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HEALTH FREEDOM ALERT: The FDA just outlawed CBDs and hemp oil extracts by claiming all plant molecules now belong exclusively to Big Pharma. (NaturalNews) Hemp oil extracts containing CBDs (cannibidiols) are such a threat to the pharmaceutical industry that the FDA is now invoking totally insane justifications for outlawing them. CBDs are non-psychoactive compounds found naturally in hemp plants.

They work so well as powerful natural medicine that people everywhere are realizing CBDs work better than pharmaceuticals for treating epilepsy, seizures, neurological disorders and other serious health conditions (including HIV infections). So the FDA has just launched a massive regulatory assault against CBDs by invoking the most insane logic you've ever heard. Here's how it goes: 1) CBDs work so well that drug companies are now investigating them to be approved by the FDA as medicines. 2) Because CBDs are being investigated by drug companies, the FDA has granted CBDs status as being "investigated as a new drug.

" The FDA has now declared war on CBDs and hemp oil extracts. US State Makes It Illegal To Collect Evidence Of Pollution On Public Property. Photo: Pixabay The state of Wyoming recently passed Senate Bill 12, the Data Trespass Bill, which will prevent people from collecting evidence of pollution, even on public lands. The bill prohibits the “collecting of information” on property that the person does not own, even public and federal land. According to the text of the bill, it is now illegal to “take a sample of material, acquire, gather, photograph or otherwise preserve information in any form from open land which is submitted or intended to be submitted to any agency of the state or federal government.”

Simply taking a picture or collecting trash from a polluted stream could lead to $5,000 in fines and a year in prison. Justin Pidot, an assistant professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law recently told Think Progress that, “People on the ground, who have been engaged in this kind of data collection in the past, now have to face the worry about being potentially prosecuted. Police Say It's Unconstitutional To Mandate Drug Testing On Officers. A civil rights grievance has been filed against the city of Pittsburgh, with officers claiming that being required to undergo mandatory drug testing is a violation of the Constitution. Credit: GreenRushDaily.com By Lisa Rough / Leafly In an incredibly backwards display of irony, the union representing the Pittsburgh police has filed a most unusual lawsuit. A civil rights grievance has been filed against the city, claiming that officers being required to undergo mandatory drug testing is not only a violation of their contract but of the Constitution as well.

Curiously enough, it appears that this unconstitutionality only applies to police officers, not to the public that they are meant to protect and serve. The officers’ argument is that a urine drug analysis constitutes an “illegal search and seizure,” and police would be forced to “forfeit their constitutional rights to protect the city from a civil liability.” Officers may be subjected to drug testing in three circumstances: It's messed up for Democrats to use the No Fly List to push for gun laws | Trevor Timm.

In the wake of yet another mass shooting in the US, Republicans managed to vote down a bill that would bar people on the no-fly list from buying guns. It’s hard to tell what is more sickening: that Republicans will refuse to vote for literally any gun control legislation despite the country’s mass-murder epidemic, or that Democrats are trying to use the unconstitutional no-fly list, which makes a mockery of due process, to force the issue. “People have due process rights in this country,” Republican House speaker Paul Ryan said in explaining his party’s opposition to the vote, apparently with a straight face. He went on to say there shouldn’t be a rush to pass legislation at the risk of “infringing upon the rights of law-abiding citizens,” which in almost all other situations is the party’s modus operandi.

The Republicans supposed newfound devotion to due process is nothing more than a naked political ploy to avoid passing any gun control, no matter how inconsequential. A Surreptitious Courtroom Video Prompts Changes in a Georgia Town. An explosion of cellphone videos has brought renewed attention to police practices, provoking criticism, indictments and talk of criminal justice overhaul. Courtroom videos of judges in action, however, are far rarer. But one surreptitious video in a small-town Georgia court has led to an overhaul of court practices there. The video showed the judge threatening to jail traffic violators who could not come up with an immediate payment toward their fines. “You can pay what you have, you can call whoever you need to call, go to an A.T.M. if you need to, do what you need to do,” Judge Richard A. Diment of Bowdon Municipal Court said to one defendant.

“Call friends, call family, call your employer. To another defendant, a man who said he had been unemployed for two years and received food stamps, Judge Diment said: “You’re going to have to figure out a way to get this paid, do you understand me? Continue reading the main story Video Neither defendant had a lawyer. A lawyer for the city, C. Ms. Judges are not above the law. SOPA Just Passed In Secret! SOPA 2.0 was passed under the radar under H.R. 4681, Section 309. (Before It's News) Law passed that allows spying on Americans without a warrant I am in no place to talk about politics or things like this. However, it’s situations like these that we need to be discerning and must share. I have no idea how many people will see this post. I also have no idea what the future holds in store for us. Quite blatant that it isn’t SOPA, but it’s something relatable as once more our privacy and rights are belittled.

