That same official continues, “Now that we have killed most of al Qaida, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al Qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism.” (http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/04/can-obama-safely-embrace-i…)

This is great news, isn’t it? If the “War on Terror” is over, then we can repeal and reverse all the ridiculous police state laws that were put in place to protect us from terrorism… right?

I mean, can we nowfire the TSA?They were only put in place after the “terror” attacks on 9/11. If the war on terror is over, the TSA is no longer needed (even if you assume they were effective at all, which they weren’t).

Can we nowrepeal the Patriot Actwhich was passed out of an urgency to defend America from terrorists?

Will Obamanullify the NDAAthat he recently signed, which uses the excuse of the “war on terror” to legalize secret arrests and the stripping of due process from all Americans?

Can we nowdeconstruct the DHSand fire Janet Napolitano who has become the (nauseating) face of “fear your neighbor” campaigns?

Gee, if the War on Terror is over, then can we stop with the DHS buying 450 million rounds of hollow point ammo and bulletproof roadside checkpoint booths? (http://www.naturalnews.com/035649_DHS_ammunition_domestic_war.html)

And can we stop with theflying robotic spy dronesthat have now been launched from 63 launch sites across the USA? (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134376/Is-drone-neighbourhoo…)

But no, of course.

The police state is not about stopping terror, it’s about promoting it

And why? Because all these things mentioned abovewere never designed to stop terrorists. They were designed to imprison the American people and turn America into a police state dictatorship drowning ina culture of fearpromoted by the state.

“War is the health of the state,” said Randolph Bourne, a writer and intellectual who lived a century ago.

That’s why these police state laws will never be revoked. In fact, they will likely be expanded with yet more legislation, more nullification of the Bill of Rights, more secret arrests and more secret prisons endorsed by Obama (yeah, the guy who once ran on the platform of shutting down secret military prisons but turned out to be a total liar… is anyone surprised?).

That’s becausethe government IS the terrorist!That’s why the FBI has been caught numerous timesstaging phony terror plotsin the United States (http://www.naturalnews.com/034325_FBI_entrapment_terror_plots.html). The 9/11 attacks wereclearlystaged, as how do you cause THREE buildings to collapse using only TWO airplanes? (WTC 7). (http://www.naturalnews.com/033684_911_truth_WTC_7.html)

That’s why all this surveillance and police state power that was enacted in response to the 9/11 attacks will be kept in place indefinitely! Because it’s really about waginga war on the American people, not a war with some fictitious, unseen enemy.

The best writer on this subject, by the way, is Paul Craig Roberts. His website is amust-readinformation source for all those who wish to understand why America is being steadily and deliberately transformed into a police state dictatorship. Read his articles at:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org

SOURCE:   http://www.naturalnews.com/035666_war_on_terror_Al_Qaida_Obama.html

Meanwhile, the domestic spying apparatus has almost certainly expanded more under President Obama than even under the previous George W. Bush administration, said the former technical director of the NSA World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. Binney exposed the lawless espionage in a television interview with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman, but he is hardly the first to blow the whistle.

The internal spying regime, instituted under an NSA program known as “Stellar Wind,” began sometime in 2001, Binney said. But after the scheme was implemented, he resigned from the agency in disgust. “At that point, I knew I could not stay because it was a direct violation of the constitutional rights of everybody in the country,” he said.

The NSA, Binney explained, has also enlisted the support of major companies such as AT&T to help spy on the American people. “I don’t think any of them opposed it in any way,” he said of the firms approached by the federal government to aid in the unlawful espionage activities.

According to the whistleblower, the corporations were told by officials that it was legal and “patriotic” to assist. When the lawlessness was finally exposed, however, those same companies had to be givenretroactive immunity for the crimes they were caught committing.

Binney also lambasted the Patriot Act — as well as the federal government’s “secret interpretation” of it — for the role it played in purporting to authorize the unlawful spying. “That gives them license to take all the commercially available data about us, which is exceedingly dangerous,” Binney said, noting that it purports to allow authorities to create detailed profiles on every American.

“[The NSA] can build up knowledge about everyone in the country, and having that knowledge then allows them the ability to concoct all kinds of charges if they want to target you,” he continued. And despite campaign promises by President Obama to rein in the out-of-control spying bureaucracy and the wanton violations of the Constitution, the situation has deteriorated even further since he took office.

“I think the surveillance has increased,” Binney noted, saying data was being gathered on literally everybody to attack specific targets in the future. “I would suggest they have assembled on the order of 20 trillion transactions about U.S. citizens with other U.S. citizens,” he estimated. That figure does not include any Internet searches or financial transactions the NSA may also be compiling.

Binney’s revelations would seem to contradict congressional testimony by NSA boss General Keith Alexander, who told lawmakers just last month that the agency does not routinely spy on Americans — which would be illegal. Responding to questions from Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), Alexander acknowledged that, “to conduct that kind of collection in the United States it would have to go through a court order.”

According to Binney, however, the NSA chief was using verbal semantics to conceal the truth about the agency’s lawlessness — and the congressional testimony was itself contradictory. “The point is how you split the words,” Binney said. “I wouldn’t say lying — it’s kind of avoiding the issue.”

The persecution of whistleblowers who attempt to expose the criminality, meanwhile, has accelerated under the Obama administration as well. “I think it’s to silence what’s going on,” Binney said after host Goodman claimed that more whistleblowers had been prosecuted under Obama than under all past administrations combined.

It happened to Binney, too. He reported to the FBI in 2007 that senior Bush administration officials criminally “conspired to subvert the Constitution and violate various laws … that existed at the time.” Then-President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former CIA and NSA boss Michael Hayden, and ex-Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) George Tenet were all involved in the conspiracy, he said.

After Binney began to expose the NSA crimes, the federal government “fabricated” several criminal charges against him, he told the host. The alleged scheme to put him in prison on bogus claims, however, failed spectacularly.

