September 2013

Obama’s Broken Promise on GMO Food Labeling Revisited

By: TLB Staff
Published September 30, 2013, in GOVERNMENT, HEALTH

TLB Preface: We who are awake are well aware of the rampant cronyism in politics and government today, but what surprises the hell out of most of us is how quickly those who make promises … forget them after elected.

Our president is no exception and as a matter of fact seems to have written the “how to” book on the subject. One of these promises was the labeling of GMO’s “Because Americans have the right to know what they are buying”, BULL! This was a great tag line when appealing to the massive majority of us who strongly oppose GMO’s and as usual was all show and no go.

Since in office he has stopped a two year investigation into monopoly seed practices by Monsanto, installed Monsanto executives in high administrative positions where the can exercise massive influence on the safety and content of our food, signed the Monsanto protection act, and more.

It is as if We The People mean nothing when compared to his powerful Bio-Buddies, and the health and well being of the entire American population are destined to take a back seat to this blatant favoritism. What ever happened to the days when an American president served the people?

One question Mr. President, Did you think we where not listening?

Attached you will find a great article on this subject published almost exactly two years ago. TLB believes it is worth revisiting for the sake of this topic of grave concern to us all …

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Obama’s Broken Promise on GMO Food Labeling

By: By Tom Philpott

Back in 2007, a presidential candidate named Barack Obama declared that foods that include ingredients from genetically modified crops should be labeled. As president, he vowed, he would strive to “let folks know when their food is genetically modified, because Americans have a right to know what they’re buying.”

The ambitious senator from Illinois was no doubt sensing a popular cause. According to a 2010 poll (PDF) conducted by Reuters Thompson, more than 90 percent of Americans thought GMO-containing foods should be labeled.

As president, Obama has been silent on the issue, as has his FDA, which oversees food labeling. Meanwhile, Obama’s USDA—which oversees farming practices—has been greenlighting GMO crops left and right, even while acknowledging that they generate herbicide-resistant weeds and other troubles.

But a vigorous grassroots pro-labeling movement has been gaining steam for a while, and this week, a coalition of sustainable-food NGOs and organic businesses has launched a campaign to “flood the FDA with comments so they know that the public wants labeling of GE [genetically engineered] foods.”

Along with the public campaign, the group has also submitted a formal petition (PDF) to the FDA, which in the course of demanding labeling also lays out a blistering critique of the way agency regulates GMOs—which is to say, hardly at all.

The petition acknowledges that the FDA can’t require labeling of GMOs solely based on public opinion polls or campaign speeches. In order to require labeling, the agency would have to acknowledge that GMO and non-GMO foods are substantially different. That would mark a sea change in policy. In its 1992 statement on the topic, which remains official policy, the FDA declared:

The agency is not aware of any information showing that foods derived by these new methods differ from other foods in any meaningful or uniform way, or that, as a class, foods developed by the new techniques present any different or greater safety concern than foods developed by traditional plant breeding.

Since genetically modified ingredients are essentially the same as conventional ones, the FDA continued, the presence of GMOs in foodstuffs does not constitute “material information” within its mandate and thus is not subject to labeling. In practice, the policy means that new GMO products, based solely on industry assurances, will continue to enter the market rubber-stamped as “safe” by the FDA.

But as I made clear in a post, the FDA came to its conclusions without considering independent research that has turned up evidence of chronic health affects from consuming GMOs. And, as Ken Roseboro of the Non-GMO and Organic Report shows (documents here), the agency rolled out its hands-off policy over the objections of several staff scientists.

So the movement to require labeling, if successful, offers two benefits for the price of one: It would allow people to exercise, in the words of the former senator from Illinois, their “right to know what they’re buying.” And it would force the FDA to face, at long last, the fact that GMOs are different, and need to be regulated as such.

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The Apocalypse Is Upon Us

By: TLB Staff
Published September 30, 2013, in COMMENTARY, FREEDOM

By: Dave Hodges, TLB Contributor.

One does not need to be psychic to know that world’s darkest days are right around the corner. There are events which are forming the perfect storm. We face the likely prospect of WWIII in the Middle East. America stands upon the brink of total economic collapse. The mechanisms for a brutal false flag attack have been put into motion and could happen within the next 45 days. The total obliteration of the Constitution is at hand and the legal mechanisms and rules for living in a post-apocalyptic America are clearly in place. On the surface, it appears that America’s fate is sealed.

The central bankers are going to get their war one way or another. The CIA backed Syrian rebels staged a false flag chemical weapons attack last winter on Aleppo. They just staged another chemical weapons attack on Damascus in August. Each attack was designed to falsely blame Syrian leader, Assad, for the attacks and served as a pretext to bring the US into the war and eventually topple Assad. This was to have been followed by having Syria serve as a launching pad from which to invade Iran.

Consolidation of the Middle East into a free trade zone is the final goal of the central bankers. Syria and Iran are largely outside the control of the Bank of International Settlement and, as was the case in Iraq and Libya, this is unacceptable to the central bankers. When leaders do not capitulate to central banking they die. Assad of Syria is next.

Putin temporarily thwarted Obama’s planned attack upon Syria.

