Every day, I come across a number of interesting news items and stories related to the topics of this site but I cannot report on them all. This is a new kind of post that brings you the links to stories I find interesting, grabbing them as I go. Some of them are only links, others come with a short comment...
BBC reports on a Berkeley study that introduces yet another level in the anti-smoking campaign: Not only is second hand smoke causing cancer, but now "third hand smoke" is bad for your health as well.
Wait a minute. What are those people trying to cover up? What about hundreds of thousands of deaths from pharmaceuticals, what about chemical toxins of all kinds we find in the environment and in our food, what about depleted uranium being liberally vaporized in "theaters of conflict", what about radioactivity from leaks in our power plants, what about microwave pollution from mobile phones and other communication equipment, and finally, what about those particles seeded in the atmosphere by airplanes deliberately painting our skies with clouds of barium, alluminium and other assorted gunk?
Are we to believe that smoking causes all the harm while those polluting activities can be safely overlooked? Is that what the anti-smoking campaign and now "third hand smoke" is all about?
Or is smoking merely a convenient scapegoat to cover up lucrative pollution that we should not be looking at?
Please don't get me wrong. I am not promoting smoking and I am not smoking myself. But I do think we should not blindly accept anti-smoking propaganda without looking behind the scenes at what really makes us sick.
Lingering residue from tobacco smoke which clings to upholstery, clothing and the skin releases cancer-causing agents, work in PNAS journal shows.
Berkeley scientists in the US ran lab tests and found "substantial levels" of toxins on smoke-exposed material.
They say while banishing smokers to outdoors cuts second-hand smoke, residues will follow them back inside and this "third-hand smoke" may harm.
Opponents called it a laughable term designed to frighten people unduly.
No, not laughable but, in my view, a deliberate attempt to mislead and cover up for things much worse...
What's wrong with Eucalyptus trees?
The US forest biotechnology company ArborGen has had considerable success in getting permission from the United States Department of Agriculture/Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to undertake open field trials of the company's genetically modified eucalyptus trees.
The purpose of the environmental release is to assess the effectiveness of gene constructs intended to confer cold tolerance, to alter lignin biosynthesis; and to alter fertility. In addition, the trees have been engineered with a selectable marker gene.
Do we really need to modify trees to create a new business opportunity for agrotechnology business? It would seem to me that eucalyptus trees have been growing just fine for perhaps millions of years. Does anyone else see the insanity inherent in disturbing long term natural equilibria for short term profit?
US: New Bill Targets Dietary Supplements
Why would a bill be offered to solve an illegal steroid problem that does not really address the steroid problem but instead gives the FDA complete and arbitrary control over all supplements?
Drug companies do not like them because they represent a low cost, safer, and often more effective alternative to drugs. The FDA does not like them because supplements do not come through the FDA approval process and therefore do not support the FDA budget.
US: Protect your supplements against McCain Dorgan bill
As Scott Tips, the president of the National Health Federation, stated, “This bill strikes at the heart of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), which was passed unanimously by the U.S. in 1994, and which took away the Food and Drug Administration’s arbitrary powers over supplements. Now, this bill would create a Euro-style ‘positive list’ of ‘acceptable’ new dietary ingredients. And by ‘acceptable,’ the bill means acceptable to an appointed bureaucrat.
Russia: Putin Sacks Official For Opposing Pharma Price Controls
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sacked a senior health official for public criticizing a draft law introducing state regulation of pharmaceutical pricing, according to RIANovosti. The bill, which was passed by the Federal Assembly, has been criticized as running counter to free-market principles and likely to nurture black-market production.
Russia is doing what seems to be exceedingly difficult for the US - reining in pharmaceutical prices to cut healthcare costs.
Research reveals link between beer and bone health
A new study suggests that beer is a significant source of dietary silicon, a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density. Researchers from the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of California, Davis studied commercial beer production to determine the relationship between beer production methods and the resulting silicon content, concluding that beer is a rich source of dietary silicon.
Silicon is present in beer in the soluble form of orthosilicic acid (OSA), which yields 50% bioavailability, making beer a major contributor to silicon intake in the Western diet.
However, on 9 January, The Guardian published a letter from Prof. Beddington stating categorically: “Your article misrepresents my position and my paper …. The paper makes no mention of GM and I have not said that Britain must launch a GM food revolution.” It went on to say: “GM technology is not something that should be simply accepted or rejected”, the question is what problems in agricultural production it can solve.
