Lemon and Baking soda Miraculous combination

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Baking Soda

Lemon and Baking soda Miraculous combination: 10, 000 times stronger than Chemotherapy!

Why do we not know about this?

Because there are organizations that continue to profit from disease.  It is that simple.

Do you know how many people die while this secret is kept simply in the name of profit?

Lemon has already been proven to have strong anti – carcinogenic properties. In addition to this there are many other useful properties. Lemon has a strong effect on cysts and tumors.

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Citrus fruit can cure cancer. Recent studies have shown that consuming citrus fruits, specifically lemons have prevented and in some cases cured cancer.  And by adding baking soda you will normalize the pH of the body which does not allow the cancer to continue to spread.

A recent case-control study out of Europe showed that consuming four or more 150-gram portions per week of citrus fruit decreased the risks of throat cancer by 58 percent, oral/pharyngeal cancer by 53 percent, stomach cancer by 31 percent, and colorectal cancer by 18 percent. This study did not find a protective effect of citrus against breast cancer, but a recent American study did show that women consuming about 75 grams daily of grapefruit (fruit or juice) saw a 22% reduction in breast cancer risk if they had never used hormone replacement therapy. It is noteworthy that the protective level of citrus consumption was nearly identical in both these studies (525-600 grams per week) and could be interpreted as a minimum intake level for meaningful cancer protection. However, it’s also important to know the best sources of limonoids if they are key to citrus fruit’s anti-cancer properties.

Lemon has a very strong antimicrobial effect with a very broad spectrum of activity against bacterial andfungal infections. Lemon is effective against internal parasites and worms, it regulates blood pressureand is a powerful antidepressant, reduces stress and nerve crises.

What is the source of this information?  It comes from one of the largest manufacturers of drugs, which states that after 20 laboratory tests conducted since 1970 they have proved that:

Lemon destroys carcinogenic cells in 12 types of cancers. Lemon prevents the spread of carcinogenic cells and has 10,000 times stronger effect then drugs like Adriamycin, chemotherapy and narcotic products.

 Chemotherapy has horrible side effects the worst being that it destroys healthy cells, simply put it kills you. Lemon juice and baking soda, on the other hand only kills the cancer cells.

Patients should drink two teaspoons of lemon juice with a half of teaspoon of baking soda.

Please make sure to use organic lemons.   Organic lemons  are 100 times more effective than a lemon grown with chemical fertilizers and sprayed with chemicals .

Source:Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud, L. L. C. 819 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 1201

 http://www.secretlyhealthy.com/lemon-and-baking-soda-miraculous-combination/

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/69/6/2260.abstract

Addtional Sources for this article include:

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23117440
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19856118
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17892257

Source:  http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/lemon-baking-soda-miraculous-combination.html#


Do NOT buy “Arm and Hammer “baking soda,……” It has aluminum in it” The package says PURE but “IT IS NOT PURE” FACT PROVEN!  I challenged Church and Dwight, the Mother company of Arm and Hammer about false advertising on their packages and to send me a “Letter of confirmation of its purity”. What I got after a bit of a battle was, ” “Our baking soda MAY contain unknown traces of aluminum”. The packaging will be left as is, with PURE on it. That statement is a C Y A or P Y A statement,…..
Cover Your Ass or Protect Your Ass Go to a health food store like I do because “Everything else” is chemical laden!

HOUSE OF REPS DELAYS VOTE ON UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT

 

Citing a last-minute uprising within the ranks, the House of Representatives has delayed today's vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, H.R. 36, and replaced it with a vote on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortions Act, H.R. 7.

 

Liberty Counsel

10:51 AM  01/22/2015

        Liberty Counsel has also been calling for the passage of H.R. 7 by the 114th Congress.
Our petition delivery to lawmakers will go forward today as planned.

Please see my important update below - Mat. 
      
Our Capitol Hill sources tell us that several Republican lawmakers threatened to vote against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, H.R. 36 unless the "exception" language was changed.

The original bill allowed for exceptions to the post-20 week ban on abortions in cases of the woman's life being endangered, or if rape or incest were committed and the crime was reported to law enforcement officials.

Lawmakers opposed to part of the "exception" language said they would vote "no" to the bill unless the stipulation for reporting the rape or incest crime was removed. Their contention is, statistically, about 70% of rapes go unreported by women who fear retribution.
 

Rep. Trent Franks, one of the primary sponsors of H.R. 36, said the delay of the vote was to "create unity" and fully expects the bill to come to the House floor in the near future.

