Ron Paul wants to kill indefinite detention provision of the NDAA

You may not agree with him on every foreign and domestic policy point, but you can’t deny the fact that Congressman Ron Paul from Texas is the most consistent, literal interpreter of the U.S. Constitution in the current race for the Republican presidential nomination…

Vaccine warfare! Texas carpet-bombs 7,000 square miles with air-dropped rabies vaccines

The weaponization of vaccines just took another leap forward in America with the recent air-dropping of rabies vaccines by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Using a battery of small planes based out of Del Rio, Texas recently dropped 1.8 million edible vaccine…

Snoop Dogg’s marijuana drug bust highlights idiocy of the failed War on Drugs

Snoop Dogg has been busted with marijuana possession at a west Texas border agent checkpoint. It’s the same checkpoint where Willie Nelson was recently caught with marijuana. After being questioned by agents, Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus) readily admitted the marijuana…

Saga of 12-year-old foster boy reveals state’s psychiatric drug abuse of children

(NaturalNews)A 12-year-old Texas boy testified before Congress that he was drugged for four years with multiple anti-psychotic medications while in the state foster system. The boy, identified only as Ke’onte, recalled that the drugs left him “in a stupor” and physically ill. Governmental…

Texas agency allows town to run pipeline through state park to avoid completely running out of water

(NaturalNews) A historic drought that has stricken much of Central Texas over the past several months has caused some rivers and water reservoirs in the Lone Star State to run dangerously low. But one Central Texas town, Groesbeck, located about two hours south of Dallas, looks like it will avoid completely running out of water thanks to an emergency decision by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) to run a three-mile water pipeline through a popular state park. The decision is a first as far as Texas state parks go, since no others in the state have water pipelines running through them. But because Groesbeck was a mere two weeks-or-so away from completely running out of water when deliberations began, state officials determined that running a line through Fort Parker State Park to a nearby rock quarry was a necessary measure to maintain a water supply for the town of approximately 6,500 people. “This was a special circumstance where we definitely wanted to help our neighbors out,” said Rodney Franklin, regional director of TPWD, to CBS Houston concerning the decision. “This drought is affecting a lot of folks.” Under normal circumstances, Groesbeck pulls its water from the nearby Navasota River. But the ongoing drought had caused this crucial water resource to mostly dry up, as well as Forth Parker Lake to the north which had been the town’s backup water source. So in order to save the town, officials had to come up with completely new solution. According to CBS Houston, Groesbeck had initially purchased a four-month supply of water from the quarry, and the San Antonio Express-News has since reported that the supply line is now active and functioning, and is currently pumping water from the quarry into the Navasota River at a cost of $35,000 a month. The town is also reportedly working with another company in Austin to build a new ground water source that will be a more permanent water supply, but that project will take longer to complete. “This should give us about six months, and if we get some rain we can stretch that out,” said Keith Tilley, director of public works in Groesbeck. “It’s a whole lot better now.” Sources for this article include: http://houston.cbslocal.com/2011/11/24/groesbeck-mayor-town-will-run-out-of-water-in-two-weeks/ http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Emergency-pipeline-brings-much-needed-water-to-2341083.php

How to make prickly pear cactus fruit juice for FREE (Health Ranger video)

(NaturalNews) Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) teaches wild foods harvesting in a short video about harvesting nopal cactus fruit and turning it into nutritious, medicinal juice! Watch the video on NaturalNews.TV at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=6952BD89F1F8EC25756D84DBF43BDFA3 Or view it on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VmzQgZN_g In the video, Mike Adams demonstrates how to harvest prickly pear cactus fruit (without getting stuck by the spines), how to press the juice out of the cactus fruit (using a juice press, see below), and how to mix the final juice with tea to make a delicious wild foods beverage! To press out the cactus fruit juice, Adams uses a Norwalk Juicer which features a powerful juice press. Because many people don’t have a juice press, the alternative way to accomplish the same thing is to blend the cactus fruits in a Vita-Mix blender , pour the slurry into nut milk bags , then squeeze the juice out of the nut milk bags. Nut milk bags are available at the NaturalNews Store: http://store.naturalnews.com Harvesting tips Prickly pear cactus fruit juice is almost incandescent purple — it’s a beautiful color made of phyto-pigments that are also powerful medicine. You’ve often heard to eat all the different colors of fresh foods, right? Well, cactus fruit has some of the most powerful colors you’ve ever seen in nature, similar to the color intensity of something like spirulina or astaxanthin. The best part about harvesting cactus fruit is that it’s FREE, and it’s widely available throughout the world where the climate doesn’t get too cold in the winter. You’ll find cactus fruits in the South of the USA, Central America, South America, Australia, China, the Middle East and many other regions. Harvesting tip: Always leave some cactus fruit for the birds. This is one of their important food sources. When harvesting wild foods, never harvest the entire plant, obviously. (Nature isn’t a farm operation!) Watch the short video at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=6952BD89F1F8EC25756D84DBF43BDFA3 Or view it on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VmzQgZN_g Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) is an advocate of wild foods, sustainable living and personal preparedness. He also practices what he preaches, helping out on a farm in Texas and raising chickens and garden veggies while practicing principles of permaculture . View the video of the Health Ranger’s free-range chickens: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=9871D842E9C131D2CEFE9A377BD7AD11 And meet the Health Ranger’s two donkeys, Jackson and Jennifer: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A4A2C911D95A6968E8E19A8684FD50A6 “Americans need to get back to recognizing and using the food that grows all around them,” said Adams. “People drive by FREE food every day on the way to the grocery store, and then they complain about food prices being so high. Maybe the answer is to stop getting all your food indoors and start finding more of it out in nature where it really grows!” Along those lines, NaturalNews.TV recently launched a course called FREE Food and Medicine which teaches that exact principle: http://premium.naturalnews.tv/Free_Food_and_Medicine__NN.htm Watch for more videos and articles on wild foods here at NaturalNews.com.

