September 11, 2015
by J. D. Heyes

The word “terrorist” is a strong adjective used to describe someone or some group that uses violence and fear to pursue a political goal. It is not, however, normally used to describe someone who merely disagrees with a political position.

Nevertheless, Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton thought it was an appropriate descriptor for anyone who disagrees with her over the issue of abortion and the hideous nature of Planned Parenthood’s baby-parts-for-profit schemes that are currently being exposed in a series of videos by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), a pro-life organization.

“Now, extreme views about women, we expect that from some of the terrorist groups,” the former secretary of state said recently at a rally in Ohio. “We expect that from people who don’t want to live in the modern world. But it’s a little hard to take coming from Republicans who want to be the president of the United States. Yet, they espouse out of date and out of touch policies. They are dead wrong for 21st-century America. We’re going forward. We’re not going back.”

One major pro-life organization, however, did not take the insult lying down. Marjorie Dannelfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, characterized Clinton’s comment as “outrageous,” noting that at least half of Americans identify as pro-life.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/051139_Hillary_Clinton_Planned_Parenthood_terrorists.html#ixzz3pu1EBYpz

(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday that federal regulators erred in allowing an insecticide developed by Dow AgroSciences onto the market, canceling its approval and giving environmentalists a major victory.

The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, is significant for commercial beekeepers and others who say a dramatic decline in bee colonies needed to pollinate key food crops is tied to widespread use of a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids. Critics say the Environmental Protection Agency is failing to evaluate the risks thoroughly.

The lawsuit was filed in 2013 against the EPA by organizations representing the honey and honey beekeeping industry. The groups specifically challenged EPA approval of insecticides containing sulfoxaflor, saying studies have shown they are highly toxic to honey bees.

The court said in its ruling that sulfoxaflor is a neonicotinoid subclass.

Dow AgroSciences, a unit of Dow Chemical Co, first sought EPA approval for sulfoxaflor in 2010 for use in three products. Brand names include Transform and Closer.

“It’s a complete victory for the beekeepers we represent,” said Greg Loarie, an attorney who represents the American Honey Producers Association, the American Beekeeping Federation and other plaintiffs in the case. “The EPA has not been very vigilant.”

Dow said in a statement that it “respectfully disagrees” with ruling and will “work with EPA to implement the order and to promptly complete additional regulatory work to support the registration of the products.”

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/u-court-finds-epa-wrong-approve-dow-pesticide-184509403–finance.html

Doctors are sounding the alarm after noticing a disturbing trend happening in Waimea, on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Over the past five years, the number of severe heart malformations has risen to more than ten times the national rate, according to an analysis by local physicians.

Pediatrician Carla Nelson, after seeing four of these defects in three years, is extremely concerned with the severe health anomalies manifesting in the local population.

Nelson, as well as a number of other local doctors, find themselves at the center of a growing controversy about whether the substantial increase in severe illness and birth defects in Waimea stem from the main cash crop on four of the six islands, genetically modified corn, which has been altered to resist pesticides.

Hawaii has historically been used as a testing ground for almost all GMO corn grown in the United States. Over 90% of GMO corn grown in the mainland U.S. was first developed in Hawaii, with the island of Kauai having the largest area used.

Read more: http://www.naturalblaze.com/2015/09/hawaii-sees-tenfold-increase-in-birth.html

In 2010, the UN released a report urging citizens to adopt a plant-based diet for health and environmental reasons. Who knew that earlier this year, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee would outline similar recommendations for American citizens?

As was recently shared in the article, “8 Nations Going Vegetarian, Proving To The World Less Is More,”, a massive shift in health mentality is inspiring people everywhere to invest in their health.

The report, released earlier this year, includes recommendations by the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on what Americans should be eating. This is the first time the committee has concluded a diet higher in plant-based foods and low in animal-based foods to not only be both healthier for the body, but better for the environment.

The report details their official recommendations for a “healthy dietary pattern,” which has vegetables, fruits, and whole grains at the very top of the list and red meat and processed meats at the very bottom.

“The overall body of evidence examined by the 2015 DGAC identifies that a healthy dietary pattern is higher in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low- or non-fat dairy, seafood, legumes, and nuts; moderate in alcohol (among adults); lower in red and processed meats; and low in sugar-sweetened foods and drinks and refined grains.”

