Saturday, December 3, 2011

India: 'Mysterious' disease still baffles government

India: 'Mysterious' disease still baffles government

Although, every year encephalitis hits north and central Bihar areas of Muzaffarpur, Gaya and adjoining districts, the state government has not been able to take effective steps for saving the lives of innocent children. In fact, months after the outbreak of the mysterious disease in Muzaffarpur, the government is still clueless on whether it was encephalitis or Japanese encephalitis (JE).

Health secretary, Sanjay Kumar, admits it, "As far as Muzaffarpur goes, we are still groping in the dark on whether it was JE or encephalitis. As far as Gaya is concerned, by and large experts have said it is JE."

Bihar has reported 386 cases of encephalitis and Japanese encephalitis this year, with the death toll being 89, according to the government.

A team from the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, had also come this year to collect blood samples, and cerebrospinal fluid tests were conducted on the affected children. Earlier, going by the symptoms, the NIV team had denied that it was JE. Its preliminary reports had also ruled out JE. Further reports of the Pune institute are still pending. A WHO team also visited the affected villages in Muzaffarpur district recently, collecting information about the disease. A Union health ministry team had, however, confirmed that it was encephalitis. However, it, too, had said the type of the virus was yet to be identified. Incidentally, NIV's last year report is still pending.

About reports of children developing neurological complications coupled with movement disorders, facial palsy and mental retardation, health secretary Sanjay Kumar said there was provision of further treatment of such patients under Nayi Peedhi Swasthya Guarantee Yojana. A mass immunization programme against encephalitis has been undertaken along with DDT and malathion spray in 485 villages in Gaya, Nawada, Jehanabad, Aurangabad, Sitamarhi, West Champaran, Siwan, Gopalganj and Muzaffarpur districts for mosquito control, Kumar said, adding the immunization programme will continue over the next 18 to 24 months. JE virus mutates fast in pigs and migratory birds making it difficult for the government to sanitize the areas, he added.

According to Kumar, one major problem is that the patients, after being administered vaccine, develop acute encephalitis syndrome which makes the vaccine ineffective. On media reports that there was shortage of big valve masks (Ambu bags) at government hospitals, he said, "There is no shortage of big valve masks."

Encephalitis had earlier hit Gaya in 2009, 2007 and 2005. The disease broke out again on June 14 this year in the district.



Comment:  Please study intention and the mel- group in Letter M - Demeter, as this is associated with the no- code which precedes the mels which represent the skull, cross, and bone relationship. Both love and diet associate.

Jacques Vallée - A Theory of Everything (Else)

Nov. 23, 2011: Jacques Vallée - A Theory of Everything (Else) - TEDx Brussels



Dr. Vallee was born in France, where he received a B.S. in mathematics at the Sorbonne and an M.S. in astrophysics at Lille University. Coming to the U.S. as an astronomer at the University of Texas, where he co-developed the first computer-based map of Mars for NASA, Jacques later moved to Northwestern University where he received his Ph.D. in computer science. He went on to work on information technology research at SRI International and the Institute for the Future, where he directed the project to build the world's first network-based collaboration system as a Principal Investigator for the groupware project on Arpanet, the prototype for the Internet.

A venture capitalist since 1984, Jacques Vallee has served as an early-stage investor and director of over 60 high-technology companies, a third of which went public through acquisitions or IPOs. Apart from his work with information science and finance, Jacques has had a long-term private interest in astronomy, in writing and in the frontiers of research, notably unidentified aerial phenomena. His most recent book, The Heart of the Internet, is available free of charge on Google Books. He was awarded the Jules Verne Prize for a science fiction novel in French.




Comment: To view both the theory of relativity and quantum mechnaics, see Avatar

The Origin of Palestine

The Origin of Palestine - Heretic Productions



Heretic Productions present... The Origins of Palestine; For Your Records.

How Agriculture Ruined Your Health (and What to Do About It)

How Agriculture Ruined Your Health (and What to Do About It) - Mark's Daily Apple

You are overweight. I'm sorry to be blunt, but it's probably true: most adults living in Western countries are overweight. A large portion is obese.

Half of you are taking at least one prescription medication. Half of seniors are taking at least three. You may not be on anything, but you know someone who is.

Does that sound normal? I mean, are perpetual chronic illness and obesity the normal state of existence for us? Is our wiring so inherently faulty that we can't keep ourselves alive without pills and doctors?

No. Absolutely not. It wasn't always like this, you know.

The first big turn happened with the Agricultural Revolution. Right around 10,000 years ago, when former hunter-gatherers began growing grain seeds in neat, organized rows, something happened. Population exploded, because we now had a steady source of calories. Villages and cities sprang up, because we no longer had to follow our food. We could simply grow it where we lived.

Those sound like pretty good things, at first. More food and shelter sounds good, right?

Well, something else happened, too. Those early farmers were shorter than the hunter-gatherers they replaced. They didn't live as long, and they had smaller brains. They got a lot more infectious diseases and more cavities. In short, they were not as healthy as the hunter-gatherers. Same genes, same homo sapiens, different environment, worse health.
But wait - whole grains are supposed to be healthy. Every government institution recommends making whole grains a big part of our diet. How could grain agriculture have caused all those health problems in our ancestors?
The thing about grains is that they don't care about you. Think about it: a grain of wheat is a baby plant. A wheat egg, if you will. In order for that wheat to pass on its genes, its grain must make it into the ground, sprout, and grow up to repeat the process. Just as a hen keeps its egg warm and well-protected until it hatches, the grain needs ways to stay protected through this process and to keep other animals from eating it.

Unfortunately for the grain, it has no legs, teeth, wings, or claws. It can't fight. It can't run from predators. It looks downright defenseless, just sitting there on a puny stalk of wheat.
The grain is anything but defenseless, though. It has an array of chemical defenses, including various lectins, gluten, and phytic acid, that disrupt your digestion, cause inflammation, and prevent you from absorbing vital nutrients and minerals.
All grains contain some or all of these anti-nutrients, to varying degrees, so when our ancestors began making regular meals of them, their health suffered accordingly.

Okay - so we've got the fossil records to prove that grain agriculture brought illness and poorer health to human populations, but we don't know if those early farmers were obese. They probably weren't. Even if you look at photos of Americans from the 1930s through the 60s, just about everyone is thin. How's that?

Let's keep going.

That brings me to the second shift: the late 1970s. Up until then, the obesity rate in America had stayed fairly constant at around 12% of the adult population. Not great, but not too bad for an affluent society with easy access to food.

