Month: September 2009

(NaturalNews) Fig leaves are best known for treating diabetes, but there are many other uses for the fig leaves. There are many homemade remedies from treating diabetes to treating bronchitis, genital warts, liver cirrhosis, high blood pressure, skin problems and ulcers. Fig leaves are not used as much as they should be. Most of the remedies for the fig leaves use the sap or the milk of the sacred tree. Fig tinctures or poultices should be used immediately and fresh batches made daily.

Figs and Health:

According to the USDA, figs are one of the highest sources of fiber and calcium. Figs have antioxidants and a laxative effect on the body. Figs contain fiber, magnesium, copper, manganese, calcium and vitamins A,B,C and K. Besides these vitamins, the figs also contain folic acid, sodium and zinc.

Benefits of the figs:

– Figs are rich in potassium and fiber, helping to stabilize the blood pressure of the body. The figs contain anti-diabetic and anti-tumor properties. They have calcium, potassium, and soluble fiber, which aids in the reduction of cholesterol.

– Figs promote good sleeping habits and protect the person against insomnia. They increase your energy, promote stronger bones, and are helpful in treating constipation, due to their laxative effect. If the leaves are mashed, they can be used as a skin cleanser for acne and pimples.

– Figs lessen the acids in the stomach and therefore are great for pregnant women. Figs also increase sexual desire and promote overall longevity and good health.

There are many varieties of figs and here are a few available in the market:

The Calimyrna Fig has a nut like flavor and a golden skin. The Mission fig is dark purple and eventually will turn black when sun dried. The Kadota fig is the American type fig, which is nearly seedless and most often dried and canned. The Brown Turkey fig is seen most of the time in the fresh markets. This fig is copper colored in color with small streaks of purple and a white flesh.

Home Remedies using fig leaves:

– Bronchitis – Place two to three fig leaves in a half liter of water with some piloncillo and bring to boil. Let the water boil for 15 minutes and then remove the leaves and drink the tea.

What is Piloncillo?

– Cardiovascular and Cancer patients: Try drinking some freshly made fig leaf tea. Also, eat some fresh figs daily.

– Genital warts – Take one of the fig leaves and apply the milk or sap from the leaf to the affected areas.

– Hemorrhoid – Place two or three of the leaves in one liter of water and bring to boil. Boil for at least 15 minutes. Remove from the fire and let the pot cool. Remove the leaves from the tea and use as a sitz bath or apply to the affected areas.

– Liver cirrhosis – Take 4 leaves, wash them thoroughly and pound them with any type of sugar candy. Fill a medium glass with water and drink this twice a day.

– Lower blood pressure – Place 3 fig leaves in half liter of water. Boil for 15 minutes and drink daily.

– Ringworm – Cut open a leaf and take the milk or sap. Rub on the ringworm. This procedure works immediately.

– Scalp fungal infections, warts and boils – Follow the above directions.

– Shingles: Place three to four fig leaves in 2 cups of water. Boil for a few minutes, let cool and remove the leaves. Take a wash cloth and dip in the water and apply to the affected area.

– Ulcers – Every day chew two fig leaves and swallow the whole leaf. People with advanced ulcers should do this in the morning on an empty stomach.

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(NaturalNews) US scientists from Vanderbilt University and Australian researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Western Sydney are separately sounding the alarm about the rise of tuberculosis (TB) superbugs. Although the incidence of TB has fallen in many regions, the new findings suggest serious and growing problems with TB could on the horizon. The reason? Antibiotic resistant TB superbugs are emerging that could see virtually untreatable strains of the disease become widespread.

The UNSW's Dr. Mark Tanaka and colleagues conducted a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that used epidemiological and molecular data from Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from Cuba, Estonia and Venezuela, countries where there is a high prevalence of drug-resistant TB cases. The scientists wanted to estimate the rate of evolution of TB drug resistance and to compare the relative "reproductive fitness" of resistant and drug sensitive strains.

