World exclusive: Unacceptable Levels film exposes chemical holocaust now devastating humanity

An exciting new film has just been announced: "Unacceptable Levels" exposes the hidden world of toxic chemicals now inundating society and destroying our health worldwide.

Created by filmmaker Ed Brown, Unacceptable Levels is a tour de force of groundbreaking information from the world's top experts on how trace-level cocktails of synthetic chemicals are devastating humanity.

This is the film that finally explains what's wrong with our food and medical systems and why so many people have diabetes, cancer, autism, infertility, mental disorders and other degenerative health conditions. When you see this, you'll instantly connect the dots in ways that will empower you to protect your health and maximize your longevity, even in an intoxicated world full of deadly chemicals and the criminal corporations that sell them.

This groundbreaking new film is being exclusively launched here at Natural News, and it is available for a limited time only through Programs.NaturalNews.com as a streaming video (with unlimited lifetime views).

The best presentation yet of the world's top experts on chemical toxicity

I consider this a must-see film because it is the first documentary I've ever seen that brings together many of the world's topic experts on health, environment, chemicals and nutrition in one place. Although the film gets off to a slow start -- the first 8 minutes are about the personal lives of Ed Brown and his wife as they struggle with chemically-induced miscarriages -- it rockets to stunning heights soon thereafter, introducing viewers to a whirlwind of top experts with astonishing "No Way!" moments about toxic chemicals. By the time you finish watching this film, your head will be spinning with all the reality-shattering information you'll learn about synthetic chemicals, fluoride, psychiatric drugs, plasticizers and much more.

This film will blow your mind... especially when you start hearing from John Stauber about how toxic sludge full of heavy metals and synthetic chemicals was renamed "biosolids" and repackaged as fertilizer to be spread on the nation's croplands. Will Allen, author of The War on Bugs, also chimes in with absolutely mind-blowing information on what the agricultural industry uses as "fertilizer" these days. You need to learn this information before you dare buy another bag of so-called "compost" from a garden supply store.

Give yourself the advantage of knowledge

Even if you're a regular reader of Natural News, you'll find this film packed with new, mind-expanding information about chemicals you're unintentionally absorbing -- through your food, environment, personal care products and even household materials.

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For a limited time, Unacceptable Levels is available exclusively through Natural News. The film also uses elements of our popular fluoride animation, which we gave the filmmaker permission to include (because we really like this film!).

"Unacceptable Levels" is instantly in my top 10 list of must-see films

In summary, Unacceptable Levels is a remarkable achievement for an independent, small-budget filmmaker. Ed's "guy next door" presentation style really drives home the point that this issue affects us all. And if the guy next door is wondering what's in his water, his food and his personal care products, then shouldn't we all be asking a similar question?

Ed Brown is to be generously commended for his heroic efforts in making this film a reality. I believe every member of Congress, the FDA, EPA and USDA needs to see this film. It should be required viewing for anyone in the industries of food, medicine and agriculture.

That's why Unacceptable Levels immediately earns a slot in my top 10 list of must-see films. It may even be in the top five. Others in my list include Food Matters and the upcoming movie Bought by Jeff Hays. (On the fiction side, I strongly recommend Pleasantville, Oblivion and the Matrix, all centered around themes of "the big lie about reality".)

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To Get The Benefits of Olive Oil, Fresh May Be Best

The Mediterranean diet is a pattern of eating that lately has become a darling of medical researchers. It includes vegetables and grains, not so much meat, and, of course, generous portions of olive oil.
Mary Flynn, an associate professor of medicine at Brown University, says the evidence that olive oil is good for your heart has never been more clear. "Olive oil is a very healthy food, I consider it more medicine than food," she says.
She points to a big published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine where researchers in Spain had men and women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who were at risk of heart disease follow one of three diets.
Some ate a low-fat diet, another group ate a Mediterranean diet with nuts. And a third group ate a mediterrean diet that included almost four tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil per day.
"So, they could compare the three diets: Was it nuts, was it olive or was the low fat diet beneficial," says Flynn.
And was that a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil cut the risk of heart and attacks and strokes by 30 percent. Researchers even stopped the study early since the benefits were so clear.
"The fact is, there are huge range of benefits of real extra-virgin olive oil," notes , who has spent the last six years investigating and writing about olive oil. He says olive oil is good for two reasons: It's mostly unsaturated fat, and extra-virgin oil, which is the highest-grade and least-processed form of olive oil, contains a whole range of other beneficial plant compounds called polyphenols.
But here's the catch: Unfortunately, it turns out that more than half of the extra-virgin olive oil imported into the U.S. has been shown to be sub-standard.
"The fact is, it's quite often just very low grade oil that doesn't give you the taste of the health benefits that extra-virgin should give you," says Mueller.
In fact, a from the University of California-Davis found that 69 percent of imports tested failed to meet a U.S. Department of Agriculture quality standard.
And Mueller says in some cases the oil is just too old. By the time imported olive oil reaches us, it's often been shipped from place to place and sometimes not stored well. And even if it's noticeably rancid, many of the heart-healthy compounds have degraded and fizzled.
"Extra-virgin olive oil is fresh squeezed juice — it's a fruit juice — therefore freshness is a critical question," says Mueller.
Mueller says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration used to police olive oil imports to ensure producers were meeting quality and freshness standards. But those efforts have fallen off.
So, where does that leave those of us who want to get our hands on the healthy stuff?
Well, for starters, Mueller says look for brands that carry a harvest date on the the bottle. , which is sold in lots of chain supermarkets nationwide, has a date clearly stamped on the back of the bottle.
Gregg Kelley of California Olive Ranch says very single bottle produced by his company includes the date that olives were harvested to produce the oil in the bottle.
And he says the olives were pressed very quickly, so the oil is really fresh.
"The most important thing for consumers to remember when they're purchasing extra-virgin olive oil is that is not wine. It does not get better with age. It's never better than the day it was produced," says Kelley.
Now, as long it's properly stored the freshness will hold in the bottle at least for a while. Some bottles now carry an expiration date.
But as soon as you open the bottle and expose the oil to oxygen and light, it will slowly start to degrade. So Tom Mueller says don't make the same mistake his family made.
"I grew up with terrible oil; I had a huge tin in my grandparents cabin and that was olive oil for me — it was moldy and fusty and there for years," he says.
Experts say determine how quickly an oil deteriorates — it's everything from the variety of the olives, to how the oil is produced and stored
But generally speaking, "we usually see that oil is no longer good after 4 to 6 months after opening," says of the UC-Davis Olive Center.
Now, oils with the highest levels of heart-healthy compounds tend to be pungent and peppery. And Mueller says if the oil stings the back of your throat a little, that tells you that the beneficial polyphenols really are there.
"Once you have that taste get used to the bitterness and pungency you never go back — it's a completely different experience," says Mueller.
And a healthy one too.

Source : http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/30/226844915/to-get-the-benefits-of-olive-oil-fresh-may-be-best

Everything You Need to Know About Storing the Food You Grew

Without question, the composted waste of a successfully abundant harvest is favorable to packaging ridden landfills. Though, in the absence of hungry friends, family, and neighbors we must ask ourselves, is our acceptance of spoilage and degree of composting necessary? If you are like many, a plethora of knowledge which should have been passed down from your grandmother was replaced by the refrigerator and freezer. The history of these devices is exceptionally young which leaves many wondering, how did my ancestors preserve a whole winter season worth of frost-intolerant produce? Canning is a useful method, though a large harvest can easily turn it into a seemingly impossible task. The solution many generations before us turned to was building a root cellar. Although many cannot build their own old-world root cellars due to rentals, adequate space, or urban environments; a little common sense and wisdom of temperature and humidity guidelines will allow anybody to whip together an ideal means of prolonging produce-life through the winter.


A conventional root cellar, which essentially is a room buried in a hillside or underground, meets only a handful of criteria.

Insulation: The earth is a wonderful insulator. A typical old-world root cellar was literally buried on all sides except the entrance, utilizing the natural insulating properties of the soil.

Ventilation: It is important that your make-shift root cellar can breathe. Warm stale air needs to float out of the top of your chamber as fresh cooler air makes its way through the bottom. This is important to keep humidity levels under control in order to prevent the rot of moisture-sensitive vegetables such as squashes.

Darkness: Light accelerates the decomposition of fruits and veggies. An ideal means of storage incorporates complete darkness.

