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(NaturalNews) As the new year rolls in, the mainstream media seems to be saying now that 2008 is over, things will automatically get better for the economy. “Good bye 2008!” say the headlines. And “Hello New Year!”

The trouble is, in Washington D.C. there have been no decisions made whatsoever that could reasonably be expected to produce a better result this year. Let me review where we are right now as 2009 rolls in:

• The health care system in America remains a complete disaster, costing the nation over 20 percent of its GDP in disease treatment costs while investing zero dollars in real disease prevention. The government health regulators are crooks, the health industry is run by for-profit corporations, the doctors are nutritionally illiterate, the medical journals are run by Big Pharma interests and now even the Nobel Prize Foundation is influenced by drug companies.

Meanwhile, the free speech rights of health supplement companies continue to be illegally censored by the FDA, leaving consumes in a state of nutritional illiteracy and forcing them to resort to the use of dangerous medications to treat symptoms (rather than using safe nutritional supplements that actually prevent disease).

From a health perspective, there is no evidence whatsoever to support the notion that 2009 will be better than 2008. In fact, all the evidence points to a continued worsening of public health as long as Big Pharma runs the medical agenda.

• On the financial front, the picture is even worse: Not only was there absolutely nothing done in 2008 that would make the financial picture in 2009 look better, most of the financial decisions made in 2008 have primed the pump to make 2009 look even worse!

Case in point: Instead of letting incompetent companies and financial institutions fail so that stupid decision makers could be removed from the economic gene pool, the Federal Reserve actually conspired with the U.S. Treasury to counterfeit trillions of dollars in new debt and deliver it directly into the hands of the most incompetent people they could find!

They called it a bail out, but in reality it was an organized looting of the public’s salaries and savings by a bunch of Washington crooks. And it won’t rescue anything: Since when did rewarding incompetent people with more cash ever result in smarter economic decisions being made?

If anything, 2009 is going to be even worse than 2008 in terms of real economic effects on the nation. And in addition to all the new jobless, the new wave of homeless and the ever-expanding numbers of the clueless, we are now facing the looming threat of currency inflation that will kick in once the economic plunge hits bottom and levels off.

The bottom line? On both health and wealth issues, the American people are being screwed, as usual. It’s not just the American people, of course: The Brits are also being screwed by their own government, which is about the same as being screwed by the American government but with a lot more surveillance cameras.

Is there any good news?
Astonishingly, I’m not a pessimist, and I do see some areas of possibility for good news in 2009.

The first, most noticeable opportunity for change involves a new administration in the White House. But as I’ve said before, those who think Barack Obama will magically sweep away the problems are kidding themselves: Obama may be from a different political party, but he’s still a product of a corrupt political culture that inevitably appeases the corporations while betraying the People.

I strongly suspect Obama was simply “allowed” to be elected so he could be the fall guy for a collapsing economy. It’s the ol’ “Blame the black guy!” tactic.

Still, if he’s clever enough, he might be able to engineer a few victories against Big Pharma and other exploitive industries that continue to threaten the People and the environment.

Regardless of what Obama is able to accomplish, there are plenty of things you can do to make sure you’re prepared as much as possible for 2009.

Ten things you need to prepare for 2009
Here are ten things you need to have ready for 2009, in my opinion:

1. Protect your health - Free yourself from dependence on the conventional medical system by getting off all pharmaceuticals, if you can. Get onto natural supplements and disease prevention strategies combined with regular exercise, sunlight and stress reduction. The more you’re in charge of your own health, the less likely you are to become a victim of a failed health care system.

2. Continue to collect precious metals - While prices may be high right now, they look likely to go even higher in the next few years. Gold could be headed towards $2500 / ounce in a financial collapse scenario, for example. Many of the advisors I trust the most believe gold will get cheaper during the first quarter of 2009 (perhaps dipping below $700 an ounce), but in the long term may skyrocket to new highs. My recommended source of raw gold and silver bars? www.GoldenLionMint.com

3. Stock up on anti-virals - One scenario I’ve reviewed involves the following: Skyrocketing prices on food, leading to the enforcement of price controls on food, followed by widespread shortages of affordable food, which causes a new wave of starvation among America’s poor. That, in turn, could lead to new outbreaks of infectious disease in urban areas, and that means it’s smart to stock up on plenty of anti-virals. Baseline Nutritionals sells the best I’ve ever found. It’s called “Super Viragon” and you can find it at www.BaselineNutritionals.com

4. Reduce your debt - To the extent you can, get out of debt or take steps to drastically reduce your debt. Debt is like a prison, and in an economy where jobs are becoming more scarce and incomes could become increasingly worthless, you don’t need the added burden of debt. As many people are doing right now, consider downgrading your lifestyle to live more simply, more cheaply and more responsibly.

