Saturday, January 11, 2014

98 million Americans were given polio vaccine contaminated with cancer-causing virus, admits CDC

98 million Americans were given polio vaccine contaminated with cancer-causing virus, admits CDC

(NaturalNews) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has once again been caught removing pertinent but indicting information about vaccines from its website. This time it involves the infamous polio vaccine, up to 98 million doses of which have been exposed as containing a cancer-causing virus that is now believed to be responsible for causing millions of cancers in America, according to the CDC.

The information was posted on an official CDC fact sheet entitled Cancer, Simian Virus 40 (SV40), and Polio Vaccine, which has since been removed from the CDC's website. Fortunately, RealFarmacy.com was able to archive the damning page before the CDC ultimately removed it, presumably because SV40 has been receiving considerable attention lately due to its connection to causing cancer.

You can view the link to the original CDC page on SV40 and polio vaccines, which is no longer active, here:
http://www.cdc.gov

You can view the full archived CDC page here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com

As you will notice on the archived CDC page, the SV40 virus was allegedly first discovered in monkeys back in 1960, and not long after began appearing inexplicably in polio vaccines. The SV40 virus, according to this same page, has been linked to causing a variety of human cancers, including childhood leukemia, lung cancer, bone cancer, and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Though the CDC denies a definitive causal link between SV40 and cancer, it implies that the virus, which was supposedly removed from all polio vaccines in 1963, was problematic in relation to cancer development. More than 98 million people, in fact, may have been exposed to SV40 as a result of receiving government-recommended polio vaccines back in the 1960s, and many of these may have developed cancer as a result.

"More than 98 million Americans received one or more doses of polio vaccine from 1955 to 1963 when a proportion of vaccine was contaminated with SV40," explains the CDC. "[I]t has been estimated that 10-30 million Americans could have received an SV40 contaminated dose of vaccine."

SV40 virus in polio vaccines linked to bone cancer, mesothelioma

So why the sudden removal of this important information from the CDC's website? The cached CDC page, as you will notice, makes sure to dissuade its readers from thinking that SV40 has been conclusively linked to causing cancer, even though it was demonstrated back in 1961 by the National Institute of Health (NIH) that SV40 is directly linked to causing tumor formation.

"Like other polyomaviruses, SV40 is a DNA virus that has been found to cause tumors and cancer," explains RealFarmacy.com. "SV40 is believed to suppress the transcriptional properties of the tumor-suppressing genes in humans through the SV40 Large T-antigen and SV40 Small T-antigen. Mutated genes may contribute to uncontrolled cellular proliferation, leading to cancer."

As far as specific conditions linked to SV40, Michele Carbone, Assistant Professor of Pathology at Loyola University in Chicago, found that the virus is present in many cases of both osteosarcoma bone cancer and the increasingly prevalent lung cancer variety known as mesothelioma. As it turns out, Carbone identified SV40 in about one-third of all osteosarcoma cases studied, and in 40 percent of other bone cancers. The same was true for 60 percent of all cases of mesothelioma.

"Many authorities now admit much, possibly most, of the world's cancers came from the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines, and hepatitis B vaccines, produced in monkeys and chimps," adds RealFarmacy.com. "It is said (that) mesothelioma is a result of asbestos exposure, but research reveals that 50 percent of the current mesotheliomas being treated no longer occur due to asbestos but rather the SV40 virus contained in polio vaccination."

Be sure to read the entire RealFarmacy.com report here:
http://www.realfarmacy.com

Sources for this article include:

http://www.realfarmacy.com

http://www.naturalnews.com

http://www.sv40foundation.org

http://www.science.naturalnews.com

Vaccine fraud exposed: Measles and mumps making a huge comeback because vaccines are designed to fail, say Merck virologists

Vaccine fraud exposed: Measles and mumps making a huge comeback because vaccines are designed to fail, say Merck virologists

(NaturalNews) Disclaimer: I am not an opponent of the theory of inoculation. Nor am I opposed to science. What I am opposed to is fraudulent science, and that's what this article is all about.

Measles and mumps are making a huge comeback in the United States, but doctors and journalists all make the same critical error in understanding why. They blame "parents who don't vaccinate their kids" as the cause, but the real cause -- as revealed by whistleblowing scientists working for top vaccine manufacturers -- is that measles and mumps vaccines are designed to fail from the start.

Scientific fraud, it turns out, is an inherent part of the vaccine industry.

