US: House Poised to Vote on Government Take-over of Health Care
For those of you living in the US: check out what the National Health Federation has to say about the coming expansion of the health care or rather disease care system and its projected effects on freedom of choice. The reform bill is to be voted on in the House of Representatives on Saturday 7 November. You might want to call your representatives to give them a piece of your mind...
Don’t enclose our broccoli! (No Patents on Seeds and Animals campaign)
“The continuing patenting of seeds, conventional plant varieties and animal species leads to far-reaching expropriations of farmers and breeders: farmers are deprived of their rights to save their seeds, and breeders are under strong limitations to use the patented seeds freely for further breeding. The patent holder controlls the sale of the seeds and the planting, decides about the use of herbicides and can even collect royalties at the harvest – up to the finished food product.
Our food security is increasingly dependent on a few transnational chemical and biotechnological companies.”
Why This Doctor Questions Flu Vaccination
2009 may be the year of the vaccine show-down, the moment when enough of us start questioning all we're being told about vaccines. A survey published in the BMJ in August reported that less than half of healthcare workers in Hong Kong were willing to accept "pre-pandemic" flu vaccination. And that was before a letter from the Health Protection Agency to 600 United Kingdom neurologists on July 29th warning them to be on the alert for an increase in cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome following the vaccination campaign.
If nurses and doctors start questioning vaccination for themselves, sooner or later we'll have to advise patients to make their own minds up. They seem to be doing so anyway. A poll by Fox News
Eating, drinking and lifestyle changes can boost immunity to ward off seasonal flu
"It's really pretty simple," says Connie Diekman, RD, director of University Nutrition and immediate past president of the American Dietetic Association. "There are three key things to think about. Number one is hydration. Number two is foods and Number three is lifestyle issues."
The topic of this book is of pivotal significance. The pharmaceutical companies and top scientists rake in enormous sums of money by attacking germs and the media boosts its audience ratings and circulations with sensationalized reporting (the coverage of the New York Times and Der Spiegel are specifically analyzed). Individuals pay the highest price of all, without getting what they deserve and need most to maintain health: enlightenment about the real causes and true necessities for prevention and cure of their illnesses. “The first step is to give up the illusion that the primary purpose of modern medical research is to improve people’s health most effectively and efficiently,” advises John Abramson of Harvard Medical School. “The primary purpose of commercially-funded clinical research is to maximize financial return on investment, not health.”
The foreword to this book was written by Etienne De Harven, Professor Emeritus of Pathology at the University of Toronto and Member of the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York (1956 - 1981). You can find it here in PDF format.
CODEX MEETING IN GERMANY BEGINS AMID DISPUTES OVER NUTRIENT REFERENCE VALUES FOR CONSUMERS AROUND THE WORLD
The regular session of CCNFSDU [the Codex Nutrition Committee] begins on Monday morning, November 2nd; however, the Physical Working Group on the Development of NRVs [Nutrient Reference Values] Associated with Increased or Decreased Risk of Non-Communicable Diseases (an offspring of CCNSFDU) held its one-day session on Saturday, October 31st, with the NHF’s president Scott Tips in attendance.
“The purpose of this Working Group was to develop in advance of the general meeting some of the principles, concepts, and wording to be used in the creation of Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) affecting non-communicable diseases. The meeting got off to an ironic start when the U.S. delegate Barbara Schneeman proposed adding into NRV language wording that would make sure the NRVs did not exceed an acceptable ‘Upper Limit.’ Twice, the European Commission delegate, Basil Mathioudakis, correctly questioned the need for this. In turn, I also spoke out three times emphatically against the appropriateness of such language, supporting the EC’s challenge and also telling the Group that it was mystifying that the USA could even take this position given that it is contrary to US law.”
This is an extremely important brochure that has been composed and sponsored by the Competence Initiative, an alliance of scientists and medical doctors who are concerned with electromagnetic pollution of our environment. The negative impact of cellphone technology on insects and birds is posing an extremely grave risk on the environmental health of the planet. Human beings are not immune. Several mechanisms of damage are known in Medicine. Cellphone technology was never safety tested and now both animals and humans around the world are paying the consequences of this criminal neglect sponsored by the World Health Organization and the ICNIRP (the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection).
This one is a long read at over 40 pages, but it is the best compilation of the science regarding radiation damage to insects, birds and mammals I have yet seen. Explains the problem in layman's terms but also provides all the scientific references for who wants to delve deeper into the rabbit hole.
FDA Hid Research Damning to Aspartame
The sweetener is still widely used as a low-calorie alternative to sugar, recommended for diabetics and anyone who wants to lose weight. Although many consumers are aware of the dangers of this sweetener, we believe the FDA should come clean and admit what happened. It should revoke the approval for aspartame and issue an international communication detailing its adverse health effects. The sweetener should no longer be used for human consumption, although perhaps, with appropriate warning, it could be sold as an effective ant poison...
The new alchemy: Mixing doctors and journalists to spin gold
A recent example of inflated claims the media made for one drug, based on a study reported in The Lancet, illustrates the problem. The glowing reports reflect not only media vulnerabilities, but also the way the hidden hand of industry exploits those vulnerabilities, through prepublication news releases that amplify optimistic claims made by researchers in scientific journals, while minimizing or ignoring risks and failing to report scientific dissent and financial conflicts of interest.
Hospital-acquired Infections Linked to nearly 100,000 Deaths Annually
Thanks to concerned citizens, such as former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey of New York, whose Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths was established in 2004, attention has been drawn to the fact that there are 2 million cases of hospital-acquired infections each year, resulting in 100,000 deaths and an additional $33 billion in healthcare costs (www.hospitalinfection.org).
Video:Why I Left Mainstream Medicine - From A Nurse
I'm a nurse who is no longer willing to practice modern medicine due to what I've learned about the medical field. These are quotes from an interview I did on why I refuse to continue practicing. The actual interview is much more thorough than this. You may read it at my blog: Red Pill Reich
Is there a link between antidepressants and violence?
In 2006, David Crespi, a former banking executive with no criminal record or history of violence, killed his twin five-year-old daughters, stabbing them multiple times with a kitchen knife. He then called the police and sat with his daughters, blood all over him, until they arrived. Crespi, who was living with his wife and family in Charlotte, North Carolina (they have three other children), pled guilty to avoid the death penalty and is now serving a life sentence for the murders.
What wasn't mentioned at the time is the fact that Crespi was taking Prozac when he killed his daughters, along with the sleeping pill Ambien. He was taking the drugs (and had previously taken Zoloft and Paxil) because he couldn't sleep and was very anxious about losing his job with Wachovia Bank. Crespi became agitated and delusional on Prozac, according to his wife, Kim. Seven days after starting the drug, he killed their twin daughters, Tess and Samantha.
Swine flu Vaccine - I think I'll .... nope not for me ....
At this point in time though, I am in mourning over the missed opportunity we had to yet once again, teach our fellow human beings how to stay healthy. We've been extolled to wash our hands, get the vaccine. It goes much deeper than that. We should be sending flyers to homes about eating healthy, getting out in the fresh air, exercising .... No, instead we are opting for the "quick fix solution" - which really isn't a fix at all.
Rebecca Campbell files federal lawsuit over WHO flu scam in Seattle
This is a suit filed at the US District Court of Washington State in Seattle against Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of DHSS, Thomas Frieden, Director of the CDEC and Francis Collins, Director of the NIH as well as Margaret Ann Hamburg, Commissioner of the FDA.
The suit charges that a level 6 pandemic has been declared without proper cause, in the face of a very mild flu outbreak, that mass vaccinations are planned and can be enforced by US law, that vaccine maker Baxter has produced vaccine material contaminated with live virus, that vaccines contain toxic preservatives and adjuvants, and that martial law might be declared to enforce vaccination.
There is a demand for an injunction, and "that any officials of the federal government be thereby forbidden, now or in the future, to commit perjury concerning the alleged benefits or efficacy of any suspiciously derived/designed mandatory or voluntary vaccination". It also asks that a grand jury investigation be ordered "to prevent any possible injury to the American people by means of any aforementioned possible federally mandated martial law, with enforced vaccinations/ quarantines/ detentions, that a RICO (racketeering) investigation be conducted; and that an investigation by the US Attorney be ordered of several named officials, so as "to prevent any planned enforced bioweaponized vaccinations".
Video:USA: Swine Flu Government Data Scam
"If you've been diagnoses with probable or presumed 2009 H1N1 or swine flu in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: The odds are you didn't have H1N1 flu and probably didn't have flu at all. That's according to state by state test results obtained in our 3 months long CBS investigation..."
Amid all the disastrous swine flu news, here is a different point of view to consider:
"I would like to point out that S. and myself published on the effective technology of Washing hands about 3 years back. We also predicted the failure of all the "approved" technologies.
Now! I have good news. The Flu epidemic is OVER folks. It will be a memory before the vaccinations get a chance to work. Within the next 3 weeks the epidemic will be reduced to a mere 15% fraction of its current level. It has already spiked over and is rapidly dropping off. You can get the facts by Google (Key Words: Flu, Map). Once the spike drops it is over folks. The Vaccine wagon has sailed into ineffective status.
The other good news is that despite the fairly high rates of infection mortality has been trivial. Deaths from the Flu have not reached even marginally the levels normal for "seasonal flu." We may still get the "seasonal flu" this winter but I suspect not. Track the deaths for yourself if you want but normally the flu kills between 35,000 and 65,000 a year in the USA. We are no where near on trend for 5,000 dead yet and the epidemic is dropping off."
This quote is from a friend in the US... don't take it as gospel, but start watching for news that would confirm or deny this development.
Swine Flu Update – Epidemic hysteria revisited (PDF)
If someone told you that 98 to 99% of people diagnosed with swine flu actually did not have it, you would probably say they were misguided or had simply lost their senses. However, that is what a 3 month CBS investigation found, just published three days ago, on October 21, 2009. Furthermore, in 86 to 93% of these “probable” or “presumed” swine flu cases, regular seasonal influenza did not cause the symptoms, either. The vast majority of people diagnosed with the swine flu today most likely have a viral syndrome similar to the common cold.
Unfortunately, good news about the swine flu is a topic that people do not want to hear about. That is why it does nothing to generate ratings, sell newspapers, or sell vaccines, and, therefore, is widely ignored. It is also unfortunate that the fear and anxiety created by this campaign undermines people’s health, probably having a greater impact on public health than the swine flu, itself. When subjected to chronic stress and anxiety, it is hard for people to get through routine illnesses, and makes it more likely that a routine illness will turn into a severe illness.
Bird flu, influenza and 1918: The case for mutant avian tuberculosis
Traditionally, ‘‘flu’’ does not kill. Experts, including Peter Palese of the Mount School of Medicine in Manhattan, remind us that even in 1992, millions in China already had antibodies to H5N1, meaning that they had contracted it and that their immune system had little trouble fending it off.
Dr. Andrew Noymer and Michel Garenne, UC Berkely demographers, reported in 2000 convincing statistics showing that undetected tuberculosis may have been the real killer in the 1918 flu epidemic.