5. Establish your own income - Along with reducing your debt, it’s important to establish your own income streams that can’t be taken away from you. The new, emerging direct sales companies continue to provide the best opportunities for that, and the two I’m participating in are Moxxor (www.NaturalNews.com/moxxor-information.html) and ShopToEarth. ShopToEarth is already growing rapidly as brick-and-mortar retailers go belly up and consumers shift their buying to online retailers. With ShopToEarth, you can earn commission checks as people shop online at hundreds of different retailers, including natural health companies. To learn more, email suzyk@naturalnews.com or call Suzy at 209-710-8299. If you’re on the East Coast, call Jonathan at 516-510-2204.

6. Have some long-term storable food - The Federal Reserve is right now taking credit for averting a total financial collapse in 2008. That’s interesting, because they never used those words during the event, only after. But they’re right about one thing: The world’s financial system very nearly did collapse in early October, 2008. What does all this have to do with food? If the financial situation gets worse in 2009, we could experience disruptions in the food supply (because the production and delivery of food requires a financial infrastructure to be working), and that means those who don’t have some stored food set aside could end up going hungry. (It’s the new national weight loss plan!)

7. Share a message of optimistic preparedness - Don’t be the only person on your block (or in your building) who’s prepared for the expected. The better prepared your neighbors are, the safer YOU are. So spread the word about basic preparedness, but don’t tell people the whole truth about what you suspect might be coming, or you’ll freak them out. Just talk about family preparedness and safety, and don’t use words like “collapse” or “starvation.” Remember, when you’re talking to mainstream Americans, you have to water it down to their level of ignorance, and most Americans still believe idiotic things like “the Federal Reserve is helping me!” or “the FDA is protecting me!” so you sort of have to talk to them within the frame of a belief system they can grasp.

8. Acquire basic preparedness items - Have you stored water yet? Do you have a dynamo flashlight? (The Freeplay brand is the best.) How about a supplemental source of heat? Do you have a cold-weather sleeping bag that’s portable? Do you have a good pair of shoes for hiking across town in mud or snow? Do you have a lighter? A good pocket knife? Topical antiseptics? Ceramic water filter? Dynamo-powered radio? If you didn’t answer YES to each of these questions, then you’re just begging to be victimized in 2009 by something: Natural disaster, power grid failure, social unrest, bank holidays, gas shortages, crop failures, earthquake or who knows what. By the way, I offer hundreds of suggestions and recommendations on all this in my audio course on health preparedness and financial protection. See http://www.truthpublishing.com/Health_Ranger_Live_p/live-cat21507.htm

9. Get your herbal medicine chest ready - Do you have a collection of herbs (or herbal products) to treat acute health conditions? Growing some aloe, peppermint, rosemary and cilantro can add significantly to your “live” medicine chest, and you can also supplement with dried bulk herbs from various sources. I also happen to stock my emergency medicine chest with a few over-the-counter drugs for emergency situations, including topical antibiotics, topical dental anesthetic, rubbing alcohol and a few other similar items. I would only use them as a last resort, of course, but it’s wise to have them available if needed for acute, emergency situations. If you have a friendly doctor, see if you can get a prescription of Cipro or other hard-core antibiotics, for emergency use only. They have a shelf life of several years.

10. Get your head straight! I see too many Americans on both extremes of the preparedness spectrum. On one side are the gullible sheeple who won’t prepare anything because they foolishly believe their government will protect them no matter what happens. (How quickly they forgot Hurricane Katrina, huh?) On the other extreme are the “Holy crap the world is going to end!” worriers who freak out and think they’re doomed. The world isn’t going to end, even if the United States of America as we know it does end in the coming years. Don’t freak out. Things will get better after this storm passes, so stay healthy, stay optimistic and simply be prepared to cover your basic needs from 2009 - 2012. At the very least, you’ll feel more confident. You might even save your own life.

