by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson dealt a severe blow to Obamacare today, ruling that the government’s attempt to force citizens to buy health insurance violates the U.S. Constitution. This decision puts the enforceability of Obama’s health care system in doubt.

Obama’s health plan was designed around a “minimum essential coverage provision” that seeks to force every American to purchase health insurance beginning in 2014.

This is essentially a Big Brother commerce requirement where the government dictates that private citizens must purchase a product or service even if they don’t wish to. It also forces followers of natural medicine to buy into a system of drugs-and-surgery conventional medicine even if they have no intention of  ever using it.

The Constitution limits the power of federal government

The United States Constitution, which is the document that grants the federal government powers, did not grant the federal government any right to force citizens to purchase certain products or services. Obama’s health care insurance mandate, therefore, was an overreaching effort on the part of the federal government to dictate the purchasing decisions of private citizens in order to achieve a political goal.

Citizens who refused to comply with this requirement to purchase health insurance were to be punished by none other than the IRS. Fines would be issued to citizens beginning in 2014 if they failed to prove to the IRS that they had purchased health insurance.

Thus, Obama’s health care system put the IRS in charge of enforcing an unconstitutional mandate that private citizens buy something they did not want nor need.

This is what Judge Henry Hudson found to be unconstitutional. He found that the essential coverage provision “exceeds the constitutional boundaries of congressional power.”

Tenth Amendment protections He’s right, of course.

There is no such power granted to the federal government by the United States Constitution. Furthermore, the Tenth Amendment clearly states that the “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

In other words, if a specific power was never granted to the federal government, then that power remains with the States or the people. Since the Constitution never granted the federal government the power to dictate that private citizens purchase health insurance — and in fact Jefferson, Franklin, Madison and other founding fathers would have been horrifi ed by such a power grab — that power remains solely with the States and the people.

What will the US Supreme Court rule?

With this ruling in place, the constitutionality of Obamacare will now likely move to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, of course, is the body that interprets the Constitution and decides whether modern- day laws are allowed under its provisions.

If the justices of the Supreme Court actually abide by the Constitution, they must agree with Judge Henry Hudson and strike down the minimum essential coverage provision of Obama’s health care law.

But if they choose to betray the Constitution and the People, they may decide in favor of Obamacare and thereby ratchet up the power of Big Government to control the private lives and purchasing decisions of American citizens. The Supreme Court has not always respected the language of the Constitution, of course, so it’s not yet certain how the court will rule on this subject. Most likely, the more conservative members of the Court will rule it unconstitutional.

Conventional health care is so bad that you have to threaten people if they don’t buy it

It is especially enlightening that the U.S. health care system is such an utter failure ­that the government must force citizens to buy into it under the threat of IRS penalties. If health care based on conventional drugs and surgery actually worked, you wouldn’t have to threaten the citizens with punishment if they chose not to use it. The only reason IRS agents have to be used to bully people into buying health insurance is because our modern sickcare system doesn’t work. Obama’s dictatorial approach to health care mirrors the health care system itself, in fact: Oppressive, punitive, widely hated and ridiculously ineffective.

Instead of forcing people to buy into a system that’s already broken, Obama would serve the interests of the American people far better by ending the medical racket monopoly currently being operated by Big Pharma, the FDA, the quack medical journals and corrupt doctors, and instead legalizing healing by embracing health freedom and the world of natural medicine.

It is quite fascinating that even in a system where natural medicine isn’t covered by insurance, and where natural therapies are widely discredited by the FDA, the AMA and most conventional doctors, record numbers of people seek out natural therapies anyway because they are more affordable, more effective, safer and more readily compatible with human biology.

The FDA and Big Government don’t want people to have a choice in the matter, you see. They want to force everyone to buy into the failed pharmaceutical system that enriches the drug companies, even while keeping the U.S. population suffering from record rates of degenerative disease.

That’s why we call it a “sick care” system. It’s not about health. It’s about making money off a diseased population while denying them access to natural treatments and cures that could save this nation from medical bankruptcy.

by the El Reportero’s news services

Felipe Calderón

On 2 December, the designated publishers of the ‘WikiLeaks’ U.S. State Department cables started publishing material on Mexico. The first half dozen (of the 2,500) cables to be published show the U.S. officials to be scathing about President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. Calderón’s wellknown sensitivity to any criticism means that the publication will further complicate U.S.-Mexican relations.

How Chávez is playing his rapprochement with Santos

The thaw in Colombian-Venezuelan relations that began when presidents Juan Manuel Santos and Hugo Chávez restored ambassadorial relations last August has been proceeding apace. Venezuela is handing over Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas, paying accumulated debts, agreeing to joint anti-drugs and anti-kidnap efforts. Colombia is reciprocating by clamping down of gold smuggling from Venezuela and agreeing to extradite a suspected Venezuelan drug kingpin — a man Chávez is keen to get hold of for political reasons involving the U.S.