Video:WHO 'spins' pandemic: Does vaccine actually spread the flu?
WHO states it wants to 'spin' the influenza pandemic to maintain political interest so that governments will want to invest in vaccine production and stockpile vaccines.:
19 October 2007
WHO HQ, Geneva, Switzerland - A major risk factor is the underlying assumption that there will in fact be a pandemic. If there is not a pandemic within the next five years, there may be loss of interest and political awareness, and other public health needs may shift investment away from pandemic influenza. Therefore, it is critical to identify the best possible strategy to maintain political commitment.
"The main priorities for WHO for the year 2008 should be to choose the appropriate spin to be placed on the business plan in association with the right marketing strategy. WHO also needs to establish a detailed operational plan and to define financial resources i.e. donors, countries, and other stakeholders."
German doctors refuse to be bullied by authorities into giving "swine flu" jab
Fredrich Hoffmann, the head of Germany's national vaccine commission, has told doctors that they should give the untested "swine flu" jab to their patients no matter what their opinion about it might be, but German doctors are refusing to bow down and be bullied.
Dr Jürgen Seefeldt, a specialist in internal medicine from Paderborn, sent an open letter to the Dr Susanne Stöcker, an official from the German drug regulator, the Paul Ehrlich Institute, pointing out the reason why her statement in the media that the "swine flu" jab was not risky was an "infamous lie".
Seefeldt systematically lists the dangers of squalene and mercury citing relevant scientific literature. He also notes that these toxic ingredients are not necessary for making a vaccine.
"For this reason, Swissmedic has not yet authorised the administration of Pandemrix to pregnant women, children under the age of 18 and adults over 60," the regulator said in a statement.
Pandemrix was one of two vaccines approved by European Medicines Agency (EMEA) in September.
More than half of Chinese 'don't want swine flu shot'
But only 30 percent of those polled by the China Daily said they definitely would like to receive the shot. About 15 percent said they would make a decision based on what other people did.
It has long been known, for example, that mercury may bioaccumulate in the brain if not eliminated from the body, and that mercury is toxic to young, developing brains even at minute levels of exposure. It also has been acknowledged that dietary zinc is an essential mineral for maintaining the metabolic processes required to remove mercury from the body.
Less recognized, however, is evidence that diets including high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and other food additives may also lead to deficiencies in zinc and other trace minerals in humans.
Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Renal Failure
Low levels of vitamin D may account for nearly 60 percent of the elevated risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in African Americans, according to a report in the December Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). "Our study adds to previous evidence linking vitamin D deficiency to the progression of kidney disease and the need for dialysis," comments Michal L. Melamed, MD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY). "It also explains a fair amount of the increased risk of ESRD in African Americans."
EU - Poland: Food supplements industry attempts to tackle "borderline" products problem
The Polish Council for Supplements and Nutritional Foods (KRSiO) on 23 October submitted a legislative proposal that amends several provisions of the Food and Nutrition Safety Act regarding the classification of products as medicines vs. food supplements. The move is a last-ditch attempt by the industry to avoid potentially damaging effects of what it says is a flawed transposition of an EU directive specifying which food supplements may be sold in Europe, due to take effect on 1 January 2010.
Putin’s Proposed Reform Worries Drug Producers
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promised to ban pharmaceutical makers from sending representatives to doctors’ offices, a practice they spend up to 50 percent of their revenue on and one of the last open channels for companies to promote prescription drugs.
“We should get rid of these so-called pharmaceuticals representatives working in medical institutions,” Putin said Oct. 9 at a meeting on the development of the drugs industry. In the past 10 years, Russia has seen the rise of “a clearly abnormal type of interaction” between medicine producers, particularly foreign companies, and parts of the medical community, he said.
It is impermissible to have “pharmaceutical holdings paying specialists to prescribe patients substances produced by these companies,” Putin said.
Patients, having adopted guidelines of their health care provider and internalized his images, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.
Patients suffer from duality; the conflict lies in choice between…following prescriptions or having choices; between being spectators or actors.
Journal of Participatory Medicine Launches at Connected Health
Patient engagement and patient empowerment are popular topics, with hundreds of thousands of Google hits, but there’s precious little information on how to do them well. A new academic journal being launched this week, the Journal of Participatory Medicine, aims to change that.
Participatory Medicine is a new approach that encourages and expects active patient involvement in all aspects of care. It builds on the work documented at the e-patients.net blog, whose slogan is “Because health professionals can’t do it alone.” The group’s landmark 2007 paper “E-Patients: How They Can Help Us Heal Healthcare” tells many stories of engaged, empowered e-patients who substantially improved their own outcome and the outcomes of others by supplementing or even going beyond what their physicians alone could do.
When a cell phone tower connects with a cell phone, electromagnetic radiation is created. When the cell phone is held against the ear, this radiation penetrates the brain.
Health study links mobile phone use to four kinds of cancer
The research, which has taken 10 years and cost £20million, found that heavy mobile users suffered up to 50 per cent more tumours. Scientists now say there is a "significantly increased risk" of people developing three different kinds of brain tumour and one of the salivary gland.
Alasdair Philips, of campaign group Powerwatch, said: "Mobile companies hide the figures on how much radiation they give off in the back of manuals.
"But modern phones give out 217 electromagnetic pulses every minute into your head. Primary school children should not have them, secondary school children should be encouraged to text rather than call, and males should not keep them in a pocket because they drastically affect fertility."
This should read 217 electromagnetic pulses per second, because that is the frequency with which "packets" of data are sent, which are then decoded at the receiving end. So we not only have microwaves at a frequency of one or more gigahertz (billions of cycles per second) but a very low frequency component as the on-off frequency of sending packets of information. Apparently it is the low frequency component of cell phone radiation that can interfere with biological processes, making mobile phone technology a great but still not exactly quantified health risk.
Do Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA?
… Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and “frisk” people at distance.
Alexandrov and co have created a model to investigate how THz fields interact with double-stranded DNA and what they’ve found is remarkable. They say that although the forces generated are tiny, resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.
AstraZeneca Pays $520M To Settle Seroquel Probes
This was predictable. After Lilly and, more recently, Pfizer settled long-running investigations into off-label marketing practices of their various drugs - notably, antipsychotics - it was expected that AstraZeneca would follow suit. And so AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $520 million to settle two federal investigations and two whistleblower lawsuits over its Seroquel antipsychotic.
What's wrong with this picture? To me, it seems like nothing changes. There is no "death penalty" for corporations, so as long as they can make more money from illegal activities than it costs them to settle, they will continue to do so, no matter the rethoric:
An AstraZeneca spokesman says the drugmaker “is committed to strong, effective compliance programs, both in the U.S. and globally, to embed a culture of ethics and integrity in all our business practices. It has been and remains a key goal.”
Psychiatric Drugs & Suicides in Sweden 2007 investigation by Janne Larsson
There is no reason to believe that the reporting system for adverse drug events work
better in other countries. The catastrophic state of these “surveillance systems”
makes it possible to keep destructive drugs on the market year after year. All it takes
is for pharmaceutical companies to show that many persons have been exposed to
these drugs, and that almost no adverse event reports have been submitted; the
drugs must be “safe and effective”.
This example from Sweden shows that in 338 cases persons committed suicide after
having been prescribed psychiatric drugs – and none of these cases were reported
to the registry for adverse drug events. Instead of Eli Lilly claiming that the drug
Zyprexa was involved in 0 cases of suicide in Sweden 2007, the fact was that the
drug was involved in 52 cases in this subgroup of 338 persons. Instead of Wyeth
claiming the same for Effexor, the fact was that the drug was involved in 41 cases in
this group.
USA: Amgen Pharmaceuticals Sued By 15 States Over Kickbacks
The companies encouraged health care providers to bill third-party payers such as Medicaid for free Aranesp in hopes of taking business away from Johnson & Johnson’s Procrit. Amgen also conspired with INN and ASD Healthcare to provide sham consultant agreements, weekend retreats and other services to get them to purchase and prescribe Aranesp.
“Drugs should be prescribed to patients on the basis of need, effectiveness, and safety, not on a corporate giant’s promise of an all-expense paid vacation. In an egregious violation of the law, Amgen allegedly bribed medical providers and left taxpayers footing the bill for free drug samples,” Cuomo says in a statement.
The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex: A Deadly Fairy Tale
When we speak of the pharmaceutical industry complex, it does not refer solely to private drug manufacturers. The complex, like a Matrix that holds captive the health of the nation in medical slavery by its own design and manipulation, is a consortium, a spiders’ web woven with financial attachments throughout the medical profession. In addition to the pharmaceutical and medical device firms, this complex includes every government health agency...
If any one of us committed manslaughter, we would be behind bars instead of walking a crimson carpet into the offices of our elected officials in the Congress and Senate or past the gates guarded by the nation’s Cerberus, Rahm Emmanuel, to lobby the White House. Yet if we are a pharmaceutical executive, or a lobbyist representing a drug company who has collected a litany of charges including medical fraud, criminal salesmanship, gaming the insurance industries, repeated lying to federal officials, and manipulation of data regarding life-threatening adverse effects of drugs that have killed so many people, we can walk away with a fine, a surge in the stock market after a settlement, a financial bonus, and the personal satisfaction in not having to apologize so we can continue business as usual.
US: House Health Care Bill Contains MOTHERS Act
Minus the original bill's prologue about depression in new moms, much of the Act's provisions are in the House bill, but with slightly softened language. Postpartum depression screening is no longer, in essence, mandatory but is now something that "may" be included in a national education campaign for health professionals and the public. The bill also calls for research on the causes and treatments for PPD, studies of differences in PPD between different ethnicities, "[t]he development of improved screening and diagnostic techniques, Clinical research for the development and evaluation of new treatments."
So that ought to make Big Pharma and the Act's proponents happy.
Monsanto’s Toxic and Mutated World – Is Sugar Safe to Eat?
Of course, GMO sugar, like other GMO “foods,” doesn’t need to be labeled as such (because nobody in their right mind would buy it if it were). Half the refined sugar in the U.S. is from beets – and insiders say the industry has quickly converted to the GMO Frankenfood beets, estimating up to 95% of farmers are now using them. Beet sugar is often mixed with cane sugar, meaning that unless a product lists the ingredient as cane sugar or organic cane sugar then it now likely contains GMO mutant beet-derived sugar.
Video:Everything You HAVE TO KNOW About Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods
Jeffrey Smith talks about consumer power ... we are the ones who can get rid of GMOs in our foods. We just have to get the information out there and avoid the modified foods. "Healthy eating starts with no GMOs".
JUNK FOOD TURNS RATS INTO ADDICTS
To see how junk food affects the brain’s natural reward system — the network of nerve cells that release feel-good chemicals — Johnson started at the grocery store. He loaded up on typical Western fare, including Ho Hos, sausage, pound cake, bacon and cheesecake. Johnson fed rats either a standard diet of high-nutrient, low-calorie chow, or unlimited amounts of the palatable junk food. Rats that ate the junk food soon developed compulsive eating habits and became obese. “They’re taking in twice the amount of calories as the control rats,” says Johnson’s coauthor Paul Kenny.
