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
Chiropathy points the way toward total wellness by offering sound advice and educational opportunities so that each person can make intelligent, informed decisions about the various factors influencing his total wellness. This state of wellness is a natural state of being, regardless of the age of the person.
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?
Poison Control Statistics Prove Supplements' Safety: No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs
There was not even one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System. The new 174-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.
Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or herbal product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava kava, St. John's wort, valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines, ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, melatonin, or any homeopathic remedies.
Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2008 from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements.
No man, woman or child died from nutritional supplements. Period.
That kind of makes the laws and directives to "ensure supplements are safe" that the European Commission has been passing in recent years so much hogwash. Why do supplements have to be made safe when carefully researched and approved medicines cause many thousands of deaths, while supplements cause none?
Is there some other agenda at work here rather than protecting consumers?
Censored Nutrition Research: How Medline Fools All of the People All of the Time A dose of irony from the orthomolecular crowd...
"The beauty of this is that we do not have to follow the published guidelines. We control the National Library of Medicine so skillfully that we got Medline to index publications that are not medical journals at all. We are enormously proud to say that Medline indexes Time magazine, Newsweek, US News and World Report, and Consumer Reports. But not the peer-reviewed Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, continuously published for more than 40 years, nor the peer-reviewed journal Fluoride, also published for decades.
"Yes, there are about 2,000 indexed articles on Medline/PubMed just from Time magazine. Here: see for yourself what a great job we've done.
Unlocking a Cure for Cancer – With Pot
Who could imagine that cannabis might one day offer hope as a cure for cancer? The United States government, that’s who.
For the past 30 years, U.S. officials have willfully ignored clinical research indicating that marijuana can inhibit the growth of certain type of malignant tumors. However, the recent publication of a trio of clinical studies and a pair of scientific reviews have effectively blown the lid off "Cancergate," and revealed that pot’s medical value may be far greater than ever presumed.
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. While banned in the US, there have been major scientific breakthroughs in Israel, Spain, Italy and Brazil over the last two decades.
Jesus healed using cannabis, study shows
Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published [in 2003].
The study suggests that Jesus and his disciples used the drug to carry out miraculous healings. The anointing oil used by Jesus and his disciples contained an ingredient called kaneh-bosem which has since been identified as cannabis extract, according to an article by Chris Bennett in High Times magazine...
Patents Being Used To Keep Starving Children From Getting Therapeutic Food Paste
Apparently, the company came up with "a mixture of peanut butter, powdered milk, sugar and vegetable oil fortified with 40 vitamins and minerals," called it Plumpy'nut, patented it, and started offering it to various aid agencies. Apparently, it works great, but anyone else who creates anything remotely similar comes under attack from Nutriset's lawyers, who apparently like saving children only when there's no competition from anyone who might do it more cheaply or more efficiently.
EFSA GMO regulatory chief takes EU ‘secrets’ to biotech industry
The former head of the GMO panel at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Suzy Renckens, has been allowed to move directly to a job in the genetic engineering industry. Such a move is not permitted according to EFSA’s own procedures, which are designed to prevent ‘conflict of interest’.
The Testbiotech Institute, Germany, who promote independent research and public debate on the impacts of biotechnology, made the information about the move public, and have reported that, only at that point, did the EFSA executive management acknowledge and communicate about the controversial move.
Testbiotech is demanding that EFSA face ‘consequences’, and is calling for its reorganisation. Testbiotech have also said they are referring the matter to the EU Commission.
Silver colloids and ionic silver products haven't made the grade. The popular silver-based antimicrobial cannot be sold as a food supplement, as it has not been added to the food supplement directive's "positive list" as an allowed form of mineral supplementation. In this interview, Anders Sultan, producer of a Swedish brand of colloidal silver, explains how silver colloid is sold as a water purification product, rather than a food supplement.
MONSANTO'S GMO PERVERSION OF FOOD
Few people would eat Monsanto’s “food” if they understood what it was or knew that they were eating it. President Obama and his family won’t eat it. Neither did the Bush family. Even a Monsanto employee cafeteria rejects it. This is no laughing matter. Your health and the health of your children and grandchildren are at stake.
The authorities are watching over us (PDF) by Sylvie Simon
We could add to the list of "potential killers still at large", such as dioxins, highly carcinogenic and mostly produced by the incinerators in refuse recycling plants; oestrogens which are found in high concentration in rivers and which are causing a drastic drop in the reproductive capacities of male fish; GM crops grown in open fields (much to the regret of 74% of the French population); and the innumerable phone masts, mobile phone antennas and wi-fi networks for wireless Internet spreading all over the country, although no credible study on their impact on human health has been done, and where it will take years for their damaging effects to become obvious. ...
All these scandals have many points in common, and one and the same origin: the fatal attraction of making money to the detriment of safeguarding health. Yet after each scandal, eminent "specialists" basking in general forgiveness tell us in trembling tones that the decisions that have been condemned were justified by "scientific knowledge at the time". Meanwhile, to the notion of "responsible but not guilty" has been added that of "guilty but not deserving of condemnation".
Very few of the people who are to blame have ever been condemned, and then they have only had to pay a fine. As long as this still happens, however large the fine may be, they will continue in their wicked ways, since the risk is far from equal to the profits to be made. The only way to limit the damage they can do is to put them behind bars along with those sentenced under common law, like anybody who has committed a crime.
Pill poppers: Over-reliant on pharma's drugs
On the 20th January 2010, the UK’s BBC 2’s Horizon aired a program regarding the pharmaceutical pill industry that probably caused many peoples belief systems to spin.