Planned Parenthood has been relentlessly fighting to defeat H.R. 36, which would most assuredly cut into their abortion services revenue! PPH leaders vowed to defeat the bill's passage by working behind Capitol Hill doors to "divide and conquer."

+ + Today, a House vote will take place on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.

As we have declared time and again, President Obama's signature legislation, ObamaCare, will do more to advance abortion services in our nation than any single act since Roe v Wade.

ObamaCare is an assault on human life, religious liberty, and freedom of conscience – and the federal government is requiring pro-life Americans to pay for these barbaric acts!
 

The No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act will prohibit taxpayer-funded abortions and provide for greater right of conscience protections.

Liberty Counsel has been calling for Congress to pass this bill, which is included in the petition language being delivered to Capitol Hill today.

 

 

 

How the UN Is Confiscating America Homes

and Controlling All Food and

Energy...

21Jan, 2015by Dave Hodges

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In times of crises, the government has proven, time and time again, that it cannot be counted on to adequately protect the American people. As the American people have not prepared for the coming dark days, they will be vulnerable to starvation, dehydration, cholera, pandemics and attacks from resource-deficient  looters. Will the government be there to save them? History has already answered this question in the negative. Events such as Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, L.A. riots and the Ferguson riots have repeatedly demonstrated that when trouble comes, the American people will be on their own.
When disaster strikes, it will take less than 24 hours until grocery stores are empty, the utilities are down and neighbors begin to prey upon neighbors.

Obama Criminalizes Independence

Certainly, no government can be all things to all people. Subsequently, the government should be in the business of encouraging its citizens to be independent. However, the Obama administration has taken the opposite approach. Instead of the government empowering the people to be self-sufficient, this administration is punishing independence and self sufficiency.

DHS actually published a “Right Wing Extremism Manual which demonizes and targets normal citizens with labels such as “preppers” and have further defined the act of becoming self-sufficient as being the actions of a domestic terrorist. It is ironic that DHS is the one who has ordered millions of FEMA caskets, 2700 armored personnel carriers and 2.2 billion rounds of ammunition. Yet, it is only the wholly independent people, only desiring to be left alone by their government, are labeled as domestic terrorists.

America Is Witnessing the Manifestation of Agenda 21

Any aware person knows that Agenda 21 is predicated on eliminating private property ownership and keeping all people within the “system”. Drinking raw milk, engaging in off the grid living and heating your home with a wood stove is forbidden. All of these prohibitions and more are presently encircling America as the Agenda 21 noose is tightening around collective necks.
Many unaware Americans still mistakenly believe that they have dominion over their lives and personal choices. These same people mistakenly believe that the government does not care if you want to live independently of their corporate cronies  who own the utilities. They want you in their system so they can continue to exploit your resources for their benefit. Take the case of Robin Speronis who tried opting for renewable non-grid tied power and utilize environmentally friendly composting toilets and his own self-sufficient water supply. If one commits these acts in Florida, that person could go to jail.



Speronis lived off the grid, independent of Cape Coral’s (Florida)  water and electric utilities. Not to be denied the revenue to them owed the subjects of Florida, the utilities took Speronis to court and the judge ruled this off-the-grid living was illegal last week . The judge labeled the Speronis home as being “unsanitary” and cited the International Property Maintenance Code in the ruling.  Wikipedia further  exposes the fact that the International Property Maintenance Code derives its authority from Agenda 21 and ICLEI and that this “regulation” bootstraps its authority into the following domains.

• International Building Code
• International Residential Code
• International Fire Code
• International Plumbing Code
• International Mechanical Code
• International Wildland Urban Interface Code
• International Existing Building Code
• International Property Maintenance Code
• International Private Sewage Disposal Code
• International Zoning Code
• International Green Construction Code…

Subsequently, we have an American judge, in Florida, citing UN mandate to forcibly evict an American citizen of their property and nullify their Fifth Amendment Rights. Speronis also faces jail time for noncompliance with international law.
If you read nothing else in this article, I strongly suggest you heed this warning. In two years, local and state governments will have the ability to begin to seize individual property for the failure to meet code, usually in the area of energy efficiency and international code compliance. In the near future if one cannot meet the burden of upgrading their older homes into meeting the standards related energy compliance, by United Nations standards, one could have their home confiscated without any compensation.