The Nature Of Dis-Ease excerpt from a book by Bruce Lipton
Sometimes, the body’s natural harmony breaks down, and we experience dis-ease, which is a reflection of the body’s inability to maintain normal control of its function-providing systems. Because behavior is created through the interaction of proteins with their complementary signals, there are really only two sources of dis-ease: either the proteins are defective or the signals are distorted...
Why Antidepressants are no better than placebos
The research had shown that antidepressants help about three quarters of people with depression who take them, a consistent finding that serves as the basis for the oft-repeated mantra "There is no question that the safety and efficacy of antidepressants rest on solid scientific evidence," as psychiatry professor Richard Friedman of Weill Cornell Medical College recently wrote in The New York Times. But ever since a seminal study in 1998, whose findings were reinforced by landmark research in The Journal of the American Medical Association last month, that evidence has come with a big asterisk. Yes, the drugs are effective, in that they lift depression in most patients. But that benefit is hardly more than what patients get when they, unknowingly and as part of a study, take a dummy pill—a placebo. As more and more scientists who study depression and the drugs that treat it are concluding, that suggests that antidepressants are basically expensive Tic Tacs.
Canada: Province of Ontario probing 17 cases of severe H1N1 vaccine side effects
Andrew Morrison, spokeman for the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, said the cases include four vaccine recipients who came down with Guillain-Barre Syndrome — a rare neurological condition characterized by sudden weakness or paralysis. Another 13 people came down with anaphylaxis, a serious allergic reaction which can include symptoms of anaphylactic shock, rapid heartbeat, itchiness in the skin and difficulty breathing.
H1N1 'Pseudopandemic' Was A Hoax Perpetrated by Big Pharma
Wodarg said that governments were "threatened" by special interest groups within the pharmaceutical industry as well as the WHO to buy the vaccines and inject their populations without any reasonable scientific reason for doing so, and yet in countries like Germany and France only around 6 per cent took the vaccine despite enough being available to cover 90 per cent of the population.
Wodarg said he was alarmed when the WHO cited early cases in Mexico as a threat and quickly moved to pandemic status, despite the fact that the cases were relatively mild and the virus was not new.
"This was the mildest flu ever and the people were much more clever than the government so we have to find out what was going on with WHO - why did they do this pandemic alarm," asked Wodarg, noting that pharmaceutical interests within the World Health Organization were instrumental in creating the panic and reaping the financial dividends.
UK: Police Radios Blamed For Cancer Death
DOZENS of police forces are facing compensation claims from officers over radios they say make them ill and have been blamed by the family of one officer for his death from cancer.
Forces across the country are eagerly awaiting the pre-trial review this month of a test case being bought by five Lancashire officers...
Could Your Cell Phone End Up Killing You?
The report includes some stats that are enough to make even the most ardent addict consider dropping his or her iPhone or Blackberry. If you've used your cell phone regularly for five years, your chance of having a parotid tumor is increased by 34 percent. If you've had more than 5,479 calls in your lifetime, your chances are upped by 58 percent. For folks who live further from big cities, prospects are even dimmer -- your chances of getting a parotid tumor are increased by 96 percent if you have a lifetime exposure of more than 1,035 hours.
According to The Center's founder, William McFaul, a retired business person and not a member of the scientific community, "Because of its universal applicability, our Life Sciences group has already used the model as a tool to identify highly probable causal paths for several illnesses and disease entities. Autism was one of most difficult illnesses The Center had attempted to analyze. If it hadn't been for so many parents insisting that vaccines were responsible for the condition, we might never have found the fact that the stabilizer in MMR and a few other vaccines is hydrolyzed gelatin; a substance that is approximately 21% glycine. It appears that, based on readily verifiable science, the use of that form of glycine triggers an imbalance between the amino acid neurotransmitters responsible for the absorption rate of certain classes of cells throughout the body. It is that wide-spread disruption that apparently results in the systemic problems that encompass the mind and the body characterized in today's 'classic' autism."