The program talked about the global pill industry as "an ongoing clinical trial in which we all take part", and outlined our reliance on these pretty coloured tablets. The BBC said “Drug discovery often owes as much to serendipity as to science, and that means much is learnt about how medicines work, or even what they do, when they're taken.
Video:Senate Hearing - Cell Phones and Health - Tumors and Cancer (10 minutes) Scientists testify about research into cell phones use and its potential impact on human health, potential side effects such as brain and salivary gland tumors are discussed.
House of Numbers - A new film about Aids
The accuracy of HIV tests; the competing and unclear definitions of AIDS; whether HIV causes AIDS; overblown case numbers; the safety and efficacy of the medicines; the supposed lethality of HIV; all these issues come up for review.
What's remarkable is that Leung gained access to major AIDS researchers and bureaucrats and put them on camera for interviews: Robert Gallo; Tony Fauci; Robin Weiss; David Baltimore; Luc Montagnier. You'll see a gallery of officialdom on display.
Predictably, House of Numbers has ignited controversy. It questions authority.
The National Aids Council of Zambia (NAC), a government unit mandated to oversee HIV/Aids programme, confirmed that 50 out of the 1, 332 women that participated in the clinical trials contracted HIV.
"The largest international clinical trial to date into a preventive HIV gel has found no evidence that the vaginal microbicide, PRO2000, reduces the risk of HIV infection in women," said Dr Macha, the former president of Zambia Medical Association.
Fox News:H1N1 Flu Is a False Pandemic, Health Expert Claims
"The great campaign of panic we have seen provided a golden opportunity for representatives from labs who knew they would hit the jackpot in the case of a pandemic being declared."
"We want to clarify everything that brought about this massive operation of disinformation. We want to know who made decisions, on the basis of what evidence, and precisely how the influence of the pharmaceutical industry came to bear on the decision-making."
UK Government Squandered More Than £1 Billion On Swine Flu Con
"Was the threat of 65,000 British swine flu deaths an unscientific exaggeration that has cost the country dearly, not only financially but in terms of stress and distorted NHS priorities?" he asked at question time then.
Mr Burnham defended the Government's response, saying: "We had to take every possible step to keep the country safe through what was declared a world health pandemic, not by this Government but by the World Health Organisation.
"We saw the events in Mexico in the spring, followed by the exceptional spike in flu cases in this country in the summer.
"There were understandably high levels of public concern, and I make no apology for making all the necessary preparations to keep the public safe through that. We have come through the pandemic because of the strength of the plans and preparations that this Government put in place."
This talk by Allan Savory at a recent meeting of Feasta, the Foundation for the economics of sustainability, at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Savory explains how we can reverse global warming and desertification using ... cattle and other grazing livestock. This may seem surprising since livestock has been blamed to be part of the problem of global warming.
Vdeo:Keeping Cattle: cause or cure for climate crisis?
How to reverse desertification and green the dying landscape. Allan Savory has demonstrated time and again in Africa, Australia and North and South America that, properly managed, livestock is essential to land restoration. With the right techniques, plant growth is lusher, the water table is higher, wildlife thrives, soil carbon increases and, surprisingly, perhaps four times as many cattle can be kept.
The recent review I’m talking about is a meta-analysis published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. It pooled together data from 21 unique studies that included almost 350,000 people, about 11,000 of whom developed cardiovascular disease (CVD), tracked for an average of 14 years, and concluded that there is no relationship between the intake of saturated fat and the incidence of heart disease or stroke.
Let me put that in layman’s terms for you:
Eating saturated fat doesn’t cause heart disease.
Germs That Are Good For You
Most adults are overweight, as are 15% of grade school children. We all know the culprits: too little exercise, too many videogames and too many calories.
But what if there’s more to it than that?
Maybe the culprit is bacteria–or, rather, the lack of the right kind of bacteria. That’s the radical theory of Martin Blaser, chairman of the department of medicine at New York University Medical School and former president of the Infectious Disease Society of America. Blaser suspects that chronic antibiotic overuse could be making kids fatter by killing off healthy gut bacteria necessary for efficient digestion.
World Health Global Innovation Commons and Social Networking Platform
The World Health section of the Global Innovation Commons is dedicated to the fields of disease prevention and public health. The list is comprised of the most neglected diseases that are prevalent in the most marginalized populations. Some of these diseases are known to have preventative measures or acute treatments that are not accessible in the areas which need it the most. Due to the nature of this section of the Global Innovation Commons, we would like to extend a message of honor to those who have died from, lost someone to, suffered from, or will contract these diseases. Without their sacrifice, the research for the treatment and prevention of these devastating diseases would not have been possible. Our goal is to create a massive global awareness about these diseases, thereby significantly reducing their effect and creating a more productive and engaged world for the future.
Codex Alimentarius - Dare you ignore it?
Behind the Codex Alimentarius Commission is the United Nations and the World Health Organization working in conjunction with the multinational pharmaceutical cartel and international banks. Its initial efforts in the US with the FDA were defeated, so it found another ally in the FTC. Now Codex, with the FTC and the pharmaceutical cartel behind it, it threatens to become a trade issue, using the campaign of Operation Cure-All to advance its goals.
World Health Organization Proposes Tax on Banking, Internet Activity
Such a scheme could raise "tens of billions of dollars" on behalf of the United Nations' public health arm from a broad base of consumers, which would then be used to transfer drug-making research, development and manufacturing capabilities, among other things, to the developing world.
The multibillion-dollar "indirect consumer tax" is only one of a "suite of proposals" for financing the rapid transformation of the global medical industry that will go before WHO's 34-member supervisory Executive Board at its biannual meeting in Geneva.