According to Binney, he had assembled evidence showing “malicious prosecution,” which would have embarrassed the administration had it gone forward with its concocted case. Eventually the trumped up charges against him were dropped.

As analysts have noted in the wake of the most recent scandal surrounding the agency, fears about NSA powers have been around for decades — and the move toward total surveillance of Americans began well before the September 11 attacks. In 1975, Senator Frank Church, for example, who led the congressional investigation in the FBI’s COINTEL counter-intelligence program, offered a particularly stark warning about the potential abilities of the NSA being used against Americans.

“Th[e NSA’s] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter,” warned Sen. Church. “There would be no place to hide. [If a dictatorship ever took over, the NSA] could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”

And according to Binney, at least, America is moving alarming close to such a scenario right now. “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state,” he told Wired magazine for a recent article about the NSA’s massive new spy center being built in Utah, holding his thumb and forefinger close together to illustrate the nation’s proximity to full-blown tyranny.

While the trend toward ever-expanding unconstitutional power usurpation has been ongoing for decades, it has accelerated in an unprecedented way over the last 10 years. President Obama, however, has taken it to a new level, claiming to have the power to assassinate or indefinitely detain American citizens all over the world without even charging them with a crime — let alone getting a jury conviction.

Meanwhile, the administration is currently under congressional investigation for corruption in doling out “stimulus” money, sending weapons to Mexican drug cartels to push domestic gun-control measures,laundering narcotics profits, and more. Whistleblowers who exposed some of those unlawful programs also said they were retaliated against.

The government, of course, claims all of the unconstitutional powers and the domestic espionage regime are needed to keep America “safe.” But critics from across the political spectrum — supporters of the Constitution, the rule of law, individual liberty, limited government, civil liberties, and American traditions of freedom — are outraged by the justifications.

Congress obviously has the power to stop the administration’s schemes in their tracks by cutting off the funding. Whether lawmakers will eventually step in to rein in the abuses, however, remains to be seen. Based on current trends — with legislators and courts continuing to rubber stamp executive dictates while refusing to restore checks and balances — not everybody is hopeful. But restoring the rule of law is possible, according to analysts, though it will require a massive outcry from the American people.

SOURCE:    http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/11612-nsa-has-your-e-mails-and-more-whistleblower-says

Bettina Viviano was a vice president with Amblin Enterntainment, Steven Spielberg’s company, before launching her own film production company in 1990. In 2008, Viviano was asked to produce a documentary about voter fraud within the Democratic Party. At the time, she says she was not a Democrat or a Republican and in fact had never voted in an election. She went into the project with the sole purpose of producing the best and most accurate documentary possible.

During the documentary process, Viviano says that she quickly became aware of just how dangerous and insidious the Obama campaign was. A number of the Democrats she interviewed refused to appear on camera and told her that their lives and property had been threatened by people working with the Obama campaign.

She also heard former President Bill Clinton say that Obama was not eligible to be president because of his lack of birth records. In fact, she said it was common knowledge around many top Democrats. Bill Clinton has often said that he would go public with the information when the time was right.

Before that could happen, his close friend and head of the Arkansas Democratic Party, Bill Gwatney was murdered in his office and then someone told Bill that he was next if he said anything about Obama’s eligibility. In the video below, she said that Clinton was not intimidated until someone associated with the Obama campaign told him that his daughter Chelsea would be next if he opened his mouth. From that point on, the Clinton’s remained silent about Obama’s birth certificate or lack thereof.

This is a powerful video from a lady that has nothing to gain and probably everything to lose by coming forward with her information. It could well ruin her career in Hollywood as so many of the film industry are flaming liberals. It could also cost her her life.

I took note of how she described the Obama campaign’s reign of terror and intimidation and how well coordinated it was. I thought to myself that if they were bold enough to threaten the life of the Clinton’s daughter then have they made similar threats to all of the leading Republicans in both the House and Senate? Is this why Congress has remained so silent ever since Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s March 1st news conference where he provided the American people with the evidence that Obama’s birth certificate and Selective Service Cards are forgeries?

When you see how blatantly Obama has defied the US Constitution and federal law without any apology or excuses, it’s not hard to believe that he, like every other dictator in history, obtained his position by intrepidation, threats and outright violence. Knowing he is capable of this has to make every single American extremely fearful if Obama gets re-elected.

And if the voter fraud will be as prevalent in November as it was in 2008, it seems a sure thing that he will be re-elected. Obama has had the DOJ strike down every voter ID law and any other measure taken, to reduce the chance of voter fraud. They have set the stage for an old fashioned Chicago style election with padded and illegal votes. Wait a minute, he is a Chicago politician, so guess he’s just following local history at a national level.

If he does get re-elected, I’m positive it will mean the end of free elections and free America. We will become another Soviet Union: a land run by an elite group of Marxists who will exploit all of the people for their own personal gain. America, for all intent and purpose will be dead if Obama gets re-elected.

SOURCE:  http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1972/925/Obama_Campaign_Threatened_Life_Of_Chelsea_Clinton_To_Keep_Parents_Silent_On_Obamas_Ineligibility.html

Police say Loveless pointed his finger at officers who had testified against his son in a robbery case, which prompted his being immediately handcuffed and arrested. But Loveless says he did not point his finger at police or make any sort of threatening hand gestures at all, which indicates that he is merely the latest victim of an out-of-control police state.

“I don’t see how I was pointing my finger,” Loveless is quoted as saying to ABC 7. “If anything, I was reaching into my pocket to get a pack of cigarettes. If that’s what they saw, they have a vivid imagination.”