Sudden infant death syndrome linked to low levels of serotonin
The researchers theorize that this newly discovered serotonin abnormality may reduce infants' capacity to respond to breathing challenges, such as low oxygen levels or high levels of carbon dioxide. These high levels may result from re-breathing exhaled carbon dioxide that accumulates in bedding while sleeping face down. The findings appear in the Feb. 3 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Malaria study to test iron, folic acid supplementation
A new study led by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) will investigate whether long-term weekly iron and folic acid supplementation can reduce anaemia without increasing the risk of contracting malaria.
Professor Bernard Brabin, Head of LSTM's Child and Reproductive Health department, has secured a £0.5 million grant from the US National Institutes of Health, through support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to test the hypothesis that iron supplementation in young women prior to conception and during early pregnancy results in reduced iron deficiency and anaemia in pregnancy without increasing malaria risk.
Although these new ingredients are considered sound replacements, they may only be a temporary fix, pending development of a new generation of less toxic substitutes.
Iraq to sue US, Britain over depleted uranium bombs
Iraq's Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against Britain and the US over their use of depleted uranium bombs in Iraq, an Iraqi minister says.
According to Iraqi military experts, the US and Britain bombed the country with nearly 2,000 tons of depleted uranium bombs during the early years of the Iraq war.
Atomic radiation has increased the number of babies born with defects in the southern provinces of Iraq.
Iraqi doctors say they' have been struggling to cope with the rise in the number of cancer cases —especially in cities subjected to heavy U-S and British bombardment.
GM Crops Face Meltdown in the USA Major crops genetically modified for just two traits - herbicide tolerance and insect resistance – are ravaged by super weeds and secondary pests in the heartland of GMOs as farmers fight a losing battle with more of the same; a fundamental shift to organic farming practices may be the only salvation.
HT crops encouraged the use of herbicides, resulting in herbicide-resistant weeds that demand yet more herbicides. But the increasing use of deadly herbicide and herbicide mixtures has failed to stall the advance of the palmer super weed in HT crops. At the same time, secondary pests such as the tarnished plant bug, against which Bt toxin is powerless, became the single most damaging insect for US cotton.
It is disappointing though predictable that the only official academic advice given to farmers is more of the same conventional practices that created the problems in the first place, spraying more and spraying mixtures of different kinds of pesticides, including those banned for being too toxic. Industry, meanwhile, is ready to sell varieties with more stacked GM traits; up to eight at double the seed price.
Ghostwriting at Elite Academic Medical Centers in the United States
Medical ghostwriting, the practice of pharmaceutical companies secretly authoring journal articles published under the byline of academic researchers, is a troubling phenomenon because it is dangerous to public health. For example, ghostwritten articles on rofecoxib [also known as Vioxx] probably contributed to “…lasting injury and even deaths as a result of prescribers and patients being misinformed about risks”. Study 329, a randomized controlled trial of paroxetine [traded as Seroxat, Paxil] in adolescents, was ghostwritten to claim that paroxetine is “generally well tolerated and effective for major depression in adolescents”, although data made available through legal proceedings show that “Study 329 was negative for efficacy on all 8 protocol specified outcomes and positive for harm”. Even beyond frank misrepresentation of data, commercially driven ghostwritten articles shape the medical literature in subtler but important ways, affecting how health conditions and treatments are perceived by clinicians. The ability of industry to exercise clandestine influence over the peer-reviewed medical literature is thus a serious threat to public health.
ISIS: Swine Flu a “Faked Pandemic”
The truth is out. More than half of the experts advising the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare swine flu a ‘pandemic’ are linked to drug-makers that have reaped huge profits from untested vaccines and flu drugs. Eleven of the 20 members of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) have profited from work done for the pharmaceutical industry or are linked to it through their universities. Many have declared interests in GlaxoSmithKline, the vaccine maker that stands to benefit the most from the pandemic.
The doctors diagnosed her with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological condition characterized by sudden weakness or paralysis. And while no one seems willing to discuss the likely cause, the 39-year-old knows exactly where the fault lies.
She blames the H1N1 flu shot she received on Dec. 13 - two weeks before her symptoms suddenly appeared.
UK Doctor's Receptionist Paralysed By Swine Flu Vaccine
When she had the vaccination in December, the mother of two said she felt ‘full of energy’. Six weeks later she started feeling stabbing pains in her legs, which quickly intensified. Almost overnight the condition spread to her face, paralysing one side and causing her eyelids to become puffy and droopy.