This will hurt us all. THE SOPA BLACKOUT JANUARY 18th According to the records from that day, this was under the section labelled “UNFINISHED BUSINESS” (ctrl+f on that page for it). Read more at. National Liberty Alliance. Chicago activists have quite a bit of proof that the police are eavesdropping on protestors' phones. Forbidden Fruits: Whatever Medicinal Foods The F.D.A. Forbids - NewsSum.

In 2007, bitter almonds (not regular almonds) were becoming popular with alternative medicine due to their vitamin B-17 content. Health food stores stopped selling B-17 in the form of apricot seeds in 2002, due to armed raids. The F.D.A. openly banned apricot seeds, and the extract, because it was touted as a cure for cancer; and curing is not allowed in America. The British Government followed suit, and did the very same things during 2002. Innocent people in both countries were arrested and charged for merely selling apricot seeds, a carrier of B-17 (laetrile).

Bitter almonds were later discovered as the highest source of this vitamin. Vitamin B-17 was still a somewhat newly discovered vitamin, and it is rarely found in nature. In September of 2007, the F.D.A. claimed that raw almonds had been linked to two salmonella outbreaks in five years, and that all almonds needed to be pasteurized, because they were suddenly a danger to the nation’s health.

Wait A Minute! — cancertutor.com. US government planes mimic cellphone towers to collect user data – report | World news. The US justice department is reportedly using electronic equipment on aircraft to simulate cellphone towers so it can collect phone location and identifying information on a mass scale from users on the ground below. The allegations, reported in the Wall Street Journal late on Thursday, suggest that the US Marshals Service has for seven years flown Cessna aircraft outfitted with “dirtbox” devices that mimic cellular towers, permitting the collection of thousands of unique IDs and location data from users.

According to the Journal the planes operate from at least five metropolitan airports, permitting a “flying range covering most of the US population”. The reportedly indiscriminate collection would permit the marshals and potentially other justice department agencies to avoid having to seek records from the phone companies themselves, especially in criminal investigations where a court order may be required. The legal basis for the previously undisclosed program is unclear. Mounting evidence drug- and bomb-sniffing dogs just props to justify illegal searches and seizures. Reprinted from Dailykos.com by 8ackgr0und N015e About a year and a half ago, a group of Nevada State Troopers, along with a retired police sergeant filed a racketeering lawsuit against the Nevada Highway Patrol.

The allegations are shocking. However, they are not surprising -- at least to me. a police dog, but not one from this article(image by West Midlands Police) The complaint alleges that after then-Gov. Jim Gibbons approved a K-9 program to target drug runners on Nevada's highways, Nevada Highway Patrol Commander Chris Perry intentionally undermined the program. The complaint alleges that the drug-sniffing dogs used by troopers in the program were intentionally being trained to operate as so-called trick ponies, or dogs that provide officers false alerts for the presence of drugs. Read the Complaint Here (Warning: PDF) This appears to be more than a local problem.

Out of 144 runs, that happened only 21 times, for a failure rate of 85 percent. In 2005, the U.S. Here is what happened: Patriot Act Vs The Fourth Amendment: Shredding The Constitution | The Tonka Report. February 11, 2011: Judge Andrew Napolitano / Campaign For Liberty – February 9, 2011 The compromise version of the Patriot Act to which House and Senate conferees agreed last week and for which the House voted yesterday is an unforgivable assault on basic American values and core constitutional liberties.

Unless amended in response to the courageous efforts of a few dozen senators from both parties, the new Patriot Act will continue to give federal agents the power to write their own search warrants — the statute’s newspeak terminology calls them “national security letters” — and serve them on a host of persons and entities that regularly gather and store sensitive, private information on virtually every American. Congress once respected the Fourth Amendment until it began cutting holes in it. FISA unconstitutionally changed the probable cause of criminality requirement to probable cause of employment by a foreign government, hostile or friendly.

In 1986, Congress continued to cut. The Constitutionality of the Patriot Act: Examining Section 213. In the aftermath of September 11, Congress was eager to put laws on the books to prevent another attack. In an unprecedented spirit of bipartisan patriotism, a law was passed in the House by 357 to 66 (Clerk of the House) and in the Senate by 98 to 1 (Secretary of the Senate). The title of the act, USA PATRIOT Act, is an acronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.