Source : http://www.realfarmacy.com/storing-the-food-you-grew/

Without question, the composted waste of a successfully abundant harvest is favorable to packaging ridden landfills. Though, in the absence of hungry friends, family, and neighbors we must ask ourselves, is our acceptance of spoilage and degree of composting necessary? If you are like many, a plethora of knowledge which should have been passed down from your grandmother was replaced by the refrigerator and freezer. The history of these devices is exceptionally young which leaves many wondering, how did my ancestors preserve a whole winter season worth of frost-intolerant produce? Canning is a useful method, though a large harvest can easily turn it into a seemingly impossible task. The solution many generations before us turned to was building a root cellar. Although many cannot build their own old-world root cellars due to rentals, adequate space, or urban environments; a little common sense and wisdom of temperature and humidity guidelines will allow anybody to whip together an ideal means of prolonging produce-life through the winter.

A conventional root cellar, which essentially is a room buried in a hillside or underground, meets only a handful of criteria.

Insulation: The earth is a wonderful insulator. A typical old-world root cellar was literally buried on all sides except the entrance, utilizing the natural insulating properties of the soil.
Ventilation: It is important that your make-shift root cellar can breathe. Warm stale air needs to float out of the top of your chamber as fresh cooler air makes its way through the bottom. This is important to keep humidity levels under control in order to prevent the rot of moisture-sensitive vegetables such as squashes.
Darkness: Light accelerates the decomposition of fruits and veggies. An ideal means of storage incorporates complete darkness.

Read more at http://www.realfarmacy.com/storing-the-food-you-grew/#qEfg13RPTzUmcS9D.99

Without question, the composted waste of a successfully abundant harvest is favorable to packaging ridden landfills. Though, in the absence of hungry friends, family, and neighbors we must ask ourselves, is our acceptance of spoilage and degree of composting necessary? If you are like many, a plethora of knowledge which should have been passed down from your grandmother was replaced by the refrigerator and freezer. The history of these devices is exceptionally young which leaves many wondering, how did my ancestors preserve a whole winter season worth of frost-intolerant produce? Canning is a useful method, though a large harvest can easily turn it into a seemingly impossible task. The solution many generations before us turned to was building a root cellar. Although many cannot build their own old-world root cellars due to rentals, adequate space, or urban environments; a little common sense and wisdom of temperature and humidity guidelines will allow anybody to whip together an ideal means of prolonging produce-life through the winter.

A conventional root cellar, which essentially is a room buried in a hillside or underground, meets only a handful of criteria.

Insulation: The earth is a wonderful insulator. A typical old-world root cellar was literally buried on all sides except the entrance, utilizing the natural insulating properties of the soil.
Ventilation: It is important that your make-shift root cellar can breathe. Warm stale air needs to float out of the top of your chamber as fresh cooler air makes its way through the bottom. This is important to keep humidity levels under control in order to prevent the rot of moisture-sensitive vegetables such as squashes.
Darkness: Light accelerates the decomposition of fruits and veggies. An ideal means of storage incorporates complete darkness.

Read more at http://www.realfarmacy.com/storing-the-food-you-grew/#qEfg13RPTzUmcS9D.99

Without question, the composted waste of a successfully abundant harvest is favorable to packaging ridden landfills. Though, in the absence of hungry friends, family, and neighbors we must ask ourselves, is our acceptance of spoilage and degree of composting necessary? If you are like many, a plethora of knowledge which should have been passed down from your grandmother was replaced by the refrigerator and freezer. The history of these devices is exceptionally young which leaves many wondering, how did my ancestors preserve a whole winter season worth of frost-intolerant produce? Canning is a useful method, though a large harvest can easily turn it into a seemingly impossible task. The solution many generations before us turned to was building a root cellar. Although many cannot build their own old-world root cellars due to rentals, adequate space, or urban environments; a little common sense and wisdom of temperature and humidity guidelines will allow anybody to whip together an ideal means of prolonging produce-life through the winter.

A conventional root cellar, which essentially is a room buried in a hillside or underground, meets only a handful of criteria.

Insulation: The earth is a wonderful insulator. A typical old-world root cellar was literally buried on all sides except the entrance, utilizing the natural insulating properties of the soil.
Ventilation: It is important that your make-shift root cellar can breathe. Warm stale air needs to float out of the top of your chamber as fresh cooler air makes its way through the bottom. This is important to keep humidity levels under control in order to prevent the rot of moisture-sensitive vegetables such as squashes.
Darkness: Light accelerates the decomposition of fruits and veggies. An ideal means of storage incorporates complete darkness.

Read more at http://www.realfarmacy.com/storing-the-food-you-grew/#wRUMYSot30qQb8BV.99

Robotics revolution to replace most human workers in three generations; labor class to be systematically eliminated

 As much as seventy percent of the human race will become obsolete within just three generations. Why? Because robotics technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that highly-capable humanoid robots with advanced vision recognition and motor coordination systems are going to take over most menial labor jobs.

Supporting this conclusion, a new study just released by Oxford scientists concludes that 47% of all jobs are "at risk" of being replaced by automation systems and robots in just one generation (roughly 20 years). But this is just the opening chapter of the robotics revolution that will rapidly make human labor all but obsolete.

In my estimation, over the next three generations (about 75 years), we will see humanoid robots take over nearly all traditional labor roles in society, including manufacturing, agriculture, construction, firefighting, food service and even community policing. Most of the physical work done today by humans will be turned over to humanoid-shaped robots built much the same way we are: two arms, two legs, two eyes and roughly the size and shape of a 5' 9" man.

This, in turn, will make virtually all human laborers obsolete. There will be no more need for people to pick crops, paint houses, clean windows, drive ambulances or even fight wars. Humanoid robots will take over every repetitious, dangerous, disgusting or boring task that humans currently tackle, from cleaning toilets and sweeping floors to driving taxis.

A fascinating new book is coming out on this very topic in just a few days. It's called Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat. I've pre-ordered the book to make sure I get a copy when it's released on October 1. Obviously, I haven't read the book yet, but it sounds like it covers what I'm talking about right here: the end of an entire class of human beings as robots rise up and displace them.

Why a future full of robots may not be as rosy as you think

To the typical naive citizen, all this talk about robots taking over menial labor jobs sounds futuristic and exciting. "We can all sit back and relax!" they'll say. "The robots will do all the work for us!"

Except for just one thing: the only real reason laborer populations are tolerated by the rich and powerful who really control the world is because laborers are needed to run the economy. Someone needs to pick the crops, sweep the floors and do the dry cleaning, in other words. Once capable humanoid robots transition into all the jobs currently carried out by flesh-and-blood humans, there will be no further need for a large segment of the human population.

This, combined with the terrible cost the world population is accruing in terms of environmental destruction and use of dwindling resources, already has world leaders like Bill Gates talking about population control... also called "depopulation" solutions. Global depopulation technologies have been under development for decades, running the gamut from mild to aggressive. Here are the three main types of depopulation technologies that exist right now:

Depopulation technologies, from mild to aggressive

#1) Family planning - birth control, abortions and one-child policies that reduce population over time by limiting childbirth. This is seen by globalists as the most "humane" way to reduce global population because it does not require the actual killing of adult humans.

#2) Covert infertility technologies - these includes GMOs and mercury in vaccines, both of which either cause spontaneous abortions or result in widespread infertility. Plastics chemicals also fall into this category. The key with these systems is that they are deployed covertly, population-wide, through either the medical system or the food system. The global elite who are aware of these depopulation vectors intentionally avoid non-GMO foods, mercury-laced vaccines and non-organic food for this very reason.

#3) Direct kill weapons - the primary weapon in this category is bioweapons. The U.S. Army, in particular, has already developed level IV bioweapons capable of killing 98% of those it infects. Other direct-kill weapons include nuclear power plant sabotage, nuclear war (missiles striking high population areas) and an intentional collapse of the global food supply, resulting in mass starvation.

Globalist power players are currently pushing strategy #1 very aggressively through family planning and abortions. Strategy #2 is also well under way with mass vaccination and GMO consumption. Strategy #3 is being held in reserve, ready to be unleashed when the time comes to eliminate the masses and transition the global economy to a combination of humanoid robots (the majority) run by a small minority of human elitists.

That's the final equation in all this: Laborers will be replaced by robots and phased out of the human gene pool one way or another. What the globalists want remaining is a highly-automated society with a relatively small number of humans remaining who are high-IQ individuals capable of focusing on technological advancement for the survival of the human race in a cosmos full of competing civilizations. One of the primary focus areas of this effort will be space-based weapons to defend humanity against non-terrestrial threats. Those potential threats include widely-acknowledged things such as asteroids as well as "top secret" things such as advanced non-terrestrial civilizations mounting an attack against Earth.

In the cosmic scale of things, by the way, it's actually a very important strategy to shore up strategic defenses of our home world, especially as we currently have no backup plan and no colonies on other worlds. If Earth is destroyed, humanity dies with it.

Who will be allowed to live? Those who can create

Here's how the globalists think: In order to shape the future in a way that conserves resources while maximizing the technological progress of human civilization, all so-called "useless eaters" must be eliminated, as they waste far too much food, energy and land. The precious resources of planet Earth must be conserved for those few who have the intelligence to know what to do with it.

