In Mexico, it is universal now. If you get a basic airtime recharge on any cell phone or portable device, they will give you 1 gig of airtime for facebook, whatsapp, and twitter, But if you go anywhere else, your airtime gets cut all the way down to 50 megs. In other words, it gets cut from 100 percent down to 5 percent. Next time I see that I’ll get a screen capture (I did not think of doing that this morning)

This is a clear indicator that the elite are inflicting major control over the web, by severely punishing anyone who does not exclusively stick to using their “cattle stable” web sites. That big of a bandwidth difference makes it obvious there are those who are trying to sideline the entire internet and get it under their exclusive control. Want to get your bandwidth? Then stick to only US, where we will control every news story, every perspective, and if you step out of line, you are GONE from our web sites entirely and will then get 5 percent of the bandwidth you had before.

They are already making it happen, and the extent to which they are taking this is ominous.

—MEXICAN ANONYMOUS

https://www.jumbotweet.com/tweet/More-than-10X-more-if-you-stick-to-Whatsapp-Facebook-and-Twitte-147807

Note: This serves as a good reference point for you to consider just how suppressed and controlled you are relative to our Mexican brothers and sisters. If you want to advise people of what it is like in your country under your provider, drop us an email and we will post the comparison.

Major Rush

(NaturalNews) Powerful world organizations are coordinating with one another to strip away individual liberty and medical freedom, to force populations into 100 percent vaccine compliance and pharmaceutical dependence, while not giving a damn about the negative outcomes. The World Health Organization (WHO) is putting together a global task force consisting of academic leaders, medical authorities and government officials to psychologically manipulate families into vaccine indoctrination and compliance.

Documents uncovered at the European Regional Office of the World Health Organization unveil a PSYOP operation aimed at training health authorities to use media outlets to persuade entire groups of people to believe in vaccines and obey vaccine mandates. In their PSYOP training manual, Best Practice Guidance 1st Edition: How to Respond to Vocal Vaccine Deniers in Public, WHO seeks to eliminate any discussion of widespread vaccine damage among the public, including vaccine-induced death, the toxicity of vaccine ingredients, the depletion of overall immunity due to compounding vaccination, and the many other reasons why people are waking up and saying no to this generally unnecessary and risky medical intervention.

Coordinated effort to force psychological obedience to vaccines

Instead of discussing the very real and life-altering problems associated with vaccinations, WHO is engaging in psychological warfare that seeks to stereotype vaccine dissenters as “science denialists.” The true “denialists” are these trained vaccine spokespeople, who will not listen to the countless real life stories of vaccine damage, who deny vaccine-induced death and lifelong neurological damage following vaccination.

WHO’s new training manual is so sinister that it attempts to psychoanalyze, categorize and stereotype anyone who asks questions about vaccines, does research, or who prefers to keep filth out of their bodies. Anyone who questions the “experts” or vaccine “science” is stereotyped into one of three categories: a vaccine refuser, a vaccine skeptic or a vaccine denier. In all cases you may be deemed a “conspiracy theorist.” The WHO manual also sees you as an “adversary.”

The WHO’s sinister training manual is a blatant, sociopathic plot to foster subservience to vaccine religion. They are training disciples to preach a sick gospel of pharmaceutical compliance, while blinding people to the real reasons why they continue to be sick (even as they are continuously vaccinated). Compounding vaccine ingredients such as aluminum adjuvant should not be ignored as being “safe” or “sound science.” The discussion should be whether pharmaceutical companies are committing crimes against humanity by putting neurotoxins such as aluminum in vaccines.

The freedom is yours: Think before you vaccinate

This training manual was created to assist government “officials” in persuading the most people to vaccinate, so that they can continue to write laws restricting medical and health freedom. As this vaccination propaganda war ensues, individuals must remember that their bodies belong to themselves, and their children do not have to be subjects of government power abuses and pharmaceutical exploitation. No permission is needed to refuse injections. This freedom does not come through law or even constitutional rights; this freedom is inherent, inalienable and must be defended by the individual with whatever force is necessary. There is no justification to strip individual rights to achieve some fairy tale concept of “herd immunity.” An individual becomes sick as an individual and gets well as an individual.

The real science of immunity exists within the human body through activation of nutrition

More people are realizing that the increasing number of vaccines only causes compounding toxicity in their bodies. Instead of continually subjecting themselves and their children to vaccine “science,” they are deciding instead to rely on the natural science of their own bodies and activating their natural defenses using cellular nutrition. People who have experienced vaccine damage or who have witnessed damage to their children have every reason to abstain from future vaccines. If vaccination was all about improving human immunity, then why have proven, nutritional science therapies been ignored by health authorities and written off as “quackery” or “alternative health?”

More and more people are seeing right through the plot of pharmaceutical companies, which is to create lifelong, subservient customers who have no knowledge of their own powerful, inherent immune systems.

More people are abstaining from vaccines and seeking to feed their cells living nutrition, taking control of their futures and standing up against a coordinated manipulative effort that seeks to indoctrinate and control them from birth to death.

(NaturalNews) Critics of globalism and the climate change narrative have been warning us for some time that things are not what they seem, and that the true globalist agenda involves a plan which includes depopulation as one of its central goals.