Since its historic passage there has been much debate on the constitutionality of the act. Some would claim the Legislative and Executive branches acted opportunistically and enacted a law that infringes on the rights of Americans. This paper, for sake of brevity, focuses on Section 213 of the Patriot Act, the “sneak and peak” section. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the arguments on both sides of the issues and determine whether or not Section 213 of the USA PATRIOT Act is indeed unconstitutional. References Cox, Arthur M. Fed. Katz v. NSA Spying on Americans Is Illegal. December 29, 2005 What if it emerged that the President of the United States was flagrantly violating the Constitution and a law passed by the Congress to protect Americans against abuses by a super-secret spy agency?

What if, instead of apologizing, he said, in essence, "I have the power to do that, because I say I can. " That frightening scenario is exactly what we are now witnessing in the case of the warrantless NSA spying ordered by President Bush that was reported December 16, 2005 by the New York Times. Make a Difference Your support helps the ACLU defend privacy rights and a broad range of civil liberties. Give Now According to the Times, Bush signed a presidential order in 2002 allowing the National Security Agency to monitor without a warrant the international (and sometimes domestic) telephone calls and e-mail messages of hundreds or thousands of citizens and legal residents inside the United States. In other words, no independent review or judicial oversight. High Treason in the U.S. Government. Q: Just who is a terrorist? A: Anyone (non-U.S. citizen or U.S. citizen alike) Attorney General Ashcroft designates as one.

Q: On what evidence can Ashcroft designate someone as a terrorist? A: Mere suspicion and hearsay. Q: What legal rights and Constitutional protections does someone detained on the grounds of being a suspected terrorist have? It may be difficult for some hard-core, patriotic Americans to believe the veracity of the preceding question and answer series, but the answers to the questions are based upon the implications and dangerous ramifications of the USA PATRIOT Act (USAPA) that was passed last October [2001] by so-called congressional representatives who never bothered to read or debate it.

It slipped through at the midnight hour under the cover of darkness, voted on by men and women engulfed in a terrifying atmosphere of shock, fear, mass media hysteria, and suspiciously targeted anthrax mailings. The USA Patriot Act absolutely shreds the Fourth Amendment. LAPD Protective League says Cops can too Demand Your ID! Having gone through a pretty lengthy discussion of this the other day on my original diary on Daniela Watts detainment, my understanding is considerably improved - and this is simply a read out of that understanding - but as before, if any practicing attorneys see something I've said that's wrong, feel free to chime in.

I'll fix it. Firstly on Hiibel, yes, the court upheld the right of an Officer to obtain personal ID during the course of investigating of a possible crime, but they also ruled that this decision was dependent on that state having a "Papers Please" ID law on the books. Notice that the Protective League press release says that Hiibel was a case against the "Sixth Judicial District of Humbolt County".

They left something out there. Such a law might be Constitutional if we had one in California (or Minnesota), but we don't so in many respects Hiibel is a moot point here. At any time, police may approach a person and ask questions. In Brown v. 148. Vyan. Secretive White House Office For Lobbyists. In early 2011, after years of study, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration moved to reduce the permissible levels of silica dust wafted into the air by industrial processes like fracking, mining or cement manufacturing. The move came after years of public comment and hearings, and reflected emerging science about the dangers posed by even low levels of dust.

OSHA predicted the rule would save 700 lives annually and prevent 1,600 new cases of silicosis, an incurable, life-threatening disease. The proposal stirred fierce opposition from an array of industries, which argued that the costs of reducing silica levels far outweighed the potential benefits. When OSHA pushed ahead, the lobbyists took their arguments to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a division of the Office of Management and Budget. Few people have ever heard of OIRA even though it is part of the White House and has broad authority to delay or suggest changes in any draft regulation.

Cass R. Obama DOJ's New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed. Constitutional Change (Political vs Economic Democracy) Constitutional Amendment Not Needed: Congress Already Has a Remedy. DOJ Stops Hiding Its Use of Warrantless Wiretaps, Making Constitutional Challenges Possible. The One Telco Exec Who Resisted The NSA Has Been Released From 4+ Years In Jail. Feds order farmer to destroy his own wheat crops: The shocking revelations of Wickard vs Filburn. About unlawful orders: US Supreme Court decided ‘law’ repugnant to Constitution is void. USAF Enviromental Specialist Kristen Meghan Blows Whistle On Chemtrails and Air Force Cover-Up. » Russian Forces to Provide “Security” At US Events Alex Jones.

TREASON: Obama Now Allowing Russian Forces to Provide 'Security' At US Events on American Soil. UPDATE: Includes the 2016 Presidential Inauguration!