Welcome to 2009!
2009 is here, and we don’t know exactly what it will bring, but we do know that those individuals who prepare for the unknown will have the best outcomes. If you want to have a brighter future for yourself and your family, then continue to make wise decisions about your health, your finances and your safety.

Remember: It’s the decisions you make today that will determine your experiences tomorrow. If you want to find yourself calm, assured and well protected through 2012, then follow the steps outlined here and get wisely prepared. However, if you prefer to lose your mind and panic, then just do nothing! Panic does not require planning.

By the way, panic is the path that has been chosen by more than 90% of the population. Through their denial of reality, their refusal to prepare for even minor disruptions in the complexity of modern society, and their outright abandonment of basic safety sense, they are practically begging — through their lack of action — to be harmed, starved or killed by unknown events in 2009 and beyond.

Remember this above all: No government will save you. FEMA is a joke. The National Guard is spread too thin. And there are far too many unprepared victims for any government to be able to handle them all. The only reason emergency services in society are able to operate today is because only a tiny fraction of a percent of the population ever needs them at any one time. Raise the number of desperate victims to just 2% of the population, and emergency services are instantly and utterly overwhelmed.

If you’re up for some reading, I strongly encourage you to read this book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond: COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed/dp/0143036556). This book focuses more on the environmental causes of collapse, but its lessons apply to all such “unintended disasters” unleashed by complex societies, including financial storms and food supply threats posed by monoculture practices.

That book will teach you a lot about the weaknesses in the complex supply chains of our modern society, from finance to manufacturing and agriculture.

Happy reading!

(NaturalNews) Why do some people get lung cancer , even if they never smoke? New research suggests eating a lot of processed foods containing inorganic phosphates could be the explanation. What’s more, the study also suggests that dietary changes to avoid these chemical additives may play an important role in lung cancer treatment.

In research just published in the January issue of American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society, scientists from Seoul National University conclude that a diet high in inorganic phosphates, which are found in a host of processed foods including meats, cheeses, beverages, and bakery products, might spur the growth of lung cancer. The researchers also suggest the food additive may contribute to the development of malignancies in people predisposed to lung cancer.

Myung-Haing Cho, D.V.M., Ph.D., and his colleagues studied mice with lung cancer tumors for four weeks. The rodents were randomly assigned to eat a diet of either 0.5 or 1.0 percent phosphate, a range roughly equivalent to what’s found in most modern human diets that contain processed foods. At the end of the study period, the animals’ lung tissues were analyzed to see what effects the inorganic phosphates had on tumors.

“Our results clearly demonstrated that the diet higher in inorganic phosphates caused an increase in the size of the tumors and stimulated growth of the tumors,” Dr. Cho said in a statement to the press. “Our study indicates that increased intake of inorganic phosphates strongly stimulates lung cancer development in mice, and suggests that dietary regulation of inorganic phosphates may be critical for lung cancer treatment as well as prevention.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer deaths worldwide. The American Thoracic Society points out that over 75 percent of lung cancers are small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) and have an average overall 35-year survival rate of only 14 percent. Previous research has shown that about 90 percent of NSCLC appear to be activated by specific signaling pathways in lung tissue. The new study by Dr. Cho and his research team found that high amounts of dietary inorganic phosphates actually stimulate those same cancer-triggering pathways.

In a statement to the media, John Heffner, M.D., past president of the American Thoracic Society, pointed out that this kind of research in animals can reveal the complex interactions between host factors and the environment that can result in human cancer. “We know that only some patients who smoke develop lung cancer but the reasons for this varying risk are unknown. This study now provides a rationale for funding case-control studies in humans to determine the potential role of dietary phosphates in promoting cancer,” Dr. Heffner stated.

While living organisms need a moderate level of phosphate, the use of inorganic phosphates as a food additive to increase water retention and improve food texture artificially has soared over the past decade. That means the average American diet is loaded with excess amounts of phosphates. “In the 1990s, phosphorous-containing food additives contributed an estimated 470 mg per day to the average daily adult diet. However, phosphates are currently being added much more frequently to a large number of processed foods, including meats, cheeses, beverages, and bakery products. As a result, depending on individual food choices, phosphorous intake could be increased by as much as 1000 mg per day,” Dr. Cho explained in the media statement.

