Training for FDA raids (comic)

By Mike Adams
As is detailed in articles I've written on this topic (click here to see the latest), the FDA has spearheaded many armed raids against natural medicine clinics, vitamin companies and even pet stores. Did you ever wonder how the armed agents who lead these assaults are trained in such tactics?

In this CounterThink cartoon, I imagine there might be a live fire training facility where potential FDA agents with automatic rifles practice armed assaults on herbalists, naturopaths and Chinese medicine practitioners. What would a new trainee think about who they're supposed to shoot? Most people would probably think you should shoot the drug dealers and spare the natural healers, but in this cartoon, I depict the FDA as reversing the situation and demanding that the trainee "shoot the herbalists!"

Of course, this is an exaggeration. In reality, FDA agents don't shoot herbalists. They merely threaten to shoot them while they arrest them.

And in reality, the FDA doesn't truck around the country with an assault wagon full of armed agents. They simply team up with local law enforcement officials to do the dirty work for them: Sherriff's departments, police departments, and even federal DEA agents. The guys who work for these organizations never really question the validity of any FDA raid request; they simply rally the troops, lock 'n load, and smash down the doors of any building the FDA says is being used to "commit nutritional crimes."

That's what the FDA is really going after, by the way -- individuals and companies that commit nutritional crimes. That's a crime committed by anyone who dares to tell the truth about the healing effects of nutritional supplements or superfoods while, at the same time, selling such products. In the eyes of the FDA, anyone engaged in education who also markets healing products is breaking the law. Unless, of course, the products they're pushing are harmful medications, in which case it's all perfectly acceptable.

Kind of makes you wonder what kind of world we live in, doesn't it?

The suppression of natural medicine

With the FDA spearheading the effort, herbalists, naturopaths and traditional healers have been prosecuted, arrested, and run out of the country. The FDA, in association with the American Medical Association and the enormous influence of Big Pharma, has managed to suppress nutritional knowledge and natural medicine for decades. Thanks to that effort, most members of the public -- and the majority of medical doctors in practice today -- remain nutritionally illiterate. Natural cancer clinics have been shut down, medicinal herbs are routinely discredited, and the population remains in a state of perpetual disease. Which is, of course, the whole point of all this: Keep the population diseased, and you maximize the profits for drug companies.

The only way to keep the population diseased is to isolate them from cures that really work. And that's the whole point behind nutritional censorship by the FDA, the discrediting of vitamins and herbs by on-the-take researchers working for Big Pharma, the hijacking of med school curricula by drug companies, and the complete subjugation of the mainstream media with a pro-drug agenda that routinely discredits vitamins and supplements while pushing patented chemicals as "miracle" cures for everything from limp erections to shyness.

Keep the people sick, and you keep the drug companies profitable. That's why there's really no effort whatsoever in the United States to prevent disease. You don't see "Cancer Prevention Centers" being built anywhere in the country; they're all "Cancer Centers!" (Meaning they focus on cancer, not cancer prevention.) The American Diabetes Association isn't called the American Diabetes Prevention Association, and the American Cancer Society isn't the American Anti-Cancer Society. Most of the institutions in this country with disease names are actually invested in the continuation of disease, in my opinion. They NEED the disease to justify their own existence, and the idea of actually curing people or preventing disease simply isn't on their list of priorities.

That's because the screening, treatment and "management" of disease is their bread and butter. What business or non-profit would want to take proactive steps to lose customers and shrink its influence base? Cancer is too profitable to cure or prevent. Treating disease drives a significant portion of the U.S. economy (which is, of course, one reason why the U.S. is headed for financial collapse).

Someday, the FDA's attacks on natural medicine will go down in history alongside the Catholic Church's persecution of Galileo for defending the Copernican idea that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system. (The Pope apologized about the whole persecution thing in 1992, admitting that the Church's persecution of Galileo was a "sad misunderstanding" that "now belongs to the past." His announcement came 350 years too late to save Galileo.)

The FDA, sadly, won't be around for long enough to apologize for its persecution of natural medicine. Why? Because the FDA is a branch of the U.S. government, and the U.S. government won't be financially solvent much longer if we don't quickly find a solution to the nation's ballooning health care costs. This country is headed towards near-certain bankruptcy at the hands of drug companies, the FDA and a medical monopoly that simply refuses to loosen its grip on the wallets of American consumers and businesses. Companies are actually fleeing America due to the cost of providing health insurance for employees.

