And it comes with excellent timing . On the same day Rand Paul introduces his bill protecting Americans from drones, the Drudge Report breaks news that for the first time ever, the United States Attorney General has admitted to the murder of 4 Americans by Federal Drones in a letter to Congress.

Congress must be vigilant in providing oversight to the use of drone technology. I will always fight to protect and uphold our 4th Amendment

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) May 22, 2013

The use of drone surveillance may work on the battlefields overseas, but it isn’t well-suited for unrestrained use on the streets in the US.

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) May 22, 2013

Senator Paul is  known for uniting civil rights activists against the domestic spy state, massive Rights violations, and executive overreach. In March, Senator Paul captivated the nation by carrying out a 13 hour filibuster and speech (with other Senators) to ignite national protest against the Obama administrations use of drones to kill Americans in secret, without due process, and without Constitutional authority.

Despite March’s nationwide outcry against federal drone tyranny, the obama administration refused to answer any of Senator Paul’s questions on the executive decision to self-authorize killing Americans without trial or jury, and completely disregarded the seriousness of the crimes in congressional hearings

Yet, two months later, Congress has received a letter admitting to the killings of Americans from Attorney Geenral Eric Holder.

So what has changed? Obama’s current IRS targeting and journalist-criminalization scandals have significantly polarized Americans against the executive presidency and BIG government.

Would writing an admittance of impeachable acts while Americans are distracted with the IRS targeting, whistleblower trials, and free speech criminalization help the obama administration? Did the Feds ignore demands for information on the Unconstitutional executive-ordered hits on Americans, only to respond when they could be least noticed?  

Senator Paul is wasting no time  on the agenda behind today’s letter-trick  because  it’s the same agenda behind what he stood against in the filibuster: tyranny. Paul has called upon Americans to respond to the letter with his legislation preserving Rights from unwarranted surveillance and and placing overdue limits on federal power.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[Beginning of Senator Rand Paul's March filibuster against drones]

According to the legislative text and official announcement of Paul’s bill to limit government drones, the 2013 Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act takes on drone tyranny and the federal spy state by:

• Forcing law enforcement to obtain a warrant from a judge before dispatching drones to fly over our property
• Prohibiting Federal Drones being used unless explicit warrant exists
• Forbidding the use of evidence illegally obtained by warrantless drone flights from being used in any criminal, civil or regulatory action.
• Permitting citizens to sue the government for any violations of this act
• Providing exceptions for patrolling the border, to act in the case of imminent danger to human life or high risk of a terrorist attack

This legislation is clearly needed; taking a very quick search into the government’s expansion of drone usage, we see drones are being armed with fatal weapons by police departments, being used by agencies like the EPA and FDA to spy and collect information on farms, private companies, and private citizen’s property.  And as of today, the highest violation is what the obama administration can finally admit, federal drones have been used to kill four Americans without due process, solely upon the order of the president. 

The approval of domestic drone use means the approval of a domestic surveillance state, and the approval of an executive kill list that uses drones instead of trials to serve “justice”.

Silence on this issue is the approval of government drones spying and storing information while flying over neighborhoods, schools, and cities, and keeping that information indefinitely. It is the approval of drones collecting information without warrant, and using that information to imprison and police innocent Americans.

Silence on this issue is the approval of drones to be armed and carry the capability to physically harm, paralyze, and even kill an America, or four, without a trial, and without justice.

Senator Rand Paul’s Legislation demands restriction on the gross violation of Rights being committed by federal agencies and their drones, and  is an announcement that Americans will not allow their Natural Rights to be vetoed by an executive branch that believes killing Americans is nothing to answer for.

Once again, it’s time to Stand with Rand against drones, and for Natural Rights. 

Ahmed Serag

This is the case in the Arizona Obamacare – Brewercare compromise, which has ignited Conservatives against the Republican governor after her support of AZ SB 1492-the Arizona debt expansion for medicaid & obamacare- fueled Thursday’s Senate approval & legislative advance to the Arizona house.

Thanks to the Campaign for Liberty’s swift action in the Arizona Obamacare fight, Senator Bigg’s support of Brewer’s compromise was reversed after grassroots pressure; despite SB 1492′s passage and the betrayal of 6 Republican Senators, who voted to pass:

• Rich Crandall LD 16, rcrandall@azleg.gov, 602-926-3020 
• Adam Driggs LD 28, adriggs@azleg.gov, 602-926-3016
• John McComish LD 18, jmccomish@azleg.gov , 602-926-5898
• Steve Pierce LD 1, spierce@azleg.gov,  602-926-5584
• Michelle Reagan LD 23, mreagan@azleg.gov , 602-926-5828
• Bob Worsley LD 25, bworsley@azleg.gov , 602-926-5760

“All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is surrender. For it is all give and no take.” -Gandhi

Arizona’s Republican outcry hasn’t scared Gov. Brewer enough yet according to Liberty organizations and Senate insiders who claim Brewer has threatened to veto every bill until Brewercare & Arizona Obamacare are passed.

As aforementioned, this is a common Brewer-tactic and is to be taken seriously, recent evidence:

1. Arizona Gold Silver Bill VETOED BY BREWER after passing house, senate 
2. Arizona NDAA Nullification Fight Renewed After Brewer Vetoes

Brewer has betrayed Arizona Republicans, Goldwater Conservatives, & trusting Libertarians too many times. Her latest dictatorial threat is clear tyranny, and should be met with local protest and national exposure.