More Agenda 21 Insanity

The latest round of Agenda 21 insanity is coming from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA has recently imposed new heating rules as of last year and the date of enforcement has long last arrived.
The insane application of Agenda 21 policies knows no bounds when it comes to the EPA. Also under the auspices of the International Property Maintenance Code, the EPA has introduced new standards for wood stoves which dramatically reduces the amount of fine particle emissions for any wood stove sold in 2015. The emissions must be reduced by 33% with more reductions scheduled for 2019.
At issue is the unsubstantiated claim that the EPA is making that if the use of wood stoves are reduced, the health of the residents will increase. Yet, the EPA does not offer any peer-reviewed research, which has been replicated, as proof of this bogus claim. Are we just supposed to take their word for it? We might as well face the fact that the EPA is controlled by ICLEI and their United Nations puppet masters.

Who Are the Real Terrorists?

We are under attack from the skies and through the poisoning of our air through massive chemical spraying complete with Alzheimer’s and dementia causing aluminum sulfate and cancer causing barium. Fukushima radiation, Corexit spraying and the resulting toxic rain from the Gulf oil spill is running rampant over our country and not one ounce of mainstream media coverage is afforded to these dangers. Prevention and remediation from these dangers, caused by governmental indifference or complicity, are not put into place by our present government.

Our water is being systematically removed from the country by Nestle, and our water tables are being systematically compromised by environmental toxins and of course many Americans are consuming water permeated with IQ-lowering rocket fuel (i.e. fluoride).

Americans are now in the midst of being subjected to the death panels of Obama care in which citizens over the age of 70 are officially referred to as “units” and are targeted for comfort care but not given life saving measures. Under these conditions is it really in our best interest to remain “in the system”?

This is an undeniable, unmitigated and naked version of Eugenics cast in the same flavor as that practiced by Margaret Sanger, Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler and when Americans try to extricate themselves from these assaults upon their liberties and their health, they are increasingly marginalized, and prosecuted.

Conclusion

Who’s the real terrorist here? Why is the Obama administration embracing international mandates which criminalizes independent behavior and choices in violation of our Fifth Amendment rights?

If you have the courage to really answer these questions, I would suggest you dig into world history and read about the Holodomor  and discover the real motivation behind forced compliance which results in total dependence on the government for life-sustaining services should become readily apparent.

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Nobody has ever referred to HIM as the late Jesus,

Not even the heathens.

Nowhere in history.

Nowhere has HE ever been referred to in the past tense

HE 'is' the Living God!

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When Jesus died on the cross HE was thinking of you!

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Medical Tyranny: Supreme Court Just Ruled the Government Can Force a 17-Year-Old to Take Chemotherapy

Melissa Melton
The Daily Sheeple
January 8th, 2015
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How can any American living here in the supposed “land of the free” honestly believe we still are?
The Connecticut Supreme Court has now ruled that yes, the government has the power to force a minor to undergo chemotherapy treatments even if she doesn’t want to.
That’s right. The court has unanimously determined that a 17-year-old patient cannot refuse chemotherapy treatment, even if her mother agrees they want to seek alternative treatment, for her Hodgkin’s lymphoma.


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 We aren’t just a fascist oligarchy and a police state, but we absolutely a medical tyranny.
Let’s just try to overlook the fact (even though it’s huge and deserving of its own article) that we even live in a society where the number children getting cancer these days is skyrocketing.
This particular story centers around 17-year-old Cassandra Callender who, after being diagnosed with cancer in September and taking two treatments, ran away from home for a week in November because she did not want to take anymore. Cassandra has said that she feels chemotherapy is a poison and, that the girl, “believes chemotherapy would cause significant long-term bodily harm, like organ damage and infertility,” reported Vox. When she returned home, Cassandra refused to take anymore chemo and her mother stood by her daughter’s decision.
When the mother stood by her daughter’s decision and they refused to take any further treatment, the hospital reported Cassandra’s mom Jackie to the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) who took Cassandra away and ordered the family to comply with the treatment.
Cassandra and her mom took the issue all the way to the Connecticut Supreme Court…and lost.
Cassandra’s case centered on the fact that both her and her mother’s constitutional rights were violated when the state attempted to force treatment; that patients can’t be forced to take such treatment over informed objection; and that the mature minor doctrine should be upheld which says that unemancipated minors may still be considered legally mature enough to make their own decisions in regards to health and medical treatments.
Connecticut, however, argued that the so-called “experts” have agreed that without chemo Cassandra could die, and because it is the state’s duty to save her from harm, the treatments must be made compulsory.
According to a DCF statement, “When experts — such as the several physicians involved in this case — tell us with certainty that a child will die as a result of leaving a decision up to a parent, then the Department has a responsibility to take action.”
So rule by experts…ah yes, add “technocracy” to the list because America is also a technocracy as well.
Once again, the government has trumped parental rights.
The court has upheld that they can force you to inject what you believe are poisons into your child’s body if they say they are the “experts” and it is for your child’s own good — something the State and its experts have decided they know better than parents do in these cases.
As I’ve reported before, the courts tried to force a 10-year-old Amish girl to receive chemotherapy in Ohio last year. The family went into hiding to avoid the decision.
Another case in Minnesota saw an eight-year-old girl whose family believed in alternative medicine forced to give her daughter chemo by the court.
But who will be held responsible if these State-forced medicines do cause harm down the road? Who will be legally responsible then?
The reality is, this won’t end with cancer treatments and we all know it.
We’re just getting started on this slippery slope to medical Hell. Can you imagine what they’ll use these court decisions to justify making compulsory in the future?
How about vaccinations for starters? All the “experts” have to do is say that they believe a vaccination is a life-preserving treatment and that parents who refuse vaccinations for their children are legally neglecting them in a way that might cause harm… America has already had the most aggressive vaccine schedule of any nation on the planet for a while now. States are already in the process of making it harder for parents to opt out of vaccinations, as the number “required” continues to grow.
Founding father Benjamin Rush warned over 200 years ago that medical freedom should have been added to the Constitution:

