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Desperate Medical Industrial Complex Attacks Vitamin And Mineral Supplements

It galls the Industrial Drug Complex that vitamin and mineral supplements are a multi-billion dollar a year industry that they have tried, and failed, many times to get control of. You see, it’s not about your health and well-being, its about what it is always about: the money.

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December 18, 2013

Geoffrey Grider

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For nearly 100 years now, high-quality vitamin and mineral supplements have made amazing improvements to the quality of people’s lives the world over. This author personally attests to the power of said supplements properly taken over the past 30 years. But the American Medical Association and its various minions see vitamin supplements as direct competition to their regimen of highly toxic drugs that come with an incredible number of side effects and drug interactions that kill thousands of people each year.

It further galls the Industrial Drug Complex that vitamin and mineral supplements are a multi-billion dollar a year industry that they have tried, and failed, many times to get control of. You see, it’s not about your health and well-being, its about what it is always about: the money.

Today, organized medicine has taken their strongest shot to date in an attempt to scare people away from taking supplements. As usual, their opinion is biased, slanted and corrupt and as such is rendered meaningless and worthless. In this article they also attack 2-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling,and dismiss his amazing body of work as “quackery”. Why do they call him a ‘quack’? Because Pauling discovered that the combination of vitamin C and the amino acid Lysine can reverse heart disease for pennies a day with zero side effects.

Shame on you, heartless drug companies who only seek after profit. And double shame on you ignorant doctors who prescribe toxic drugs because you get kick-backs from the pharmaceutical companies.

From The Week: Questions about the health benefits of vitamin supplements have been percolating in the medical establishment for decades — even as the multivitamin industry has grown to a multi-billion powerhouse in the U.S. This week, the respected journal the Annals of Internal Medicine put its well-heeled foot down.

All you greedy doctors and drug companies should be ashamed of yourselves for telling lies.

“We believe that the case is closed — supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) mineral or vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and might even be harmful,” the journal said in an editorial. “These vitamins should not be used for chronic disease prevention. Enough is enough.”

Here’s Dr. Edgar Miller of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, one of the editorial’s five co-authors: “What will protect you is if you spend the money on fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, low fat dairy, things like that,” Miller tells CBS News. “Exercising would probably be a better use of the money.” The only exceptions are folic acid for pregnant women and, possibly, vitamin D — the studies are mixed on its benefits and risks.

Assuming Miller and his colleagues are right — and they base their assertion on three large, recent studies — Americans have been wasting lots of money on vitamins. About half of U.S. adults take dietary supplements, and the vitamin industry has grown to $12 billion a year for vitamins alone and about $30 billion for all dietary supplements. That’s just in the U.S.

How did the vitamin industry convince Americans that they need to bulk up on vitamin A, vitamin C, various forms of vitamin B, and other vitamins or multivitamin supplements? “Vitamin manufacturers argue that a regular diet doesn’t contain enough vitamins, and that more is better,” and most people wrongly assume that “at the very least, excess vitamins can’t do any harm,” Paul Offit, an infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said in The New York Times in June.

But much of the blame lies with a flawed genius, Linus Pauling, Offit says. Pauling, the father of molecular biology and near-discoverer of DNA, was “so spectacularly right that he won two Nobel prizes and so spectacularly wrong that he was arguably the world’s greatest quack,” Offit wrote inThe Guardian. Starting in 1966, Pauling started evangelizing about the wonders of vitamin C, making outrageous claims about its salutary effects.

In 1970, Pauling published a bestseller, Vitamin C And The Common Cold, arguing that 3,000 mg of the vitamin each day would eradicate the cold. He went on to insist that a multitude of vitamins, including A, E, and beta-carotine could treat or cure a whole host of maladies, from cancer to AIDS. Study after study after study proved him wrong.

