FDA Has Gone Nuts: Walnuts and Other Foods Are Drugs (What???)

From The Vatic Project:

Vatic Note:  This is bizarre, but now it figures.  This government and others globally, have restricted and in some cases banned natural remedies,  instituted strict regulations and licensing and costs that inhibit our ability to grow our own food, and poisoned what food we do get served to us by the mega food industry and FDA looks the other way, why?  BECAUSE DEPOPULATION is the agenda, and FOOD IS A MEDICINE which its always been, thus interfering drasticly with all their efforts to depopulate us.  No harm has been done whatsoever by publishing claims about the food we eat and we have had that for thousands of years and now all of a sudden its prohibited, and yet,  the FDA WILL NOT BAN GMO products that are scientifically proven to damage our organs, and cause sterility and birth defects and who knows what it does to our DNA which is essential to who we are.    What this crazy making action is really all about is the opposite of what they say they are trying to do.  THIS IS WHY YOU NEED GOV OUT OF OUR FACES and monsanto executives in jail right next to the dept that approved their frankenseeds.  Notice that the seed bank for the robber barons in the ARTIC only CONTAIN HERITAGE REAL SEEDS AND NO GMO SEEDS???  Now why is that ???
FDA Has Gone Nuts: Walnuts and Other Foods Are Drugs 
Posted on September 11, 2010 , Contributed to Vatic by Boldarn and Gypsy Flame,  Australia
"Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food", Hippocrates.

Since food is medicine, and medicine is food, the Food and Drug Administration, an agency of Health and Human Services, is requiring that claims of food health benefits by sellers, must have federal licensing and scientific proof of such claims. This is to harmonize with Codex Alimentarius, global food and drug control standards.

Dr. Gary Null writes that it is a criminal act to mention that walnuts have health benefits without FDA licensing and approval. This is being extended to all foods.

Some of these actions are reasonable for the abuse of package claims based on fraudulent trick science by Big Food, but they will also be going after good people with good, healthy products that teach nutritional science on their product literature. I am hopeful and there are good people in FDA and other agencies that are fighting against this. Are you?– Augie

More and more letters like this one sent to Diamond Foods are being sent via certified mail and followed up by FDA agents and attorneys in their regional and district offices:

“Based on our review, we have concluded that your walnut products are in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) and the applicable regulations in Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR). …Based on claims made on your firm’s website, we have determined that your walnut products are promoted for conditions that cause them to be drugs because these products are intended for use in the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of disease. …Because of these intended uses, your walnut products are drugs within the meaning of section 201 (g)(1)(B) of the Act [21 U.S.C. 321(g)(B)]. Your walnut products are also new drugs under section 201(p) of the Act [21 U.S.C. 321(p)] because they are not generally recognized as safe and effective for the above referenced conditions. Therefore, under section 505(a) of the Act [21 U.S.C. 355(a)], they may not be legally marketed with the above claims in the United States without an approved new drug application.”

Gary Null: In other words, telling the truth about walnuts turns you into a criminal according to the FDA. And if you tell the scientifically-validated truth about how walnuts can help reduce high cholesterol, that act magically transforms your walnuts into unapproved drugs.

And much the same is true when you’re talking about green tea or pomegranates or superfoods. If you dare discuss the health benefits of any food or natural substance while you are selling such items, you will be branded a criminal by the FDA, threatened with criminal prosecution and potentially have your company raided by the FDA along with armed law enforcement agents with guns drawn.

Only junk foods are good for you    

At the same time the FDA is attacking health foods, it openly allows ridiculous health claims on processed dead junk foods. Frito-Lay potato chips, for example, are allowed to carry claims that they are “heart healthy.”
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Michael Moore Endorses "Build a Mega-Mosque ON Ground Zero" Project; Begins Fundraising!

From Truthjihad, by Kevin Barrett:

Closet 9/11 truther Michael Moore, one of America's all-time great political filmmakers, has come out in favor ofmy "build a mega-mosque ON Ground Zero" proposal -- and started raising the construction money!

In a recent article, Moore writes:
"I am opposed to the building of the 'mosque' two blocks from Ground Zero.

I want it built on Ground Zero..."