Thanks again to the Campaign for Liberty, which further points out about Arizona Obamacare & Brewer’s debt expansion with SB 1492:

“According to a study released by Dr. C.L. Gray, MD of Physicians for Reform:

-Medicaids under-reimbursement will lead to poorer quality of service, longer wait times, difficulty in finding a physician 

-Medicaid’s poort outcomes will fuel public unrest as programs expand

-Washington’s reduction of the Federal Matching Assistance Program will saddle states with more Medicaid expenses and debt, causing state budget’s to fail

-Not only will Medicaid Expansion bankrupt our state, studies show that patient outcomes for Medicaid recipients are worse than having no insurance at all

What to Do:

Today’s Teaparty protests around the nation will be the perfect opportunity to  oppose the IRS selectively and actively targeting patriots,  IRS obamacare enforcement, and support obamacare nullification & resistance -like that occurring in Arizona.

This atmosphere of executive pressure, executive dictates, & executive tyranny, sustained by Obama and governors like Brewer, will only lead to the unjust taxation, criminalization, bankruptcy of already suffering Americans, and the further violation of Natural Rights enumerated in the Constitution for the United States.

STAND AGAINST EXECUTIVE TYRANNY – NULLIFY OBAMACARE – STOP BREWERCARE:

-CALL GOVERNOR BREWER TO STAND DOWN ON HER THREAT AGAINST ARIZONA: (602) 542-4331

-CALL THE ARIZONA HOUSE TO OPPOSE SB 1492 – BREWERCARE – ARIZONA OBAMACARE (full contact list in link) 

-SUPPORT HB 2352 – ARIZONA OBAMACARE NULLIFICATION BILL – TELL YOUR REPS

-SHARE THE INFO EVERYWHERE  & HELP ARIZONA JOIN THE OBAMACARE NULLIFICATION MOVEMENT! 

Ahmed Serag

Click here to view the embedded video.

[An agreement with these 12 seconds, not the BIG gov. programs]

[Update Below]

237 years after a few brave individuals decided that risking everything they had-including their lives- was a necessary cost for their Liberty from a tyrannical state, and once again:

Your plants are illegal; your food is becoming or is already illegal; your Right to protect yourself is being threatened and illegal in areas around the country; your property is taxed, is being registered, and can be seized for a list of reasons according to the list of federal agencies; your money is inflated and taxed; your secrets are spied upon, stored, and seized; your beliefs are regulated and threatened; and what you do in the bedroom is the government’s business, not yours.

You are told not to worry, because a Judge must be called before a warrant is issued, unless a Judge isn’t called, in which case your request for a warrant is suspicion enough to not need one. Maybe your Right to a trial, or your Right to a jury will serve necessary justice, unless Judges are ignored, and juries skipped because of the nature of your crime – practicing your Rights in violation of a federal government.

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent” -Thomas Jefferson

Yesterday, May 18th, a veteran and radio show host, Adam Kokesh, was illegally imprisoned at a protest utilizing the Right of nullification - the Right to disobey unjust laws & unjust authority.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[Full video of the Philadelphia protest and the illegal arrest of Adam Kokesh and others, audio is skewed, so turn it down, but video is there and contains must-see footage]

Adam was arrested for the infamous charge of “resisting arrest“, prior to his arrest. What really occurred is what is shown in the video; a group of individuals chose to exercise their Right to gather, to communicate, to protest, to speak freely, to put what they want in their own individual bodies, and to nullify immoral and evil laws.

For their crimes- again, practicing their Rights- federal officers, accompanied by a brigade of Philadelphia police, who allegedly swore an Oath to defend the Constitution, forcefully detained Kokesh and others. The alleged crime of smoking an illegal plant had not even occurred, and no officers were within the circle of protesters for Kokesh or others to resist arrest from until the signal was given and the “officers” rushed in. When you go to watch the video again to confirm this, keep your eye out for the officers with the patches on their coats, and ask yourself if it reminds you of any group of enforcers in history, who were “just doing their jobs” and “here to help”.

Kokesh wasn’t afraid; he was clearly there to disobey an unjust law and government, as exemplified by his demeanor in the video, where he perfectly adjusts his posture to clearly show the true face of government force: men with guns dragging and kidnapping people over a protest, or according to them, a plant-as if that justifies it-and going on to claim the individual protesters resisted arrest. I have to say it again, whether this is over speech or a plant, we’re talking about imprisoning someone, actually permanently impacting and damaging their life and that of their families, for speech and/or plants! Prison is serious, which is why it is approved as punishment for the most heinous of crimes; it should not exist to imprison free men and women for victimless crimes that only succeed in creating a victim, said “criminal”. 

For his crimes, Kokesh now sits imprisoned in a federal detention center, until monday, when the judges are back from their weekend vacations and it is convenient to allow a man to return to his life, if that is the case. 

I must echo what was asked at the recent Congressional hearing over the IRS-the central tax authority-targeting “patriot, pro-Constitution, pro-Rights” groups, for their beliefs and dissent from dear leader: Is this still America?

With the recent outbreak of tyrannical government scandals, and the past decade’s worth of Rights violations (millions) with the Patriot Act, FISA, NDAA, TSA, and so on, America has transformed into a land where you can be arrested for anything, and where you are more likely to be arrested for anything & imprisoned than the rest of the world.

And when we look back at history, there is  one clear solution to this situation. When a society has reached this point of the nationalization of criminalization and the militarization of every employee of the gov against the very men and women who’s consent was allegedly required to create said government, when you can be arrested for your property, your hobbies, your beliefs, and your protest of a violation of them, the only answer is NULLIFICATION.

Whether the government was there to help or not, Adam Kokesh understood the true nature of a group that claims a monopoly over force, and uses it to control and limit others, and responded to it by individually nullifying the unjust laws.  Kokesh stood for what he did yesterday because you should not have to make the choice to hide your values or be imprisoned.