Over the next century, it will become obvious that only innovative, high-IQ individuals who can out-think the robots have any real value to society. People who can program the robots -- or help design new ones -- are extremely valuable and will be allowed to live. People who can invent new technologies, create inspiring art, or write original fiction will also be valued precisely because they can do the things robots can't.

Specialty experts like surgeons will see their roles radically shifted. They will become strategic decision makers while their companion robots become the mechanics who actually carry out the procedures with extreme precision. Soldiers, too, will become in-the-field strategic decision makers managing squads of robotic grunts. This means the number of soldiers needed to run a war is drastically reduced, and human soldier casualties will be drastically reduced as well. (Which creates a dangerous incentive for imperialist nations to start more wars, thinking, "Oh, it's only robots that are dying, not people.")

The roles of truck drivers, police officers, bank tellers, fast food workers, food preparers, lawn care workers and many others will be radically shifted as robots take over. Importantly, as each robot is purchased to do a job, it replaces a human worker who will then become jobless.

How robots will multiply the great socioeconomic divide

Robots will sharply divide the economic classes. Those who are replaced by robots will become jobless and homeless. Those whose lives are enriched by the benefit of the robots will become abundantly wealthy in the material quality of their lives. (Although, notably, robots will not make their spiritual lives any more meaningful, so don't expect the robot revolution to equate to increased happiness.)

In time, the number of people displaced by robots will become so large and so enraged that mass riots can be expected to unfold across the cities of first-world nations where robots enjoy widespread deployment. These riots will reinforce the idea to the globalists that all these "useless eaters" need to be eliminated. After all, they no longer have anything to offer society that isn't already accomplished more efficiently by robots.

Expect to see accelerated efforts to find covert ways to eliminate these people through food and medicine vectors, including "free vaccines for the poor" campaigns that intentionally inject displaced workers with vaccines which cause medium-term death or widespread spontaneous abortions combined with infertility. For an historical reference to support this, note that the polio vaccines given to nearly 100 million Americans were later found to be contaminated with hidden cancer viruses. For decades, the CDC openly acknowledged this, but in a recent revisionist history scheme, the CDC scrubbed any mention of polio vaccine contamination from its website, hoping to erase this scientific truth from society's memory.

How to make sure the future needs you

If you're a cashier, a garbage collector, a drywall installer or any sort of ditch digger, the sobering truth of the matter is that the future doesn't need you. And the system will find a way to eliminate you a few short years after your job is eliminated. After all, the world's powerful decision makers can't have hundreds of millions of useless eaters rioting in the streets interfering with progress, right? (That's the way they think about it, anyway...)

So the only real way to ensure the future needs you is to invest in your education and boost your mental skills. Learn how to do something robots will not be able to do over the next 75 years: innovate, create and communicate. Make your dreams a reality through disciplined self-investment, entrepreneurship and action.

The more advanced your skills and mental capabilities, the more of a buffer you'll put between yourself and all those who will be "soft killed" as the robots take over the labor jobs in society. Robots, for example, will never be public relations consultants, fashion designers or fiction writers. They won't be journalists, screenwriters or psychologists. Robots do not have minds, spirits or souls, so they can never tap into the infinite creative potential of the human mind.

Anything you can accomplish that is creative will never be fully replicated by robots because creativity simply cannot be programmed. It can be simulated in some ways, but a robotic, computer-driven brain can never match the creative capacity of the non-material mind. Thus, conscious human beings with souls and minds will always have an edge over mechanical robots as long as they develop their unique spiritual gifts.

Here are some of the roles robots WILL play in society, however, as humanoid robots become increasingly affordable:

The humanoid robot rollout: a rough timeline

• The first humanoid robots we'll see will be soldiers. They will cost as much as $20 million each, and they will carry special sensors (infra-red vision) and equipment (emergency first aid) to track enemy combatants and help existing soldiers be more "effective" on the battlefield. Over time, this will transition to robotic soldiers becoming highly-efficient killing machines. Terminators, in other words, will soon carry rifles, kick in doors and toss grenades at "enemy combatants."

• As the cost of humanoid robots comes down, they will be deployed in municipal roles. Cities will be able to invest in robots as police officers once they approach the $2 million price range. Expect to see these appear and function much like the policing robots depicted in the sci-fi movie "Elysium" starring Matt Damon. View the trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBtePb-dGY

As all this happens, the mass production of humanoid robots for military and police applications will bring down costs and improve reliability. This will translate into more affordable models which will then be easily deployed in a wider range of commercial applications:

• At the $1 million price range, humanoid robots will be embraced by the private sector for factory jobs: product assembly, welding, warehouse logistics and so on. While $1 million may seem high, compared to a human worker who shows up drunk, injures himself on the job, then files a lawsuit against the company, a million bucks is actually a cheap investment for a worker that never whines, moans, steals or sexually assaults fellow workers.

• Once humanoid robots reach roughly $500,000 in cost, they will be widely adopted by agriculture. A reliable ag-robot can replace several low-cost laborers, all while performing the job with better quality control, fewer e.coli infections and no labor laws to worry about. Robots don't get sick from pesticide exposure, either, allowing the agricultural industry to unleash extremely toxic chemicals with zero risk of lawsuits from the workers. This chemically-contaminated food will be fed to the unemployed masses, of course, in an effort to kill them off for reasons mentioned above. (Upper-class citizens will insist on eating organic, non-poisoned foods.)

• When robots reach roughly the cost of a new home ($300,000 on average), they will become widely embraced by families and individuals. These general-purpose robots will be sold as a hardware platform for an "entry-level" lease price, and buyers will pay a monthly fee much like paying on a home or vehicle.

The "base price" robot will be extremely limited in function, most likely performing only very simple jobs such as sweeping floors, serving drinks or providing basic watchful security. Owners who want their robots to perform more complex functions will need to purchase additional functional upgrades. Need your robot to do the dishes? That's a $200 / month software upgrade. Want it to wash your car? That's another monthly fee. Whatever you want the robot to do for you -- take out the trash, mow the yard, feed the cat, guard the house at night -- will require paying another monthly fee. (BTW, this is a hugely lucrative business to get into once the technology becomes available. The first trillion-dollar company will no doubt be involved in robotics.)

What consumers won't be told, by the way, is that all home robots will be spying on homeowners for the NSA, providing direct visual feeds that are archived in the government's secret archives. Robots will also overhear all conversations and they will be programmed to "red flag" anyone who talks about freedom, or liberty, or other "illicit" activities which may even include buying and selling heirloom seeds.

In summary, robots will, over time, transition from extremely expensive, high-end government soldiers to affordable, mass-produced consumer household helpers that also function as spy portals for the government to keep tabs on the population. Robots will also play a huge role in hospitals and health care during all this. One of the driving forces behind robotics R&D in Japan, it turns out, is the need for home care robots to aid Japan's aging population.

The key technologies still needed for humanoid robots to become feasible

Right now, robots do not exist that can perform all these functions. Today's humanoid robots are lucky to be able to walk up a flight of stairs without falling over. Portable power is also extremely limiting right now and may be the primary challenge for the commercialization of humanoid robots.

Here are some of the challenges that need to be overcome for robots to become commercially viable:

• On-board power: current batteries are lousy sources of power. This is why most robots you see in online videos are tethered to an external power source.

• Vision recognition and on-board computing. Currently vision recognition algorithms are slow and exhibit poor accuracy. The seemingly simple act of recognizing objects in a given space remains highly elusive to robotics software developers.

• Motor coordination, actuation and strength. This is one of the big ones we humans take for granted. How, exactly, do you design and build a robot that can pick up your pet dog without breaking its neck accidentally? It's a tremendously complicated endeavor, and today's robots are nowhere near the level of sophistication needed in this area.

• Behavioral limits and robot safety. How do you teach a robot not to accidentally harm a living creature such as the family dog or a human baby? This will be required before robots can be sold into homes, yet this is also a highly complex area of R&D that actually requires the engineering of a deep "moral code" of robotics. The programming of moral codes is extraordinarily difficult because it requires the development of an entire curriculum of life that must be taught to the robot brain. For example, robots will need to be programmed with some sort of "compassion mirroring" circuit that help the robot "feel" what others are feeling around it, so that if it accidentally steps on someone's toe and hears that person say, "Ouch!" the robot actually feels a sort of mirror-image "pain" in its own brain, and thereby learns not to harm other humans.

Most human beings already have this capacity, by the way. Those who do not have this so-called "empathy circuit" are called sociopaths. They tend to become high-level politicians and corporate CEOs because both positions are much easier to achieve if you have absolutely no compassion for fellow human beings.

