Ron Paul Takes His Turn as Rivals’ Punching Bag
December 28, 2011 by William
Filed under Government
December 28, 2011
FOX News
By FOX
“Now that Paul is winning, they are getting scared.” –KTRN
For months, Ron Paul was by turns ignored, tolerated and occasionally even praised by his opponents in the Republican presidential race.
But with the libertarian-leaning candidate surging to the front of the field in Iowa with less than a week to go before the caucuses, Paul’s extensive record of outside-the-GOP-mainstream comments and views is coming under withering attack by his competitors.
While some of his fellow Republicans have practically adopted his unwavering criticism of the Federal Reserve and Washington’s spending habits over the course of the campaign, they are picking apart other aspects of his record — in particular singling out his foreign policy views as dangerously isolationist.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who mostly had stayed away from commenting on Paul’s campaign, took a swipe Wednesday at the Texas congressman’s hands-off attitude toward Iran’s nuclear program.
“The greatest threat that Israel faces, and frankly the greatest threat that the world faces, is a nuclear Iran. … We have differing views on this,” Romney said at a cafe in Muscatine, Iowa. “Actually one of the people running for president thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I don’t.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose numbers in Iowa have dropped precipitously while Paul’s have climbed, has emerged as one of the Texas congressman’s toughest critics in the closing days of the Iowa blitz.
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Romney, Perry slap at Paul on Iran
December 28, 2011 by William
Filed under Government
December 28, 2011
The Associated Press
“Now that Paul has a real chance in Iowa, Romney and Perry are pulling punches. But the people know the truth.” –KTRN
Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney and Rick Perry on Wednesday assailed Ron Paul for saying the U.S. has no business bombing Iran to keep it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, drawing a sharp contrast with their rising rival as he returned to Iowa days before the lead-off caucuses.
“One of the people running for president thinks it’s okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, said in this eastern Iowa city in response to a question from someone in the audience. “I don’t.”
It was the first time that Romney has challenged Paul directly since the Texas congressman jumped in polls. Neither he nor Perry, the Texas governor, named Paul, but the target was clear.
“You don’t have to vote for a candidate who will allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Because America will be next,” Perry said in Urbandale, reiterating a line of argument from a day earlier.
“I’m here to say: You have a choice,” Perry added.
The stepped-up criticism of Paul, the libertarian-leaning Republican, comes as surveys show he’s in contention to win Tuesday’s caucuses.
In recent days, conservative opponents including Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann have increased their criticism of Paul on social issues, foreign affairs and inflammatory comments in his decades-old newsletter. By tearing him down, they hope voters will give their campaigns another, closer look after a season marked by candidates who have risen quickly in public standing only to fall back down.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who’s slide in surveys over the past week has come as Paul has risen, said Tuesday he couldn’t vote for Paul if he were to become the GOP nominee and called his views “totally outside the mainstream of every decent American” during an interview with CNN.
Paul, for his part, was meeting with supporters near Des Moines, his first visit to the state since before the campaigns went dark over the Christmas holiday. He planned a series of events over the next two days as his campaign looked to take advantage of a burst of momentum as the caucuses approach.
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Major Health Care Changes Took Effect In 2011
December 28, 2011
USA Today
By Kelly Kennedy
In a year that included an attempted House repeal of the federal health care law, several court cases challenging its constitutionality and Republican candidate debates proposing a replacement plan, it can be difficult to dig through the rhetoric to determine just what the 2010 health care law has done.
The 2,400-page document and a multiyear and multistep implementation don’t help with the confusion.
Proponents and foes say big pieces of the law have been enacted and have already affected millions of people’s lives.
“It’s complicated, but there are very many benefits affecting millions of people,” said Don Berwick, who served as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services until the beginning of December. “They will not know it’s the Affordable Care Act, but it is.”
In 2011, the law targeted specific groups of people — mostly the young and senior citizens — while the most argued about pieces won’t come until 2014. Then, assuming the Supreme Court doesn’t rule against the “individual mandate,” the provision that requires most Americans to buy health insurance, millions more people will be affected.
Health insurance exchanges for people who don’t receive insurance through their employers will start working as Medicaid expands through federal funding to include more people who can’t afford insurance. Lower-income Americans will receive help paying their premiums.
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Nutrition Requirements On A Raw Food Diet
December 28, 2011
Raw Food Health
By Raw Food Health
If you’re eating a raw food diet, here is a nice article to help you get the nutrition you need.” –KTRN
When they adopt raw food diets, many people start caring about their nutrition requirements due to concerns over inadequacy. What’s the RDA for calcium? Am I getting enough zinc? What about protein?
Knowing what recommendations to follow can be a bit tricky, as different bodies of experts suggest different things. There’s also no assurance their recommendations even apply to you because good raw food diets are so radically different than what most people eat, and require different standards.
For most nutrients my diet meets – and in many cases exceeds by large factor – the standard RDA suggestions, but in some areas I’m “deficient,” by the SAD nutrition requirements proposed by the usual bodies of experts. Yet in following this diet since 2005, my health has been near perfect, with not so much as a head cold in sight. So can I really be deficient?