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
- Benjamin Rush (1746-1813)

But they didn’t…and now here we are.
Land of the free? More like “home of the medically enslaved.” Delivered by The Daily Sheeple

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Contributed by Melissa Melton of The Daily Sheeple.

Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple and a co-creator of Truthstream Media with Aaron Dykes, a site that offers teleprompter-free, unscripted analysis of The Matrix we find ourselves living in. Melissa also co-founded Nutritional Anarchy with Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, a site focused on resistance through food self-sufficiency. Wake the flock up!

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Formula For Disaster: The Clinically Confirmed Dangers Of Breastmilk ‘Alternatives’

January 14, 2015 | By Sayer Ji | Toxins

A growing body of clinical research indicates that formula fed infants have significantly increased risk for the following debilitating and/or life-threatening conditions:

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia – Allergic Rhinitis – Aluminum Toxicity – Arteriosclerosis – Asthma – Autoimmune Diseases – Bacterial Meningitis – Cancers – Candida Infection – Cardiovascular Disease – Clostridium Infections – Colitis – Diabetes Mellitus: Type 1 – Diarrhea – Ear Infection – Eczema – Enterobacteriaceae Infections – Fluoride Toxicity – Fluorosis – Haemophilus Influenzae Infection – Hodgkin Lymphoma – Hypothyroidism – Immune Dysregulation: TH1/TH2 Imbalance – Infant Mortality – Infant Neurological Disorders – Intestinal Permeability – Iodine Deficiency – Leptin: Elevated Levels – Lymphomas – Mortality: All Cause, Elevated – Necrotising Enterocolitis – Nephrolithiasis – Nephrotoxicity – Obesity – Perchlorate Toxicity – Pneumonia – Respiratory Tract Infections – Salmonella Infections – Sepsis – Sudden Infant Death Syndrome  [view the 1st hand biomedical citations here]

Conversely, the research on the therapeutic value of breastfeeding is also accumulating, with clinical support for the reduction of 70 adverse health conditions indexed on our project alone.

According to a study done in 2004 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 11.3% of infants in the U.S. were exclusively breastfed through the first six months of life; in other words, 88.7% of infants were exposed to the effects of synthetic formula during their most critical developmental period. This is undoubtedly a key factor in why the U.S. has the 2nd highest infant mortality rate in the industrialized world. In a 2006 poll of 33 industrialized countries, the US was ranked lower in infant mortality than only one country: Latvia. (State of Our Mothers 2006; Save our Children Foundation). The US infant mortality statistics are also a glaring indication that our infant vaccination policy, the most aggressive in the world, is failing in the real world to live up to its much tauted promises of “saving lives.”

There are few who would question the inherent superiority of breast milk over synthetic formula, especially considering that suboptimal breastfeeding is associated with over a million deaths each year worldwide. We know, for instance, that breast milk contains a number of indispensable factors not found in formula and that the breast milk changes continually to suit the changing needs of the baby. Breast milk is a living food with enzymes, immune factors like lactoferrin, lysozyme and secretory IgA, prebiotics and probiotics, coenzymated vitamins, amino-acid bound minerals and hormones like appetite regulating leptin, etc. which are not found in formula. Also, breast milk is even capable of reducing the adverse effects of vaccination (unnaturally elevated antibody titers), which has lead some researcher's to suggest the absurd step of delaying breastfeeding during certain vaccines to prevent them from “interfering” with the shots.