Ask yourself, what could be more tyrannical than a government, successful only if its force is great enough to overcome man, his values, and his tools?

Why must you hide who you are and what you have accomplished, created, and valued? Why is it a crime for you to live your life?  Why are you threatened with arrest and bankrupting-fines for living your own life?

Kokesh understands that the step that he has taken before, and took yesterday, of individually deciding to disobey tyrants and their dictates, is a step that when taken by more and more, will lead to the repeal of tyranny, and the restoration of respect for individual Liberty, in any land.  

Remove your consent, and eventually, others will also remove their consent, and the ideas that make the nation change. The ideas of this nation are long overdue for a change, a change to ideas that respect Liberty, and the responsibility, rewards, and consequences that come along with it. It is time for individuals to learn to value their respective Liberty, and to stand for it and the surrounding ideas, even when the other side wields chains and guns.

If nothing else motivates you to value your Liberty, look to history: entire armies, the most powerful in the world, have fought to seize the Liberty of the individual, and entire countries have been forever changed by individuals who valued their liberty, and were willing to stand up for it, and to declare NO! ENOUGH! The individual makes a stand, and others will rise to the occasion, and ideas will flourish and spread.

Thank you for your reminder of one of History’s greatest lessons Adam Kokesh; my thoughts are with you and I am anticipating your immediate release from unjust imprisonment for simply standing up for your Right to live YOUR life.

“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men” -Samuel Adams

Ahmed Serag

UPDATE 3: Having a hard time not believing this is connected to the July 4 March for Gun Rights & the 2nd Amendment, organized by Kokesh. Feds arresting Adam for false crimes against a federal officer, placing him in federal holding cell, even though video evidence shows nothing to substantiate their claims & these protests have been held before without incident. 

UPDATE 2: Federal kidnappers are now saying that Adam is being charged with “assaulting a federal officer”, with no evidence, and no bail. 

UPDATED: According to the Adam Vs The Man Team, who just did an interview on the Alex Jones radio show, federal authorities are now refusing to disclose the location of where Adam Kokesh is, even though it was believed to be a federal holding facility. 

“I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare that [our] national emergency still continues…and do hereby prohibit the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States by individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations…” [Executive Order 6102]

S.B. 928 is Connecticut’s gold & silver registration legislation, introduced soon after Illinois’s S.B. 3341 for gold & silver registration, “The Precious Metal Purchase Act“, passed the Senate, & moves to the Illinois House.

Government cannot confiscate without a registry, and they wouldn’t be thinking of gold/silver confiscation, or  the first step, registration, unless there was credible and widespread worry about the public’s understanding, purchasing, & support of gold and silver.  As Zerohedge points out, if it were easier to keep using psychological games and fiat-debt models to oppose gold and silver, they would keep doing that, but when faced with dissent, it leads to force.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[Santelli discusses US gold confiscation in 1933, Illinois SB 3441 registration bill]

From the full text of Illinois SB 3341, gold and silver registration bill:

“Creates the Precious Metal Purchasing Act. Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall obtain a proof of ownership, create a record of the sale, and verify the identity of the seller”

In addition, summarizing what the must-read text goes on to dictate:

• No cash transactions allowed in gold and silver sales, only traceable payment
• License, photograph, address, record of the sale for up to 5 years depending on amount required
• Copies of transactions must be sent, in addition to the licensing authority, to law enforcement or sheriff authorities, depending on population of location

And from the scarier & full text of Connecticut SB 928, gold and silver registration bill:

“No person may engage in or carry on the business of purchasing gold or gold-plated ware, silver or silver-plated ware, platinum ware, watches, jewelry, precious stones, bullion or coins unless such person is licensed as a precious metals or stones dealer by the licensing authority”

“Any person who willfully engages in the business of a precious metals or stones dealer unless licensed in accordance with this section or after notice that such person’s license has been suspended or revoked shall be guilty of a class D felony“

This is just the beginning of the legislation & not the scary part (the felony was assumed),  SB 928 goes on to require & explain:

• Full personal information of private individual’s bullion purchase & personal information, including photograph, address, photo identification
  
• Bullion can only be purchased with check or money order, no cash purchases and further criminalizes any cash in bullion transactions
• Explains numerous forms, license, regulatory forms private businesses must comply with, including delivering weekly sworn statements & full business transaction information to “licensing authority”
• States law enforcement may enter to inspect records, explains what the procedure of gold and silver confiscation is, but don’t worry, they give you a confiscation receipt! (section m)

Illinois is ahead of Connecticut in implementing the tyranny-blueprint (guns & gold!), having some of the strictest gun registration & gun-criminalization laws already on the books, and now a gold and silver registration bill that has passed the senate and will likely pass the house. 

But Connecticut, which just passed reactionary gun criminalization legislation, has a scarier gold and silver registration bill in the works that more transparently expresses a tyrannical agenda.

The legislation literally says law enforcement and agents of the state are allowed and will enter to inspect at any time, and are only required to give you a record of a seizure incident. This is in addition to requiring business owners to prepare for law enforcement/agency inspections by keeping up with an impossible amount of license/law enforcement/record paperwork, or face thousands in fines & jail time.

What the planners behind these pieces of legislation must love is that it’s not technically, or more appropriately, if covered in the media, considered gold and silver confiscation if armed agents of the state aren’t going door to door. Instead, they plan on making it more and more impossible to buy precious metals without a government record, “just in case”, and adding burdensome paperwork & compliance standards to business owners until they can no longer keep up, fall behind, violate a section or two, and fall under the hammer of the state, ending their business, and/or imprisoning them.

But remember folks, before you form any opinions or try to stop this, the government really wants you to know is that it is watching out for your security and it’s not confiscation; you get a receipt.