Starting in the early 80s, things changed. Obesity rates began a steady, constant climb until today, where almost 30% of the adult population is obese and 70% is overweight and/or obese. 1 in 3 American adults is obese. More than 2 in 3 are overweight. Does this seem right?

What the heck changed?
The low-fat diet craze kicked off. People were told that fat and cholesterol were killing them (based on terrible science, which I'll get into in a future lesson) and making them fat.
So, to avoid all that fat, they started eating more grains, carbs, and other processed low-fat foods.

The other thing about grains (and carbs in general) is that they raise your body's insulin levels. Insulin is required to shuttle nutrients, like carbs and protein, into various cells of the body. You eat carbs and insulin deals with them. But if you eat too many carbs - like, say, a person who was just told never to eat fat and to eat all the low-fat, high-sugar processed grain products they wanted might do - without exercising at an insane level, your body pumps too much insulin and you get insulin resistant.

When you're insulin resistant, any amount of carbohydrate will not be tolerated. It will turn to body fat, and the more body fat you have, the more insulin resistant you get. The more insulin resistant you are, the less nutrients are being shuttled into your cells, meaning you stay hungry even though you're eating, so you eat even more carbs that you can't tolerate. It's a vicious cycle, you see, and it's led to the mess we're in.

To make things even worse, many of the carbs we're now eating come in the form of sugar, or its cheaper, more widespread alternative, high-fructose corn syrup. Both forms of sugar are high in fructose, which the liver turns into liver glycogen, a type of carb-based energy, until its glycogen stores are full. Those glycogen stores fill up fast, and since most people aren't using any glycogen (kinda hard to do that when you have to work an office job and sit in traffic all day), that fructose turns to liver fat.
Together, a diet high in sugar and refined grains, and low in fat, has begotten the obese, diseased populace we see today. That's the bad news. The good news is that solving the problem - at least on an individual level - is easy.
All you have to do is follow Primal Blueprint Law #9: "Avoid poisonous things." Those food toxins that grains use to defend themselves? Those are poisonous things that you should stop eating.

So ditch the grains. Here's how. Give up the bread. Reduce your overall carb intake. (See the Primal Blueprint Carbohydrate Curve.) Even if you aren't overweight, I guarantee you'll feel better without that poison in your life.




Comment: The hamadryad is real. The messages have been sent. You need to wake up now and think about the affects of servitude.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Project CAS and the Ray of Creation

The following is included with the Indo-European index under letter A, project name CAS which reveals the battlefield known as Homeopathy surrounding Earth but does not answer directly to this Saturn influence and the emphasis placed on the sun other than these completing the ritual. Please see notes below subject to changes. Indo-European roots and their mythology are located at www.knowingtest.blogspot.com/.

The Capricorn Astrological Symbology (CAS) represents seemingly what has been found in the Gospel of Thomas, verse 22 that is described below in the chart, and as the days of the week are applied from Monday to Friday. There are at least three root groups that confirm this order and represent the heart, the senses, and the language. The test stigma 1 is set to confirm its abuse and to study. There is a note about force and the ray of creation including the hydra (TSN stands for third stage navigation) . Although when applying the sequenced laws, there seems to exist much movement and disruption for application.



Day Wed. Friday Monday Thursday Tuesday
Element love water earth air fire
Analects social gnosis health science memory
Roots pel-1 pel-2 pel-3 pel-4 pel-5
'' per1 per2 per3 per4 per5
'' wer-1 wer-2 wer-3 wer-4 wer-5
Stigma 1 R- cloak -RD- cloak -D
Force neutral instinct moving intellectual emotional
Atom tsn meso second macro ayo/great
Corposants hydra moon earth venus mars

Stigma 1:

R (Heaven and Hell)
D (Hell and Heaven)
RD (Atheism; Athena thence Medusa)

Flu Shots Could Actually Be Increasing Your Risk of Developing the Flu

Flu Shots Could Actually Be Increasing Your Risk of Developing the Flu by Anthony Gucciardi

 Explosive new research has found that flu shots may actually weaken children’s immune systems, and increase their risk of developing other influenza viruses.

The report is one of many to come out within the recent months highlighting the overall ineffectiveness of the widely-promoted flu vaccine.

Published in the Journal of Virology, 41 children were examined by researchers from the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Of the children, 27 were considered healthy and unvaccinated.

The other 14 children were diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and received an annual flu shot.

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The researchers found that children who were not vaccinated built up more antibodies across a broader array of influenza strains than the children who were vaccinated. This means that according to the study results, receiving the flu shot actually weakens your natural ability to fight the flu.

Of course some health officials are still clinging to flu shots, recommending them despite the mounting evidence that they are not only ineffective but quite dangerous.

“Annual vaccination against influenza is effective but may have potential drawbacks that have previously been underappreciated and that are also a matter of debate,” lead author Rogier Bodewes said in a statement.
Amazingly, similar research has been conducted on the subject with the same conclusions. One study examined the effectiveness of the flu vaccine only to find that flu shots are effective in only around 1% of injected individuals.

The researchers from the study stated:

“The corresponding figures [of people showing influenza symptoms] for poor vaccine matching were 2% and 1% (RD 1, 95% CI 0% to 3%)” announced the study authors.  In other words, you would have to vaccinate 100 people to reduce the number of people affected by the influenza virus by just one.

The findings do not stop there. The researchers also highlighted other findings about the flu vaccine, which topple the mainstream concept of their safety and effectiveness:
  • “Vaccinations had…no effect on hospital admissions or complication rates.”
  • “Vaccine use did not affect the number of people hospitalized or working days lost.”
  • “The analysis showed that reliable evidence on influenza vaccines is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions…”
  • “There is no evidence that [influenza vaccines] affect complications, such as pneumonia, or transmission.” — Meaning vaccines do not affect transmission of disease, what they are designed for.
  • “In average conditions (partially matching vaccine) 100 people need to be vaccinated to avoid one set of influenza symptoms.”
As prominent studies continue to highlight the ineffectiveness of the seasonal flu shot, it is truly amazing that many mainstream health officials and organizations still push the shot on the public despite links to nerve disease and narcolepsy.
Explore More:
  1. 3 Reasons to Reconsider Flu Shots
  2. Federal Committee Calls for Mandatory Flu Vaccines in Hospitals, Healthcare Facilities
  3. Flu Vaccine Being Pushed on All Americans
  4. Ineffective Flu Shots Backed by Faulty Science and Corporate Marketing
  5. Childhood Vaccine Exemption Rates Increasing Nationwide
Please visit Natural Society for more great health news and vaccine information.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Defense and Aerospace Industry Pollutant Now Found in Virtually All Humans Tested

Defense and Aerospace Industry Pollutant Now Found in Virtually All Humans Tested by Sayer Ji

Perchlorate is an environmental pollutant primarily associated with releases by defense contractors, military operations and aerospace programs, as it is a key ingredient in rocket fuel.

