(NaturalNews) We don't normally toot our own horn here at NaturalNews, but with your help over the last year, we have achieved some remarkable victories and contributed strongly to key battles for freedom, liberty, healthy living and nutritional awareness. We even helped several people
stay out of jail!Here are the key milestones NaturalNews reached in 2011. Thank you for all your support, without which none of this would have been possible.
You can also watch my year-end video update
from the new NaturalNews video studio that's now up and running!
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8347202B6696B2A24CD6D1A6F01CB1C0Top NaturalNews achievements of 2011
• Julie Bass, the Michigan home gardener, saw all charges against her dropped after NaturalNews and InfoWars publicized the story. Today she is free, and she continues to teach her children how to grow tomatoes and cucumbers in their home garden.
http://www.naturalnews.com/033175_Julie_Bass_Oak_Park.html• All charges dropped against Maryanne Godboldo: This Detroit mom was targeted by a Detroit SWAT team in a 12-hour standoff after she refused to let the state kidnap her daughter over a disagree about psychiatric drugs. Following enormous public protest (and lots of coverage on NaturalNews and across the alternative media), all charges were dropped against Maryanne and her daughter was returned to her custody.
http://www.naturalnews.com/033466_Maryanne_Godboldo_justice.html• Huge awareness about Rawesome Foods raid and the California government's frame-up of Organic Pastures -
NaturalNews broke the story about Rawesome Foods this year, releasing key information and photos from the raids, directly from our contacts on the ground there. Thanks to public pressure, awareness about government tyranny against food freedom has now skyrocketed, and more and more people all across the country now realize
big government is the enemy of freedom. California's government in particular is run by power-hungry, ego-tripping maniacs who actually spent millions of dollars in taxpayer money to engage in a
secret spying campaign against a wholesome milk food distribution center.
As the
Health Ranger, I also publicized this story with Alex Jones at InfoWars, as well as RT America and other news organizations.
http://www.naturalnews.com/033220_Rawesome_Foods_armed_raids.htmlhttp://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=434AE3423DDC482ECD1938C8DD15398ATraffic approaching 4 million unique visitors a month
• NaturalNews traffic grows well beyond
3 million unique visitors a month. In fact, we've now achieved 3.8 million unique visitors a month, according to Google Analytics. Our email list is rapidly growing, and our reach is expanding by the day. We don't artificially inflate our numbers, either, by buying traffic, or buying links... heck, we don't even advertise! This traffic is
100% organic word-of-mouth traffic from people like you who have a genuine interest in what we publish. Thank you for spreading the word about NaturalNews!
• Over 18,000 websites are now linking in to NaturalNews, helping it achieve the highest Facebook activity rating of any
natural health website in the world. In terms of raw traffic, we've achieved the top 1,133rd website in the USA, according to Alexa (this number jumps around a lot, but that's what it was when I last checked).
• Our video site, NaturalNews.TV, has grown to become
the largest natural health video website in the world, now serving up over 1 million video views a month. (And don't I know it every time we get the bill for the bandwidth...)
• NaturalNews also helped raise over $30,000 for Jeffrey Smith's IRT (fighting against GMOs), and we will continue to support the GMO labeling petition drive in California. Our non-profit Consumer Wellness Center also awarded
thousands of dollars in nutrition education grant money to help women and children learn more about nutrition:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034449_Consumer_Wellness_Center_nutrition_...Health Ranger releases key videos and documentaries
• My Food Investigations documentary about
fake blueberries in foods and cereals went super viral across the 'net in 2011, achieving
1.9 million views on NaturalNews.TV alone (not to even count YouTube views). Watch it now at:
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=7EC06D27B1A945BE85E7DA8483025962• In terms of videos this year, we also launched the Vitamin Water deception video which is gaining some traction on the 'net:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033390_Vitamin_Water_deception.html• We also hit hard with the popular "Fluoride Deception" video that teaches people where fluoride really comes from (hint: It's a toxic waste chemical):
http://www.naturalnews.com/031547_fluoride_industrial_waste.htmlhttp://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=42652E035A1B1BAAAE1F340B54694975• Plus, we put out a mini-documentary called "The God Within." Part 2 still hasn't been posted, by the way, as we got sidetracked with other projects (aww, heck!)
http://www.naturalnews.com/032359_The_God_Within_documentary.html• And just in time for the 2012 election run-up, we also launched a very intelligent cultural analysis video called "Freetopia"
http://www.naturalnews.com/033640_Freetopia_fable.htmlNew websites and a radio network!