How do we know? Because whistleblowers who worked in the industry have found the courage to speak out and tell the truth. These people are the Edward Snowdens of the vaccine industry.

Merck falsified its mumps vaccine efficacy results, say former employees

Merck knowingly falsified its mumps vaccine test results to fabricate a "95% efficacy rate" say former Merck virologists Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski in their shocking False Claims Act document.

As I wrote last year, " In order to do this, Merck spiked the blood test with animal antibodies in order to artificially inflate the appearance of immune system antibodies."

From the False Claims Act complaint:

Merck also added animal antibodies to blood samples to achieve more favorable test results, though it knew that the human immune system would never produce such antibodies, and that the antibodies created a laboratory testing scenario that "did not in any way correspond to, correlate with, or represent real life ... virus neutralization in vaccinated people," according to the complaint.

Merck, of course, denies the claims, just like all the drug companies deny ever engaging in bribery, or using children for medical experiments, or ghostwriting "scientific" studies that get published in science journals, or conspiring to suppress competing generic drugs and so on. Yet, as history has shown, all the top drug companies are routinely engaged in widespread criminal behavior, including conspiracy, fraud, bribery and more.

Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski are simply telling us what we already suspected: that Merck falsifies the efficacy of their vaccines in order to make them appear to be working when they actually aren't. Why would a drug company do such a thing? Consider the fact that Merck has both motive and opportunity.

Why drug companies design vaccines to fail

The vaccination dogma is so deeply embedded in the minds of doctors, journalists and the public, that any time a communicable disease starts to spread, everybody immediately leaps to the false conclusion that "more vaccines are needed." This is very nearly a Pavlovian reaction in the minds of the brainwashed masses. "Spread of disease = lack of vaccines."

Thus, the spread of disease actually boosts vaccine sales. Epidemics are a "marketing tool" to create demand for a profitable product that people can be convinced to purchase over and over again, year after year, whether it works or not.

And how do you create that demand? You engineer an epidemic by making sure your own vaccine products don't work. Fear drives people to get vaccinated, so fear is used as the primary marketing tool.

But why hasn't the con been exposed yet? Why haven't scientists announced that most of the children afflicted with measles and mumps are the very same children who were vaccinated? One study showed that 97 percent of children afflicted with mumps had already been vaccinated against mumps.

In 2010, a mumps outbreak spread in New Jersey, and 77 percent of children afflicted with mumps had already been vaccinated against mumps.

The same is true with measles. Most measles outbreaks spread among those who have been vaccinated against measles.

When a swine flu outbreak swept through Britain in 2010, it turns out that 70 percent of those infected had already been vaccinated against swine flu.

Far from protecting people from disease outbreaks, vaccines often promote the pandemic they claim to prevent.

Vaccines are ASSUMED to work, not proven to work

Why does the industry keep getting away with this fraud? The answer is because nobody ever compares infection rates of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated people. They all just ASSUME vaccines work because that is the dogma of modern medicine. Assumption becomes "fact" in the minds of brainwashed medical experts.

This is one of the tenants of the fraud-based medical system: Vaccines are assumed to work 100% of the time, without exception, and anyone who questions this is immediately branded a heretic. There is no tolerance whatsoever for any critical thinking or scientific inquiry when it comes to vaccines. And God forbid if you bring up the issue of mercury in vaccines, as the vaccine industry apparently believes that mercury magically becomes non-toxic when used in vaccines and injected into the body.

Thus, vaccines that fail (due to low efficacy) are never detected or even questioned. The fraud continues right under our noses. So a vaccine company can easily put a mumps or measles vaccine into circulation that is designed to fail while actually weakening the immune system from the mercury, formaldehyde, MSG and aluminum that are still used in vaccines today.

This actually causes an increase in the spread of these diseases, resulting in more alarmist media stories about the "spread of measles and mumps" which then results in more parents rushing to CVS pharmacies to get their children injected with yet another useless vaccine.

How's that for an insidious profit model?

But it's even worse than that. While some vaccines are simply designed to fail, other vaccines are designed to cause outbreaks of disease.

Some vaccines are actively spiked with live viruses to cause pandemics

As Natural News previously exposed, the vaccine industry was caught shipping live viruses to vaccine manufacturers of flu vaccines in 18 countries.

This was done by none other than Baxter International, Inc. one of the top suppliers of "weakened" flu virus material for use in vaccines. Except in this case, they weren't weakened. Vaccines made with this material simply gave people the flu!