No matter how crafty we are at replacing breast milk with formula, or natural immunity with synthetic “immunizations,” we will never outsmart Nature, whose intelligent design is billions of years in the making, and proven successful in a process far more evidence-based than today’s multi-billion dollar clinical trials, namely: by the fact that we are here, alive and well.

When it comes to formula, however, it is not simply what it lacks that makes it so dangerous, but what it does contain… sugar, and far worse!

Lactose is the most abundant carbohydrate found in breast milk and is unlike the sucrose (white sugar), maltodextrin, and high fructose corn syrup found in virtually all formulas. The glycemic index of lactose (46) is much lower than that of sucrose (68), maltodextrin (137), and high fructose corn syrup (89), and promotes the growth of beneficial Lactobacilli bacteria such as Acidophilus. Higher glycemic carbohydrates can lead to the growth of putrefying and pathogenic bacteria and yeasts, suppress the immune system and can induce adverse endocrine changes, such as the over-secretion and/or resistance to cortisol, adrenaline, leptin and insulin. Industrially-purified fructose (often from GMO corn, which contains herbicide residues like the endocrine disruptive glyphosate) is perhaps the worst simple carbohydrate, having been tied in the biomedical literature to over 70 adverse health effects.

Allergens with multiple modes of toxicity

According to the FDA, of the 160 foods known to cause allergic reactions, cow’s milk and soy are part of the top 8, which are required by law to be listed on labels. Virtually all infant formulas on the market today contain one or more of these common allergens as a main ingredient. The following three foods have insurmountable problems associated with them:

1) They are used to produce industrial adhesives: casein, the sticky white protein in cow’s milk was once the basis for Elmer’s Glue, and industrially-processed soy protein is used to produce plastics, composite and is sticky enough to replace formaldehyde-based adhesives in the production of plywood. These glues will contribute to intestinal villi atrophy, inflammation, malabsorption syndrome, malnourishment, as well as increased intestinal and gut permeability, also known as “leaky gut syndrome,” where undigested proteins enter the blood causing autoimmune and neurological disorders.

2) Neurotoxic chemicals: Processed cow’s milk and soy contain relatively high levels of L-glutamic and L-aspartic acid – naturally occurring components of the infamous excitoxins aspartame and monosodium glutamate. These two amino acids, when ingested in free form (as may occur in many hydrolyzed infant formulas) excite the nervous system, sometimes causing over-stimulation and death of neurons. Cow’s milk also contain an opiate-like substance known as 7-casiomorphin.

3) Cow’s milk and soy contain potentially toxic glycoproteins known as lectins which can cause either direct damage to certain cell types in our body, e.g. thyroid, pancreas, kidney, joints, etc, or secondary immune-mediated damage, e.g. soy and milk lectins can cause the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas to exhibit class II HLA antigens, marking them for autoimmune destruction. Cow’s milk and soy also contain hormone mimicking and hormone modulating endocrine disrupters, which can adversely effect metabolism, growth rates and sexual maturation when consumed excessively, or when there are genetic incompatibilities.

Dangerous Inorganic Minerals!

With few exceptions, the minerals found in infant formula can not be considered biologically appropriate or suited to the needs of infant metabolism. Manufacturers of formula, as well as supposed watchdog agencies like the FDA, consider it perfectly appropriate for these formulas to contain chemically processed mineral wastes, gleaned as by-products from the mining and chemical industries. Some of these minerals, such as copper sulfate, are actually used to kill fungi, weeds, algae, mollusks and bacteria. (See our article on the topic). Sodium selenate, a popular ingredient in formula, is not allowed in public drinking water above 50 parts per billion (EPA Federal Drinking Water Standards) due to concerns regarding its toxicity. How is it that chemicals with known toxicity, or worse, are actually used to kill living things, are legally allowed to be put in formula to sustain new life?

Undoubtedly, ignorance plays a key role in this problem. Scientists, health authorities and government officials alike have a surprisingly difficult time acknowledging the obvious biological differences between inorganic and dead minerals with those that are complex with proteins, enzymes and other essential co-factors, such as is found in living breast milk. However, given that the global market for formula is at an estimated 7.9 billion dollars annually, other motivations, such as cutting ingredient costs take precedence over product quality and safety. After all, breast milk is free, and therefore is impossible to compete with on the basis of cost. The best manufacturers can do is to produce a cheap product using cheap ingredients. A well put together formula with non-allergenic proteins like goat whey, and whole food mineral and vitamin concentrates would probably cost ten to twenty times higher than regular formula, which would price many families out of this profitable market completely. (For more information on the toxicity of mass market vitamins and minerals read Is Your Multivitamin Toxic)

The Tip of the Iceberg?

