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United States fails national IQ test

Wednesday, November 03, 2004
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: Bush Administration, political news, U.S. population


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As an American, I am embarrassed to report that my fellow citizens have failed the national IQ test. They have chosen to re-elect a champion of fear and distortion, and in doing so, have sent a message to all future presidential candidates that fear and aggression make far more effective political slogans than peace and prosperity.

The American people have, in essence, given the Bush Administration two thumbs up on its policy of invading foreign countries with no justification, spending more on war and destruction than on education, and lying to the American people while simultaneously stripping away their civil liberties. Yet, astoundingly, half the country just can't get enough of this treatment. They want more wars, fewer civil liberties, more spending on missiles and bombs, and practically no focus on the issues that really matter day to day such as health care, education and the national debt.

I have no explanation for this other than the realization that half my fellow American citizens have been utterly hoodwinked. Or, to be more precise, fifty-one percent. The minds of Americans are easily shaped by policies of fear, it seems. If you scare the people enough, they'll vote for anybody. Even for Bush. And even if the rationale for war makes no sense whatsoever.

It is difficult to observe this outcome and not come to the conclusion that our Democracy has failed. The viability of a Democracy depends upon the education of its people and their ability to intelligently sort out right from wrong, truth from lies, and genuine moral character from false values. Yet no such intelligence has been sighted anywhere near the 51% who voted for Bush. Rather, what we've seen is a fear-driven vote, championed by a delusional man who claims to be performing "the work of God."

More specifically, we've seen Bush-supporting Americans follow in the frightening footsteps of Nazi supporters in 1939. They proudly display the same bumper stickers and slogans: "American pride / German pride." They believe in the same destruction of their own civil liberties as part of the process for creating freedom. And they rest their arguments on similar distortions in logic: "War is peace. We can only defend our country by invading foreign nations before they attack us first."

Intelligent, educated people don't subscribe to these beliefs. An educated population would only choose war as a last resort. An educated population would recognize that Bush himself flatly does not have the mental capacity to lead a nation. An educated population would have realized long ago that the war on Iraq has nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11, and therefore was obviously drummed up to invoke the fervor of patriotism that tends to get power-hungry politicians re-elected, regardless of the historical era in question.

But, alas, we are not an educated population. Of no fault to the dedicated teachers who genuinely try to make a difference, we are nevertheless a nation of high-school dropouts, grain farmers, paper-pushers, McDonalds workers, ethically-impaired business owners, prescription drug quacks, and propaganda artists parading as reporters on networks like Fox News. We are a nation of fabricated financial wealth that is utterly lacking in the wealths of the soul: humility, forgiveness, creativity, honesty, respect for nature, and recognition of the value of a human life, just to name a few.

By any measure, we are a nation without a soul. In time, that void will be matched by the financial collapse of a government so deeply in debt that no candidate dare mention the issue. No voter wants to hear the cold fact that every man, woman and child in the U.S. owes more than $25,000 to foreign investors who keep the U.S. economy running on financial fumes. The national debt has become the black sheep issue that both candidates agreed to avoid. Thus, the debate topics like Iraq served primarily as diversions to prevent the population from realizing that our own nation's financial foundation is rapidly deteriorating. After all, what does $125 billion in spending on a foreign war really do for you when you can't pay rent or feed your family next week?

In his latest video tirade, Osama Bin Laden threatened to bankrupt the United States. Tonight, he must be smirking, because president Bush has done the job for him. The U.S. is bankrupt, folks, and it is bankrupt in every way a nation can be: morally, financially and spiritually.

And now, the majority of the American people have told the world they just can't get enough of this treatment. We want more. Citizens of the international community -- people from Canada, Germany, France, Hong Kong, New Zealand and other nations -- are right now thinking the United States has gone mad. And they're largely correct.

It only seems justified, I suppose, that in this moment of gloom, our population has chosen to be led even further into the void by a President who is, himself, morally and spiritually bankrupt. Remember, the voters always get the government they deserve.

Well, folks. Ya got Bush.


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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.

Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

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