In the realm of desktop computing, many people believe that anti-virus companies write and release viruses in order to cause fear and boost demand for their products. It's an incredibly effective way to sell more products. All you have to do is pay a group of hackers a couple of million dollars to keep writing viruses that get covered in the mainstream media. The scarier the story, the more people buy anti-virus software. I happen to know firsthand that McAfee uses dishonest scare tactics to sell their security software services, claiming your website is infected when it actually isn't.

Vaccine companies, it turns out, use the same tactic. From time to time, they allow live viruses into the flu shots, thereby spreading influenza and causing the very kind of fear and panic that drives people into pharmacies to buy more vaccines.

The WHO and CDC are all part of it too, stirring up irrational fear and panic like they did with the H5N1 virus a few years ago. It turns out that WHO panel members receive kickbacks from drug companies to engineer these anti-science scare stories.

During the swine flu pandemic, it was revealed that 5 of the 15 members of a WHO advisory panel had financial ties to the very same drug companies who would financially benefit from the pandemic. That's called "conflict of interest" in any other industry, yet for some reason it is fully tolerated in the fraudulent vaccine industry.

In 2010, an outstanding article by Dr. Gary Null explained much of this in excruciating detail. Read that article here on Natural News.

The deeper you dig into the vaccine industry and its longstanding practice of scientific fraud, misrepresentation, fear mongering and "medical false flags," the more you realize just what a total con the vaccine industry has become.

Read more:
http://www.naturalnews.com/029124_flu_vaccin...
http://www.naturalnews.com/036328_Merck_mump...

Click here for an example of the mainstream media blindly blaming a lack of vaccines for the recent rise in measles and mumps.

Click here to read the full False Claims Act filed by former Merck virologists.

Study: Turmeric proves more effective than pharma pills at treating rheumatoid arthritis

Study: Turmeric proves more effective than pharma pills at treating rheumatoid arthritis

 (NaturalNews) What if there was a way to safely and effectively treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) without the need for pharmaceutical drugs? The good news is that there is a way, and researchers from Nirmala Medical Centre in Kerala, India, wrote all about it in a paper that they published back in 2012 in the journal Phytotherapy Research.

The substance is known as curcumin, and it is the primary active ingredient in the spice turmeric. Researchers from the Centre found that it works better than diclofenac sodium, also known as Voltaren, at relieving pain in patients with RA. And the best part is that, unlike diclofenac sodium, curcumin does not cause any harmful side effects.

For the study, 45 patients diagnosed with RA were assigned to one of three groups. The first group received 500 milligrams (mg) of curcumin alone, the second group received 50 mg of diclofenac sodium alone and the third group received both the curcumin and the diclofenac sodium together. Each patient was assessed using the standard Disease Activity Score, or DAS, as well as the American College of Rheumatology's (ACR) criteria for assessing RA pain.

Based on the research, patients in all three groups experienced significant changes in their respective DASs as a result of the treatment. But patients in the curcumin-only group experienced the most drastic improvements in both DAS and ACR scores, measuring significantly higher than the scores achieved in the diclofenac sodium-only group.

Even more significant were the respective treatment outcomes in terms of adverse event prevalence. Patients in both the diclofenac sodium-only group and the diclofenac sodium-plus-curcumin group both experienced some degree of adverse events, while patients in the curcumin-only group experienced no adverse events whatsoever.

"Our study provides the first evidence for the safety and superiority of curcumin treatment in patients with active RA, and highlights the need for future large-scale trials to validate these findings in patients with RA and other arthritic conditions," wrote the authors in their abstract.

Curcumin works to treat RA by naturally stamping out joint inflammation

Though this particular study does not go into great detail about how curcumin works to treat RA, related research provides more insight. The Life Extension Foundation (LEF), for instance, published a full-length report back in 2012 discussing joint inflammation and the role that curcumin can play in treating it.

Multiple studies over the years have confirmed the anti-inflammatory efficacy of curcumin, and more recent inquiry has identified RA and its associated symptoms as a major target for curcumin therapy. A 2008 review published in the journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, for instance, found that curcumin is capable of reducing all the inflammation-promoting targets in the body, while pharma pills are generally single-targeted.