Russia and the alternative media successfully thwarted Obama’s justifications to attack Syria, at least temporarily. Subsequently, the Obama administration has been turned back and publicly humiliated. Obama and his central banker puppet masters desperately need a game changing event in order to get the US militarily into Syria on behalf of the central bankers. The two previous CIA sponsored false flag chemical weapons attacks, in Syria, did not do the trick. Therefore, something stronger is needed. Something is needed on the American domestic front which will be designed to push the will of the people into accepting total war with Syria and Iran and eventually with their protectorate nations, China and Russia. The Obama administration is pretty much a one-trick pony and this is why the false flag option is likely the only option. I strongly suspect that a false flag attack, or a series of false flag attacks here on American soil, is likely, and we do not have long to wait. After you read the following information from FEMA and DHS drills, it will be very difficult to believe that something very big is not right around the corner.

As we enter into the dangerous “October surprise” period in which we see no less than nine major disaster drills or the culmination of disaster preparedness exercises planned for the next six weeks. A clear picture is beginning to emerge. And when these events look eerily similar to past false flag events, we would be fools to not be waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Who could forget that 9/11, the 7/7 bombings and the Boston Marathon Bombing all began as drills and all of these events eventually morphed into terrorist events which were identical to the drill used to mask the coming event? There are several of these potential events coming up in the next six weeks.

Six Weeks of Grave Danger Lies Ahead

My insider sources tell me that they have never seen such a plethora of disaster drills and disaster preparedness being executed by DHS and FEMA in such a short period of time. I went back through the FEMA and DHS websites and I concur with my sources. Typically, these disaster drills are separated by at least 4-6 months.

It is true that there are continuing education classes which are active all the time, but the field disaster drills are infrequent as they are so time consuming and expensive to conduct. Further, these drills typically need corporate and municipal cooperation. Given these obstacles, it is absolutely mind-boggling that this many preparedness activities and actual disaster drills would be happening in such close proximity to each other. Why the urgency? I would have to say that something wicked this way comes. Here is a partial list of the preparedness and disaster drills planned over the next six weeks:

1. FEMA purchase orders for over $14.2 million for MREs and heater meals to be delivered to Region III by October 1st.

2. FEMA purchase orders for 22 million pouches of emergency water to be delivered to Region III by October 1st.

3. FEMA purchase orders for $13.6 million for MREs and heater meals to be delivered to Austin, TX. by October 1st.

4. $11 million in antibiotics to be delivered to FEMA region III by October 1st ordered by CDC

5, Nine-week training course for UN Peacekeepers in CONUS to learn Urban Warfare, English, and US weapons systems beginning late July for 386,000 troops to be completed by October 1st

6. Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill Set Oct. 17

7. More Than 1,000 Banks Plan National Cyber-Attack Drill Oct. 16-17, Oct. 23-24

8. Quantum Dawn’ Is a Cyber-Attack Bank Drill –

9. GridEx2 Nov. 13-14

It’s Not Just What They Drill, It’s Also What They Cancel That’s Important

As concerning as the above-mentioned drills are, I am equally concerned because FEMA, through the Center for Disaster Preparedness cancelled every single disaster drill from September 29- October 5.

From the home page of the Center for Disaster Prepared ness:

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

All CDP training scheduled for the week of September 29 through October 5 is cancelled. Your CDP Regional Coordinator will contact you as soon as possible to provide additional details and assist you with rescheduling your requested training. The CDP apologizes for this late notice.

Shortening the Playbook

Is Obama shortening the playbook?

When I was coaching college basketball, I used to acquire massive amounts of information from the scouting reports on an upcoming opponent. We always had to discard most of the presented options and our staff ultimately settled on a few definitive ways to attack our opponent in the interest of time to prepare and practicality. This reduction in game planning strategies is called shortening the playbook. It sounds like DHS and FEMA are shortening their playbook as they have apparently ruled out some false flag scenarios, in favor of others, with regard to potential upcoming false flag events. I find this to be very troubling as this greatly increases the need to pay attention to what could be coming over the next six weeks.

We should always remember that false flag events are always a means to an end. False flag events always serve as trigger events to set into motion a desired change. False flag events are designed to instill terror, cause confusion and lead the “sheeple” to trust their government to protect them from impending danger. Once a false flag event is completed, it is very important that the henchmen have the mechanisms in place designed to enforce compliance with the new order of things, or the New World Order of things, as you will. This involves installing a legal structure of enforcing martial law which will follow the false flag events. The globalists have undeniably planned for this element of control as well.

Subjugating the Masses

False Flag events also serve the purpose of controlling elements in the domestic population which might not be on board with the unfolding agenda. In this case, the agenda consists of war with Syria and Iran as a means to force Russia and China into one final conflict. This will accomplish the consolidation of the Middle East into a free trade zone controlled by the central bankers. The last hold-outs to the central banker control of all nation states will largely be eliminated in the form of Russia and China. The mechanisms have been put into place to make this happen. The installation of the New World Order appears to be only months away.

The Legalization of Peacetime Martial Law

The descent into total and abject tyranny is almost complete. With one of President Obama’s latest executive orders, THE NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS ACT, Executive Order 13603he has granted himself the authority to declare peacetime martial law. This Executive Order is posted on the WhiteHouse.gov web site. The following legal mechanisms have been codified into law and await a false flag trigger event.