Most thieves and criminals don’t even have the audacity to steal your property and give you a receipt for it. And at-least criminals do the leg-work for the crime themselves, know what they’re going to steal, and just steal your property. They do not point a gun to your head for years on end forcing you fill out paperwork, keep records, get meaningless licenses, pay fines and taxes on your production, all the while attempting to morally justify their control over you & use it to do the same to others.

Criminals steal; politicians bleed you dry and call it a cleanse.

Ahmed Serag

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UPDATED 5/19/13:

Full video of the Raymond Rodden arrest is now available, despite the confiscation of all his equpment and property for “refusing to show an ID”. Raymond is currently searching for an attorney and in discussion with the local ACLU to fight the case.

Had to share this local news: thanks to Photography Is Not a Crime, alerting information coming out of Phoenix is that Raymond Michael Rodden was not only fired from his job because of an illegal arrest for taking photos of a government building, but was also bankrupted because of his imprisonment.

Why was Raymond Rodden imprisoned? According to police, he walked into an alley, which is a crime for the same reason government justifies the other 10,000 laws. The actual “code” (manipulative word sounding better than law) is Phoenix Municipality Code  36-61.

Arizonan Raymond Michael Rodden had his property seized and torn apart (including the truck), his time stolen & spent imprisoned, his job infected and lost,  and his Rights completely ignored & violated by local government, federal agents, & gestapo “security” agents…for taking photos. 

At this point, what we have is a targeted police state, in which martial law is not carried out throughout the land, but throughout and in entirely upon select & unlucky individuals who happen to cross paths with the kings of monopoly and force, government.

“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Ben Franklin, 1759

More information on this gross violation of Rights & declaration of tyranny from Photography is Not a Crime , who also posted the best ways to help Michael Rodden:

1. Darren Emfinger, the Phoenix police detective and joint task force member who has been featured in the The First 48 television show and who is refusing to return his items, can be reached at  (623) 466-1398 or on his cell phone, (602) 377-9108.
2. The Arizona ACLU, whom he hopes will help him in this case, can be reached at info@acluaz.org or 602.650.1854.
3. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton can be reached at mayor.stanton@phoenix.gov or 602-262-7111.

Ahmed Serag

Hancock Superior Court Justice Ann Murray and the Maine Department of Agriculture executed a serious blow to a Maine raw milk farmer, Dan Brown, and the Blue Hill Local Community and Self-governance Ordinance. 

The superior court ruling convicted Maine farmer Dan Brown of:

• Selling food without a license 
  
• Selling food without a distributors licence 
• Selling unpasteurized milk without proper labeling

This ruling effectively vetoed the Blue Hill Town Ordinance, a declaration of food sovereignty  which has also been passed by 7 other local Maine towns. The self-governance ordinance  begins:

“We the People of the Town of Blue Hill, Hancock County, Maine have the right to produce, process, sell, purchase and consume local foods thus promoting self-reliance, the preservation of family farms, and local food traditions”

This food freedom ordinance is one that issues that respective towns in Maine and their farmers have the Right to be exempt from licensing and inspections as long as they are selling directly to consumers for home consumption.

The impression I get is that these towns and their people, which have passed the ordinance, are effectively declaring the Right to choose what goes in their bodies, and what doesn’t. These people are declaring that their health is their health, and that the right to dictate what food and substances someone puts in their body was not one expressly given to the Federal Government under the Constitution.

But why allow the public to choose a product based on its efficiency for them? It’s much easier to pass laws based on safety or something similar and illegalize the products deemed harmful by the Government.

For those of you who didn’t catch it, that was sarcasm. In reality, if we truly believe in the free market, which I do, we should allow the free market, also known as the people, to choose the winners and losers of the market. If Raw Milk is so unsafe, regardless of whether or not humanity has consumed it for much longer than pasteurized milk, and regardless of opinions that tell a different story, then the market for it would and will not be there.

Of course, the Dairy Industry doesn’t think so, which is why much of the industry lobbies to give the Government more power over the food industry, and more power over personal liberty. This way, when the Government has established a controlling position, laws, regulations, and taxes against small farms and raw milk farmers can be imposed, and the larger companies can effectively monopolize the market and crush rising competition.  And to me, this is exactly why the Maine Department of Agriculture is targeting raw milk, it’s a move against food freedom and the free market, and it is now stamped by a superior court justice and an enormous fine in Dan Brown’s hands. 

The entire raw milk Maine issue isn’t even over milk, it’s over the idea that someone other than you, shouldn’t decide what you’re allowed and not allowed to eat.  It’s over the idea that in a free society, and in a free market, companies shouldn’t be able to pay the Government to become a winner, they should have to make the best product at the best price so the people make them the winner.

My point here is that we shouldn’t be so easily pushed over, and we shouldn’t so easily give up our rights, even in an area certain people may not feel imposed upon, like food. There are farmers around the country, and small business owners, and regular hard working citizens, who do feel imposed upon. And now that Dan Brown has been convicted of 3 separate crimes for selling raw milk to knowing and willful customers, we can be assured he feels the same way- the only true outcome of this superior court ruling. 

That and how could I forget, my understanding of the closing comment by one of the State’s enforcers on the ruling, ‘We’re not sure whether we’re going to keep raiding raw milk farms and destroying raw milk farmer’s lives or not, but it’s on the agenda’

There are farmers, business owners, and citizens, attempting to live the life they started under the idea of a free society and free market, but instead, face raids by Federal enforcers, and face a situation that is so against everything we believe in, and so against the system that took this country so far. Their right to freedom is your right to freedom.