"[W]here curcumin really shines is in directly suppressing the inflammation that underlies not only rheumatoid arthritis, but also most of the chronic diseases of aging that afflict all of us sooner or later," explains the LEF report. "Curcumin's ability to safely quash inflammation in such a broad-spectrum manner makes it a compelling topic among anti-aging researchers."

You can read the full LEF report on curcumin and inflammation by visiting:
http://www.lef.org.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://www.lef.org

http://science.naturalnews.com

Ecuadorian cacao powder (Pacari) heavy metals lab tests published by Natural News

Ecuadorian cacao powder (Pacari) heavy metals lab tests published by Natural News

 (NaturalNews) Natural News has published the heavy metals lab tests results on Ecuadorian Cacao Powder (made by Pacari) as tested by the Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org). The lab results are available to view here.

This test is just one of a large number of heavy metals tests being conducted by Mike Adams as part of a public interest project to bring increased transparency to the composition of foods, superfoods, dietary supplements, fast food and more. The full set of results published so far is available at Labs.NaturalNews.com.

Many more cacao products are queued up for testing by Adams, and the full results will be revealed soon so that consumers can compare results among different cacao brands.

Health Ranger's comments on the Cacao Powder (Pacari) lab test results

See the complete results at:
http://labs.naturalnews.com/Cacao_Powder_Pac...

- Many cacao powders have high cadmium. Cadmium is usually the most concerning element in both cacao and coffee.

- Copper and lead are also often found in relatively high numbers in many cacao products. The numbers you see for Pacari cacao are not unusual for cacao.

- This cacao powder did not demonstrate any notable Metals Retention Factor activity, meaning most of the heavy metals it contains are dissolved into gastric acid during digestion.

- Like nearly all natural foods, this cacao powder has high binding affinity with mercury. What's notable is that it also has a high natural affinity for uranium.

- To learn more about the Metals Retention Factor discovered and documented by Mike Adams, read this explanation.

- To learn more about the Metals Capturing Capacity and what it means for humanity, read this page.

About the Natural News Forensic Food Lab

Our mission is to openly publish the heavy metals composition and capturing capacity for off-the-shelf food products, and it's the first of its kind in the world. Remarkably, this project:

• Provides results to the public for FREE, requiring only email registration to view the data.
• Is focused on serving the public rather than generating profit.
• Provides a service the FDA should be providing, but doesn't.
• Is based on cutting-edge, rigorous science.
• Is conducted with very high ethics and absolutely no financial influence by the food industry.
• Is 100% independent of all academia and not controlled by government.
• Was 100% privately funded, taking no money from government, universities or the food industry.

We hope you understand how rare this is in our world, and just how valuable this service is for empowering the public with the kind of information people need to protect and enhance their health in a polluted world.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlzJwUGmP98

Part 3: The discovery and documentation of the Metals Capturing Capacity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvC4Mxoa0Sc

Wal-Mart recalls donkey meat tainted with fox meat from stores in China

Wal-Mart recalls donkey meat tainted with fox meat from stores in China

(NaturalNews) As if anyone even needs yet another reason to be wary of the food coming out of China, Reuters is reporting that Wal-Mart customers there are outraged to learn that their donkey meat was recently found to contain "the DNA of other animals," including fox.

Wal-Mart issued an apology and has announced that customers who purchased "Five Spice" donkey meat will be reimbursed. Confoundedly, Reuters went on to note, "The scandal could dent Wal-Mart's reputation for quality in China's $1 trillion food and grocery market...." Really?

China and Wal-Mart: an inimitable combination to say the least

Wal-Mart has been involved in everything from child labor scandals and mislabeling organic products to being fined over $80 million earlier this year for violating EPA regulations on improperly disposing hazardous waste. Currently, the company is under a Department of Justice investigation over possible Foreign Corrupt Policies Act violations regarding some $24 million in bribes to build 19 stores in Mexico and other alleged misconduct in Brazil, India and, again, China. Closer to home, the media was splashed around the holidays by reports that Wal-Mart stores across the U.S. were setting up donation boxes for employees to give Thanksgiving food... to other Wal-Mart employees who couldn't afford a decent Thanksgiving dinner, because apparently they don't earn enough.

China's food and drug scandals read like a House of Horrors checklist. Babies dying from industrial chemical-tainted infant formula? Check. Rat meat sold as lamb meat? Check. Some 600 dogs dropping dead after eating pet jerky treats made in China? Check. Glow-in-the-dark blue "Avatar" pork? Check. "Gutter oil" scavenged from drains beneath Chinese restaurants being using to cook one of every ten meals in Chinese restaurants? Check. Farmed, powdered cockroaches being sold to pharmaceutical companies as medicine? Check. The list goes on and on.