You can read the full story here:
http://www.wjla.com

But police state insanity comes in many forms. Back in 2008, for instance, police in Ozark, Alabama, tasered and arrested a man who was having a diabetic seizure. Reports indicate that 54-year-old James Bludsworth was driving when he began having the seizure, upon which he pulled over to the side of the road and passed out.

When police arrived on the scene, they began barking commands at Bludsworth’s unconscious body. When he obviously did not respond, they proceeded to taser him. They then took him to jail and charged him with resisting arrest and driving drunk, an absolutely ludicrous demonstration of law enforcement incompetence (http://www.naturalnews.com/023323_Taser_diabetic_WHO.html).

Trickle-down tyranny in action

All this madness is really just the result of “trickle-down tyranny,” as local governments adopt the tyrannical behaviors of the federal government. Rather than focus on the real enemy, which is those who fill positions at the highest level of central government, local law enforcement agencies are now treating everyday citizens as if they are criminals and terrorists (http://www.naturalnews.com/034221_trickle-down_tyranny_America.html).

Curbing this growing epidemic of tyranny requires both knowing your own rights, and standing up for the rights of others. When such abuses occur, public outrage must be so strong that those responsible for perpetrating them will not be able to escape justice for their crimes. Knowing the laws in your own state, as well as those provisioned in the U.S. Constitution, will also go a long way in protecting you personally should you ever become the victim of police abuse.

SOURCE:  http://www.naturalnews.com/035477_police_assault_free_speech.html

Provoking Allgyer to shut down his farm appears to have been the goal of the FDA all along, which back on February 4, 2010, conducted a gestapo-style raid on Allgyer’s Kinzers, Penn., property to search for evidence that he was shipping raw milk across state lines. After illegally trespassing on the man’s property, the agents proceeded to harass Allgyer about his supposed involvement in interstate commerce (http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com).

Just a few months later on April 20, 2010, the FDA again sent its Nazi-sympathizing thugs back to Rainbow Acres Farm, this time at 4:30 a.m. while Allgyer was still asleep, to conduct another raid. Violating the provisions of their so-called warrant, which specified that any inspection must be conducted during “reasonable times during ordinary business hours,” the agents proceeded to once again ransack the farm in search of evidence to back their claims that Allgyer was engaged in illegal interstate commerce (http://www.naturalnews.com/029322_raw_milk_Amish.html).

Following this second sting, the FDA claims to have discovered the evidence it needed, and immediately sent Allgyer a warning letter notifying him that he was in violation of interstate commerce laws, according to their view (http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/aa/aa-26april2010.htm). The agency also filed a civil complaint against Allgyer around the same time.

With hundreds of happy and satisfied out-of-state customers that relied on him for fresh supplies of raw milk, Allgyer attempted to satisfy the FDA’s demands by restructuring his farm’s distribution process into private cow share agreements with customers. Such agreements allow individuals to directly purchase shares in the cows from which they get milk, which means they personally own them, and they are not subject to FDA jurisdiction.

Rogue judge essentially declares FDA has jurisdiction over private property use, in this case cows

But on February 3, 2012, Judge Stengel decided that Allgyer was still in violation of interstate commerce laws,even with the restructured cow sharing arrangements, and ordered him to stop distributing raw milk altogether. Private cow share agreements do not constitute interstate commerce, of course, but Judge Stengel apparently pays no regard to individual liberty, having declared that the FDA basically now has jurisdiction over private property use.

Likely worn down from the perpetual and never-ending harassment, Allgyer appears to have decided to simply give up trying to fight this unprecedented tyranny, and simply shut down his farm. Hundreds of families that relied on Allgyer for fresh milk, butter, cheese, eggs, and other nutritious goods will now have to find a new source for clean food, at least until the FDA shuts them down, too.

“I can’t believe in 2012 the federal government is raiding Amish farmers at gunpoint all over a basic human right to eat natural food,” said one of the farm’s former customers, who wished to remain anonymous, toThe Washington Times. “In Maryland, they force taxpayers to pay for abortions, but God forbid we want the same milk our grandparents drank.”

SOURCE:  http://www.naturalnews.com/035000_Amish_farmers_raw_milk_feds.html

Monsanto first unveiled this new variety of GM sweet corn back in August, which rivals Syngenta’s GM sweet corn that has already been on the market in limited form for the past ten years, claiming that it would be available to farmers for planting during Fall 2011. Now, the corn appears set to make its debut in Walmart stores across the country as early as Summer 2012, unless massive public outcry is able to convince the multinational retailer to scrap the corn, or at least voluntarily label it.

This disturbing development comes courtesy of bothFood & Water WatchandSum Of Us, which recently drew attention to the issue by creating petitions against Walmart’s potential sale of the corn. Though Monsanto’s GM sweet corn contains three genetically-engineered (GE) traits that have never been used in food eaten directly by people, and that have never been properly tested, Walmart still intends to quietly stock its produce shelves with this phony corn in the very near future.

Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s have rejected Monsanto’s Bt corn, how about Wal-Mart?

In a recent campaign alert (http://sumofus.org/campaigns/walmart-monsanto/),Sum Of Usexplains that immense consumer pressure has already resulted in commitments from Whole Foods Market, Trader Joe’s, and General Mills not to use the new GM corn in any of their products. But as of the announcement, Walmart has made no such commitment, presumably because of the company’s close-knit relationship with Monsanto, a “match made in hell” thatFood & Water Watchhas humorously dubbed “Walsanto” (https://www.facebook.com/WalsantoWatch?sk=info).

But there is still time to stop Walmart’s stocking of Monsanto’s latest GM poison which, if successful, has the potential to completely destroy the viability of the entire crop. If Walmart rejects the GM corn, many others will likely follow, which will result in farmers refusing to plant it.

It is a simple supply and demand situation, but one that is complicated by the fact that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refuses to mandate that any GMOs be labeled, which means millions of people consume them all the time without knowing it. This is why YOUR help is needed to spread the truth about both GM sweet corn and GMOs in general to your friends, family members, neighbors, and coworkers.