Hold the MSG: Food Triggers for Epilepsy and Other Neurological Illnesses
Because of their activity--stimulating nerve cells to rapidly fire and burn out, ultimately resulting in nerve cell death, the food additives are considered to be "excitotoxins." While some naturally occur in the body, people who consume processed foods are exposed to a much greater amount than ever before since industrial food scientists regularly add them to processed foods to enhance the food's flavor. The most widely used food ingredients that have excitotoxic activity are monosodium glutamate, aspartame, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, and other additives that stimulate the taste buds and mask the flavor of many processed foods, Fresh, natural foods don't require this form of flavor enhancement. The artificial sweetener, aspartame, marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, and under several other brand names, is one of most widely consumed of the food additives with excitotoxic activity.
People for Safe Drinking Water
A collection of articles and references on the dangers of contaminants in drinking water - especially concerning fluoride, which is sometimes intentionally added to the water supply. Fluoride is not safe, either for humans or for animals. See also Fluoridated Water Kills Horses, Dogs
Video:Vitamin D and Cancer Prevention
In a new study, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center and Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UC San Diego used a complex computer prediction model to determine that intake of vitamin D3 and calcium would prevent 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer annually in the US and Canada. The researchers model also predicted that 75% of deaths from these cancers could be prevented with adequate intake of vitamin D3 and calcium. Dr. Cedric Garland, UCSD School of Medicine, lead researcher on the study discusses the implications of this finding and the proposed actions.
Curry spice 'kills cancer cells'
The chemical - curcumin - has long been thought to have healing powers and is already being tested as a treatment for arthritis and even dementia.
Now tests by a team at the Cork Cancer Research Centre show it can destroy gullet cancer cells in the lab.
An earlier article on this site talks about how and why curcumin and similar substances can turn cancer cells back into team players who feel they are part of the organism. SeeCancer: The ATP-Photon Hypothesis
Psychotropic drugs misused at nursing homes
Some Illinois nursing homes are misusing psychotropic drugs on residents, leading them to experience dangerous side effects and fatal falls, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
The newspaper said that it found 1,200 violations involving use of the drugs since 2001, affecting nearly 3,000 nursing home residents.
Gardasil Researcher Drops A Bombshell
Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15.
Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri, made these remarks during an address at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination which took place in Reston, Virginia on Oct. 2-4.
FOURTH PERSON DIES IN SWEDEN FROM SWINE FLU JAB: NO END IN SIGHT
The news that a fourth person has died after taking the "swine flu" jab in Sweden is focussing attention on the failure of the Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) to halt the "swine flu" programme even as reports of serious side effects flood in.
The Swedish drug regulator has allowed the "swine flu" jab campaign to be launched even though there is no safety or efficacy data on the vaccine. GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix with mercury and squalene has been given approval under new and lax European Union regulations formulated by the European Medicines Agency, (EMEA) for a "pandemic emergency" that do not require safety or efficacy data.
The EMEA derives three-quarters of its funding from pharmaceutical companies.
The Plague, the Flu, and You
The media has everyone worrying about epidemics and pandemics. Yet there is nothing said about one of the great communicable diseases of all time: the plague. The Black Death.
Vitamin D might lessen your flu risk
Vitamin D deficiency is common in the winter as we receive it in large amounts from the sun and in smaller quantities from oily fish like mackerel, herring, sardines and foods like eggs and fortified milk.
Vitamin D is crucial in boosting the immune system and defending itself against invading organisms.
The unrecognised epidemic of vitamin D deficiency is a contributing factor of many chronic debilitating diseases as adequate vitamin D is required to support multiple organs in the body. Vitamin D deficiency affects the immune system's capacity to regulate itself.
Without Vaccine, Australia Shrugs Off Swine Flu
In light of Australia clearly showing the pussycat nature of H1N1, can somebody explain why America's media willfully ignores the news from Australia? However, despite the derelict media, I would think U.S. Health Generals would certainly be up on Flu news from Down Under, and certainly from Canada right next door.
Billions are spent each year on 'Cancer research' but effective methods of prevention and healing are just not being considered because they aren't a good source of pharmaceutical profit. Dr Max Gerson, the man who cured Albert Schweitzer, lost his life and almost saw his life's work destroyed because of this - his cancer cure actually worked and so it just had to be blocked.
Video (full length):The Beautiful Truth - Gerson's Cancer Therapy
Many poisons have been made illegal but ... there are still so many legal poisons used in both nutrition and "therapy", to make everyone sick. Fluoride, dental amalgams, monosodium glutamate, aspartame, vaccines, depleted uranium, genetically engineered foods, herbicides and pesticides and ... refined sugar - take your pick. The film will take you on an interesting trip and ... the beautiful truth is, that people around the world are saying NO to gm foods, they're saying no to irradiation, they're saying NO to food additives and they're saying YES to organic food, and beyond organic food they are saying YES to food that is local, that is appropriate scale, that is humane, that's biodiverse and that's socially just...
Europe - UK: Save our Herbs Campaign
The following is from Cropwatch, a group that lobbies for the preservation of natural aromas in perfumes and hygiene products.
"The purpose of this Cropwatch emergency mailing is primarily to ask all of you to seriously consider signing the Save Our Herbs petition at http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/support-herbal-medicine.html This organisation not only campaigns on behalf of the general public, but also represents a very significant proportion of medical herbalists of both Eastern and Western traditions, practising in the UK.
Time is very short - if you want to support this very worthy campaign ensuring the continued availability of safe Herbal Medicinal Products, the continued free use of a wide range of our safe endemic & imported Herbs by ordinary people according to our traditions, preventing the takeover of small Herbal Medicine Suppliers by pharmaceutical concerns, & opposition to Statutory Regulation of Herbalists, you will need to sign the petition by 31st October 2009. The Save Our Herbs campaign’s official website can be found at http://www.saveourherbs.org.uk/index.html and provides a wealth of background information to this potential crisis for Herbal Medicine."
Are Generic Biologics Impossible?
Democracy in Action is hosting a campaign for the inclusion of a workable path towards the approval of generic versions of biologics, into healthcare reform legislation. Apparently, biologics are more than 20 times as expensive as your normal run-of-the mill pharmaceutical drug...
GM crops no panacea for food security
Dr Hansen, who is associated with the Consumers Union (USA), a non-profit publisher of consumer reports, said: "There is a global agreement under the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTDI) and it basically answers the question what kind of agriculture will be most useful in feeding the poor of the world.
This four-year assessment, involving 400 scientists, concluded that 'business as usual is not acceptable.' They say the answer is not high technology such as genetic engineering or nano technology; rather the answer lies with small scale, ecologically rational agriculture that focuses on local food systems, reforms of trade laws and enabling policy environment and paying attention to gender issues."
USA: NAMI Got $23 Million From Pharma Companies
"... according to investigators in Mr. Grassley’s office and documents obtained by The New York Times, drug makers from 2006 to 2008 contributed nearly $23 million to the alliance, about three-quarters of its donations."
NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness in the US is a lobbying and pressure group that intervenes whenever legislation is considered that will affect the treatment of "mentally ill" people. One might be forgiven to think that they have the rights of the mentally ill at heart. It appears however that their allegiance is with those who manufacture psychiatric drugs rather than with the patients, since the vast majority of their funding come from those manufacturers.
New York State [susp]ends flu shot mandate
Gov. David Paterson attributed Thursday's decision to limited supplies of the H1N1 vaccinations, a number of doses far short of the federal government's expected delivery. The decision also tosses out mandated seasonal flu shots.
Video:A vaccine primer
Physicians and health professionals are now speaking out clearly of the risks and dangers of vaccination. We have tip toed around the American Medical model long enough.
Obama declares national emergency as US swine flu deaths hit 1,000
However, the White House said that declaring an emergency was a largely precautionary step aimed at allowing medical officials to bypass certain federal regulations in the event of a genuine disaster.
Video:CDC GUESSTIMATED H1N1 CASES
It really is not looking good for the CDC ... a massive percentage of test results were NOT the H1N1 swine flu. With a lot of cases it wasn't even the regular flu !
Does HIV mean certain death?
The HIV/Aids industry has long had the characteristics of a religion, but increasingly it is being revealed as a religion that has lost its way. Instead of fulfilling the legitimate purpose of inspiring charitable actions towards the millions in need, its most vocal representatives have become increasingly absorbed in denouncing ‘heresies’. It seems their purpose is not so much to cure, but to close down debate.
The results: At the end of the study, how many people who tested negative became positive, after repeated sexual intercourse with their HIV-positive partners?
The answer is – Zero. Zero people who tested negative became positive.
Yet we are seeing campaigns for "safe sex". Don't forget your condom, when practically there isn't any sexual transmission.
Video:Nobel Laureate Montagnier: HIV Can Be Cleared Naturally
Professor Luc Montagnier, 2009 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of HIV, reveals his views on the treatment of HIV and its relationship to nutrition and profit...
Experts want African aid funds channelled away from HIV
Top scientists are demanding a controversial overhaul of health spending in Africa, arguing that the billions of pounds targeted at HIV during the past 20 years have led to a neglect of other killer diseases and basic health problems such as diarrhoea.
Childhood diarrhoea kills an estimated 1.5 million children under five each year worldwide – at least half of them in Africa – although it is easily treatable with zinc tablets that cost little more than $2 each. Diarrhoea received less than 5% of worldwide research and treatment funding last year.
The real climate change catastrophe
By any measure, the supposed menace of global warming – and the political response to it – has become one of the overwhelmingly urgent issues of our time. If one accepts the thesis that the planet faces a threat unprecedented in history, the implications are mind-boggling. But equally mind-boggling now are the implications of the price we are being asked to pay by our politicians to meet that threat. More than ever, it is a matter of the highest priority that we should know whether or not the assumptions on which the politicians base their proposals are founded on properly sound science.
The swine flu is continuing to rivet our attention. A strong polarization divides vaccine proponents and vaccine critics, so most of the news this time deals with the 'epidemic' and a widespread resistance to vaccination. This one is not the first disease epidemic built on hype, as True Ott explains in this article...
Vaccine-Induced Disease Outbreaks: How to Engineer a ‘Pandemic’ By A. True Ott, PhD, ND
As a matter of fact, the American Public in general was so optimistic and HAPPY in 1921, that relatively few people were unhealthy as well. For the first time in decades, hospital beds were empty. The fledgling American Medical Association, formed by John D. Rockefeller just a few years earlier, was worried. Business was sagging.
Profits from vaccines and drugs were spiraling. Something had to be done, and done immediately. False, faux epidemics of smallpox were created to solve the problem, and keep the Medical Mafia’s cash registers ringing.