But China has perhaps become most well-known lately for its vast amounts of air, soil and water pollution. Shanghai recently suffered what the media dubbed an "airpocalypse" - choking, toxic smog so heavy and thick that it closed down major airports, roadways and public schools for over a week. A deputy minister of China's Ministry of Land and Resources has also just announced that 3.3 million hectares of Chinese farmland is so polluted, it is literally unsafe to grow crops on it. Estimates are that a whopping 90 percent of groundwater supplying China's cities is severely contaminated, to the point that Chinese people reportedly do not even trust the bottled water sold there. NGOs, Chinese media and academics have estimated that China is home to over 450 "cancer villages" - residential areas built up around power, chemical or pharmaceutical plants where people are riddled with above-average levels of illness and disease. The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection even mentioned these villages in one of its latest reports.

There are no limits on how close crops can be grown to chemical plants or how much pollution the water spayed on crops can contain in China. All of that toxic runoff and pollution finds its way into rivers and soil used to grow Chinese crops and feed livestock. The food and water is ingested by the Chinese people, and that food is exported to the rest of the world as well.

Chinese food failures coming to a grocery store near you?

As Natural News has reported before, you may be eating more food imported from China than you think. Back in 2007, CNN declared that avoiding Chinese food ingredients is nearly impossible. The U.S. imports billions in food from China every year.

Just a few months ago, the USDA announced its intention to allow processed, cooked chicken from China to be exported to the U.S., as the agency determined that China's poultry inspection process is "equivalent to that of the United States".

The "certified organic" label has also come under scrutiny (and rightfully so) after it was revealed that the USDA was licensing organic certifiers to operate in China as well. These certifiers may have rules about whether or not added petroleum-based fertilizers, pesticides or synthetic hormones in the case of animal feed are allowed; they are not required to test for limits on toxic heavy metals like arsenic, mercury, lead or cadmium - heavy metals found contaminating the food grown in China all the time. The FDA wouldn't know anyway, considering that the agency inspects less than 2 percent of the food imported from China.

Stories like fox-tainted donkey meat just continue to highlight the fact that, if its marked "Made in China," it's a safe bet you don't know what's in it.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.reuters.com

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

http://www.naturalnews.com

http://ca.news.yahoo.com

http://www.theguardian.com

http://www.cnn.com

http://science.naturalnews.com

Friday, January 3, 2014

Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation [Acoustic Levitation] (2...


Imagine how much easier life would be if it was possible to levitate objects. Maglev trains, for example, use powerful magnets to repel the carriages and remove the friction of the train on the tracks.
But magnets are just one way of achieving this – and they require the object to have a repelling magnetic force. Now scientists in Japan have shown that a similar effect can be achieved with sound.
In this video they show that it is not only possible to levitate objects in mid-air using sound waves, but also to move them around. The results can be quite artistic – look about 1 minute in to see just what is possible.
They then levitate match heads, drops of water, screws and nuts.
The researchers at the University of Tokyo say they hope to refine the technique so it can be used to manipulate delicate electronic components when assembling hardware.

Would you like to watch another amazing application of science?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/good-to-share/10546819/Acoustic-levitation-how-sound-can-get-physical.html 

Oral cholera vaccine loaded with GMOs to be tested on babies worldwide

Oral cholera vaccine loaded with GMOs to be tested on babies worldwide

 (NaturalNews) California-based vaccine manufacturer PaxVax has reportedly submitted an application to begin international trials of a novel oral cholera vaccine that contains live, genetically modified (GM) bacteria. VacTruth.com reports that the new vaccine is set to be tested on more than 1,000 individuals, many of whom are young children, in a three-part clinical trial series to take place throughout Australia.

In a recent application filing with the Australian Government, PaxVax makes plain its intent to administer the live, GM bacteria in both young and old and in every region of the country. Participants will be instructed to literally consume a cocktail of mercury-resistant, GM Shigella flexneri NR1 bacteria derived from the Vibrio cholera bacterial strain, which is recognized as the causative agent of the gastroenteritis disease known as cholera.