"We found that the overall fitness of drug-resistant strains is comparable to drug-sensitive strains," Dr. Tanaka of the UNSW Evolution and Ecology Research Centre said in a statement to the media. "This was especially so in Cuba and Estonia. The finding may reflect an inconsistency in drug treatment programs in these countries." The scientists believe that drug-resistant strains collectively cause persistent infections, allowing the germs to evolve into more infectious strains.

"Our results imply that drug-resistant strains of TB are likely to become highly prevalent in the next few decades," stated UNSW's Dr Fabio Luciani, the study's lead author, in the press statement. "They also suggest that limiting further transmission of TB might be an effective approach to reducing the impact of drug resistance."

Another study, published in the August 15 issue of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine warns that overuse of fluoroquinolone antibiotics — which are frequently prescribed for everything from sinus infections to pneumonia — appear to be the cause of an emerging strain of fluoroquinolone-resistant TB. Ironically, these commonly used antibiotics have been considered the first-line treatment for TB strains which are resistant to other drugs.

"While fluoroquinolone resistance in TB strains has been reported since the mid 1990s, to our knowledge no one had investigated the direct causes of it. We wanted to determine whether and to what extent clinical practices were having an effect of creating that resistance," Dr. Rose A. Devasia, clinical instructor of Vanderbilt University, said in a media statement.

Dr. Devasia and colleagues analyzed the records of newly diagnosed patients with culture-confirmed TB who were enrolled in Tennessee's Medicaid program (TennCare). Using the TennCare pharmacy database, the researchers were able to find out how many of the 640 TB patients studied had been prescribed fluoroquinolone during the 12 months prior to a TB diagnosis. Then the scientists took M. tuberculosis isolates from each patient and tested to see if the TB strain causing their illness was resistant to fluoroquinolone.

Bottom line: the results showed a direct association between previous fluoroquinolone use and being infected with a strain of fluoroquinolone-resistant TB. In fact, people with TB who had used fluoroquinolones within a year of their diagnosis were about five times as likely to have a fluoroquinolone-resistant strain of TB than those who had not used these antibiotics.

What's more, the longer the antibiotics had been taken, the more likely the TB patients were to have a fluoroquinolone-resistant strain of tuberculosis. Dr. Devasia and colleagues found that fluoroquinolone resistance was the highest among the people who took the drug more than 60 days prior to TB diagnosis. "Exposure to fluoroquinolones early in the course of disease may select for and allow a fluoroquinolone-resistant strain to predominate," explained Dr. Devasia.

In an editorial accompanying the Vanderbilt University study, Dr. John Bernardo of Boston University School of Medicine and Wing Wei Yew of Grantham Hospital in Hong Kong warned that doctors who inappropriately prescribe antibiotics may be contributing to this growing problem of drug-resistant TB. "For now, we all need to be more careful when considering the use of these drugs in the community setting and limit the use of prolonged or repeated courses of fluoroquinolones, or even avoid them altogether, in patients who are risk of having active TB," they wrote.

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(NaturalNews) Throughout the past several months there has been a concerted effort by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to eliminate natural, bio-identical thyroid treatments from the market. Three companies have recently been ordered by the FDA to cease production of all desiccated thyroid products, causing product shortages and delayed production within the two remaining companies that provide the treatment.

Long before the days of synthetic drugs and medications, many natural remedies existed for which people obtained relief from their ailments. In the 1890s, it was discovered that certain animal thyroid glands could be extracted and prepared for therapeutic treatment in human beings. Commonly referred to as desiccated thyroid, the United States Pharmacopoeia describes the substance as purified, dried, powdered, and defatted thyroid gland obtained from animals and used for food by man.

Utilized for over a century, this preparation has benefited millions of people who suffer from hypothyroidism by keeping their hormone levels in balance. Only in recent decades have synthetic thyroid medications been concocted and patented by pharmaceutical companies, who claim their versions are superior to the natural varieties in spite of a myriad of testimony and evidence to the contrary.

Many people who have relied on natural desiccated thyroid preparations for years claim that the synthetic alternatives not only fail to properly treat hypothyroidism but cause a slew of negative side effects including chest pains, sleeping abnormalities, and mental clarity issues.