The 571-page report gives an in-depth look at what Americans are presently eating. “The quality of the diets currently consumed by the U.S. population is suboptimal overall and has major adverse health consequences,” it states.

Most notable is the large gap between a healthy diet and the standard American diet: “On average, the U.S. diet is low in vegetables, fruit, and whole grains, and high in sodium, calories, saturated fat, refined grains, and added sugars.”

Earlier this year it was reported that only 9% of American adults manage to consume the recommended amount of daily fruits and vegetables. Despite the bounty of healthy living resources and information available, America’s greatest challenge, it seems, is overcoming the idea of ‘quick fixes’ and short-term solutions.

Read more: http://www.naturalblaze.com/2015/09/for-first-time-ever-us-federal.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+naturalblaze+%28Natural+Blaze%29

Dive Brief:

• The Ocean Cleanup, an organization seeking to rid our waters of plastic waste, has ambitious plans to build a massive “barrier” in the ocean that would draw trash into a concentrated area to then be collected and disposed of properly. The organization plans to build the wall in the water between Hawaii and California by 2020.

• The barrier, which will appear as a large “V” shape in the water, will “take advantage of the natural movement of ocean currents,” drawing debris to the center of the barrier and allowing for 100,000 times the concentration of trash, according to HuffPost.

• The project is being executed based on data from the organization’s “mega exhibition,” in which crews from The Ocean Cleanup took nearly 30 ships into the waters to track volume and location of plastic. “[It was] the first time anyone’s ever quantified the large debris — things like crates, bottles, buoys and nets,” Founder Boyan Slat told HuffPost.

Dive Insight:

The project that The Ocean Cleanup is planning can vastly impact the future of our ecosystem. Currently, there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the world’s oceans and, in 10 years, the amount of plastic entering the water could double to an alarming 8 million tons. A recent analysis published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that nearly 90% of seabirds have plastic in their stomachs — a number that is expected to grow to 99% by 2025.

This issue is one that consumers need to be in-tune with in order for actions to change. “We hope to make millions of people aware of the problem itself, as well as making the problem visible,” Slat told The Huffington Post. “By showing there is a way, we can make it better.”

Read more: http://www.wastedive.com/news/the-ocean-cleanup-plans-to-build-62-mile-wall-in-pacific-to-collect-trash/405114/

(NaturalNews) Ecologists refer to bees and a few other select organisms as keystone species. This term is analogous to the keystone of an arch. Remove the wedge-shaped stone at the top, and the entire structure collapses.

Bees are a keystone species because they are the world’s primary pollinators and are therefore crucial to the environment. While Monsanto claims bees only pollinate about a third of the world’s crops, others estimate their contribution to be closer to 90%. But the startling decline of the bee population isn’t just threatening our crops, it is also threatening varied and diverse wild plants across the globe that provide food for countless animal species. If we lose the bees, the loss to our ecosystems will be catastrophic.
Disappearing Bees
Colony collapse disorder is a term for deserted hives. Adult bees vacate the hive, leaving behind the queen and immature bees. The adult bees simply vanish.

The Department of Agriculture cites several possible causes for colony collapse that include parasites, viruses, predators, nutritional deficits, and pesticide poisoning. They hypothesize a probable combination of factors while reminding us that bee disappearances have been recorded as far back as the 1880s.

While we must recognize multiple factors are in play, there is no denying the fact that bees are very sensitive to pesticides, making them more susceptible to disease and interfering with their navigation. Even when exposed to sub-lethal doses of pesticides, many bees simply get lost. Unable to find their way back to the colony, they die, lost and alone. It’s not just pesticides sprayed on crops that are killing the bees, the pesticides built into genetically modified crops are killing kill them as well.

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050993_flying_ants_genetically_engineered_Monsanto.html

(NaturalNews) Scientists believe that a toxic algae bloom now stretching from California to Alaska could be responsible for poisoning marine mammals across the North American west coast. The bloom is growing in a giant mass of abnormally warm water that has come to be known as “the Blob” and has been positioned off the North American Pacific Coast for several months.

The algae bloom runs from Southern California to Alaska and possibly even to the Aleutian Islands. It is 40 miles wide and reaches 650 feet deep at some points.

“It’s been incredibly thick, almost all the same organism,” said ocean scientist Raphael Kudela of the University of California-Santa Cruz, noting that the bloom “looks like a layer of hay.”

“It’s definitely the largest bloom of this particular algae seen on the West Coast, possibly anywhere, ever.”