We know this dastardly plan actually happened, thanks to a citizen’s WATCHDOG GROUP in Kansas City, Missouri named “The Advertiser’s Protective Bureau”, who filed, and successfully prosecuted criminal charges against the Missouri state chapter of the AMA the Jackson Medical Society. The ‘Protective Bureau’s” official report of this cold-blooded plot reads as follows:
“In the Fall of 1921, the health of the city was unusually good, but slow for the doctors. So the Jackson Medical Society met and resolved to make an epidemic in the city. According to the minutes of this meeting: ‘MOTION WAS MADE AND SECONDED, THAT A RECOMMENDATION BE MADE BY THE COMMITTEE, TO THE BOARD OF HEALTH, THAT AN EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX BE DECLARED IN THE CITY. (Investigation later revealed that there was NO SIGN OF AN EPIDEMIC at the time, in the city, or anywhere in the state or region!)
‘It was moved and seconded that a day be set aside, termed VACCINATION DAY, on which physicians would be stationed at ALL SCHOOLS, clinics, public buildings and hospitals to vaccinate “free of charge”. (Vaccinations are never “free”. The taxpayers are always forced to pay for every one of the “free” vaccines.)
“IT IS FURTHER RECOMMENDED THAT WIDE PUBLICITY BE GIVEN, STATING THAT VACCINATION IS A PREVENTIVE OF SMALLPOX, AND URGING THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY OF VACCINATION FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD IN THE CITY.”
The Protective Bureau proved in court that there WAS NO EPIDEMIC before the vaccinations!! The court records show that the Medical Society manufactured vast amounts of posters, fliers, newspaper stories and ads featuring horrific and lurid pictures of diseased children covered with massive smallpox sores and open wounds. Some pictures actually showed children’s corpses covered with the same ugly sores. The PANIC-DRIVEN message was clear — VACCINATE EVERYONE, or face a deadly public disease. There was a “sweeping epidemic” in the city; the disease was “highly contagious” and would “strike anyone who was not vaccinated” was the bill of goods sold! (Does this sound at all familiar today 88 years later??)
The Medical Mafia’s propaganda blitz was successful, and over a million previously healthy and happy American citizens were hypnotized and terrorized into placing the vaccine toxins into their bloodstreams. All public school children in the region were vaccinated while at school! Parents who dared question the vaccination of their children were ostracized and publicly vilified.
THE COURT RECORD ON THIS CASE IS VERY CLEAR. In the weeks and months following the “mass vaccinations” the area’s hospital beds were filled to over-flowing with VACCINE-INDUCED SMALLPOX CASES!
Tens of thousands of people became ill, and many hundreds of innocents died, and many more were permanently crippled!
And ... the next three or four articles linked below give you an idea of how this is done today.
Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?
In late July, the CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for H1N1 flu, and stopped counting individual cases. The rationale given for the CDC guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases was: why waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has already confirmed there's an epidemic? Some public health officials privately disagreed with the decision to stop testing ...
Drugmakers, Doctors Rake in Billions Battling H1N1 Flu
"Drug companies have sold $1.5 billion worth of swine flu shots, in addition to the billion of doses for seasonal flu they booked earlier this year. These inoculations are part of a much wider and rapidly growing $20 billion global vaccine market."
"The vaccine market is booming," says Bruce Carlson, spokesperson at market research firm Kalorama, which publishes an annual survey of the vaccine industry. "It's an enormous growth area for pharmaceuticals at a time when other areas are not doing so well."
Nurses got sick from the "swine flu" vaccine in Sweden
Yesterday 30 people had been reporting to the authorities in Sweden that they experienced such severe side effects that they felt the need to contact a hospital. Today the number is 140. The swedish newspaper Expressen is the only one in Sweden reporting on these cases and as usual this is most likely only the tip of a rather large iceberg. UPDATE: According to Dagens Nyheter, the number of reported side effects are now a few hours later 190. 1 person dies after the injection but "no direct relation with the injection has been established". The biggest medical scandal in the history of Sweden has just started.
USA: FDA challenges 'Unauthorized Products Related to the H1N1 Flu Virus'
"FDA is advising consumers not to purchase or use H1N1 Flu Virus-related products offered for sale that have not been approved, cleared, or authorized by FDA. Your firm will be added to a published list on FDA's website of firms and websites that have received warning letters from FDA concerning marketing unapproved, uncleared and unauthorized H1N1 Flu Virus-related products in violation of the FFDC Act. This list can be found at www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/h1n1flu."
The watchdogs of medical orthodoxy have sent warning letters to companies they see offering any product that might increase immunity to the swine flu virus or prevent infection, and that isn't officially approved. Linked here is their posted letter (on the FDA's website) to Dr. Weil, who had the temerity of recommending a supplement he sells suggesting it might protect you from catching the flu or at least let you get over it more easily.
Did anyone say the FDA is paid for and run by the drug companies? But then - the published list of offenders on the FDA's website ... might it turn into something unintended? I can imagine it might become a place where people can find what they're looking for, which are non-vaccine prevention and non-pharmaceutical remedies.
Swine flu vaccine: are you joining the queue?
To mark the date of the commencement of the vaccination programme, which is being initiated at a similar time throughout many other parts of the world, [ANH has] compiled a collage that represents a cross section of views on what is, for many, a key decision affecting themselves, their loved ones and family members.
Swine Flu: The Pandemic Is Political
So when pig flu conveniently appeared, the WHO essentially crossed out "avian," inserted "swine," and WHO Director-General Margaret Chan could boast: "The world can now reap the benefits of investments over the last five years in pandemic preparedness."
Yet this doesn't explain why the agency hyped avian flu in the first place, nor why it exaggerated HIV infections by more than 10 times, or why it spread hysteria over Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
The order came as the Public Employees Federation sued to reverse a policy requiring vaccination against the seasonal and swine flu viruses, arguing that state Health Commissioner Richard Daines overstepped his authority.
Europeans Reject Swine Flu Vaccine
Danes, Finns, Germans, French, Spanish, Belgians, Dutch are all refusing to roll up their sleeves, despite government, media pressure.
Study: H1N1 vaccine too late to help most
But even "when the model was modified to include the effect of the planned vaccination scheme," that adjustment yielded only "a relative reduction of about 6% in the total number of people infected" by the end of the year 2009.
"Based on our study alone it would be bad to discourage people from getting the vaccine, because what if our study is wrong," she said.
She called some comments in the press "a lot of hysteria. In reality, the overwhelming majority of people getting sick are going to have a mild illness."
According to the WHO Strategic Advisory Group, pregnant women should be given adjuvant-free formulations of the vaccine whenever possible.
Swine Flu: What To Do?
From the outset, let me say, I am not anti all vaccinations, rather I am pro vaccine safety and freedom of choice. This is why am I not recommending the swine flu vaccine.
Frank Lipman MD, is the founder and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in NYC a center whose emphasis is on preventive health care and patient education. His personal blend of Western and Eastern Medicine combined with the many other complimentary modalities he has studied, has helped thousands of people recover their energy and zest for life.
Vaccines: Prevention or Curse?
Meanwhile, evidence indicates that except for smallpox, no other infectious disease, e.g. tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid, anthrax, measles, mumps, rubella, DPT, polio, influenza and others,† has been eradicated; and that this continues to be so despite the decades of vaccinations against each of these diseases. Also, during the same period, the incidence of many previously uncommon diseases, such as autism, diabetes, allergies, and cancer, has been increasing in pandemic proportions.
I feel that it is time to demand a moratorium on, at least, the compulsory vaccinations for children, health care professionals and military personnel until such time that these issues are reviewed and discussed in an open and transparent manner with the due involvement of the public.
Video:CHEERLEADER CRIPPLED FOR LIFE AFTER BEING VACCINATED
This poor woman was crippled with a neurological disorder after taking a vaccine, which is poisonous and contains mercury, squalene and other chemical toxins ...
This is a chapter in a future book by Beldeu Singh from Malaysia - questioning Pasteur's germ theory of disease and highlighting some of the nutritional and natural medicine solutions to illness. Good information to have in difficult times like these...
Child Psychiatrist Says Kids Overmedicated, Wrongly Diagnosed
Edmund Levin has thrown before his colleagues a major gauntlet, aimed in particular at the bio-psychiatry, bipolar child proponents at Harvard. In a paper in the Journal of The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, he asserts that child psychiatrists are over-medicating their young patients, diagnosing them with pediatric bipolar disorder when a diagnosis of developmental trauma disorder is more appropriate, and that dramatically reducing medications actually improved children he's observed.
Some thoughts on psychiatry
"My purpose in writing this is to educate people on psychiatric oppression: what it is, how it works, and how it came to be. I want to reveal the harm done by the practice of biopsychiatry, and to show that psychiatry suppresses and punishes experiences which are completely natural and, in fact, necessary to achieve spiritual maturity. Experiences of temporary “madness” and unproductivity, while violating society’s demand for continuous productivity, are essential if individuals are to grow and mature. Psychiatry enforces society’s demand to keep working and be happy, no matter what..."
Another Nobel Laureate Exposes AIDS Clerics
2008 Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier MD has broken ranks to expose HIV and AIDS as little more than a pharmaceutical marketing scam...
Lots of buzz throughout the internet on vaccines and their damaging side effects, as forced swine flu vaccination draws closer. The whole concept of vaccination and even the holy cow of the germ theory of disease are being questioned with increasing insistence from various quarters. Perhaps health authorities are overdoing it when they require everyone to take an unproven preventive intervention that may be doing more harm in the long term than it prevents in the short ...
Does the Vaccine Matter?
The other possibility, of course, is that we’re relying heavily on vaccines and antivirals that simply don’t work, or don’t work as well as we believe. And as a result, we may be neglecting other, proven measures that could minimize the death rate during pandemics.
“Vaccines give us a false sense of security,” says Sumit Majumdar. “When you have a strategy that [everybody thinks] reduces death by 50 percent, it’s pretty hard to invest resources to come up with better remedies.”
In the absence of better evidence, vaccines and antivirals must be viewed as only partial and uncertain defenses against the flu. And they may be mere talismans. By being afraid to do the proper studies now, we may be condemning ourselves to using treatments based on illusion and faith rather than sound science.
Video:Vaccine used in children causing brain damage
"We have thousands of cases and we can show all vaccines are causing the exact same problem," said Dr. Andrew Moulden, M.D., a Canadian physician gathering evidence to support a class action lawsuit.
Do Vaccines Disable The Immune System?
The only event that all infants routinely encounter at two months of age is vaccination with at least five different vaccines (Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis-Polio-Haemophilus). They are repeated at four months. Could this simple fact explain the onset of the recurrent illnesses that plague so many infants? If vaccines stimulate antibody production to fight diseases, why would they weaken the immune system? Is there any evidence that vaccines do cause illness and immune system dysfunction?
Death by Vaccines - Vaccine Timeline
Dr. Young has stated that the use of vaccinations, antibiotics and antifungals will only poison the body leading to the one sickness and one disease - latent tissue acidosis and then death.
Virology is Religion
By placing the cause of illness outside the human body, in the atmospheric environment, Pasteur was reaffirming man's original purity, in the Garden of Eden. God has created man pure, without contamination of any kind: thus "evil" - which, in this conception, takes the form of sickness - can only come from without. In this world-view, both health and sickness come from outside of man and are exterior and alien to him.