Natural thyroid extracts are complete hormone preparations that contain all four iodothyronines – "T4", "T3", "T2", and "T1"; synthetics contain only "T4" and "T3". Because the natural extracts are whole and balanced, sharing the same hormonal profile as the human thyroid gland, they have a credible record of prolonged and consistent efficacy.

Concerning the FDA's attack on the production of natural thyroid extract, the agency is once again trying to vanquish competition to patented pharmaceutical drugs by slowly eliminating natural thyroid producers and providers while curtailing the market. While not outright banning the substance at this time, the FDA has still placed the treatment in the category of "unapproved drug", indicating that it must undergo a formal drug application in order to be approved. Since natural thyroid extract cannot be patented, there is likely no company willing to fork over several million dollars to the FDA in order to propel it through the approval process.

The American Association for Health Freedom and several groups dedicated to saving natural thyroid treatments have been watching the situation closely as it unfolds. For more information about the companies involved and the status of available natural thyroid extract, please contact these organizations or visit their websites. It also behooves the cause to contact one's Congressmen to make them aware of the situation and to get in touch with the FDA to express concern over the situation.

Tyranny over freedom of choice in healthcare options continues to be a problem due to an out-of-control regulatory system that is designed to benefit pharmaceutical giants at the expense of everyone else. In this case, natural thyroid treatments are on the verge of extinction. Now is the time to step up and stop the state-sanctioned despotism.

"David Rockefeller's trust, that engages several powerful partners on Wall Street, including media moguls Ruppert Murdock, Morton Zuckerman, Thomas Glocer, and former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Jerry Speyer, are implicated in advancing global genocide," Dr. Horowitz wrote to FBI directors.

"This 'partnership' controls biotechnology research and development globally. Health commerce internationally is also controlled virtually entirely by this trust that also exercises near complete control over mainstream media to promote/propagandize its products and services for the drug cartel's organized crime. This trust, in essence, makes or breaks medical and natural healing markets, primarily through the mass media companies and propaganda it wields for social engineering and market building," Dr. Horowitz wrote.

Among the revelations from the Horowitz-Kane research are those linking Larry Silverstein of Silverstein Properties, Inc., and the 9-11 terrorist attacks, to the drug cartel's geopolitical, economic, and population reduction activities. Mr. Silverstein, leaser of the World Trade Center who authorized to have Building-7 "pulled" [detonated] is a chief suspect in the "9-11 truth" investigation. Silverstein is currently landlord and co-partner in the biotechnology trust founded by David Rockefeller and implicated by these new discoveries.

Given the unprecedented nature and urgency of these findings, Dr. Horowitz has posted his affidavit for public review on FLUscam.com, hoping wide spread dissemination will prompt governments worldwide to cease mass vaccination preparations to avoid becoming accessories.

"The last time I contacted the FBI I warned them about the impending anthrax attacks one week before the first mailings were announced in the press," Dr. Horowitz recalled. "It took them 6 months to respond. When they did, they made me a suspect in the mailings. This time I am warning the Justice Department a month before the deadliest genocide in history. I'm praying they'll take kindly to my appeal for a PNYC investigation, and Court-ordered injunction, to stop the vaccinations for public protection

The principal difference in this Forced Vaccination Protocol from the Immune System Booster Protocol is the intensity and amounts of supplements taken for a shorter period, …say one week. If a vaccination were forced upon me or a family member, I would follow the suggested protocol below.

This 7 day protocol for adults would depend on how many days notice one has; for example:

1.    If I had two or three days of warning of a ‘forced vaccination’, I would immediately do a Therapeutic Liver Flush (see item 8) and also start taking Colloidal Silver in ¼ ounce servings every 4 hours for the first day. The second day, I would increase to ½ ounce servings every 4 hours. The third day, I would be consuming 1 ounce servings every 4 hours up until the time of vaccination. Immediately prior to the vaccination, I would consume 2- 8 ounces of silver, depending on body size. If the days of notice are reduced, I would simply eliminate the smaller quantities for the first days. (It is generally a good practice to consume Probiotics an hour or so after consuming larger quantities of silver to replenish the colon flora. Remember large quantities of silver may cause short-term flu-like symptoms (Herxheimer effect) or diarrhea. This generally lasts only a couple of days until the body is able to flush the bacterial or viral die-off caused by the silver. [Read “A Layman’s Guide to Using Colloidal Silver ”.]