Individual countries have trouble paying for all the expenses of our overblown and ineffective pharma-centric western medicine health system. So now the WHO wants to tax all of us directly to perpetuate that dying dinosaur. There must be a better way ... perhaps some reforms??
"Passing a health care reform bill, no matter how ambitious, is only the first step in solving our health care crisis," Pollan says. "To keep from bankrupting ourselves, we will then have to get to work on improving our health -- which means going to work on the American way of eating."
GM Crops Increase Herbicide Use in the United States
The rapid rise in herbicide tolerant crops is increasing the application of toxic herbicides to alarming levels in the US, according to a comprehensive report by the Organic Food Center, USA. Research based on statistics from the US Department of Agriculture revealed that from 1996 to 2008 pesticide use increased by 318 million pounds...
No kidding. The good journals are easy to access on the internet through a huge electronic database called Medline. This wonderful, free service is brought to you by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. In other words, by you. By your tax dollars. Generally it is money well spent, until you go searching for megavitamin therapy research papers. Then you will find that you can't find all of them. That is because of selective indexing.
Book:FDA: Failure, Deception, Abuse
This new book, a collection of articles from Life Extension Magazine, reveals closely guarded secrets about the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry, the government, and the medical research establishment. It documents how the FDA:
- Denies the introduction of life-saving therapies
- Suppresses safe methods of preventing disease
- Causes the price of drugs to be beyond the means of most
- Intimidates those who develop innovative methods
- Fails, by its own admission, to keep pace with science
- Criminalizes giving scientific information to consumers
- Censors medical information that would educate doctors
- Fails to protect the safety of our food
- Approves prescription drugs that prove lethal
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe opens hearings on 'falsified' swine flu pandemic
The 47-nation Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is conducting an inquiry into an alleged conspiracy between the WHO, the pharmaceutical industry and scientists which could "expose millions of healthy people to the risk of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines," caused damage to public budgets and to health agencies' credibility, according to a PACE resolution.
The motion was introduced by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, head of the health committee, former German lawmaker and a specialist in lung disease, who called the current pandemic "one of the greatest medical scandals of the century."
Johnson & Johnson Charged With Kickback Scheme
The US Attorney in Boston says Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks - in the form of special rebates and other payments - so Omnicare, the nation’s biggest provider of pharmacy services to nursing homes, would put more patients on its Risperdal schizophrenia med.
Is infant immunization a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy?
The Christchurch Health and Development Study comprises 1,265 children born in 1977. The 23 children who received no diphtheria / pertussis / tetanus (DPT) and polio immunizations had no recorded asthma episodes or consultations for asthma or other allergic illness before age 10 years; in the immunized children, 23.1% had asthma episodes, 22.5% asthma consultations, and 30.0% consultations for other allergic illness. Similar differences were observed at ages 5 and 16 years.
Book:THE POISONED NEEDLE Suppressed Facts About Vaccination
Our worst epidemics now are epidemics of vaccination in which more people are killed every year by "vaccinal diseases" than by the diseases that the vaccinations were supposed to combat.
Complete freedom from disease can scarcely be found except in remote islands or isolated communities that have not been invaded by medical mischief and commercialized products. Is our proud civilization to be degraded, corrupted, and destroyed by its own inventions designed for selfish profit and exploitation of the race?
Vaccination, instead of being the promised blessing to the world, has proved to be a curse of such sweeping devastation that it has caused more death and disease than war, pestilence, and plague combined. There is no scourge (with the possible exception of atomic radiation) that is more destructive to our nation’s health than this monument of human deception — this slayer of the innocent —this crippler of body and brain — THE POISONED NEEDLE.
Children In Bhutan Sacrificed For Corrupt Pentavalent Vaccine Research
The Global alliance for vaccines and immunization (GAVI), an alliance of government, UN agencies, vaccine makers and charities was formed in 2000 AD with a globally appreciated altruistic motive. The public private partnership, based in Geneva was set up with a seed fund of US$ 750 million from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. When it began in 2000, there was only one company producing the pentavalent vaccine. Today there are at least four companies reaping profits from the alliance. The price has come down from $3.65 to $ 3.0 per dose, and profit swollen to 10 digits.
Without a pilot test or with no means to test, immunization using GAVI’s subsidized pentavalent vaccine was started nationwide in Bhutan on September 1, 2009. Within a month 8 children were reported killed by the vaccine. The parents of all these children are highly educated, who could track the cause. The actual deaths within this period are yet to be known. An unpublished draft report mentions that the ministry of health has registered at least 31 cases of deaths and hundreds of children sick who were immunized during this period.
WHO Advisor Secretly Pads Pockets with Big Pharma Money
According to documents acquired through the Danish Freedom of Information Act, Eskola’s Finnish institute, THL, received almost 6.3 million Euros from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for research on vaccines during 2009. GlaxoSmithKline produces the H1N1-vaccine ‘Pandemrix,’ which the Finnish government -- following recommendations from THL and WHO -- purchased for a national pandemic reserve stockpile.
The Pirate Party on copyright by Christian Engström, Pirate Party, Member of the European Parliament
The right to privacy is more important than the right of big media companies to continue to make money in the same way as before, because the latter right does not even exist.
Today’s copyright also prevents or restricts many new and exciting cultural expressions. Sampled music on MySpace, remixes on YouTube, or why not a Wikipedia filled with lots of pictures and music in the articles? Copyright legislation says no.
The copyright laws must either be reformed or abolished outright. The Pirate Party advocates the reform alternative.