One other aspect of all this is that robots will need to be taught rules for self-preservation. This also implies that robots will need to be taught the highly complex realm of "cause and reaction." This furthermore implies that robots must be taught the laws of physics so that it can, for example, anticipate how a falling object might harm its own body or the body of its owner. While such things appear simple to a human mind, they are wildly challenging problems for software developers dealing with physical robotic hardware operating in a three-dimensional space.

Even the simple act of picking a strawberry requires astonishing coordination between vision, brain interpretation, muscle coordination, timing and so on. How do you program a robot to avoid crushing the strawberry while gripping it firmly enough to pull it free from its stem? How do you program a bipedal robot to walk through strawberry fields without crushing plants and smashing the fruit? These are extremely complex problems, and it will take decades to solve them.

The bottom line

The upshot of all this is that even though robotics is still a long way from achieving the level of sophistication required to see humanoid robots deployed in military, commercial and household applications, the day is coming that robots will replace most human laborers.

When that day comes, unskilled laborers will have no (commercial) value to society. Robotics will expand the divide between the ultra-wealthy and the homeless, jobless masses. The global elite will deploy means of depopulation or population control to eliminate the "useless eaters" and drastically reduce human population on the planet.

The only humans "allowed" to remain alive will be those who possess valuable intelligence, skills or creativity that robots cannot replicate. People with creative skills will always be valued, even in a highly automated society.

The best way to protect your future and avoid becoming obsolete is to invest in developing your own creative skills so that you are always able to offer something to society which robots cannot. This will ensure your continued value.

If you have children, guiding them toward the development of creative skills is the best way to ensure their long-term survival in a society that's transitioning into robotics automation.

Source : http://www.naturalnews.com/042276_robotics_revolution_worker_displacement_depopulation.html

Obamacare failures begin: D.C. health exchange prices are broken until mid-November

Less than a week before the "official" roll-out of Obamacare and the system is in a shambles.

Americans remain fearful and confused about the new law. Benefits and pricing still hasn't been worked out. And worse, some of the state and territorial exchanges called for under the law are already on life support.

Can you say, "Epic fail?"

Per the Washington Post:

Just days away from launch, the District of Columbia's health marketplace is announcing a pretty significant delay.

While the D.C. Health Link will launch a Web site on October 1, shoppers will not have access to the their premium prices until mid-November. The delay comes after the District marketplace discovered "a high error rate" in calculating the tax credits that low- and middle-income people will use to purchase insurance on the marketplace.

The nation's capital, perhaps the most liberal "progressive" place in the entire country, has been increasingly fearful of Obamacare's disastrous effects in the months and weeks leading up to the official launch. Huge amounts of unionized federal workers have rejected the law that Obama has exempted lawmakers from [http://www.naturalnews.com]. The IRS's own union - members of the agency charged with enforcing Obamacare's myriad of rules, regulations, mandates and penalties - doesn't want the law [http://www.naturalnews.com].

Now, as the start date for the law approaches, many of the government-run health insurance exchanges called for under the "Affordable" Care Act are either not ready for prime time or are too broken to function.

And it is as appropriate as it is ironic that the exchange in the nation's capital is one of the first to break.

As reported by the Post, the insurance exchanges - according to plan - were supposed to be capable of providing estimates for tax credits after a "shopper" puts in some basic info about where he or she lives and how much he or she earns (already, as you can see, Obamacare demands info you shouldn't have to provide the government just to purchase health insurance!).

But, in D.C. at least, that's not going to happen at least until next month. And perhaps longer.

Instead, the paper reported, determinations of eligibility will be made "offline" by early November.

More from the Post:

The delay will be less significant for people who likely qualify for Medicaid in the District, which covers everyone below 200 percent of the poverty line (about $22,000 for an individual). In cases where someone is found likely eligible for that program, D.C. Health Link spokesman Richard Sorian said they should get a determination with 24 hours.

The plan is to ensure that Medicaid enrollees - who, of course, qualify automatically and immediately for still more taxpayer-provided benefits under Obamacare - are processed the fastest.

Working stiffs - people who might qualify for tax credits - will have to wait until January, again at the earliest.

Still think the government can get this right?

D.C. Healthlink, the name of Washington's insurance exchange, put out this announcement:

DC Health Link is not currently deploying the function that makes new Medicaid eligibility determinations and calculates tax credits for purchase of private insurance due to a high error rate discovered through extensive systems testing.

People seeking Medicaid coverage or tax credits will be able to use DC Health Link to create an account and submit an on-line application.

The Post notes, "This certainly is not good news for Obamacare, especially in the wake of the other reports on similar glitches at the federal level. The Obama administration has repeatedly promised that, starting on October 1, all Americans will be able to purchase insurance coverage on the new marketplaces."

Actually, it's not good news for American insurance consumers. We've been reporting for years that this law is, and will continue to be, an unmitigated, bureaucratic nightmare disaster. That it's launch is already so screwed up - after a two-year lead time - should tell you all you need to know about how the rest of this will turn out.

Source : http://www.naturalnews.com/042243_Obamacare_failures_health_exchanges_broken_prices.html

'Jekyll-and-Hyde' protein may be the key to stopping cancer metastasis

One of the deadliest aspects of a cancerous tumor is its ability to grow and spread, assimilating and destroying healthy cells throughout the body.  Controlling this lethal expansion, known as metastasis can be a difficult endeavor. But now, researchers have revealed that a notoriously fickle protein may be the key to stopping cancer’s rapid development.
Displaying ‘mood swings’ that researchers compare to those of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the protein E2F sometimes boosts tumor cell growth and at other times suppresses it.  According to the researchers at Oxford University who discovered E2F, they have found a way to block the abnormal protein’s change into the deadly “Mr. Hyde” – a move that results in cancer cell death.
In a study published in the journal Molecular Cell, the researchers explained E2F’s dual nature for the first time and how it can be an extremely effective target for new cancer treatments.
“We discovered this protein originally in the early 1990s, and since then we’ve discovered quite a lot (about it),” study author Nick La Thangue, a professor in the department of oncology at Oxford, told FoxNews.com.  “It’s a target, regulated by a tumor suppressor gene… and the pathway has been shown to be abnormal in virtually all tumor cells, which drives the proliferation forward.”
According to La Thangue, when E2F is functioning properly, it is a crucial tool for cell regulation.  As Mr. Hyde, the protein helps healthy cells grow, but when a cell becomes damaged or sick, the protein reverts to Dr. Jekyll and signals for the cell to die.  This process is called apoptosis, and it helps to prevent the buildup of DNA errors or the development of cancer.
However, when cancer cells do start to grow in the body, the gene that encodes E2F becomes mutated, and the protein loses its ability to foster cell death. Instead, it remains permanently in its “Mr. Hyde” state, enhancing the cancer cells’ ability to flourish.  La Thangue noted that while E2F is found in all cells of the body, tumor cells have much larger amounts of the protein.
In their study, the researchers explained that E2F’s double nature is controlled by two slightly different enzymes.
“It’s an enzyme modification, and it’s quite an unusual modification called arginine methylation,” La Thangue said. “It’s actually quite amazing stuff, because there are two different types of arginine methylation, and they differ by a small amount of chemistry.  One form provides a (molecular label) that makes the cell proliferate, and the other makes it die.”
The enzymes attach these molecular labels on different part of E2F, and they act as flags that either signal cell proliferation or signal cell death.  In cancer cells, the enzyme responsible for cell proliferation is hyperactive and ultimately overpowers the enzyme for cell death.
Upon understanding this biological mechanism, La Thangue said he and his colleagues have identified drug compounds that target the overactive enzyme, which he hopes to use to develop an effective new chemotherapy treatment for the future.
“We have a program aimed at developing small molecule drugs that target this enzyme,” La Thangue said.  “While it’s not coming out tomorrow, at the same time, it’s not 10 years away.  I’d say we’re a few years away until we move to clinical trial.”
La Thangue is confident that this new drug could be extremely beneficial for patients, as it could finally control metastasis in nearly all cancers.
“One of the beauties of this is that it’s a pathway which is abnormal in the vast majority of human tumors,” La Thangue said.  “It’s not tumor cell specific; it’s very generic.”
Source : http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/09/26/jekyll-and-hyde-protein-may-be-key-to-stopping-cancer-metastasis/