The Literal Legalization of Slavery

As if the previous sections of the already mentioned executive order are not enough to inflame already aware Americans, Section 601 signals the most Orwellian aspect of this executive order in which “upon request by the Director of Selective Service, and in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, assist the Director of Selective Service in development of policies regulating the induction and deferment of persons for duty in the armed services” (paragraph 2). What is particularly troubling is that the Secretary of Labor will possess oversight over the Selective Service process, instead of the Secretary of Defense. This revelation left me scratching my head as I wondered why would the Department of Labor be in charge of the coming military draft?

Then it dawned upon me that we were not just talking about military conscription. I refer to the 2008 Presidential campaign in which Obama stated that “we need to construct a national civilian security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded” (as the military). Obama is clearly planning to conscript civilians, train them and send them where they are needed and will pay them whatever wage the Secretary of Commerce determines (Section 601; paragraphs 3, 4-Section 801; paragraph C). In one fell swoop, Obama has sidestepped the 13th Amendment as we are talking about the introduction of forced labor (i.e. slavery). For those that know their history, it should also remind everyone of the forced labor camps run by the despots of the past in which political prisoners were forced into slave labor in support of any number of war efforts while they were being systematically starved to death. Is this why Jesse Ventura’s FEMA camp episode was scrubbed from Television and why TruTV ‘s archives are missing the FEMA camp episode? Perhaps this is true.

America would be well advised to pay attention to the good work being done by Gary Franchi on the topic of FEMA camps. Bill Ayers, the benefactor of Obama’s Harvard education and his original political sponsor is on the record of having stated one day, in America, “we will have to send 50 million Americans to re-education camps and murder 25 million of them.

The Legalization of Eco-Terrorism and the Deindustrialization of America

Under Executive Order 13603, the Secretary of Energy will have control over all “Energy” (which) means all forms of energy including petroleum, gas (both natural and manufactured), electricity, solid fuels (including all forms of coal, coke, coal chemicals, coal liquification, and coal gasification), solar, wind, other types of renewable energy, atomic energy, and the production, conservation, use, control, and distribution (including pipelines) of all of these forms of energy…” This means the government will have total control over all utility prices, the installation of smart meters along with the implementation of the smart grid and the amount of energy which can be consumed by average Americans will be severely curtailed under this new system of energy feudalism which will be imposed on the new American serfs. Obama, in the 2008 Presidential Campaign, stated that “under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Previously ignorant Americans will soon come to know the true meaning and the accurately prophetic meaning of these words (Section 801, part b).

The Legalization of Starving Americans Into Submission

The Secretary of Agriculture will posses control over “fertilizer” (which) means any product or combination of products that contain one or more of the elements nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium for use as a plant nutrient.” The Secretary of Agriculture will also control “food resource facilities “(which) means plants, machinery, vehicles (including on farm), and other facilities required for the production, processing, distribution, and storage (including cold storage) of food resources, and for the domestic distribution of farm equipment and fertilizer.” This is the total control of all food. This will allow Monsanto which demonstrably controls the Department of Agriculture, the FDA and EPA to move forward, unabated, for the total GMO takeover of our food supply. Even more disturbing is that a few men will have total control over all food production and the dissenting masses who oppose this fascist takeover can be effectively starved into submission or starved to death (EO 13603 Section 801, parts c-f).

The Legalization and Installation of Eugenics as National Policy

Under this Executive Order (13603), the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall maintain control over all “Health resources” meaning drugs, biological products, medical devices, materials, facilities, health supplies, services and equipment required to diagnose, mitigate or prevent the impairment of, improve, treat, cure, or restore the physical or mental health conditions of the population.”

This is a declaration of a forced form of Codex Alimentarius. Under this provision, it will not matter if Obama Care is repealed, his cabinet appointee will maintain control over all health care, both pharmacological and alternative/natural (Section 801, part i). Can there be any doubt that the death panel provisions of Obama Care will be implemented and carried out with no oversight or regulation in a manner reminiscent of Logan’s Run nightmarish scenario?

I have long maintained on my talk show that there is a decided effort by a relatively few elite to control the nation’s water and this provision will be utilized as a form of both political and population control. Of this, there can be no doubt as the Secretary of Defense will be placed in charge of all water resources Section 801, part n). I can draw no other conclusion that placing the control of water under the DOD represents the weaponizing of water and the intended target of this full frontal assault are the American people for the purpose of imposing population control and complete compliance.

What Will It Be Like to Live In a Post Apocalyptic America?

Many wonder, when the false flag attacks and the coming WWIII are over, what will it be like to live in a post-apocalyptic America (i.e. North American Union)? That question has already been answered by recent legislation and the most draconian executive order ever issued. We will be living in a world that will make Orwell’s 1984 seem like God’s gift to a constitutional republic.

The Legalization of Sexual Assault, Illegal Searches Upon American Citizens, Private Asset Forfeiture Without Criminal Convictions

Americans are already being conditioned that they own nothing including the sanctity of their private assets, control over their children and the privacy of their bodies.

