What has solved our problems basically has been that they put a good lock on the door and they put a gun inside the cockpit. That’s been the greatest boon to our safety! Safety should be the responsibility of the individual and the private property owner. But right now we assume the government’s always going to take care of us and we are supposed to sacrifice our liberties. I say that is wrong; we are not safer, and we also know there are individuals who are making money off this! Michael Chertoff. I mean here’s a guy who was the head of the TSA selling the equipment! And the equipment is questionable. We don’t even know if it works, and it may well be dangerous to our health. You know, the way I see this, if this doesn’t change, I see what has happened to the American people is we have accepted the notion that we should be treated like cattle. Make us safe, make us secure, put us in the barbed wire, feed us, fatten us up, and then they’ll eat us. We’re a bunch of cattle and we have to wake up and say we’ve had it! I think this whole idea of an “opt-out day” is just great. We ought to opt out and make the point, get somebody to watch it, take a camera, it’s time for the American people to stand up, drive off the shackles of our government at the TSA at the airport. Watch the full video of the speech You can watch the entire video of this speech at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=29ADB2913D928C19D8E7E945B932232B Read the full description of the American Traveler Dignity Act on Ron Paul’s web page: http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1796&Itemid=60 Additional comments by the Health Ranger What’s astonishing in all this naked body scanner X-raying and X-rated body groping is not that the government is doing this, but rather that people are tolerating this! They’re just standing in line, passively accepting a total police state tyranny unfolding right in front of them. It has been astonishing to me as a freedom-loving American to watch my fellow citizens just lay down and surrender their rights and freedoms while a government shoves their hands down your pants, feels up the breasts of your wives, and fingers the crotches of your little children. It’s just beyond comprehension that people could be so brainwashed that they would passively allow this. What’s next, are they going to finger your anus, too? (Seriously. That is not a joke.) And you still hear people saying moronic things like, “Well I’d rather be groped than to have some terrorist get on the plane!” This is just classic victim brainwashing, the way you hear kidnapping victims sometimes defend their kidnappers. The truth, folks, is that the U.S. government agents ARE the terrorists! And the TSA is doing absolutely nothing useful to enhance travel safety. In fact, they are almost certainly compromising safety by making the pilots and flight crews feel emotionally assaulted during the TSA molestation pat-down procedure. This is a danger to the psychological stability of the flight crew, and that puts all of us in danger. Just as Ron Paul explained in his speech, the American people need to stop acting like cattle and start standing up to this tyranny. Enough is enough! If we aren’t free from being groped and molested by our own government agents, then what kind of “freedom” is this in America, anyway? Why the Sheeple scare me more than Big Brother Seeing all this happening around us today, I’m more concerned about the sheeple mentality of the American people than the government itself . A well-informed, freedom-loving population can always resist tyranny. But a country full of pathetic victim-mentality pushovers is doomed to find itself imprisoned in a police state sooner or later. As the great statesman Thomas Jefferson famously said, ” The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. ” He did not choose those words lightly. What he means is that unless the People keep the government in check, they will eventually be overrun by tyranny. And this is precisely what we are seeing today with the TSA and other overreaching violations of our civil liberties being pursued by Big Brother. Jefferson also famously said “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” Jefferson understood the tyranny of Big Government, and he knew that all governments tend to expand their power to the point where they rule over the enslaved masses. That’s why America was founded on the opposite principle: That the People “grant” limited powers to the government, and that We the People are protected by the Bill of Rights (which the TSA has conveniently forgotten). Big Brother is not your savior This idea that Big Government can solve all our problems — give us jobs, provide us with food, protect us from terrorists, manage our savings accounts, and run our health care — is the single most insidious and dangerous idea that has ever infected the minds of the American people. The TSA’s X-rated pat-downs are merely a symptom of a “cancer” in the U.S. government today, and unless We the People rise up and put a stop to this right now, that cancer will spread until it destroys the very thing we are all trying to protect — a nation where men and women can live as free citizens without bowing down to a King. Even Winston Churchill spoke on this issue of fighting for your freedom: “If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” Right now, America is headed toward the path of outright slavery. The American people are already working largely as wage slaves , and the younger generation is paying “social security taxes” that they will never see a dime of in return because social security is already bankrupt and running on financial fumes. Similarly, federal-run health care is a system of medical slavery . The Federal Reserve has concocted a system of financial slavery from which we can never truly escape because the Fed can always inflate away the value of our hard-earned savings! Don’t you find it fascinating that Ron Paul is on the “right” side of all these issues? And I don’t mean the Republican side. He’s a Libertarian, and he’s on the side of freedom, justice and civil liberties. Ron Paul is willing to tell the truth when the truth really counts. And that makes him unique among all the politicians in Washington. It is no surprise that he was the first to stand up and say “Enough is Enough!” to these TSA naked body scanners and X-rated molestation pat-downs. Hear the song: Don’t Touch My Junk! If you haven’t yet heard my song or watched this video called Don’t Touch My Junk! , you won’t want to miss this. Check it out here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Dont_Touch_My_Junk.html Spread the word, friends. Don’t let America fall into a total police state. Stand up against tyranny and take back our freedoms, our rights and our civil liberties.

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