We want to set all non-commercial copying and use free, and we want to shorten the commercial protection time. But we want to keep the commercial exclusivity in a way that allows most business models that are viable today to continue to work.
New ANH Study exposes flawed nature of EU plans to limit vitamin dosages
Dr Verkerk claims that outputs from the models most favoured by European authorities have never been subject to proper scientific validation. The paper reveals that proposed maximum amounts for some vitamins and minerals are so low they may even be exceeded in a single junk meal. “The risk analysis methods being used for nutrients”, stated Dr Verkerk, “have been only slightly adapted from those used to limit our exposure to environmental chemicals like mercury, pesticides or dioxins. Nutrients cannot be treated in the same way because without them, unlike with environmental toxins, we suffer serious adverse health effects or die.”
The European Union has fallen prey to pharmaceutical influence peddlers. This has become painfully obvious with the recent 'swine flu pandemic'. Several EU governments are trying to sell off or give away those stocks of vaccines the peddlers told them they must buy or face great liability.
Pharma influence on health care regulators has also been obvious to any serious observer of the nutrition and natural medicines scene for more than a decade. The European Commission's recent directives on medicines laws and nutrients bear testimony to that. As the Italian saying goes, the knots are now coming to the comb, meaning it is becoming obvious that - just like buying millions of doses of swine flu vaccines - issuing restrictive regulations for nutrients, herbs and natural medicines was a bad idea.
Why would anyone in their right mind restrict the availability of the only products that can compete in the area of health with pharma's patented medicines by providing real prevention? ... Unless, of course, their agenda was that of eliminating any competition to pharma's virtual monopoly in the area of health (or rather sickness) care.
And ... according to the Alliance for Natural Health, even the justification for dosage restrictions on nutrients turns out to be lacking scientific merit.
Swine flu: "They Organized the Panic". Inquiry into the Role of Big Pharma and WHO by Council of Europe Wolfgang Wodarg. We are facing a major failure of national institutions responsible for warning about risks and responding in case a pandemic occurs. In April when the first alarm came from Mexico I was very surprised at the figures furnished by the World Health Organization (WHO) to justify the declaration of a pandemic. I was immediately suspicious: the numbers were very low and the alarm level very high. There were not even into a thousand patients when there was already talk of the pandemic of the century.
Eleven of the 20 members of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) have done work for the pharmaceutical industry or are linked to it through their universities.
Many have declared interests in GlaxoSmithKline, the vaccine maker expected to be the biggest beneficiary of the pandemic.
We'll have a great economy if we would all just get sick"
Helping people who are sick to get better is a wonderful thing. But of course as we employ more and more in the health care field, they'll only be busy if there are a lot of sick people. And that's the tricky thing about a growth sector of the economy being tied to health care--it's got a very curious feedback loop. In order to make it a growth industry that pays for all the doctors, nurses, specialized equipment, drugs etc., it requires customers who are sick and continuing to be sick. And that creates a secondary feedback loop that we need to examine--a lot of sick people results in a country that is no longer thriving on personal or economic levels.
How's Your Immunity?
Is it strong? Is it weak? Are you one of those people that "gets everything that comes down the pike?"
Let me start off by saying that this will not be a post about the unproven HIV=AIDS dogma/theory/religion in relation to low immunity. I know many people who are "HIV negative" (and I use that term loosely) who have low immunity and seem to get sick all the time. Every year, at "flu season", I hear from them. They are usually the ones that are running to get their flu shots.
I also know many people that have been labeled as "HIV positive" (and I use THAT term even more loosely) who hardly ever get sick.
Man Heralded for Curing Cancer with Cannabis Extract Seeks Asylum in Europe
Rick Simpson wrote, “If I return home, I will be arrested and put in jail without bail or medicine. I am not afraid of their jails but I cannot go without my medicine, the system has nothing that could help me with my conditions. So for me to return to Canada would be like committing suicide. I would be thrown in jail and denied my medicine and a short time later you would hear in the news that ‘Rick Simpson died of natural causes’.”
"It seems the goal is to keep me from returning home and they succeeded. But to what end? All hemp magazines on this planet are now telling their readers how to heal themselves with this wonderful medicine. If governments want to live in denial, it will be short-lived. We are gaining tens of thousands of followers every day. You cannot stop the truth.”
“For the time being, it seems I will be seeking asylum in Europe.”
How To Destroy Confidence In Vitamins When You Do Not Have The Facts
"Of course, you know that decades of poison control center statistics show that there have been no deaths from vitamins. (1) You also know that drugs, properly prescribed and taken as directed, kill at least 100,000 Americans annually. Clearly, the last thing we want is for the public to actually figure out that vitamin therapy is tens of thousands of times safer than drug therapy.
High-Dose Vitamin C Therapy Proven Effective
The medical literature has virtually ignored 75 years of physician reports and laboratory and clinical studies on successful high-dose vitamin C therapy.
Effective doses are high doses, often 1,000 times more than the US Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) or Daily Reference Intake (DRI). It is a cornerstone of medical science that dose affects treatment outcome. This premise is accepted with pharmaceutical drug therapy, but not with vitamin therapy. Most unsuccessful vitamin C research has used inadequate, low doses. Low doses do not get clinical results.
A Dangerous Spin on the Cancer Risks of a Sugar-Free Sweetener Cancer Prevention Coalition
The Cancer Prevention Coalition notes with alarm that on January 2 this year, in a heavily advertised special health-theme issue of People Magazine, Kraft announced a new campaign on Crystal Light, a sugarless powdered drink mix which can easily be poured into tap and bottled water drinks. Crystal Light's ingredients include the artificial sweetener aspartame, under the trademark names of NutraSweet and Equal, besides citric acid and sodium citrate.