There are many other serious problems with formula but space does not permit us to elaborate further on these aspects in detail here. For now, we conclude that given this veritable nightmare of potential toxicities, infant formula, rather than viewed as a less than perfect facsimile of breast milk, should be considered a full scale assault on infant health and well-being.

When Breastfeeding Is Not An Option

There are times when breast milk dries up early, and in those cases it is important to remember the universal foster milk: goat’s milk. Goat’s milk based formulas do exist on the market and can be prepared from scratch. There are also breast milk sharing clubs that can provide an alternative to formula. Keep in mind that some “organic” formulas, like the Earth’s Best “organic” formula produced by Hain Celestrial Group still contain many of the same problematic ingredients found within mass market formula, so you have to be careful. For a product ingredient analysis of Earth Best’s formula go here.

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Article Contributed by Sayer Ji, Founder of GreenMedInfo.com.

Sayer Ji is an author, researcher, lecturer, and advisory board member of the National Health Federation. He founded Greenmedinfo.com in 2008 in order to provide the world an open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural and integrative modalities. It is internationally recognized as the largest and most widely referenced health resource of its kind.

FBI Has Either Lied To Public About Its Drone Program Or Inaccurately Defended Need For Secrecy.....

January 17, 2015 | By Guest Post | Drones, Science & Technology

By: Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter -

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has been pursuing a lawsuit against the FBI for records on the agency’s drone program. A recent filing in the case suggests the FBI has either lied to the public about the scope of its drone program or it has inaccurately defended the need to keep documents secret.

CREW, an organization that describes itself as being committed to “high-impact legal actions to target government officials who sacrifice common good to special interests,” filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records after then-FBI Director Robert Mueller revealed the FBI was operating a secret drone program in June 2013.

The request asked for records that would show: “the source or sources of all drones used by the FBI from January 1, 2009, to the present”; the “funding source for all drones used by the FBI from January 1, 2009, to the present”; “who provided the FBI with any training to enable the FBI to use drones”; “policy concerning the FBI’s use of drones for any purpose, including but not limited to the legal justification for such use and any memoranda of understanding between the FBI or [Justice Department] and any other government agency.”

According to CREW [PDF], the FBI responded to court orders and processed “6,720 non-duplicative pages of documents, releasing only 1,970—most of which contained extensive redactions—and withholding the rest.” The FBI cited four exemptions to justify keeping most of the records secret.

When Mueller spoke about the FBI’s drone program, he said it was used “in a very, very minimal way and very seldom.” The FBI, he claimed, had “very few” drones. They were apparently used sparingly for missions involving drugs, kidnappings, search and rescue operations and hunts for fugitives. However, the government now asserts that disclosing records on a domestic drone program will “enable hostile entities to assess United States intelligence gathering activities in or about a foreign country.”

The government and CREW are now seeking a decision from the judge on whether the records have been appropriately withheld under FOIA or not.

CREW argues in response to the government, “It is difficult, if not impossible, to understand how the FBI’s domestic drone program even intersects with foreign intelligence activities, sources, or methods of the United States, much less how information from the program about the source and funding of the drones, training for drone use, and drone policies could cause actual harm to those interests if disclosed.”

The Justice Department maintains [PDF] the FBI must keep the identity of the vendor, which has provided the FBI with drone technology, secret because “simply identifying the FBI’s equipment source or UAV items intended to be procured (or actually purchased) would reveal information regarding the FBI’s surveillance techniques and capabilities.”

Though the FBI argues that the disclosure of certain documents “would provide criminals and terrorists with a virtual ‘playbook’ on how to evade the FBI’s use” of drones, CREW contends that the FBI has not demonstrated that “operational capabilities and equipment specifications” are not already “generally known to the public.” Much information is already in the public domain. In fact, “manufacturers of drones,” such as General Atomics, “provide a large amount of information on their products’ capabilities.” And even the US Air Force has posted to its website details on the “operational capabilities of its drones.”

It is improper for the FBI to suggest that identities of vendors or drone suppliers are at all covered by the FOIA exemption protecting “law enforcement techniques.” Such a suggestion twists the exemption to make it possible for the FBI to keep all its dealing with corporations supplying drone technology secret so as not to face any public scrutiny at all.