It is now found in virtually all humans tested, and it is continually making its way up the food chain through ground and drinking water, into feed and edible plants, animals products, milk and breast milk -- contaminating conventional and organically grown food, alike.

It is now distributed widely throughout North America, as depicted by the image below:


The Colorado River is so thoroughly contaminated with perchlorate (1.5-8 micrograms per Liter) that 90% of the lettuce consumed during the winter months in the United States produced in the Lower Colorado River region contains this powerful endocrine disruptor. (Source).

What does it do?

 Perchlorate has been used as a "medicine" in this country to "treat" hyperthyroidism since the 1950s despite the fact some patients may develop aplastic anemia (bone marrow destruction) as a result.


Perchlorate interferes with iodide uptake at the sodium-iodide symporter in the thyroid gland which unfortunately has a 30-fold higher affinity for perchlorate than iodide. Without adequate iodide hypothyroidism ensues. Could this pollutant have anything to do with the geometric expansion of hypothyroidism diagnoses in this country?


If it were not for the perfect fit between pharmaceutical medicine, e.g. Synthroid (levothyroxine) and pollution-caused hypothyroidism, this question might get some traction in the medical community and we could start solving the underlying problem: a military-industrial establishment that thrives on death and disease. 

HAS PERCHLORATE DESTROYED THE MEANING OF ORGANIC?

In 2005 the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology published a study on perchlorate levels in North America. They found:
Conventionally and organically produced lettuce and other leafy vegetable samples were collected from production fields and farmers' markets in the central and coastal valleys of California, New Mexico, Colorado, Michigan, Ohio, New York, Quebec, and New Jersey.
Results show that 16% of the conventionally produced samples and 32% of the organically produced samples had quantifiable levels of perchlorate using ion chromatography. Estimated perchlorate exposure from organically produced leafy vegetables was approximately 2 times that of conventional produce... (Source)
The time has come for those of us who buy organic food to transcend the inherently self-centered and anthropocentric limitations associated with these food quality concerns. We can no longer fool ourselves into thinking that we can save ourselves by eating organically without doing something about the planet dying under the weight of the conventional and dominant food production and distribution system. When we pollute the environment we pollute ourselves. The very flesh of the Earth (our mother) and our flesh are woven from the same fabric.


The exact same problem with thinking that consuming organic protects you from planetary destruction has emerged with the inreasingly destabilized/destabilizing nuclear energy paradigm. Radioisotope contamination of the environment is now a global problem, and low-energy internalized radiation is several orders of magnitude more harmful to our health than previously assumed. (Read our expose on this topic here). The global distribution of uranium-238 through hydrological and meteorological cycles, for instance, does not descriminate between "organic" and "conventional" food -- it bioaccumulates equally.

We are not saying that organic isn't important, as we have no other way to protect ourselves from what is increasingly becoming a nutricidal food production system. However, in order to stay grounded in reality, we must realize its limitations and work on changing the underlying dysfunctional planet-harming systems that are cutting across the "organic" and "conventional" lines with equally destructive force. 

Additional Relevant Research:
 
Perchlorate Toxicity
Radiation Associated Toxicity
Hypothyroidism
Why We Can't Afford NOT To Eat Organic

Please visit GreenMedInfo to access their vast database of articles and the latest information in natural health.

Zero Degrees of Empathy

Zero Degrees of Empathy - Simon Baron Cohen

Professor Simon Baron Cohen presents a new way of understanding what it is that leads individuals down negative paths, and challenges all of us to consider replacing the idea of evil with the idea of empathy-erosion.








Comment: What Simon has said certainly has my interest, and I will add to this research by agreeing with him that empathy is dynamically embedded within the life pathos and suggest that it can be studied both through these labels and what etymology clearly reveals that shows strong analogies to the ray of creation. The following root reveals both the approach of the wave and the fall and has the no- code, so this research is coded gh-hs and marks the spaces between the gnostic/earth (psychic) and earth/science (self-love). It may seem these associations are arbitrarlly chosen, yet this is also true in the way of the dune.

38. 3-down-dune-town-et-dhū-no- Enclosed, fortified place [Pokorny 4. dheu- 261, butterfat


The deficiency of empathy if this can be associatively resolved, has validity in attribution that results in Evil which still feels it needs a name. But, that is just the point.    Thanks Sott.net

The Worst Drug Fraud in History? Do You Still Trust Them with Your Life?

The Worst Drug Fraud in History? Do You Still Trust Them with Your Life? by Dr. Mercola
Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has preliminarily agreed to a $3 billion settlement over the sales and marketing practices of several of its drugs, including the diabetes drug Avandia.

This represents the largest federal drug-company settlement to date, surpassing the $2.3 billion paid by Pfizer in 2009 for illegally promoting off-label uses of four of its drugs.

The sum, though extraordinarily large by most people's standards, represents only a slap on the wrist to the drug giant, which assured investors the payments would be funded by "existing cash resources."

To put things into perspective, GlaxoSmithKline has a market value of more than $110 billion, according to the New York Times

This massive financial clout essentially allows them to engage in criminal behavior that they can later buy their way out of – not unlike the way you might pay for a speeding ticket.

As Sidney M. Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's health research group, told the Washington Post:
"The size of the penalties, although large, are not as large as the money [the drug companies] make and so they keep doing it over again …


The only way this is going to stop, or get reversed, is to greatly increase the size of the penalties or to start sending some of the executives to jail, if appropriate."

The Culmination of a Seven-Year Investigation

GlaxoSmithKline's $3-billion settlement is intended to bring a nearly decade-long legal saga to a close.

It started in 2004, when federal prosecutors began investigating the drug maker for marketing a handful of its drugs for unapproved uses, as well as the suspect techniques their reps used to influence doctors. The settlement also includes a U.S. Justice Department probe into potential Medicaid reimbursement fraud, as well as an investigation into the company's development and marketing of the Avandia diabetes drug.

After hitting the market in 1999, a 2007 study in the New England Journal of Medicine linked Avandia to a 43 percent increased risk of heart attack, and a 64 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death, compared to patients treated with other methods!