Cancer Prevention Coalition Chairman Dr. Samuel S. Epstein warns that, based on scientific evidence published in peer-reviewed journals and presented to the U.S. Congress, aspartame is both toxic and carcinogenic. The coalition is calling upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban all dietary uses of aspartame.
USA: 17,000 chemicals kept secret under obscure law
Of some 84,000 chemicals being used commercially in the United States, some 20 percent -- or 17,000 -- are kept secret not only from the public, but from medical professionals, state regulators and even emergency responders, according to a report at the Washington Post.
A 1976 law, the Toxic Substances Control Act, mandates that manufacturers report to the Environmental Protection Agency any new chemicals they intend to market, but manufacturers can request that a chemical be kept secret if disclosure "could harm their bottom line," the Washington Post reports.
Bug Decimates Bt Cotton in India and Pakistan
"In the Malwa belt of rural Punjab, mile after mile of Bt cotton fields are under attack by the mealy bug pest," a news feature reported in 2007. "Bathinda, Muktsar, Faridkot and Ferozepur, Punjab's four major cotton-growing districts, have been badly affected. The so-called 'magic bullet' Bt cotton has turned into a bitter pill for farmers who were promised profits but who are now faced with huge losses."
The Americanization of "mental illness"
It's one of the most important political issues of the 21st century, but it is one of the most difficult for both practitioners and the general public to step back and see in its historical and geopolitical context. It involves challenging some of the most deeply held beliefs about how the world works.
Today, the New York Times has an excellent introduction to the concept, by Ethan Watters, author of Therapy's Delusions.
Drug Price Hyperinflation: GAO Finds ‘Extraordinary’ Drug Price Hikes
Between 2000 and 2008, the prices for 321 different brand-name drugs soared between 100 percent and 499 percent, and the actual number of ‘extraordinary’ price hikes more than doubled each of those years, according to a report issued by the General Accountability Office.
As long as there is no real competition in the health field, with pharma holding a virtual monopoly position of supply of medicines, prices will continue to soar and health care expenses will continue to spiral out of control. At the very least, orthomolecular and natural medicine should be allowed to compete with pharma in a level playing field. Pharma patents and a prohibitively expensive and restrictive drug approval process distort the health market to a point of grotesque imbalance.
Video:Big Pharma big bucks This is the first video of a 6-part series. The others come up in "related" on the YouTube page...
Influenza A: "They Organized the Psychosis"
And what if financial waste were to become a scandal of state ... and of many states? By dint of retracing the trail of the anti-influenza A shots, the debate over public policies during a pandemic is being utterly transformed into a vast denunciation of the collusion between laboratories and governments. We hardly doubt that, secretly, while laying low in the shadows, lobbyists did whatever necessary to convince decision makers to buy their vaccinations in massive quantities. Did these servants of the great trusts direct, and in consequence, manipulate the conditions of purchase? The troubling facts that we are publishing [see below] contain that which should arouse our most intense scrutiny.
Gardasil side effects - the actual stories One story of the 300 posted:
our 17 year old daughter, jessica ericzon had a side affect from her Gardasil vaccines. SHE DIED INSTANTLY. AFTER WEEKS OF HEADACHES, SORE MUSCLES AND JOINTS AND ALWAYS BEING TIRED HER HEART STOPPED. we are devastated. we read all the other girls and there families stories and cry. what kind of world is this that would allow such a thing to happen. the united states government killing its own. allowing Merck to kill young women and mame thousands of others for life.
Yet there is growing evidence that long-term use is linked to more serious health problems including bleeding in the gut, low sodium levels in the elderly (which can lead to falls) and increased risk of stroke.
Elsevier publishes on HIV and oxidative stress
one aspect stands out in importance: the potential relationship to oxidative stress .... the antioxidant role of selenium in glutathione peroxidases .... a daily supplement of 200 μg of selenium alone stopped progression of HIV-1 viral load increases, and lead [sic] to improved CD4 counts .... selenium status was reported to be 10 times more significant than CD4 cell count as a predictor of mortality .... HIV infection is typically characterized by a dramatic decline in glutathione levels .... [which] suggests an abnormal degree of biological oxidation, manifesting as elimination of cysteine sulfur as sulfate. A key feature of HIV disease is an apparent ‘antioxidant defect’ .... [which] can be aggravated by co-factors such as malnutrition, co-infection with other microorganisms, and the use of various oxidant drugs, such as nitrites.
Full Body Scans: How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA
The evidence that terahertz radiation damages biological systems is mixed. "Some studies reported significant genetic damage while others, although similar, showed none," say Boian Alexandrov at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and a few buddies. Now these guys think they know why.
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. That's a jaw dropping conclusion.
Cut Wall Street Out! How States Can Finance Their Own Economic Recovery
The sole state to actually gain jobs is an unlikely candidate for the distinction: North Dakota. North Dakota is also one of only two states expected to meet their budgets in 2010. (The other is Montana.) North Dakota is a sparsely populated state of less than 700,000 people, largely located in cold and isolated farming communities. Yet, since 2000, the state's GNP has grown 56 percent, personal income has grown 43 percent and wages have grown 34 percent. The state not only has no funding problems, but this year it has a budget surplus of $1.3 billion, the largest it has ever had.
Why is North Dakota doing so well, when other states are suffering the ravages of a deepening credit crisis? Its secret may be that it has its own credit machine. North Dakota is the only state in the Union to own its own bank.