Thailand: Miscarriage prompts halt to flu jabs
H1N1 flu vaccinations among pregnant women have been suspended after a woman who received a jab lost her baby to miscarriage a day later.
The Public Health Ministry yesterday denied any link between the vaccinations and the foetal death, but as a precaution suspended flu shots among pregnant women pending an investigation into the miscarriage in the southern province of Satun.
New Zealand: Grieving mother blames Gardasil for daughter's death
Rhonda Renata is in no doubt about what caused the death of her daughter Jasmine. The 18-year-old died last September 22 at her family home in Upper Hutt, apparently in her sleep. It was six months since she had received the last of the three injections of the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil.
"Many more parents are making the connection to their child's sudden onset of deteriorating health since receiving the Gardasil vaccine. What is now happening to our girls here in New Zealand is replicating what has already happened overseas. It was only a matter of time before girls here were going to die from this vaccine," said Ms Smith.
HIV testing: Grabbing a monster by the tail
“Dubula also questioned the accuracy of home testing kits, saying there was no confirmation. ‘All HIV tests must be confirmed. The worry with self-testing is that it’s not always possible to confirm the results. Some people may not be able to afford to buy a second kit to confirm their results,’ she said, urging people to get free tests at public health facilities.”
But there’s no such thing as a confirming HIV test, according to “Laboratory detection of human retroviral infection” by Stanley H. Weiss and Elliott P. Cowan, Chapter 8 in AIDS and Other Manifestations of HIV Infection, ed. Gary P. Wormser, 4th ed. (2004). None of the tests are capable of establishing the presence of HIV infection; all results should be expressed as probabilities...
Colorado proclaims May 2010 as Electromagnetic Sensitivity Awareness Month
For the second year in a row, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Jr. signed a proclamation declaring May 2010 as Electromagnetic Sensitivity (EMS) Awareness Month in Colorado. As stated in the proclamation, people of all ages in Colorado and throughout the world have developed the illness of Electromagnetic Sensitivity (EMS) as a result of global electromagnetic pollution.
By the way ... today's date is 01022010 ... if we adopt the European way of writing dates. Palindrome anyone?
The Rise Of Marketing-Based Medicine
“While much excitement has been generated surrounding evidence-based medicine, internal documents from the pharmaceutical industry suggest that the publicly available evidence base may not accurately represent the underlying data regarding its products,” they write in Bioethical Inquiry. “We propose that while evidence-based medicine is a noble ideal, marketing-based medicine is the current reality…Although many internal industry documents are legally available on the internet, there are as yet few publications in the biomedical literature based primarily on internal industry sources. These internal documents, as well as material drawn from other sources, provide insight into the intersection between marketing and science within the pharmaceutical industry.”
Video:The Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods
Expert Jeffrey M. Smith, author of the #1 GMO bestseller Seeds of Deception, and Genetic Roulette, entertains a wildly appreciative audience with shocking facts about how genetically modified organisms (GMOs) entered our lives. Smith links GMO to toxins, allergies, infertility, infant mortality, immune dysfunction, stunted growth, and death. Whistleblowers were fired, threatened, and gagged, and warnings by FDA scientists were ignored.”
Wave Genetics Research Targeted by Russian Academy 'Skeptics'
Perhaps it is no accident that the work of Gariaev and his team has come under attack, since Wave Genetics promises to make today's genetic engineering look like the Wright brothers' first flight, compared with a modern airliner. With huge sums of money invested by the likes of Monsanto and Genentech in today's comparatively very 'old hat' recombinant genetic modification technologies, it is no wonder that those developing the successor technology are being viciously attacked.
Medical students want conventional medicine to include alternative therapies
According to research published in the online edition of the peer-reviewed journal Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM), 75 percent of medical students surveyed think it would be beneficial for conventional Western medicine to integrate with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). CAM places emphasis on natural therapies and using the body's own healing powers instead of relying on drugs, vaccines and other standard Western treatments.
Vitamins and Teenagers
Colds, respiratory illnesses, intestinal viruses, mono, and other infectious diseases are constantly present in American schools. In response, my teenage kids have placed four bowls on the kitchen counter - a large one in the middle full of vitamin C surrounded by three smaller bowls of niacin, vitamin D, and thiamine tablets. They help themselves to the vitamins when they feel the need, and many of their friends have adopted the idea as well.