Like me, Michael Moore wants to see a mega-mosque with minaret(s) as high as the demolished Towers:

"...But to even have to assure people that 'it's not going to be mosque' is so offensive, I now wish they would just build a 111-story mosque there. That would be better than the lame and disgusting way the developer has left Ground Zero an empty hole until recently."

Then Moore drops a bombshell: "The remains of over 1,100 people still haven't been found." This little-known fact is, all by itself, proof positive that the Towers were destroyed with powerful explosives, which blasted human bodies, office furniture and equipment, filing cabinets, computers, concrete, and everything else except the buildings' steel frames into tiny solid fragments mixed into a sea of dust the consistency of talcum powder -- a six-inch "snowfall" that blanketed Manhattan. Had the Towers simply pancaked down due to gravity, the bodies of every victim, along with all of the office furniture and equipment, would have been found, smashed but basically intact, between the pancaked floors. Instead, there were no pancaked floors at Ground Zero, and only one filing cabinet-- out of many thousands -- was ever found. 

According to Ground Zero cleanup worker Joe Casaliggi, Engine 7: "You have two hundred and ten story office buildings. You don't find a desk. You don't find a chair. You don't find a telephone, a computer. The biggest piece of a telephone I found was about half of a keypad and it was about this big [the size of a post-it]."       

In short, the contents of the Towers had been pulverized. Nor were there any intact bodies, just tiny bone slivers and bits of flesh that had been blasted to smithereens and, in many cases, propelled hundreds of feet outward and upward to land on the streets and rooftops of neighboring buildings.

At the end of his article, Michael Moore says he will match the first $10,000 raised to help build the mosque he wants built on Ground Zero (though the Burlington Coat Factory site would be better than nothing).

Since Mike and I share a sense of humor and a predilection for political provocation, I think we'd do a great radio show together. Please write to Michael Moore (mike[at]michaelmoore[dot]com) and ask him to contact me (kbarrett[at]merr[dot]com) so I can book him on my radio show. You can mention that I don't mind that he stole my idea -- it's a great idea, after all -- but would appreciate the chance to discuss it with him on the radio!
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[WTF: FULL-FLEDGED FASCISM IN THE USA!] Anyone who speaks out against the government's policies could be declared an "unlawful enemy combatant" and imprisoned indefinitely. That includes American citizens.

(In case you did not notice, US is a fascist regime at all the effects). From Washington’s Blog (excerpt, my emphasis):


...Specifically, according to Department of Defense training manuals, protest is considered "low-level terrorism". And see this, this and this.
An FBI memo also labels peace protesters as "terrorists".
Indeed, police have been terrorizing children, little old ladies and other "dangerous" people who attempted to protest peacefully.


And a 2003 FBI memo describes protesters' use of videotaping as an "intimidation" technique, even though - as the ACLU points out - "Most mainstream demonstrators often use videotape during protests to document law enforcement activity and, more importantly, deter police from acting outside the law." The FBI appears to be objecting to the use of cameras to document unlawful behavior by law enforcement itself.


The Internet has been labeled as a breeding ground for terrorists, with anyone who questions the government's versions of history being especially equated with terrorists.


The government is also using anti-terrorism laws to keep people from learning what pollutants are in their own community. See this, this, this and this.
Claims of "national security" are also used to keep basic financial information - such as who got bailout money - secret. That might not bode for particularly warm and friendly treatment for someone persistently demanding the release of such information.


The state of Missouri tried to label as terrorists current Congressman Ron Paul and his supporters, former Congressman Bob Barr, libertarians in general, anyone who holds gold, and a host of other people.


And according to a law school professor, pursuant to the Military Commissions Act:

Anyone who ... speaks out against the government's policies could be declared an "unlawful enemy combatant" and imprisoned indefinitely. That includes American citizens.

The Founding Fathers, Supreme Court justices and presidents quoted above would vigorously protest.
Note: Government apologists are also eager to label anyone "taking a cynical stance toward politics, mistrusting authority, endorsing democratic practices, ... and displaying an inquisitive, imaginative outlook" as worthy of a Stalinist trip to the insane asylum.  I guess the famous Americans quoted above were not only terrorists, but they were also crazy.
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Meet the new world's boss

Awesome data and medium-term forecast:

China to Be The World’s Largest Market Sooner Than You Think
By Eric Fry

09/14/10 Laguna Beach, California – Stock markets around the world delivered pleasing results yesterday. Here at home, the S&P 500 Index added nearly 1% to its recent gains, while the MSCI Emerging Markets Index added nearly three times as much…to continue a long-running trend.