You can also sign this petition by April 1, 2012, asking Walmart not to stock Monsanto’s GM sweet corn:
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org

SOURCE:  http://www.naturalnews.com/035029_GM_corn_Walmart_Monsanto.html

The test tube meat strips actuallypulsate and twitchduring their laboratory growth phase, by the way, and they’re ultimately ground up with strips of test tube fat grown in a similar way to produce a fatty hamburger-like substance. This has been accomplished by Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University in the Netherlands, who announced his team’s results at theAmerican Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)yesterday.

Test tube meat is here to save the world!

“In October we are going to provide a proof of concept showing out of stem cells we can make a product that looks, feels and hopefully tastes like meat,” says Mark Post at the announcement (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9091628/Test-tube-ham…). Of course, what does processed meat actually taste like anyway? MSG, sodium nitrite and processed salt, for the most part. So making lab-grown meat taste like today’s factory-processed meat only requires the injection of a few additives into the growth culture. Imagine growing meat patties with MSGinsideevery cell!

Creating one hamburger will require 3,000 strips of meat, each just half a millimeter thick and grown in laboratory vats. Unlike a cow, which requires roughly two years to grow to the point of slaughter, a test tube burger can be produced in just six weeks.

The “benefits” of test tube hamburger production are being touted as substantial, including:

• More efficient conversion of plants to meat.
• Less environmental damage.
• More humane than killing animals.
• Is the only feasible way to feed more meat to the world.

Of course, they also said that GMOs would “feed the world.” Bill Gates calls genetically modified foods “high-tech agriculture” now, with the strong implication that technology is always superior to Mother Nature (http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=1EE22C52BA26FA296CFC8A0361571555). But I’m not so sure about that. In fact, this whole thing sounds more than a little creepy to me.

Test tube meat to feed the masses? Gee, what could possibly go wrong?

I’m skeptical any time technology claims to out-perform nature. Look what they’ve done with GMOs, chemical pesticides, vaccines, or nuclear power. In almost every case where “scientific progress” is touted as the solution for humankind, it ends up creating anightmarethat’s far worse than the problem it was trying to solve.

For the record, I choose not to eat cow meat. I’m not a vegetarian, but I’ve been around lots of cows on farms, and I see cows as conscious, aware mammals who have memories, emotions, families and social structure. They are every bit as intelligent as horses, and most people would cringe at the idea of eatinga horse burger.

However, in a survival situation, I would have no hesitation eating grass-fed beef if it were from a healthy farm source. In fact, my personal supply of preparedness foods consists of several bags of USDA organic grass-fed beef jerky made without MSG or sodium nitrite.

But when it comes to growing hamburgers out of stem cells in a petri dish, the whole thing just smacks a little too much ofsoylent green. How are we to know what they really put in the nutrient solution? Maybe it contains growth hormones to speed production. Maybe it’s loaded with synthetic chemical vitamins instead of natural vitamins. Maybe it’s contaminated with Prozac or fluoride to make us all feel happy and oblivious while we eat synthetic meat. How are we to know what they do with it?

Artificial meat monstrosity

And then, of course, it’s only a matter of time before they start togenetically modify the test tube meat, perhaps using selected genes from the human genetic code to make the end product is more compatible with human biology while avoiding any risk of allergies. So then what do we have?Hybrid bovine / human meat.

…and a world full of cannibals who are eating something that’s partially human flesh.

See, modern science has already proven itself to be a pathetic collection of truly insane megalomaniacs who will gladly splice the genes of animals and insects into crops so that they can create vaccine crops, or vaccine-carrying mosquitoes, or goats that produce spider silk, or some other kind of monstrosity that serves the power-tripping globalists.

And the marvel of modern-day fast food has already proven thatpeople will eat anything marketed to them as food. Case in point? Chicken McNuggets. That’s a hodge podge of industrial chemicals and so-calledmechanically-separated chicken, which itself is a meat processing freak show. (http://www.naturalnews.com/032820_Chicken_McNuggets_ingredients.html)

So I guess if you set up a test tube meat lab, splice together a bunch of genes from various species (humans, cows, dogs, insects, ogres, possums and Janet Napolitano) and then grow a vat of some sort of convulsing fibrous tissue that can be made into a 99-cent hamburger, then the great masses will eat it! Who cares what the tissues are floating in, right? As long as it’s offered with a combo meal that includes French fries and an aspartame-laced Diet Coke, people will chug it straight down while watching NBA games and declaring, “We’re winning!”

No doubt test tube hamburger makers will tout their meat as being “Cruelty Free” by saying “No animals were killed in the harvesting of this meat.” Maybe not, but how many humans will be killed in the consumption of it?

A mysterious financial supporter backs the entire thing

By the way, this whole freak show of artificial meat production is being financed by an “…anonymous and extremely wealthy benefactor who Prof Post claims is a household name with a reputation for ‘turning everything into gold’.”

I wouldn’t be surprised at all to learn that Bill Gates was behind it — or someone similarly motivated by a global depopulation agenda.

Bottom line: Artificial meat may be an extraordinary idea, but given the total lack of ethics found in the scientific community today, I wouldn’t trust these people any farther than I could hurl a cow chip.

SOURCE:  http://www.naturalnews.com/035020_artificial_meat_test_tube_hamburger.html

Despite all the hype drummed up by the establishment media about a scary Iranian or Hezbollah attack on “soft targets” in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security has admitted there is no specific threat facing the country.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King fretted over a Hezbollah attack on the fatherland – specifically synagogues – but DHS boss Napolitano was obliged to admit no such threat exists. She said, however, that there is “a threat that bears watching.” Big Sis told King and his colleagues DHS and partners like the FBI “are constantly monitoring [Hezbollah's] activities around the world.”

