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According to the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is a Russian agent: Here’s their logic explained

The founder of online retail behemoth Amazon is a Russia propagandist and agent—did you know that?

Sure he is, by the logic of his own newspaper, the Washington Post.

So are the employees of the Internal Revenue Service, the St. Louis Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Confused? Baffled? Shocked? We’ll explain.

Twisted ‘logic’ of the insane Left

As noted by Zero Hedge, the three entities above were added to a sham list of about 200 news and information sites put together by a shady, never-before-known group of “anonymous experts” who spoon-fed the bogus story to the Washington Post, which wound up having to print a sort-of retraction explaining how its reporter couldn’t really verify anything in the original story. It was so bad, in fact, that reliably Left-wing site The Intercept even chastised the paper for shoddy reporting in agreeing to publish the story.

In case you missed it, the premise of the story was that a shadowy group, PropOrNot, published the list and claimed all of the sites on it were willingly publishing Russian propaganda, in an effort to help Donald J. Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. This is where the “fake news” narrative is coming from; this story.

But since the 200-website list is completely bogus, that means the Post’s story is nothing short of the kind of “fake news” it accused those same sites of publishing.

Now, understand that the methodology behind the discredited list is “guilt by association.” If you’re on that list, there is no need for there to be any actual proof that the site you work for (Natural News was included on the list, by the way), was a purveyor of Russia-supplied fake news propaganda. You don’t have to actually publish the propaganda yourself, as an individual reporter for one of the aforementioned sites, but because you work there, you are guilty by association and subject to arrest by the state-owned secret police.

Understand, mind you, that neither the Washington Post—which has a journalistic (and legal) obligation to verify information and/or claims before publishing it/them—nor the PropOrNot organization combed through any of the tens of thousands of pages on our site (or anyone else’s) and found actual stories that had been force-fed to us by Russian intelligence operatives.

And the reason why this did not happen is because there are no such stories on the site.

Because we don’t work for or with Russian intelligence.

Here’s how you might consider the Post’s owner a Russian propagandist

But this is how totalitarian logic works. Now, let’s take it a step further: Is it possible that Jeff Bezos is a Russian double agent or propagandist, simply because he allows a t-shirt that features Russian President Vladimir Putin in a favorable light to be sold on Amazon.com?

Or, how about this “Professional Russian” tee?

Or wait—if Donald Trump is “associated with Russia” because he has spoken of mending fences with Putin, what does that make Bezos for actually setting up shop in Russia with Amazon?

In reality, the FBI looked into that, specifically. And the bureau found no Trump connections to Russia, and certainly not the level of Bezos’ company’s association.

Even U.S. government agencies are Russian plants

Now, as for the Census Bureau, IRS and St. Louis Fed, Zero Hedge notes it published a pair of reports that relied on information from one or more of those agencies. It added:

Sorry, U.S. Census Bureau, I.R.S. and St. Louis Federal Reserve–you’re issuing “Russian propaganda” according to The Washington Post’s shoddy “fake news” methodology. Your data enabled oftwominds.com and other independent journalist sites to issue content that was skeptical of official claims that are endlessly parroted by a bought-and-paid-for corporate media.

OfTwoMinds.com was on the Post’s fake news report about fake news spreading Russian propaganda.

And of course, what counts among the U.S. establishment media as “Russian propaganda?” Any factual data or viewpoint that differs or refutes their Left-wing ruling elite and corporate-media shills. Because they’re ‘so smart,’ anything that does not align perfectly with their views has to have come from what President Ronald Reagan once called the “Evil Empire.”

Sources:

ZeroHedge.com

TheIntercept.com

TechCrunch.com

NYTimes.com

Mediacontrol

Mainstream media panicking with ‘fake news’ accusations because they’ve LOST in the realm of ideas

The so-called ‘mainstream media’ is in full panic mode after it was unable to push Hillary Clinton across the finish line against what these Left-wing purveyors of slanted “news” considered a joke of a candidacy in the eventual presidential winner Nov. 8, Donald J. Trump.

Now, fearing a complete loss of power and influence, the managing editors and reporters of the nation’s legacy media outlets—led by The New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN—have decided to launch a new campaign: They are out to regain control over the political and social narratives in America after losing it to the alternative media that told the truth about Trump and boldly reported on all of Clinton’s flaws.

To accomplish this, the establishment media and its allies in academia, politics and technology have partnered to create a new boogeyman—“fake news”—that they have collectively vowed to identify and keep out of the public conversation.

How serious is this effort? Over the weekend the Washington Post actually published a story in which it cited an anonymous group of “experts” that did not exist before the Nov. 8 election who published a McCarthyite “list” of some 200 content sites (including Natural News) responsible for collaborating with Moscow in putting out Russian propaganda. The goal? To ‘hijack our democracy’ by dooming Clinton’s candidacy and helping Trump win.