There were many articles and reviews published about Avandia following the New England Journal of Medicine study, but research from the Mayo Clinic revealed that 90 percent of scientists who wrote favorable articles about the drug had financial ties to GlaxoSmithKline.
Unfortunately, a committee of independent experts still recommended that Avandia remain on the market, despite its many risks, and a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight board voted 8 to 7 to accept the advice.

Avandia works by making diabetic patients more sensitive to their own insulin, resulting in lower blood sugar levels.  The problem is that despite clinically measurable improvement in blood sugar control following the use of this drug, hard outcomes associated with diabetes such as endothelial dysfunction and heart attack risk may actually worsen

Why?

Because Avandia, like all pharmaceutical drugs, are synthetic chemicals and do not obey the same laws that natural substances do in your body (Remember: our body is composed of the natural things we have eaten and not chemicals). A simple change in the geometry of a molecule's "handedness" – i.e. whether it turns a beam of polarized light to the "left hand" or "right hand" -- can make the difference between endocrine correction and disruption; therapeutic activity and toxicity.

Although Avandia may correct a blood sugar imbalance by locking into the insulin receptors in a superficially beneficial way, it may also block out and/or disrupt many other processes in the body that can result in great harm.

Nature actually does the job much better anyway. In a 2009 study published in the Journal of Phytomedicine the herb and traditional food known as Bitter Melon was found to be superior to Avandia in the management of diabetes and its related complications. 

It is also important to remember that type 2 diabetes is not caused by a lack of any drug, and that nutrition and lifestyle changes, as well as regular exercise holds the key to improving the health and well being of diabetics in a sustainable manner.

Despite the availability of alternative approaches, millions of people have been told to take Avandia and have been exposed to these unacceptably high-risk side effects. The statistics show that more than 80,000 diabetics have suffered from strokes, heart failure or other complications including lethal heart attacks from this dangerous drug.

It took nearly 10 years of the drug being on the market for the FDA to finally take action and restrict access to this dangerous drug, whereas the European Medicines Agency banned it altogether.

GlaxoSmithKline Covered up Negative Trial Data for 11 Years

As it turns out, GlaxoSmithKline spent 11 years covering up trial data that showed Avandia was a risky drug for the heart. In 1999, drugmaker SmithKline Beecham began a study to compare Avandia with another diabetes drug, Actos. The results showed that Avandia worked no better than Actos and had greater risks to the heart.

The study results were buried at the request of GlaxoSmithKline executives and were not reported to federal regulators, as is typically required by law.

In documents uncovered by the New York Times, the company stated they could lose $600 million from 2002 to 2004 if Avandia's heart risks were made public. The New York Times also obtained a sealed deposition that included testimony from Dr. Rosemary Johann-Liang, a former supervisor in the FDA's drug safety office who "left the FDA after she was disciplined for recommending that Avandia's heart warnings be strengthened."

GlaxoSmithKline not only hid negative study data, they also manipulated study data to fit their agenda.
According to the Times:
"An F.D.A. reviewer who closely examined a landmark Avandia clinical trial called "Record," found at least a dozen instances in which patients taking Avandia suffered serious heart problems that were not counted in the trial's tally of adverse events, mistakes that further obscured Avandia's heart risks."
Incidentally, a two-year long Senate investigation released in 2010 also found Avandia causes about 500 more heart attacks and 300 more cases of heart failure than Actos (Actos may also damage your heart -- just "not as much").

Drug Companies are the Thugs of the Medical World

No less than 19 drug companies made AllBusiness.com's Top 100 Corporate Criminals List for the 1990s -- which is par for the course when it comes to the drug giants. Fraud, bribery, illegal kick-backs and criminal activity are not at all unusual, and the fines and legal fees they eventually end up paying for their "get out of jail free card" are widely regarded as merely the cost of doing business.

Once you've been exposed to the seedy underbelly of the drug business—the LEGAL drug business—you can't but realize that we're dealing with a very large group of criminals and felons -- the thugs of the medical world. There's really no nicer way to put it.

What will really get your blood boiling, however, is how easily these companies are able to manipulate the system and get off scot-free for crimes that "ordinary" Americans would be sentenced to life in prison for committing.

For instance, Pfizer, which was found guilty of fraud many times over in 2009, should have been banned from dealing with Medicare and Medicaid again, as is automatically required for any company found guilty of fraudulent activity. But Pfizer is still doing business with these government programs because federal prosecutors allowed the drug giant to avoid being sentenced for massive fraud and deception by letting them form a sham company to take the fall.

So, in the end, Pfizer's "imaginary friend" Pharmacia & Upjohn shouldered the conviction, even though it had never sold any drugs. As CNN found, "the subsidiary is nothing more than a shell company whose only function is to plead guilty."

GlaxoSmithKline Whistleblower Reveals Company Knowingly Put Patients' Lives at Risk

In a 60 Minutes interview, whistleblower Cheryl Eckard reveals the gross negligence that occurred at the Cidra pharmaceutical plant, which is run by one of GlaxoSmithKline's subsidiaries. Eckard's quality assurance team uncovered  numerous production problems, including failures on production lines that led to inconsistent dosages and employees contaminating products by not following procedures.

Worse yet, potent and potentially dangerous drugs were literally ending up in the wrong bottles! The antidepressant Paxil was mixed into bottles of Avandia. And Avandia was found in packages of the over-the-counter antacid Tagamet. All in all, Eckard identified nine different mix-ups of various drugs.

She urged the vice president of quality assurance for North America to stop the trucks from leaving the dock the day she discovered the mix-ups, and to shut down the factory and contact the FDA. But nothing happened… And, when one such mix-up was later discovered by a patient, GSK denied it ever happened.  But "we all knew, they all knew it was real," said Eckard.

Finally, after eight months of reporting problems at the plant, Eckard sent a summary to seven executives detailing the numerous quality problems, warning that if the FDA knew of these issues, the plant would likely be seized.

Just weeks later, Eckard was out of a job. Concerned for the welfare of patients taking the affected drugs, she blew the whistle and notified the FDA. Federal agents searched the plant and seized hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of defective drugs. In the end, GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to a felony: knowingly manufacturing and selling adulterated drugs, manufactured between 2001 and 2005.

But incredulously, their punishment amounted to only $150 million in criminal fines and $600 million in civil penalties -- not one single person in charge of the debacle went to jail!

Likewise with the current settlement, none of the actual people involved in this fraud and criminal activity -- which has taken the lives of innocent people -- are being held accountable.
Companies can simply set aside billions of dollars to "deal with" their "legal issues" and continue on with their felonious behavior completely unfazed.