Pauling really believed his claims, but the vitamin industry had more cynical motives: Money, asOffit recounted in The New York Times. The Food and Drug Administration proposed regulating vitamin supplements containing more than 150 percent of the recommended daily allowance in December 1972, meaning “vitamin makers would now have to prove that these ‘megavitamins’ were safe before selling them,” Offit continues:

Not surprisingly, the vitamin industry saw this as a threat, and set out to destroy the bill. In the end, it did far more than that. Industry executives recruited William Proxmire, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin, to introduce a bill preventing the FDA. from regulating megavitamins…. Proxmire’s bill passed by a vote of 81 to 10. In 1976, it became law. Decades later, Peter Barton Hutt, chief counsel to the FDA, wrote that “it was the most humiliating defeat” in the agency’s history. [New York Times]

So, thanks to Linus Pauling, money, and politics, Offit concludes, “consumers don’t know that taking megavitamins could increase their risk of cancer and heart disease and shorten their lives.”

But surely consumers play some role in the rise of the vitamin industrial complex. Research about the ineffectiveness of vitamins, or worse, has been around since the 1940s, after all. “People over time and particularly people in the United States have been led to believe that vitamin and mineral supplements will make them healthier, and they’re looking for a magic pill,” Dr. Cynthia Mulrow, another of the Annals of Internal Medicine editorialists, tells Reuters.

And the “magic pill” habit may be hard to break, scathing editorial or no. For what it’s worth, here’s the pushback from the supplement trade group the Council for Responsible Nutrition:

The Annals of Internal Medicine editorial “demonstrates a close-minded, one-sided approach that attempts to dismiss even the proven benefits of vitamins and minerals,” says the group’s CEO, Steve Mister. “It’s a shame for consumers that the authors refuse to recognize the real-life need for vitamin and mineral supplementation, living in a fairy-tale world that makes the inaccurate assumption that we’re all eating healthy diets and getting everything we need from food alone.”

At the end of this CBS News report, the featured inveterate vitamin-taker buys the industry’s argument and declares that, despite the evidence and her healthy diet, she will continue taking vitamins. She almost certainly isn’t alone. source – The Week

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An Angry President Trump Vows Jail Time For Anyone Who Dares To Tell The Truth About How Badly America’s Munitions Stockpile Has Been Depleted In Iran War

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August 6, 2026

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Trump Hunts The Leakers As America’s Iran War Exposes A Crippled Defense Industry Unable To Replace Critical Missiles At The Rate They Are Fired Into The Middle East

Whether or not President Trump confronted Pete Hegseth exactly as is being reported today is almost beside the point, because one fact is becoming impossible to conceal: critical American munitions stockpiles have been dangerously depleted. Six months of sustained warfare with Iran, combined with years of supplying Ukraine and supporting military operations across the Middle East, have exposed the enormous gap between Washington’s appetite for war and America’s ability to manufacture the weapons required to fight one, and America’s enemies are starting to smell the blood in the water. How does Trump respond? By calling the whole thing “fake news” and then threatening to put the leakers behind bars.

“Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?” Luke 14:31 (KJB)

The United States remains the most powerful military force on earth, but military power is not measured solely by aircraft carriers, fighter jets and trillion-dollar budgets. It is measured by how long those forces can continue fighting before the missiles run out. Patriot and THAAD interceptors cannot be replaced overnight, and long-range precision weapons cannot simply be ordered from a warehouse when the existing supply has been expended. These systems require specialized factories, complicated supply chains and months—sometimes years—of production. President Trump says America possesses “massive amounts” of munitions, especially of certain types. That qualification tells the story. America may possess mountains of conventional ammunition, bombs and artillery shells while simultaneously suffering dangerous shortages of the specific high-end missiles required to defend its bases, protect its allies and strike heavily defended targets from a safe distance.

This is also why the identity of the leakers has become such an explosive issue. Revealing precise American stockpile weaknesses during an active war can unquestionably provide valuable intelligence to Iran, China and Russia. But hunting down the people who disclosed the shortages will not replenish a single Patriot interceptor. The deeper scandal is that the shortages were permitted to develop in the first place—and that the commander-in-chief may not have received an honest accounting until America’s military options were already being restricted.