Now, the global elitists are beginning to publicly play their hand by introducing the concept of taxing childbirth. In short, they have disguised their global depopulation scheme as being a necessary action in the effort to fight climate change.

‘Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them’

A recent NPR broadcast documents the unveiling of the depopulation/taxation scheme as envisioned by Travis Rieder, a “philosopher” with the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, who claims that not having children is a “moral duty.”

“Here’s a provocative thought: Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them,” says Rieder.

Provocative indeed, but the scheme (at least in its first stage) is being candy-coated to make it sound more palatable to the average citizen.

The depopulation birth tax would apply more heavily to the rich, while encouraging the poor to use more birth control, according to Rieder and his colleagues, who say that the plan will not be as “abusive” as China’s one-child policy.

From NPR:
“It aims to persuade people to choose fewer children with a strategy that boils down to carrots for the poor, sticks for the rich.

“Ethically, Rieder says poor nations get some slack because they’re still developing, and because their per capita emissions are a sliver of the developed world’s. Plus, it just doesn’t look good for rich, Western nations to tell people in poor ones not to have kids.”

Of course, the rich can afford a “childbirth tax,” while the rest of us non-elites will be the ones forced to abandon having children to comply with the depopulation scheme.

Rieder claims that by reducing worldwide childbirth rates by “half a child per woman,” carbon emissions could be reduced by as much as one-quarter of the amount needed to avoid the “tipping point” that will lead to 4 degrees Celsius global warming by the end of the century – a level of warming that will ostensibly make the world “largely uninhabitable for humans.”

His plan has created plenty of controversy already; Rieder receives “nasty comments” online, and has raised the ire of climate change skeptics such as Marc Morano of Climate Depot.

“The warmists have now graduated from regulating our light bulbs, coal plants and SUVs to regulating our family size,” said Morano. “Let’s keep ‘global warming’ out of the bedroom!”

As radical as Rieder’s proposals may sound, there are those among the climate change activists who are calling for even more drastic measures.

According to the Sierra Club: “Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license.”

Even more extreme is the stance of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, whose members maintain that “voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters,” and that humans should commit “species suicide” to save the environment.

The hidden agenda is no longer hidden

And so it appears that the gloves are now off, as the global elites have begun to go public with their depopulation plans.

These self-appointed saviors apparently envision a world in which they alone will enjoy the benefits of a reduced population, while the rabble are encouraged – or outright coerced – into non-reproduction.

Who gave them the power to make these decisions?

The answer is that we did – or at least many of us did – by allowing ourselves to be duped by fearmongers like Al Gore and others bent on selling the global warming myth so that the elite could take over the planet and fashion it into something that serves their interests.

We need to understand that the issue is not climate change at all; the real agenda is creating a world where you and I and our children’s children will no longer be allowed to exist. Our very survival is now being threatened by the global elite – if we let them carry out their plans.

Facebook has now gone full Orwellian, blocking all articles that contain a phrase”compulsory vaccinations.”

You are not even allowed to TALK about the subject, much less question it or debate the false narrative.

With this move, ZuckerBORG has gone full globalist, waging a form of “cognitive cleansing” to wipe out any discussion of why immunizations are being forced onto children across America.

Recently, when we attempted to share stories on FB that contained the phrase, the stories were completely blocked, along with a message that warned the article “violated community standards.”

When we replaced the phrase with “compulsory immunizations,” the article was accepted by FB and allowed to be shared.

By Chris Kikila Perrin

GMOs are perhaps one of the sacred cow topics of anti-neoliberal, anti-globalization activist discourse, they are as confusingly scientific as vaccines and carry with them just as fervent criticism and defense.

For the most part, some of the suggested benefits of GMOs have fallen flat: Corporate claims that genetically modified crops provide an easy solution to the problem of world hunger have proven to be unsubstantiated, and the only positive results that GM crops tend to produce directly are those related to the wealth/poverty gap. Problematically, the biotech corporations that have created GM crops find refuge in the Global South — or so-called Third World — where corrupt governments appear happy to receive international money in exchange for turning their fields and populations into laboratories.

Since the beginning of the summer, the government of Nigeria has been quickly increasing the reach of companies like Monsanto, issuing permits that allow the establishment of GM crops in the country. Grassroots resistance has been immediate, and Nigerians are openly expressing their discontent at this decision that has the ability to directly impact local and national food security and sovereignty. It’s no wonder that the world, particularly among food security and anti-neoliberal activists, is watching Nigeria.

GMO crops are a wonder. Developed in labs by scientists who nominally have good intentions, they are then copyrighted and patented, allowing the companies that employ these scientists to sue individual farmers for reusing seed, even when accidental.

If this were not startling enough, GM crops are often tied to development and sold to the Third World as a clear path to food sovereignty.

Read entire article here: http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/08/big-biotech-looks-to-make-third-world-into-wests-genetically-modified-bread-basket.html?

By Alex Pietrowski

In 1948 Michigan became the first state to require all milk sold to consumers to first be pasteurized, thus beginning the war on raw milk. The national effort to prevent people from obtaining raw milk has become so absurd that state and local governments around the country are willing to sick S.W.A.T teams on U.S. citizens to protect us from the potential harm in consuming raw milk which has been a dietary staple for generations.