No matter the time horizon – 1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 years – the Emerging Markets are trouncing their counterparts in the Developed World.

“Much has been written on the subject of emerging vs. submerging markets,” Joel Bowman observed in his essay “Working for a Living: A Report on Emerging Market Productivity”, “and with increasingly good reason. According to Goldman Sachs strategist, Timothy Moe, the market value of emerging market stocks is set to quintuple over the coming two decades, reaching some $80 trillion (with a ‘T’) by 2030. China, by this time, will have eclipsed the United States as the world’s largest market.

“Investors with an eye to the future,” Joel continued, “will want to be in the pool when the big money pours in. The ride will be rough, no doubt, but the waterline is most definitely rising. According to figures released by research firm EPFR Global, investors added money to emerging-market equity funds for a 14th straight week last week, even as they pulled $6.87 billion from global stock funds. The driver, it is clear, is the upward and ongoing growth, both registered and forecast, in emerging markets. The IMF expects the emerging economies to grow by 6.4% collectively next year, almost three times faster than developed nations which, reckons the fund, will likely dawdle along at a paltry 2.4%.”

Looking farther down the road, the IMF expects the BRIC economies to deliver fully 60% of the world’s GDP growth during the next four years – or more than five times the growth that the G7 economies will produce.

“How do the Emerging Market nations achieve such veracious growth rates?” Joel wondered aloud. “They work. Moreover, their toils are of the productive kind – making cars, toothbrushes and belt sanders – as opposed to what the west counts as productivity – counting people, writing laws and tasering grandma at the airport.

“Such a divergence in productivity is, of course, not lost on Mr. Market. Over the past decade the MSCI Emerging Markets Index has more than doubled. During the same period, the MSCI World Index of advanced nations has slumped nearly 21%. This worrying (for developed nations) trend expresses itself in entirely unsurprising forms:

“Clearly, the winds of economic change are at the emerging markets’ backs,” Joel concluded. “The rough and tumble, dog-eat-dog capitalistic initiatives coloring the emerging nations’ economic landscape harkens back to the ‘good old days’ of the world’s developed economies; when entrepreneurial endeavourers were rewarded by the market, rather than punished by the state, when profit was a goal for which to strive in earnest, not a dirty word emblazoning the protest sign of a state-dependent layabout looking to borrow somebody else’s axe to grind.”

Eric Fry
for The Daily Reckoning
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Gold is Your Individual and Collective Salvation

From Monty Pelerin:

The Daily Bell regularly focuses on the power elite and their control of society. In this article, they focused on weaknesses in the banking system as an Achilles heel to continued government control:

What may be the proverbial final nail in the coffin …  is that the US Fed is not going to be able to bring the economy back. Not only has the Fed lost moral authority, it may soon lose any claim to competence in the public mind. It is the economic downturn, as much as anything else, that has made the criticisms of the hard-money alternative press credible. If the Fed and central banking generally continues to fail, a day of reckoning will draw closer.

What does this mean for you and me? Aside from the unlikelihood of a recovery any time soon, it suggests that banking problems will recur. When that happens, the insolvency of welfare states around the world will be unable to assuage the problem. They are out of ammunition, tools and credibility. Many people now understand that.

Chaos will arise. Given the general distrust and anger toward government, this condition may not easily be suppressed:

It is not necessarily true, in our view, that the powers-that-be in an aim to maintain power and avoid negative blowback from an increasingly angered citizenry will be able to impose a fully authoritarian culture on the US and the West – in the event of larger social and economic failures. Just as we do not believe that war will be a panacea at this point.

The most optimistic aspect of an economic disaster is the possibility of political redesign. Over-sized, oppressive government might be reined in and returned to Constitutionally-drawn boundaries. That outcome is impossible via the normal process, because political courage, a first-rate oxymoron, is nonexistent.