What you can do for Dan Brown, Raw Milk in Maine, and Food Freedom: 

1. Learn about the idea of a free market and the idea of a free society
2. Contact the Maine Department of Agriculture and voice your concern
3. Support local farms and local Government
4. Use your Constitutional rights: free speech, freedom to petition, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly

Ahmed Serag

Dr. Tom Woods of Liberty Classroom & TomWoods.com  interviewed Mark Sisson, author of the Primal Blueprint Book & Primal Movement on the Peter Schiff show.  

I, being a fan of both Tom Woods and Mark Sisson separately,  before this interview, can completely understand why this would happen. When I first discovered Mark Sisson’s Primal book, it opened my eyes to an entirely different way of thinking about health, nutrition, exercise, stress, and sleep. It gave me a lifestyle I was confident enough with to get rid of unwanted weight, any type of sugar/bread habits/addiction, and bad habits in exercise, sleep, and stress-management.

And not long ago, the Mises Institute and Tom Woods, and many others from and experts of that school of thought and philosophy, revolutionized the way I think about politics, economics, and history. This type of information has never been more important than it is today, which makes it exciting and enlightening, & is definitely related to the Primal Movement in a unique way.

I’ve wanted the two groups to come together for very long, and now they are starting to; watch the interview below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[Tom Woods interviews Mark Sisson on the Primal Book: Interview]

Key Points:

• The Primal Movement is not about a diet; it’s a lifestyle, a way of taking control of your own health through knowledge of the body and knowledge of gene expression and its relationship to diet and lifestyle
• The overload of sugar and grains in our diets is responsible for much of the blame fat gets, and responsible for much of the excess weight and insulin problems we see rising
• The body can be healthy, and it functions best when healthy, and each of us has the capability to get healthy with the correct form of eating, movement, sleep, and so on 
• Getting healthy important now with rising and already high healthcare prices, inflation will only lead to higher costs in the future
• Mark explains why he believes grains are unnecessary, explains the large amount of research against grains, mentions lectins and anti-nutrients, which take nutrients from the body or prevent the nutrients from digestion, which can lead to various disorders 
• On the 6-11 servings of grain recommended in Food Guide Pyramid, Mark explains that the best way to take control of health is through knowledge and research, and that the movement to change the way of thinking present at the USDA and within the Food Guide Pyramid, is bottom-up. It takes individuals and human action to change the way society and Government thinks.
• On the issue of deprivation and restriction, the feeling may be present at the beginning, but disappears soon-after, and the creativity with primal foods coupled with the benefits of Primal nutrition beat out the sweets and fast foods. 
• Mark Mentions that Cholesterol is one of the most important nutrients in the body, and that the research against cholesterol should not disqualify the research for Cholesterol
• Mark Mentions that protein consumption does not impact uric acid levels as negatively as fructose does, which is found in fruit, but also in many other processed foods as a form of sugar. Meat or other protein foods can be mistakenly identified as the culprit when changes in Uric acid are recorded.
• Most body composition, the split between muscle and fat, is related to hormones, and the amount of exercise required to influence the changes is much smaller than recommended
• Mark explains his workouts consist of two short weight lifting workouts, one sprint workout, and any type of non exercise related movement, such as walking or favored sports when time favors it
• On the question of including a little bit of grains or not, Mark explains what works for him and his supporters, which is a test of whether grains work for each individual. Dropping grains for a couple weeks can give an idea of what benefits might come from dropping grains altogether, rather than including a smaller amount of grains.
• On the issue of the emphasis of grains in schools, even sometimes over fruit and vegetables, any progress to be made has to be grassroots. Each individual changing the way they eat, the way they move, and so on, will have an effect on others. Mark also mentions becoming active in local Government and local school boards to drive the issue. 
• With fermented legumes and fermented grains, Mark explains it much deeper in the Primal book, but explains that even while better than regular grains and legumes, shouldn’t be the basis of a primal blueprint book type of lifestyle, but can be included

Mark finishes off the interview mentioning the amount of information in the book, and having read it, I have to recommend it to all readers. He goes much deeper in to the reasoning behind why conventional nutrition is wrong, and explains his positions in the Primal Blueprint book, backing it up with research and examples. It was a life-changing book for me, and I hope it can be for you.

Large thanks goes out to the Peter Schiff Radio Show for making the interview happen.

The Primal Blueprint Book

Ahmed Serag

The Primal Movement and Paleo Movement have grown by leaps and bounds in popularity, research, & appliance over the past few years, which usually occurs when individuals-the market-research, apply, and see success with a respective subject & want to see more. 

I personally like to participate in these life/eating styles, which primarily revolve around eating whole foods that our digestive systems evolved on, and that many of our ancestors ate, such as meats, vegetables, and fruits. Both these lifestyles also call for changes in workouts, stress habits, sleeping habits, and other things that have made a difference for me and others.

But, despite this success, the Paleo and primal messages are suffering, and in my opinion, it is because of the erosion of the free market and the principles the free market introduces, which are beneficial to innovation and business and of course, the individual participant and producer. Within the last couple of years, The nearly monopolized health & food sectors have only become more monopolized through government “participation” & growth, while small businesses and great ideas, like Paleo and Primal, have suffered.  

As a recent example of this government intrusion, Lew Rockwell points out Dr. Brownstein’s telling review of the recent Michigan Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Conference- nutrition propaganda conference-which happened to be sponsored by “McDonald’s, Kellogg, GMO businesses, & pharmaceutical company representatives.

And the food and drug administration (FDA) just made headlines announcing that it is considering dictating a 21 year old age requirement for caffeinated products, among other regulations which it has blueprint-copied from government’s successful tobacco and alcohol regulations. As a pillar of this success, New York, which is continually under the barrage of food dictates from Bloomberg, boasts a rate 3 out of every 5 NY cigarettes smuggled in, despite regulations & gov. “protection”.