Fisheries collapsing
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the bloom is “laced with some toxic [phytoplankton] species that have had far-reaching consequences for sea life and regional and local economies.” These species, known as Pseudo-nitzschia, produce a highly toxic chemical known as domoic acid.

Toxic algae blooms of this variety, also known as red tides, are well known and relatively common. This particular red tide is not only enormous, but it has also been exceptionally long lasting and still shows no signs of dispersing.

“It’s the longest lasting, highest toxicity and densest bloom that we’ve ever seen,” said Vera Trainer, research oceanographer with the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Washington state.

Clam, crab, anchovy and sardine fisheries in California, Oregon and Washington have all been closed due to population crashes caused by domoic acid poisoning.

“It’s really working its way into the food web and we’re definitely seeing the impacts of that,” Kudela said. He noted that sea lions and pelicans have been sickened from eating domoic acid-tainted prey.

Researchers are also investigating whether the bloom played any role in killing nine fin whales found dead near Kodiak Island, Alaska, in June. Reports of dead and dying whales, gulls and fish in the Aleutian Islands also have scientists worried that the bloom might have spread to that region.

The wide-reaching effects of the red tide led Grist.org to proclaim that the bloom is “basically eating the West Coast alive.”

Read more: (NaturalNews) Scientists believe that a toxic algae bloom now stretching from California to Alaska could be responsible for poisoning marine mammals across the North American west coast. The bloom is growing in a giant mass of abnormally warm water that has come to be known as “the Blob” and has been positioned off the North American Pacific Coast for several months.

The algae bloom runs from Southern California to Alaska and possibly even to the Aleutian Islands. It is 40 miles wide and reaches 650 feet deep at some points.

“It’s been incredibly thick, almost all the same organism,” said ocean scientist Raphael Kudela of the University of California-Santa Cruz, noting that the bloom “looks like a layer of hay.”

“It’s definitely the largest bloom of this particular algae seen on the West Coast, possibly anywhere, ever.”

Fisheries collapsing
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the bloom is “laced with some toxic [phytoplankton] species that have had far-reaching consequences for sea life and regional and local economies.” These species, known as Pseudo-nitzschia, produce a highly toxic chemical known as domoic acid.

Toxic algae blooms of this variety, also known as red tides, are well known and relatively common. This particular red tide is not only enormous, but it has also been exceptionally long lasting and still shows no signs of dispersing.

“It’s the longest lasting, highest toxicity and densest bloom that we’ve ever seen,” said Vera Trainer, research oceanographer with the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Washington state.

Clam, crab, anchovy and sardine fisheries in California, Oregon and Washington have all been closed due to population crashes caused by domoic acid poisoning.

“It’s really working its way into the food web and we’re definitely seeing the impacts of that,” Kudela said. He noted that sea lions and pelicans have been sickened from eating domoic acid-tainted prey.

Researchers are also investigating whether the bloom played any role in killing nine fin whales found dead near Kodiak Island, Alaska, in June. Reports of dead and dying whales, gulls and fish in the Aleutian Islands also have scientists worried that the bloom might have spread to that region.

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050963_toxic_algae_bloom_Fukushima_Pacific_Ocean.html

(NaturalNews) Today’s emerging youth are far more interested in getting their news online rather than from the television or print media, new statistics reveal. A biannual report released by the Alliance for Audited Media shows that “total paid circulation” for 86 of the top 125 print magazines, or about 71 percent of them, experienced drops in circulation, while online news has now officially taken over TV news in terms of total viewership.

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015 states that some 43 percent of Americans now regard online news as their “main source of news,” compared to just 40 percent for TV news. This is a first, as TV news has long held the top spot for news consumption, only recently falling to second place as the Internet reaches all-time highs in popularity.

“Newsstand sales, long seen as an indicator of the health of the industry, fell by 11.4 percent,” reports Media Life Magazine. “That comes after the 14.2 percent decrease magazines suffered at the newsstand during the second half of last year.”

Many magazines going digital in attempt to stay relevant
Hoping to curb these losses, many traditionally print-only magazines are now going digital, or at least bundling their online and offline content together in an attempt to retain readers. But what many of these media giants aren’t doing is changing their content and format to match what today’s savvy news consumers are looking for – truth and honesty in reporting.