Despite gov't assurances, some could see insurance costs soar under ObamaCare

While the administration maintains that ObamaCare will make health insurance more affordable for Americans, experts say that won’t be the case across the board – and some people could see their rates soar.
On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released an overview of premiums and plan choices, saying “For millions of Americans, these new options will finally make health insurance work within their budgets.”
The administration also said premiums would generally be lower than what congressional budget experts had estimated during debate on the legislation.
But former Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Holtz-Eakin said Thursday, “unfortunately you can go all through that HHS report and not be able to answer the most important question: will my insurance rates go up in 2014?"
"They cherry picked the data in order to highlight the fact that people of low income will benefit under the law," adds Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a New York-based think tank. "But people of middle income will not. And they didn’t really talk about that."
The new law requires the addition of what it calls essential benefits -- a list of things that must be covered and which make insurance more expensive than it is now.
"This report is intended to send the message, 'hey everybody wins, this is a great thing, please show up,"says Holtz-Eakin.
"That's not the reality. The reality is much messier. There's going to be some people who do better. There are going to be a lot of people who do much, much worse."
The Manhattan Institute analyzed rates around the country and found that for people of medium income, costs will soar -- up by as much as 99 percent for men, and up about 55 percent for women.
"Even if the average American gets some subsidy, a partial subsidy," says Roy, who authored the study,"that partial subsidy won't be enough to overcome the dramatic increase in the cost of insurance, the underlying cost of insurance ObamaCare imposes on the market."
But insurance premiums are only one part of the puzzle. Most plans also have very high deductibles.
"Do you have a large deductible?" asks Holtz-Eakin. "How much do you have to pay before the insurance starts picking up the cost?"
Analysts expect deductibles to be in the $5,000 to $6,000 range for the lowest level of coverage, the bronze plan.
Dan Mendelson, CEO and founder at Avalere Health in Washington,says,"So, if you're in a bronze plan, the premiums are going to be relatively low, you know, as HHS said, in some cases people won't pay premiums at all.
“But there are going to be very high out of pocket costs and deductibles in some cases are going to be over $5,500."
That means a person with a plan at that level might only pay $100 dollars a month in premiums, as the administration has said.
But depending on medical events, the deductible could add almost $500 dollars a month more, without even counting the co-pays
Source : http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/27/despite-administration-assurances-some-rates-may-soar-under-obamacare/

Golden rice exposed as fraud: Genetically engineered crop nothing more than biotech battering ram to crush GMO regulations

Everywhere you turn in the media, GMO propagandists are invoking so-called "Golden rice" as part of a false narrative that claims GMOs will save the world. Golden rice will save a million lives, blared the cover of TIME Magazine. Golden rice will give poor people critical nutrition and end suffering, we're told. In fact, Golden rice will even make all the poor children eating it no longer care that they have no clean water, no sustainable agriculture and no economic future, it seems.

There's a problem with all this, of course: the golden rice hoopla is pure hokum. Quackery. Charlatanism. There is no evidence whatsoever that golden rice can treat, prevent or cure any medical condition. And since when did pro-GMO people ever care about nutrition in the first place? Aren't they in agreement with the FDA that there is no vitamin, no mineral and no herb that has any ability whatsoever to prevent, treat or cure any disease?

The Golden rice false narrative

To understand all this, you have to grasp the claims of the golden rice fiction pushers. They say that there are millions of children dying in Southeast Asia from one single cause. And that cause is that the rice they eat does not have enough vitamin A in it. Surely these people could eat carrots and get plenty of beta-carotene, a precursor to vitamin A. But the GMO industry doesn't want you to think about carrots from Mother Nature. They want you to jump on board with golden rice from biotech companies.

Now, set aside for a moment the ridiculously myopic point of view that fixates on one nutrient rather than the full assortment of vitamins, minerals and plant-based nutrients humans need to survive. To the GMO pushers, there's only one nutrient that matters, and that's vitamin A. They furthermore believe vitamin A can never come from any other source than GMO golden rice (not kale, spinach, carrots or anything else).

Also set aside for a moment the fact that GMO crops are routinely the most nutrient depleted crops in the world because they are grown in corporate monoculture fields where micronutrients like zinc and magnesium are never added back into the soil. Instead, crops like GM corn are fed only a diet of Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium (NPK) with an extra helping of BT toxin that's grown in each and every kernel. For some reason, the idea that the entire western world is eating a known poison that destroys the stomachs of insects and animals does not bother the golden rice pushers. The only thing that matters to them is that not enough poor children are eating GMOs.

And so the myths begin: Golden rice will save the planet! Biotech is our savior! Children will be saved from nutritional starvation!

The magical golden rice myth

For the last two decades, the myth of golden rice has been invoked by GMO pushers to try to justify their agenda of 1) Owning the world's seeds, 2) Forcing all farmers into economic servitude to Monsanto, 3) Spreading so much genetic pollution that heirloom crops all become contaminated with the genetic intellectual property of the GMO corporations.

These are the real goals of the GMO industry. Not to save lives but to control lives and dominate the global food supply. (All while dousing the entire planet with deadly glyphosate, by the way.)

But there's a problem with the golden rice narrative: it's all fiction. And to understand that, you have to get right down to the science -- something that GMO pushers have long since completely abandoned. "RUN! It's science!"

Golden rice myths debunked

To start with, the genetically engineered variety of golden rice is the wrong variety altogether. There are two varieties of rice typically grown in Southeast Asia: Japonica rice and Indica rice (two "families" of rice). Japonica is a dryland rice, while Indica is grown in wet rice paddies.

The genetically engineered "golden rice" is Japonica rice, which refuses to grow in the wet regions where children are most impacted by vitamin A deficiency. So the GMO industry goofed big time on this and engineered vitamin A into the rice that doesn't need it.

And why? Because it was easier to insert the beta-carotene genes into the Indica rice. It's a lot like that old joke where a guy loses his keys on a dark street but ends up looking for them only under the streetlight. A friend asks, "You lost your keys over there, so why are you looking for them here?" And the guy replies, "Because this is where there's light!"

See, the GMO industry doesn't care about which variety of rice gets artificially inserted with an unnatural gene sequence. As long as they nail something with it, they can then run the false headlines about how their Frankenfood scientists will save the world (even as they put the entire world at risk from genetic pollution).

Vitamin A precursor in golden rice may not survive storage and cooking

Getting back to the actual science of all this, first realize that this so-called "golden rice" doesn't contain vitamin A at all. It contains beta-carotene, a precursor to vitamin A that the human body transforms into vitamin A.

Unless there's some new research I haven't heard about, there have been no studies on the integrity of beta-carotene in stored golden rice. There is no evidence, in other words, that the artificially-inserted beta-carotene even survives storage to a sufficient degree to matter nutritionally. This utter lack of scientific evidence, however, doesn't stop GMO pushers from falsely claiming golden rice will save millions of children. This "leap of faith" by GMO advocates is utterly and wholly non-scientific and not supporting in any way by actual scientific data.

It is, in essence, belief in magic. Golden rice is a "magical" food, it seems, sort of like Lucky Charms, which are "magically delicious."

Consider this delusional thinking by one GMO pusher:

"Golden Rice could prevent blindness and death of hundreds of thousands of children but can not do so, so far, because risk assessment notoriously is ignoring a risk-benefit analysis!" - Ingo Potrykus, April 2004 (SOURCE)

On what scientific basis does Ingo claim golden rice can "prevent blindness and death" when there is absolutely no scientific evidence to support such a claim? Ingo, like all the other golden rice pushers, is engaged in "magical thinking." He wants golden rice to prevent blindness, so he leaps to the conclusion that it does as a matter of faith, not science.

Even if the beta carotene survives storage, there's the question of how much beta-carotene survives high-heat cooking. While there is evidence that low-heat cooking may actually make beta-carotene more readily digestible in some foods, at high heat, beta-carotene is easily destroyed, which is why canned vegetables consistently test at lower levels of beta-carotene than fresh vegetables. Again, this has not been sufficiently studied in golden rice, so no one can really answer the question of whether golden rice will in fact deliver usable beta carotene to the bodies of people who eat it after it is harvested, stored and prepared in a traditional manner.

This fact doesn't stop delusional thinking by GMO industry shills like Troy Goodman:

"GM food scientists have already developed a yellow rice, or "golden" rice, that is rich in vitamin A and iron and helps prevent anemia and blindness, especially in children." - Troy Goodman (SOURCE)

Troy Goodman is, of course, making a fraudulent drug claim for an artificial food which has never been approved by the FDA to treat any health condition. The fact that these claims have never been substantiated doesn't seem to bother Troy, though. Who needs evidence when you believe in magic? This all comes down to a matter of faith, not science. That's what the GMO industry and all its corporate flaks ultimately add up to: a cult of GMO worshippers who don't have actual science to back their positions, but they do have "faith" (beliefs) which defy reality.

By the way, this entire argument about golden rice presupposes that GE rice is the only way to deliver this nutrient to these children. But that's absurd: beta carotene is easily found in all sorts of foods such as carrots and cantaloupe, none of which need to be genetically engineered to produce beta carotene.

Golden rice claims are medical fraud

Here's where the golden rice pushers really hit a conundrum. In their golden rice propaganda, they claim that this rice prevents blindness and death.