If such a scenario does unfold, it is likely that individual nation states will rise out of America's ashes, emboldened with greater respect for individual liberties and health freedom. Many of the Eastern states, where pharmaceutical companies rule local politics, may remain zombie drug zones, where infants, children, adults and senior citizens are drugged from birth to death under the oppressive policies of a Big Pharma-operated Plutocracy. But Western states like California, Oregon and Washington, will likely throw off the shackles off health tyranny and mass medication, turning instead to disease prevention, nutrition, natural therapies and health freedom.

So don't expect the FDA to be around to apologize to anybody. Only history will be the true judge of the great American medical tragedy of the 20th and 21st centuries. I call it, "The Dark Ages of medicine." And we're all living it.

Adventures of Vita-Man (comic)

By Mike Adams
This cartoon attempts to portray the destruction of food nutrients by microwave ovens. Microwaving food alters its molecular structure in ways that modern scientists still don't completely understand. The effects on the human body are simply not understood, but one thing we do know is that microwaving vegetables and fruits destroys as much as 97% of the phytonutrient nutrition they once contained.

In other words, eating raw broccoli provides you with natural anti-cancer medicine that's extremely effective at halting the growth of cancer tumors. But microwaving that broccoli destroys the anti-cancer nutrients, rendering the food "dead" and nutritionally depleted. There's even some evidence to suggest that microwaving destroys the natural harmony in water molecules, creating an energetic pattern of chaos in the water found in all foods. In fact, the common term of "nuking" your food is coincidentally appropriate: Using a microwave is a bit like dropping a nuclear bomb on your food, then eating the fallout. (You don't actually get radiation from eating microwaved foods, however. But you don't get much nutrition, either.)

Why microwave users are so unhealthy

Consumers are dying today in part because they continue to eat dead foods that are killed in the microwave. They take a perfectly healthy piece of raw food, loaded with vitamins and natural medicines, then stick it in the microwave and destroy most of its nutrition. Humans are the only species that destroys the nutritional value of food before eating it. All other animals consume food in its natural, unprocessed state, but humans actually go out of their way to render food nutritionally worthless before eating it. No wonder humans are the least healthy species on the planet.

The invention of the microwave and its mass adoption by the population coincides with the onset of obesity in developed nations around the world. Not only did the microwave make it convenient to eat more obesity-promoting foods, it also destroyed much of the nutritional content of those foods, leaving consumers in an ongoing state of malnourished overfeeding. In other words, people eat too many calories but not enough real nutrition. The result is, of course, what we see today: Epidemic rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, depression, kidney failure, liver disorders and much more. These diseases are all caused by a combination of malnutrition and exposure to toxic chemicals. Microwaves make malnutrition virtually automatic, and being exposed to toxic chemicals is easy to accomplish by simply eating processed foods (which are universally manufactured with the addition of toxic chemicals that act as preservatives, colorings, flavor enhancers and so on).

Microwaving is, technically, a form of food irradiation. I find it interesting that people who say that would never eat "irradiated" food have no hesitation about microwaving their food. It's the same thing (just a different wavelength of radiation). In fact, microwaves were originally called "radar ranges." Sounds strange today, doesn't it? But when microwaves were first introduced in the 1970's, they were proudly advertised as radar ranges. You blast your food with high-intensity radar and it gets hot. This was seen as some sort of space-age miracle in the 1970's.

The microwave does work as advertised. It makes your food hot. But the mechanism by which heat is produced causes internal damage to the delicate molecular structures of vitamins and phytonutrients. Minerals are largely unaffected, however, so you'll still get the same magnesium, calcium and zinc in microwaved foods as you would in non-microwaved foods, but the all-important B vitamins, anthocyanins, flavonoids and other nutritional elements are easily destroyed by microwave ovens.

The microwave is the appliance of the living dead. People who use the microwave on a regular basis are walking down a path towards degenerative disease and a lifelong battle with obesity. The more you use the microwave, the worse your nutritional state gets, and the more likely you are to be diagnosed with various diseases and put on pharmaceuticals which, of course, will create other health problems that lead to a grand spiraling nosedive of health.

Do yourself a favor: Toss your microwave, or donate it to some charity. It's much easier to avoid using the microwave if you don't have one around. It will clear up counter space, save you electricity and greatly enhance your dietary habits. When you need to heat something, heat it in a toaster oven or a stovetop pan (avoid Teflon and non-stick surfaces, of course). Better yet, strive to eat more of a raw, unprocessed diet. That where you'll get the best nutrition anyway. Buy yourself a Vita-Mix and blend up some smoothies. It's faster than microwaving foods are far healthier. (See my book Superfood Smoothies for recipes).

I drink a superfood smoothie every morning, and I haven't used a microwave in years. Protecting health is our own responsibility, and it's up to us all to make informed decisions about how we buy, prepare and consume our foods. Because in the end, Vita-Man won't come to save you. You have to save yourself.