The same vehemence that led Galileo to be condemned by the Church for his theories, in spite of the scientifically demonstrable facts, is now being used by medicine to reject any thesis that is contrary to its own dogmas. Science has learned its lessons well from the Church, it seems.
Natural AIDS/CFIDS Therapy
Step by Step Introduction by Jonathan Campbell, Natural Health Consultant [www.cqs.com]
In order to allow your body to heal itself and overcome immune deficiency, the Natural AIDS/CFIDS Therapy floods your body with specific nutrients to both enhance your immune system and also take specific steps to address the actions of the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and/or toxic exposures that are the root cause(s) of your illness.
Video:Vitamin D Prevents Cancer
In a new study, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used a complex computer prediction model to determine that intake of vitamin D3 and calcium would prevent 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer annually in the US and Canada. The researchers model also predicted that 75% of deaths from these cancers could be prevented with adequate intake of vitamin D3 and calcium.
HEALING THROUGH OIL-PULLING
The healing process is accomplished by the human organism on its own. In this way it is possible to heal cells, tissue and all organs simultaneously; the body itself gets rid of toxic waste without disturbing the healthy microflora.
One of my first ever favorite big words was 'vegetarian'. I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat meat because I like animals and I don't want to eat them, if you see what I mean.
Conventional Vs Alternative Medicine
Our culture has allowed the health care industry to become so powerful and disproportionately lucrative that it is now in the business of illness rather than health. In one disconcerting example, a cancer physician, returning from an extended vacation, found an empty waiting room. His colleague had been treating his patients nutritionally. The physician wailed, “This is terrible. It took me years to build a long-term, regular patient clientele!” People everywhere are realizing that our doctors receive no reward for health, only for treating illness.
Antibiotic damage to the microflora environment
Back in the mid-60s I was startled to discover that a newly-automated plant in the UK was producing 55,000 gallons of antibiotic per day – just one plant! And nearly all of that output was going into farmed animals.
The use of antibiotics in cattle has been directly connected to the development of an antibiotic-resistant strain of E. Coli - 0157-H7. Now there are hundreds of thousands of human infections per year with this bacterium alone.
Powerful drug called Placebo reduces real pain
Scientist know that when people experience a decrease in pain from a placebo, certain compounds, called endorphins, are released in their brains. But they don’t know exactly how the release of those compounds leads to pain reduction.
Common Pain Cream Could Protect Heart During Attack
Keith Jones, PhD, a researcher in the department of pharmacology and cell biophysics, and scientists in his lab have found that applying capsaicin to specific skin locations in mice caused sensory nerves in the skin to trigger signals in the nervous system. These signals activate cellular “pro-survival” pathways in the heart which protect the muscle.
Capsaicin is the main component of chili peppers and produces a hot sensation. It is also the active ingredient in several topical medications used for temporary pain relief.
Researchers observed an 85 percent reduction in cardiac cell death when capsaicin was used.
Cut yourself? Sprinkling SUGAR on wound heals it faster
Billions of pounds that is currently spent on medicines could be saved if the treatment is adopted by the NHS. Moses added: 'I was happy for the patients who suffer from terrible and debilitating wounds with little hope of getting better, as this treatment can ease their pain. I would really like to see sugar treatment used in many more places because I know that it works.'
Ireland to become GM Free Zone
The agreement specifies that the Government will “Declare the Republic of Ireland a GM-Free Zone, free from the cultivation of all GM plants”. The official text also states “To optimise Ireland’s competitive advantage as a GM-Free country, we will introduce a voluntary GM-Free logo for use in all relevant product labelling and advertising, similar to a scheme recently introduced in Germany.”
Bill Gates Blames Hunger in Africa on Anti-GMO Environmentalists
The fight to end hunger is being hurt by environmentalists who insist that genetically modified crops cannot be used in Africa, Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of software giant Microsoft, said on Thursday.
Gates said GMO crops, fertilizer and chemicals are important tools -- although not the only tools -- to help small farms in Africa boost production.
Poor Bill - he's lost his marbles. GM has NOT been shown to increase yield in any significant way. It only increases the use of expensive and largely toxic chemicals. Perhaps Bill Gates has too much money invested in Monsanto and other agri-chemical stocks?
Florida: Foster kids, prescriptions -- finally alarm
Committee Chair Rhonda Storms told reporters, "I cannot accept or believe that a little child cannot be reached except by drugging him and drugging him and drugging him.''
A vigilant, caring parent would have questioned a pharmaceutical solution to the little boy's behavior. Child advocate Andrea Moore read the task force report and worried that the doctors had responded more to bureaucratic needs of the system than the therapeutic needs of children. About 22 percent of the foster children aged 6 to 12, and a third of foster kids 13 to 17, are on psychiatric drugs.
Glaxo must pay $2.5M in Paxil case
The verdict is the first in 600 cases alleging that London-based Glaxo knew Paxil caused birth defects and hid those risks to boost profits.
The drug, approved for U.S. use in 1992, generated about $942 million in sales last year.
Australia: ADHD drugs 'made 30 children suicidal'
One seven-year-old boy became so depressed while taking Ritalin in 2008 that he tried to commit suicide while an eight-year-old hallucinated that spiders were crawling up his skin after taking ADHD drugs, the report said. The number of serious reactions to ADHD drugs has doubled in a three-year period, according to Therapeutic Goods Administration figures.
Pharm Parties - America's Pharma-Dependent Culture
The basic idea is kids get their hands on whatever prescription medication they can--statins, anti-depressants, painkillers, antipsychotics and so on--and dump them into a bowl at a party. Then they go around taking them willy-nilly without a clue as to what they are taking or to dangerous interactions.
Mumps Vaccine: Perceptions and Emerging Realities
Mumps outbreaks are occurring in highly vaccinated populations and this has led to differences in opinion amongst scientists around the efficacy of the vaccine, with various mechanisms of failure being put forward.
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So what is causing some recipients of two doses of MMR to contract mumps? How many boosters will be required to protect the public health? Can this be considered a successful public health strategy with so many unknowns?
And why in the world is there only one solution ever considered for vaccine failure…more vaccination with the same vaccine that already failed?
Is Merck’s Gardasil Linked To Lou Gehrig’s Disease?
A possible link was reported between Gardasil and two fatal cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Both the timing of the symptoms and autopsy results “suggest a link,” according to Dr. Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, who directs the ALS Center at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. “We don’t know for sure if it’s coincidence or if they’re connected (to the vaccine),” she tells WebMD. “We hope that by raising awareness, we will become aware of any other cases.”
The complaint filed Thursday argued that far from preventing a massive outbreak of swine flu, the "live attenuated influenza virus nasal mist vaccine could trigger" an H1N1 pandemic.
"I don't know of another live vaccine for flu. So you have immediately a new problem you don't have with a killed vaccine," Turner told AFP.
A warning that the new swine flu vaccine is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter.
Vaccine Information Center Launches Research Fund to Study Health & Vaccination
700 parents and health care workers traveled from 44 states and 11 nations to attend the groundbreaking Fourth International Public Conference on Vaccination sponsored by the National Vaccine Information Center. The historic conference featured presentations by more than 40 world experts in the areas of vaccine science, policy, law, and ethics and raised more than $100,000 to launch an international fund raising campaign for scientific research to investigate health differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated children and identify those at risk for suffering vaccine injury.
Video: Barbara Loe Fisher of NVIC about the conference
Germany: Army gets swine flu vaccines without additives
The A/H1N1 flu shots given to soldiers will contain neither a controversial strengthening additive, nor the preservative agent mercury, both of which are contained in the shots for the general public.
Additive-free Celvapan, manufactured by the US pharmaceutical company Baxter, was approved on October 6 for use in the European Union.
Some doctors have warned of unforeseeable side effects to the other EU-approved vaccines Pandemrix, made by British firm GlaxoSmithKline, and Focetria, manufactured by Swiss company Novartis.
However, there are no studies comparing the side effects, according to the Paul Ehrlich Institute, which oversees drug registration and safety in Germany.
No studies comparing the side effects? Someone sleeping a the helm?
While there are many viral illnesses that have been proven to spread from sick to well, such as the measles, the flu is not one of them. In fact, every time scientists try to prove the point, they can’t. Epidemiologists can’t show it either. Rather, science points in the direction that a susceptible population of well people, possibly those deficient in vitamin D, are responsible for the rapid spreading of the flu each year.
A 2008 article published in the Virology Journal by John Cannell, et al., titled On the Epidemiology of Influenza reviews the above Navy study and dives into the data that fails to add up to a clear picture of sick-to-well viral spreading of the flu – flying in the face of public health dogma.
Great expectations for a new energy based global currency
I believe that Obama has a chance, in the next few months, to justify the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize committee's confidence in him by beginning to address the global financial system, global policy on climate change, and global peace, through one simple unifying theme: energy.
The US should use energy and knowledge diplomacy to lead the development of a global energy economy, to which the key is the adoption of an Energy Standard.
So the air is going out of the tires. Americans who are struggling to work for a living are passive spectators as their jobs, savings, health insurance, pensions, and homes continue to erode in value or even disappear. Last Sunday the Washington Post reported a massive crisis in state and local government pensions. Reporter David Cho wrote, “The financial crisis has blown a hole in the rosy forecasts of pension funds that cover teachers, police officers and other government employees, casting into doubt as never before whether these public systems will be able to keep their promises to future generations of retirees.”
A good collection of what turmeric (curcumin) can do for our health, including how to possibly increase absorption. I believe the Indians had it right all along - cooking delicious meals with turmeric-containing curry powder... and here is an interesting take on the mechanism by which turmeric contrasts cancer:Cancer: The ATP-Photon Hypothesis
Higher folate levels can reduce hearing loss risk in men
The study, which identified 3,559 cases of men with hearing loss, found that there was no beneficial association with increased intakes of antioxidant vitamins such as C, E, and beta carotene. However, the authors found that men over the age of 60 who have a high intake of foods and supplement high in folates have a 20 percent decrease in risk of developing hearing loss.
Health Claims in Europe: Neutering freedom of speech
We regard this Regulation as probably the greatest infringement of freedom of speech to impact the health food industry anywhere in the world. Check it out for yourself. What we see in Europe is set to be exported elsewhere in the world through the big business-influence, intergovernmental organisation that is the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
Unlawful interference and threats led to Irish voting ‘Yes’ on Lisbon Treaty
On this occasion, however, following unlawful political interference from the EU Commission; widespread threats and lies to the Irish electorate - including propaganda that a ‘No’ vote would condemn Ireland to economic isolation; corporate interference from the likes of Ryanair (who spent half a million euros campaigning for a ‘Yes’), Intel (who spent several hundred thousand) and multi-billion euro drug company Pfizer (who openly warned of a “flight of capital” from Ireland if it voted ‘No’); and, not least of all, the blatant sweeping away of Ireland’s guidelines on media impartiality, the Irish people voted ‘Yes’.
28 Countries now report flax contamination by GM pollen
GM flax is not approved for human consumption in the following 28 countries where contamination has now reached: Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, Spain, Denmark, Estonia, Norway, Finland, France, Greece, Romania, Portugal, Iceland, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Mauritius. Companies are removing products from the market as the GM flax has been found in cereals, bakery products, bakery mixtures and nut/seed products. 9 GM flax contamination notices have been filed so far through the European Commission’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed.