The Secretary of Transportation has been given control over civil transportation which “includes movement of persons and property by all modes of transportation in interstate, intrastate, or foreign commerce within the United States, its territories and possessions, and the District of Columbia, and related public storage and warehousing, ports, services, equipment and facilities, such as transportation carrier shop and repair facilities.” “Civil transportation” also shall include direction, control, and coordination of civil transportation capacity regardless of ownership” (Section 801 part A). Can there be any doubt that the expanded surveillance program by of the TSA, in their unconstitutional, hands down our pants VIPER program, is designed to control all travel in the United States? The former Soviet Union used to have checkpoints every 20 miles in order to restrict travel and to prevent the congregation of “revolutionary forces” for purposes of opposing government control as well as to limit the ability of political dissidents to flee from their governmental pursuers. I feel compelled to ask, what is the government going to do that is so nefarious and so intrusive that they are seeking to set up a control grid which will accomplish these same goals?

Even your children belong to the government. Under Obamacare, on October 1, 2013, CPS field agents, armed with a manual published by Human Health and Services and codified under Obamacare will begin operating under the power granted to them by Obamacare. Subsequently, they will be able to conduct forced home visits without a warrant. Things such as a (yet undefined) bad grade, missing more than 5 days in school in any one month, can get a parent to be declared guilty of educational neglect. Having agun or beer in your house can get your children removed from your custody. Even the traditional act of grounding your child for misbehavior will get you declared to be guilty of “isolation neglect” and subject your child for removal from your authority and your home. If you are a parent and you have not heard of this provision of Obamacare, I would suggest you read the 110 page manual that was created by the United Nations. This is the HHS/CPS field manual that goes into effect this week! As Melissa Harris Perry, talk show host for MSNBC stated, the collective (meaning the state) owns your children.

Local governments, through their actions have told the American people that you own nothing. All over this country, American motorists are having their personal property stolen even when they are not charged with an offense through a practice known as civil asset forfeiture. No conviction and no allegations of wrongdoing need happen for a cop that pulls you over to engage in highway robbery. This is going on from Texas to Tennessee, where mostly cash is stolen from motorists under the threat of arresting them for money laundering.

Under civil forfeiture laws, the government does not have to report how many cases of individual theft that they engage in, nor are they required to report the amount of money stolen from individual citizens. Citizens don’t have to be found guilty to forfeit their assets. It is a very large loophole that law enforcement agencies are more than happy to exploit to the tune of $4.2 billionannually.

MERS mortgage fraud, in which millions of Americans are having their homes stolen by the five megabanks, continues unabated. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that when you deposit your money into a bank, the bank then owns your money. This explains why John Corzine of MF Global was not prosecuted for stealing 1.2 billion dollars of secured assets accounts for their clients.

Under US Code 50, Section 32, allows the government to experiment on you with chemical, biological and psychotronic weapons (i.e. MK ULTRA) without your knowledge or consent. The only requirement is that one and only one local official must be notified of the experimentation and the notification need not be public.

And of course, you have no civil liberties. Under the National Defense Authorization Act, you can be snatched off the street, held indefinitely and even murdered with no due process of law. Somewhere, some ignoramus is stating that the government would not do that “because the government loves me”. Click herefor an analysis of the law by the ACLU and see just how much your government loves you. They love you to death, which is what Attorney General Eric Holder asserts in his legal opinion in which he says that the President has the authority to assassinate Americans without due process of law.

In short, you own nothing. The state owns you, your house, your car, your food, your bank account, your health choices and even your children. When the smoke clears from the impending calamities, the central banksters have planned for us a type of neo-feudal society that exceeds every tyranny which has ever existed on the planet!

Conclusion

As I stated, this could all be over in a few months, maybe longer, but not much longer. The chess pieces are all in place. What form will the subjugation take, what will be the precise methodology of the false flag take downs that are coming? These issues will be the topics of the next part in this series.

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Vaccine Danger: Merck is Big Pharma’s Vaccine Monsanto

By: TLB Staff
Published September 30, 2013, in HEALTH

By: Paul Fassa

The pharmaceutical giant Merck enjoys vast revenues if they’re able to advertise and “lobby” politicians to pass laws promoting their vaccinations, even while still paying huge fines and settlements for the toxic aftermath of their other medicinal drugs.

Merck has paid out a total of almost $5 billion to settle nearly 27,000 Voixx civil law suits. This drug, intended for arthritic pain relief, created 27,000 cases of heart attacks and many deaths before Merck recalled it in 2004. Most of the suits occurred after the recall, which had raised a red flag for many Vioxx users and their surviving relatives.

Another $950 million was levied against Merck to pay for fines and civil settlements involving false advertising claims and fraudulent drug trial results for Vioxx. This hasn’t deterred Merck from promoting Gardasil and lobbying for governmental support to vaccinate minors without parental consent.

Vaccine manufacturing is a good business for sociopaths. Drug companies are exempt from direct liability for adverse results from vaccines. Vaccines require less testing than drugs for diseases, and they’re cheaper to manufacture. So they have a huge profit margin without financial liability risks.

Pushing a Dangerous Vaccine for a Non-Existent Threat

The scare tactic being used to promote Gardasil is cervical cancer protection. The human papilloma virus (HPV) has over 100 strains; Gardasil targets two that cause the most genital warts, while ignoring another 11 that can also lead to cancer. But ninety percent of HPV warts tend to heal on their own within two years. And they can be treated topically before then.

Bottom line, though inconvenient, HPV is not the death-warrant they are spinning it as. It usually goes away on its own or at worst is remedied by mild medical intervention. Even after young women get their three Gardasil-HPV shots, they still need to undergo Pap tests for early cervical cancer detection.