Europe is very restrictive in what it allows to be said about the health properties of foods on product labels. In their latest article, the Alliance for Natural Health points out that there is a campaign for US regulations to follow the European directives in this instance. If we think about the high level meetings to establish a common EU/US market, such a step would not seem too strange - things have to meet somewhere. On food-health-information, Europe is not likely to cede ground which, in a way, is a pity. There is a real lack of information on the healthy properties of food - courtesy of pharma-engineered restrictions of what can and cannot be said for certain foods. This is part of a medical monopoly on health. According to their monopolistic thinking, food has NOTHING to do with health ... a patently false statement.
US health claims regime under Euro-threat
The passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 gave unique status to dietary supplements, allowing their marketing to include the use of health claims that provide the consumer with information about the benefits of particular products.
"Food Rules": A Completely Different Way To Fix The Health Care Crisis By Michael Pollan
Make no mistake: our health care crisis is in large part a crisis of the American diet -- roughly three quarters of the two-trillion plus we spend on health care in this country goes to treat chronic diseases, most of which can be prevented by a change in lifestyle, especially diet. And a healthy diet is a whole lot simpler than the food industry and many nutritional scientists -- what I call the Nutritional Industrial Complex -- would have us believe. After spending several years trying to answer the supposedly incredibly complicated question of how we should eat in order to be maximally healthy, I discovered the answer was shockingly simple: eat real food, not too much of it, and more plants than meat. Or, put another way, get off the modern western diet, with its abundance of processed food, refined grains and sugars, and its sore lack of vegetables, whole grains and fruit.
EU to probe pharma over “false pandemic”
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is to hold an emergency debate and inquiry this month into the “influence” exerted by drug makers on the World Health Organisation’s global H1N1 flu campaign.
The text of the resolution approved by the Assembly calling for the debate and inquiry states that: “in order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies responsible for public health standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for inefficient vaccine strategies, and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.”
Codex: Don’t allow yourself to be fooled by the agents of disinformation and confusion
Laibow and Stubblebine almost never cite proper references or provide hyperlinks to the relevant Codex documents in their online writings. As such, anybody coming across their internet material is expected to simply take their word that “under Codex, all cows are to be treated with Monsanto’s recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone and there are no upper limits”, or that Codex mandates that “all food must be irradiated unless eaten locally and raw”, as they don’t provide any proof – in the form of references to the 16,000 pages of official Codex documentation that Laibow claims to have studied – to substantiate their absurd claims.
Help End the Government’s Shameful Silence About Vitamin D - The Natural Way to Prevent and Treat Flu Including Swine Flu!
Our goal is to persuade the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to step up to the plate and help educate the public about the critical role Vitamin D plays in preventing and treating the seasonal and H1N1 flus along with many other health problems. In particular, we are asking the CDC, FDA, HHS, and NIH to issue statements outlining the immense benefits to be gained from supplementation during the flu season.
A Fish Oil Story
The deal with fish oil, I found out, is that a considerable portion of it comes from a creature upon which the entire Atlantic coastal ecosystem relies, a big-headed, smelly, foot-long member of the herring family called menhaden, which a recent book identifies in its title as "The Most Important Fish in the Sea."
Three Types of Approved GMO Corn Linked to Organ Damage
In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto’s GM maize.
All three varieties of GM corn, Mon 810, Mon 863 and NK 603, were approved for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety authorities. Made public by European authorities in 2005, Monsanto’s confidential raw data of its 2002 feeding trials on rats that these researchers analyzed is the same data, ironically, that was used to approve them in different parts of the world.
Big Win for Bees: Judge Pulls Pesticide Bee toxic Movento pulled from market for proper evaluation
“EPA admitted to approving the pesticide illegally, but argued that its violations of the law should have no consequences. The Court disagreed and ordered the pesticide to be taken off the market until it has been properly evaluated.
In June 2008, EPA approved Movento for nationwide use on hundreds of different crops, including apples, pears, peaches, oranges, tomatoes, grapes, strawberries, almonds, and spinach. The approval process went forward without the advance notice and opportunity for public comment that is required by federal law and EPA’s own regulations. In addition, EPA failed to evaluate fully the potential damage to the nation’s already beleaguered bee populations or conduct the required analysis of the pesticide’s economic, environmental, and social costs.
Vaccinating for profit: Boys in USA to get papillomavirus vaccine
It seems one of the key drivers in the ever increasing push for childhood vaccination, in the face of limited or sometimes no good evidence of efficacy—and often at least some evidence of risk—is profit. Blog sites are awash with purported evidence of corrupt tie-ups between vaccine manufacturers and governments and only the foolhardy, or those with particular vested interests, would be inclined to dismiss all these reports.
It is obvious, for example, that with the decision to select boys for inclusion in the HPV vaccination schedule, the potential market for the vaccine among children doubled overnight! But just how evidence-based is this decision?
Drug Companies Now Pushing Vaccines for All Kinds of Health Conditions
Since prescription drug sales have been steadily declining, Big Pharma has been frantically looking for new avenues to keep raking in massive profits. Vaccines fit the bill as drug companies can work to create one for every type of ailment known to man. Many existing vaccines are being pushed more heavily upon people as well.
Vaccine sales are expected to double in the next five years, leaping from $19 billion in 2008 to $39 billion in 2013.