2.    Have a cold pack or an ice pack with you (in an ice chest in your car) for everyone being forced to take a vaccination and apply it to the injection site immediately to stop or slow immune response. (Get to your ice packs immediately after vaccination, do not linger to talk or anything else. If a vaccination is being forced on you, do not agree to pay for it and do not sign any kind of release or consent form. If they are claiming the right to force a vaccination on you, then they do not need you to agree to it by your signature, do they?)

3.    Take four ounces of Colloidal Silver orally immediately after the vaccination and continue 3 times daily 8 hours apart e.g. 8am, 2pm and 8pm for at least 7 days. If you have any lung symptoms also nebulize 5ml of silver with 1-3 drops of Lobelia 3 times a day for 7 days.

4.    Take full doses of IP6/Inositol ultra strength powder or Max 3 capsules twice daily in the morning and at bedtime on an empty stomach for 14-30 days.

5.    Take ten tablets/capsules of Oral Systemic Enzymes on an empty stomach 3 times daily, first thing in the morning, mid afternoon and just before bedtime for at least 7 days.

6.    Take 300mcg (micrograms) of a quality Selenium three times daily for at least 7 days. (See Chris Barr’s interview on selenium .)

7.    If you are unable to get at least 30 minutes of sunshine daily (without a shirt or in tee shirt and shorts) you may want to supplement with up to 5000 I.U. daily of  Vitamin D .

8.    Again, a Therapeutic Liver Flush using the 2 day protocol of Epsom Salts, olive oil and grapefruit juice should also be used early in this 7 day protocol. If that protocol is too much or not convenient for you (you must stay inactive and near a toilet for 1-1/2 days), a 14 Day Liver Cleanse condensed into 7 days is better than nothing. Even a normal healthy liver may be overtaxed after a vaccination and especially after using intensive body cleanses as suggested in this protocol.

9.    Eat nothing but fresh cantaloupe (organic if possible) for the first 24 hours after the vaccination; it is one of the better natural cellular cleansing foods.

10.    Get as much rest and sleep as your body needs.

11.    Drink fresh squeezed lemonade diluted with a distilled or carbon filtered water morning and evening for the duration which stimulates more bile production and detoxification.

12.    As a further suggestion if you have a juicer or access to a health food store selling the ready made products, drink ½ cup (about 4 oz.) of parsley juice, ½ cup (about 4 oz.) of cilantro juice and 1 cup (about 8 oz.) of celery juice (all organic if possible). Do this each day of the protocol if possible.

Notice: If you have a life or health threatening illness we suggest that you consult a healthcare professional who can become familiar with your health situation, preferably a qualified naturopathic doctor or one who has been trained in integrative medicine. We also encourage you to diligently research any information on our websites or in our newsletters to decide if you are in agreement with the opinions offered. All decisions made in the use of supplements is the sole responsibility of each individual.
 
All information offered herein is strictly opinion and is presented as an exercise of the God-given unalienable Right of free speech, as well as the right to help others, set forth in part by The Herbalist’s Charter. http://utopiasilver.com/legal_doc/healthcare-choice.htm

(NaturalNews) A UN report leaked to The Observer claims that swine flu could "kill millions" of people in poor nations and cause a total breakdown of society unless wealthy nations come up with US$1.5 billion to pay for pandemic vaccines and anti-viral drugs. It warns that the fragile economies of developing nations could be completely destroyed by the breakdown of social services, infrastructure and medical care

"Countries where health services are overburdened by diseases, such as HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria, will have great difficulty managing the surge of cases. And if the electricity and water sectors are not able to maintain services, this will have serious implications for the ability of the health sector to function. …If suppliers of fuel, food, telecommunications, finance or transport services have not developed plans as to how they would continue to deliver their services, the consequences could be significantly intensified."