We have to look at why the RDAs are set where they are to understand that a healthy intake of some nutrients can be much lower than the official suggestion.
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Sunshine Helps Prevent Skin Cancer While Sunscreens Promote It
December 28, 2011
Natural News
By Paul Fassa
“Get out there and get some sun. If it’s cold and wintery where you live – vitamin D3 is your answer.” –KTRN
There are three types of skin cancer – of which melanoma is the most dangerous and potentially lethal because it can metastasize into other body parts. The other two non-melanoma types, squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma, are treatable and not as threatening or able to metastasize as melanoma.
Most skin cancer cases are of the basal cell carcinoma type, which can destroy surrounding tissue and disfigure facial skin areas if unchecked. It is advisable to check with a dermatologist if you have any unusual new moles or sores that won’t heal anywhere on your skin. Skin biopsies are easy to perform.
Mainstream medicine blames the sun for all three types, and recommends sun screen lotions to block sun exposure. But one should take their sloppy science of prevention with several grains of salt.
Just about any dermatologist still holds to the myth that you need to avoid direct sunlight or lather your body with sunscreen to avoid skin cancer. Recently, the opposite has been determined to be true in both cases.
Sloppy science that harms more than helps
There are two basic types of ultra-violet (UV) rays from the sun that affect us: UVA and UVB. Ultra-violet A (UVA) rays have little or no benefit, and can cause some skin damage that initially shows as sunburn and eventually dries and ages the skin. UVA rays are steady throughout the day. Most sunscreens do not block harmful UVA rays. But most of them contain toxic and carcinogenic ingredients.
Natural lotions and many European sunscreens are more beneficial and less toxic. This requires some serious label reading. Simply using coconut oil, sunflower oil, jojoba (hoHOba) oil, eucalyptus oil, or shea butter is easier for preventing sun burn if you’re concerned.
Glass windows and windshields do not filter out UVA rays. But they do manage to block UVB rays. UVB rays are involved with the beginning of a body’s vitamin D3 production. And UVB rays peak during mid-day and are strongest during summers and nearer the equator. They are not the same throughout the day as UVA rays are.
So the sloppy science says you must deprive yourself of sun bestowing vitamin D3 that helps to prevent cancer and boost the immune system while slathering your body with carcinogenic sunscreens that don’t even block UVA rays. Makes no sense, does it?
Actually, those two medical suggestions have probably caused more skin cancer. Over the past few decades, skin cancer cases, especially melanoma, have risen dramatically. And it was a few decades ago that the sun-skin cancer links were made. This made selling sun screen lotions easy with no research on their harmful ingredients or inability to deflect UVA rays. That’s not unusual for FDA approvals.
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The Rise Of Pernicious Laws That Criminalise The Law-Abiding
December 28, 2011
Info Wars
By Simon Heffer
“Why is it legal for cops to set up speed traps just to get you?” –KTRN
It is quite right for the state to prosecute motorists who drive at 40mph in 30mph limits on housing estates where children might be playing, and near schools, but it even more zealously prosecutes those who drive past speed cameras in 70mph zones in open country at 80mph and are doing no harm at all.
This is a two-pronged problem. It is partly the fault of the civil servants who draw up laws, and who (unlike in previous generations) are insufficiently well-educated, and apolitical, to ensure their measures have no unintended consequences.
But it is also the fault of the police who implement the law without discretion or, often, much good sense, when they would be better employed directing their firepower at those who justly deserve it, and against whom society cries out to be protected.
A fine example of this was in Kent a few years ago, where two young policemen pulled over an 82-year-old man for driving slowly in the small hours of Christmas morning…
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The Top 10 Conspiracy Facts Of 2011
December 28, 2011
Natural News
By Mike Adams
2011 was the year in which many conspiracy “theories” became conspiracy FACTS. Articles that used to earn you a tinfoil hat designation suddenly were front-page news stories across the country. The world is stranger than we can imagine, it seems, and 2011 proved it yet again.
Here are the top ten conspiracy facts that emerged over the last year:
#1 – Obama admits U.S. government used Guatemalan prisoners for illegal medical experiments
When we exposed the U.S. government’s long list of medical crimes against humanity back in 2006, the mainstream media was silent (http://www.naturalnews.com/019187.html). People insisted the government was ethical and honest, and it could never be involved in crimes against humanity. (ROFL!) When the truth came out about Guatemalan prisoner experiments, however, it went viral so quickly the mainstream media couldn’t whitewash the story.
So now, the whole world knows the U.S. government and its National Institutes of Health (NIH) are medical criminals that murder innocent human beings in order to study new drugs for Big Pharma:
#2 – FDA caught using KGB-style infiltration and spying techniques to entrap raw milk distribution hub
It’s legal to sell unpasteurized orange juice in America as long as you put a label on it, but selling unpasteurized milk earns you the “KGB treatment” from the FDA and the California Dept. of Agriculture, both of which have become criminal gangs running vindictive vengeance campaigns against target innocents. NaturalNews broke the story of how the FDA used spy cameras, secret infiltration techniques and other traps to gather evidence before raiding Rawesome Foods at gunpoint, then destroying $50,000+ in food in front of astonished witnesses.
