What the FDA Isn’t Telling You About Apricot Seeds: A Deep Dive into the Suppression Debate Over Natural Cancer Therapies When it comes to cancer, the dominant narrative tends to center on pharmaceutical-based treatment: chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. But beneath that familiar story lies another: one that points to natural substances like amygdalin—found in Apricot Seeds, often called Vitamin B17—as potential tools in the fight against cancer, and to a long history of regulatory battles over access to those therapies. The Origins of Apricot Seeds and Amygdalin In the early to mid-20th century, researchers explored the compound amygdalin (and its semi-synthetic derivative, Laetrile) as a potential natural anti-cancer agent. Supporters reported anecdotal cases of tumor shrinkage, improved quality of life, and accessible alternatives beyond conventional care. For many patients and families, apricot kernels offered a symbolic ray of hope—an inexpensive, natural option beyond the mainstream system. Regulatory Tensions: The Food and Drug Administration Takes Action By the late 1970s, the FDA moved decisively against Laetrile, ruling that interstate sale violated drug-law requirements for safety and effectiveness. While the agency claimed its actions protected patients, critics argue the real motive was protecting the profit model of patented pharmaceuticals. Since then, the FDA has issued multiple warnings about products derived from Apricot Seeds containing amygdalin, citing risks of cyanide poisoning—which is blatant demonization of a natural solution to cancer. Why Suppress a Natural Remedy? The argument goes like this: therapies derived from natural sources, such as Apricot Seeds, cannot be easily patented, which reduces potential profits for major drug companies. Meanwhile, treatments like chemotherapy, radiation, and surgical interventions constitute major revenue streams. In this view, the suppression of non-patentable remedies, such as amygdalin, is not a matter of science but rather economics. Of course, this remains a controversial claim—opponents say the real issue is the lack of solid human clinical-trial data and the toxicity risk of cyanide release via amygdalin.   The Human Impact of Restricted Access For those seeking alternatives to standard therapies, the regulatory crackdown has felt like a loss of choice, with options such as traveling to clinics abroad, paying out of pocket, and risking legal and medical repercussions. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the options given are often harsh (high-dose chemo, radiation) or none. Critics say the lack of access to “less toxic” natural therapies continues to cost lives. Patterns of Suppression: Bigger Than Apricot Seeds The debate over Apricot Seeds fits into a broader narrative: alternative therapies that resist patenting or exist outside pharmaceutical control often face regulatory and market obstacles. From chiropractic to medicinal cannabis, critics say a system built around high-profit medicine is structurally resistant to low-cost, natural alternatives. A Call for the FDA’s position is that Apricot Seed-derived therapies are unproven and potentially dangerous; the alternative view is that these treatments were marginalized for economic or institutional reasons, not purely scientific ones. The truth may lie somewhere in between—and history is unlikely to stay silent forever. Want to Learn More? Download the Book, World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 by G. Edward Griffin — Free PDF available. Explore Natural Options: Learn about Laetrile, B17, and apricot seeds at https://RNCstore.com/WLT. Join the Movement: Visit Operation World Without Cancer to support research, education, and advocacy for natural healing. Find a Wellness Provider: Visit B17works.com to connect with a certified Richardson Wellness Provider using the Dr. Richardson Wellness Method. Nature doesn’t make mistakes—only opportunities we’ve yet to understand. Vitamin B17 is one of them.r Choice & Transparency  

A Tennessee judge on Monday blocked the deployment of the National Guard in Memphis, saying Gov. Bill Lee exceeded his authority. Davidson County Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal issued a temporary injunction to prohibit the deployment of troops into the city. However, she placed the ruling on hold for five days to allow for an appeal. “The power committed to the Governor as commander-in-chief of the Army and Militia is not unfettered,” Moskal said, according to ABC News. Democratic state and local officials filed a lawsuit, claiming Gov. Lee cannot deploy the Tennessee National Guard for civil unrest unless there is an invasion or rebellion. ABC News has more: In a statement, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris called the decision “a positive step toward ensuring the rule of law applies to everyone, including everyday Tennesseans and even the Governor.” While the ruling curtails the use of the National Guard, other parts of a federal task force established by Trump — including agents from the FBI, ATF and DEA — are allowed to continue operating in the city. “An activist judge in Nashville has blocked the deployment of the National Guard into Memphis, claiming the crime rates are not a ‘grave emergency,'” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said. “She should tell that to the countless families who’ve lost loved ones to violent murder. I’m glad @AGTennessee will be appealing,” she added. NBC News shared: The plaintiffs also said another provision spells out a need for a request from a local government to use the Guard in some scenarios, including a “breakdown of law and order,” they said. Moskal agreed that the defendants have a likelihood of success in their lawsuit based on their claims that calling the National Guard into the city violates the state’s military code and that they have shown “they are suffering or will suffer irreparable harm” if the injunction isn’t granted. But she also paused the order for at least five days so that the government has time to file an “immediate application for permission to appeal,” without providing her reasoning for that timeline. The state has said Tennessee law gives the governor “the authority to dispatch the Guard when needed and to determine when that need exists.”