It’s that kind of goofy conspiracy theory that the WaPo and others in the formerly persuasive establishment used to ridicule. Now, they’re spewing their own in a sadistic attempt to retain control and power.

The fact is, the charges made by the shadow group, PropOrNot (“Propaganda or Not”), are not based on any hard evidence, because as Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, pointed out recently, such evidence simply does not exist.

There are no documents. No “witnesses.” No scientific research. In fact, in extremely shoddy fashion, the Post’s reporters never even bothered to contact any of the websites listed, to get their comments and observations. Talk about “fake” news.

So bad was the reporting that another reliably Left-wing news site that at least does do investigative reporting (just from one particular political point of view) lambasted the Post for its “shoddy” reporting, among other things.

“[T]he article is rife with obviously reckless and unproven allegations, and fundamentally shaped by shoddy, slothful journalistic tactics,” wrote the authors. “In his article, the Post’s Timberg did not include a link to PropOrNot’s website. If readers had the opportunity to visit the site, it would have become instantly apparent that this group of ostensible experts far more resembles amateur peddlers of primitive, shallow propagandistic clichés than serious, substantive analysis and expertise; that it has a blatant, demonstrable bias in promoting the interests of western governments; and that it is engaging in extremely dubious McCarthyite tactics.”

The hatemongers on the Left are also using the “fake news” straw man they created as “proof” that social media giants like Facebook and Google must become censors – to filter out anything that essentially does not come from their allies in the discredited establishment press.

It’s all part of a plan to keep the American youth ignorant about the issues. The Left can’t stand or deal with competition, so it tries to destroy it through intimidation, false narratives, bogus ‘issues’ and outright censorship. And as the Post story indicates, when those techniques don’t work, then wild conspiracy theories become the new ‘normal’ for ‘news’ stories.

In fact, it’s a strategy that’s working. A just-released study by a group of researchers at Stanford University found that a staggering 82 percent of today’s middle school, high school and some college youngsters can’t tell the difference between fake news and real news. That’s probably being done intentionally through the Left’s control over academia, but it’s dangerous because they will believe what they are told to believe by their teachers.

In the meantime, the real “real news” – the alternative media – will continue to shine a critical light on the charlatans and phonies in the media.

Sources:

NaturalNews.com

DailyCaller.com

EPA

Donald Trump will attempt to dismantle the EPA …is it possible?

President-elect Donald J. Trump, when speaking to employees at a Carrier air conditioner factory in Indiana whose jobs he saved last week, said that there is a need for “some regulations” so that U.S. factories and plants don’t irreparably damage the environment.

But as a businessman himself who has had to deal often with the nightmarish processes of navigating a plethora of government agencies before the first shovelful of dirt breaks ground on his latest real estate development, he knows more about red tape than just about anyone.

That means he also knows how much of that red tape can be permanently cut so that business development can take place faster and more cheaply, while still caring for the environment.

Trump, like most other rational people, doesn’t want to breathe dirty air, drink polluted water or eat food that comes from contaminated soil. But he also pledged to jump-start economic and job growth, and to do that, he’ll have to take on Washington’s Left-wing “climate change” hoaxers, and they will fight him tooth and nail. Already, the climate hoaxers are girding up for a Trump presidency.

On the campaign trail, Inside Climate News reported, Trump promised that he would seek to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency altogether, claiming (correctly) that for the most part, the bureaucracy had been turned into a political hammer to be used by a Leftist president to kill jobs and opportunities. Now that he is headed to the Oval Office, the environmentalist community is trying to figure out whether he’ll keep his promises or whether he’ll be thwarted in his attempts to downsize the EPA and government bureaucracy in general.

“Trump sounds like he’s serious about scaling back much environmental regulation,” Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change at Columbia Law School, told Inside Climate News. And while he may not be able to dismantle the EPA entirely, there is much he and a Republican-controlled Congress could do to downsize the agency and starve it of funds.

The EPA, like all other government agencies, was established by law, so it would take legislation (and Trump’s signature – or a veto override) to abolish it altogether. That said, Trump, as president, can simply issue executive orders to the EPA and reverse much of the environmental activism implemented by the man he is set to replace, President Obama.

In addition, say legal experts, the president-elect, once in office, could scale back the agency’s reach and mission, while the GOP-controlled Congress reduces the agency’s budget even further, thereby limiting its ability to act.

Gerrard doesn’t believe Congress will eliminate the EPA, but rather “starve and cripple it.” He may be underestimating Trump like just about everyone else who has come up against him this election cycle has.

For one thing, president Trump will inherit enormous authority – more than any president ever has. He has Obama to thank for much of that, since the 44th president pushed his constitutionally limited powers to their boundaries and beyond.