Of course, it certainly doesn't hurt that drug companies run the BIGGEST political lobby, and political lobbying is one of the primary reasons why the drug companies are controlling nearly the entire health industry, as well as many facets of the U.S. government.

In the CBS News video below, crooked lobbyist Jack Abramoff explains how he influenced Congress for years, and how this kind of corruption still continues.

Drug Companies Cannot be Trusted: How to Take Control of Your Health

One thing should be crystal clear at this point: the drug industry simply cannot be trusted. And they have the criminal history to prove it.

Drug companies have accumulated so much wealth, power and government influence that they have been able to profit from permanently disabling, crippling and even killing their consumers, without suffering any serious consequences to themselves.

Unfortunately, the people who stand to lose in this equation are you, your family and millions of others who use drug company products without realizing that oftentimes those products have been found to cause far more harm than good.. But there is an alternative, and that is to take control of your health.

Many diseases of modern society -- heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity – can be prevented or cured using lifestyle changes. We'll never know how many people's lives could have been saved if those taking GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia had opted for diet and exercise changes instead -- but what we can do is try to prevent this scenario from happening again in the future by not falling prey to the next blockbuster drug to hit the market.

In the case of type 2 diabetes, the following steps will work well to manage and reverse the condition in many. Plus, these tips can be applied by anyone seeking to live a healthier life, naturally, whether you have diabetes or not.
  • Ideally eliminate grains and sugar entirely from your diet, especially fructose, which is far more detrimental than any other type of sugar. This is extremely important! Drinking just one sweetened drink a day can raise your diabetes risk by 25 percent compared to drinking one sugary drink per month, so you really need to evaluate your diet and look for hidden sources of sugar and fructose. Artificially sweetened food and drinks should be avoided as well.

    This also means avoiding most processed foods, as they are loaded with fructose. You may even need to avoid fruits (especially pasteurized fruit juices) until your diabetes is under control.

    Following my nutrition plan will help you do this without much fuss. It’s important to realize that nearly all type 2 diabetics need to swap out their grains for other foods, such as healthy sources of protein or vegetable-only carbohydrates. It would also be wise to avoid white potatoes and all legumes (beans).

  • Exercise is an absolutely essential factor, without which you're highly unlikely to get this devastating disease under control. It is clearly one of the most potent ways to lower your insulin and leptin resistance. Make sure to incorporate high-intensity Peak Fitness exercises. These types of exercises boost fat loss, promote muscle building, and help your body produce human growth hormone (HGH) naturally. Typically, you'll need to exercise regularly and with some intensity until you get your blood sugar levels under control.

  • Avoid trans fats as they will profoundly worsen insulin resistance.

  • Consume natural saturated fats, such as grass-fed organic meat, raw dairy products, avocados, and coconut oil. These saturated fats provide a concentrated source of energy along with the building blocks for cell membranes and a variety of hormones and hormone-like substances. When you eat healthy fats as part of your meal, they slow down absorption so that you can go longer without feeling hungry. In addition, they act as carriers for important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K.

    There are more than a dozen different types of saturated fat, but you predominantly consume only three: stearic acid, palmitic acid and lauric acid. It’s already been well established that stearic acid (found in cocoa and animal fat) has no effect on your cholesterol levels at all, and actually gets converted in your liver into the monounsaturated fat called oleic acid. It also has potential anti-cancer properties.

    The other two, palmitic and lauric acid, do raise total cholesterol. However, since they raise “good” cholesterol as much or more than “bad” cholesterol, by consuming them you’re still lowering your risk of heart disease.

  • Get plenty of omega-3 fats from a high quality, animal-based source such as krill oil. And consider incorporating other nutrients, spices and supplements with proven value for type 2 diabetes, such as l-arginine, cinnamon and stevia.

  • Monitor your fasting insulin level. This is every bit as important as your fasting blood sugar. You'll want your fasting insulin level to be between 2 to 4. The higher your level, the worse your insulin receptor sensitivity is. The recommendations mentioned above are the key steps you need to achieve this reduction.

  • Get enough high-quality sleep every night.

  • Optimize your vitamin D levels. Maintaining your vitamin D levels around 60-80 ng/ml can significantly help control your blood sugar. In addition, recent studies have revealed that getting enough vitamin D can also have a powerful effect on normalizing your blood pressure, and reduces your risk of heart disease.

    Attaining optimal vitamin D levels can also prevent type 1 diabetes in your children if you are pregnant. It's also vital for infants to receive the appropriate amounts of vitamin D in their early years for the same reasons. Ideally, you'll want to do this by exposing a large amount of your skin to appropriate amounts of sunshine (or a safe tanning bed) on a regular basis, year-round. Your body can safely create up to 20,000 units of vitamin D a day this way. As a last resort, a vitamin D3 supplement can be used, and new research suggests most adults need 8,000 IU a day to keep their levels optimized. Just remember to get your levels tested regularly by a proficient lab to make sure you're staying within the therapeutic range.

  • Address any underlying emotional issues and/or stress. Non-invasive tools like prayer, journaling and meditation can be extremely helpful and effective.

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Weapon of Choice

AP / Nick Ut
Long Beach Police officers pepper spray student
demonstrators during a protest at a California State
University Board of Trustees meeting.
Weapon of Choice by Dr. Stephen Londe

We are used to the excuses and dissembling of politicians such as Mayors Michael Bloomberg of New York City, Mike McGinn of Seattle, Sam Adams of Portland, Ore., Jean Quan of Oakland and now L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as they collude to use false claims of health and safety to suppress the right of free speech.

But we in academia are charged with teaching and fostering critical thinking, academic rigor and honesty. So what are we to think of UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who do not seem to grasp the basic principle of academic freedom as they unleash repression and violence in response to reasoned dissent and peaceful protest—protest that represents some of the finest traditions of academic contribution?

The images of university police and sheriff ‘s deputies pepper spraying nonviolent students voicing their opinions on campus grounds, or brutally jabbing them with batons or dragging them away by the hair, plainly demonstrate these administrators’ attitude toward critical thinking.

Is this the America we want?

As a physician, I, too, am concerned about health and safety. Yet I can find no articles online about the relationship of tents and public health, nor of fires and protest tent camps, nor of disease outbreak and unsanitary conditions for lack of waste disposal in public protest encampments—even encampments ten times larger than those just disbanded by chemical weapons, force and arrest.

But in an instant, I find more than thirty-nine thousand references to health concerns about the use of so-called pepper spray (Oleoresin capsicum). Of significant concern to health professionals are: “in-custody deaths” following the use of pepper spray, corneal abrasions, conjunctivitis, eye epithelial and nerve damage, respiratory failure, asthma, exacerbated congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, pulmonary edema, pregnancy miscarriage, and short- and long-term psychological damage caused by the force perpetrated by those who are supposed to protect us and our right to dissent.