The ostensible premise for such militant enforcement of food law is of course public safety, as authorities say that certain manufacturing processes do not prevent the bacterial contamination of milk, and the government now claims that raw milk is too dangerous for human consumption even though it is entirely possible to produce it without contaminating it.

Advocates of the consumption and free sale of raw milk describe pasteurization as a process that destroys the real nutritional benefits of milk in an effort to prevent the risk of contamination.

Studies proved that:

Early life consumption of raw cow’s milk reduced the risk of manifest respiratory infections and fever by about 30%.

The consumption of raw milk actually helps infants build immunity to certain infections and diseases.

Raw milk works a lot like breast milk in providing protective, anti-infective health benefits to children.

Raw milk also aids in the prevention of allergic diseases.

Read the entire article here: http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/08/research-proves-raw-milk-prevents-infections-and-boosts-immunity.html?

By John Whitehead

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the only road to reform is through the ballot box. Whether you vote or don’t vote doesn’t really matter. What matters is what else you’re doing to push back against government incompetence, abuse, corruption, graft, fraud and cronyism. After all, argues John W. Whitehead, there is more to citizenship than the act of voting for someone who, once elected, will march in lockstep with the dictates of the powers-that-be.

Watch the video here: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/voting-made-difference-wouldnt-let-us.html?

By Daisy Luther

Remember how a couple of days ago the German government advised its citizens to start stockpiling food and water? Well, today they have announced that they are considering reintroducing conscription…the draft, to ‘help with any future disaster’.

And Germany isn’t alone. There are increasing hints in countries around the world that something big is on its way…and it won’t be pretty.

Do they know something we don’t?

The German government will discuss their emergency plans Wednesday. The BBC reports:

Germany may reintroduce a form of national service for civilians to help the army deal with a future disaster.

The role of civilians is part of a new civil defence strategy to be discussed by the government on Wednesday.

Since the strategy was leaked to the media there has been intense debate about stockpiling food and water.

In a crisis civilians might be obliged to help direct traffic or provide fuel and accommodation for the military.

Germany only scrapped conscription in 2011. However, it was not removed from the country’s constitution, which means it would be incredibly simple to reinstate.

Not sure I like the look of this.

The German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance published a list

As I wrote about on Monday, the German government is urging citizens to get prepared – and quickly.

The German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) put the following list on their website as a guide:

• 28 litres (6.2 gallons) of drinking water

• 4.9kg (10.8 pounds) of bread, noodles, rice, potatoes
• 5.6kg (12.3 pounds) of vegetables and pulses (preferably pre-cooked)
• 3.6kg (eight pounds) of fruit and nuts (in jars or tins)

This it states is a survival list that should last an individual for two weeks in the event of a national emergency.

Wolfgang Kast, a public health manager with the German Red Cross said,

“People have become less and less prepared for an emergency”.

…We’ve got accustomed – not least because of the internet – to having everything available at all times,”

In addition to the food list he suggested medicines, a flashlight, spare batteries, and candles. Hardly comprehensive, but it’s a start.

The American government has also issued recent warnings.

Last summer there were two alarming warnings urging Americans to get prepared.

First, in May, President Obama said:

One of the things that we have learned over the course of the last seven and a half years is that government plays a vital role, but it is every citizen’s responsibility to be prepared for a disaster. And that means taking proactive steps, like having an evacuation plan, having a fully stocked disaster supply kit. If your local authorities ask you to evacuate, you have to do it. Don’t wait.

This was followed by DC Homeland Security Director Christopher Geldart issuing a warning to residents:

Everyone needs to dust off their evacuation plans, understanding Metro isn’t a reliable option over the next year.

“When we put more vehicles on the road– like an emergency happening in the middle of the day and everybody leaving at the same time– that’s going to cause backup and it’s going to take people a good time to get home,” Geldart said. “It will take longer– much longer– than they are used to. So what we’re telling folks is, you need to have a plan with your family.”

And that’s not all. The hints are everywhere that war could be on the horizon.

The rest of the world hasn’t exactly been calm and peaceful, either.

In general, Europe doesn’t have the prepping mentality that exists on this side of the pond but it looks like they are starting to consider that the government may not be in a position to help its citizens.

The UK hasn’t come right out and said that Brits should start stockpiling food and water, but the government there has produced a Preparing for Emergencies booklet that few people even know exists. It’s ‘What You Can do’ page lists essential items that should be to hand in the event of an emergency and advises that enough food, water, and medication should be available to last a few days. The booklet also gives advice on various emergency situations and how to deal with them.

The pace of world events is picking up…yesterday it was announced that Turkey had evacuated an entire town as it intends to engage in across border action with Islamic State in Syria.

North Korea has fired a missile from a submarine in violation of International law.

Venezuela

Every day, something worrying occurs on the international stage. Worrying developments that threaten stability across the globe.

Make sure you have:

• Emergency Food
• Firearms and Ammo
• Water Filtration
• Extra Cash

There’s something very suspicious about all of these unsettling events happening in such close succession.

We shouldn’t be waiting for governments to tell us to prepare. We should be doing it of our own volition. We should be taking responsibility for the safety of our families.

And we should be doing it now.

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/a-disturbing-series-of-events-governments-around-the-world-seem-to-be-preparing-for-war.html?