Cannabinoids, Miracle Drug of the 21st Century by Jeffrey Dach MD
Although cannabis was a medicinal plant for thousands of years, its medical use was suppressed and banned throughout most of the 20th century. Banned in England, Canada and the US in the 1930's, medical cannabis represents the first casualty in a war against natural medicine waged by the pharmaceutical industry.
Kifuji is the Tufts Medical Center psychiatrist who prescribed boatloads of the powerful drugs that prosecutors say killed 4-year-old Rebecca Riley in December 2006. And in doing so, this highly trained professional - still, incredibly, on the staff of a leading medical institution - managed to miss some screaming warning signs.
US: Historical And Scientific Evidence For Cancer And Other Disease Therapies Banned From Public By FTC, FDA And State Attorneys General
In 2008, FTC did an internet sweep of 130 companies who the FTC said implied that they have effective integrative help for people who have been diagnosed with cancer. In all FTC cases against dietary supplement companies filed last year for allegedly making claims to cure, treat, mitigate, or prevent cancer, not one was based on customer complaints. Instead, all were based on websites seeking to educate the public about the benefits of historically beneficial dietary supplements, including herbs and nutrients that have had significant impact on cancer.
In the majority of these cases, the owners of these companies were required to send out a letter dictated by the FTC to every person who had bought their products, saying "only conventional cancer treatments (surgery, chemotherapy and radiation) are scientifically proven to be safe and effective in humans.”
Doctor Wakefield 'broke research rules': UK Medical Council
Dr Andrew Wakefield's 1998 Lancet study caused vaccination rates to plummet, resulting in a rise in measles - but the findings were later discredited. The General Medical Council ruled he had acted "dishonestly and irresponsibly" in doing his research.
In today's pharma-controlled environment it apparently is a crime to raise doubts about vaccine safety, especially if you publish your findings in a medical journal.
Critics said the decision was driven by pharmaceutical companies desperate to recoup the billions of pounds they had invested in researching and developing pandemic vaccines after the bird flu scares in 2006 and 2007.
Six had their cases reported to the Center for Health Protection of Hong Kong's Department of Health including four who had been pregnant for no longer than six months, the Hong Kong-based Wen Wei Po newspaper reported yesterday.
The seventh, a 39-year-old woman, suffered a miscarriage last Thursday at Princess Margaret Hospital after taking the vaccine last month.
Pfizer settles Trovan action in Nigeria, agrees to compensate victims
As part of an out-of-court settlement, PFIZER has agreed to pay N26 million to each family of the victims of its Trovan vaccine trials in Kano in 2006, provided there is proof of death or permanent incapacitation. (26 million Nigerian Naira are equivalent to 122.000 Euro)
About 200 people took part in the trials which resulted in the death of some patients and the permanent incapacitation of others.
"Under the terms of the settlement, Pfizer and Kano State [also] established a Healthcare/Meningitis Fund from which the study participants can receive financial support."
The Fund will also "underwrite several healthcare initiatives chosen by the Kano State Government that benefit the people of Kano State, totaling $30 million over a period of two years; and reimburse Kano State for $10 million in legal costs associated with the litigation.
AZT Sucks
Lindsey Nagel nearly died at age 2, from AZT poisoning. Lindsey, now 19, is an active, normal young woman.
Lindsey's parents, Steve and Cheryl Nagel, are interviewed in the documentary, "House Of Numbers," directed by Brent Leung. In the movie they describe what happened to their daughter, Lindsey, back in the early 90's, and how they fought the doctors who threatened to remove Lindsey from their home because they refused to give her AZT.
Aids: Quitting Drugs Is Not Enough
There is no doubt in my mind that taking so many prescription drugs, even under the care of physicians, was damaging me and my health. Quitting them was one essential step–among several–that I had to take just to recover my wits enough to move forward.
Good health, or improving one’s poor health, also requires attention to what we put into our system and how we maintain it. In my case, it also led me to rethink just about everything I thought I knew about medical care and health.
Lancashire police officers suing force over radio system's adverse health effects
Lancashire was the first force to pilot the new Airwave communications technology and TETRA radios in 2001 and at the time, the federation’s local branch reported 176 users had reported sick with symptoms such as nausea, headaches and stomach pains which they blamed on the new equipment.