• In terms of new website ventures, we launched AlternativeNews.com in 2011, which is growing each day in popularity as a place where you can find all the top headlines from across the 'net, all in one place:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033652_alternative_news_headlines.htmlwww.AlternativeNews.com• The
NaturalNews Radio Network launched in early
2011, featuring Robert Scott Bell, who interviewed amazing guests like Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Jesse Ventura and many other top-notch people. His listenership exploded to
300,000 listeners a month today, and it's still growing! Check out the entire RSB Show archives, where you can download all these great interviews as MP3 files:
http://naturalnewsradio.com/Archive-RobertScottBell.aspRobert also interviewed Suzanne Somers about natural therapies for treating cancer:
http://www.naturalnews.com/031576_Suzanne_Somers_alternative_medicine...Also, listen to the Robert Scott Bell Show each weekday at:
www.naturalnewsradio.com• On the product side of things, we also launched our line of
Storable Organics -- organic superfoods for long-term preparedness:
http://www.naturalnews.com/032331_storable_organics_preparedness.htmlwww.StorableOrganics.comHard-hitting articles and tools for awakening
• 2011 also saw NaturalNews launch a very popular "awakening" tool called the "Sheeple Quiz"
http://www.naturalnews.com/032415_sheeple_quiz.html• We also put out an extremely popular food report called "25 Amazing Facts About Food"
http://www.naturalnews.com/032646_amazing_facts_food.html• In addition to exposing the Adya Clarity fraud in 2011, we also exposed the
Acai marketing fraud scam which the FTC targeted for lawsuits that have already achieved huge fines and criminal prosecutions:
http://www.naturalnews.com/031280_acai_berries_scam.html• Also this last year, we openly challenged critics of homeopathy to drink their own toxic chemotherapy medicine, which they refused to do because
they know their medicine is poison!http://www.naturalnews.com/031297_homeopathy_overdose.htmlImportant knowledge programs released under new content website
• In 2011, we launched the new Webseed.com website, which features the "premium" (paid) content on NaturalNews.TV. These are paid content courses, downloadable video seminars, audio programs and other media for self improvement and other topics. You can find all these at:
http://premium.naturalnews.tv/premiumindex.asp• In early 2011, I worked with Robert Scott Bell to launch both a financial preparedness program and a food preparedness program, all under the Webseed content system:
http://www.naturalnews.com/031548_financial_preparedness.htmlhttp://premium.naturalnews.tv/Be_Prepared_Food_Security.htm• In 2011, I also launched my new music personality, "Amethios," and launched my first song under that new name. It's called "We're Doin' Alright." Watch the music video or download the song at:
www.Amethios.comhttp://www.naturalnews.com/033350_Amethios_music.htmlGiving thanks where it's due
None of this could have been possible without your help! YOU, the NaturalNews readers, are the primary force behind everything we do. We work our butts off to keep you informed, entertained and free. So thank you for all your support, and please keep linking to us, sharing our stories, sending out tweets and Facebook posts, etc. Every time you share a NaturalNews story, you help us expand our reach and awaken more people to a powerful message about truth, liberty and lasting health.
I want to thank all the allies who have helped NaturalNews succeed this year, including Gary Null, Alex Jones, George Noory (Coast to Coast), and all the radio show hosts, authors and advocates who promote our work.
Jim Marrs also earns my thanks for his outstanding work on his various books, one of which we named the "Book of the Year" for 2011:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033509_Jim_Marrs_Trillion_Dollar_Conspirac...I especially want to thank Ethan Huff, Sherry Baker, Tara Green, JD Heyes, PF Louis, Jonathan Benson, and all the other key writers for NaturalNews who covered breaking news all year long. We couldn't have done it without you, and your work is greatly appreciated. Thanks are also due to the
contributing writers who submit their stories, including Dr. David Jockers, Anthony Gucciardi, Paul Fassa, JB Bardot, Elizabeth Walling, John Phillip, Dana Ullman and many others.
I personally want to thank all the liberty lovers out there, whether it's left-leaning OWS protesters who took to the streets, or right-leaning patriots who fight for the restoration of the U.S. Constitution,
liberty is our key to victory against tyrants, and we must continue this effort in 2012 and beyond. If you want health freedom, you must have A Bill of Rights (and civil liberties) as a prerequisite! This necessitates revoking the power that Big Government has now abused and turned against the People.
All power begins within the People and is only
granted to government for specific, limited purposes. When a government steps outside the bounds of the limited powers granted to it,
it is our DUTY to take steps to revoke that power and shrink government back down to a controllable beast (rather than the uncontrollable monster it has become). This is why Ron Paul is the man we need in 2012. NaturalNews will continue to support his efforts to gain power so that he can
strip that power down to size.
Thank you all for a great year in 2011, and 2012 looks to be even more exciting!
Watch my year-end video (filmed from our new studio) for even more details:
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8347202B6696B2A24CD6D1A6F01CB1C0
About the author: Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist 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, and he has published numerous courses on preparedness and survival, including financial preparedness, emergency food supplies, urban survival and tactical self-defense. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In mid 2010, Adams produced TV.NaturalNews.com, a natural health video sharing website offering user-generated videos on nutrition, green living, fitness and more. He also launched an online retailer of environmentally-friendly products (BetterLifeGoods.com) and uses a portion of its profits to help fund non-profit endeavors. He's also a successful software entrepreneur, having founded a well known email marketing software company whose technology currently powers the NaturalNews email newsletters. Adams volunteers his time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and pursues hobbies such as martial arts, Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds. Known by his callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his missions statements, health statistics and health photos at www.HealthRanger.org
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