Following attacks in India, Georgia and Thailand attributed to Iran and Hezbollah by Israel, the United States and the corporate media, the NYPD’s intelligence boss said Iran is the number one threat to the Big Apple.

CNN and the establishment media have enthusiastically hyped Israel’s terror narrative by running reports and stories speculating an attack on Jewish targets inside the United States.

Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, threw cold water on CNN’s fear mongering when he told the network “there is no call for panic.”

Napolitano’s DHS said last week that Jewish groups in the U.S. do not face a specific threat, but this has not stopped CNN and other networks from engaging in lurid speculation with little basis in reality.

Salon journalist Jeff Greenwald hit the nail on the head when he talked with Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks on Tuesday. Greenwald said the Obama administration has more or less taken a backseat and the current round of anti-Iran hysteria is coming primarily from the establishment media.

Greenwald said the corporate media’s one dimensional coverage is skewed because it invariably sides with Israel and acts as a megaphone for its propaganda campaign to demonize Iran and drum up public consensus backing an attack.

What mysterious “meatbyproducts” really are

Let’s start with what usually appears as theproteinsource and the primary ingredient inpet food: Meat byproducts or meat meal. Both are euphemisms for the parts ofanimalsthat wouldn’t be considered meat by any smart consumer. The well-known phrase “meat byproducts” is a misnomer since these byproducts contain little, if any, meat. These are the parts of the animal left over after the meat has been stripped away from thebone. “Chicken by-products include head, feet, entrails,lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain,liver, stomach, bones, blood,intestines, and any other part of the carcass not fit for humanconsumption,” writes Henry Pasternak inHealing Animals with Nature’s Cures.

Meat meal can contain the boiled down flesh of animals we would find unacceptable for consumption. This can include zoo animals, road kill, and 4-D (dead, diseased, disabled, dying)livestock. Most shockingly, this also can includedogsand cats. That’s right,yourpetscould be cannibals.Fast Food Nationauthor Eric Schlosser writes, “Although leading American manufacturers promise never to put rendered pets into their petfood, it is still legal to do so. A Canadian company, Sanimal Inc., was putting 40,000 pounds of dead dogs and dead cats into its dog andcat foodevery week, until discontinuing the practice in June 2001. “This food is healthy and good,” said the company’s vice president of procurement, responding to critics, ”but some people don’t like to see meat meal that contains any pets.”

How roadkill ends up in Fido’s food bowl

The process that turns these animals and animal parts into pet food is also disgusting. After all, it takes a lot to turn roadkill into something owners feel good about pouring into their pets’ bowls. Ann M. Martin describes the process inFood Pets Die For: “At the rendering plant a machine slowly grinds the entire mess in huge vats. Then this product is cooked at temperatures between 220 degrees Fahrenheit and 270 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes to one hour. The mixture is centrifuged (spun at a high speed) and the grease (or tallow) rises to the top and it is removed from the mixture. The grease becomes the source of animal fat in most petfoods. Oftentimes, when you open a standard can ofdog food, you will see a top layer offat. The centrifuged product is the source of that fat, which is meant to entice a hungrydogor cat. After the grease is removed in the rendering process, the remaining material is dried. Meat meal, and meat and bone meal are the end product of this process. This dried material is usually found in dry pet food.”

Chemical dangers lurk in commercial pet food

Rendering practices aren’t just gross; they’re also dangerous for your pets. Thechemicalsused to euthanize zoo animals, dogs and cats can survive thecookingprocess, which means these chemicals end up in pet food, and ultimately, in your pet. Martin writes, “Euthanized cats and dogs often end up in rendering vats along with other questionable material to make meat meal, and meat and bone meal. This can be problematic becausesodiumpentobarbital can withstand the heat from rendering. For years, someveterinariansand animal advocates have known about the potentialdangerof sodium pentobarbital residue in commercial pet food, yet the danger has not been alleviated.” In short, that meansthe poisons designed to kill pets are the same ones being fed to them.

Now that you know petfood manufacturerswill seemingly go to any length to fill their foods with the cheapest sources of protein they can find, you probably won’t be surprised to find out that the otheringredientsin pet foods aren’t much better. Cheap grain fillers, cellulose to bulk up the food, preservatives and poorly monitored vitamin and mineral supplements round out the recipe. InHealing Pets with Nature’s Miracle Cures, Henry Pasternak writes, “Remember, pet foods are primarily processed, grain-based diets. These foods are ‘fortified’ with synthetic B vitamins, which can cause a subclinical B vitamindeficiency.” Martin mentions inFood Pets Die Forthat one bag of dog food was overloaded with so muchzincthat she had to take her dog to the vet because he became ill. She took the bag of food to an independent lab to verify that the zinc content of the food was 20 times the recommended daily allowance for dogs.

Preservatives in dog and cat foods keep the foods seemingly fresh for long periods of time: “Unfortunately, harmful chemical preservatives and other artificial additives are the norm in most pet foods. Some are intentionally added by the manufacturer, while others come from the herbicides,insecticides, and pesticides used byfarmersto boost crop yields,” Pasternak writes. While some petfood companieshave decided to use less harmful preservatives andnaturalpreservatives, most pet foodcompaniesdon’t find these ingredients to be cost effective.

So what should you do with thisinformation? Many pet owners are discovering there are more natural alternatives to commercial pet food. Naturalhealthfood stores usually stock a few varieties of organic or all-natural pet foods. There are other owners who go even further and prepare their pets’ foods from real, whole ingredients. Though this might not be for everyone, some owners say it’s worth the peace of mind, and it helps them feel closer to their animal companions. Be aware though, that once your pet finds out what real,whole foodstake like, they may not want to go back: “I used to feed my cat canned or dry pet food, but now I prepare her food from fresh ingredients. She thrives on raw meat,” writes Debra Lynn Dadd inHome Safe Home. “She will eat canned or dry food if it is a natural brand, but if I give her pet food from the supermarket, she paws around it like she’s trying to cover up something in her litter box.”