The Pentagon spent decades building a military designed to win short, technologically overwhelming campaigns. The Iran war is demonstrating what happens when that military becomes trapped in a prolonged war of attrition against an enemy capable of launching inexpensive drones and missiles that must be intercepted with weapons costing millions of dollars apiece. Iran does not have to defeat the United States conventionally; it merely has to keep forcing America to consume sophisticated weapons faster than American factories can replace them.

That is the real warning buried beneath the Trump-Hegseth controversy. The United States has not become militarily powerless, but its margin for fighting another major war is rapidly shrinking. Every interceptor fired over the Middle East is one less available for defending American forces in the Pacific. Every long-range missile used against Iran is one less weapon available should China move against Taiwan. America may still have the strongest military in the world, but even the strongest military cannot endlessly fire weapons that its industrial base is unable to replace. But when you spend thousands of $15 million dollar missiles to take down $400,000 dollar drones, that is how strong nations lose wars to small nations. One thing’s for sure, Iran has not lost the war up to this point, and that’s very bad news.

Supply and demand: US weapons inventories under pressure

How bad is it? It’s so bad that even Fox News is forced to tell you the truth about how miserably Trump’s war in Iran is going, and how it’s caused a massive depletetion of our wartime munitions stockpiles.

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Trump Administration Orders New Tactical Nuclear War Strategy Against Russia And China As The Department Of War Makes An Unthinkable Global Catastrophe Thinkable Again

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August 5, 2026

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The Department Of War Believes Nuclear Conflict Can Be Controlled As Trump Administration Drafts Tactical Weapons Strategy For Regional War Against Russia Or China

The Trump administration is directing the Department of War to develop a nuclear strategy that would give the president shorter-range, lower-yield and supposedly more “usable” nuclear options during a regional war with Russia or China. They call it “escalation management,” but what they are actually doing is making nuclear war easier to start. Washington is developing plans for fighting a nuclear war with Russia or China while attempting to convince itself that the conflict can remain limited. It is transforming nuclear weapons from instruments of last-resort destruction into battlefield options placed before the president during a regional crisis. It is insanity, and someone must stop it. But I don’t think anyone will.

“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” 1 Thessalonians 5:3 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, according to NBC News, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby is overseeing the drafting of a classified strategy that places increased emphasis upon tactical nuclear weapons. Five people familiar with the plans say the strategy would revise the nuclear-response options presented to the president during a military crisis. The men planning this strategy want the American president to have choices beyond launching long-range strategic weapons capable of destroying cities, military installations and enemy nuclear forces. They believe smaller nuclear weapons could be used to deliver a limited strike, demonstrate American resolve and force Russia or China to stop escalating. This is the language of madmen attempting to make Armageddon sound manageable. A nuclear weapon does not become safe because government officials attach the word “tactical” to it. It does not become controllable because it has a shorter range or a smaller explosive yield. It still produces a nuclear blast, radioactive fallout, mass casualties and an immediate demand for retaliation. Once the first nuclear weapon is detonated, every carefully drafted Pentagon theory becomes meaningless. The American people are expected to believe the same war planners who failed to control Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and decades of Middle Eastern conflict, including the one raging right now, will somehow control a nuclear exchange between superpowers. They will not. In March, Department of War officials publicly acknowledged that Colby’s policy office and U.S. Strategic Command were conducting a nuclear-strategy review examining American force requirements and possible additional theater nuclear weapons. Instead of conducting a traditional Nuclear Posture Review subjected to the customary interagency process and congressional scrutiny, the administration moved the work into an internal strategy review. The architecture of nuclear confrontation is being deliberately expanded. The Trump administration is not putting out the flames of global conflict. Through the Department of War, it is fanning them while assembling the machinery for a catastrophe that will consume everything in its path. The Bible tells us that the day will come when peace would be taken from the earth, and the nations are getting ready. That day is almost here.

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