How to make prickly pear cactus fruit juice for FREE (Health Ranger video)

(NaturalNews) Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) teaches wild foods harvesting in a short video about harvesting nopal cactus fruit and turning it into nutritious, medicinal juice! Watch the video on NaturalNews.TV at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=6952BD89F1F8EC25756D84DBF43BDFA3 Or view it on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VmzQgZN_g In the video, Mike Adams demonstrates how to harvest prickly pear cactus fruit (without getting stuck by the spines), how to press the juice out of the cactus fruit (using a juice press, see below), and how to mix the final juice with tea to make a delicious wild foods beverage! To press out the cactus fruit juice, Adams uses a Norwalk Juicer which features a powerful juice press. Because many people don’t have a juice press, the alternative way to accomplish the same thing is to blend the cactus fruits in a Vita-Mix blender , pour the slurry into nut milk bags , then squeeze the juice out of the nut milk bags. Nut milk bags are available at the NaturalNews Store: http://store.naturalnews.com Harvesting tips Prickly pear cactus fruit juice is almost incandescent purple — it’s a beautiful color made of phyto-pigments that are also powerful medicine. You’ve often heard to eat all the different colors of fresh foods, right? Well, cactus fruit has some of the most powerful colors you’ve ever seen in nature, similar to the color intensity of something like spirulina or astaxanthin. The best part about harvesting cactus fruit is that it’s FREE, and it’s widely available throughout the world where the climate doesn’t get too cold in the winter. You’ll find cactus fruits in the South of the USA, Central America, South America, Australia, China, the Middle East and many other regions. Harvesting tip: Always leave some cactus fruit for the birds. This is one of their important food sources. When harvesting wild foods, never harvest the entire plant, obviously. (Nature isn’t a farm operation!) Watch the short video at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=6952BD89F1F8EC25756D84DBF43BDFA3 Or view it on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VmzQgZN_g Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) is an advocate of wild foods, sustainable living and personal preparedness. He also practices what he preaches, helping out on a farm in Texas and raising chickens and garden veggies while practicing principles of permaculture . View the video of the Health Ranger’s free-range chickens: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=9871D842E9C131D2CEFE9A377BD7AD11 And meet the Health Ranger’s two donkeys, Jackson and Jennifer: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A4A2C911D95A6968E8E19A8684FD50A6 “Americans need to get back to recognizing and using the food that grows all around them,” said Adams. “People drive by FREE food every day on the way to the grocery store, and then they complain about food prices being so high. Maybe the answer is to stop getting all your food indoors and start finding more of it out in nature where it really grows!” Along those lines, NaturalNews.TV recently launched a course called FREE Food and Medicine which teaches that exact principle: http://premium.naturalnews.tv/Free_Food_and_Medicine__NN.htm Watch for more videos and articles on wild foods here at NaturalNews.com.

In ‘universal’ flu shot push, medical industry admits current flu shots are useless