The experts speak on pet food processing:

Most veterinarians acquire their only knowledge on petnutritionin elective classes in veterinary school. These classes may only last a few weeks and are often taught by representatives from pet food companies. Hill’s, lams, and Purina are the largest contributors for these courses. In addition, pet food companies even donate food to the vet students for their own companion animals. This practice has become so widespread among pet food companies that the veterinary school at Colorado State University made this an agenda item for an Executive Committee meeting in 2000. “Discussion was held on how to handle dealing with pet food companies and their donations of pet food to the university,” according to the Executive
Food Pets Die For by Ann N Martin, page 21

Dry food has its advantages. In fact, the dry pet food you buy in the supermarket is manufactured for your convenience as much as Fifi’s and Fluffy’s health. It’s the nibble-at -will, no-can-opening, no-greasy-spoon, no-smelly-bowl, no-budget-busting pet food. It has lower levels of fat than canned meat because the fat seeps through thepaperbags (you don’t want that greasy bag on yourcarupholstery or in your kitchen cabinet). Fifi and Fluffy get to eat more for your money, thus getting pleasantly full tummies, while less protein, fat and digestibility keep their figures from becoming unbecomingly porcine.
Everyday Health Tips by Prevention Magazine, page 346

Fats are necessary for good health and diseaseprevention. Here again, fats should be raw or unrefined—not processed. Meat, fish,eggs, or milk in their natural states are the best sources of fat. The petfood industryprepares some pet foods with high levels ofomega-3 fatty acidsthat are claimed to be effective for treating various inflammatory diseases. However, omega-3fatty acidsare quite sensitive to heat and are destroyed and easily become rancid during processing. Cod liveroilcan be added to pet foods. It is a good source ofomega-3fatty acids as well asvitamin A. Proteins
Healing Pets With Nature’s Miracle Cures By Henry Pasternak DVM CVA, page 77

They don’t need “special” diets. Your typical pet will do nicely on typical pet food. “There are a lot of marketing gimmicks in the pet foodindustrythat aren’t necessarily in the best interest of the dog,” says Dr. Donoghue. It’s not always a good idea, for example, to reduce protein in thedietof a healthy old dog.
Everyday Health Tips by Prevention Magazine, page 348

Sodium Pentobarbital:

As I discuss elsewhere, euthanized cats and dogs often end up in rendering vats along with other questionable material to make meat meal, and meat and bone meal. This can be problematic because sodium pentobarbital can withstand the heat from rendering. For years, some veterinarians and animal advocates have known about the potential danger of sodium pentobarbital residue in commercial pet food, yet the danger has not been alleviated. The “Report of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Panel on Euthanasia,” states, “In euthanasia of animals intended for human or animal food, chemical agents that result in tissue residue cannot be used.”
Food Pets Die For by Ann N Martin, page 57

Another staple of the Tenderer’s diet, in addition to farm animals, is euthanized pets-the six or seven million dogs and cats that are killed in animal shelters every year. The city of Los Angeles alone, for example, sends some two hundred tons of euthanized cats and dogs to a rendering plant every month. Added to the blend are the euthanized catch of animal control agencies, and roadkill. (Roadkill is not collected daily, and in the summer, the better roadkill collection crews can generally smell it before they can see it) When this gruesome mix is ground and steam-cooked, the lighter, fatty material floating to the top gets refined for use in suchproductsas cosmetics, lubricants, soaps, candles, and waxes. The heavier protein material is dried and pulverized into a brown powder—about a quarter of which consists of fecal material. The powder is used as an additive to almost all pet food as well as to livestock feed. Farmers call it “protein concentrates.” In 1995, five million tons of processedslaughterhouseleftovers were sold for animal feed in theUnited States. I used to feed tons of the stuff to my own livestock. It never concerned me that I was feedingcattleto cattle.
Mad Cowboy By Howard F Lyman, page 12

Pet owners are horrified to learn that rendered cats and dogs can be legally recycled back into pet food. At times, this outrage leadsconsumersto seek change. One case in point is Valley Protein, a rendering company that operates in twenty-two states in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Southwest regions of the United States. In the first edition of Food Pets Die For, I wrote about the Baltimore City Paper reporter Van Smith who described what he observed at the Valley Protein Rendering Plant in 1995. His article was replete with photos of barrels of dead dogs and cats about to be rendered. Smith reported that there are “thousands of dead dogs, cats, raccoons, possums, deer, foxes, snakes, and the rest that local animal shelters and roadkill patrols must dispose of each month.” In that same article, Smith observed, “In a gruesomely ironic twist, most inedible dead animal parts, including dead pets, end up in feed used to fatten future generations of their kind.”
Food Pets Die For by Ann N Martin, page 147

Pets used in Pet Food:

While researching and writing, there were times that I was absolutely horrified with what I discovered. There were other times when I was extremely frustrated with the run-around I received fromgovernmentagencies, organizations involved with the pet food industry, the rendering industry, and at times, veterinaryresearchcenters. What has kept me going is the hope thatpet ownerswill read my findings and be convinced that their pets’ health is directly related to what they eat—and that most commercial pet foods are garbage. The most objectionable source of protein for pet food is euthanized cats and dogs. It is not uncommon for thousands of euthanized dogs and cats to be delivered to rendering plants, daily, and thrown into the rendering vat—collars, I.D. tags, and plastic bags—to become part of this material called “meat meal.”
Food Pets Die For by Ann N Martin, page 153