This UN report identifies 75 countries that remain vulnerable to this chaos scenario: 6 nations in South America, 21 nations from Asia and 40 in Africa. The only way to prevent the possible collapse of these nations, the report says, is for this $1.5 billion to be spent on vaccines and anti-viral drugs.

There is no mention in the report of teaching the citizens of poor nations how to use their own local indigenous medicine, or how to get more vitamin D from sunlight, or even how to boost their immune system health through dietary changes. The suggestions of the entire report come down to just two things: Vaccines and anti-viral drugs.

Just another UN medical scam
So what's the real story behind all this? All be blunt: In my opinion, this report is just another Big Pharma scam. It's designed to scare people into sending even more money to the drug companies to buy their drugs and vaccines. The threat of the "complete collapse" of these poorer nations is designed to leverage first-world fear to motivate these nations to spend more money on precisely the things that make the pharmaceutical industry wealthy.

There's no doubt that the citizens of poor nations need help improving their health, but that should be accomplished through education and the use of local medicinal plants, not through the chemical intervention of greedy corporations from first-world nations. The last thing the people of poor nations need is yet another imperialist band of profit-minded corporations telling them to get injected.

Haven't we already learned what happens when drug companies are allowed to exploit the people of poor nations? Pfizer, for example, exploited the children of Nigeria to run illegal drug experiments (http://www.naturalnews.com/026685_P…). This cost the drug company $75 million in a class action settlement, and it cemented the company's reputation as an evil killer in the minds of many.

It's obvious to the leaders of such nations that drug companies have no interest in actually helping their people; they're only interested in exploiting them for profit. This UN scare story is just another first-world tactic to funnel yet more money to the drug companies who will only harm the populations of poor nations.

It's not enough to vaccinate all the people in wealthy nations, you see. The drug companies have realized they'll make more money if they can sell even more vaccines and anti-viral drugs to people outside the countries where such pharmaceuticals can be readily afforded. But because poor nations can't afford to pay Big Pharma's monopoly prices for these items, the only way to collect on the vaccinations of the world's poor is to make sure wealthy nations front the cash. That's the real point behind this UN scare report, in my view.

First world nations are at greater risk
But the UN has it all wrong in the first place. If H1N1 becomes a raging pandemic, it's not the poor nations of the world that are most at risk: It's first-world nations like the United States.

Why? For several reasons:

• People in the U.S. work indoors and are more vitamin D deficiency than people in poorer nations. Thus, they are far more vulnerable to pandemic viral infections.

• People in the U.S. have largely abandoned indigenous medicine, so when the vaccines and anti-virals run out, they have no other options. People in poor nations, on the other hand, generally have local knowledge about medicinal, anti-viral plants and medicines.

• As a highly complex, specialized society, the U.S. is far more susceptible to cascading collapse than poor nations that aren't very far removed from their agrarian ways. In many ways, poor nations can't really "collapse" because they're already operating at a very basic level. The U.S., on the other hand, has a long way to fall.

Of course, first-world nations think their medical technology will save everyone. But this is a dangerous and wild assumption that completely ignores two important facts:

Fact #1) There aren't enough hospital beds in countries like the U.S. to treat even 5% of the population during a pandemic.

Fact #2) All the vaccines and anti-viral drugs relied on by first-world nations can be rendered utterly useless virtually overnight if the virus mutates to a resistant form.

Essentially, first-world nations are highly arrogant about their western medicine, and they tend to think that "poor" nations are helpless without vaccines and pharmaceuticals. But the reality is often the opposite: Poor nations in South America, for example, are sitting on a huge medicine chest of natural anti-viral plants growing across the continent, and the locals still remember how to use those medicines. Brazil, in particular, has enough natural medicine to treat not only its entire population, but the population of the entire South American continent if they chose to harvest and prepare those medicines. Peru is in a similarly advantageous situation, as is Bolivia.

It is only the reliance on western pharmaceuticals that makes these nations vulnerable during a pandemic. Any nation that ignores its own natural medicines and chooses to rely on the patented, monopoly-priced vaccines and drugs from Big Pharma is setting itself up for disaster. Indeed, the chaos scenarios described by the UN may come true, but only if poor nations abandon their roots and surrender their medical sovereignty to western pharmaceutical companies.