Once lawsuits over mobile phone health damage really get going, those companies are going to have their hands full to organize defense strategies. Think tobacco...
PsychRights whistleblower suit challenges psychiatric prescriptions, charges medicaid fraud
"Even though the drug companies have been using these methods to induce psychiatrists to prescribe these drugs, it is the psychiatrists' responsibility to base their decisions on the facts, not drug company marketing," said Mr. Gottstein, continuing, "the uncritical acceptance of pharmaceutical company hype represents a massive betrayal of trust by the psychiatrists prescribing these drugs to children and youth."
AstraZeneca 'suppressed' drug test data
Thousands of patients are suing AstraZeneca in US courts, claiming the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel caused weight gain and diabetes.
The patients allege Seroquel, its second biggest selling drug worth $4.5bn (£2.7bn) a year, was marketed without adequate warning about possible side effects such as massive weight gain and the development of diabetes.
US Kids Represent Psychiatric Drug Goldmine
On April 22, 2009, the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported that in 2006 more money was spent on treating mental disorders in children aged 0 to 17 than for any other medical condition, with a total of $8.9 billion. By comparison, the cost of treating trauma-related disorders, including fractures, sprains, burns, and other physical injuries, was only $6.1 billion.
They do. It’s estimated that more than 100,000 Americans are electroshocked each year; half are 60 and older, and two-thirds are women. In Australia, it was recently revealed that psychiatrists had electroshocked 55 toddlers age four and younger. In the UK, three year olds have been brutalized with it. And one of the country’s leading mental health “patients’ rights” groups—the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI)—recently endorsed the use of electroshock on pregnant women...
WHO Financing: Panel Member Says Meetings Were Manipulated
A member of a World Health Organization panel of experts that is contemplating new global taxes on e-mail, alcohol, tobacco, airline travel and consumer bank transactions, charges she was given only selective info at group meetings, deliberations were rushed and her group was “manipulated” by the pharmaceutical industry, Fox News reports.
Cecilia Lopez Montano, a federal senator from Colombia, says the group’s working sessions she attended were truncated, her suggestions to examine intellectual patent rights held by drugmakers were ignored, and that neither she nor “the majority of the members of the group” actually participated in the findings “in a full manner.”
One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show
One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies.
The 2009 figures from the US Department of Agriculture shows ethanol production rising to record levels driven by farm subsidies and laws which require vehicles to use increasing amounts of biofuels.
"The grain grown to produce fuel in the US [in 2009] was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels," said Lester Brown, the director of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington thinktank ithat conducted the analysis.
Comment from a friend in the US:
While I readily agree there are many non-food bio-fuel sources that COULD and SHOULD be turned into vehicle fuel, sadly this report shows they are not being used.
Living in the California desert, I am amazed at the resilience, abundance, but otherwise worthlessness of tumbleweeds. They grow anywhere out here, no matter how little rain we get or how lousy the soil is. Driving at Honda, they warned us drivers not to hit them. They rip a shiny paint job to shreds. But if you drive an old car like mine, they are fun to hit at high speed and watch them explode into a plume of biodegradable dust.
Anyone who ever cared for either a swimming pool or fish aquarium also knows algae can easily get out of control. So why are CORN and other food grain going into fuel tanks? It's easier to grow and process than tumbleweeds or algae, that's why.
So once again the lazy man destroys an otherwise good idea.
Video:Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable
Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.
With cutting-edge nanotech, Michael Pritchard's Lifesaver water-purification bottle could revolutionize water-delivery systems in disaster-stricken areas around the globe.
Cure Cancer? Expect the FDA to destroy your life - The story of Greg Caton
Considering that half of American men and a third of American women will come down with cancer, the question must be asked: whom is the FDA “protecting”? The agency has effectively become the enforcement branch of the medical and pharmaceutical industries, which want to preserve the status quo. The pharmaceutical industry can’t make any money on natural remedies, and the doctors don’t want to lose the vast amounts of funding poured into cancer research.
FDA dupes Interpol to achieve illegal kidnapping and deportation of herbal formulator Greg Caton
Caton was taken from his holding facility and, with the help of U.S. State Department employees, involuntarily placed on an American Airlines plane headed for Miami. An Ecuadorian judge rushed to the airport in Guayaquil and demanded that Caton be released from the plane, stating that the attempted deportation was illegal, but American Airlines employees reportedly refused to allow Caton to leave the plane, stating that the plane was "U.S. territory" and that Ecuadorian law did not apply there...