“The results of this study suggest that dietary regulation of inorganic phosphates has a place in lung cancer treatment, and our eventual goal is to collect sufficient information to accurately assess the risk of these phosphates,” he said.

To read the original research article, see:
www.thoracic.org/sections/publications/press-releases/resources/cho010109.pdf

About the author
Sherry Baker is a widely published writer whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Health, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Yoga Journal, Optometry, Atlanta, Arthritis Today, Natural Healing Newsletter, OMNI, UCLA’s “Healthy Years” newsletter, Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s “Focus on Health Aging” newsletter, the Cleveland Clinic’s “Men’s Health Advisor” newsletter and many others.

(NaturalNews) Vaccinations are modern medicine’s most-favored form of quackery. Even while the bulk of the evidence shows vaccines and flu shots ultimately harm more people than they help, they continue to be pushed by doctors, drug companies and state health authorities. Now you can add pediatricians to that list.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, a group of drug-pushing doctors that claim to care for children, is now demanding that parents get their children injected with an annual flu shot vaccine — even for six-month-old babies! According to the new AAP guidelines, all children from six months to eighteen years old should receive an annual flu shot vaccine injection even though flu shots have been scientifically shown to be effective on only about one percent of those receiving them!

But here’s the most disturbing part: The AAP is now aggressively attacking anyone who suggests flu shot vaccines should be spaced apart or skipped altogether in order to reduce the vaccine burden on a child.

The cumulative toxic vaccine burden
With a child in the U.S. now receiving upwards of 130 different vaccines (many are combined into a single shot, so it’s not 130 shots), it only makes logical sense to wonder whether there’s such a thing as a cumulative toxic vaccine burden that might harm the health of a child. But the AAP apparently believes there’s no limit to the number of vaccines a child may be given. Even a six-month old infant may receive a thousand different vaccines as long as they are demanded by health authorities.

Any doctors or health authority who questions vaccines today is immediately branded a quack by the pro-drug, pro-chemical medical establishment, and vaccines have become the dividing issue that separates the medically insane from the sane. Those who push for mandatory vaccines (like HPV) and annual flu shots for infants are, of course, the insane “mad doctors” who think the human body is somehow deficient in viral DNA fragments and must be supplemented with any number of such injections in order to be healthy.

The agenda of the insane vaccine pushers is to literally criminalize all parents who object to vaccines and strip the medical licenses of any doctors who urge caution on vaccines. Importantly, they claim there is no room for debate on the issue of vaccines because they are so righteous in their vaccine wisdom that no reasonable person can even question the reasoning behind a child being injected with over a hundred vaccines.

Vaccine pushers have become irrational zealots
By taking this position, the pro-vaccine pushers have revealed themselves as irrational vaccine zealots who promote their chemical agenda not because it makes scientific sense, nor because it is medically justified, but rather because it is their demented way of dominating and controlling the population.

The pro-vaccine doctors have become a cult, and in this cult instead of sacrificing all your money and possessions, you sacrifice the health of your own children, turning them into modern medicine’s lab rats who are subjected to outrageous medical experiments. (Let’s face it: Injecting a child with 130+ vaccines is nothing less than a medical experiment.)

The frightening thing about this cult is that its power over the population is enforced at gunpoint. Try to resist the vaccination cult’s directives, and you may find yourself arrested at gunpoint, your children kidnapped by state health authorities (CPS) and you end up in jail, charged with neglecting your child’s health.

That’s no exaggeration: In states like Maryland, parents are already being threatened with imprisonment for failing to get their children vaccinated, and the vaccine cultist are pushing for mandatory vaccine laws throughout the nation.

The radicalization of the vaccine pushers
In attempting to criticize opposition to his fabricated war on Iraq, President Bush famously said, “You’re either with us, or you’re with the terrorists.” This extremist stance is now mirrored by the vaccine pushers who are essentially saying, “You either agree with us, or you’re a criminal.”

Such a position leaves zero room for thoughtful debate, eliminating the possibility of coherent discussion over possible health threats that might be posed by vaccines. It’s also a clear sign of the radicalization of the vaccine pushers who unfortunately seem to hold positions of high authority in modern society.