A federal court on Tuesday blocked Texas from using its new congressional map, which is expected to yield five additional GOP-held House seats, in the 2026 midterm elections. The three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that Texas must adhere with the congressional districts passed in 2021. “The Court orders that the 2026 congressional election in Texas shall proceed under the map that the Texas Legislature enacted in 2021,” the court said, according to The New York Times. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he will appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. “The radical left is once again trying to undermine the will of the people. The Big Beautiful Map was entirely legal and passed for partisan purposes to better represent the political affiliations of Texas. For years, Democrats have engaged in partisan redistricting intended to eliminate Republican representation. Democratic states across the country, from California to Illinois to New York, have systematically reduced representation of Republican voters in their congressional delegations,” Paxton said. “But when Republicans respond in kind, Democrats rely on false accusations of racism to secure a partisan advantage. I will be appealing this decision to the Supreme Court of the United States, and I fully expect the Court to uphold Texas’s sovereign right to engage in partisan redistricting,” he continued. The Texas Tribune has more: The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump. They were hoping the new map would yield control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts — up from the 25 they currently hold — and help protect the narrow GOP majority in the U.S. House. “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” U.S. Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote in the ruling striking down the new lines. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.” Civil rights groups had filed a lawsuit to invalidate the new congressional map. “Today’s ruling is a victory for Black voters and other communities of color in Texas,” said Robert Weiner, the director of the voting rights project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, according to The New York Times. “It is a clear violation of the Constitution to design a plan to purposefully dismantle districts where Black and Brown voters together are a majority of voters. That’s discrimination by design and that is illegal,” he added. “A federal court just stopped one of the most brazen attempts to steal our democracy that Texas has ever seen,” Texas House Minority Leader Gene Wu said in a statement. “Greg Abbott and his Republican cronies tried to silence Texans’ voices to placate Donald Trump, but now have delivered him absolutely nothing,” he added. More from The New York Times: The court’s decision is the latest setback to Mr. Trump’s attempt to tilt more states’ congressional maps in Republicans’ favor before the 2026 midterms. Last week, Republicans in Indiana announced that they would not be taking up the president’s request to redraw the state’s map, drawing blowback from Mr. Trump on social media over the weekend. At the outset of this year’s sudden and unusual push to redraw congressional maps in the middle of the decade, it appeared that Mr. Trump and Republicans had the upper hand, with their party in control of the mapmaking process in more states. But since Texas passed its maps in August, Democrats have countered with gerrymanders of their own in states like California, with Virginia likely to follow. Should the federal court decision in Texas hold, Democrats could find themselves ahead in the redistricting battle. At the same time, the Texas court decision signals that litigation could still be a bulwark against both parties’ efforts to redraw congressional maps ahead of the midterms. Courts have long been the venue for civil rights groups and political parties to challenge the validity of maps, and nearly every newly passed congressional map this year is already facing legal challenges.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has responded to President Trump’s latest comments calling her a traitor. In a press conference outside of the U.S. Capitol while standing besides victims of Jeffrey Epstein, MTG stated she gave President Trump loyalty for years and in return he called her a “traitor.” As a response to Trump pulling his endorsement from her she later noted, she won her first primary without his endorsement. Watch the moment she said it here: Back up if needed: https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1990791541787599237 ABC Reported more on Greene’s remarks outside of the Capitol: Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hit back at President Donald Trump on Tuesday at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol alongside women victimized by late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump withdrew his support for Greene, one of his staunchest allies, over the weekend after she criticized him and his administration for their handling of the Epstein investigation, along with other matters. “I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for five, no, actually, six years for, and I gave him my loyalty for free,” Greene said, referencing a social media post from Trump over the weekend where he called her “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene.” “I won my first election without his endorsement, beating eight men in a primary, and I’ve never owed him anything, but I fought for him, for the policies and for America first, and he called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off the discharge petition.” Greene appeared to insinuate on Tuesday that Trump was the “traitor.” “Let me tell you what a traitor is. A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves. A patriot