This, of course, is what sets online media apart from traditional print and television media. Online media is largely decentralized, and it’s where the independent media thrives. Print and television media, on the other hand, are mostly controlled by one of six corporate entities that have a hand in about 90 percent of what Americans consume as “news.”

Failing to recognize that content is what sets online media apart from print and television, the establishment media is desperately trying to stay afloat amid a turning tide of consumer preference. People are tired of all the lies and manipulation coming from the TV talking heads and corporate “journalists,” who often just report what their sponsors (which in many cases are drug companies) tell them to report.

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050962_independent_media_online_news_television.html

(NaturalNews) In 2014, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition announced its plans to retract a study that had supposedly proven that genetically engineered (GE) “golden rice” provided as much vitamin A to children as a beta-carotene supplement. The first author of that paper, Guangwen Tang of Tufts University, immediately filed a lawsuit against the journal and sought an injunction to prevent the retraction.

On July 17, a Massachusetts judge denied the injunction. Twelve days later, the journal filed an online statement of retraction of the study. The retraction will also be published in the print version of the journal’s September 2015 issue.

The reason for the retraction was blatant ethical misconduct on the part of the researchers, who forged papers and did not inform parents that their children were being fed GE rice.

Court rules that researcher sought to suppress free speech
The study in question, which was originally published online in August 2012 and in print a month later, was the result of a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Health. The purpose was to determine whether “golden” rice genetically engineered to be high in beta-carotene was actually a good source of the nutrient when consumed by human beings.

The study was carried out in 2008 at an elementary school in China. Its findings — that the rice was a good source of vitamin A — gained widespread scientific attention. The article has been downloaded more than 30,000 times.

For part of the study, 25 children between the ages of six and eight were fed 60 grams of the GE rice. Investigations by the Chinese government later revealed that the parents of these children had not been given honest information about what their children were being fed.

When the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition announced plans to retract the study, Tang obtained a preliminary injunction against the journal’s publisher, the American Society for Nutrition. The injunction came as part of a lawsuit against the society and Tufts University, which had taken punitive measures against Tang for her violation of ethics rules.

The lawsuit, which is still pending, claims that the retraction and the measures taken against Tang by Tufts constitute defamation, breach of contract and interference with business relations. The lawsuit argues that retracting the study damages Tang’s professional reputation and thereby her career and income prospects.

On July 17, the court rejected Tang’s motion to bar the retraction of the study after hearing oral arguments. The court found that doing so would violate the defendant’s right to free speech not only by restraining their speech but also by compelling it.

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050966_GMOs_golden_rice_unethical_researchers.html

(NaturalNews) Home gardening is a deep-rooted (pun intended) American tradition. Since the nation’s beginnings, gardens have formed an integral part of the landscape, providing healthy, fresh food for millions of families.

Home gardens are a way to save money, increase self-sufficiency and make sure the food we eat is organically grown and free of pesticides and other chemicals.

Unfortunately, there has been a growing trend towards criminalizing home gardeners, but the good news is that more and more of them are successfully fighting back against government attempts to pronounce home gardening as an illegal activity.

A recent article published by GovtSlaves.info explored several cases in which citizens were told their home gardens violating the law. In all of these stories, the home gardeners decided to stand up for their rights and were generally successful in challenging the legal rulings against them as well as raising awareness and gaining support among the rest of the citizenry.

The first case tells the story of Tom Carroll and Hermine Ricketts, a Miami Shores Village, Florida, couple who have planted an organic garden in their front yard for the past 17 years.

In 2013, Miami Shores authorities ordered Carroll and Ricketts to uproot their garden or face fines of $50 per day on the grounds that it violated a recently amended zoning ordinance regarding “home aesthetics.”

Carroll and Ricketts decided to stand up for their rights. They lost the first battle against the Miami Shores Code Enforcement Board, which ruled against the couple. They were then forced to uproot the garden to avoid the fines.

However, Carroll and Ricketts continued to seek justice. They enlisted the the help of the Institute for Justice, an Arlington, Virginia-based public interest law firm that was getting ready to launch its National Food Freedom Initiative to “defend Americans’ food choices from arbitrary regulations.”

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050938_gardeners_property_rights_citizen_resistance.html

Food affects our bodies and minds. Many people would be surprised to discover just how many food ingredients are linked to cognitive disorders, like dementia.

Dementia is considered by many people to be a disease that accompanies age. Contrary to popular belief, however, dementia isn’t a specific malady, but a general term that encompasses a variety of cognitive impairments in memory, thinking and communication.