(NaturalNews) The medical community is in the process of unveiling a “universal” influenza vaccine that it claims will prevent all flu strains with a single jab. The only problem is that, in the process, the system has inadvertently admitted that current flu shots are medically useless because they fail to target the correct flu strain in many cases, and they do not stimulate a natural flu-fighting immune response even when the strain is a match. A recent report by CBS 11 News in Dallas / Fort Worth explains that researchers from the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have identified a compound they say spurs the growth of a key protein known as REDD-1, which prevents cells from becoming infected. By injecting this compound into patients, REDD-1 will increase, say the researchers, and thus effectively prevent any strain of flu from taking hold. But what about current flu vaccines? Dr. Beatrice Fontoura, one of the head researchers involved with the new universal flu shot, explained to CBS 11 that it works differently than current flu shots because it “stimulates our own (immune) response which is already there and boost[s] it to fight an infection.” In other words, flu shots being sold today at pharmacies across the country do not actually promote natural immunity at all, which begs an important question. If current flu shots do not boost the immune response, then what, exactly, are they good for? Not much, according to a recent study published in The Lancet . Though the mainstream media widely reported that the study’s findings showed an effectiveness rate of 60 percent for flu shots, actual data in the study reveal that flu shots help about 1.5 out of every 100 adults. This, of course, translates into a measly 1.5 percent effectiveness rate (http://www.naturalnews.com/033998_influenza_vaccines_effectiveness.html). And yet, for years, medical professionals everywhere have been hounding the public to get their flu shots or else face horrific sickness and even death. And those who continue to avoid the flu shot based on concerns about its safety and effectiveness have been routinely dubbed “anti-science,” or worse. Ironically, the CBS 11 piece about the universal flu shot also contains an interview with a woman who admits that she stopped getting the flu shot because it made her sick every single year. Once she stopped getting flu shots, she stopped getting the flu . So why, again, do we even need a universal flu shot? Sources for this article include: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/11/04/north-texas-researchers-creating-ultimate-flu-shot/

Nursing home scandal exposed: Lost generation of senior citizens being hospitalized for profit

(NaturalNews) A shocking new study conducted by the National Institute of Aging just revealed that one fifth of Medicare nursing home patients with Alzheimer’s or other dementia were sent to hospitals for “questionable reasons” in their final months, often enduring tube feeding and intensive care that prolonged their suffering. Here’s the kicker that makes these “questionable reasons” a lot less mysterious: Medicare pays THREE TIMES the normal daily rate for nursing homes to take patients back after a brief hospitalization. Nursing homes often claim hospital care is necessary when a frail elderly patient suffers from swallowing problems, pneumonia or other infections, but researchers of the new study behind this outrageous report have long suspected the TRUE motive behind these transfers is money, plain and simple . This “lost generation” of senior citizens, in other words, are being sent to hospitals to suffer needlessly FOR PROFIT. Nursing homes exposed as Medicare parasites The criminals running these nursing homes are transferring helpless, undeserving elderly folk into hospital settings where their suffering is perpetuated. Many of these poor senior citizens are then unable to pass away in peace because of their prolonged treatments in these hospitals. This simply is because money-grubbing torturers are desperate for extra cash flow from Medicare. Researchers found that elderly patients who were “questionably” transferred (read: dishonestly transferred) were more likely to have a feeding tube inserted, to spend time in intensive care in the last month of life, to end up with a severe bedsore or to be enrolled in hospice late (three days or less before they died). The researchers from the National Institute of Aging used Medicare records from 2000 through 2007 to identify what would qualify as “burdensome” and unnecessary transitions of care: uprooting sick elderly patients in the last three days of life, carting them to hospitals multiple times in the last three months of life or moving them in such a way that they landed in a new nursing home afterward. Disgustingly enough, these hospital transfers were also more common with black and Hispanic elderly patients. This means nursing homes are not only selfishly hospitalizing elderly patients that are terminally ill for financial gain, they’re trying to get rid of them for racist reasons as well! The results of this new study are especially significant and eye-opening because more than 1.6 million Americans live in nursing homes . That’s right — that means approximately 320,000 helpless elderly people who are incapable of fending for themselves or defending themselves are being wrongfully hospitalized by nursing homes for profit . This is an absolute embarrassment to humanity! Among the nearly 475,000 elderly patients studied, 19 percent were moved to hospitals for “questionable reasons.” That’s a HUGE percentage of senior citizens being victimized for profit! Although rates of these transfers vary from state to state, in one example from McAllen, Texas, 26 percent of study participants had multiple hospitalizations for urinary infections, pneumonia or dehydration — conditions that can ALL usually be treated effectively in a nursing home. In other words, the huge amount of terminally ill senior citizens that make up this “Lost Generation” are silently suffering at the hands of America’s corrupt healthcare system. The Lost Generation is being sucked into the Matrix. In the movie people were put into tubes and turned into human batteries and in this case, these defenseless elderly patients are being turned into human cash machines. There are no excuses for this repulsive, outrageous behavior Nursing homes have absolutely no room to sugarcoat this or claim the fear of legal liability if these poor senior citizens are not hospitalized at the drop of a hat. Why? Because people with advanced dementia ALREADY have a terminal condition. Most of these elderly patients are already in the process of dying in nursing homes. This is a population of very ill elderly patients that are unable to recognize their relatives and are bed-ridden. It’s not uncommon for them to develop swallowing problems. These patients thrive so much more when they are able to stay in a nursing home, a comfortable environment where caregivers and surroundings are familiar. So how on earth could they benefit from being taken to a hospital where they will suffer even more and have a tube shoved down their throat? According to these nursing homes, the well-being of these elderly people does not matter. The only thing these money-hungry monsters care about is a fatter paycheck. The hardships and strains of hospitalizations on senior citizens very obviously outweigh the possible benefits. Nursing homes should easily be able to manage the care of those with advanced dementia without the unwarranted stress of frequent hospitalizations. Yet, this violation of human rights continues, stripping senior citizens of their dignity and comfort as well as putting unnecessary strain on their families. Nursing homes clearly are not exempt from the criminality of the health care industry Medicaid pays on average $175 per day (depending on the state) for long-term care, but Medicare will pay three times that amount for what is deemed “skilled nursing care” after a patient returns from three days or more in a hospital. This extra financial cushion puts flashing dollar signs in the eyes of these predatory monsters that call themselves “nursing” homes. Instead of living up to their title and NURSING the elderly patients that need their help the most, these homes merely look at them as opportunities to put more cash in the bank . Nursing homes are specifically equipped to handle the needs of senior citizens suffering from terminal conditions. Their purpose is to provide care and allow these elderly patients to rest in peace until it is their time to pass. But apparently the greedy incentive of these nursing homes to hospitalize terminally ill patients for their own profit is far greater than their desire to provide the care these patients desperately need and deserve. Certainly makes you wonder about how deep the corruption and criminality of America’s health care system runs, doesn’t it? This revealing truth about nursing homes is a complete outrage! These corrupt Medicare leaches need to be stopped before even more helpless elderly patients have to endure causeless suffering for the sake of profit. Sources for this story include: http://news.yahoo.com/dementia-patients-suffer-dubious-hospitalizations-210201458.html