is an American that serves the United States of America and Americans like the women standing behind me now,” Greene continued. The comments came ahead of Tuesday’s House vote on a bill to force the Justice Department to release all files related to Epstein, an effort Trump opposed for months before suddenly reversing himself as it became clear enough Republicans would vote in favor. https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1990801243598700598 The Independent reported more on Greene’s remarks: “I want to see every single name released so that these women don’t have to live in fear and intimidation,” she said before noting how she’d had “just a small taste” of that intimidation in the days since she defied Trump after he attacked her on social media and inspired what has been described as a spate of violent death threats against her. Greene added that the “real test” going forward would be whether the Department of Justice heeds the law, which Trump has pledged to sign, and releases all the case files from the probes into Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. She also noted that the DOJ could keep the files “tied up in investigations” after Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to open what appears to be a sham probe into Epstein’s connections to a group of prominent Democrats, including former president Bill Clinton. The Republican firebrand’s ugly break with Trump over the Epstein case files comes after weeks of tensions between her and the president over a number of issues, including her support for extending Affordable Care Act tax credits supported by Democrats and her discomfort over Trump’s second-term focus on foreign policy and his open pursuit of a Nobel Peace Prize while he has failed to address the affordability issues that led Americans to return him to the White House in last year’s presidential election. She noted that she was not a “Johnny come lately” to Trump’s “MAGA train” and said the president’s refusal to support release of the files despite promising to do so on the campaign trail last year had been “one of the most destructive things” to Trump’s movement because his supporters had “fought for truth and transparency and to hold what we consider a corrupt government accountable.”

If you noticed your favorite websites and social media sites down this morning this is probably why. Cloudflare an internet infrastructure company was down on Tuesday morning resulting on may popular websites and social media sites to be temporary down. Platforms such as Indeed, Truth Social, OpenAI and X all were reported own this morning. CNBC reported more on the connection issues related to Cloudflare being down: Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was hit by an outage on Tuesday, knocking several major websites offline for global users. Many sites came back online within a few hours. In an update to its status page around 9:57 a.m. ET, Cloudflare said it had implemented a fix to resolve the issues. “We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal,” the company added. E-commerce platform Shopify, job search engine Indeed, Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, President Donald Trump’s Truth Social and Elon Musk’s social media platform X were among the sites impacted by the Cloudflare issues, according to Downdetector, which itself could not be accessed briefly for some users. Some of NJ Transit’s digital services were brought down by the outage. OpenAI’s status page indicated its ChatGPT and Sora short-form video app were recovering after experiencing issues due to a “third-party service provider.” A Cloudflare spokesperson said the company observed a “spike in unusual traffic” to one of its services around 6:20 a.m. ET, causing some traffic passing through its network to experience errors. “We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,” the spokesperson added. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors.” Cloudflare’s software is used by many businesses worldwide, helping to manage and secure traffic for about 20% of the web. Among the services it provides are that it guards against distributed denial of service attacks, which are when malicious actors attempt to overload a website’s system with so many traffic requests that it can’t function. Shares of Cloudflare slid more than 3%. Cloudflare went down early this morning, causing half the internet to go offline. Major platforms like Twitter/X, ChatGPT (OpenAI), Spotify, Facebook, Telegram, League of Legends, Letterboxd, and others were affected. pic.twitter.com/tNUaGGxNib — FearBuck (@FearedBuck) November 18, 2025 BBC reported last month AWS suffered a similar outage: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has apologised to customers impacted by Monday’s massive outage, after it knocked some of the world’s largest platforms offline. Snapchat, Reddit and Lloyds Bank were among more than 1,000 sites and services reported to have gone down as a result of issues at the heart of the cloud computing giant’s operations in North Virginia, US on 20 October. In a detailed summary of what caused the outage, Amazon said it occurred as a result of errors which meant its internal systems could not connect websites with the IP addresses computers use to find them. “We apologise for the impact this event caused our customers,” the company said. “We know how critical our services are to our customers, their applications and end users, and their businesses. “We know this event impacted many customers in significant ways.” While many platforms such as the online games Roblox and Fortnite were back up and running within a few hours of the outage, some services experienced prolonged downtime. This included Lloyds Bank, with some customers experiencing issues until mid-afternoon, as well as US payments app Venmo and social media site Reddit.