Walnuts Are Drugs, Says FDA

The real dangerous nuts come in JC Penny three-piece suits.

This is an example of an agency completely out of control abusing their unconstitutional authority, if true. Do you feel safe now?


by MICHAEL TENNANT

Shelled_walnutsSeen any walnuts in your medicine cabinet lately? According to the Food and Drug Administration, that is precisely where you should find them. Because Diamond Foods made truthful claims about the health benefits of consuming walnuts that the FDA didn’t approve, it sent the company a letter declaring, “Your walnut products are drugs” — and “new drugs” at that — and, therefore, “they may not legally be marketed … in the United States without an approved new drug application.” The agency even threatened Diamond with “seizure” if it failed to comply.

Diamond’s transgression was to make “financial investments to educate the public and supply them with walnuts,” as William Faloon of Life Extension magazine put it. On its website and packaging, the company stated that the omega-3 fatty acids found in walnuts have been shown to have certain health benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and some types of cancer. These claims, Faloon notes, are well supported by scientific research: “Life Extension has published 57 articles that describe the health benefits of walnuts”; and “The US National Library of Medicine database contains no fewer than 35 peer-reviewed published papers supporting a claim that ingesting walnuts improves vascular health and may reduce heart attack risk.”

This evidence was apparently not good enough for the FDA, which told Diamond that its walnuts were “misbranded” because the “product bears health claims that are not authorized by the FDA.”

More at Realfarmacy.com

Aryan Brotherhood targeting black teens who beat WWII vet to death: cops

Kenan Adams-Kindard and Demetrius Glenn, both 16, are accused of murdering Delbert Belton in Spokane, Wash. But the boys are in protective custody after cops got word the Aryan Brotherhood is offering a $10,000 bounty on the teens.

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Delbert Belton died after two teens jumped him in a parking lot, police say.

Two Washington state teens accused of beating an 88-year-old World War II veteran to death are in the crosshairs of the Aryan Brotherhood.

The white supremacist group reportedly put a $10,000 bounty on Spokane teens Kenan Adams-Kinard and Demetrius Glenn, both 16 and black and both accused of murder, according to the Spokane Spokesman-Review.

The boys are alleged to have beaten Delbert Belton to death outside his car in the parking lot of a city ice rink in August.

More at New York Daily News

Pentagon requests plan to close stateside commissaries

commissaryTasked by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to find ways to preserve force readiness amid sharply falling budgets, his comptroller and the Joint Staff have asked the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) for a plan to close all stateside base grocery stores, say military resale community sources.

Time will tell if this is just the loudest warning shot yet fired by a department desperate for budget relief, or if stateside commissaries, still enormously popular with military families and retirees, are viewed by current military leaders as a costly relic burdening a financially stressed force.

Under Secretary of Defense Robert Hale, the department’s top financial adviser, and Air Force Lt. Gen. Mark F. Ramsay, director of force structure, resources and assessment for the Joint Staff, reportedly requested the plan in a meeting with military personnel policy and commissary officials.

More details at Stars and Stripes.

Williams contemplates the snow

Bill Williams looks out contemplating the climate change.

Bill Williams looks out contemplating the climate change from Memorial Park.


WILLIAMS—Williams woke up this morning to a dusting of snow and wet. We haven’t experienced a day like this since early October.

After our first snow of the season, the weather turned back to fall. It was almost spring-like, in fact, until this week when the temperatures dropped and the rain began to fall.

Williams receives a dusting of snow. More on the way.

Williams receives a dusting of snow. More on the way.

The snow hit a day earlier than expected and is expected to turn to rain tonight. Possible Snow accumulations of up to 3-inches are possible over Saturday and Sunday. The weather is predicted to clear up Monday through Thanksgiving day, but the temperatures will probably not reach those Williams recently enjoyed.
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