For another, there is an appetite in Congress to downsize the EPA and reign it in. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in commenting on the passage of the EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act in 2014, said that while the board is supposed to offer neutral guidance on the environmental issues the EPA seeks to address, its singularly-minded members have “silenced voices of dissent, limited public participation in its decisions, and shown a potential conflict of interest with over half of the SAB members having taken grant money from the EPA, an agency they are supposed to provide impartial analysis to.”

Trump is also being advised by some sound political minds – including Newt Gingrich and Vice President-elect Mike Pence – who have been in the D.C. cesspool and know their way around.

Will a President Trump actually be able to eliminate the EPA in his quest to Make America Great Again? In the end, given his power as head of the Executive Branch (which the EPA falls under) and Congress’ willingness to help, it might not really matter. Neutering the agency may be all that is necessary.

Sources:

NaturalNews.com

InsideClimateNews.org

CrooksAndLiars.com

MajorityLeader.gov

EPAWatch.org

Money.CNN.com

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Scam: No trace of Aloe Vera found in products at Walmart, CVS

If you believed that you bought an aloe vera product at major retailers Walmart, CVS and others that actually contained aloe vera, think again.

What you really bought was very likely only colored gel.

Researchers examining samples of store-brand aloe vera gel at Walmart, Target and CVS found absolutely no hint of the plant in various lab tests, even though the product labeling all listed “aloe barbadensis” leaf juice – another name for aloe vera – as either the primary or secondary ingredient after water.

There is no government watchdog agency that ensures aloe products are genuine, so that’s likely why the duping has been occurring, Bloomberg News reported. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not handle the approval process for cosmetics before they are sold, and has never fined any maker for selling phony aloe products. As it is, suppliers are essentially on an honor system, even though the total U.S. market for aloe-based products, which includes lotions and gels, vitamins and drinks, has grown by 11 percent in the past year to $146 million, according to data from SPINS LLC., a market research firm based in Chicago.

“You have to be very careful when you select and use aloe products,” said Tod Cooperman, president of ConsumerLab.com, a White Plains, New York-based firm that has done testing on aloe products.

The three chemical markers for aloe – acemannan, malic acid and glucose – were all absent in tests for Walmart, Target and CVS aloe products conducted by a lab that was hired by Bloomberg News. Instead, three samples sent to the lab contained a much cheaper ingredient called maltodextrin, a sugar that is sometimes used to imitate aloe.

Gel sold at another retailer – Walgreens – only contained one of the markers (malic acid), but was devoid of the other two. Ken Jones, an independent industry consultant who is based in Chapala, Mexico, told Bloomberg that this would indicate that the presence of aloe could neither be ruled out nor confirmed.

The Target Corp. would not comment on Bloomberg’s findings. Meanwhile, spokesmen for Walmart Stores Inc., CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., said that their suppliers had confirmed that the products they were selling were authentic. (By the way, all aloe products at the Health Ranger Store are verified by us to be 100 percent authentic).

Between these four retailers, there are some 23,000 outlets.

Bloomberg News noted further:

“The four gels that Bloomberg had analyzed were Wal-Mart’s Equate Aloe After Sun Gel with pure aloe vera; Target’s Up & Up Aloe Vera Gel with pure aloe vera; CVS Aftersun Aloe Vera Moisturizing Gel; and Walgreens Alcohol Free Aloe Vera Body Gel. The lab that did the testing requested anonymity to preserve its business relationships.”

The lab where the product testing took place used a technique known as nuclear magnetic resonance, which found additives like maltodextrin and others such as triethanolamine, which is an emulsifier. In the samples, lactic acid – an element that indicates the presence of degraded aloe vera – was not found.

Fruit of the Earth, based in Fort Worth, Texas, a brand that was founded in 1980, makes the gels for Walmart, Target and Walgreens, according to Bloomberg. The company, in turn, said that its aloe supplier is Concentrated Aloe Corp., located in Ormond Beach, Fla. The latter said that it uses fair trade, organic aloe that is farmed and processed in Guatemala. Both of those companies disputed Bloomberg’s findings.

“We’ve been in the business a long time and we know where the raw ingredients come from,” John Dondrea, Fruit of the Earth’s general counsel, said. “We stand behind our products.”

Meanwhile, Tim Meadows, Concentrated Aloe Corp.’s president, said that the technique – nuclear magnetic resonance – used to test the products is not reliable for cosmetics, due to the presence of multiple ingredients that allegedly cause interference, making it impossible to test for aloe in finished products.

He also said that maltodextrin is not an adulterant – a term referring to a substance found within other substances – because it can be used during the drying process. And while some processing techniques for aloe remove acemannan, that does not mean that the aloe is not genuine, he said.

“Acemannan has been misinterpreted,” said Meadows, noting that the cosmetics industry “requires highly processed aloe.” He said that it was not clear how that affected acemannan.

Bloomberg noted that several law firms have filed suit against the four retailers, after separate testing also did not find aloe in their aloe products.

Sources:

Bloomberg.com

NaturalNews.com

Science.NaturalNews.com