It’s unsurprising that food alters our brains. What is surprising is that certain foods contain ingredients that can damage our brains. Consider the following as a list of ingredients that are best classified as brain poison.

1. Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) may cause plaque buildup in brain
AGEs, also known as glycotoxins, are proteins that have become glycated through exposure to sugars. Cooking foods at high temperatures, including fries and meats, can produce AGEs. These harmful compounds have been linked to hypertension and diabetes; however, recent evidence suggests that AGEs are associated with dementia as well.

Increased levels of AGEs may cause amyloid plaques, which are protein pieces that are characteristic of dementia, to concentrate in the brain. A study published in journal PNAS found that the consumption of glycotoxins led to dementia in mice. The team tracked the cognitive health of young, middle-aged and old mice that were fed diets with portions of AGEs similar to a Western diet. The researchers found that old mice that were fed high amounts of AGEs developed amyloid plaque. The researchers noted that the mice’s cognitive decline was not associated with age, since these symptoms were not found in aged mice on a low-AGE diet.

Read more: http://top10grocerysecrets.com/2015-07-17-top-10-ingredients-cause-dementia.html

(NaturalNews) There has been a great deal of news over the past few years about how the federal government is increasingly spying on the American people, especially via the National Security Agency and the FBI. But it is becoming increasingly apparent that Americans’ privacy is being invaded more frequently, and on a wider scale, by private industry.

Consider just some of the latest technology to hit the market and you can see that we Americans are being watched, monitored, measured and profiled 24 hours a day, seven days a week – and in many ways, we’re helping the process:

“Smart” meters

In recent days, California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered residents of the drought-stricken state to cut water usage by as much as 25 percent. It wasn’t a recommendation, per se; officials are serious about implementing it.

As reported by CBS Los Angeles, state and local officials are going after “water wasters” through the installation of “smart meters” that gauge water use and report it back to water authorities, wirelessly.

“It collects the data every five minutes, then after midnight, the cellphone that’s built in here comes on, makes one call, and calls it in to the database that we and the customer, through a password security system, have online access to their consumption,” Long Beach Water Department General Manager Kevin Wattier told the local affiliate. “The accuracy is just incredible, because we get the data the next day.”

In February, when water smart meters were installed around the city, Wattier used the data to catch the owners of local McDonalds restaurant who were said to be over-watering the lawn there.

Wattier went onto say he believes smart meters will increasingly be used to measure water usage at both homes and businesses throughout Southern California. But no one is talking about getting rid of them once the drought subsides.

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050918_smart_meters_Big_Brother_Fourth_Amendment.html

(NaturalNews) Feeling irritable, paranoid or even violent lately? Before you blame other life triggers like your job, money problems or your significant other, you may want to examine your prescription drug regimen, as it could be changing you in more ways than you realize.

Close to 70 percent of Americans are taking at least one prescription drug and more than 50 percent are prescribed two or more, according to numbers released in 2013 by Mayo Clinic, meaning that it’s probably even higher today.

Prescription drug use rose from 44 percent in 1999 – 2000 to 48 percent in 2007 – 2008. While the most common pharmaceuticals in use today include antibiotics, antidepressants and painkiller opioids, another drug is on the rise: statins, a class of drug routinely prescribed to help lower cholesterol levels in the blood.

Find more breaking headlines on statin drugs at statins.news

More than 35 million Americans may be on a drug that causes violent, suicidal and homicidal behavior, and it’s not antidepressants

About 25 million Americans are currently taking statins, and under new guidelines issued in November, another 13 million may be eligible for the cholesterol-lowering drug.

While touted as being nothing short of a miracle for preventing heart attacks and stroke, a new study says statins may cause some pretty scary side effects including “aggressive, violently jealous, suicidal or even homicidal behavior.”

Researchers from the University of California found a link between statins and aggression, particularly in postmenopausal women over 45-years-old. Interestingly, women who were innately calm exhibited the most aggressive behavior when on statins.

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050923_statin_drugs_aggressive_behavior_side_effects.html

(NaturalNews) The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has launched a probe into the highly controversial HPV vaccination program following thousands of reports of young girls falling seriously ill after getting jabbed. Per the Swedish news source Svenska Dagbladet (SvD), the European Union’s version of the Food And Drug Administration (FDA) launched the investigation to determine whether or not the safety claims associated with Gardasil and Cervarix, the two HPV vaccines currently in circulation, are actually legitimate.