European authorities have named the source of contamination as the GM flax "Triffid", which was developed in Canada but was deregistered in 2001 and has been illegal to sell since that time.
That's a 50% increase from two years ago, when the government estimated the rate at 1 in 150.
Just a while ago - a few months - I remember hearing "There is no autism epidemic", and "it's all because of more diagnostics" and "mercury has nothing to do with it". That story seems to be rapidly falling apart.
Study: Large Percentage Of Bipolar Disorder Cases "Resolve Spontaneously" By Mid-30s
A fascinating and possibly very important study came out in August in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. It concerns bipolar disorder and its course across human lifespans and the study's conclusion that many cases of bipolar disorder "resolve spontaneously"--the authors' term, not mine - by the latter half of the third decade of life is both startling and not surprising to me because I've been making a similar argument about the disorder's natural course for a long time. It's also not surprising to me that this study has gotten almost zero press attention - its primary finding goes so against the grain of what health reporters think they know about mental disorders and so against the grain of what psychiatry claims about bipolar disorder that it's almost an untouchable subject.
Video:Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher
Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a sales rep in the pharmaceutical industry working for health care giants such as Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Dr Harper, of the University of Missouri-Kansas, said she believed the risks – “small but real” – could be worse than the risk of developing cancer itself.
And she claimed: “All this jab will do is prevent girls getting some abnormalities associated with cervical cancer which can be treated. It will not decrease cervical cancer rates at all.
“Parents need to know this and that in a small number of cases there are serious side effects.”
Could Hepatitis B Vaccine Be Harmful?
The study found the unvaccinated animals developed normally, while the vaccinated monkeys demonstrated the survival reflex delays. According to one of the lead investigators, Dr. Laura Hewitson of the University of Pittsburgh, “Infants of lower birth weight and gestational age were at greater risk.”
The study, published last week in the scientific journal NeuroToxicology, was not designed to determine whether it was the thimerosal or another component of the vaccine that caused the observed delays.
“We undertook these experiments largely because we were unable to find any safety studies comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated animals,” said another study author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield of Thoughtful House, which provides resources for children with developmental disorders.
Brain damage follows HPV vaccination in UK
A teenage girl has been left brain-damaged after suffering epileptic seizures just days after being given the controversial cervical cancer jab. Stacey Jones, 18, suffered her first seizure in March when she was 17, days after she had the Cervarix injection. In the following weeks she had several more fits, causing such severe brain injury that she had to be admitted to a rehabilitation unit, where she is relearning simple tasks.
ANH: Urgent call for HPV vaccine inquiry
Executive Director of the Alliance for Natural Health, Robert Verkerk, stated; “Presently, there are no adequate data available on the comparative risks of Cervarix and Gardasil. Nor is there adequate information on the factors which may predispose certain individuals to serious adverse reactions, or on the duration and effectiveness of immunity following single and multiple vaccinations. It is in the public interest that these key questions be answered urgently by an independent review panel”.
USA: Lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu vaccines
"The suit will seek an injunction against the FDA from approving the vaccine," attorney Jim Turner told NaturalNews on Thursday evening's Natural News Talk Hour show. "And the core of the argument is that they have not done the proper safety and efficacy tests on the vaccine to allow it to be release at this time."
Video:More Harm Than Good
Scientist, Medical Doctor, Professor, Dr. Andrew Moulden, discusses how the medical system and science are failing society by causing more harm than good.
Flu Shots Delayed in Canada
An unpublished Canadian study that suggests getting an annual flu shot may make it easier to contract swine flu has caused most provincial governments in Canada to postpone or limit seasonal-flu vaccination programs.
VACCINE POISON
Many people around the world now know that the modern medical system maims and kills an extraordinary number of human beings every year. The largest cause of those deaths and injuries is pharmaceutical drugs.
These drugs contain toxic substances. But nothing as obvious as what some vaccines still contain: MERCURY.
In preparation for the Swine Flu vaccine, the state of Washington is allowing more mercury in that vaccine.
Video:How did the H1N1 virus get into the United States?
Wayne Madsen reports that scientists researching the Spanish flu epidemic from 1918 may have intentionally or accidentally manipulated genetic material to create the H1N1 virus that exists today.
The Great Swine Flu Boondoggle
Appearing suddenly in April, the origins of the virus have either not been discovered or are known but not being revealed to the general public. Writing for the Institute of Science in Society, Professor Adrian Gibbs and Dr. Jean Downie have studied the gene sequences of the H1N1 virus and determined the virus is a combination unlike any seen in the past.
Furthermore, none of the genes that make up the virus have been seen for a long time. It appears to be a combination of Swine flu not seen in North America in more than a decade and Avian flu found in Europe but never in North America.
Gibbs and Downie posit the virus emanated either from a vaccine made specifically for pigs, accidentally from an infected human working for a drug company or intentionally released into the Mexican population.
How To Cure Disease
The very best cure for sickness and disease is Infection Prevention. Do not merely continue to "treat" the various symptom(s) but actually start to remove the true cause(s) of the problem! Let us begin to learn how to safely and far more effectively control the various pest organisms that can and do adversely affect our health.
Why pregnant women tend to test “HIV-positive”
It is vital to bear in mind — always, not only in this connection! — that testing “HIV-positive” does not signify the presence of a specific agent, still less the presence of an human immunodeficiency virus.
Empirical fact: Pregnant women test “HIV-positive” more frequently than others.
Empirical fact: In several groups, Th1→Th2 shift is associated with a tendency to test “HIV-positive”.
Empirical fact: Normal, healthy pregnancy induces a Th1→Th2 shift.
The higher frequency of “HIV-positive” tests among pregnant women may be nothing more than a natural consequence of pregnancy
Aids: Taking Life Positively
"When I met my husband, I was very sick and my CD4 count was just below 200. With my determination to live positively and to make my newly found love work, I resorted to healthy eating, doing exercises and as you can see today I look perfectly healthy", she also said, "I will invite you to my house at Molepolole and you will find me busy in my garden or doing household work and others," said Phuthe.
She told the Monitor that since she was diagnosed with HIV, she is not taking anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) as she believes in eating healthily especially fruits and vegetables as well as doing physical exercises. "The problem is that most HIV positive people don't know how to eat well and take proper care of themselves.
Still Not Convinced HIV Is Bogus?
So AIDS was the disease, and HIV the cause. All it took was a press conference at the CDC to make this story canonical. The CDC was saved, and a new multi-billion dollar industry was born. God help us when a bureaucrat is threatened with losing his job. Even one who has taken the Hippocratic Oath.
In the years since the CDC pronouncement every single person who has tried to question the official story, rather than being lauded for taking the scientific method seriously, has instead been attacked and dismissed as a kook. Still, with nearly 30 years of history in the rear-view mirror, it is becoming more and more apparent that there is something very wrong with the official story.
Health Care Reform needs Natural Medicine
Health care cannot be reformed if we are to rely on prescription drugs and the doctors who push them. We cannot be safe and healthy without the knowledge that if the food we buy is not organic, it is loaded with chemicals used in a variety of poisonous products. Poison kills, or it wouldn't be poison! Eventually our bodies break down and lose the ability to heal themselves, yet we go running back to the doctor for more pills!
Americans need to get off drugs. We need to look at the big picture and realize that we have other choices. We need to accept Natural Medicine and Whole Body Healing as a legal medical practice that is safe and focused on our well being.
They rejected 10 claims and said a further 170 had not provided enough evidence of their effects.
Europe will have very "clean" food labels it seems. No health information allowed. But do we really need the Brussels Commission to protect us from finding out what certain foods might be good for? Are they thinking we are so weak we can't be trusted to read what someone believes their product is good for? 100 % protected - 100 % governed. Go Europe, go ... good for you! :-(
EU: Pressure against Lisbon Treaty intensifies
With increasing numbers of European citizens showing their concerns about ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the pressure against Lisbon is clearly intensifying, and it seems that ‘No’ voters are being encouraged by the ‘Klaus’ factor. In an article written in June 2008 about the Czech threat to the Lisbon Treaty, the BBC quoted Sarkozy, as having said "Ireland is a problem, but if we have a second or third problem then it's really going to get difficult".
Treaty of Lisbon: Questions about the Irish Referendum
May I take the opportunity of saying that the current Lisbon referendum, as I presume you have noted, has been characterized by monstrous illegality on the part of several key parties, as follows:-
1. The intervention of the European Commission, which is unlawful under European law
2. The part-funding of the posters and press advertisements of most of Ireland's Yes-side political parties by their sister parties in the European Parliament
3. The Government's unlawful use of public funds
4. The failure of your own Referendum Commission to carry out its statutory function...
Daily sweets 'linked to violence'
The Cardiff University study involving 17,500 people is the first into effects of childhood diet on adult violence. It found 10-year-olds who ate sweets daily were significantly more likely to have a violence conviction by age 34.
Are You Depressed, or Just Human?
The message -- all sadness is depression, depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain, this pill will make you happy, your doctor will get it for you -- could not be clearer. The fact that the ad appears on television, the ultimate mass medium, also implies that depression is extremely common.
Study: Paxil Is Worst Drug For Suicide Attempts
An interesting paper came out in PLoS last week in which researchers from the University of Alabama looked at suicidal ideations reported in the FDA's adverse events database for 832 prescription drugs and compared that with suicide attempts reported in the database. The study covered 2004 through 2008 and found that Paxil was by far the worst drug of any kind on the market with 1,323 suicide attempts.
Paxil accounted for about one-third of all suicide attempts reported for all 32 anti-depressants (1,323 for Paxil and 3,572 for all anti-depressants).
Keep doctors independent; ban fees from drug makers
Patients trust doctors as stewards of their health. They revere them as scientists who can exercise sound, independent judgment. Allowing doctors to promote drugs for pharmaceutical companies takes advantage of that trust and reverence. It also compromises doctors’ most important work: treating people who are ill.
Blockbuster Primate Study Shows Significant Harm from One Birth Dose of a Mercury-Containing Vaccine
A research team led by scientists from the University of Pittsburgh and Thoughtful House reported today that exposure to a birth dose of a hepatitis B vaccine that included an ethyl mercury preservative caused significant delays in the development of several survival reflexes in male rhesus macaque monkeys. The findings were published on line today in the journal Neurotoxicology.
And here we are injecting that stuff into our babies quite routinely. Why should we allow this?
Advocacy Groups Ask President Obama to Order Suspension of Hepatitis B Vaccine Birth Dose
Considering a demonstrated 50% increase in autism prevalence, combined with two recent studies indicating a potential role of the Hepatitis B vaccine as a factor in the development of autism, advocacy groups urge President Obama to order the immediate suspension of the recommendation and administration of the birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns – with the exception of rare cases where the mother tests positive for Hepatitis B.
Members of European Parliament question swine flu vaccine safety
Françoise Grossetête, a French Member of the EPP group said: "Loads of people say that seasonal flu is not that dangerous and not that many people die per year. If the N1H1 is similar to that why make such a fuss about it?"