(NaturalNews) It’s no conspiracy that antibiotics are used during the vaccine manufacturing phase to stave off bacterial contamination of tissue culture cells where the dangerous, infectious disease viruses are nurtured in chicken egg embryo and aborted human albumin (fetal tissue and blood). These so-called “trace amounts” of antibiotics, such as neomycin, are commonly found in vaccines such as MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) at about 25 micrograms per dose, and persons who are allergic to such antibiotics experience severe and life-threatening reactions immediately following injection.

Human resistance to antibiotics continues to worsen at alarming rates, quickly becoming more of a threat to mankind than cancer, thanks to their overuse in vaccines, prescription medications and confined animal feeding operations across America. As antibiotic resistance becomes its own worldwide epidemic, estimates show that as many as 10 million people could die every year from bacterial infections by 2050. According to published statistics, that’s more people than currently die from cancer.

Dangers of vaccines played down by the CDC

Immunizations are prepared with highly experimental types of antigens using rogue scientific applications of “inactivation” and recombination DNA technology (genetic modification and combinations of viral pathogens). These vaccine preparations also include stabilizer compounds used to prevent bacterial and fungal growth and to reduce contamination, including highly toxic mercury and aluminum gels and salts. Shocking to most humans who find out the hard way, formaldehyde (embalming fluid) is used to “inactivate” bacterial toxins that remain dormant in muscle tissue, but come “back to life” inside the human body.

A long time ago, antibiotics helped beat tuberculosis and strep throat, but their overuse has led to the evolution of multiple strains of resistant bacteria, including deadly staph (staphylococcus) and modern-day E.coli infections. For example, patients with staph infections of the skin cannot be treated with penicillin, as the superbug MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) is entirely resistant to it.

Researchers are finding out that hand sanitizers and “wet wipes” add to the chaos of increased antibiotic failure. Rather than cleaning surfaces, wet wipes and hand sanitizers spread deadly bacteria from one surface to the next. Hospitals are spreading superbugs at an alarming rate also. Injecting the elderly with experimental pneumonia vaccines and infants with jab after jab after jab simply loads humans up with more and more “trace” amounts of antibiotics, fueling the chaos of antibiotic immunity and increasing the lethality of superbugs.

Antibiotics in vaccines destroy good bacteria in your intestinal tract

From the second we are born, our bodies begin to populate our gut flora as our immune system builds an inventory of good and bad cells. Over 80 percent of this work is done in the intestinal tract, yet no MD on planet earth will discuss this with their patients, knowing that vaccines and chemical-based pharmaceuticals absolutely annihilate good gut bacteria, destroying immunity in the process. How ironic that vaccines and antibiotics destroy immunity when they are purported by every science journal in America to do just the opposite! In fact, one round of antibiotics permanently changes the immune system, indiscriminately killing all bacteria, good and bad, altering the body’s ability to manufacture appropriate immune cells.

Do the math: Pediatricians regularly prescribe antibiotics to infants with immature immune systems, so their little bodies have no natural defense against chronic and degenerative diseases like autism and Asperger’s syndrome – and that’s guaranteed repeat business for the doctors.

Bottom line: When the antibiotics hit your immune system, the friendly bacteria in the digestive tract that fights off the bad bacteria can no longer aid in digestion and nutrient absorption, leading to irritable bowels, severe nutrient deficiency, hormone imbalances and susceptibility to superbugs. Antibiotics, therefore, enable fungus to grow, and the parasites eat up food and minerals that were meant to feed the body.

This, my friends, is exactly where chronic disease begins. This also causes your body to retain toxic heavy metals as they move into organs and tissues, compromising, inflaming and weakening them for future fungus invasion. Now, thanks to vaccines and prescription antibiotics, chronically inflamed organs are the targets of viruses and bacteria.

Depleting immunity with vaccines – who knew?

Are you stuck in a cycle of sinus, ear or bronchial infections? Stop wondering why. Does your MD know your children’s health problems without even looking at their charts? Since we’ve all been loaded up with vaccines and antibiotics by these rogue MDs, how do we begin repairing the damage?

It actually takes years of targeted nutrition and probiotic therapy to replenish the body and all of its systems. Begin by immediately eliminating GMOs from your intake, and shop for strictly organic food, clean water and certified organic probiotic supplements. Ask a nutritionist for advice here. Avoid vaccines and flu shots like the plague (pardon the pun). Remember, antibiotics are the new atomic bomb, so don’t get bombarded!

By Heather Callaghan

What do emergency doctors know that family doctors and GPs aren’t allowed to know about natural cures? Is it true that emergency doctors inject heart attack victims with the same ingredient in epsom salts?

Do your thoughts have a direct effect on your loved ones? Why don’t “they” want us to know about the power of vitamin C? Can fulvic minerals supplement the mineral deficiencies we have due to soil depletion? How has our food morphed over the last century – would a grain “detox” be in order? Why didn’t people used to get Alzheimer’s?

Why do Eastern countries supposedly have the lowest thyroid disease rates, but Jamaica (and the dogs there) are crippled by arthritis? What problem does America have, that Cuba doesn’t? What about reversing autism symptoms? What about doctors like Dr. Bradstreet winding up dead in mysterious ways?