According to the filing, the GM cholera strain used in the vaccine has essentially been artificially neutralized to prevent the toxic molecules that would otherwise cause the disease from being produced. The non-active B-subunit of the cholera toxin molecule, in other words, is reportedly still synthesized in the bacteria, but it allegedly no longer holds the capacity to induce either disease or toxicity.

"Multiple steps were required to produce the genetic modifications found in the GMO," explains the filing.

"Fragments of the Cholera toxin A subunit and haemolysin A genes were cloned into separate plasmids. The gene fragments were then modified in vitro by the deletion of part of the toxin gene and by the insertion of the mer operon. The plasmids were transferred into the V. cholerae, one at a time, and the genetic modifications were incorporated into the bacterial genome by recombination."

Oral cholera vaccine developed using brain-damaging mercury

To some, this might all sound like positive progress in the eradication of a disease that infects as many as 5 million people around the world annually, among which about 100,000 end up dying. But to those who have been paying attention to recent developments on the GMO front, feeding children and adults untested transgenic bacteria could become a surefire recipe for a public health disaster.

"According to PaxVax's application for their proposed clinical trial, 'There have been no credible reports of adverse effects on human health and safety or the environment resulting from any of these releases,'" writes Missy Fluegge for VacTruth.com. "That is pharma-speak for 'there have been no credible studies to assess the safety and efficacy of this vaccine.'"

This is true of all GMOs currently on the market, none of which have gone through rigorous, long-term safety testing prior to their approval. Nobody knows for sure how these synthetic substances will alter the human genome, especially later on in life, potentially leading to permanent and undesirable changes in human cells, tissue and even DNA.

Then, there is the issue of the new PaxVax oral cholera vaccine having been programmed to grow in the presence of mercury, a known neurotoxin that is still being intentionally added to injectable vaccines. Based on its design, the new vaccine more than likely contains added mercury, which means that it threatens to permanently damage the brains and gastrointestinal tracts of those who end up consuming it.

"If traditional bacteria can't even grow well in mercury, do you think it is healthy for our children to have mercury in their bodies?" asks Fluegge. "Do our children need another mercury-laden vaccine?"

You can read the PaxVax clinical trial application for its new oral cholera vaccine here:
http://www.ogtr.gov.au.

Sources for this article include:

http://vactruth.com

http://www.ogtr.gov.au

http://www.cdc.gov

http://science.naturalnews.com

http://science.naturalnews.com

http://science.naturalnews.com

http://science.naturalnews.com

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Texas cops can now serve search warrants based on 'future crime' (thought crimes)

Texas cops can now serve search warrants based on 'future crime' (thought crimes)

(NaturalNews) In some cases, art imitates life and vice versa. In this case, that is chilling.

Think 2002's Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise as a futuristic cop who works for a unit that arrests people for merely thinking about committing a crime.

That appears to be the case in Parker County, Texas, where officers arrested some folks who had not yet committed a crime, as reported by The Dallas Observer:

Police in Parker County had been watching Michael Fred Wehrenberg's home for a month when, late in the summer of 2010, they received a tip from a confidential informant that Wehrenberg and several others were "fixing to" cook meth. Hours later, after midnight, officers walked through the front door, rounded up the people inside, and kept them in handcuffs in the front yard for an hour and a half.

The only potential problem, at least from a constitutional standpoint, was that the cops didn't have a search warrant. They got one later, before they seized the boxes of pseudoephedrine, stripped lithium batteries, and other meth-making materials, while the alleged meth cooks waited around in handcuffs, but by then they'd already waltzed through the home uninvited. They neglected to mention this on their warrant application, identifying a confidential informant as their only source of information.


'The actions of police in the case don't pass the smell test'

That should be an open-and-shut case of illegal search and seizure - right? Nope.

Indeed, Wehrenberg's lawyers argued that very concept, charging that any materials seized during the raid had been taken illegally and, as such, should not be included as evidence in court. But amazingly, that motion was denied by the trial court, which cited federal "independent source doctrine," a legally questionable concept that permits illegally seized evidence that was mentioned to police by a third party beforehand. Because of that ruling, Wehrenberg pleaded guilty to one count of possession and one count of intent to manufacture, landing him a five-year prison sentence.

End of story? Not initially:

The Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth wasn't so eager to overlook what appeared to be a clear case of police misconduct and overturned the lower court's ruling.

However:

[I]t's the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that has the final say, and last week they agreed with the trial court. In a majority opinion, Judge Elsa Alcala wrote that, while Texas' "exclusionary rule" bans illegally seized evidence from trial, federal precedent dictates that it can be introduced if it was first confirmed by an independent source.