So Gardasil doesn’t even guarantee protection against cervical cancer. This data is knowingly omitted from Merck’s media press releases, doctor bribes, and political “lobbying” efforts.

VAERS reports 41 cases of cervical cancer following vaccinations with Gardasil. And VAERS (vaccine adverse event reporting service) is voluntary for doctors and mostly unknown to parents and vaccinated adults. It’s estimated that perhaps only five percent of vaccine injuries get reported to VAERS. So these reports are a fraction of actual events.

Gardasil’s mounting known death toll is almost 75 since 2009, at last count (2012). This is in addition to the serious adverse effects of thousands, of which over 10% are permanent, painful disabilities such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome or other neurological and autoimmune maladies.

Related Read: Merck vs Monsanto – Fighting for the Worst Company Award (2011)

This tip of a mostly unreported iceberg should be ample evidence that the risks far outweigh Gardasil’s paltry benefits.

Lawsuits against Big Pharma based on vaccines’ adverse events are fire-walled by law and contained within The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), which was set up to have the federal government settle claims using federal funds, a fraction of which is collected from vaccine manufacturer approval fees.

Few parents whose children were vaccine-injured know about this non-jury federal court, into which access through its bureaucratic maze is difficult. The settlements are usually based on the lifetime medical fees for children’s vaccine damages or $250,000 for a child’s death.

Afterward, the parents are required to not discuss their case publicly. If they do, they risk losing their “hush” money.

Other Merck High-Risk Vaccines Without Benefits in the CDC’s Childhood Vaccination Schedule

Merck has managed to influence the medical mafia to include the Hep-B vaccine (HBV) on newborns. Hepatitis-B is transmitted sexually or by shared hypodermic needles only. Apparently, the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) are now assuming all pregnant women are hypodermic injecting drug-users or promiscuously practicing unsafe sex.

Babies get several toxic Hep-B jabs before having a fully developed immune system without even testing the mother for Hepatitis-B.

The measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) three in one shot has left its share of broken, (potentially) autistic children. Merck simply ignores those disasters while using the media to spread untrue claims that measles epidemics are caused by the unvaccinated.

If you’re old enough, you may remember measles, mumps, and chicken pox as common relatively harmless childhood diseases that confer immunity when they leave. Sometimes mothers would gather at “measles parties” to expose their kids to one with a measles infection in order to confer lifetime immunity.

The MMR shot has also proven to not even temporally protect against these common childhood diseases with several breakouts occurring among population sectors that have been met the “herd immunity” criteria of vaccinating all or almost all the kids in a given population.

California politicians have set a precedent for creating legislation to support Merck’s coercing young women and soon young men with Gardasil jabs. Perhaps after many lives are ruined by Gardasil vaccinations in California, a class action suit against those state legislators is in order.

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New USDA Announcement Undermines Organic Standards

By: TLB Staff
Published September 29, 2013, in HEALTH

The Center for Food Safety recently criticized the USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) for taking surprising and unilateral steps to undermine organic standards. The Agency announced, without warning and without stakeholder input, a new policy that encourages the indefinite use of synthetic and non-organic materials in organic. Until now, NOP policy allowed the temporary use of such substances for a proscribed period of time with the intent of forcing users to search for organic alternatives.

If necessary after five years, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) could vote to allow the extended use of the substance with a two-thirds majority vote, provided the users of the substances made a convincing case. This system of vetting exceptional substances every five years allowed the organic industry flexibility while maintaining the integrity of the organic label. It has been successful in keeping the large majority of synthetics and non-organic substances out of organic products.

The longstanding presumption of that policy was that synthetics and non-organic material use will decrease over time. The new policy however, curtails the incentive to develop organic, non-synthetic alternatives. Under new rules issued, a two-thirds of majority of NOSB members would be needed to vote to remove the substance from the approved National List, effectively reversing the policy of limiting synthetics and non-organic substances in organic.

“Since the inception of OFPA, the responsibility for making the case for the extended use of a given material was shouldered by those wanting to continue its use beyond the period of five years. Now, the NOP has set the default to leaving materials on the National List, unless a concerted effort is made to amass evidence of the need for removal. This unfortunate turn in NOP policy will allow many more exempted substances to languish in organic products indefinitely,” said Lisa Bunin, Ph.D., Organic Policy Director for Center for Food Safety.

“The new NOP policy fundamentally undermines one of the core tenants of the organic rule—keeping synthetics and non-organic ingredients out of organic. This policy will undermine consumer expectations of organic as well.” said Bunin. “No doubt organic consumers will be outraged to realize that the NOP, charged with protecting organic integrity, has taken steps to weaken organic, behind closed doors and without public input,” Bunin said.

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About Center for Food Safety

Center for Food Safety is a national, non-profit, membership organization founded in 1997 to protect human health and the environment by curbing the use of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture. CFS maintains offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, California and Portland, Oregon. More information can be found at www.centerforfoodsafety.org.

Re-posted within the guidelines of CFS.