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By Mike Adams

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...Cancer patients cured by chemotherapy? Zero

There is not a single cancer patient that has ever been cured by chemotherapy. Zero. They don't exist. Not a single documented case in the history of western medicine.

And why is that? Because conventional medicine operates from the false belief that there is no cure for cancer! Thus, anyone offering a cure (or assisting in the body's own natural reversal of the disease) is immediately dismissed as a quack. Meanwhile, the real quackery is found in the pushing of toxic chemotherapy chemicals that are injected into the bodies of patients and called "treatment" when they should really be called "torture." (Nancy Pelosi, by the way, was never briefed on the fact that chemotherapy is torture...)

What's most disturbing in all of this, of course, is that the state is now forcing parents to poison their own children, requiring they hand over money to Big Pharma and conventional cancer treatment centers. The concept of freedom of choiceprotecting your children from toxic chemicals has been not just nullified, but made illegal!

Furthermore, the whole universe of natural cancer cures that really work has been sidelined by this Minnesota judge who is, no doubt, completely ignorant on cancer and human physiology. All these were utterly ignored: Vitamin D (http://www.naturalnews.com/008567.html), selenium, oxygen therapy, medicinal mushrooms, microalgae, Amazon rainforest herbs, Chinese Medicine herbs, high-dose vitamin C, raw foods juicing, wild foods extracts, superfood powders, raw cacao, broccoli sprouts and a thousand other things that we know help the body reverse various cancers.

All these things were apparently thrown out of the courtroom and almost certainly disparaged by drug-pushing doctors who claim that only their own chemicals can treat this disease.

Can you imagine the arrogance of that position? Of all the hundreds of different systems of medicine in our world, with tens of thousands of identified medicinal plant species growing on our planet, with the knowledge and wisdom of over 5,000 years of natural medicine being used across nearly every continent, modern doctors insist there is but one approach to cancer that has any value whatsoever: Chemotherapy. And they believe it so strongly, that they will argue for the arrest and imprisonment of parents who disagree with them.

This is the point at which medicine crosses over the line of anything scientific and becomes a dangerous form of dogma known as "scientism."

Modern medicine is not a scientific debate, folks. It's a system of control. Doctors, judges and courtrooms are simply tools of oppression to manipulate, poison and exploit a diseased population, all while isolating them from the natural cures that really work.

And the people causing this to happen are, in every conceivable way, guilty of mass murder. To deny the population access to accurate information about natural cancer remedies that really work -- and to threaten to imprison those who attempt to protect their children from the harm caused by poisonous chemicals -- is essentially an act of murder. It's not quite the same as putting a gun to someone's head and pulling the trigger, but it's close: Dead is dead, whether they were killed by a bullet or an injection.

It is especially educational to realize that most oncologists refuse to submit to chemotherapy themselves. When cancer doctors get cancer, they avoid chemotherapy as any sensible person would. But they have no hesitation about injecting the poisons into the bodies of other people, including innocent 13-year-old boys who will almost certainly be harmed or even killed by the treatment.

Chemotherapy causes permanent brain damage. It's an undisputed scientific fact. It's called "chemo-brain." (http://www.naturalnews.com/020665.html)

Chemotherapy also causes heart damage and kidney damage. If you want to kill someone, an easy way to accomplish that would be to inject them with chemotherapy chemicals. But if you want to protect someone from danger, it would be far smarter to avoid chemotherapy altogether, and seek natural remedies that really work.

What works? Lots of things. Medicinal mushrooms (www.MushroomScience.com) are extremely powerful anti-cancer medicines. So is spirulina (www.Nutrex-Hawaii.com) and chlorella. Trace minerals are anti-cancer, as is aloe vera (www.GoodCauseWellness.com).

Cancer can also be beat with the help of superfoods (www.IntegratedHealth.com), berries (www.FruitFast.com), cruciferous vegetables, sprouts (www.TheRawFoodWorld.com) and even resveratrol (www.Vitacost.com). Eating spinach from your own garden is anti-cancer. The Amazon Herb Company sells numerous Amazon rainforest herbs that are naturally anti-cancer, and vitamin D all by itself can prevent nearly 4 out of 5 cancers (http://www.naturalnews.com/021892.html).

There is no shortage of cancer cures in our world. There is only a shortage of intelligence among court judges, doctors and CPS personnel who have allowed themselves to remain dangerously ignorant of the cancer treatments offered by Mother Nature.

When will the world wake up and figure out the obvious here?