Multiple times the FBI makes claims about foreign entities or foreign intelligence agents posing a threat if they obtain any of these records:

…Permitting specific details to be released on the [drone] program’s equipment, operational capabilities, limitations, training, and funding would enable criminals outside the controlled, classified environment to provide foreign entities and operatives with key information that could be used in countermeasure efforts…

… The withheld information is under control of the United States Government, and contains information regarding intelligence activities, sources or methods and/or foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, all of which are authorized bases for classification [under Executive Order 13526]…

…Due to the delicate nature of international diplomacy, disclosure of this sensitive information could jeopardize the fragile relationships that exist between the United States and certain foreign governments. Moreover, the unauthorized disclosure of information concerning foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States can reasonably be expected to lead to curtailment in the diplomatic or law enforcement sharing of intelligence and/or new investigative equipment advancements…

All of which is intended to amplify fear in the mind of the judge hearing this case.

These statements also raise key questions about the FBI’s drone program and how confined it really is to the domestic United States. For example, how could records on policies or certain technology used to rescue kidnapped Americans in the US impact relationships with foreign countries? Or, how could a program used sparingly be so threatening to US diplomacy if basic details were shared with the public?

What the government refuses to accept is that CREW is only demanding the release of general information. It does not want specific records on specific technical operations. But the Justice Department seems to deliberately misconstrue the nature of CREW’s request for records in order to make the organization seem unreasonable.

CREW states, “The FBI has thrown a blanket of secrecy over a program that is of critical public importance and that raises fundamental questions about whether the government is abiding by the constitutional rights of its citizens. Yet despite these concerns, drone use domestically has increased exponentially, even though we do not yet have the appropriate controls and safeguards in place.”

The FBI is not the sole agency responsible for allowing this proliferation without regard for civil liberties. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a flourishing drone program, which the Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently found [PDF] has achieved none of its “intended results” and has not properly accounted for all the costs of operations. CBP cannot account for whether it is protecting privacy (and the OIG did not bother to scrutinize this aspect of the agency’s program). And that is what makes lawsuits like CREW’s critical.

As CREW concludes, “The FBI’s response of withholding the vast majority of documents is not only unjustified legally and factually but is ‘anathema’ to the FOIA’s fundamental purpose of providing a vehicle for the public to know what its government is up to.”

A judge ruling in favor of the FBI would be a win for excessive secrecy and mean the government could operate a vast domestic drone program without telling citizens what drones are doing in the sky each and every day.

‘Limits On Free Speech’ – The Pope’s Latest Effort To Bring Muslims And Catholics Closer Together

January 22, 2015 | By Michael Snyder | Faith, Free Speech, World News

Should criticism of Islam be banned?  Should the kinds of cartoons depicting Muhammed that were published by French magazine Charlie Hebdo be against the law?  In recent days, there has been a massive outpouring of support for free speech in the western world in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre.  But there have also been a few dissenting voices.  One of these dissenting voices belongs to Pope Francis.  He has publicly stated that “there is a limit” to free speech and that “you cannot insult the faith of others”.  So obviously he does not approve of the cartoons of Muhammed that Charlie Hebdo has been publishing.  By taking this kind of public stand, the Pope is going to further endear himself to the more than one billion Muslims in the world.  Since he was elevated to Pope, he has been doing more than any of his predecessors to build bridges to Islam.  So precisely why is he doing this?  Why is he working so hard to bring Muslims and Catholics together?  Could it be possible that he is laying the groundwork for a future one world religion?

To make his point that there are “limits” on free speech, the Pope referred to one of his close assistants during a conversation with reporters…

He referred to Alberto Gasparri, who organizes papal trips and was standing by his side aboard the papal plane.

“If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch,” Francis said, throwing a pretend punch his way. “It’s normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”

So if we insult Muhammed, should we expect physical retaliation from Muslims?

According to Francis, this would make sense…

Recently the Vatican and four prominent French imams issued a joint declaration that, while denouncing the Paris attacks, urged the media to treat religions with respect.

Francis, who has called on Muslim leaders in particular to speak out against Islamic extremism, went a step further Thursday when asked by a French journalist about whether there were limits when freedom of expression meets freedom of religion.

“There are so many people who speak badly about religions or other religions, who make fun of them, who make a game out of the religions of others,” he said. “They are provocateurs. And what happens to them is what would happen to Dr. Gasparri if he says a curse word against my mother. There is a limit.”