Make no mistake, pepper spray is not “a food product,” as a Fox newscaster recently described it. It is a chemical weapon described in military manuals that attacks sensory nerves and mucous membranes. The police use of this weapon against peaceful protesters fits the definition of torture: The deliberate application of severe pain. It is not benign. When you watch armored police spray the faces of protesters in Philadelphia, Oakland, Davis, and New York, remember they are using torture to silence someone who committed the crime of speaking out.

Again, I am sensitive to health concerns. And, in fact, there are health problems to be found among the 99 percent protesters. Volunteer doctors, nurses and other health care workers find untreated hypertension, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses among the protesters. They also find seizure disorders in people unable to afford their medications.

Most of the health problems in this population are due to the lack of health insurance, inability to pay for expensive medications and lack of proper health care facilities. If our mayors were honestly interested in the health of their constituents, they would set up facilities where volunteer health professionals could care for our citizens. Perhaps they could set up medication and lab diagnostic funds into which their corporate backers could donate like good citizens, instead of using their wealth to buy political influence.

If we are to encourage education and critical thinking, we must value our students in dissent. Punishing them with batons and pepper spray, torturing them, martyring them is to produce a society of evil and repression. It is anathema to education.

Dissent and peaceful assembly are the hallmarks of democracy. What has happened to ours? Our abused students are showing us the way, and I salute them.

Stephen Londe is a physician and an educator.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Stream of Conscience: Band Rocks the Charts with Mountaintop Removal Song/Video

Stream of Conscience: Band Rocks the Charts with Mountaintop Removal Song/Video by Jeff Biggers

Rising up on the folk-rock charts, New York City-based “Metrobilly” band 2/3 Goat has just released a foot-stomping, evocative and inspiring video performance from their breakthrough new CD, Stream of Conscience.

Featuring lead singer/mandolin player Annalyse McCoy, whose golden pipes resound from the hollers with the haunting beauty and power of a young Shawn Colvin and Patty Loveless, Stream of Conscience is an acoustic-driven foggy mountain breakdown that chronicles the ravages of mountaintop removal operations in the Appalachian hills. A reckless strip mining process that has destroyed more than 300 mountains and 600,000 acres of hardwood forests in McCoy’s native eastern Kentucky region alone, mountaintop removal operations throughout central Appalachia have led to a humanitarian crisis of large-scale water contamination, entrenched unemployment, cancer corridors and birth defects, and the largest forced removal of American citizens since the 19th century.

“Music is such an integral part of Appalachian culture and tradition,” said McCoy, who grew up in Inez, Kentucky and also works as an actress in New York City. ” As a child of Appalachia, I felt that there was no better or more natural way to “give back” to try and help my community than through song. Amid all the destruction that mountaintop removal causes — all the thousands of miles of streams that have been buried, all the remaining water that’s been tainted by heavy metals — there is purity and light left in Appalachia; there is Hope.

2/3 Goat, photo courtesy of 2/3 Goat and Feeling Anxious PR
Flanked by cowriter, singer and guitar player Ryan Dunn, whose confident bluesy licks add a natural Johnny Cash resonance to McCoy’s June Carter, and talented fiddler Ryan Guerra, 2/3 Goat’s new CD was recorded by famed Gin Blossoms producer Chris Mara at the Welcome to 1979 Studios in Nashville.

“Coal has been king for over a hundred years in Appalachia,” the band posted on their website. “Taking rock from under the ground is one thing; but blowing up mountains, burying thousands of miles of freshwater streams, inciting flooding in areas where it’s never been a problem, and causing the highest cancer rates in the nation from industry runoff is another. Mountaintop removal also takes away more and more jobs from an area that desperately needs them. It’s time we take a stand. Our song and music video “Stream of Conscience” are focused on this very topic. Appalachia is Rising!”

The “Stream of Conscience” single was featured last week on AOL Music’s top charts.

Here’s the video:



 “Stream of Conscience,” video courtesy of 2/3 Goat and Feeling Anxious PR

Alongside the beloved Grammy star Kathy Mattea, Loveless and Emmylou Harris, 2/3 Goat joins other great folk, country and rock acts in the long-time campaign to end mountaintop removal.

“Writing this song, I envisioned the People, this light, flowing down like the cleanest water you’ll ever drink; a Stream of Conscience, descending on the industry that’s dealt them such a terrible hand, saying, “We will no longer be poisoned!” McCoy said. “I can’t wait for that day.”

Here’s another video performance of 2/3 Goat’s version of Darrell Scott’s classic, “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive”:



video courtesy of 2/3 Goat and Feeling Anxious PR

Jeff Biggers is the American Book Award-winning author of Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland (Nation/Basic Books), among other books. Visit his website: www.jeffbiggers.com

Honey and cinnamon cures - do they really work? Here's what you need to know

Honey and cinnamon cures - do they really work? Here's what you need to know by Tara Green

 (NaturalNews) Hopeful newcomers to holistic health marvel at reports about honey and cinnamon as a miracle cure-all. On the other hand, alternative health skeptics scoff at the notion of cinnamon and honey as medicine, pointing out that the plethora of articles about the curative benefits of this food duo originated with a 1995 article in the tabloid newspaper Weekly World News. The truth is that cinnamon and honey have been used to promote health for centuries, but their efficacy depends largely on a lifestyle of energetic activity and whole foods.

Traditional Healing

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), cinnamon is viewed as possessing heat or yang, and is thus used to cure ills stemming from excess yin or coldness. Honey, in this system, is viewed as a neutral substance, balanced between yin and yang. Ancient practitioners of India's healing tradition, Ayurveda (from the Sanskrit Ayur meaning life and Veda meaning knowledge), classified 8 different varieties of honey each with its own healing properties. Ayurvedic healers use cinnamon to help heal gum disease, erectile dysfunction, and many other conditions.

Honey and Cinnamon Benefits

Folk wisdom still retains knowledge of the healing properties of both honey and cinnamon. Honey and cinnamon are still used as medicine in many situations, especially among people who, because of distance or income, have reduced access to mainstream health care.

Honey possesses natural anti-bacterial properties. Honey poured on wounds or burns prevents infection and promotes healing. Regular consumption of honey and cinnamon together, when combined with an overall healthy diet and moderate activity level, can prevent heart disease by clearing clogged arteries.