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The Risks Of Vaccines Currently Outweigh Any Benefits To Human Health

By: TLB Staff
Published September 29, 2013, in HEALTH

Human beings have been exposed to vaccines for more than two centuries. Some vaccines have been more beneficial than others, however their underlying purpose was supposed to be very simple…to prevent disease. Yet the pathway to effective vaccines has been neither neat nor direct. Unfortunately, our current vaccination model has little to do with the prevention of disease, something the public is catching on to.

A vaccine tricks the body’s immune system into producing antibodies to fight a form of the virus that is not harmful. Then, if the person ever encounters the real and dangerous virus, the body is ready to prevent it from harming any cells.

It has been recognized for centuries that some diseases never reinfect a person after recovery. Smallpox was the first disease people tried to prevent by intentionally inoculating themselves with infected matter. The British Medical Journal says, “vaccines used against infectious disease have probably saved more lives than any other public health intervention apart form the provision of clean water.” They state that “without vaccination, smallpox would not have been eliminated from the world-or at least smallpox is its wild state.”

Lack of immunity to disease has helped to decide the fate of entire communities, from smallpox among the Indians in the New World to syphilitic soldiers in the Old. Most people have some amount of natural immunity. The human body can take care of itself in many circumstances—cuts, colds, and minor infections disappear without major upheaval. In other cases, the body has little or no naturally occurring immunity, so if you are exposed to diseases such as polio, influenza, smallpox, hepatitis, diphtheria, measles, or whooping cough, you will probably get sick with it, unless you have somehow been exposed to these diseases before and survived.

Immunization refers to the artificial creation of immunity by deliberately infecting someone so that the body learns to protect itself. The acting of immuzing through vaccines is highly controversial because the direct injection of foreign proteins and other toxic material (particularly known immune-sensitising poisons such as mercury and other preservatives) may make the recipient more, not less affected by what he/she encounters in the future. This means that in some populations, they may do the opposite of immunize, commonly even preventing immunity from developing after natural exposure.

An important part of the history of immunization has been determining how to get the immunizing agent into the body. The skin, which keeps germs and mischievous substances out, is also a barrier to getting medicines and vaccines into the tissue where they can work. Physicians have used varying methods to create immunity where there is none.

The concept of immunization received its first big boost in 1796, when physician Edward Jenner inoculated a young boy in England and successfully prevented him from getting smallpox. Jenner used a lancet to scratch some infected material from a woman with cowpox (similar to smallpox) under the boy’s skin.

Jenner’s initial experiments were carried out in a pre–germ theory era that lacked modern methods of quality control and sterilization. Hence, the prospect of contamination constantly loomed over smallpox vaccine development, and many people were rightly wary of contracting another dread disease via inoculation. With a method that often involved extracting lymph from pustules on the arms of those recently vaccinated, it was not uncommon for existing microorganisms to accompany the vaccine from arm to arm, spreading diseases such as erysipelas, syphilis, and scrofula.

Unlike most drugs, which are essentially chemical agents, vaccines are biologic agents that can be compromised during processing. Whether killed-virus, whole-cell, bacterial, or live-attenuated, vaccines can be disrupted at various points along the journey from the laboratory to the vial. Not surprisingly, quality control, sterilization, and monitoring have become non-negotiable for vaccine production. Even with strict standards, however, the possibility of contamination remains (even though it is far less likely today than several decades ago). In addition, vaccine production must be closely supervised to ensure that vaccines induce immunity and do not produce serious infection. For example, the optimism about the polio vaccine in spring 1955 was temporarily muted after 200 children contracted disease (fatal for five children) from a vaccine containing active wild-type polio virus that was manufactured by Cutter Laboratories in California.

Today, the biggest controversies regarding vaccines have everything to do with vaccine componenets and little to do with the vaccines themselves. For example thimerosal, an organic mercury compound preservative added to some vaccines has been linked to a plethora of neurological disorders such as autism, especially in children. The rates of autism have exploded to more than 1 in 150 in recent years.

Documents from the archives of Eli Lilly and Co., the original manufacturer of thimerosal, clearly demonstrates that the mercury-based vaccine preservative, implicated in a number of recent lawsuits as causing neurological injury to infants, was known as early as April 1930 to be dangerous.

In its apparent eagerness to promote and market the product, in September 1930, Eli Lilly secretly sponsored a “human toxicity” study on patients already known to be dying of meningococcal meningitis. Andrew Waters of the Dallas-based law firm of Waters & Kraus stated that, “Lilly then cited this study repeatedly for decades as proof that thimerosal was of low toxicity and harmless to humans. They never revealed to the scientific community or the public the highly questionable nature of the original research.”

The tests were conducted in 1929 by a young researcher named K.C. Smithburn who injected 22 human subjects who were already dying with a 1 percent solution and then pronounced that all the patients were reported “without ill effect.”

That they all died was never mentioned. “It’s apparent that Lilly didn’t want to do the study themselves because it’s apparent that there were enormous ethical problems with injecting people — even people dying of meningitis — with mercury,” Waters said. “What Smithburn did was wrong, because he agreed to do the study for Lilly, and not only did he agree to do it, but he agreed to give them results that he knew were flawed.”

There simply are no words that can be used to describe what Eli Lilly and Co., and then other pharmaceutical companies perpetuated through decades of use of a highly toxic compound like thimerosal. And there is no ethical explanation for current and former administrations that have either tried or succeeded in providing protection to Lilly and other pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits for damages done to children from the use of their products.