Death blow to GMOs? California ballot initiative calls for mandatory labeling of all genetically engineered foods

(NaturalNews) In what is perhaps the most significant breaking news we’ve heard on the GMO front in a long time, an effort has just been announced in California that seeks to gather enough signatures to put an historical initiative on the ballot which would require the labeling of GMOs in foods. I interviewed Ronnie Cummins from the Organic Consumers Association (www.OrganicConsumers.org), who is a key leader in advocating mandatory GMO labeling. His organization is playing a significant role in helping to get this initiative on the ballot in California. This is the pathway to victory against GMOs! With this initiative on the ballot, we have a very achievable strategy to deal a death blow to GMOs and restore sanity and integrity to our seeds and food crops. Listen to the full interview with Ronnie Cummins on SoundCloud: http://snd.sc/qPBFJk Or click PLAY on the audio object here: Interview with Ronnie Cummins about GMO labeling ballot initiative in California by NaturalNews Highlights from the announcement for mandatory GMO labeling • This labeling initiative is effectively a “ban” on GMOs, because most consumers simply won’t buy genetically engineered ingredients once they know they are present in conventional foods. • GMOs are only continuing to be grown and sold today because consumers have been prevented from knowing about the GMO ingredients in their foods. • 75% of all non-organic processed foods in grocery stores today contain genetically engineered ingredients. • 90% – 95% of Americans want to know which foods contain GMOs. • The GMO industry is already gearing up to fight this ballot initiative and plans to spread lies about GMOs such as “GMOs are necessary to feed the world” or “genetically engineered crops are perfectly safe!” (The quack scientists who push GMOs are no doubt gearing up to spread their lies and disinformation as part of the effort to confuse consumers and thereby protect their GMO profits.) • This initiative, if approved, would force health food retailers like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s to reformulate their own products and inventory to remove GMOs. ” There’s gonna be panic in the boardrooms of Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s ,” says Cummins. • 700,000 signatures are needed in California to put this initiative on the ballot. This will require an army of volunteers with clipboards to gather the signatures. See below for how you can contribute to this effort. • Go to www.OrganicConsumers.org and click on the “Millions Against Monsanto” campaign page to see where you can sign up to be a volunteer. • Significant funding providers for this campaign include: Dr. Bronner’s – $1 million, Nature’s Path – $500k, Mercola.com – $500k, Organic Consumers Association – $250k and others. More announcements and interviews coming from NaturalNews Tomorrow, NaturalNews is announcing our own donation and fundraising effort to support the effort to demand mandatory GMO labeling and ultimately remove GMOs from the food supply entirely. Keep reading NaturalNews.com this week and throughout the month of October, where you’ll find up-to-date breaking news and announcements about the most important developments in the realm of GMOs. Also check out our sister site www.AlternativeNews.com for breaking alternative news throughout the day. We’re covering the Occupy Wall Street protests, GMO rallies, victories against fluoride, the latest news on vaccine dangers, and a whole lot more. We are winning this info war against runaway greed and false science! Help us spread the word by sharing our stories and linking to them. Have you seen the pictures of NaturalNews editor Mike Adams speaking to the crowd at the Austin, Texas GMO rally? Find them on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150308275451316.336720.35590531315

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