As the vaccine-pushing cult becomes more radicalized and even militarized (due to gunpoint enforcement, attack dogs at the Maryland courthouse vaccine enforcement event, etc.) it runs the risk of looking more and more like a home-grown terrorist group. It already shares many similarities with terrorist groups: The use of fear to promote its agenda, the use of chemical weapons that harm and kill civilians, the use of firearms and violent weapons to enforce its agenda, and the adoption of an intellectually-extremist position that declares all opponents to be criminals.

It’s true that medical violence against children is routinely tolerated in America today. There is no crime modern medicine can commit against children that’s outrageous enough to warrant an arrest of the medical authorities, apparently: They can poison children with chemicals, maim them with medically unnecessary surgery, destroy their brains with psychiatric drugs, burn their flesh with radiation treatments and obliterate their immune systems with chemotherapy, but as long as it’s approved by a doctor, nobody seems to question this violent medical abuse of a child.

And when angry parents try to fight the system by petitioning the government to end mandatory vaccine regulations, for example, they are immediately called “scientifically illiterate” and accused of neglect.

That’s the key to all this, of course: Any parent who objects to vaccines is effectively threatened with being arrested for daring to oppose the all-powerful medical authorities. It is through this blanket of fear that most parents are motivated to shut their mouths, take the shots and stop asking questions about things like autism.

Losing your freedoms AND your health
So what does it all really mean? It means pro-vaccine doctors are not only a threat to your child’s health, but also a threat to your freedoms! These vaccine-pushing health authorities aren’t running a public health campaign; they’re running a militant cult that declares all who oppose it to be criminals deserving arrest and imprisonment.

Like all such militant cults that rise to power, the vaccine pushers need to have their power checked before they become an even greater threat to the health and safety of families everywhere. This could be easily accomplished with the passage of health freedom laws that would establish the permanent right of parents to refuse to subject their children to chemical concoctions they object to.

The fact that we even have to consider new laws to protect such rights demonstrates just how much of a threat to health freedoms the vaccine pushers have already become. When governments and state-license health authorities are given the power to override the commonsense decisions of parents, the very fabric of freedom is beginning to fray.

Or, put another way, when parents who try to protect their own children from a dangerous accumulation of toxic chemicals are branded criminals and imprisoned, a dangerous threshold has been crossed that takes the entire nation further away from anything resembling freedom and a lot closer to a medical police state.

The future of militant medicine in America
If this militant vaccine agenda isn’t stopped, and if medical authorities are given even more state power over the People, it’s not hard to imagine a future where:

• Where chemotherapy is administered to children at gunpoint and those who resist are arrested.

• Where refusing to put a child on psychiatric drugs is considered justifiable grounds for mandatory psychiatric medication of the parents (in a mental institution, of course!).

• Where all information on the internet that challenges vaccines or pharmaceuticals is censored, and those who dare to publish it are arrested and “disappeared.” Imagine a Gitmo for bloggers…

• Where vaccine pushers demand an ever-increasing barrage of vaccines for all children, reaching a point of utter insanity where 1000 or more vaccines are injected into a six-month-old baby.

• Where feeding your child vitamins is considered a crime, and children are even “drug tested” for traces of vitamins, and those found to carry such traces are taken away from their parents by Child Protective Services.

Do these possibilities seem outlandish? The idea that parents could be arrested for refusing to subject their child to chemotherapy also seemed outlandish at one time, but now it’s a present-day reality. The idea that the State would send letters to thousands of parents, threatening them with jail time if they didn’t submit their children to a “vaccination processing line” at the local courthouse also once seemed outlandish. But now it’s an historical fact.

That something seems crazy has never been sufficient to prevent it from actually occurring, and the medical authorities seem willing to abandon human rights more quickly than just about any other group, including terrorist groups. Most terrorist groups, after all, tend to target adults (9/11, for example) while the vaccine pushers are targeting children. Terrorist groups also tend to target populations of other nations, while the vaccine pushers are targeting the children of their own countries.

This is not to say that vaccine-pushing doctors ARE terrorists, only that they use tactics and have embraced extremist views that are frighteningly similar to terrorists. Obviously, doctors don’t use bombs, fragmentation grenades and rocket launchers to harm people. They use chemical poisons, heavy metals and viral fragments instead.

Perhaps we should start referring to the act of receiving a vaccination injection as “being fragged.”