Speaker Clive de Carle attempts to expound on these subjects and many, many more in a head-turning video below. The title’s question is never openly answered – it becomes apparent as the video goes on. It’s a long one but the conversation carries you away.

Watch the video here: http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/08/why-are-cures-against-the-law.html

By Take Back Your Power

The “opt-out” scam. Your real rights. How “conditional acceptance” works. Smart meters. Vaccinations. This video by Jerry Day is an excellent primer for anyone looking to protect their rights, or to change the game:

“The opt-out contract is the contract the big institutions try to get you the sign if you don’t want to sign their contracts.

“So when you refuse to allow the pirate to rob you, the pirate hands you an opt-out contract where you agree to pay him for not robbing you. It’s pretty ludicrous. Your refusal is the opt-out.

“Opt-out contracts do nothing for you. They transfer all the power and advantage to the other party. Opt out contracts are pure poison. Never sign one for any reason.

“Always remember that you have Right of Contract. That is the legal term used to describe the fact that on any contract or agreement your signature must be fully voluntary and not coerced in any way. If you’re pressured into signing or agreeing, your signature and agreement technically have no authority or effect. And legally, there is no contract or agreement if you can show there was coercion or pressure causing you to sign that contract. So your Right of Contract means that you – and only you – may decide whether you sign something or not. And you may not be penalized in any way for refusing to sign anything.

“But what about that pressure – they tell us that if we don’t accept the unsafe and unlawful utility meters, they will shut off our electricity? They tell us if we don’t accept dangerous and harmful vaccinations, they will deny us medical services or take our kids out of school, or even punish us as negligent parents. Well there’s a solution for this too. If what they’re offering involves any risk to you, they must insure you against that risk. So you give them something to sign. You offer them a contract called a ‘conditional acceptance,’ which they must sign before you sign their proposal. Your conditional acceptance contract says that you will accept their dangerous or harmful proposal if – and this is a big if – they insure you against the risk. Wherever there is risk, you have every right to refuse the offer or receive insurance to cover that risk.

“That means that someone – some identified and responsible individual – must promise to pay all damages for any negative consequences of the program or policy they are attempting to force upon you.

“They [utilities and governments] are criminally violating utility customers – and they know it. So when they refuse to insure the damage, their equipment will cause to you, you have every right to refuse that equipment.

“If the equipment they are installing was really not harmful and did not violate your rights, the insurance would cost almost nothing. But electronic utility meters are known to be hazardous and harmful – so much so that no insurance company will provide insurance for any price because they know that advanced utility metering is a ticking time bomb of damages and litigation. Vaccinations represent a very similar situation to utility metering.”

Watch the Video here: https://takebackyourpower.net/jerry-day-how-to-say-no-to-vaccinations-and-smart-meters-video/

(NaturalNews) Russia has adopted a new law that prohibits all GMO crop cultivation and GMO animal breeding in the Russian Federation, to prevent the release of GMOs into the environment. Furthermore, the new law allows the Russian government to restrict the import of GMO products that may pose a threat to human health or the environment.

In 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the Russian Parliament that the country should become the world’s largest supplier of organic foods. Later that year, Russia enforced a law that required strict labeling of products that contain GMOs, while the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich announced that Russia would not use genetically modified organisms to increase productivity in agriculture.

“Russia has chosen a different path. We will not use these [GMO] technologies,” he said.

As a result, a bill for a full ban on the cultivation of GMO crops was sent to the State Duma, which has now been fully approved.

Cleanest agricultural products in the world

The new law is a big win for anti-GMO advocates, including the Minister of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev, and President Putin himself. Putin and Tkachev believe that the new law will aid Russia in becoming the world’s largest supplier of healthy, environmentally friendly and high-quality clean food – especially since the global demand for organic products is rising quickly.

Opponents of the new law are blaming the current Russian agricultural lobbyists of being afraid of competition and the development of new technologies.

As reported by We Are Anonymous, the first draft of the GMO legislation was a topic of heated debate. In an attempt to stop the law, pro-GMO lobbyists published a report claiming GMOs to be healthy and safe.

The study was written by ill-qualified scientists who used articles influenced by Monsanto and other GMO companies for their analysis. The researchers included Alexander Y. Panchin, of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (IITP) of the Russian Academy of Science, and Alexander Tuzhikov, a research associate at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami specializing in Computer Science, Bioinformatics.

“We performed a statistical re-analysis and review of experimental data presented in some of these studies and found that quite often in contradiction with the authors’ conclusions the data actually provides weak evidence of harm that cannot be differentiated from chance,” Panchin and Tuzhikov wrote in their abstract.

Scientists from the All-National Association for Genetic Safety (OAGB) noted that the methods used for their report did not allow scientists to identify the toxic effects of GMOs; on the contrary, it disguised the toxic effects. Given the flawed nature of their results, Panchin and Tuzhikov’s report didn’t have the effect they were hoping for, which was to halt the non-GMO law.

In a last attempt to block the ban, GMO opponent and president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Fortov, requested a meeting with President Putin to try and convince him of all the benefits GMOs might have. It would seem, however, that the report and the meeting didn’t have much of an effect on Putin’s choice for organic, non-GMO food.