Drinking honey and cinnamon in lukewarm water results in them moving through the bladder and cleansing it, as well as clearing infections there. Drinking this beverage on a regular basis can also relieve, and in some cases entirely cure, arthritis pain.

This drink also strengthens the immune system, helping ward off colds as well as some viruses. Applying a paste of honey and cinnamon to infected gums can ease pain and bleeding as well as slow the progression of the infection.

When consumed together, honey and cinnamon can ease digestion, helping to prevent gas. Honey and cinnamon also provide energy, making people more mentally alert and ready for physical activity.

The two biggest claims for honey and cinnamon are that they enhance the ability to lose weight, and they are effective against some forms of cancer.
While these latter two claims are unproven, however nature does provide an amazing range of natural healing substances, most of which are untested by medical science. Relying exclusively on honey and cinnamon for either weight loss or eliminating cancer is not advisable.

How to Gain Maximum Benefits

Cinnamon and honey can boost your health, both separately and in combination. However, our modern dependence on the pharmaceutical industry has fooled us into believing that medicines should be able to provide a cure regardless of lifestyle. If you follow health news, it becomes obvious that the pharmaceutical industry's "magic bullet" drugs make one set of symptoms disappear, only to create a new set of symptoms.

Disease results from imbalance, so finding health and balance again requires a recalibration of choices about how we live. A couch potato who follows up a dinner of fried chicken and potato chips with a dessert of cinnamon and honey will receive few health benefits. You are more likely to reap the full healing power when you include honey and cinnamon as part of your healthy lifestyle.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The News You Did and Didn’t Hear From Big Pharma This Thanksgiving

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The News You Did and Didn’t Hear From Big Pharma This Thanksgiving by Martha Rosenburg

The pharmaceutical industry had two things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season. Three new wrongdoing settlements that broke right before the holiday were buried among yam and traffic jam news–and a new sleeping pill that isn’t new at all but just Ambien with a new name became a leading “news” story.

Of course everyone knows that the time for corporations and governments to dump bad news is Friday at 5:00 PM because no one hears the tree fall in the forest and by Monday something else will have happened. Did anyone notice that Merck pled guilty to criminal marketing of the painkiller Vioxx and agreed to pay $950 million before the holiday? In addition to the $4.85 billion it has already paid to victims?

Vioxx was billed as a “super-aspirin” for everyday pain until it was removed from the market in 2004 for doubling heart attack risks and causing between 27,000 and 50,000 heart events and deaths. Merck knew the heart risks and pushed Vioxx for non-approved uses according to published reports, but no corporate executives ever went up the river. “There was no basis for a finding of high-level management participation in the violation,” Merck’s pre-Thanksgiving news release self-congratulates.

Then there’s Pfizer. The drug giant agreed to pay more than $60 million to resolve federal probes into alleged bribes to overseas doctors to use Pfizer drugs, reported the Wall Street Journal before the holiday. Penalties were probably reduced because Pfizer was willing to help the government by “ratting” on its competitors, says the Journal.

Meanwhile, the Chicago Tribune reported before Thanksgiving that Abbott is about to settle lawsuits that it illegally marketed the epilepsy drug Depakote to nursing home directors, geriatric doctors and other long-term care facilities and greased palms with kickbacks.  Abbott has set aside $1.5 billion for a settlement, says the Trib.

While the Merck, Pfizer and Abbott settlements may look sizeable, copping to a settlement allows drug companies to keep the Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement which is their lifeblood. Profits from the alleged wrongdoing usually dwarf penalties, too. “Even with these large fines, it is still good business to promote drugs illegally,” says Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, director of PharmedOut, a project at Georgetown University Medical Center.

And there was more good news for Pharma during Thanksgiving. A newly approved sleeping pill, Intermezzo, received millions of dollars of publicity from news reports that it was a “new drug” for a “new type of insomnia” characterized by middle-of-the-night awakenings.

Actually, it’s the same drug as Ambien and “middle-of-the-night” insomnia is one of many varieties of insomnia Pharma has rolled out to churn the insomnia drug market. Others are chronic, acute, transient, initial, delayed-onset, and terminal insomnia and don’t forget non-restful sleep which can co-exist with all of the above.

Needless to say,  the only thing more lucrative to Pharma than a new variation on a disease is a new patent on an existing drug because no research and development is necessary. Remember how Prozac resurfaced as the PMS pill Sarafem? The antidepressant Effexor was tweaked into Pristiq? And most recently Neurontin resurfaced as Horizant, a treatment for restless legs (though many say Neurontin causes restless legs)?

Of course, Ambien also has quite a pedigree. It is the drug Tiger Woods reportedly cavorted with his consorts on and the drug former Rhode Island Representative Patrick Kennedy crashed his car on in 2006. He drove to Capitol Hill to “vote” at 2:45 AM.

Nor was Kennedy the only person to walk, drive and engage in purposeful behavior in an Ambien blackout. Law enforcement officials reported that traffic accidents increased under Ambien, with some drivers not even recognizing the police officers there to arrest them. (”Dude–where’s my car?”) Ambien’s manufacturer was forced to publish ads telling people if they were going to take Ambien, to get in bed and stay there after Kennedy’s over zealous parliamentarianism. (Or you’ll break out in handcuffs, added cynics.) The FDA issued warnings about the potential of “complex sleep-related behaviors” on Ambien and other sleeping pills which may include “sleep-driving, making phone calls and preparing and eating food (while asleep).”

Actually, it was EWI–eating while intoxicated or “preparing and eating food (while asleep)”– not DWIs that gave Ambien its worst rap. Fit and sexy people awoke amid mountains of pizza, Krispy Kreme and Häagen-Dazs cartons consumed by their evil twin, on Ambien. Weeks of dieting and treadmill time shot to hell.

In fact, waking up in the middle of the night and “sleep feasting” is such an Ambien side effect, people might need to take Intermezzo for the middle-of-the-night awakening, even though they are the same drug! Unless, of course, they want “Thanksgiving remorse” all year instead of one day a year. END

Martha Rosenberg’s first book, “Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health,” will be published by Prometheus Books this spring.

Saving Nutritional Supplements: A Battle For Nature, Truth, and Life Itself

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Saving Nutritional Supplements: A Battle For Nature, Truth, and Life Itself by Adam Diskin

 We know how hard people are fighting now to save the economy, to stop the wars, to prevent more nuclear power plants, mountain top mining, fracking, and more drilling, to stop genetic engineering, and incredibly importantly - save our farmers and ranchers.

But what is happening to supplements is little noticed but is of ultimate importance. The battle to save supplements is a battle to save nature and the accumulated wisdom of thousands of years of using it to heal.