The multinational drug corporations behind the two vaccines, Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), respectively, say the vaccines are perfectly safe and come with minimal risk of side effects. But the many thousands of young girls throughout the world who’ve suffered serious side effects, including several hundred recently featured in a Danish documentary that aired on Denmark’s TV2 network, claim otherwise, reporting major health failures almost immediately following the jab.

HPV vaccines have already been administered to some 70 million women worldwide, but their safety and effectiveness is questionable at best. The science used to justify their commercial approval simply doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, and yet many countries throughout the world have adopted HPV vaccines as a preventative medicine for preventing cervical cancer.

Canadian researchers published a study in 2013 revealing that the industry-sponsored trials used to justify commercial approval of HPV vaccines are “largely inadequate” and present “evidence of selective reporting of results from clinical trials,” meaning vaccine companies cherry-pick data to suit their own agenda.

“[T]he widespread optimism regarding HPV vaccines long-term benefits appears to rest on a number of unproven assumptions (or such which are at odd with factual evidence) and significant misinterpretation of available data,” the team wrote.

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050924_HPV_vaccine_EU_agency_investigation.html

A new report from The Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) has revealed young people will be the hardest hit under a new future of work, as the economy and labour market undergo significant changes over the coming decades.

The report The New Work Order: Ensuring young Australians have skills and experience for jobs of the future, not the past, highlights the way we work will be increasingly affected by three key economic drivers:

• Automation, with smarter machines performing a growing number of traditionally human tasks
• Globalisation, where technology platforms are making it possible for workers around the world to do jobs from remote locations
• Collaboration, through which we will see an increasing number of people engaged in flexible work with a range of employers to generate an income

While these changes present some positive opportunities for young people – such as lower barriers to entrepreneurship; more flexibility in ways to source income and wider markets to access employment – the report also found significant risks, including rising inequality, unemployment and insecurity which young people are likely to bear the brunt of.

FYA CEO Jan Owen AM said the findings confirm the urgent need for a comprehensive national investment in young Australians, to ensure the next generation is prepared for the economy of the future and equipped with the tools to drive it.

“Australia is already facing the challenge of an ageing population and the subsequent shrinking workforce and if our nation is going to overcome these challenges, young people must be given the opportunity to drive the economy forward,” Ms Owen said.

Read more: http://www.activistpost.com/2015/08/careers-to-be-replaced-by-automation.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=0dc9617560-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-0dc9617560-386424498

(NaturalNews) When I first began writing for a living, I asked my boss/mentor at the time what was the most important thing he had learned in his years as a writer and editor. His answer: “Never believe anything you read.”

I knew he was being somewhat ironic, but after a while, I began to see how truly accurate his words were. As a newbie freelancer, I was often expected to write about things I knew very little about. I was required to perform a little research on the subject at hand and then expound upon the given topic as if I were an expert.

As I continued in the profession, I began to realize that most — if not nearly all — of what passes as “journalism” these days is basically the same thing. Most journalists rely on secondhand sources. What ends up being published is often highly suspect at best and written by someone with little or no firsthand knowledge of the subject at hand.

One of the last real journalists

Glenn Greenwald is an exception. He is one of the few journalists working today who has any real credibility and one of the few people qualified to criticize the state of journalism as it exists today.

Greenwald has recently written an op-ed for The Intercept, a news site he created in 2014 with the goal of “producing fearless, adversarial journalism” created to “bring transparency and accountability to powerful governmental and corporate institutions.”

He has already achieved a great deal towards this end as one of the main journalists responsible for breaking the Edward Snowden story while revealing the extent of the NSA’s programs designed to spy on U.S. citizens.

In the op-ed titled “A Crucial Realization About Journalism is Learned by Being its Subject”, Greenwald explores the experience of encountering journalistic pieces written by “outsiders” on subjects one is intimately acquainted with. When this happens, he says, one often gets an enlightening glimpse of just how inaccurate the information can be.

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050904_journalism_objectivity_Glenn_Greenwald.html

(NaturalNews) To anyone who still doesn’t believe the world’s largest nations are already engaged in a global covert war involving kinetic weapons, currencies and cyber warfare, add this event to your list of things to ponder:

Less than one day after another massive explosion destroyed a portion of Shandong, China, another explosion has ripped through a U.S. Army munitions storage facility near Tokyo, Japan, utterly destroying the facility.