This very claim, according to the FDA, transforms golden rice into a drug. The FDA's definition of a drug is any substance that "treats, prevents or cures" any health condition. The FDA, in fact, uses this stance as a weapon to routinely attack and raid nutritional supplement companies. Even a manufacturer of cherry juice can be arrested and charged with crimes for claiming that cherry juice prevents gout, a claim that's exhaustively supported by the scientific literature, including studies funded by the U.S. government itself.

So the claim that golden rice prevents blindness is, in fact, a drug claim. Yet golden rice has never been approved by the FDA to treat any disease or health condition whatsoever. GMO pushers, of course, claim that golden rice is not a drug and therefore doesn't need approval by the FDA, but this is false. The mere claim that it treats or prevents a disease makes it a drug under current FDA regulations (which are quite ridiculous, of course).

Here's a professor of Johns Hopkins violating FDA regulations and making false drug claims about golden rice:

"Since a large proportion of vitamin A-deficient children and their mothers reside in rice-consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year," - Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (SOURCE)

Dr. Alfred Sommer, like nearly all other biotech pushers, is engaged in making a fraudulent drug claim for a substance the FDA would categorize as an "unapproved drug." If Dr. Sommer sold golden rice alongside such claims, he could be arrested and charged with "drug-related crimes" and even red-flagged on Interpol as an international fugitive, just as happened to Greg Caton who sold topical cancer salves made from Amazonian herbs.

Why are drug claims selectively allowed for golden rice but no other foods, herbs or superfoods? If it is the position of GMO advocates that all food-based nutrition can be sold alongside bold claims of treating disease and preventing death, then they must also agree that all other foods, superfoods and herbs need no FDA approval, either. Manufacturers of herbal supplements, superfoods and dietary supplements offer far more than beta-carotene to consumers, yet none of these companies can make any health claims whatsoever without being threatened or even raided and shut down by the FDA.

Is it now the position of GMO advocates that everyone who offers nutrient-rich foods can now openly claim that they treat, prevent and cure disease? Of course not. GMO pushers want this claim to be selectively applied only to their Frankenfoods, not to other foods, herbs or nutritional supplements. In their minds, only beta-carotene from genetically engineered foods has any health benefit. All other beta-carotene is somehow "inert." This is yet another blaring contradiction in the magical thinking of golden rice pushers.

So until golden rice is tested and approved as a drug by the FDA, all these claims being touted by GMO pushers are fraudulent medical claims. Unless, of course, you want to clear away all FDA regulations on the benefits of nutrients in foods and allow all food manufacturers to make scientifically-validated health claims (which would probably be a good idea, overall).

Here's another totally false, unsubstantiated and illegal drug claim being made by the "Golden Rice Project" pushers:

"Considering that Golden Rice could substantially reduce blindness (500,000 children per year) and deaths (2-3 million per year), the parsimony displayed by the responsible bodies after 20 years is hardly understandable. - Jorge E. Mayer, Peter Beyer, Ingo Potrykus, "The Golden Rice Project" (SOURCE)

Jorge Mayer, like everyone else mentioned here, has joined the golden rice magical thinking cult and has cast aside critical thinking in his enthusiastic effort to pile on yet more fraudulent medical claims about golden rice. How does Mr. Mayer know golden rice can reduce deaths and blindness? He doesn't. There is no evidence whatsoever to support this. Mr. Mayer is engaged in what skeptics routinely refer to as "magical thinking."

Artificially adding beta-carotene to rice may interfere with the absorption of other nutrients

There's a good reason why playing God with Mother Nature's seeds is a bad idea. For starters, human scientists are short-sighted, arrogant fools compared to the wisdom of nature. This is immediately evident in the realization that beta-carotene, in isolation, actually interferes with the absorption of other nutrients such as canthaxanthin and lycopene.

In nature, nutrients appear in a natural, holistic "symphony" that creates nutritional balance in the body. But when Frankenfood scientists start playing God with seeds, they will often introduce a nutritional imbalance by inserting a gene for one isolated nutrient without considering the complex dietary implications experienced by people who eat the plant.

The case of South Asian children going blind or dying from a "lack of vitamin A," as is often quoted in the status quo media, is such a vast oversimplification of the real nutritional challenges facing these children that the statement is akin to quackery. These children don't need just one vitamin. They need the kind of full-spectrum nutrition that only comes from growing a diverse selection of food.

The real nutritional problems facing these kids, in other words, are not problems that can be solved by artificially inserting a few genes into rice. What these regions really need is permaculture education so they can learn to grow a more diverse diet that's naturally rich in vitamins, nutrients, carotenoids and other plant-based medicines that nourish humans and prevent disease.

But you won't hear the GMO pushers talk about teaching people to farm. And the word "permaculture" is considered blasphemy in the biotech industry. Teaching people to farm using heirloom seeds would be utterly contradictory to the goal of the biotech industry -- total domination and enslavement of the human race by using food as a system of control.

The implication that the lives of these people can be transformed with one genetically engineered crop containing ONE nutrient is absurd. These people need permaculture. They need sustainable farming practices. They need a diverse diet of locally-grown foods that naturally and automatically produce thousands of phytonutrients, including beta-carotene. Western corporations, however, think the answer is "vaccines and GMOs," and in that belief, the entire western system of "scientific thinking" is shown to utterly lack any real understanding about life, nutrition, compassion and ethics.

Biotech is an industry that's far more interested in controlling people than saving them.

If you really want to help your fellow man, give him some seeds, teach him how to farm, and most importantly do not seek monopoly patents on those seeds so that you can economically enslave your fellow man. On this point, every biotech company on the planet fails the basic test of ethics and corporate responsibility. For those companies to then claim they are "helping humanity" or "feeding the world" while enslaving it borders on the criminally insane. (And in my opinion, companies like Monsanto are global criminal enterprises engaged in heinous crimes against humanity.)

Regulations are in the way of saving children!

GMO scientists and industry monopolists (like Monsanto and Syngenta) claim the only reason golden rice isn't saving millions of lives right now is because of all those darned GMO regulations which should be completely removed. In fact, they say, any company should be allowed to plant any experimental crop it wants, right out in the open, without any oversight whatsoever. Who needs regulations when the industry itself operates with such high standards of integrity and caution, right?

In reality, their approach is more like "the environment be damned!" Who cares about genetic pollution that could cause a global agricultural holocaust when there are public relations victories to be scored on golden rice! (In other words, to push their monopolist crops, GMO companies would gladly put the entire world at risk of a global food supply collapse.)

Right now, the goal of the GMO industry is to use golden rice as a battering ram to loosen regulations against GMOs so that companies like Monsanto can seize control of agriculture everywhere around the world. Golden rice is the cover story, but the real agenda is to dominate all agricultural seeds and crops for centuries to come. And in order to achieve that, this industry will gladly unleash a steady stream of false claims about golden rice that utterly lack any scientific substantiation whatsoever.

Every single person who has joined the cult-like bandwagon of false medical claims for golden rice is now guilty of lying to the public and colluding with an industry steeped in death and destruction.

The bottom line? If you really want to help malnourished people around the world, teach them how to farm so they can grow their own nutrient-rich vegetables like carrots, cabbage and beets. GMOs are not required. All we need is open-pollinated seeds, permaculture education and fundamental human compassion rather than corporate greed.

See my related article, Golden rice debunked: ten blatant contradictions and false claims of genetically modified rice.

Action item: Link to this story using "golden rice"

If you really want to make a dent in this debate, link to this story using the words "golden rice" so that this article becomes more prominent when people search the term.

This will also help Natural News educate more people on this issue so that we can all make better informed decisions on these important agricultural issues.

The golden rice false narrative is being intentionally distorted in order to push a corporate agenda, and it's time we stood up to the lies and told the real story on golden rice.

The world doesn't need golden rice and more GMOs polluting the planet. What the world does need is permaculture knowledge, open-pollinated seeds and soils that are not damaged by glyphosate. It's time to get back to protecting life rather than protecting corporate profits.

Shame on all those who keep pushing golden rice. They are destroyers of our world and instigators of human suffering. They are also delusional when it comes to clear thinking and real science.

Source : http://www.naturalnews.com/042244_golden_rice_medical_fraud_GMO_regulations.html#ixzz2g4ym31Bv

Blood donations from people vaccinated against HPV may be harmful to recipients

A shocking new report reveals that receiving blood donated from someone vaccinated with Gardasil, the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine, may be downright dangerous to your health.

S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc., contracted with an independent lab which tested 13 Gardasil vials from 13 different lots from all over the world and found that the genetically modified HPV DNA strands present in Gardasil had firmly attached to the vaccination's aluminum adjuvant in a whopping 100% of the samples tested.