Of course anyone who has been studying vaccine side effects already knows that it causes all of these things, but the story here is that the insert for the swine flu vaccine itself is admitting all of these things. The insert says that it was updated during September 2009, so it reflects the very latest information.
Facts and Fiction About the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic
In May 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that the outbreak of swine flu had passed and that there was no immediate danger of its spread. However, a month later (June 2009), after a wave of various medical expert opinions surfaced predicting dire outcomes from swine flu virus, the WHO revised its statement and declared a swine flu pandemic. Of course, this put a lot of pressure on the governments of many countries to mobilize their resources and get ready to meet the challenge of combating the flu with drugs and vaccines...
Influenza diagnostic testing cannot distinguish between H1N1 and other viruses
You may not be able to find out definitively what flu virus you have. Currently available rapid influenza diagnostic tests cannot distinguish between 2009 H1N1 and seasonal influenza A viruses. Most people with flu symptoms this season will not require testing for 2009 H1N1 because the test results usually do not change how you are treated. As of September 2009, more than 99% of circulating influenza viruses in the United States are 2009 H1N1.
So it seems that "the flu" (the seasonal one) has morphed into "the swine flu" this year. No distinction is being made between the flu and the swine flu.
One interesting question remains to be answered: How does the CDC know that 99% of the flu virus currently on the loose in the USA is H1N1 when their tests either cannot distinguish or aren't even being performed on the vast majority of cases?
Clairvoyance? Or is it just a matter of "selling" the vaccine?
A Heretic’s View of Influenza’s Role in Health & Disease
The immune system is the complex interaction between white blood cells, antibodies, hormones, proteins, enzymes, and inflammatory molecules called cytokines. All act in silent synchrony to maintain health. The body is exposed to billions of microbes on the skin, in the mouth, in the digestive tract, and on everything we touch. Microbes that coexist with humans are called symbionts—organisms we have a beneficial relationship with, and are considered to be part of, our normal flora.
The immune system can easily recognize non-symbionts and effectively eliminates them. This process occurs thousands of times per day with little fanfare. However, it is not the “invasion” by external microbes that leads to symptoms known as an infection; it is the compromise of the immune system due to the contamination of the terrain that allows this to occur.
Prediction: What antiretroviral drugs will accomplish Prediction 1: The rates of death among young and middle-aged adults from “non-AIDS” conditions like heart failure, kidney failure, liver failure, and assorted cancers will begin to increase significantly within a decade. Prediction 2: The proportion of those “benefiting” from antiretroviral drugs who die or drop out will increase steadily. Prediction 3: For years, perhaps many years, these predicted happenings will be masked from general view by fudging of “drop-out” and death statistics. Iatrogenic deaths will be reported as something else. Eventually, though, it will become impossible to hide the real facts since they will become increasingly obvious to lay observers.
The Mitochondria & Degenerative Diseases or How ARVS cause AIDS
The fact that the slowing down, manipulation, and damage of the mitochondria is one of the tell tale signs of all degenerative diseases... and that the drugs slow down and damage the mitochondria is something that really needs to be discussed. In a recent study where they put several non-HIV positive people on HAART after only thirty days all showed mitochondrial DNA damage...
Raindance Film Festival Screens House of Numbers - "A stunning piece of filmmaking!"
We were flooded with hate mail, emails, legal letters couriered from the States from all sorts of people threatening us and accusing us of being prissy and smug about showing this film obviously from people who obviously hadn’t seen it accusing this film of being an “AIDS denialist” film and I’ve just seen the film and it’s obviously not an “AIDS denialist” film at all. It’s just a brilliant piece of filmmaking – journalistic filmmaking which, anyone who takes the time and effort to see it should completely re-examine their view of the whole AIDS/HIV question… I think history is gonna be re-written or should be re-written and perhaps this… film is one of the first steps.
The demise of the dollar
In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.
Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.
This change has been bubbling under the surface for some years now. Here is what I wrote six years ago:Will Oil End War Economy?
Vaccine skepticism goes viral
A skeptical view of vaccination is gaining currency, while health authorities around the world are preparing to resort to compulsory vaccination against the H1N1 strain of influenza.
End the practice of vaccination?We are pumping toxins and viruses into the blood stream of children from the first hours of their lives all the way to and including school age. Many bright young minds are lost to mercury, alluminium, formaldehyde and other toxic stuff in the vaccines. Normal, natural immunity to diseases has become practically unknown. On the contrary however, we have huge numbers of autistic children and we wonder why kids can't sit still in school any more. We are ruining future generations by vaccination. IT IS TIME TO ABOLISH VACCINATION AS A MEDICAL PRACTICE!
UK Girl Dies After Getting HPV Vaccine
The UK press is reporting that a 14-year-old girl died soon after being given GlaxoSithKline's HPV vaccine Cervarix. A few other girls at her school took ill after getting the vaccine.
Study demonstrates that aluminum found in vaccines can cause neurologic damage
The investigators found "the multiple aluminum hydroxide injections of experiment 2 showed profound effects on motor and other behaviours... Multiple aluminum injections produced significant behavioural outcomes including changes in locomotion behavior, and induced memory deficits..."
Len Horowitz files pandemic charges against Rockefeller
Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz and Sherri Kane, an investigative journalist, have released evidence in legal affidavits that leaders of a private global biotechnology "trust" are behind the pandemic flu, including its origin and alleged prevention via vaccinations. Their documents, being sent by attorneys to the FBI this week, evidence industrialists are operating a crime ring within the "Partnership for New York City" (PNYC), and are behind the pandemic's creation, media persuasions, vaccination preparations, and health official promotions.
Intravenous Vitamin C Used to Recover Terminal Swine Flu Case
The patient deteriorated further and was on life support. The family was told nothing more could be done and life support would be switched off. His lungs were not functioning. The family said NO -- not until everything has been tried.
The hospital was pushed hard to give him IVC and reluctantly agreed, saying if there was no improvement by Friday, that's it.
The patient showed signs of improvement by Wednesday, to the hospital’s surprise...
Gut worms protect against allergy Parasitic gut worms, such as hookworm, might aid the development of new treatments for asthma and other allergies, a study in Vietnam suggests.
[E]xperts believe that over millions of years of co-evolution worms have found methods to dampen down host immune responses to prolong their own survival inside humans.
This relationship seems to have become so intertwined that without gut worms or other parasites, our immune system can become unbalanced, which, in turn, could contribute to the development of asthma and other allergies.
Just as we have learned to poison pests in our environment, we tend to eliminate (by poison) the "pests" and "microbes" we find in out bodies, not considering that through a long period of evolution, our bodies have developed synergies with many of the smaller organisms that accompany us. I say we should learn more about beneficial interactions with those pests and microbes, before we unleash the full killing power of our pharmaceutical poisons on them...
American Association of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) Sues Wikipedia by Tim Bolen
This is a very important case to the anyone involved in health care anywhere in the world.. Why? Because Wikipedia articles about health care have turned Wikipedia into a PROPAGANDA MACHINE - with the full knowledge, and cooperation, of the management of both the Wikipedia Project, and the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia is the fourth ranked website on Planet Earth.
More, the abuse is so obvious, and so extensive, I strongly suspect that the Wikimedia Foundation's claims of "funding by donations" is an outright lie. I believe that a good case can be made that some, if not all, of Wikimedia's so-called "Anonymous Contributions" (the majority of contributions) are, in fact, "Fee for Service Contracts" in disguise, initiated by those controlling and paying for the writing of the articles.
In short, I believe that Wikipedia is a fraud.
What is wrong with Codex Alimentarius?
The major danger I see in Codex is that its regulations are industry friendly and designed to make most of the industrial foods "acceptable" in all member countries, so multinational food companies can produce in one place and sell everywhere else. Since industry is infinitely more powerful in lobbying and steering the Codex process than consumers are, the outcome is that Codex food rules, rather than protect consumer health, are geared to protect industry profits and open new markets for processed foods.
Court Rejects Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
The government illegally approved a genetically modified, herbicide-resistant strain of sugar beets without adequately considering the chance they will contaminate other beet crops, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White rejected the U.S. Department of Agriculture's decision in 2005 to allow Monsanto Co. to sell the sugar beets, known as "Roundup-Ready" because they are engineered to coexist with Monsanto's Roundup herbicide.
German consumers get “No Genetic Engineering” label for food
German consumers can now find out if their food has been genetically modified. Minister of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Ilse Aigner, recently introduced a new “No Genetic Engineering” logo.
The green and white logo, which reads Ohne Gentechnik in German, will guarantee that food has no trace of genetically engineered substances.
Research has found that dogs exposed to herbicide-treated lawns can double their chance of developing lymphoma and bladder cancer.
Of 30 commonly used pesticides: 16 are toxic to birds, 24 to fish, and 11 to bees. In the U.S. alone, pesticides poison approximately 65 million birds each year...
Researchers led by Professor Stephen Atkin, head of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the Hull York Medical School, will look for signs of illness in volunteers after they consume cereal bars made with or without aspartame.
Atkin's group is recruiting 50 people who believe they are sensitive to aspartame. The volunteers will be matched by age and sex to 50 volunteers who are happy to eat the sweetener.
Santa Fe Pediatrician Ken Stoller Asks FDA to Rescind Aspartame's Approval Stephen Fox comments:
"Dr. Stoller adds his voice to that of New York Psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Walton and Palm Beach Internist Dr. H.J. Roberts, all of whom have now written very compelling letters to Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the FDA Commissioner, asking her to rescind approval for this neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener; there is ample precedent for doing so in Richard Nixon's Presidential Order to the FDA to rescind approval for cyclamates, and there is far more carcinogenicity with aspartame than there was for cyclamates; Obama himself could do this and protect hundreds of millions from further harm from this poison found in 10,000 USA food and pharmaceutical products!"
Synthetic Sweetener Splenda is a Poisonous Chlorocarbon
“Splenda” is the branded name of the popular synthetic sweetener and food additive whose generic name is “sucralose” ... but, the most chemically accurate term for this ubiquitous substance is: trichlorinated sucrose.
Chlorocarbon molecules, including sucralose, are not nutritive; hence the claim that they have “zero calories”. Such molecules, however, adversely affect human cellular metabolism because they are toxic to various enzyme systems and the body’s mitochondria (the sub-cellular “hearts and lungs” of our cells that, when they sicken or die off, will cause the cell to also sicken or die).
US: Sixty Massachusetts Doctors Get Money From Eli Lilly To Promote Its Drugs
"At Boston Medical Center, Dr. Brian McGeeney, a neurologist, received $30,000 during that period [first three months of 2009], and Dr. Elliot Sternthal, an endocrinologist, was paid $11,587.50, according to a faculty registry on Lilly’s website."
McGeeney was promoting Cymbalta, Lilly's anti-depressant, presumably for fibromyalgia.