This all takes place just ten days after the apocalyptic explosion at Tianjin China, which many people believe was instigated by the Pentagon in response to China’s currency devaluation announced one day earlier.

Shortly after this event took place, Natural News exclusively reported the “bombshell” news that China and the United States were engaged in a covert war. Now, as more and more of these events begin lining up, it’s becoming increasingly obvious to everyone that these explosions are not mere coincidence. They are, in fact, deliberate acts of war between China and the United States.

An important article to read on all this is Dave Hodges’ piece The Chinese Plan to Occupy America.

Red List News is also doing a fantastic job of publishing video interviews on these topics with people like Steve Quayle, and the team at All News Pipeline is sounding the warning bells on an almost daily basis.

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050899_munitions_depot_mysterious_explosions_China_retaliation.html

During WWII, Germany, Italy and Japan became the Axis of Evil. During the Cold War Russia, China, North Korea and North Vietnam became the new Axis of Evil. After the fall of the Bolshevik Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain, a new Axis of Evil has emerged comprised of the USA, the UK and Israel best described as the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia (RKM), the World’s largest Organized Crime Syndicate. And now a large part of the World is forming a financial firewall against this new Axis of Evil and its Fiat debt-script system which has been accompanied by pernicious usury and debt-slavery.

We now know for certain that Al Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL/Daish were all allowed to exist and fed by secret Israeli and USG policy at the behest of those few individuals that really run things and control the whole Israeli/American/UK defense complex known by insiders as the top Policy-makers of the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia (RKM).

Yes, we now have actual smoking gun documents obtained through legal action by Judicial Watch and an admission from a former high ranking military man, General Flynn saying this is so.

Now we know for certain that these decisions were made at the highest level of this RKM hierarchy that controls this defense complex, that is, the several folks that are the true top leaders and policy-makers of the Secret Shadow Government (SSG) and who instruct and control their cutouts at the top of the SSG that actuate these defense complex related decisions on behalf of the top several RKM world rulers.

It now seems obvious that General Petraeus (some call him General Betray-us), others in the American defense establishment, the Israelis and Turkey (and some others) made sure Al Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL/Daish have been adequately supplied all along. This of course started with Robert Gates who set up and supplied Al Qaeda in Afghanistan with shoulder-fired ground to air missiles in the first place in order to defeat the Russian invaders and help bring an end to the Soviet Bolshevik evil empire. It is important to understand that it has been the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia working out of the City of London (a one square mile independent nation with its own ambassadors inside London) created and set up Bolshevism in the first place, Later on Nazi’ism as well and every other ‘ism the last 200 years.

Read more: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/08/09/the-worlds-new-evil-axis/

Paradigm Shifts have occurred throughout history. These are changes in the way we as humans view the world around us. Modern technology and the abundance of information available today has made it possible for humans to become fully aware of the globalist new world order schemes and now humanity is prepared to collectively act on this knowledge. This consciousness we share about the current day scenario is the ‘truth’ that will allow us to move forward as a human race to hopefully provide a better world for future generations.

Read more: http://truthandarttv.com/paradigm_shift_timeline

(NaturalNews) The second undercover video released by pro-life group Center for Medical Progress shows Planned Parenthood officials ghoulishly negotiating prices for the body parts of aborted babies.

In the undercover video, as reported by LifeNews.com, Mary Gatter, the medical director at Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley in Calfiornia, “discusses selling aborted baby body parts with undercover investigators posing as officials with a biotech company that acts as a middleman to sell aborted baby body parts to universities and other places that conduct such research.”

Gatter, a senior official within PP and president of Medical Directors’ Council, the organization’s central committee of all Planned Parenthood affiliate medical directors, is seen and heard haggling over the price of the aborted body parts, telling the biotech company posers that prices for hearts, livers and heads are negotiable.

In addition, she tells the biotech posers that she could talk with PP abortionists to get them to possibly alter abortion procedures – to kill babies in ways that would best preserve the negotiated body parts.

During one particularly gruesome exchange, Gatter actually offers to use a “less crunchy technique” in order to secure more body parts intact.

Actors posing as buyers ask Gatter, “What would you expect for intact [fetal] tissue?

“Well, why don’t you start by telling me what you’re used to paying!” Gatter replies, as reported by LifeNews.com.

Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050835_Planned_Parenthood_organ_harvesting_human_rights.html