Scott Henson, who first reported the case, says he isn't certain how significant the decision will ultimately prove to be.

Nevertheless, "the actions of police in the case don't pass the smell test," he writes in his Grits For Breakfast blog. "If their informant was so credible, why not go to the judge for a search warrant in the 3-4 hours before their illegal entry? The judge was available in the middle of the night, so there's little basis to believe they couldn't have gotten it earlier. And why conceal the fact that they'd already swept the house and detained the suspects in the search warrant application if everything was on the up and up?"

Future abuses sure to come

CCA Judge Lawrence Meyers, the only justice to dissent, agrees. He wrote that "it is obvious to me that this search warrant was obtained based upon the officers' unlawful entry into [Wehrenberg]'s residence."

Based on what has been reported, there was ample time for officers to secure a search warrant before searching the premises, but it appears as though the cops deliberately chose not to obtain one in advance - as required by the Constitution's Fourth Amendment. It was only after they entered and found suspicious materials - the thought of criminal activity - that the cops finally obtained a warrant.

In addition, Meyers argues that the confidential informant's report that Wehrenberg was "fixing to" cook meth wasn't independent evidence but a prediction of a future crime.

The majority's decision, he adds, means that "search warrants may now be based on predictions of the commission of future crimes," which is, of course, dangerous and could lead to all sorts of constitutional abuses.

Sources:

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com

http://statecasefiles.justia.com

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com

Three DIY antiperspirant alternatives

Three DIY antiperspirant alternatives

 (NaturalNews) Are you concerned about potentially harmful and toxic ingredients in regular antiperspirants? These controversial and virtually essential products often contain fragrances which can cause skin irritation as well as aluminum, preservatives and parabens, which are known carcinogens. A carcinogen is any substance that is capable of causing or promoting cancer. Food Matters urges people to understand that antiperspirants are in fact over-the-counter (OTC) drugs that are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Therefore, consumers should be made aware of potential long- and short-term side effects associated with the use of antiperspirants, just like any other OTC drug. Such awareness will allow consumers to take necessary precautions in protecting their own health.

Aluminum, the active ingredient in most antiperspirants, is a cumulative ingredient. This means that, the more a person is exposed to and the more his or her body absorbs, the greater the risk for potential harm. Research has shown that daily use of aluminum-based antiperspirants increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by 60 percent. Aluminum, however, is not the only concerning ingredient in antiperspirant. As mentioned, parabens, fragrances and preservatives come with their own batch of potential side effects ranging from skin irritation and chronic headaches to fatigue and endocrine imbalances.

Below are a few variations of do-it-yourself antiperspirant recipes. These recipes provide an excellent natural alternative to regular antiperspirants and can be used daily or intermittently (i.e., days off, every-other-day or weekends) to reduce exposure to aluminum and other toxic ingredients.

Recipe #1: Homemade "Antiperspirant" Cream (For very active users)

6 Tablespoons Organic Cocoa or Mango Butter
2 Tablespoons Unrefined Coconut Oil
3/4 Cup Arrowroot Powder
4 Teaspoons Aluminum-Free Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Lemongrass Essential Oil

Recipe #2: Natural Deodorant

8 Tablespoons Raw/Organic Shea Butter
3/4 Cup Arrowroot Powder
4 Teaspoons Baking Soda
15 Drops Pink Grapefruit Essential Oil

Recipe #3: Hey Fran Hey's Raw & Organic Deodorant

4 Tablespoons Cocoa Butter
4 Tablespoons Shea Butter
1/2 Cup Arrowroot Powder
3 Teaspoons Baking Soda
10 Drops Lavender Essential Oil

Directions: Combine dry ingredients in a glass bowl. Melt butters and/or oils using a double boiler or non-porous pan on low heat. Do not boil. Pour melted butter/oil into dry ingredient bowl and blend well. Add essential oil and store in a sealed glass jar. Apply to underarms daily. Reapply prior to strenuous activity.

Sources for this article include:

www.foodmatters.tv

www.heyfranhey.com

www.hebrewessence.com

http://science.naturalnews.com

About the author:
Bri Jackson is a free-lance writer, Creative Director of Cultured Out Magazine, and author of the Health & Wellness Blog at www.hebrewessence.com. She is a natural living enthusiast striving to make the natural living transition easier for others.