[A-List] America Today

[Bill Totten]

Medicated Drivers, Toxic Foods and Counterfeit Money Supply

by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor

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There are a great many reasons to love America. For one thing, Freedom
of Speech remains largely intact in the USA (although the FDA has
struck a serious blow to the principle with its ongoing censorship of
free speech about nutritional supplements). We also have a diverse
culture of people who are by and large friendly people. This was
brought home to me recently when I was traveling through the Gulf Coast
region, talking to people on the street about the BP oil spill.
Virtually everyone was friendly, and I found I could walk right up to
all sorts of people - from the country fisherman in Biloxi Mississippi
to the street-drumming entertainers in New Orleans - and they were all
happy to chat.

America offers a lot to be thankful for, but there are also some
serious problems that are eroding the very things that make America
great. Those problems are the subject of my most recent CounterThink
Cartoon called "America Today" which portrays six of the most serious
problems threatening America's future.

You can see the cartoon at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/028944_America_Federal_Reserve.html

Or check out the complete collection of CounterThink Cartoons at
www.CounterThink.com

Below, I explain each of these six big problems and why they threaten
the future of America as we know it.

#1: Medicated Drivers

This is one of the most widely ignored problems in America today: While
drunk drivers are widely condemned and incarcerated for taking the
wheel while inebriated, the epidemic of medicated drivers is largely
swept under the rug.

As much as one-third of all automobile accidents involve medicated
drivers, I learned from a police captain in Tucson, Arizona. The
aggregate harm caused by medicated drivers is now far worse than the
harm caused by drunk drivers. Police rarely test drivers for being
under the influence of medication even though many medications cause
impaired judgment, lengthened reaction times and a loss of hand-eye
coordination.

There is currently no national group focused on opposition to medicated
drivers, either. This is the big problem on America's roads that no one
is talking about (except NaturalNews and a handful of other
forward-thinking bloggers).

Remember: Popping pills and driving don't mix.

#2: Counterfeit Money Supply

By now, we all know that the Federal Reserve is counterfeiting the US
money supply by printing trillions of dollars (creating money out of
thin air) to bail out rich Wall Street banksters.

If you or I did this, we'd be arrested for counterfeiting. But when the
Fed does it, somehow it's all okay ... even though the Fed isn't even
part of the federal government! Ron Paul was right: Audit the Fed!
After all, why should the US money supply be monopolized by a private
corporation that doesn't even answer to the People?

#3: Zombie Population

The US population has abandoned critical thinking skills to such an
extent that even those people who manage to think just a little now
appear downright brilliant.

Rather than a nation of critical thinkers, we have largely become a
nation of zombie consumers who eat what they're told, buy what they're
told, vote how they're told and even believe what they're told rather
than thinking for themselves. The result is a fundamental shift towards
a "nanny state" where people want their government leaders to take
control of their lives rather than deciding things on their own.

This, of course, will only lead us to socialism ... the great refuge of
lazy minds.

#4: Washington Whores

No, I'm not talking about the prostitutes in Washington DC who are
probably running a more honest business than the metaphorical whores
who sit in our nation's capitol. They are the politicians who take
money from corporations to betray the People by favoring the
legislative interests of Big Business.

It's happening across the board, too, from Big Pharma and Big Tobacco
to agriculture, chemicals, food companies, oil firms and defense
contractors. All the biggest industries have managed to tilt our
elected representatives in their direction, abandoning the needs of the
people they claim to represent.

#5: Gunpoint Medicine

If you are a parent in America, it is illegal to refuse to participate
in the sick-care system of toxic western medicine. When parents try to
protect their children from toxic chemotherapy drugs or vaccines, they
are threatened with arrest and imprisonment. Child Protective Services
steps in and threatens to steal their children away, and court Judges
order parents to subject their children to these toxic therapies or
flee and become fugitives from the law. (I've documented much of this
here on NaturalNews. Just search the website for stories on these
topics if you want to learn more.)

It all makes you wonder: How bad does western medicine have to become
if it has to force compliance at gunpoint? What kind of system of
healing subjects people to the tyranny we're seeing right now in
America's "sick care" system? The answer is obvious: Western medicine
doesn't work, and as more people walk away from it, the State is
increasingly forcing people to subject themselves to its rule as a way
to mandate compliance for increased corporate profits.

#6: Toxic Food Supply

I've been writing about the toxic food supply since 2003, when my first
book Grocery Warning was introduced. (And many people before me were
writing about it for decades.) Now, all of a sudden, the mainstream
media has become aware of the issue (which is a good thing) and even
CNN is running reports about the toxicity of BPA, the "plastics"
chemical.

It won't take too many more years before even mainstream scientists
attack chemicals in the food supply in much the same way they once went
after Big Tobacco. It doesn't take much thought to realize that if you
want to support a healthy population, there's no room in the food
supply for toxic synthetic chemicals that disrupt hormones, promote
cancer and interfere with normal physiological function.

The real surprise will come when scientists one day realize that
virtually the entire food supply is filled with toxic chemicals like
MSG, aspartame, artificial colors, whiteners and flow agents. Mark my
words: They will look back on 2010 in utter shock at how clueless our
modern civilization was for feeding ourselves such poisons. (Echoes of
the Roman Empire's lead poisoning come to mind ...)

Beyond the Six: Pharmaceutical pollution of the waterways and more ...

While these six problems certainly present major threats to the future
of life in America, there are many other threats that didn't make it
into this particular CounterThink Cartoon.

In particular, there's the pharmaceutical pollution of our waterways
caused by drug factories dumping billions of doses of drugs down the
drain. This situation is now so bad that the fish near all major US
cities are intoxicated with pharmaceutical chemicals.

We've also got other major problems with the political leadership of
this country such as the erosion of personal virtue and the
prioritizing of selfish gain over the common good. Virtually every
elected representative in Washington now focuses most of their effort
on staying in power rather than achieving practical advancements for
the people who elected them to office.

Without question, America has lost much of what first made it great.
But with conscious effort, it can regain its greatness.

I believe the American people have the spirit and the resources to halt
the downfall of their country. The question remains, however: Will they
choose to turn things around? Or will they instead settle for the path
of comfortable degradation?

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Mike Adams is an award-winning natural health author with a strong
interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to
help us all heal. He is a prolific writer and has published thousands
of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, reaching millions
of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal
health around the world. Adams is an independent journalist with strong
ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or
company. He is the writer and singer of 'I Want My Bailout Money',
'Don't Inject Me' and other popular hip-hop songs on socially-conscious
topics. He's also a noted technology pioneer and founded a software
company in 1993 that developed the HTML email newsletter software {1}
currently powering the NaturalNews subscriptions. Adams volunteers his
time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center
{2}, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and practices nature
photography, Capoeira, Pilates and organic gardening. Known on the 'net
as 'the Health Ranger,' Adams shares his ethics, mission statements and
personal health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org.

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