The smartest thing any nation can do about swine flu right now is to run public service announcements teaching their populations about vitamin D, healthy dietary habits and immune-boosting herbal medicine. That's the way to protect the people of the world from any pandemic. Chemical intervention offers no long-term solutions because it doesn't provide true immunity. It only sets people up for a far worse future infection that wreaks even more havoc on peoples' vaccine-compromised immune systems.

Make no mistake: The mass vaccination of the populations in poor nations is just another form of medical imperialism designed to make those nations dependent on first-world pharmaceutical products. The same kind of games are played with finance, agricultural products (GM seeds) and consumer products, too. Drug companies want to expand their markets into poor nations. They want to compromise the immune systems of an entire generation, creating future repeat business from these people who will need more advanced (and expensive) medical procedures that eventually stem from the long-term side effects of vaccines: Liver damage, neurological damage, autoimmune disorders, etc. (Bill Gates, by the way, is helping them do it by donating millions of dollars for global vaccination campaigns.)

This is all about marketing, folks. It's a marketing conspiracy between the United Nations and Big Pharma to scare up another billion customers for Big Pharma.

(NaturalNews) The mainstream media is engaged in what we Americans call "bald faced lies" about swine flu. It seems to be true with this issue more than any other, and it became apparent to me recently when a colleague of mine — a nationally-syndicated newspaper columnist — told me their column on natural defenses for swine flu was rejected by newspapers all across the country. Many newspapers refused to run the column and, instead, ran an ad for "free vaccine clinics" in the same space.

There are ten key lies that continue to be told by the mainstream media (MSM) about swine flu and swine flu vaccines.

Lie #1 – There are no adjuvants used in the vaccines
I was recently being interviewed by a major U.S. news network when the reporter interviewing me came up with this humdinger: There are no adjuvants being used in the swine flu vaccines, he said!

I assured him that adjuvants were, indeed, a crucial part of the vaccine recipe, and they were being widely used by drug companies to "stretch" the vaccine supply. It's no secret. But he insisted he had been directly told by a drug company rep that no adjuvants were being used at all. And he believed them! So everything being published by this large news network about swine flu vaccines now assumes there are no adjuvants in the vaccines at all.

Lie #2 – The swine flu is more dangerous than seasonal flu
This lie is finally starting to unravel. I admit that in the early days of this pandemic, even I was concerned this could be a global killer. But after observing the very mild impact the virus was having on people in the real world, it became obvious that this was a mild flu, no more dangerous than a seasonal flu.

The MSM, however, continues to promote H1N1 swine flu as being super dangerous, driving fear into the minds of people and encouraging them to rush out and get a vaccine shot for a flu that's really no more likely to kill them than the regular winter sniffles. Sure, the virus could still mutate into something far worse, but if it does that, the current vaccine could be rendered obsolete anyway!

Lie #3 – Vaccines protect you from swine flu
This is the biggest lie of all, and the media pushes it hard. Getting a vaccine, they insist, will protect you from the swine flu. But it's just flat-out false. Even if the vaccine produces antibodies, that's not the same thing as real-world immunity from a live virus, especially if the virus mutates (as they often do).

As I pointed out in a recent article, statistically speaking the average American is 40 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to have their life saved by a swine flu vaccine. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026955_s…)

Lie #4 – Vaccines are safe
And how would any journalists actually know this? None of the vaccines have been subjected to real-world testing for any meaningful duration. The "safety" of these vaccines is nothing more than wishful thinking.

The MSM also doesn't want you to know what's in the vaccines. Some vaccines are made from viral fragments grown in diseased African monkeys. If that sounds incredible, read the true story here: http://www.naturalnews.com/026779_s…

Lie #5 – The vaccine isn't mandatory
You hear this lie all the time: The swine flu vaccine shot is voluntary, they say. But it's not true if you're an employee at a place where vaccines are being mandated. Millions of Americans are now being told by their employers that if they don't get vaccine shots, they will be effectively fired from their jobs. It's especially true with health care workers, day care employees and school teachers.

