[From HALC member Laura B]
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By: Allen Darman

http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com

Introduction

Alternative medicine clearly has won the battle of truth about healing on the Internet during the past ten years.

So much has changed regarding alternative medicine on the Internet in the past decade. Its presence has exploded exponentially. And so has its depth of healing knowledge. (It has found many cures, when none existed before.)

Alternative medicine has “trumped” conventional drug-oriented medicine in the past decade, as far as the truth is concerned. If you perform a “simple linking search” on the Internet typing in whatever illness you may have, and precede it with the words “alternative medicine” or “integrative medicine” (without the quote marks), and then compare what you find to what conventional medicine has to offer for the very same illness, the aforementioned fact will often be clear.

Does this mean that alternative medicine is going to replace conventional drug-oriented medicine in a very big way, as it justifiably should?

Not necessarily.

It is up to the law.

Alternative vs. Governmental Medicine

Federal law in America favors ONLY conventional drug-oriented medicine at this point. (“Governmental medicine” is the appropriate term for the latter. Governmental medicine and conventional drug-oriented are synonymous, for the former mandates the latter.) 

Federal law does so with its ridiculous FDA mandate that states “ONLY A DRUG can prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure ALL disease”. (Based on reality, this is nuts!)

In taking the above position, federal law is also mandating the reverse; NO NUTRIENT, NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT, ***OR*** NATURAL MEASURE is allowed to prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure ANY disease”. (Based on reality, this is nuts!)

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Related reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111300b.htm
http://www.texaswatchdog.org/2010/08/threealarm-fire-destroys-nearly-all-of-harris-countys/1282942989.column
http://rangevoting.org/VotSystMap.html

I’ll give you one guess who’s out in front in this “unofficial poll”:  http://polldaddy.com/poll/3674408/

Jason Chen: Gizmodo

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just decided that it was legal for the police to put a GPS tracking device on your car, sitting in your driveway, on your property. Here’s how to protect yourself.

Matt’s post about the decision explains in depth about the ruling. To quickly summarize, the supreme court had said before that police can look through things that anyone in the public could come across, meaning, your driveway is freely accessible to the public, hence, the cops can look through it. The 9th circuit court now says that cops can shove a GPS locator onto your car, because the area is publicly accessible and you have no reasonable expectation of privacy there. Then said cops can use the GPS track you. Without a warrant.

(Updated above text to improve clarity.)

How do you stop this without combing over the underside—or perhaps even inside—of your car and finding the GPS tracker? With technology. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s okay for the government to plant a GPS tracker on the car parked in your driveway, tracking everywhere you go. It doesn’t violate your rights, at all—according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers California, Arizona, Oregon and a bunch of the western US, has ruled that the government did nothing wrong when the DEA planted a GPS tracking device on Juan Pineda-Moreno’s Jeep, which was parked in his driveway—without a search warrant. The underpinning for the ruling is that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in your driveway—unless you’re loaded and it’s kept safe, hidden from the outside world by gates or other security measures—and you have no reasonable expectation not to be tracked by the government.

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By BRADLEY OLSON – HOUSTON CHRONICLE

A petition to ban red light cameras in Houston has been certified by the city secretary, making it all but certain that voters will decide in November whether the 70 devices at intersections across the city will be taken down.

“This is a great day for Houston,” said Michael Kubosh, one of three brothers that collected more than 20,000 signatures required to get the proposed charter amendment on the ballot in this election cycle. “People just need a right to vote, that’s all we’re saying. Now the citizens will have a chance to decide.”

Jim McGrath, a spokesman for Keep Houston Safe, a political action committee advocating the cameras, said the petition is illegal and represents an abuse of the city charter amendment process. He noted that Paul Kubosh, another brother behind the petition, is a lawyer who specializes in defending traffic ticket recipients and has a business interest in the outcome of the election.

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Four people, including liberty-minded patriots Chanda Seymour (of We Are Change-Austin), John Bush (Director of Texans for Accountable Government), environmentalist activist Robin Schneider (Texas Environment Organization), and Dan McCarthy (a 22-year-old Texas State University student, running for mayor of San Marcos) were arrested on August 9th by UT-Austin Police Department.  The individuals were charged with their various “crimes” by Austin Police Department, as that is the handling law enforcement agency in the area with the jail facility.  Their “crimes” ranged from exercising their rights of free speech and peaceful assembly at the Obama event at UT’s Austin campus ["criminal tresspass", Ms. Seymour and Mr. Bush], to collecting ballot signatures for a petition [Ms Schneider], to walking on a public sidewalk and not stopping when ordered by Austin PD University of Texas Police Department to do so [Mr. McCarthy]!

Contact University of Texas Police Department @  512-471-4441.  Let them know what you think of them violating the First Amendment.

photo by Jay Janner/AMERICAN-STATESMAN

Here are videos of the arrests….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gr1BIDi97M&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP3kJwjG0RE&feature=player_embedded

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Social Security, with its ‘trust fund’ filled with Treasury IOUs, is in serious fiscal trouble, but you wouldn’t guess it from stories by the mainstream news media. Reporters and columnists have downplayed the program’s budget shortfall and claimed that fixing the broken system would be a “snap.”
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[From the Business & Media Institute, original article here]

Social Security with its ‘trust fund’ of IOUs is in serious fiscal trouble, but you wouldn’t guess it from the mainstream news media.

This is a historic year for the largest government program: Social Security, which turns 75 in just a few days. The program is also running a deficit for the first time since 1983, and ahead of estimates.

Initially, Social Security was created to provide supplemental income to elderly and disabled people who could not work, and was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt Aug. 14, 1935.

Social Security is in the red six years earlier than forecasted, and for the first time since 1983 (the last time the program was “fixed”). Downplaying the significance of the problem, The New York Times reported March 24, that the program is facing a “small” $29 billion shortfall this year because the high 9.5 percent unemployment rate is cutting into payroll tax collections that fund the program’s benefits. Oh, and because there isn’t actually a trust fund with all the money previously collected by people paying into the system.

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[From Pat, on The We Texans-Austin Meetup Group, Original article here]

Gateway Pundit Lists 70 Socialists in the Democrats’ Ranks

The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus.

This admission was recently posted on Scribd.com:

American Socialist Voter–
Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?
A: Seventy

Q: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?
A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez, Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].

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