Cancer is not caused by a poison deficiency. And poisoning the body while calling it "treatment" is a prime example of extreme intellectual dishonesty on the part of oncologists and Big Pharma pill pushers who, at the very least, are responsible for the deaths of perhaps half a million people a year worldwide.

By any honest mathematical analysis, cancer doctors are orders of magnitude more dangerous to our world than all the terrorists, ocean pirates and serial killers combined. And now, with the help of ignorant court judges, they have outlawed NOT using their own brand of poison.

It's sick beyond imagination. It's a crime against humanity, and I can only pray that one day the people responsible for the deaths of all these children being poisoned by chemotherapy will face their own court trials for mass murder...

The Birth of Big Pharma (comic)

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It's astounding: Nearly half the U.S. population is now taking a daily dose of one or more pharmaceuticals. The drug industry, which once merely hoped to medicate sick people, now has a more ambitious goal: medicate everyone, including people who aren't sick.

FDA vision test (comic)

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Of all the cartoons we've ever done on the FDA, this is the one that people seem to like the best. It addresses the issue of FDA conflicts of interest. The Food and Drug Administration, an agency that suffers under the hallucination that it protects the public from dangerous foods and drugs, has actually become the marketing department of Big Pharma. It actually takes money from drug companies in exchange for evaluating and approving their drugs, and the decisions concerning which drugs to approve almost always come down to a panel of "experts" who have strong financial ties to the very companies impacted by their decisions.

It's sort of like asking car companies to vote on what the federal automobile emissions standards should be. The decisions that do get made at the FDA almost always favor the profits of drug companies at the expense of public health. The situation is so bad that the FDA's efforts to reform itself involve things like limiting the level of corruption of drug panel experts so that they can only accept $50,000 / year from the drug companies instead of, say, $200,000 / year. They can still vote on the approval of the drugs, mind you, they just can't take more than $50,000 in bribes while doing so.

The idea of having NO conflicts of interest isn't even being considered by the FDA. It's unthinkable. But to normal (honest) people, eliminating conflicts of interest is a common sense concept. Politicians voting on bridge construction contracts shouldn't own the construction company. Cops who bust drug dealers shouldn't be dealing drugs themselves. A real estate agent who represents the seller of a house shouldn't simultaneously represent the buyer. You get the idea. And doctors who vote to approve drugs at the FDA shouldn't be on the payroll of the companies that profits from those drugs.

It only makes sense, right? But the FDA is blind to conflicts of interest. That's the point of this cartoon: the FDA Vision Test. I find this cartoon particularly hilarious because the top of the eye chart starts with the word "CON," and the Food and Drug Administration is, of course, a grand CON being perpetrated on the American people. What's the con? The idea that the FDA is doing anything whatsoever to actually protect the American public from overzealous food, drug and cosmetic companies who routinely poison consumers through the use of toxic chemicals and unsafe substances in their products.

Meanwhile, the FDA refuses to legalize stevia (the natural herbal sweetener), discredits vitamins, herbs and nutritional supplements, and actually enforces a U.S. medical monopoly by outlawing imports of legal prescription drugs in order to protect the profiteering medical racket operating in the United States.

In fact, if you want to do the math on the number of deaths caused by FDA-approved drugs vs. all other causes of death, the facts can only lead you to the conclusion I came to years ago: the FDA is the single most dangerous threat to the health and safety of the American people, far outweighing the threat of terrorism, infectious disease, natural disasters, violent crime or even automobile accidents. If you don't believe me, do the math yourself. Start with the Death by Medicine document at www.LEF.org

Consider this: Over the last five years, more people have been killed by the FDA than by the Department of Defense. And given that we're at war with a couple of countries right now, that's really saying something. For every Iraqi that's been killed by a bomb, missile or bullet over the last five years, two or more Americans have been killed by FDA-approved pharmaceuticals (both prescription and over-the-counter varieties). It's almost as if the FDA and Big Pharma have declared chemical warfare on the American people.

So why aren't we surrounding the FDA with tanks and demanding the agency's surrender? Because the CON (in "conflicts of interest") is just too darned profitable for powerful corporations to give it up. The continued disease mongering, over-screening and over-treatment of Americans with patented pharmaceuticals is a multi-billion dollar industry. And as long as the money flows, the people in power have no intention of rocking the boat.

I could go on, but the stories about the FDA would fill a book. Read up on the FDA on NaturalNews to learn more: www.NaturalNews.com/the_FDA.html

Or check out my book, Natural Health Solutions, which documents some of the more tyrannical actions by the FDA, including armed raids on vitamin shops, the ordered destruction of recipe books, the kidnapping of American citizens in Mexico, the raiding of a church, the bribery convictions and much more. Without any question whatsoever to anyone familiar with the facts, the FDA, as currently run, is a criminal organization. If we had anything resembling a true Dept. of Justice in this country, the people at the top of the FDA would be indicted for crimes against humanity.