And as one of the best examples of government “participation” in the market, we can always turn to raw milk , farmers, and the related raids, confiscations, & destruction of property carried out over the years.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[A classic & must-watch from Sean Croxton, founder of Underground Wellness, author of The Dark Side of Fat Loss]

Many people like to take a stand against the corporations that manufacture food, and think that taxing and introducing regulation will fix the problem. The problem being that much of the food on the market is considered junk, by many people, and the opportunity for healthier choices to not be forced to the front, but to just get to the front, are limited.

This stand is taken because the corporations are seen by the people as the ones who don’t choose better ingredients, or choose profits over personal rights or safety. And they may very well be doing those things, but the root of the problem is not with the symptom.

What we fail to realize is the outstanding support for regulation and taxes by many of these corporations, and the outstanding support for candidates willing to introduce taxes and regulation, by these corporations. For example, why wouldn’t “Big Agriculture” support taxes, when estimates place close to 80 percent of subsidies given to farms by the Government go to large agriculture businesses?

Large corporations that are favored by Government, which produce a large portion of foods, only grow more successful with taxes and regulations. Taxes and regulations are introduced, and small businesses have to comply, along with corporations. But what is a small business to do with limited capital, a destroyed loaning system, and a whole mess of new regulations and tax code? How are they supposed to hire anyone? How are they supposed to satisfy the paleo or primal movement demand, or any demand for that matter?

Corporations satisfy the demand of Government because Government has intervened in the market. Your choice of foods usually creates the demand, but the special relationship between Gov. and business allows for the creation of demand by those who satisfy it. And as I’ve mentioned, the taxes, regulations, and subsidies, all benefit that relationship and not the businesses many congressmen and lobbyists like to claim they are helping.

This is why lobbyists & crony-businesses lobby for more Government power and intervention, so the favor can be returned with monopolies, with taxes, and with regulations for competitors that are affected in an imbalanced & wrong way . The lobbyists allow corporations to skip the whole “satisfy consumer demand” portion of the market equation. Why not make a cheap product, that may or may not help the consumer, and allow for taxes and regulation to drive out the competitors and their products, which may satisfy consumer demand?

And this is exactly how companies like Monsanto, the genetic modification kingpin, can get so large. A few simple searches will show you how Monsanto has practically taken over the FDA and the USDA with the revolving door that allows employees to switch between high level positions in Government and industry. Check out this graphic.

If the Paleo and Primal movement, more specifically, the people within these movements, are serious about the message, then a simple understanding of taxes, regulation, and the free market, is in order.

The message will gain the success it deserves in the free market, where the people are free to create the demand, and businesses and individuals are free to satisfy it. Innovation faces a tough environment when the costs for starting a business are skyrocketing because of taxes, and the inflation tax, and the environment for creating a business is full of regulations and slips that could cost thousands and/or the entire business.

The free market, primal, and Paleo movements have many things in common, most notably, a search for truth, and the effort to give the truth the opportunity to flourish.

If there is belief and support in any of these causes, voices need to be heard, information needs to be shared, dollars need to be treated as votes/investments, & individuals must have the freedom to do so. 

For what is the pursuit of health if an individual does not own his body, and is not allowed to be responsible for his person? 

Ahmed Serag

BREAKING UPDATE: SENATE TURNS DOWN CISPA AFTER HOUSE PASSES, TOO MUCH AMERICAN OUTCRY

In a few hours, April 19th, 2013, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act / Cyber Protection Act-more clearly-a government internet takeover, will take to the Senate floor for a vote & a fight after the vote to bring it to the floor passed in house rules and passed the house floor vote, despite massive American outcry against the legislation and its useless amendments. 

Who could be against that? Who could turn down SECURITY? Who could turn down security on the internet, a revolutionary,rewarding, and risky network that connects individuals and businesses with each other, and with unique and innovative ideas, causes, news, and knowledge? Who could turn it down considering that participating in the internet and all of the glorious opportunities mentioned above eventually leads you to create an online “you”?

But what the planners behind CISPA 2013 do not make transparent to the American people is that the government’s goal with this cyber protection act is to make your internet “you”, your online communications and actions…transparent to government. 

“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds” -John Perry Barlow 

That’s right,men like Senator Mike Rogers, the sponsor of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013, believe that protecting your internet SECURITY starts with legislating law that encourages and can even demand the sharing of your information from internet companies, even when illegally and in violation of Privacy Rights and Freedom to Contract, with government “and other entities”. This legislation endangers any information created, shared, and stored by you on the internet, including information protected by privacy agreements and contracts.

Senator Mike Rogers, in his plea & valiant fight for cybersecurity & CISPA, even went as far to state that if you care about your privacy / freedom to contract Rights “you’re probably a 14 year old teenager in your basement“. 

And although many Senators have claimed to pass amendments that make CISPA “privacy neutral”, the dangerous language still exists and is still just as dangerous. And when the American people and Representative Justin Amash provided an opportunity for those seeking to governmentalize the internet to strike legislative text clearly authorizing companies to lie to Americans in agreements and privacy contracts to give information to the federal government with an amendment,  they voted it down (LINK to 2nd Amash Amendment).

Representative Justin Amash’s valiant stand against CISPA and for Privacy/Freedom to Contract Rights did accomplish inspiring and garnering support against CISPA that Pro-Rights Senators will certainly capitalize on in the upcoming continued fight against CISPA 2013 on the Senate Floor. Don’t forget to support Amash in his fight on what also happens to be his birthday (LINK to moneybomb in support of Rep. Amash).