Researchers at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Calgary also show how mercury causes brain neuron degeneration and provide important direct evidence on how low levels of mercury exposure can initiate neurodegenerative processes in the brain. In a graphic visual presentation they show how mercury ions denuded nurofibrils and how mercury prevents tubulin molecules from linking together.

It was “finally” recognized in 1999 that the long half-life of ethlymercury could theoretically result in accumulation and toxicity during chronic applications and as such joint statements by the American Academy of Pediatricians and the United States Public Health Services recommended the removal of thimerosal from all vaccines.

With this in mind, it is shocking that we still find the CDC adding a thimerosal-containing vaccine into the childhood immunization schedule and amazing to learn that officials have not led a movement in the third world to diminish or eliminate thimerosal from the millions born each year there. American officials seem to care not for what happens to children around the world as they “go through the motions” of removing some, but not all of the thimerosal from clinics.

Health officials have not faced the truth, will not admit their error, and even years after the above 1999 recommendations, we still have the CDC, the IOM and several important health officials denying that there is any problem with using mercury in vaccines.

In fact, with the three now scheduled flu vaccines to be administered before two years of age, some children will be receiving between 37-75 mg of thimerosal, depending on how the shots are administered (doctors are allowed some flexibility to give half doses to kids under two years of age).

Despite their own statements in 1999, the medical authorities are actually reintroducing thimerosal into the childhood immunization schedule, even as they brag about taking it out.

It is very important to note that though the U.S. authorities are diminishing the mercury content of vaccines at home it does not change the picture of the “global” thimerosal nightmare where most children are still receiving high pre-2001 level doses. Dr. Boyd Haley, a world-renowned expert on the toxicity of mercury said, “I am ashamed that our country is misleading other parts of the world with regards to the thimerosal issue.”

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration investigated thimerosal and concluded that the risk to a baby receiving vaccines was low, however the agency recommended that thimerosal be taken out of childhood vaccines.

In Canada, there are small amounts of thimerosal in both the diphtheria -polio-tetanus (DPT) and the hepatitis B shot. Some scientists assert that the preservative is metabolized as ethyl mercury, which is less dangerous than methyl mercury, and is expelled from the body.

However, new concerns have arisen regarding the safety and cost-effectiveness of multi-dose vaccine vials. And, even in vaccines that are certified thimerosal-free, this mercury-based compound is still used in the manufacturing process and, as such, traces of it remain. Mercury is dangerous even at concentrations much lower than is found in vaccines, yet as we see again and again, health officials at all the major health organizations around the world repeat that the risk is very small and parents should not be concerned.

Removal of thimerosal, even if complete, will not solve the problem of autism. It will help tremendously, but will not stop the epidemic of autism. Though mercury, even in sub toxic doses has been shown to strongly activate microglia causing the secretion of two powerful excitotoxins, glutamate and quinolinic acid, in concentrations that are neurotoxic. Aluminum has a similar mode of action, though less potent. When combined with mercury, there is at least additive toxicity if not synergestic toxicity. — Dr. Russell Blaylock

Dr Gregory Ellis agrees with Blaylock: “Autism is upon us because it’s the outcome of the 50-year experiment of dousing every living being with an overload of toxic substances, including vaccines.” Speaking of her autistic patients, Dr Stephanie Cave said, “You would be amazed at the devastation in their chemistries when you get down to the cellular level.” She also said, “I think in later years we are going to look back at aluminum the way we are looking at mercury now.”

It should be noted that since thimerosal is not the only hazardous substance added to vaccines we are not being assured of anything if merely one component is removed, which it has not, even after all the major medical organizations “recommended” its removal in 1999.

“Aluminum salts are used as vaccine adjuvants based on their ability to improve dendritic cell response to presented antigens. The aluminum concentration of vaccines varies from 0.125 to 0.85 mg/dose, which would produce concentrations of approximately 0.7 to 4.5 uM, if uniformly distributed in the body water of a seven kg infant,” reported Dr. M. Waly at Northeastern University, who found, at these low concentrations, cellular problems are created independently and in combination with mercury.

Dr. Boyd Haley reported from his laboratory experiments “Aluminum is not nearly as toxic to neurons in culture as is thimerosal.” At the University of Kentucky, he did experiments to determine if aluminum would increase the toxicity of very low levels of thimerosal. “The results were unequivocal: The presence of aluminum dramatically increased the rate of neuronal death caused by thimerosal. Therefore, the aluminum and thimerosal combination found in vaccines produces a toxic mixture that cannot be compared to situations where thimerosal alone was the toxic exposure.”

The fact is that today, most routinely recommended pediatric vaccines manufactured for the U.S. market still contain thimerosal, though according to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), “only trace” amounts remain. And, of course, this is exactly what they thought five years ago. In 1999, Dr Neal Halsey, who heads the Hopkins Institute for Vaccine Safety said, “My first reaction was simply disbelief, which was the reaction of almost everybody involved in vaccines.

“In most vaccine containers, thimerosal is listed as a mercury derivative, a hundredth of a percent. And what I believed, and what everybody else believed, was that it was truly a trace, a biologically insignificant amount. My honest belief is that if the labels had had the mercury content in micrograms, this would have been uncovered years ago. But the fact is, no one did the calculation.”

