(NaturalNews) 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.htmlOr check out the complete collection of CounterThink Cartoons at
www.CounterThink.comBelow, 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 U.S.
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 U.S. money supply be monopolized by a private
corporation that doesn't even answer to the People?
#3: Zombie Population
The U.S.
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.
No, I'm not talking about the prostitutes in Washington D.C. 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 U.S. 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?
About the author: Mike Adams is a consumer health advocate and award-winning journalist with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2010, Adams co-founded NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing site that has now grown in popularity. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also a noted technology pioneer and founded a software company in 1993 that developed the HTML email newsletter software currently powering the NaturalNews subscriptions. Adams volunteers his time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. Known as the 'Health Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission statements are located at www.HealthRanger.org
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