“HIV” has infected virology with cancer-causing viruses
Duesberg (Inventing the AIDS Virus, Regnery, 1996) described in detail how the unsuccessful, decades-long search for human-cancer-causing viruses stimulated frustrated virologists to hunt for and insist on a viral cause for AIDS. That has produced a thriving industry that’s highly lucrative for researchers and drug companies and government agencies and non-governmental entities — albeit unfortunate for millions of healthy and innocent people. That model now seems to be enticing virologists to discover new viruses associated with a variety of conditions, including human cancers, and to market expensive tests to detect those postulated viruses and expensive vaccines to ward them off.
FDA Review Info Unavailable For Popular Drugs
A review found that safety and effectiveness info analyzed as part of the drug approval process isn’t available on the FDA web site for nine of the top 25 prescribed brand name drugs in the US, such as Lipitor, Plavix, and Synthroid.
Video:Marketing of Madness
There is no denying that psychological and emotional problems, even severe mental distress, can affect most anyone. But does this mean we are all insane?
Are Mobile Phones to unleash a pandemic?
Considering the evidence from scientific studies which almost all come to the same alarming conclusions, it is highly probable that a genuine pandemic is brewing that will impact 400 million phone users, a stupendous number.
Wikipedia Woes - Pending Crisis as Editors Leave in Droves
It must be made clear that this article is NOT an attack on Wiklipedia, but an attempt to highlight the danger of collapse that this wonderful resource is likely to face if those running the show cannot curtail the actions of editors who have taken it upon themselves to exorcise any and all challenges to the present consensus. Challenges to the consensus are the lifeblood of progress in the sciences.
The Fairy-Tale Cult of Wikipedia
“Neutral point of view (NPOV) is a fundamental Wikimedia principle and a cornerstone of Wikipedia. All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing fairly, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources. This is non-negotiable and expected of all articles and all editors.”
— Right. Anonymous and pseudonymous contributors all have neutral points of view. Their strong motivation to contribute is a natural corollary of possessing a neutral point of view on all matters significant (“notable”) enough to be in Wikipedia. Non-negotiable!
Welcome to 2010. I won't bother you with the 10 worst scandals of the past year or the 10 best trends projected for the future. Life will go on without that and - hopefully - we will be more and more in control of our own destiny. But remember, we can't control anything unless we take a keen interest in what is happening and actually find out what's really going on...
Codex Alimentarius - Scaremongers and false experts
Well, December 31, 2009 has come and gone and there is no enactment of Codex “regulations” on dietary supplements into law in the United States. Yes, the European Union’s Food Supplements Directive has come into full effect; but that is a far different beast, not to be confused – as so many have – with Codex Alimentarius.
Is Codex Alimentarius, as its standards are currently being developed, a danger? Absolutely. But were the Codex Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplement Guidelines going to be made into “law” as of December 31st? Absolutely not.
The 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. This is so even though shock machines are Class III -- high risk -- devices, which by law are required to be subjected to thorough clinical trials as thoroughly as new drugs and devices just coming onto the market. But because of intense lobbying by the American Psychiatric Association -- which claims the devices are safe but opposes an investigation -- the FDA has disregarded its own law.
Wikipedia Doesn't Like Me ... by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Everybody in advanced health care knows that Wikipedia articles about health are manipulated by a secret group with an agenda designed to keep the health care status quo. No studies have yet been conducted to determine how much death and damage this group has caused to Earth's population. But I'd guess that it is considerable ... a common thing in the Wikipedia health care world is the "badmouthing" of what are called Alternative Medicine health care paradigms, professionals and activists. Another word for "badmouthing" is defamation, and defamation is actionable in the Courts.
DHEA and Magnesium levels determine state of health
According to Dr. Norman Shealy, every known illness is associated with a magnesium deficiency and low levels of the hormone DHEA ... the health and youth hormone. If your magnesium is low, your DHEA is low. Even a 10% increase in magnesium and DHEA levels is associated with a 48% decrease in death from cardiovascular disease and a 36% decrease in mortality: from all causes. Sadly most soils/foods in the USA virtually have no magnesium.
Council of Europe to Investigate WHO and “Pandemic” Scandal
The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO.
The text of the resolution just passed by a sufficient number in the Council of Europe Parliament says among other things, “In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines. The "bird-flu"-campaign (2005/06) combined with the "swine-flu"-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health-budgets, but to the credibility and accountability of important international health-agencies.”
The health ministry will conduct an epidemiologic investigation into whether H1N1 influenza vaccinations can increase the death risk for people with serious chronic diseases, ministry officials said Wednesday.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare plans to begin the study next spring amid an increasing number of reports of deaths and serious side effects among the people who have received shots of domestically produced vaccines against the virus.
The ministry said postvaccination deaths have totaled 104, roughly 80 percent of whom are people aged 70 or older who had chronic diseases or disorders, while nearly 1,900 cases of side effects had been reported from medical institutions.
It estimates 14.92 million people have been vaccinated so far nationwide.
American Public Health Association Supports Ban On Hormones In Milk And Meat
The Cancer Prevention Coalition is pleased to announce that the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association has voted to oppose the continued sale and use of genetically engineered hormonal rBGH milk, and also meat adulterated with sex hormones.
Video:Why Fluoride is a poison Prozac (see next link) contains a fluoride compound
Fluoride is a poison in drinking water! Europe does not fluoridate, why does the USA??!
Bitter pill - Prozac and Suicides
David Healy claims that Prozac, the bestselling drug of all time, can drive people to suicide - even if they aren't depressed. The company that makes the drug (and earns £1.8bn a year from it) says that's rubbish.
[Healy] calculates that a quarter of a million people worldwide have tried to commit suicide because of Prozac and that 25,000 have succeeded. For the manufacturers of the SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors as this class of drug is called) Healy's work is enormously damaging.