Yes, Pope Francis has denounced the violence that just happened in France.

But he is also being very, very careful not to offend Muslims.  He is siding with Muslim leaders that find the caricatures published by Charlie Hebdo to be extremely offensive.  By doing so, he is winning a lot of friends in the Muslim world.

And without a doubt, this is the most politically-correct Pope that Rome has ever had.  He seems to always know exactly what to say to the press, and he has been working extremely hard to reach out to other major global religious leaders since the beginning of his papacy.

But instead of working so hard to build bridges to other religions, perhaps he should be focusing on other things.  For example, there are some horrific human rights abuses going on in the Philippines right now.  Instead of complaining about cartoons of Muhammed, this is what he should have been complaining about…

Street children as young as five are being caged in brutal detention centres alongside adult criminals in a cynical drive to smarten up the Philippines capital ahead of a visit by Pope Francis this week.

Hundreds of boys and girls have been rounded up from doorways and roadsides by police and officials and put behind bars in recent weeks to make the poverty-racked city more presentable when Pope Francis arrives tomorrow, a MailOnline investigation has found.

In a blatant abuse of the country’s own child protection laws, the terrified children are locked up in filthy detention centres where they sleep on concrete floors and where many of them are beaten or abused by older inmates and adult prisoners and, in some cases, starved and chained to pillars.

Perhaps Francis will say something about that.

We shall see.

But what we can expect for sure is for this Pope to continue to reach out to Muslims.  What Pope Francis has done so far during his papacy has angered many Catholics and has thrilled many Muslims.  As I have written about previously, he even took the unprecedented step of authorizing “Islamic prayers and readings from the Quran” at the Vatican for the first time ever last year.

Meanwhile, Islamic terror continues to get even worse all over the globe.  Almost every single day now there are more stories of crucifixions and beheadings by ISIS.  The following is just one example…

ISIS has continued its barbarism, executing five men in Deir Ezzor, an eastern province of Syria, on Wednesday, Jan, 14.

Two men were shot for “dealing with the Nusayri [Alawite] regime,” and a third was beheaded. Then all three were crucified, and they will remain so for three days for “establishing a cell to fight IS,” according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

ISIS forces then murdered a university student who was accused of being an “informant for the Nusayri regime.” This student had already been detained on the charge of “smoking.”

A politically-correct approach is not going to end this violence.

I like the way that Mark Christian, a former Muslim and the son of a high-ranking Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt, put it the other day…

The circumstances we face are dire and we have no coherent way of addressing it until we establish the stark, bright line between Muslims who are willing to respect the religious liberty of others (which must absolutely require the abandonment of vengeance over insults, perceived or real) and those who count us as so many cattle, ripe for slaughter and easily led.

Our society can no longer afford to self-censor when it comes to the “hair trigger” that is Islam. Muslims of the former type I described above may be offended, and for this I am sympathetic; but Muslims of the latter type will become enraged and will reveal to all the depth of their incompatibility with civilized society. This is my aim: to force these Muslims to expose their unacceptable radicalism for all to see, but also to reach a self-realization of the depravity of that radicalism that exists within themselves.

Being offended is uncomfortable for sure, but it is nothing compared to being hunted and subjugated, which is the lot our Christian brothers and sisters in Muslim-dominated lands endure, and as we saw in Paris, and increasingly in our own Western democracies. The source of this is a foolish adherence to the idea of “multiculturalism,” enforced by a misguided political correctness. I believe you would heartily agree that there is no verbal insult, nor cartoon that would move you to murder. However, hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide disagree.

Radical Islam is just another form of tyranny.

If you detest government tyranny, you should also detest the radical Islamic movement which seeks to force the entire planet to submit to Islam and to live our entire lives under strict sharia law.

Unfortunately, this movement continues to grow by leaps and bounds.  In fact, thanks to Nancy Pelosi, a radical Muslim is about to be appointed to the House Intelligence Committee…

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is set to appoint a Muslim lawmaker to the Intelligence Committee, congressional aides said Tuesday, giving him access to some of America’s most closely held secrets in the war on terror.

The move will come as the world is still grappling with an al-Qaeda death squad’s massacre last week of journalists at the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, executed because they had published a cartoon of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

Rep. André Carson has attracted suspicion for his public statements, including a 2012 Islamic Circle of North America convention where he said America’s schools should be modelled after Qur’anic madrassas.

Moments later he warned undercover law enforcement skulking around the event looking for ‘secret meetings’ that ‘Allah will not allow you to stop us.’

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