So confusing is the subject of traces and what levels of thimerosal are still used in vaccines that the WHO had to create terminology for clarification. Removal of thimerosal means specifically thimerosal was used during the production process but removed at a certain stage of production resulting in residual traces remaining.

Reduction of thimerosal means that it is still used but reduced in comparison with the amount in the already licensed vaccines. Only thimerosal elimination means that it is not used at any stage of production and is thus considered thimerosal free.

Different researchers have done experiments with what are considered traces and have shown thimerosal “to cause adverse effects on methylation synthesis (MS) activity at concentrations well below the levels produced by thimerosal containing vaccines,” said Dr. Waly and associates at Northeastern University.

They found, “The ethylmercury-containing preservative thimerosal inhibited both IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor-1) and dopamine-stimulated methylation with an IC50 of 1nM and eliminated MS activity. It should be noted that reduced IGF-1 levels have been reported in autism, which may also contribute to impaired myelination.”

Many say that the charges of the dangers of thimerosal remain to be proven but there is overwhelming evidence:

Scientific studies. – Basic chemistry. – Documentation. – The common experiences of thousands of parents. – Records of thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of near-fatal incidents resulting in hospitalization recorded in federal databases. – Several new scientific studies that show how “dead wrong” medical authorities are on this vital medical question. For reasons that can only be described as basic conflicts of interest, greed, ignorance and even evil intention, one of the most serious crimes in human history has been committed across approximately six decades of time but got much worse in the 1990s as the number of vaccines containing thimerosal increased.

Appropriately called pharmaceutical terrorism — the fact is doctors and nurses and governmental health officials around the world are just too comfortable with injecting toxic chemical compounds into the vulnerable bodies of infants. And dentists are too comfortable putting mercury in their patients’ mouths even though they are taught and are required by federal agencies to treat amalgam materials as toxic wastes.

Many are guilty of betraying the public’s trust, sponsoring a great harm and attacking those who would reveal the truth behind what is going on. It is only a matter of time before the public will see and understand who the real charlatans are and see the criminality in their attitudes and actions. Scientific integrity is a commitment to truthfulness, personal accountability and vigorous adherence to standards of professional conduct.

Vaccination: The Hidden Truth

This is the shocking but extremely informative video documentary where fifteen people, including Dr. Viera Scheibner (a PhD researcher), five medical doctors, other researchers, reveal what is really going on in relation to illness and vaccines. Ironically, the important facts come from the orthodox medicine’s own peer-reviewed research. With so much government and medical promotion of vaccination for prevention of disease, the video is clearly devoted to presenting the other side of the issue that parents and others are not being told. The result is a damning account of the ineffectiveness of vaccines and their often harmful effects. It declares that parents are not being told the truth by the media, the Health Department and the medical establishment, with a medical doctor, Dr. Mark Donohoe, confessing that “It is a problem for me that I am part of a profession that is systematically lying to people?”. Find out how vaccines are proven to have harmful effects to your health and why do we still have to be vaccinated although there is no real need for it. Although many people simply refuse to believe this, the impeccable documentation presented in this amazing video has changed the minds of many who saw it.

FULL VIDEO:

How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration The following short film produced by the University of Calgary documents exactly what happens to brain cells when mercury comes into contact with them. Witness under microscopic magnification the immediate damage mercury does to the structure of brain cells. This video demonstrates the validity and definitive dangers of putting thimerosol into vaccines.

References and Sources:

BBC News – news.bbc.co.uk

CNN – CNN.com

Mercola.com – www.mercola.com

NaturalNews – http://www.naturalnews.com

LiveScience – http://www.livescience.com

Vaccine Information Service – http://www.vaccination.inoz.com

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The Liberty Beacon Rant: The Four Weapons of Mass Destruction Humanity May Not Survive

By: TLB Staff
Published September 29, 2013, in MEDIA

By: Roger Landry (TLB).

WARNING: This is not a bedtime story!

Mankind has been inundated with natural disasters throughout it’s long history on this planet, some near extinction level in nature, but we have, as a species, always managed to bounce back and prosper following each of these cataclysmic events. What we endure today is the most serious threat to the very survival of the human race ever encountered … and it is man made, legal and choreographed!

This commentary will expound on the multi-pronged attack against the masses utilizing four of the most deadly mechanisms ever developed by mans-mind … to ultimately destroy man-kind (or a vast majority of it). Understand all this is being accomplished Legally and with the Blessings of Many Governments, the United Nations and a sizable portion of the uneducated, MSM propagandized global masses.

So what are these Weapons of Mass Destruction being wielded so effectively against us under the guise of benign philanthropic assistance,

Perpetual Warfare
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s)
Vaccinations
Geo-Engineering (Chemtrails)

Now before you push back on any of these four mechanisms of destruction and their heinous role in this fiasco, please understand they are all … REALITY … not some conspiracy theory, or something out of a science fiction horror story, and the proof and documentation is readily available to all (see included links) with the awareness and the drive to seek it.

Each one of these mechanisms by themselves could seriously disrupt or even facilitate the extinction of humanity, but when used simultaneously, they create a perfect storm for massive population reduction. This perfect storm is manufactured and manipulated in a choreographed production who’s closing scene is the reduction of this planets population by almost 95% … and if you believe you are part of the remaining 5% … don’t count on it!