While natural HPV DNA does not stay in the bloodstream long, the aluminum binding allows the genetically modified recombinant HPV DNA (rDNA) to behave differently, potentially entering cells and wreaking havoc.

The vials were analyzed after a concerned parent contacted S.A.N.E. Vax, because her 13-year-old daughter developed an auto-immune reaction that would later be diagnosed as acute juvenile rheumatoid arthritis within 24 hours after receiving her third Gardasil vaccine. Two years following the incident, the girl's blood still tested positive for HPV DNA that should not be there. In fact, these strands have also been found in post-mortem samples as well, as in the case of teen Jasmine Renata, who died inexplicably in her sleep six months after receiving a Gardasil shot.

S.A.N.E. Vax points out that both Merck, the pharmaceutical company that manufactures Gardasil, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) claimed there was no viral DNA in Gardasil at the time of its "fast-tracked" approval. Milford Hospital Pathologist Dr. Sin Hang Lee, who analyzed the Gardasil vials, testified, "Undegraded viral and plasmid DNA fragments are known to activate macrophages, causing them to release tumor necrosis factor, a myocardial depressant which can induce lethal shock in animals and humans."

NaturalNews has previously reported that, by injecting a vaccine, any potentially toxic ingredients therein become much more harmful, because they are allowed to bypass the natural protections of the respiratory system and digestive tract. Dr. Lee noted, "DNA in an injectable protein-based vaccine may increase the risk of autoimmune disorders and gene mutation which may lead to malignancies."

Both Merck and the FDA should have been aware of this risk, but in fact, according to the official prescribing information for Gardasil, the vaccine "has not been evaluated for the potential to cause carcinogenicity or genotoxicity." Anyone who receives the Gardasil shot or allows administration to their children is taking a huge auto-immune disorder and/or cancer risk.

Vactruth's Sandy Lunoe wrote the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to ask about the potential dangers of blood transfusion recipients taking a Gardasil shot; the CDC responded that "the presence of DNA fragments is expected" and "Vaccination with Gardasil provides no known risk to the blood recipients or the blood donor." Lunoe notes that the CDC gave no evidence to support this statement.

Gardasil Adverse Reactions 'Like a Catalog of Horrors'

Tom Fitton, president of watchdog Judicial Watch, wrote, "The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors." Some of the adverse events include not only auto-immune disorders and cancer, but Guillain-Barre syndrome, paralysis, numbness, facial palsy, chronic pain, infertility, chronic fatigue syndrome and more. So many horrible reactions have occurred in the wake of Gardasil vaccinations that the Japanese government has withdrawn support and now requires the nation's medical professionals to warn patients who request Gardasil about the potential for adverse effects.

As of August 2013, S.A.N.E. Vax reports that HPV vaccines have caused over 30,000 adverse reactions, including 6,154 cases where the recipient did not recover, 975 cases where the recipient was disabled and 139 deaths. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has already awarded nearly $6 million in damages to Gardasil victims.

Despite the mounting evidence that Gardasil is dangerous, the FDA continues to maintain that Gardasil is safe and effective, and the National Institutes of Health even recently awarded the University of California nearly $550,000 to study new propaganda campaigns for pushing the shot on low-income minority parents.

This is also despite the fact that HPV itself does not cause cervical cancer. In addition, the CDC even admits that 90% of HPV is taken care of naturally by the body's immune system within two years. Key Gardasil developer Dr. Diane Harper has recently come out against the vaccine to clear her conscience, stating, "Gardasil has been associated with at least as many serious adverse events as there are deaths from cervical cancer developing each year."

In other words, thousands have been damaged by a vaccine that does not even provide any real health benefit.

Source : http://www.naturalnews.com/042227_HPV_vaccines_blood_donations_adverse_reactions.html

10 easy, natural remedies for conquering the common cold

Persistent coughing, runny nose, stuffed up sinuses, headaches -- these are among the many symptoms that can drag you down and leave you feeling helpless to make it through your day and fulfill your responsibilities when you catch a cold virus. But rather than reach for those chemical-laden cough syrups and mind-numbing antihistamines, why not instead try one or more of these 10 natural remedies for conquering the common cold?

1) Vitamin D. Vitamin D is perhaps the most overlooked, and yet arguably one of the most effective, remedies for treating the common cold. Although it works better as a preventive regimen, taking higher than normal doses of vitamin D3 daily -- some experts recommend taking 10,000 international units (IU) or more of vitamin D3 every day -- can help reduce cold and flu symptoms and get you back to normal health much more quickly than without them.
2) Apple cider vinegar. Cold viruses tend to put the body into an overly acidic state, which makes it that much more difficult for the immune system to fight disease. But taking apple cider vinegar, a powerful alkalizing food, will help not only kill a cold but also squash its miserable symptoms. Mixing a few tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with warm water, honey, and lemon, and drinking the concoction several times a day will have you back to health in no time.

3) Vitamin C. A powerful immune booster, vitamin C is a go-to remedy for both preventing and treating colds. Some experts recommend taking up to 2,000 milligrams (mg) or more of non-genetically-modified (non-GMO) ascorbic acid or sodium ascorbate every two hours while suffering cold symptoms. Other vitamin C options include camu camu and acerola cherry powders, as well as "liposomal" vitamin C preparations.

4) Honey. A powerful soothing and healing agent, raw honey from untainted bees can go a long way in boosting immunity and treating cold symptoms. Its diverse array of antioxidant, antiviral, and antibacterial nutrients make honey an excellent cold medicine that mixes well with other cold remedies such as apple cider vinegar and lemon.

5) Ginger. Another powerful, soothing agent, ginger root is a powerful healer with amazing anti-inflammatory properties. Because it targets stomach upset, those suffering from cold symptoms that involve digestion can experience dramatic relief from taking ginger. Ginger also helps warm the body, which is highly effective at promoting perspiration and the expelling of toxins and other harmful invaders.

6) Zinc. Often sold in syrup or lozenge form for such purposes, zinc has been scientifically shown to help combat the sniffling, sneezing, and coughing symptoms typically associated with colds. Zinc is also a powerful immune-boosting trace element that facilitates the proper function of more than 3,000 proteins in the body, as well as the promotion of healthy digestive function, which is where the bulk of immunity lies.

7) Echinacea. A 2007 study out of the University of Connecticut found that supplementing with echinacea herb not only reduces your chances of developing a cold by more than 50 percent, but can also shorten the duration of cold symptoms by several days. Because it stimulates the immune system and promotes the activation of T-cells, echinacea is an excellent cold remedy, especially when combined with many of the other remedies listed in this report.

8) Neti pot. If stuffed-up sinuses are one of your primary ailments, using a neti pot to clear them out is an easy, natural way to help you get back on your feet. Just fill a sanitized neti pot with warm water and about one teaspoon of sea salt, and gently pour it down your sinuses. Besides clearing out your nasal passages, the cleansing salts will also help eliminate bacteria and other harmful pathogens.

9) Oil of oregano. Rich in four specific groups of chemicals that synergistically promote healing and strong immunity, essential oil of oregano is unparalleled in its ability to both prevent harmful viruses from taking hold, and eradicating existing viruses such as the common cold. The natural terpene chemicals found in oil or oregano exhibit powerful antiviral and anti-inflammatory activity, while carvacrol, the primary active ingredient in oil of oregano, fight off harmful pathogens.

10) Coconut oil. This elixir from the coconut palm is one of the most powerful, natural antiviral compounds known to man. Coconut oil has an amazing ability to target virtually any virus, including cold viruses. Rich in medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs), coconut oil absorbs directly into viral cells where it breaks apart and disintegrates the protective coating of the virus, effectively killing it. Take a tablespoon or two daily of extra virgin coconut oil, particularly at the onset of cold symptoms, can effectively thwart the virus from taking hold and running its course.

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Golden rice debunked: ten blatant contradictions and false claims of genetically modified rice

Golden rice is being touted by GMO advocates as a miracle cure for blindness and death. It is claimed that golden rice is genetically engineered to produce higher levels of beta carotene which the body converts to vitamin A, preventing blindness and death. These claims, however, have no basis in fact and are utterly unsupported by any scientific evidence whatsoever. In fact, those pushing golden rice are doing so as a matter of intense faith rather than science. This is especially noteworthy because those pushing it are staunch enemies of "faith" and claim to be operating solely based on science.

That's why I've assembled a list of ten glaring contradictions in the arguments of golden rice advocates, nearly all of whom have financial ties to the GMO biotech industry.

Here are ten important things golden rice advocates won't tell you about the unscientific faith in an untested, unproven Frankenfoods experiment:

#1) There is no scientific basis to claim that the beta carotene artificially produced in golden rice survives storage and cooking to actually be absorbed by those who eat it

No clinical trials have ever been conducted showing that the beta carotene engineered into golden rice actually makes its way from harvest, to storage, to cooking and into the human body intact. There is no evidence to support any claim that golden rice, when grown and harvested in the traditional manner of southeast Asian cultures, will actually raise levels of beta carotene in the bodies of those who eat it.