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The Globalization of War: The “Military Roadmap” to World War III
December 28, 2011
Global Research
By Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham
In September 1990, some five weeks after Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait, US President and Commander in Chief George Herbert Walker Bush delivered a historical address to a joint session of the US Congress and the Senate in which he proclaimed a New World Order emerging from the rubble of the Berlin Wall and the demise of the Soviet Union.
Bush Senior had envisaged a world of “peaceful international co-operation”, one which was no longer locked into the confrontation between competing super powers, under the shadow of the doctrine of “Mutually Assured Destruction” (MAD) which had characterized the Cold War era.
Bush declared emphatically at the outset of what became known as “the post-Cold War era” that:
“a new partnership of nations has begun, and we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times… a new world order can emerge: A new era freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, east and west, north and south, can prosper and live in harmony.”
Of course, speeches by American presidents are often occasions for cynical platitudes and contradictions that should not be taken at face value. After all, President Bush was holding forth on international law and justice only months after his country had invaded Panama in December 1989 causing the deaths of several thousand citizens – committing crimes comparable to what Saddam Hussein would be accused of and supposedly held to account for. Also in 1991, the US and its NATO allies went on to unleash, under a “humanitarian” mantle, a protracted war against Yugoslavia, leading to the destruction, fragmentation and impoverishment of an entire country.
Nevertheless, it is instructive to use Bush Senior’s slanted vision of a “New World Order” as a reference point for how dramatically the world has changed in the intervening 20 years of the so-called post-Cold War era, and in particular how unilaterally degenerate the contemporary international conduct of the US has become under the Clinton, G. W. Bush Junior and Obama administrations.
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Ron Paul’s Novel Coalition Faces Its Major Moment in Iowa
December 27, 2011 by William
Filed under Government
December 27, 2011
Time
By Adam Sorensen
Go to any Ron Paul event and the audience is part of the tale. They’re younger, rowdier, more socially diverse than Republican rally regulars. Any one of them might have driven across the state to see Paul speak or be able to riff at length about Austrian economic theory. Any one of them also might be a Democrat or an independent, a fact that’s poised to play a big role in Paul’s story in 2012.
The partisan breakdown of Paul’s current coalition is striking. Byron York writes:
In a hotly-contested Republican race, it appears that only about half of Paul’s supporters are Republicans. In Iowa, according to Rasmussen, just 51 percent of Paul supporters consider themselves Republicans. In New Hampshire, the number is 56 percent, according to Andrew Smith, head of the University of New Hampshire poll.
The same New Hampshire survey found that 87 percent of the people who support Romney consider themselves Republicans. For Newt Gingrich, it’s 85 percent.
The fact that roughly half of Paul’s primary supporters are Democrats or independents is probably an asset in selling his general election viability, which his fellow Republicans have frequently called into question. In a recent CNN survey that polled hypothetical head-to-heads between Obama and Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich respectively, Paul tied Romney in performing best against the President in large part because he outperformed all the other GOP candidates among Democrats, independents, 18- to 34-year-olds and non-white voters.
While an electability argument is a key part of any nomination process, if Paul ends up under-performing high expectations in Iowa next week, this big-tent dynamic could end up being the culprit. Paul has a significant lead in most Iowa polls at the moment, but as Mark Blumenthal explains, polling in Iowa has historically underestimated arch-conservative candidates and overestimated the performance of those with more moderate coalitions:
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Respected Medical Journal Disses Gardasil
December 27, 2011
The Healthy Home Economist
By Sarah
The Annals of Medicine, a peer reviewed medical journal, recently published a startling article which questions whether HPV vaccine policy and evidence based medicine are, in fact, at odds.
The key messages published with this article are a scathing rebuttal to the vaccine industry’s hollow claims of the safety and efficacy of Gardasil and Cervarix, the two HPV vaccines being relentlessly and aggressively pushed on our young adolescent girls and now even boys. In California, a new law stipulates that children as young as 12 can accept the HPV jab without parental consent!
In this eye opening article, authors Lucija Tomljenovic and Christopher A. Shaw, of the University of British Columbia, point out the following with regard to HPV vaccination (excerpt from the full article):
To date, the efficacy of HPV vaccines in preventing cervical cancer has not been demonstrated, while the vaccine risks remain to be fully evaluated.
Current worldwide HPV immunization practices with either of the two HPV vaccines (Gardasil or Cervarix) appear to be neither justified by long-term health benefits nor economically viable, nor is there any evidence that HPV vaccination (even if proven effective against cervical cancer) would reduce the rate of cervical cancer beyond what Pap screening has already achieved.
Cumulatively, the list of serious adverse reactions related to HPV vaccination includes deaths, convulsions, paraesthesia, paralysis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, transverse myelitis, facial palsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, anaphylaxis, autoimmune disorders, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolisms, and cervical cancers!
Because the HPV vaccination program has global coverage, the long-term health of many women may be at risk against still unknown vaccine benefits.
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