Music Video:Ask Your Doctor
Neal Fox - my first music video of 2010
Patients lose themselves in the psychopharmaceutical-industrial complex
The psychopharmaceutical industrial complex (PPIC) and its adherence to the disease model pervades mainstream culture and greatly impacts psychotherapy. Consequently, the effects of the PPIC may have resulted in some psychiatric consumers adopting disease-model messages in ways similar to cult indoctrination. Consumer adoption of the disease model can create obstacles to treatment when hope is fundamental. In this article, I draw parallels between cult indoctrination and PPIC techniques and note similarities between cult members and consumers who are vulnerable to losing their identities to the PPIC. Suggestions for the profession of mental health counseling and those working with these consumers conclude the article.
Vaccines’ Dark Inferno by Richard Gale and Dr Gary Null
The vast majority of scientists, physicians, nurses and public health educators’ trust that the ingredients in a vaccine have been individually and synergistically proven safe and effective. The public believes these vaccines, aside from their specified virus(es), are sterile solutions, free from undesirable contaminants not listed on the manufacturer’s package inserts.
The story begins with the vaccine industrial complex’s attempt to reduce vaccine manufacturing costs by seeking government approval to use cancerous cell lines in the development of vaccines. Vaccine industry’s rationale is that cancerous cells are “immortal.” Current vaccine methodology relies on animal cells, such as fertilized hen embryos and monkey kidneys, that die quickly in culture. Using cancerous cell lines are also much cheaper than relying on the purchase of animals, especially monkeys, that need to be sacrificed for vaccine substrates...
A Heretic’s View of Influenza’s Role in Health & Disease By Dr Sherri Tenpenny
A quote from Dr. Rudolf Virchow, the Father of Modern Pathology: “If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural habitat—diseased tissue—rather than being the cause of dead tissue. In other words, mosquitoes seek the stagnant water, but do not cause the pool to become stagnant.”
Video:Denialism, the Death of AIDS
AIDS dissidents are struggling to bring AIDS into a new light, but they first must break the barrier of the denialist label...
EU/IMF REVOLT: GREECE, ICELAND, LATVIA MAY LEAD THE WAY by Web-of-Debt author Ellen Brown
Total financial collapse, once a problem only for developing countries, has now come to Europe. The International Monetary Fund is imposing its “austerity measures” on the outer circle of the European Union, with Greece, Iceland and Latvia the hardest hit. But these are not your ordinary third world debtor supplicants. Historically, Iceland was settled by the Vikings, who successfully invaded Britain; Latvian tribes repulsed even the Vikings; and the Greeks conquered the whole Persian empire. If anyone can stand up to the IMF, these stalwart European warriors can.
A Serious Resistance by Dave Pollard
1. We have to build our own personal capacities and competencies, and those of our communities
2. We have to undermine the industrial growth economy that is destroying our world
3. We have to create new natural structures and models that are sustainable, responsible and resilient
Video:The Money Fix (trailer)
Just where does that dollar in your pocket originate? The answer is that all money enters the economy as bank debt. So what? You may ask. This seemingly innocuous detail is actually at the core of many of the social and environmental problems of today.
No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds
To assess whether the airborne fraction [of CO2] is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.
In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.
Merry Christmas, Winter Solstice or whatever the festivity is you are observing in these days to all my friends and readers - and may this coming year of 2010 bring wellness and success for you and some healthy changes for all of our human family!
Science, media, and Loch Ness “monsters”
It’s the one in a million chances that have brought genuine progress. Pre-Einstein, for instance, the chances were one in a million or less that Newton’s long-confirmed, long “proved” laws would ever be found wanting. To paraphrase Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, you can spend your life catching and dining on minnows, or you can go after the really big fish, knowing your chances are low but that any success would be a feast for all humanity. Having the courage to risk being wrong makes for progress; as George Bernard Shaw pointed out, progress depends on the unreasonable man. As Jack Good liked to point out, geniuses are cranks who happen to be right and cranks are geniuses who happen to be wrong — they all follow their muse despite the disdain of the multitudes who are too afraid to venture outside what “everyone” believes.
Humans drowning world's oceans in plastic
Plastic debris kills some 100,000 whales, dolphins and other marine mammals and two million birds each year, says the Ocean Conservancy. Untold numbers of sea turtles choke on floating plastic bags they mistake for jellyfish, a favorite food.
Please do take a look at that article. My comment is: let's turn that plastic into something useful
What would be wrong with making the garbage that is accumulating into something useful?
Of course we should phase out throwing plastic garbage away where it gets washed into rivers and eventually ends up in the Oceans, or throwing the stuff into the water from cruise and other ships. That's just good practice, but it will need some education and some being hard with polluters. And it will need time.
But in the meantime, we have a lot of material accumulating in a few places, which it is neither economically viable nor tecnically feasible to collect and transport to land, where it can be re-cycled or buried.
So why not turn the garbage into something useful? My vision is to have some ships equipped to fish the garbage out of the sea, process it into cubes or slabs that enclose sufficient air within the plastic to float, and then just throw out those cubes or slabs right there in the area where the garbage accumulates.
Later on, when enough of those building blocks are swimming around at the center of each gyre, we should find a way to lock them together and create great swimming islands.
I could think of a number of uses for those islands that are sitting on the recycled garbage, but others might be smarter than me in that. So let's just start one thing at a time, and think about what it would take to make floating bricks out of the stuff that could later serve as building material. Then we can always take it further, finding good use for those new islands, while cutting off the supply of more garbage...
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