We have gone too far down the road toward despotism. The elite have tasted power and will not willingly forego it. But traumatic times open societies to great change, both good and bad. Our trauma will arrive in the form of an economic collapse. There is danger that our political system will be destroyed, but there is also the hope that it may be revived. The Daily Bell speaks of one outcome that could be a game-changer:

We continue to believe that there is a possibility the system will unravel in such a way as to give rise to some sort of free-market based gold and silver standard. It would emerge spontaneously, at least to a degree and might be adopted serially by countries around the world. This is perhaps an optimistic scenario but it is not one to be ruled out. The worst does not always happen.

If government destroys fiat money, and they seem hell-bent to do so, they effectively destroy their own power. If paper money becomes unacceptable, government has no way to pay its bills, fight wars or do much of anything. The government does not want to destroy this valuable instrument of plunder, but they insist on trying to sustain a level of spending that is impossible. In an effort to prolong the welfare state, they will end up destroying both the currency and the welfare state.

Gold has always been a threat to governments. Before he sold out, Alan Greenspan said the following regarding gold:

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. … This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.

An almost hysterical antagonism towards the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense — perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire — that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and that each implies and requires the other.

Gold was a barrier against the welfare state, big government and socialism. It was a safeguard against inflation. It has always been attacked by statists. Politicians and economists who believe they can and should manage an economy must destroy the credibility of gold. To them it is like the cross was to Dracula. To the rest of us, gold is protection. The only threat to Government Dracula is gold. John Maynard Keynes knew it was a barrier to his misconceived statism and referred to the gold standard as a “barbarous relic” in the early 1920s.

President Nixon defaulted on America’s promise to redeem its currency for gold in 1971. Most of the world’s economic problems can be traced back to this seminal event. It represented the first time in the history of the world that not one currency was not commodity-based. The world was cut loose from the restraints imposed by a commodity-backed currency.

It is not too far-fetched to believe that gold may rescue the political affairs of the world. Mr. Bernanke’s QE policies will continue unless politicians reduce spending (and they will not). Eventually QE will destroy the dollar.

It is not as if people are unaware of the fate of the dollar. Gold has been in the biggest bull market of any real or financial asset for the past ten years. It rose from around $250 per ounce to $1,250 during this period. There has not been one down year. The year over year increase averaged about 16% arithmetically.

Gold has little industrial demand. Its supply increases little each year. As a result, its price should remain relatively constant. It has, except when measured in terms of something that loses value every year. Gold isn’t really increasing in value. It appears to be because it is measured in terms of numeraires known as fiat currencies that are losing value. The market price rise of gold merely reflects the deterioration of currencies.

Few charts demonstrate this better than this one from James Turk. It shows the price of oil in terms of gold and the price of oil in dollars. While oil has risen dramatically over time in terms of dollars, it has hardly budged in terms of the amount of gold required to buy a unit of oil. Oil is not increasing in price, except in terms of a deteriorating currency. Unfortunately the chart does not go beyond 2005. If it did, the blue line would have increased dramatically while the red line remained relatively stable. Oil has increased dramatically in dollar terms during recent years, but so has gold. The effects offset likely producing little change in the red line.

Voltaire understood perfectly the nature of government counterfeiting when he stated: “Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value — zero.” As currencies fail, the value of gold will go parabolic. People will refuse to accept or hold fiat money. Hyperinflation will result.

While it may seem a slim reed on which to rest the future of freedom, gold is truly a bulwark against depotism and other government excesses. In these trying times it is likely our best hope to rearrange the political landscape peacefully. Politicians cannot be trusted now or ever. Gold made them behave honestly even when they did not want to. It is likely to do so again.

Gold is not likely to be mandated as government money by choice. It does not depend on government for authority. Gold as money is a market-based choice as old as trading itself. Fiat money displaced gold by claiming it was redeemable into gold. No one believes that any more and most recognize the monetary system for the counterfeiting scam that it has become.

When the economy collapses, gold will return. As governments rebuild from the ashes, gold (and possibly other commodities) will back new fiat money. Will markets fall for the duplicity again? Probably, but only because it will likely take another thirty to fifty years to destroy the new currency in the same fashion the old was destroyed.

Bring on the collapse and bring back gold! Let’s find out what the counterfeiters have in mind next.
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