The ultimate GMO-ban

After almost half of the European Union countries opted-out of the decision to start cultivating GMO crops last year, Putin’s ban takes it a step further.

According to some experts, Russia’s ban on the cultivation, breeding and import of GMO crops may have long-term consequences for the global GMO industry. According to Capital Press, the new law could give Russian farmers a leg up with exports to the U.S. and Europe.

As the demand for clean, organic products continues to rise, Russia will be in a prime position to export its products to the world, while the GMO-orientated U.S. market will struggle to get rid of its ‘Frankenfoods.’

To avoid any of these altered foods ending up on your plate, make sure your produce comes from a reliable organic source, or start growing your own. Even if you don’t have a garden, your windowsill or balcony will do just fine.

(Natural News) As glyphosate is increasingly scrutinized due to its carcinogenic effects, Monsanto has quietly invested more than $1 billion in a new (and more toxic) herbicide called dicamba. The chemical is used in conjunction with other herbicides, including glyphosate, to kill broad-leafed weeds.

One of its biggest disadvantages is that compared to glyphosate, dicamba is “much more ‘volatile,’ meaning it easily becomes airborne and drifts away from where it is applied,” according to Modern Farmer.

“Historically, dicamba has been used in agriculture primarily as a pre-emergent (applied to the soil to kill weed seeds prior to planting a crop), since it could not be applied directly to crop plants.

“But this spring farmers began planting Monsanto’s new soybeans on about 1 million acres in the US, and have been spraying their fields with dicamba (to kill an especially pernicious strain of glyphosate-resistant pigweed)—which then drifts on the wind, damaging soybeans on other farmers’ fields that are not resistant to the herbicide.”

Dicamba is more toxic than glyphosate, a probable human carcinogen

Dicamba works by imitating the natural hormones in plants, causing them to grow abnormally and eventually to die. The chemical is sold under several trade names including Banvel, Diablo, Oracle and Vanquish.

Crops resistant to dicamba are supposed to be sprayed with a new version of the chemical that’s less prone to vaporization and therefore less likely to drift onto nearby farmland. But the pesticide cocktail remains illegal, as it has not yet been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Because the new concoction is expected to be approved next year, Monsanto decided to go ahead and start selling the dicamba-resistant seeds to farmers, promising higher yields, as well as other benefits.

The needless destruction of America’s farmland

“Supposedly, Monsanto instructed farmers not to spray the new soybeans with dicamba, but apparently the temptation was too great: An estimated 200,000 acres of soybeans in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri have been affected by dicamba drift so far this summer,” Modern Farmer notes.

Farmers from those regions have filed more than 100 complaints about drifting dicamba destroying their crops.

The perpetrators have reportedly been fined up to $1,000, which some say is a slap on the wrist considering the damage it’s causing to America’s food crops. Some farmers have lost up to 30 percent of their yields due to drifting dicamba.

If dicamba continues to be sprayed, it will likely lead to more superweeds and more pesticide pollution. An estimated 15 million acres of dicamba-resistant seeds are expected to be planted in the United States next year.

Adverse health effects

An estimated 5.6 million pounds of dicamba are applied on U.S. farmland each year, with the majority of it sprayed on corn in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Indiana. The herbicide is also used on wheat, and as a chemical for landscaping.

“Acute exposure to dicamba causes skin irritation and some skin sensitization in laboratory tests, as well as severe eye irritation. The eye damage can be irreversible,” according to the Pesticide Action Network.

The herbicide may also cause acute effects, including congested lungs, hemorrhages, poor digestion, inflamed kidneys and an engorged liver, animal studies show.

Farm workers exposed to acute poisoning from dicamba have reported numerous symptoms such as muscle cramps, difficulty breathing, vomiting, skin rashes, loss of voice and swollen glands.

Dicamba poses adverse effects to reproduction in animals, as well. Rabbits exposed to low doses of the chemical suffered fetus losses, while mallard eggs exposed to the herbicide experienced reduced and stunted growth of the embryos and malformations of the eyes.

(NaturalNews) The world’s seed giants would love for you to believe that the movement against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is based on nothing more than fear, paranoia and ignorance. But the truth is that the growing distaste for GMOs is based on mounting research that illustrates the adverse effects on humans who consume these controversial foods, as well as their impact on the environment.

“Anyone that says, ‘Oh, we know that this is perfectly safe,’ I say is either unbelievably stupid, or deliberately lying. The reality is, we don’t know. The experiments simply haven’t been done, and now we have become the guinea pigs,” said geneticist David Suzuki.

While it’s true that we don’t fully understand the long-term effect of eating GMOs, we do know that the crops and their associated chemicals, including glyphosate, wreak havoc on the human body in intricate ways that have lasting health impacts.

Science shows GMOs and their associated pesticides create complex problems within the human body

A recent review of the scientific literature conducted by independent researchers Anthony Samsel, Ph.D. and Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D. – a scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – uncovered some disturbing information about the way glyphosate interferes with the structure and functionality of important proteins in the human body.

What they learned is that glyphosate behaves as a glycine analogue that incorporates peptides during protein synthesis, according to AlterNet. In other words, the herbicide alters various proteins dependent “on conserved glycine for proper function.”