Stopping the Psychiatric Abuse of Children
This year's conference comes at a tragic turning point in the psychiatric abuse of children. In the past, the main threat has come from the widespread use of stimulant drugs like Ritalin, Dexedrine, Adderall, Focalin, and Concerta for children labeled with ADHD. These drugs work by crushing spontaneous behavior. Frequently this leads to depression, as well as insomnia, anxiety and psychosis. The stimulants suppress the growth of children, cause abnormalities in their brains, induce sudden cardiac death, and predispose children to cocaine abuse in young adulthood.
As bad as this is, the situation of our children has recently become even more desperate...
HIV IS A MISDIAGNOSIS
The amount of research available that more than validates many of the perspectives of those in the dissident movement is staggering. Today there is study after study of the dangers of ARVS. Its shocking to discover that the slowing down of the mitochondria is the sign of all degenerative diseases, whilst doscovering that these drugs intentionally slow down the mitochondria.
The Porto Alegre Resolution on Nonionizing Radiation Health and Environment
We are concerned about the body of evidence that indicates that exposure to electromagnetic fields interferes with basic human biology and may increase the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases. The exposure levels at which these effects have been observed are many times lower than the standards promulgated by the International Commission for Non-Ionizing radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and the IEEE's International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety (ICES).
We are deeply concerned that current uses of non-ionizing radiation for mobile phones, wireless computers and other technologies place at risk the health of children and teens, pregnant women, seniors and others who are most vulnerable due to age or disability, including a health condition known as electromagnetic hypersensitivity. We strongly recommend these precautionary practices...
For more information on the Porto Alegre conference, including a complete record of the proceedings, see http://www.icems.eu under "Workshops."
Pandemics lurk on every corner - there's Aids, SARS, the Bird Flu, the Swine Flu, and various others that have not made such a deep impression on the public mind. The "fear factor" makes us accept what we would normally question, like toxic drugs (AZT and Tamiflu) and the barbaric practice of vaccination.
However, the exaggerations needed to instil that fear in us become transparent and the fear mongers stand to lose the support of the medical profession. Thus the push needed to bring about our fear may be a key to reforming medicine. Having gone over the top, the fear mongers become vulnerable to exposure of their real agendas...
San Francisco (Rethinking AIDS) September 21, 2009 -- The Rethinking AIDS 2009 conference is proud to announce its program, including keynote speaker Michael Tracey and a screening of the controversial new documentary 'House of Numbers'. Numerous scientists, doctors, activists and HIV-positive people will be in attendance from November 6 - 8th at the Waterfront Plaza Hotel in Oakland. Media are invited to all conference sessions including the film screening.
This conference will question all aspects of the HIV=AIDS=Death theory, including the accuracy of HIV tests, the safety and efficacy of AIDS drugs, the non-likelihood of sexual transmission, the social and legal consequences and even the very existence of HIV.
These skeptics claim HIV/AIDS is the biggest medical catastrophe ever adopted by the medical-pharmaceutical establishment. They have evidence that those supposedly dying of AIDS are really dying from pre-existing diseases, well-known health risks such as drug abuse and malnutrition, the psychological stress of a fatal diagnosis and the AIDS medicines themselves...
Irish Health Trade Group challenges UK Press over biased reporting ANH Comment:
It is of great concern to us that the negative stories that appear in the press so often appear to be about studies that you get the feeling are ‘designed’ to fail, with inappropriate doses and combinations of synthetic nutrients, and the negative ‘spin’ often takes even the researchers themselves by surprise. It is particularly interesting to hear that respected professors and academics are unhappy about the way their views had been “represented in the papers”...
This was posted as a comment on an older article on this site, and I would like to draw attention to it here.
According to a current stream of research, the natural pH in the human body fluctuates, over a 24 hour period, between alkalosis and acidosis. If this oscillation did not occur, it would be impossible for the various biochemical processes in the body to take place and metabolism would grind to a halt. This ebb and flow in our pH is precisely what drives the engine of biological life.
Oppose FDA Declaration of Electroshock Safety
The US Food and Drug Administration is in charge of regulating medical devices just as it does drugs, including the machines used to give Electroshock. But it's not doing its job. It has allowed these machines to be used on millions of patients over the past generation without requiring any evidence whatsoever that shock treatment is safe or effective!
Big anti-GM protest in Germany
Thousands of protesters took to the streets against GM yesterday (Sunday, Sept. 13), in the southern German town of Ulm (in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg). The protest kicked of with a tractor demonstration involving 120 vehicles. The event was themed "Diversity feeds the world" and included a huge GM-free food festival. The protesters called for a ban of GMOs in farming in Germany, for both cultivation and feed.
This article and a number of other recent news items on the issue of genetically modified organisms collected on the dr. Rath Foundation's site show that international resistance keeps building against the plan to monopolize our food supply through patentable (genetically modified) seeds which form the backbone of big agro multinationals' takeover strategy.
Vitamin C deficiency worse than feared
Vitamin C deficiency is becoming increasingly common. A University of Toronto study, led by Leah Cahill, found that 1 in 7 of young non-smoking Canadian adults had serum vitamin C deficiency. In the US, 15% of adults are estimated to be deficient. A quarter of a century ago, this figure was only about 3 – 5%. In Mexico, the percentage of women who were vitamin C deficient was estimated in 2003, to be as high as 40%, which may have serious clinical implications for their babies and children.
Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
Behind the scenes, however, MK-869 was starting to unravel. True, many test subjects treated with the medication felt their hopelessness and anxiety lift. But so did nearly the same number who took a placebo, a look-alike pill made of milk sugar or another inert substance given to groups of volunteers in clinical trials to gauge how much more effective the real drug is by comparison. The fact that taking a faux drug can powerfully improve some people's health—the so-called placebo effect—has long been considered an embarrassment to the serious practice of pharmacology.
Doctors' speeches on brand-name drugs can net thousands
Boca Raton psychiatrist Donna Holland spent a day this month in San Antonio talking to doctors about the hyperactivity drug Strattera for manufacturer Eli Lilly and Co.
Her pay for that 45-minute speech: $1,500 plus expenses.
She's one of 24 doctors in Broward and Palm Beach counties who were paid a total of $200,000 in speaking fees from Lilly in the first three months of 2009.
I suppose you can all say "conflict of interest"...
Pfizer paid agency thousands to boost drug sales, suit claims
Pfizer Inc. paid the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill [a group posing as a grassroots patient advocacy - Sepp] hundreds of thousands of dollars and its former president thousands more, turning the organization into a “Trojan horse” for an illegal marketing scheme that helped boost the schizophrenia drug Geodon's sales by millions of dollars a year, according to a lawsuit unsealed this week.
Gardasil and Cervarix: Vaccination insanity
“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 20 million Americans are infected with HPV. There are 6.2 million new infections each year. The CDC says that at least 50 percent of sexually active men and women get an HPV infection at some time in their life. The American Social Health Association says HPV is the most common sexually transmitted virus and puts that number at 75 percent or more.”
Yet while these “infections” are so common as to be virtually routine, almost no one contracts the diseases that these infections supposedly cause:
“The CDC says that although HPV is very common in both sexes, most men won’t develop symptoms or serious health problems, and there is no test to detect the virus in men.
Yet there is talk about giving that vaccine to boys as well as girls. Another profitable pharmaceutical product that prevents .... nothing, except perhaps financial hardship for the producer.
Dr. Andrew Moulden: What You Were Never Told About Vaccines
"Through my extensive research and my work throughout the years, I have discovered that vaccinations are causing impaired blood flow (ischemia) to brain and body from clinically silent to death. These are strokes – across the board for all of us. I have reason to believe that all are being affected and all vaccinations ARE causing the overwhelming rise in autism, specific learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, sudden infant death, gulf war syndrome, dementia, seizure disorders, some cancers it would appear, and much much more."
Swine flu death rate similar to seasonal flu: expert
"It's mildest in kids. That's one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic," Lipsitch told a meeting of flu experts being held by the U.S. Institute of Medicine.
"Barring any changes in the virus, I think we can say we are in a category 1 pandemic. This has not become clear until fairly recently."
The Pandemic Severity Index set by the U.S. government has five categories of pandemic, with a category 1 being comparable to a seasonal flu epidemic.
Ignore the health scare professionals: you won't die of swine flu
I don’t really blame the pharmaceutical companies: they’re doing what all big corporations aim to do, namely to maximise their profits. But I do blame the politicians who are falling for it. Ministers must suspect that the danger is being exaggerated. Yet they would rather spend gazillions than run the slightest risk of being accused of not having done enough. And, needless to say, there isn’t a medical advisory body in the world that will say: “Actually, minister, considering everything in the round, the danger posed by this virus is minor, and we recommend the disbandment of this panel”.
Health care workers often shun flu shot
... nearly 50 percent of the nation's health care workers also ignore the reminder, often for the same reasons. They think they don't need it, doubt its efficacy or are convinced the vaccine carries risks of dangerous side effects.
Well - they should know about side effects ... which through reporting bias remain largely unreported and thus unknown to large segments of the public.
CDC: First swine flu vaccines may be nasal spray
Currently it looks like all of them will be a nasal spray vaccine that is approved only for healthy people ages 2 to 49, said Dr. Jay Butler, an official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The nasal spray, called FluMist, is not recommended for some of the people most in danger of severe swine flu complications.
I seem to recall that nasal sprays, which use live attenuated virus, carry a danger of producing mutations in the virus - hmmm, why would they put out such a dangerous vaccine as the first step?
Preparing for the Real Pandemic
I believe that the real pandemic is about to be unleashed through the very vaccines being pushed by governments and pharmaceutical giants like Novartis and Glaxo Smith Kline. The shots will be the cause, not the cure, of the pandemic.
USA: Senate Hearings Held on Dangers of Cell Phone Use
But new research is serving as a wake-up call. The Environmental Working Group is warning that using a cell phone for 10 years or more significantly increases a person's risk for certain types of brain cancer.
"The studies are showing 50 [to] 90 percent increased risk for those rare tumors," said Jane Houlihan of the Environmental Working Group.
The study shows children are especially vulnerable, as their thinner skulls provide less protection and they absorb twice the radiation as adults.
HIV/AIDS priorities and other flaws
The hysteria over HIV/AIDS has meant that for nigh on two decades the world has been duped into considering the need for antiretroviral drugs to be the most urgent health issue in Africa, when even by official estimates HIV/AIDS takes only 1.5% of the African babies who die before the age of 5. On the other hand, it’s been shown that the simple and inexpensive act of providing mosquito nets can reduce drastically the incidence of malaria, which kills 5 times as many babies as HIV/AIDS is supposed to. Better sanitation, cleaner drinking water, and vitamin supplements to combat malnutrition could save an even larger number of babies than would the providing of mosquito nets.
VIRUSGATE?
It is unlikely that such a virus had been “circulating undetected among swine herds somewhere in the world.” And it is unlikely that pigs were the source of the current human pandemic, not even a remote potential. They have not yet seen this new virus infecting swine.
The researchers confirm that the new virus is an “odd mixture of human, pig and bird genes” and their study on the genetic code sequencing of the 70 samples from the US and Mexico confirm that this new virus is a mixture of genes from human, pig and bird genes as it is possible to determine where each of those genes originate.
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