Basic American principle at stake in #CISPA debate: freedom of contract. Companies should be allowed to guarantee privacy. CISPA bans that.

— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) April 17, 2013

#CISPA destroys freedom of contract, PROHIBITS companies from making legally binding commitment to users not to share personal data/e-mails.

— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) April 17, 2013

One of the clear dangers of CISPA 2013 is most definitely the powers and additional amendment that allow your personal data to be filtered out and sent to the NSA, who recently built a very expensive data collection and storage compound, and the DHS…. again of course, in the name of our “SECURITY”.

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation-who has consistently and dilligently fought CISPA-points out, the added amendments will not stop the NSA or DHS from retrieving and storing your information, but instead encourage it:

“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a self-protected entity may, for cybersecurity purposes…share such cyber threat information with any other entity, including the Federal Government.” The liability immunity provisions also remain

Any senator or agency that supports and is clamoring for this bill to pass is clearly seeking a government internet takeover, a step towards it, the monitoring and seizure of American communications & actions, or has not read or does not understand this bill, but still pushes to pass it, failing their Oaths and their employment, none of which argue or should convince Americans to support CISPA 2013. 

No matter what mirage of a debate is broadcast on the house and senate floors, CISPA 2013 comes down to a single argument:

If you value your Right to Privacy, your Right of Association, your Right to Contract, if you value the freedom the internet delivers to you, if you value the benefits of said freedom, THE TIME TO STAND AGAINST CISPA IS NOW. 

CALL YOUR SENATOR TO STOP CISPA 2013!

And make sure to make use of one of the very Rights CISPA is targeting & share as much information on CISPA as you can with those you know, and petition companies you support to do the same. Every effort counts. 

P.S. INTERNET TAX VOTE LOOMS AS EARLY AS NEXT WEEK, OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEAT CISPA & THE MFA IN 1 WEEK!

Ahmed Serag

-Senator Rand Paul, Washington Times, “A Duty To Preserve the Second Amendment”

BREAKING: FEINSTEIN AMENDMENT FAILS; ALL 7 GUN TYRANNY AMENDMENTS FAIL! KEEP IT UP, LET YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN KNOW WHERE YOU STAND: AGAINST GUN TYRANNY.

CALL YOUR SENATOR AT 202-224-3121

Over the coming days, there will be attempts to convince you to trade your essential Liberty for temporal security, to blame pro-gun pro-Rights victories on the NRA and lobbying, as if those were not the tools used by those attempting to strike down individual Rights, and the answer to this agenda against your Rights should be the same one you would give on NDAA, Patriot Act, CISPA, Spying, Warrantless Raids, and so on, NO!   

And just to prove how much your support is needed…in one of the last Free States left in the US, Texas, a Individual Resident of Texas and war Veteran was illegally arrested and firearms confiscated for “looking threatening”, all in-front of his children. 

Thanks to Campaign for Liberty, The 16 “republican” senators who voted for cloture on S. 649, which led to the unfortunate victory for S. 649 for Gun Control/Registration/Confiscation 68 to 31. are as follows:

Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Richard Burr (R-NC), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Susan Collins (R-ME), Bob Corker (R-TN), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Dean Heller (R-NV), John Hoeven (R-ND), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Mark Kirk (R-IL), John McCain (R-AZ), Pat Toomey (R-PA), and Roger Wicker (R-MS)

The 2 Democrat Senators who joined The Rand Paul-Ted Cruz- Mike Lee led resistance against gun “control”/registration/confiscation bill are:

• Senator Mark Begich of Alaska
• Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas
  

The Representatives within the house-where S. 649 will have to achieve victory-would have to be brave to bring S. 649′s house duplicate to the floor because they’ve seen the backlash that Americans express through email, calls, and protest when it comes to gun “control”, registration, and confiscation.

While this bill’s future in the house looks dim, the gun registration agenda’s planners are out in full force, symbolized by recent news from the obama administration that he plans on deploying one of the Newtown shooting victim’s moms in his weekly radio-propaganda address to push gun registration.

THE GOOD NEWS IS WE CAN CONTINUE THE FIGHT! THE HOPE FOR A FILIBUSTER STILL LIVES AND THE FIGHT BACK IS GUARANTEED, & THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS & OUTCRY AGAINST S649 ONLY GROWS! 

ORIGINAL: 

As of 5AM ET on April 11, 2013, the top articles and most visited and commented pages across the major news sites are regarding tyrannical legislation that is upon Americans nationwide, SB 649, federal legislation for gun-control and gun-registration as a prequel for gun-confiscation.

13 Senators, led by Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee, signed letters to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid guaranteeing a filibuster & full-stop against any attempts of gun-control, gun registration, and/or gun confiscation.

These 13 brave Senators are as follows: 

• Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
• Senator Ted Cruz of Texas
• Senator Mike Lee of Utah
• Senator Moran of Kansas
• Senator Marco Rubio of Florida
• Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
• Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma
• Senaotr Mike Enzi of Wyoming
• Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas
• Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho
• Senator Dan Coats of Indiana
• Senator Jim Risch of Idaho
• Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina 

Despite nationwide protests against any form of gun “control”, President obama, Senator harry reid, and other tyrannical legislators and agencies are forcing and pushing legislation such as S.649 and dictates that they claim are good and necessary for public safety; whether the public agrees or even knows is of no concern. It’s likely that even S. 649 has backdoor options in recognition of and in case of failure, through federal agencies, exemplified by the ATF’s push for a massive national database.