When the human body substitutes glyphosate for glycine, it leads to a host of serious illnesses including diabetes, obesity, asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson’s disease, among other conditions, according to the study’s authors.

The opposition’s biggest argument against anti-GMO activists is that the movement is “unscientific.” However, science tells us that the opposite is actually true.

For example, there are viral gene fragments in most GM crops which could have “complex interactions with DNA and toxicity,” that have never truly been studied.

‘A failure of science to positively identify a problem does not mean that a problem does not exist’

Given this information, Sayer Ji writing for The Activist Post asks which statement is less scientific:

1.) GMO food safety cannot be proven; or

2.) GMO food harms cannot be proven.

“The scientific and logical answer would be that both GMO food safety and harms cannot be sufficiently proven; for reasons that include the fundamentally unethical nature of a human clinical trial that could result in poisoning the test subjects,” writes Ji.

“But, the weight of evidence actually indicates that statement #2 is the more unscientific one, as there is a growing body of scientific research produced by independent scientists indicating that GMO food harms can be clearly demonstrated, and through a simple process of extending feeding studies beyond the 90-day cut-off mark established by biotech corporations with a vested interest in hiding chronic adverse health effects.

“In other words, a failure of science to positively identify a problem does not mean that a problem does not exist. To err on the side of caution, is no less scientific than to err on the side of reckless abandon. When we fail to exercise the precautionary principle in our risk assessments, we are basically saying that GM foods are innocent until proven guilty,” Ji writes.

The biotech industry should ultimately be the entity responsible for proving the safety of GMOs, not the general public, which is being treated like test subjects in one of the largest and potentially most dangerous experiments in the history of mankind.

But like most industries, biotech companies aren’t interested in public health, but instead are focused on profits. In order to meet those profits, they fund massive campaigns built solely on propaganda to keep the public ignorant about the adverse effects of chemical agriculture.

(NaturalNews) The first day of school will be remembered for all the wrong reasons by 145 California children in the Folsom Cordova Unified School district, who arrived on the much-anticipated day only to be turned away because they lacked the proper immunization records.

The move is part of a new state law that went into effect last month, SB277, that removed vaccine exemptions based on personal and religious beliefs. Under the law, students who are entering “checkpoint years” – kindergarten and seventh grade – are required to provide their full vaccination records. Of the district’s 1,462 students in these grades, 157 had been singled out by the school as not having vaccine records.

The district’s spokesperson, Daniel Thigpen, said that they were hoping that the students who were sent home would get their shots and return to school. By the end of the first week, 98 students were still out of school, with 37 of the 72 kindergartners and 61 of the 73 seventh-graders opting not to succumb to the state’s bullying tactics.

Meanwhile, Age of Autism reports that 133 students from the Elk Grove School District were not allowed to enroll because they did not have vaccination records. The school district’s spokesperson, Xanthi Pinkerton, said that 110 seventh-graders and 23 kindergartners were affected; the district has nearly 3,000 students in the “checkpoint” grade levels.

No one was sent home on the first day in the Natomas Unified School District, largely because of a concerted outreach effort alerting parents of the need for the vaccines. The school also held vaccination clinics to ensure everyone got on board. Although 103 unvaccinated students showed up on the first day, most of their parents later returned with the necessary paperwork or brought them to one of the two clinics provided by the district in its high school and middle school. Some of the holdouts have already transferred to other school districts. Indeed, many parents are now opting to homeschool their children or even move out of state to avoid being forced to give their children risky vaccines.

Parents must choose between education and health

Some of the vaccines that are required for school attendance include measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, chicken pox, hepatitis B and diphtheria.

California is not the first state to deny exemptions; West Virginia and Mississippi have similar laws. In the past, parents who were concerned about the health risks of vaccines were able to use the exemptions to allow their children to continue to attend school.

The parents in this situation are being forced to choose between their children’s education and their health. While some studies show that vaccines are not harmful, the majority of them have serious conflicts of interest, with many of them funded by vaccine manufacturers. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, it’s hard not to feel a certain sense of unease at the idea of parents having to sit by and allow their children to be injected with dangerous vaccines and risk neurological damage.

As fear of the Zika virus spreads throughout the United States, authorities are desperately looking for ways to protect their citizens. As reported by Circa, over 1,000 people in the U.S. have been infected with the Zika virus, which is believed to cause severe birth defects like microcephaly.

One of the primary weapons to kill the disease-carrying mosquitoes is the use of aerial pesticides – chemicals that are sprayed from airplanes and helicopters. While the number of states using aerial spraying or fogging campaigns to kill off mosquitoes is rising, some scientists are raising serious questions about their safety.

One of the chemicals being used is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved insecticide called Naled. Naled is a neurotoxin that kills adult mosquitoes. While this compound will provide protection against the Zika virus, there are several huge problems linked to its use.

In addition to killing important pollinators such as bees and butterflies, scientists found that high exposure to commonly used chemicals such as pyrethroids and the organophosphate trichlorfon could have severe negative long-term health effects. Trichlorfon, one of the main ingredients in Naled, has been associated with an increased risk of cancer, autism and birth defects.

60 percent increased risk of autism

A 2014 study conducted at the University of California, showed that pregnant women living within a few miles of farms where pesticides like Naled were sprayed had a 60 percent increased risk of their child developing autism spectrum disorders or experiencing developmental delays.