But, alas, the wheels of justice turn slowly, if at all. These crimes committed by the FDA and Big Pharma may continue for several more years before the American people decide they've been chemically abused enough. In the mean time, Americans will continue to be killed by FDA-approved medications, the drug companies will pretend to care about human beings, and the FDA will pretend it's protecting someone. But when it's all done and over with, and the FDA has been gutted, reformed and rebuilt from the ground up, the truth will suddenly be obvious to everyone: the agency was blind to its own conflicts of interest. And the politicians, mainstream media and medical industry profiteers all agreed to shut their eyes and pretend nothing was wrong.

"Blind" isn't even the right word for it. The right word, delivered with precisely the right pronunciation and timing, is found only in The Matrix where Hugo Weaving (playing "Agent Smith") says to Morpheus, "Oblivious."

"All Natural Foods"

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Factory food manufacturers have figured out that slapping an "all natural" claim onto their processed, chemically-altered food products results in increased sales. Consumers, it seems, are trying to shop for healthier foods, and they're easily fooled by "all natural" claims, even though the vast majority of food products sporting such claims are anything but natural.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate claims of "all natural." They might claim to, but in reality, they don't. Food companies can get away with using all sorts of non-natural processes and chemical ingredients in a food product that they claim is all natural. For example, foods fried at high temperatures, resulting in the formation of cancer-causing acrylamides, are routinely labeled "all natural" in the snack section of the grocery store. And yet frying starches at high temperatures isn't natural at all -- it's a human-invented process for making boring foods like potatoes taste interesting by loading them up with fat and salt.

The salt used in such foods isn't natural either. It's almost entirely processed salt, and even the products that claim to be made from "sea salt" are actually using a white, processed sea salt (not a full-spectrum brown or pink salt like you might find with Celtic Sea Salt, which is truly natural).

Grocery product makers are also adding various chemical additives to their "all natural" products, hiding them under innocent-sounding ingredients that don't raise red flags with consumers. Monosodium glutamate (MSG), for example, is a neurotoxic substance classified as an excitotoxin. Consuming it causes migraine headaches, endocrine system damage, loss of appetite regulation (leading to obesity), neurological damage in fetuses (when consumed by expectant mothers) and many other problems. This is well known throughout the industry. Baby food manufacturers, for example, voluntarily removed MSG from their products decades ago following a public outcry about the dangers of MSG to babies and infants.

And yet today, numerous "all natural" food companies continue to use hidden forms of MSG in their foods, hiding them under innocent-sounding ingredients like yeast extract, autolyzed or hydrolyzed proteins (all of which contain MSG). Even the companies you've grown to trust in the "natural" food business are engaged in the blatant hiding of MSG in their products. Pay special attention to vegetarian food products such as veggie burgers. Read the ingredients on everything you buy and you'll find that the largest "natural" food manufacturers still use hidden MSG.

(The newest ingredient to hide MSG under is called torula yeast. Watch for it on labels.)

Big Pharma-What they don't want you to know

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As clear-thinking people, natural health consumers sometimes look at the actions of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and wonder what planet its decision makers seem to be from. It's like the FDA is living in a completely different world than the rest of us -- a world where nutrients are dangerous, but synthetic chemicals are perfectly safe for human consumption.

In fact, the idea that FDA bureaucrats and modern medicine promoters are living in a different reality is not far from the truth. I my view, FDA decision makers have no connection with reality. They're simply operating on a system of false beliefs and circular reasoning that justifies their efforts to protect Big Pharma profits by exploiting, misleading and directly harming the public.

Have you ever wondered what rules and beliefs actually drive FDA decisions in that alternate reality? As a service to NaturalNews readers, I've assembled a few in this article. These are the rules that define the dogma of modern "scientific" medicine and pharmacology marketing. These rules are followed by FDA bureucrats, drug company executives, psychiatrists, doctors, hospitals and everyone who's currently profiting from the failed system of medicine operating in the United States today.

These rules, by the way, are no joke. This is not a satire piece. This is a serious exploration of the beliefs under which much of modern medical science operates today. Once you read these and understand just how deeply they are embedded in the minds and actions of conventional medicine operatives today, you'll realize the magnitude of the medical collapse (and the related population collapse) that now awaits modern civilization. There is nothing in these rules that respects life, nature, compassion or humility. It's all about the power of man over nature, arrogance, control, exploitation and self delusion.