The Story of Ozone
Ozone was first discovered and named by German scientist C.F. Schonbein in 1840.
The first ozone generators were developed by Werner von Siemens in Germany in 1857. The first report of ozone being used to purify blood in test tubes was by the German Dr. C. Lender in 1870.
The first American therapeutic use of ozone was by Dr. John H. Kellogg in ozone steam saunas at his Battle Creek, Michigan sanitarium from 1880, as he wrote in his book, "Diphtheria: Its Nature, Causes, Prevention and Treatment".
In October 1893, the world's first water treatment plant using ozone was installed in Ousbaden, Holland, and today there are over 3000 municipalities around the world that use ozone to clean their water and sewage, including all the great cities.
In 1885, the Florida Medical Association published "Ozone" by Dr. Charles J. Kenworthy, MD, detailing the use of ozone for therapeutic purposes.
THE OWNER'S MANUAL FOR THE HUMAN BODY
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US: Attorney sues FDA over antioxidant health claim prohibition
The action, lodged in a Washington DC District Court by Jonathan W Emord of Virginia-based law firm, Emord & Associates, seeks “declaratory and injunctive relief” from the Food and Drug Administration for withdrawing on June 19, 13 vitamin C and E cancer-related claims, and qualifying four others to the point where they are commercially unusable.
In particular, six claims are challenged relating vitamin C and lung, colon and gastric cancer; and vitamin E and bladder, gastric and lung cancer.
As with a similar action - lodged by Emord against the FDA over its approach to qualified selenium health claims - the antioxidant action lodged today cites Federal Court decisions that the FDA is accused of acting in contempt of.
In my view, the underlying issue here is: Can it be illegal to inform people (and prospective customers) of research indicating that certain natural substances and nutrients have health promoting properties? FDA clearly believes so, but are they acting out of a desire to protect our health or is it Pharma's bottom line that ultimately leads to this kind of censorship?
Dr Andrew Wakefield, the gastroenterologist who in 1998 raised the possibility of a link between autism, bowel disease and the MMR jab, will learn whether he has been found guilty of ethical breaches in research methods.
CryShame is organising a demonstration of support for the doctors outside the GMC building on the day, and we urge you to join us. This will be a landmark day in the long and exhausting fight to get justice for our children. Anyone attending the hearing over the last few years will be in little doubt of what the outcome should be. Each of the doctors presented a robust defence backed by solid documented fact to indicate that none of the allegations constitutes anything approaching professional misconduct. On the contrary, the GMC hearing has served to emphasise the dedication, care and courage of these three men in the face of a political trial that was triggered by a journalist and manipulated by a desperate system.
Please be there to support the doctors. Current expectations are that the decision will be announced at 2 pm on the 28th Jan, but do refer to the CryShame website (www.cryshame.co.uk) where news will be posted of any possible changes.
Video:Drug firms made 'false H1N1 claims'
The severity of the H1N1 outbreak was deliberately exaggerated by pharmaceutical companies that stood to make billions of dollars from a worldwide scare, a leading European health expert has claimed.
Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, has accused the makers of vaccines for the virus of influencing the World Health Organisation's (WHO) decision to declare a pandemic.
The Pandemic Control Paradigm
What millions including governments are beginning to suspect, regarding the H1N1 Flu Virus, commonly referred to as the Swine Flu Virus, is that this so-called "pandemic" was a skillfully orchestrated ‘agenda’ to sell vaccines to governments worldwide for hidden reasons, other than what we have been told officially.
Testing Aids Drugs on Children: How many deaths would be too many?
Dr. John P. Moore (of the Weill Cornell medical center), together with Ms. Jeanne Bergman (AIDS activist), have made a point of telling the public media, usually through bullying letters, threatening libel, to ignore and bury the story – that the orphans were used to no bad end, and that even though many died, there is nothing to be alarmed about.
It’s all fine, if they say it’s fine. And that’s supposed to be good enough for you, should you care to be concerned about using orphaned children in drug trials.
So, after years of wondering at the lack of humanity in these people, I’ve given up. I simply want to know: How many is too many?
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