Obama, in defense of gun registration, at a speech he organized, full of emotional propaganda and manipulation, and in-front of a police force all wielding guns, went as far to say:

“I am constrained by a system our founders put in place” 

And that is his defense against carrying out gun registration in America and what the government-media complex is calling anti-government types, who refuse to compromise on their RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE, and that you need-not worry, because he is constrained by the Constitution, even though he addresses it in with a negative connotation, as if it were a blockade of something good, and continually violates it by pushing gun-control legislation, signing the Patriot Act, signing NDAA, signing internet control-legislation, ordering drones against Americans, and so on.

We are supposed to trust a man, the senators, czars, and legislators behind him, who continually pre-apologize for violating the Constitution, and then go on to do it against outrcry and without authority, and continue to do it more-so as time passes, to use S 649 to create a national registry and background check system for all gun sales and transactions, and not use it maliciously and/or for eventual gun confiscation?

As any once-victim of gun “control”, gun registration , and gun confiscation will tell you, the tyrannical agenda represented by SB 649 and the events and votes to come are of the most important events in America’s-and any would be nation’s-history:

Click here to view the embedded video.

“You don’t know what freedom is because you have never lost it”

-Manuel Martinez, Communist Gun Control Survivor, Gun Control Hearing [Source]

And because many individuals, organizations, and states know of the horror that gun “control” and its planners have carried out on other nations and wish to carry out upon our own, the backlash against S 649 and related legislation and efforts is infinitely growing.

In Connecticut  where a “gun control wishlist” was recently passed, including registration, magazine bans, and gun bans, major gun-manufacturer PTR will leave and take its business elsewhere.

In Colorado, where similar gun control legislation recently passed, 37 out of 62 Sheriffs are now suing the federal government, and public outcry grows. Major gun accessory manufacturer Magpul has announced it is leaving Colorado among gun-control concerns. On the flip side of the coin, the same tyrannical legislators who passed CO gun control are pushing a bill to deliver “police powers” to the Secret Service, a foreshadowing of what is planned with passage of nationwide registration. 

Gun Manufacturer Beretta is taking its jobs, business, and profits to another state, as it recently announced it is leaving Maryland over gun-control issues.

New York Citizens are planning protests and are in uproar over actual gun-confiscation, including 2 Citizen’s property & guns being confiscated because they are prescribed anti-anxiety medicine, and the NY Safe Act’s first victim, a Veteran. The tyrannical gun confiscation occurring in New York is another foreshadowing of what follows strict gun control and registration. 

Texas is gaining the presence of a Colt – AR-15 Manufacturer because of its more free laws regarding guns, following the public invitation of gun businesses from Governor Rick Perry & Texas Lawmakers such as Senator Ted Cruz.

And this backlash is justified by the aforementioned federal bullying of free men and women, gun owners, gun manufacturers, and law abiding citizens, and even more exemplified by such events as the Federal seizure and closure of the Newtown gun business that happened to sell guns to an owner who did not take proper and common firearm storage precautions and let it end up in the hands of a crazy individual. Additionally, the infamous FPS Russia Georgia resident’s farm and property being raided by near 50 agents occurred just this morning, only to leave the agents empty handed but mouthing off threats of confiscation “because of how the firearms looked”.

As the famous quote of Patrick Henry formidably states, 

“They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?”

What compromise is possible between the Rights of a free man and the monopoly on force that is government? How can we compromise on a Natural Right? If they clamor for magazine bans, *certain* gun bans, gun registration, national databases, gun taxes and insurance mandates, deputizing doctors, report your neighbor programs, and gun owner demonization, what is next?

What, besides the confiscation of guns, which I remind you, is already occurring in New York, occurs after forming a national database of gun owners, gun businesses, their homes, their property, their communications, their finances, and their interactions?

What happens is the complete assassination of a Country’s awareness and understanding and benefits of a fundamental Right of individuals, subjecting every American who owns a gun, values the Right to,  or participates in the related business, to investigation, accusation, search, seizure, tax, raid, harassment, assault, and arrest by armed agents drunk on authority and unwarranted power.

And that situation itself is precedence to do the same to every Right enumerated before the Second Amendment, and every Right enumerated following the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the Untied States of America.

The cause for your defense or eventual defense, pending my convincing and your thinking, is the Right that was enumerated by the Founders choice of the word “enumeration” in the 9th amendment, which reads,

“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”

The enumeration of certain Rights means that the previous and following Rights highlighted and explained within the Constitution were not established with the text and action, but recognized and respected. This text within the Constitution was specifically chosen to highlight the facts that are Natural Rights, that men are born with Rights as much apart of them as their arm, and their legal mention within a document of independence and constitutional law is not their establishment or justification, but merely recognition of their existence and ownership by free men and women.

The time for America to stand for something that is owned by no government, party, organization, or group, but instead, individuals, is now.

Standing for the Second Amendment, against S. 649, for the direct benefit this Right receives from the filibuster of Senator Rand Paul & the 12 additional Senators, is standing for a Natural Right, for the fact that men are born with Natural Rights, and that the American government is restrained, upon its creation, from infringing on Natural Rights by the very justification of this government’s creation, the individuals who chose to found this country with the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

I, Ahmed Serag, pledge to Stand with Rand, Stand with the 13 Senators filibustering the entire gun control agenda, Stand against S. 649, and ask you to do the same. 

“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor”

-Declaration of Independence

TAKE ACTION:

• FIND AND CALL YOUR SENATORS TO EXPRESS YOUR SUPPORT OF GUN-RIGHTS
• SIGN THE PETITION TO STAND WITH SENATOR RAND PAUL AGAINST GUN REGISTRATION AND CONFISCATION
  
• SIGN THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GUN RIGHTS PETITION AGAINST S.649, THE GUN-CONTROL BILL