Dr. David Perlmutter, a board-certified neurologist, said that authorities need to take a step back and look at the broader picture of these spraying interventions when weighing up risk versus benefit.

“We should prove safety and not just say well because it hasn’t been proven detrimental it’s ok. That’s not good enough,” he said.

Besides causing autism, substances like pyrethroids have been linked to breathing problems, involuntary twitching, seizures and cancer. The EPA has even classified them as likely to be carcinogenic to humans. Nonetheless, pesticides containing pyrethroids or trichlorfon are being used in Zika response plans in many U.S. cities.

Exploitive US-sponsored trade deals are huge job and labor rights destroyers. They circumvent national laws and sovereignty, exclusively serving investor interests at the expense of the public welfare.

So-called free trade isn’t fair. It’s a license to steal, plunder, exploit, pollute, and operate unrestrained – solely for maximum profit-making.

On July 28, Wallach’s Global Trade Watch published “Six Things to Know About the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)” – vital information The New York Times and other media scoundrels never report.

1. Only six of TPP’s 30 chapters deal with trade. Most others empower corporate interests over public ones more than ever.

2. Few tariffs between TPP nations remain to be cut – so alleged gains from the deal are fabricated. TPP provisions make it easier for corporate predators to offshore jobs to low-wage countries – creating greater unemployment and underemployment in America than already.

3. TPP’s “key provision grants new rights to thousands of multinational corporations to sue the US government before a panel of three corporate lawyers that would be empowered to award the corporations unlimited sums to be paid by America’s taxpayers, including for the loss of expected future profits.”

4. The US International Trade Commission (ITC) estimates “36 of 55 US economic sectors would suffer declining trade balances under the TPP.”

A Center for Economic and Policy Research Study estimates 90% of US workers will suffer pay cuts if TPP is enacted – what happens under all its trade deals. Investors benefit hugely. Ordinary people lose out – millions of jobs offshored to low-wage countries.

5. Claiming TPP covers 40% of the global economy is misstated. “(S)ix TPP nations with existing free trade pacts account for more than 80% of the trade counted in the 40%.”

6. “Environmental, consumer, faith, senior, family farm, Internet freedom, small business, human rights, online activism, and other organizations have made stopping the TPP a major priority because it would undermine decades of their policy achievements and foreclose future progress by requiring signatory countries to conform domestic laws to hundreds of pages of non-trade rules promoted by the corporate interests involved in negotiations.”

TPP, TTIP and all corporate-sponsored trade deals hugely benefit investors at the expense of millions of exploited workers, their families and the vast majority of others living in affected countries.

Read more: http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/misnamed-free-trade-isnt-fair/

By Luis Miranda

The government diverts water resources to the invasive Israeli colonies and leaves Palestinians without drinking water.

In the months of heat, water comes once every 25 days, for a period of between two and four hours.

In winter supply works, as Palestinians depend on their wells and the Israeli water company.

The dry pipe carries water home that is delivered by Mekorot, with the arrival of hot weather since May access to clean water has been restricted to the West Bank in favor of Israeli colonies.

This Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory increases its water demand in the summer as drinking water is used to irrigate crops and gardens and filling swimming pools.

“The settlements receive water flow that is enormously greater than Palestinian communities. In the summer we need much more water and the amount that can be pumped from aquifers is lower, so the supply is reduced to a minimum to the Palestinians,” said Pepe Gago, project coordinator in the West Bank Water and Sanitation Assembly of Cooperation for Peace (ACPP).

A settler “spends nearly five times more water per capita than a Palestinian,” says Gago.

Mekorot claims that it delivers the same amount of water as before, but the company told workers that it has reduced supplies to Palestinians because there is not enough water for the colonies.

Read more: http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/israel-restricts-palestinians-access-clean-water/

By F.W Engdahl

Most will wonder what I mean when I say Bayer AG, the German chemicals and drug company, the same one that just absorbed Monsanto, makes bee contraceptives. This is precisely what a newly-published, peer-reviewed scientific study confirms. Contraceptives for bees are not good for the world, no better than another product invented in the labs of Bayer, namely heroin. Bayer makes a class of insect killers known as neonicotinides. Their free use worldwide threatens bee pollination and the entire food chain.

Bees and birds contribute to the essence of life on our planet. A study by the US Department of Agriculture estimated that “…perhaps one-third of our total diet is dependent, directly or indirectly, upon insect-pollinated plants.” The honey bee, Apis mellifera, is the most important pollinator of agricultural crops. Honey bees pollinate over 70 out of 100 crops that in turn provide 90% of the world’s food. They pollinate most fruits and vegetables–including apples, oranges, strawberries, onions and carrots.

Bayer AG is the world’s largest maker of neonicotinoids, making the company an understandable match to takeover Monsanto with its own range of highly toxic glyphosate-based weed-killers such as Roundup. Neonicotinoids are a group of insecticides chemically similar to nicotine. They act on the central nervous system of insects. But also on bees and small song birds. Recent evidence suggests they could also affect human brain development in newborn.

Read entire article here:  http://journal-neo.org/2016/08/13/bayer-ag-makes-bee-contraceptives/

By Claire Dwoskin