Lie #6 – Getting a vaccine shot is a good bet on your health
In reality, a vaccine shot is far more likely to harm you than help you. According to one viral expert, the actual mortality rate of the swine flu virus is estimated to be as low as .007 percent (http://www.reuters.com/article/heal…). That means H1N1 swine flu kills less than one person in 100,000. Even if the vaccine works, let's say, 10 percent of the time, you'd have to vaccine one million people to prevent one death from swine flu.

And in vaccinating one million people, you would inevitably harm or kill several people, simply from the vaccine side effects! Your net risk of death is increased by getting a swine flu vaccine.

Lie #7 – The vaccine isn't made with "attenuated live virus"
When the swine flu vaccines were first being announced several months ago, they were described as being made with "attenuated live virus." This was directly mentioned in CDC documents, among other places.

This term apparently freaked out the American news consumer, and it has since been all but erased from any discussion about vaccines. Now, journalists will actually argue with you and insist the vaccines contain no attenuated live viruses whatsoever.

Except they're wrong. The vaccines are, indeed, made with "attenuated live viruses." That's how you make a vaccine: You take live viruses, then you weaken them ("attenuate") and inject them into people.

Lie #8 – Wash, wash, wash your hands (to avoid exposure)
This idea of washing your hands a hundred times a day is all based on the assumption that you can avoid exposure to the swine flu virus. But that's impractical. The virus is now so widespread that virtually everyone is certain to be exposed to it through the air if not other means. This whole idea of avoiding exposure to the swine flu virus is nonsense. The conversation should shift to ways to survive exposure via a healthy immune system.

Of course, hand washing is a very good idea in a hospital setting. Recent news reveals that doctors are too busy to wash their own hands, resulting in the rampant spread of superbugs throughout most large hospitals in first world nations.

Lie #9 – Children are more vulnerable to swine flu than adults
This is just a flat-out lie, but it makes for good vaccine sales. Vaccines are right now being targeted primarily to schoolchildren.

But the truth is that swine flu is extremely mild in children. "It's mildest in kids," says Dr Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University. "That's one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic." Reuters actually had the guts to report this story, but most of the larger media outlets are still reporting that children are the most vulnerable.

Lie #10 – There is nothing else you can do beyond a vaccine and Tamiflu
This is where the media lies by omission. The mainstream media absolutely refuses to print just about any story that talks about using vitamin D, anti-viral herbs or natural remedies to protect yourself from swine flu. In the MSM, there are two options and only two: Vaccines and Tamiflu. That's it. No other options exist in their fictional reality.

Why is the mainstream media so afraid to print the truth these days? Why can't reporting on swine flu see the light of day… literally, with a mention of sunlight and vitamin D? Apparently, Big Pharma has such a tight grip on mainstream newspapers that no true story on swine flu can ever make it past the editor's desk.

Killing stories, deceiving the public
It must really be depressing to work for the mainstream media. Even the reporters I know can't stand it. The truth, they admit, rarely makes it into print.

Over the last few years, I've had a couple of job offers from large media outlets. They want to pay me a six-figure salary and stick me behind a desk where they can control what I report. Needless to say, I routinely reject those offers. If I can't write the truth like I do here on NaturalNews.com, there's no point writing at all. In too many ways, the mainstream media has become little more than a corporate mouthpiece, whoring itself out to the highest bidder / advertiser.

It's no fault of the frontline reporters who actually work there. For the most part, they agree with what I'm saying. It's the fault of the profit-oriented corporate mindset where news is about selling newspapers rather than actually informing the public.

Important news stories get killed every day in the newsrooms across America. They get killed not because they are poorly investigated or poorly written, but because they upset advertisers and corporate string pullers who shape the news and reject any stories that threaten their own financial interests.

Here in 2009, the distorted reporting on the swine flu vaccine has been one of the greatest media frauds ever perpetrated. The media has in every way contributed to the widespread ignorance of the American people on the subject of vitamin D and natural immune-boosting defenses that could reduce swine flu fatalities. Rather than informing readers, the MSM has made it a point to keep the people stupid, and in doing so, the media has failed its only mission and betrayed the very audience is claims to serve.