Extensive records had to be kept on the disposition of various animalproteins, and feeds that were now prohibited for cattle had to be clearly labeled as such. There were no new restrictions, however, on what could be fed topoultry, hogs, zoo animals, or pets. Indeed, the Grocery Manufacturers ofAmerica, the National Food Processors Association, and the pet food Institute successfully lobbied against any new labeling requirement for pet foods. These industry groups rightly worried that the FDA’s proposed warning label — “Do not feed to ruminants” — might alarm consumers about what their pets were actually being fed.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, page 275

The currentFDAfeed rules are primarily concerned with efficiency and utility, not public health. They allow cattle to be fed pigs, pigs to be fed cattle, cattle to be fed poultry, and poultry to be fed cattle. They allow dogs and cats to be fed dogs and cats. Although leading American manufacturers promise never to put rendered pets into their pet food, it is still legal to do so. A Canadian company, Sanimal Inc., was putting 40,000 pounds of dead dogs and dead cats into its dog and cat food every week, until discontinuing the practice in June 2001. “This food is healthy and good,” said the company’s vice president of procurement, responding to critics, “but some people don’t like to see meat meal that contains any pets.”
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, page 288Ingredients in Pet Food:

One of the dirty little secrets kept by the pet food industry is that some by-products also contain substances such as abscesses and cancerous material. In my opinion, feeding slaughterhouse wastes to animals increases their chances of gettingcancerand other degenerative diseases. Some meat, especially glandular tissue, may contain high levels ofhormones, which may also cause serious health problems including cancer. Unlike bacteria and viruses, these hormones are not destroyed by the high temperatures or pressure cooking used in the manufacture of pet food. Cats seem to be most adversely affected by high hormone levels.
Healing Pets With Nature’s Miracle Cures By Henry Pasternak DVM CVA, page 11

PET CARE Many pet foods claim to be ” 100% nutritionally complete and balanced.” This claim legally can be made and printed on commercial products based on information studies using isolatednutrientsand not whole foods, or by feeding the complete pet food to animals for several weeks to determine whether it prevents obviousdiseaseor malnutrition. Although motivated by an interest to assure quality for the consumer, these tests ignore important nutritional issues and give both producer and consumer a false sense of knowledge and security. Measuring a food’s merit by levels of isolated nutrients tells only a partial story. There are more than forty known, essential nutrients, and more than fifty other nutrients are under investigation. Thus, making sure a food contains appropriate amounts of only a dozen of these nutrients can’t possibly assure that a food is “complete.”
Home Safe Home by Debra Lynn Dadd, page 413

Harmful components (and ingredients) found in Pet food:

Unfortunately, harmful chemical preservatives and other artificial additives are the norm in most pet foods. Some are intentionally added by the manufacturer, while others come from theherbicides, insecticides, andpesticidesused by farmers to boost crop yields. Many pet foods advertised as “preservative-free” do, in fact, contain preservatives. As the law is currently written, manufacturers don’t have to list preservatives that they themselves did not add. Many preservatives make their way into pet food at rendering plants before the meat is even sent to the manufacturer. An analysis of several pet foods labeled “chemical free” or “all natural ingredients” found syntheticantioxidantsin all samples. With continued use, low levels of these synthetic antioxidants may build up in the tissues; inges-tion of small doses over time may be just astoxicas a single large dose. About 60 percent of all herbicides, 90 percent of all fungicides, and 30 percent of all insecticides are considered to be cancer causing in and of themselves.6-7
Healing Pets With Nature’s Miracle Cures By Henry Pasternak DVM CVA, page 11

Under AAFCO guidelines, acceptable meat by-product can include animal lungs, spleens, kidneys, brains, livers,blood, bones, low-temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. Livers can be infested with worms (liver flukes) or diseased with cirrhosis. Lungs can be filled with pneumonia. If an animal is diseased and declared unfit for human consumption, the carcass is acceptable for pet food. Even parts of animals, such as “stick marks,”—the area of thebodywhere animals have been injected with antibiotics, hormones, or other drugs—are cut from the carcasses intended for human consumption and used for meat by-product for pet food.
Food Pets Die For by Ann N Martin, page 153

Commission warned that a series of mysterious dog ailments at kennels in Michigan may be the result of fluoride contamination of pet foods. They noticed a high incidence of deformed puppies and pointed out that chronic effects of fluoride poisoning may not be noticeable for a long time.
Fluoride The Aging Factor by John Yiamouyiannis, page 16

After 45 weeks of producing fertile eggs plagued by hunger, debeaking, detoeing, decombing, toxic ammonia, and diseases, these breederchickensare “liquidated” and turned into human animal “food” and nonhuman animal “feed” and pet food products.
Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs by Karen Davis PhD, page 93

She sees the problem all the time in older canines and felines, “usually those eight years or older.” She blames the commercial pet foods and owners’ irresponsibility for most of it. “There is just too muchsugarin everything. You can’t buy a decent brand of [pet] food anymore without there being some kind of sugar in it. An animal’s system will rebel just like the human body does when excess sugar is taken into it. The same autoimmunedisorderthat attacks human pancreatic cells that makeinsulindestroys the insulin-producing capabilities in our dogs and cats.”
Natural Pet Cures by Dr John Heinerman, page 87

Just as products for kids carry the same dangers as I their adult counterparts, products for pets have the same I hazards as their human counterparts—pet food contains the same carcinogenicpesticideresidues, and the pesticides used in flea collars are as toxic as the pesticides used to kill any other insects. And just as babies and children are more susceptible to the effects of toxic exposures than adults, so too are animals more susceptible to the effects of toxic exposures than humans.
Home Safe Home by Debra Lynn Dadd, page 341