WikiLeaks gives Unasur a leg up

Among the standout diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks in late November was one sent to the U.S. State Department by the U.S. ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, stating unequivocally that the former president Manuel Zelaya (2006-2009) was illegally removed in a coup d’état on 28 June 2009. The timing of the WikiLeaks release is a perfect gift for the 12-member Union of South American Nations (Unasur), which has just approved the addition of a new democratic charter to its 2008 constitutive treaty empowering the new regional organisation to impose political and commercial sanctions against member nations for breaches of the democratic order.`

The empire with no clothes: WikiLeaks and U.S.-Latin American relations

Criticism, concern, silence, even indifference. The release of just the first few hundred of 250,000 classified U.S. State Department memos and cables by WikiLeaks on 28 Nov. elicited a varied response from Latin American governments. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez said the U.S. was left “naked”.

He is right. The fact that so much could be accessed and leaked might complicate international diplomacy for the U.S.. Where he is wrong is in supposing that only the U.S. was stripped bare. Many Latin Americans have a visceral suspicion of U.S. duplicity and will be surprised nothing more compromising has emerged – at least not yet. That some of their own governments are guilty of hypocrisy is more of an eye-opener, especially at a time when they are striving to deepen integration, and reduce U.S. infl uence in the region, through the Union of South American Nations (Unasur).

­Bolivia to be host to ALBA

Defense Academy Minister of Defense of Bolivia Ruben Saavedra confirmed that as of 2012 the eastern region of Santa Cruz will be the venue of the Defense Academy of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America. In remarks to state-run Cambio daily, Saavedra said that the certero f academia studies and research is being constructed in Santa Rosita del Paquio, in Warnes province.

He recalled that the presidents of each member country of ALBA will put the academy in operation to train their military and even civilians interested in defense and security. He said that the center is being constructed at the initiative of President Evo Morales put forward in the ALBA Summit of Cochabamba on Oct. 17, 2009, as a response to foreign military infl uence and the need for ALBA members to count on their own doctrine.

by Paul Joseph Watson

Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano admitted yesterday that body scanners would eventually find their way into U.S. public transportation, trains and boats, but Big Sis is already beta-testing technology that goes even further, by forcing Americans to undergo a behavioral interrogation before they are allowed to enter sports events, rock concerts and shopping malls.

“I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime.

So, what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?” said Napolitano, indicating that naked body scanners and invasive pat downs will eventually become a necessity in order to merely catch the subway or ride a bus.

Indeed, mobile body scanners have already hit the streets with “more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents” having been sold to government agencies,” reports Forbes. American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold many of the devices to U.S. law enforcement agencies, who are already using them on the streets for “security” purposes.

However, body and vehicle scanners are just one tool authorities plan to implement on a widespread basis as part of our deepening decline into a hi-tech militarized police state.

Homeland Security is already implementing technology to be enforced at “security events” which purportedly reads “malintent” on behalf of an individual who passes through a checkpoint. The video below explains how “Future Attribute Screening Technology” (FAST) checkpoints will conduct “physiological” and “behavioral” tests in order to weed out suspected terrorists and criminals.

Big Sis wants to know if there are any evil thoughts inside your head before they   allow you to go about your business.

The clip shows individuals who attend “security events” being led into trailers before they are interrogated as to whether they are terrorists while lie detector-style computer programs analyze their physiological responses. The subjects are asked about their whereabouts, and if they are attempting to smuggle bombs or recording devices into the “expo,” proving that the technology is intended to be used at public events and not just airports. Individuals who do not satisfy the fi rst lie detector- style test are then asked “additional questions”. Americans will be mandated to prove to the government that they are well-behaved slaves before they are allowed to do anything. “The best thing about FAST is its portability,” points out Howard Portnoy.

“If the Big Sis has a mind, they can park an MMR (mobile miner reader—my own acronym) outside the local mall, the petting zoo … you name it, and the government will be there to tap into your brainwaves and fi nd out whether you’re naughty or nice.”

The use of such technology is not only a complete violation of the Fourth Amendment, it also eviscerates the notion of innocent until proven guilty, and therefore totally undermines everything America stands for. Given the widespread abuse witnessed in the fi rst year alone after the roll out of airport body scanners, Americans need to boycott the companies producing these systems and also resist their deployment at every turn.

­Big Sis has made it clear that everything we see in the airport, from invasive groping to body scanners to iris scans, is eventually destined to be rolled out on the streets. When this happens, people who thought they could avoid such treatment by simply refusing to fly will instead discover that their apathy has greased the skids for a total surveillance society that outstrips anything they read about in George Orwell’s 1984 or saw in movies like Minority Report.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.