We cannot simply assume that an artificially-induced phytonutrient will survive harvesting, storage and cooking to deliver the claimed impact on human health unless it is extensively studied. The studies that have been done on golden rice and beta carotene consumption were conducted under laboratory conditions, not real-world conditions.

#2) Golden rice advocates utterly ignore the environmental risks of genetic pollution

There are no scientific studies whatsoever to show that the open-field cultivation of genetically engineered golden rice is safe for the environment. The risk of genetic pollution that might contaminate and alter neighboring rice populations has been callously and irresponsibly ignored by golden rice advocates. (This is part of the "faith" requirement to join the Church of Biotechnology.)

There is also risk that this alteration of golden rice may have unintended consequences such as creating new vulnerabilities to pests or microbial infections. These risks are routinely dismissed by golden rice advocates as if they did not exist. Murphy's Law tells us that good intentions often have unintended negative consequences. To pretend they do not exist is the height of scientific irresponsibility.

#3) There is no scientific basis whatsoever for the claim that golden rice can "prevent blindness" or "prevent death" as is being widely claimed

Where are the clinical studies for such a claim? They do not exist. With claims that it can prevent blindness or death, golden rice is now being positioned as a drug (see below) with specific medical benefits. Where are the clinical trials that prove such benefits exist at all?

Where is the science that assesses the possible side effects of human consumption of golden rice? Such studies do not exist. If golden rice is supposed to represent the best of modern science, then modern science is a tragic failure because the story of golden rice is one based almost entirely on wishful thinking -- or as some skeptics call it, "Magic!"

Yes, golden rice is a "magical GMO crop" that cures disease and saves people from death. How do we know this? Because the GMO pushers essentially tell us we should all believe in magic. Golden rice magic!

(Notice how their pet projects never need any actual science to back them up? But when they criticize medicinal herbs, even a massive collection of scientific evidence is always declared to be "unconvincing.")

#4) Claiming that golden rice can prevent blindness or death automatically turns golden rice into an unapproved drug according to current FDA regulations. All golden rice claims are actually "drug claims"

The very same people who promote golden rice also tend to be so-called skeptics of nutritional therapies, medicinal herbs, superfoods and phytonutrients. They insist that there is no such thing as any nutrient, vitamin, mineral or food that has any therapeutic effect on the human body whatsoever. (This is the official position of the FDA and nearly all mainstream science skeptics.)

Yet, magically, their golden rice is exempt from any skepticism. All claims about golden rice are automatically believed to be truth as a matter of faith, not fact, and those claims include outlandish therapeutic drug claims which are illegal under current FDA regulations.

If I grew golden rice and sold it at the Natural News Store with claims that it could prevent blindness and halt death, I would be almost immediately sent a stern warning letter by the FDA and possibly also the FTC. If I continued to sell the "magic" golden rice with such claims, the FDA would very likely raid my facility, sieze all product inventory, and have me arrested at gunpoint and charged with "drug crimes" for "selling unapproved drugs."

According to the FDA, unless golden rice is tested and approved as a drug for preventing blindness and death, it cannot be sold or marketed with such claims. And the real catch-22 is that if this magical golden rice is actually approved as a therapeutic drug, then it would only be available by prescription, not as a common food. Because, again, the FDA says that no foods have any ability to prevent, treat or cure any disease or medical condition. Including blindness.

Is it the intention of the golden rice proponents to seek and acquire FDA approval for the food as a therapeutic drug that can treat specific medical conditions? If not, then proponents of this magical golden rice are engaged in medical fraud by making unsupported drug claims.

#5) Golden rice advocates selectively believe that unproven drug claims can be made only for golden rice, but that vitamins and minerals in all other foods have no medical benefit whatsoever

All the health claims being made for golden rice are far better applied to carrots and canteloupe -- both are foods that naturally and holistically contain beta carotene. But if I pen an article on the internet that claims "carrots can prevent blindness in children," I will be viciously attacked by the very same people who are now claiming their magical golden rice achieves the same outcome.

The contradictory logic in the golden rice pushers collapses at the merest challenge. Apparently only their own magical, selected foods have nutritional benefits, but everybody else's non-genetically-engineered foods are devoid of all benefits, if you believe their twisted logic.

#6) Golden rice is being used as a political wedge to try to dismantle safety regulations regarding genetically engineered foods so that the biotech industry can dominate global agriculture with patented GMO crops

Another glaring contradiction in the argument of golden rice advocates is that the biotech industries really aren't interested in helping humanity in the first place. They are interested solely in corporate profits, and golden rice is a strategy to achieve the goal of global food domination and monopolization of seeds.

In effect, golden rice is an anti-regulatory battering ram designed to destroy regulations that currently limit the testing and deployment of GMOs. This is the goal: lower the regulations so that biotech can ramp up its global agricultural imperialism and invade every last nation on the planet with an army of intellectual property lawyers and a cabal of modified seed salespeople.

#7) Since when did GMO pushers ever believe in nutrition, anyway? If vitamin A deficiency is the cause of so much suffering, the answer is to teach populations how to grow a more diverse diet using sustainable agriculture practices

Biotech "scientists" frequently resort to the logical fallacy of false choice. In the context of golden rice, the false choice is that you either accept golden rice or thousands of people will die from malnourishment. This is a false choice because there are a multitude of other options which don't run the risk of genetic pollution or unforeseen negative effects.

Sweet potatoes, kale, carrots, squash and spinah all contain high levels of the vitamin A precursor known as beta carotene. Solving the vitamin deficiency problem with populations in Asia is no more complicated than teaching them how to grow these sustainable crops using open-pollinated, non-patented seeds that can be shared generation after generation.

Golden rice is not needed at all.

#8) GMO agriculture is, almost by definition, highly toxic to the environment. The risks of genetic pollution and the widespread use of cancer-causing glyphosate in conjunction with genetically engineered crops present a far greater health risk to the world than any lack of vitamin A in rice

If the aim is to protect life and save human lives, GMO agriculture is precisely the wrong answer. It is based in large part on crops that have been engineered to grow deadly insecticides inside each kernel (GM corn).

In so-called "Roundup-ready" crops such as soybeans and cotton, highly toxic glyphosate poisons are sprayed indiscriminately on entire fields. This not only poisons the land, the streams and the rivers, it also results in the inevitable formation of incredibly threatening superweeds which then require even more toxic chemicals to eradicate.

GMO agriculture breeds superweeds in the same way antibiotics breed superbugs. According to the CDC, superbugs are right now killing 23,000 Americans each year. And this number is expected to rapidly multiply as last-ditch antibiotics become useless in the next few years.

#9) If the goal is to help humanity, why doesn't the biotech industry give up all its patents on seeds?
As part of the strategy to use golden rice as a weapon to bring down GMO regulations, the industry has given up its intellectual property claims on golden rice. But it maintains its intellectual property claims on all other genetically engineered seeds. In fact, companies like Monsanto have been suing hundreds of farmers whose fields were contaminated with such seeds due to no fault of the farmer!

If the biotech industry really believes its products can "feed the world," and if it really believes in doing good things for humanity, then why won't it donate all its seed patents to humankind?

The answer is because the "humanitarian" cover story is a lie. The real aim of the biotech industry is to dominate the world seed supply and thereby dominate the food supply as well. This is an industry with a long history of violating human rights in its quest to destroy farming freedom and force its seeds upon nearly every nation of the world. To even think for a second that this industry has anything positive to offer humanity is a terrible mistake. Do not be seduced by golden rice into misunderstanding the true motives of the biotech industry.

#10) "Nutritional holocaust?" Or GMO death knell?
The golden rice website claims that not feeding children golden rice is equivalent to a "nutritional holocaust."

Such a label is wildly contradictory, given the industry's wholesale denial of the risk of unleashing a true genetic holocaust by tinkering with the genes of plants in unnatural ways.

The history of science is filled with horrible mistakes, unforeseen circumstances and costly lessons for those who have abandoned the precautionary principle. Good intentions alone do not ensure positive outcomes. This is evident with the history of Agent Orange (also manufactured by Monsanto), DDT, Bisphenol-A, flame retardants, thalidomide and countless other deadly oversights that have exacted a horrifying toll on humankind (see my video, below).

The genetic engineering of food crops in open fields is a foolish, unscientific practice that's practically begging for a devastating response from Mother Nature.

Today, golden rice believers and faith-followers march forward with the same delusional confidence that once emanated from believers in antibiotics or DDT. When it comes to science, false confidence is exceedingly dangerous to humankind.

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