Slaughterhouses also provide renderers with the leftovers from slaughtered animals not fit for human consumption. Before these animal parts and by-product used for pet food are shipped from the slaughterhouse to the rendering plant, the by-product is “denatured.” This means that crude carbolic acid, cresylic disinfectant, or citronella, is sprayed on the product. In the case of a whole beef or swine carcass that has been condemned, the denaturing product is injected into the entire carcass. If meat inspectors condemn only parts of an animal, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) requires that “before an approved denaturing agent is applied, the product must be freely slashed so that pieces are less than 4″ in diameter. This allows the denaturant to contact all parts of the product.”
Food Pets Die For by Ann N Martin, page 18

Both animal-care professionals weren’t at all reticent about vocalizing their strong opinions about this matter. Dr. Tejinder: “There are way too many chemicals in pet food that no one knows theside effectsof. And the rancid fat that is used to cook a lot of this food that pets eat only complicates things more.” Dr. Stefanatos: “The pesticides, preservatives, and additives in pet food reprogram the organs so their functions behave differently. No one knows the full extent of the problem, but it’s there, nevertheless.” The Nature of Animal Diabetes
Natural Pet Cures by Dr John Heinerman, page 88

Mad Cow and Other diseases:

Those of us who are intimately acquainted with what goes into commercial pet foods have no problem discerning where a good majority of liver disorders originate. In their January 1998 newsletter, Love of Animals, Dr. Bob Goldstein and his wife, Susan, featured an interesting article entitled, “The Truth About Canned Dog and Cat Foods.” They note that many so-called “naturally preserved” pet foods contain meat by-products that usually come “from diseased cows or sick chickens.” “These are terrible foods” they warn their readers. And the fact that they contain chemical preservatives (to keep the high fat content from going rancid) and artificial coloring agents and dyes (for eye appeal of pet owners), not to mention appetite stimulants (salt, sugar, glucose, sucrose, fructose, phosphoric acid) only makes their impact upon the average animal liver that much more deadly.
Natural Pet Cures by Dr John Heinerman, page 204

Cattle—dead, diseased, dying and disabled (4-D)—can legally be rendered and used in pet foods in the United States and in Canada. Rendering will not eradicate any of the TSEs, including the chronic wasting disease in deer, elk, and roadkill, which can also be rendered for use in pet food. The U.S. government believes it is safe to render diseased cattle for use in pet foods because this practice does not affect humans since we don’t eat dogs and cats. But rendering diseased cattle into pet food does potentially endanger our animal companions. This is already happening in Europe. If dogs and cats succumb to a TSE disease, would their owners know the actual cause?
Food Pets Die For by Ann N Martin, page 100

Although you won’t see it on the label, since it is often added at the rendering plant and not by the manufacturer, ethoxyquin (EQ) is used to preserve most dry pet food. First used as a rubber stabilizer, EQ is the most powerful of all preservatives and may be the most toxic. Originally, it was permitted in livestock food. So since pet food is consideredanimal feed, the use of EQ is also permitted in pet food. Thefishindustry uses high levels of EQ; factory workers exposed to it exhibited side effects similar to those of agent orange: a dramatic rise in liver or kidney damage, cancerous skin lesions, hair loss, blindness, leukemia, fetal abnormalities, and chronic diarrhea. In animals, EQ has been linked to immune deficiency syndrome; spleen,stomach, and liver cancers; and a host of allergies.
Healing Pets With Nature’s Miracle Cures By Henry Pasternak DVM CVA, page 11

In Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats (Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, Inc., 1995), the author, a renowned veterinarian, lists a number of other factors that could expose a family dog or cat to possible carcinogens. “These include,” he writes, “… consuming pet foods high in organ meats and meat meal (concentrators of pesticides, and growth hormones used to fatten cattle, which can promote cancer growth) as well as in preservatives and artificial colors known to cause cancer in lab animals.”
Natural Pet Cures by Dr John Heinerman, page 78

SOURCE:  http://www.naturalnews.com/012647_pet_food_dog.html

While seemingly intended to be a commentary on the immense burden that excessive pregnancies are on the social welfare system in the city — his focus seems to be on the city’s poor whose wombs are a “poverty factory”, his own words — Finley’s strongly-worded diatribe reads more like a page out of a eugenics manual. Seething with disgust over the dismal state of affairs in Detroit, Finley’s column makes some very drastic recommendations about how he thinks the state should handle the city’s higher-than-he-would-like birth rate.

In all reality, Detroit is the new poster child city for what happens when globalists take over a nation and destroy its industrial base. Rapidly decaying infrastructure, out-of-control crime, decimated industry, and a resultant mass exodus of middle and upper-class families are all the result of America’s deindustrialization, which is something for which the city’s poor were obviously not directly responsible.

And yet Finley seems to suggest that the city’s poor are a cause, rather than a consequence, of this raping and pillaging of the American economy. He goes on to suggest that the very same government responsible for causing the debacle in the first place became directly involved in “fixing it” by embracing a philosophy of “reproductive responsibility.” And one of his suggestions for doing this appears to be lacing the city’s water supply with contraceptive drugs.

He could be speaking tongue-in-cheek, of course. But he could also be dead serious. Based on his apparent belief that the government needs to get involved in regulating how many children a person can have, Finley seems to embrace a philosophy of reproductive responsibility that looks more like government-mandated population control.

Governments use the poor as scapegoats to push ‘greater good’ policies

In a recent analysis of Finley’s piece,Aaron Dykesover atInfoWars.comexplains how such eugenicist ideas are rooted in corrupt, collectivist governments who want complete control over the population. The poor that are having too many babies, in other words, are a scapegoat for implementing outlandish public policy initiatives like adding chemicals to the water supply for the “greater good.”

This is exactly the argument that has long been used to support adding fluoride chemicals to the water supply. Poor families and their children, we are told, are all losing their teeth because of a lack of proper dental care, and the only way to fix it is to dump toxic fluoride waste into the water supply, 99 percent of which ends up going down the drain anyway

SOURCE:  http://www.naturalnews.com/034977_water_supply_birth_control_Detroit.html