All the issues listed above involve fighting the original robber barons - the Rockefellers who got rich in oil, banking, steel, ... but then they went into pharmaceuticals, following, it seems in the footsteps of John D Rockefeller's father.

Here is a unique religious perspective on the Rockefellers, the beginning of which includes bogus "cancer cures" and insecticide.
The history of the Rockefeller family began, not with Standard Oil and not with honor, but with a con man, womanizer and a thief. Various authors note that the Rockefeller 'oil' beginnings were not solely from 'crude oil.' John D. Rockefeller Senior's father, William Avery Rockefeller, 'Big Bill,' was a traveling salesman who advertised himself as a 'William Rockefeller, the Celebrated Cancer Specialist' and who hawked 'herbal remedies' and other bottled medicines.' He guaranteed 'All Cases of Cancer Cured Unless They Are Too Far Gone'. Those claims allowed him to charge $25 for his magic cancer, which he retailed for $25 a bottle, a sum then equivalent to two month's wages. The 'cure' survived until quite recently as Nujol, consisting principally of petroleum and peddled as a laxative. Nujol was manufactured by a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, called Stanco, whose only other product, manufactured on the same premises, was the famous insecticide, Flit.
The Rockefellers' involvement with eugenics and genocide are well known.
"By the 1920s John D. Rockefeller, the founder of the Rockefeller dynasty, was funding the notorious 'racial hygiene' think tank Eugenics Records Office. Its ideas of mass sterilization, the 'inferiority' of Black people and 'breeding better humans' directly influenced Adolf Hitler and provided 'scientific legitimacy' for the Nazi race laws...."
But less focused on is their hubris for they not only seek to control human life but to "better" nature itself, for the drug industry was not based on nature but on their own product, coal tar, as the building block for creating new synthetics molecules, and from there, increasingly toward creating synthetic DNA and even synthetic life.

Synthetics mark the beginning of a massive breach between man and nature. Thanks to the pharmaceutical industry, the world turned away from nature to man-made molecules. Dire consequences showed up almost immediately.

In 1918-19, the leading synthetic drug on the world - aspirin - contributed to the death of millions. The deaths were falsely attributed to a foreign flu. The natural substances used by homeopaths boost the immune system, but synthetic aspirin strongly suppresses it. People died from common upper respiratory infections that became serious pneumonias which caused death. Or people died within hours from the sheer toxicity of aspirin, and it kills as rapidly today. The pharmaceutical industry-controlled CDC is still promoting the myth of a flu.

Homeopaths saved almost everyone who came to them. So, why don't we all know this?

Because just after 1918-1918 proved beyond a doubt that natural medicine heals and synthetics kill, the Rockefellers took control of medical schools, medical education and medical research, and put homeopathic hospitals out of business. History is supposed to belong to the victors, but natural medicine was the victor, Rockefeller power overrode the its stunning success. In Rockefeller hands, medical education taught that a frighteningly virulent "flu pandemic" was responsible for the death of millions and has milked that groundless terror of nature for increasing profit and for massive power.

Nature didn't kill anyone - it saved people through homeopathy remedies, but a terrifying "virulent" foreign flu became the means to conceal that the new synthetics had caused the largest industrial catastrophe in history (even up to today). This worldwide disaster heralded the beginning of "synthetics" which then became the core of modern medicine.

Synthetics have offered many things, but a short list includes BPA that severely disrupts human and animal endocrine systems; PCBs, one of the most deadly toxins on earth; prescription drugs that are the leading cause of death in the US; vaccines that cause cancer, degenerative diseases, and death; genetic engineering wreaking havoc on animals, people and the land and threatening the gene pools of so many species.

But the Rockefellers have ensured through their control of media, of medical schools, of research facilities, of the AMA, the CDC, the WHO, and the Institute of Medicine, that the public is not aware of the nightmare we are imprisoned in - medical treatments that sicken and never cure, profit dependent on our illnesses, doctors miseducated to trust drugs and not educated about nutrition.

Nutrition. It sounds like such a minimal thing beside the giant edifice that is MEDICINE and PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. But nutrition is the molecular support for life. As vitamins, [they] and other effective natural health therapies ... optimize cellular metabolism. Nutrition is the intermediary between nature and us that sustains our lives and heals our diseases. Our cells need precisely what nature provides.

One understands this vividly just in seeing the astounding scope of what even one supplement - magnesium - offers.

Synthetics have led to a greater and greater disconnect between our body and food, our body and air, our body and water, our body and soil, our body and animals we depend on for food ... They take magnesium out of the soil. They depress the immune system. They are toxic. They destroy.

Synthetics are a mismatch with our bodies. That was proved conclusively in 1918 and 1919. And aspirin is still killing people. There is no dose at which it is not toxic and cumulatively so. A misfit between man's body and synthetics. Aspirin is taken to control pain but cherries are potentially ten times stronger in doing so and in lowering inflammation. No deaths. No disconnect between the molecular structure of cherries and the human body. Quite the reverse.

And despite all we been force fed by media about its toxicity, no one has yet found any dose at which vitamin C is toxic.

A dramatic demonstration of the abysmal fit between synthetics and living creatures is the reaction of animals to genetically engineered (synthetic) corn. They avoid it. It may look like corn to us, but not to rats, geese, deer, who are fine with natural corn. Those forced to eat it vomit and in various ways express pain.

Synthetics disrupted the harmony between animals and their own food, and a harmony that benefited each other, the animals eating the corn and spreading the seeds, the corn nourished by the manure of the animals. Synthetics made it all toxic - the corn, the seeds, the manure, the animal's meat.

The creation of synthetics by the pharmaceutical industry was a historical break in the web of life. Something entered into the world that is not derived naturally, that does not fit, does not contribute, does not decompose normally, does not break down into valuable components, and does not come back together into new healthy life. Rather than being part of a perfect cycle, with synthetics a cul de sac occurred. A dead end. Disease and death followed from its not-nature.

Supplements, on the other hand, are bottled nature.

Pharma, the industry that has turned the world into a synthetic and poisonous cesspool, is killing people with synthetic drugs, is creating not only synthetic bio-weapons but synthetic diseases and is making vaccines to alter people's DNA with genetically engineered DNA of viruses, now wants to remove access to its true competition - nutritional supplements - suggesting they are dangerous. Quite a reversal of truth. Back to trying to cloak that defining historical moment in 1918-19, when natural treatment were stunningly life-giving, when synthetics were exposed as deadly at a monumental scale.

Nature is the perfection we are trying to battle back to through the toxins being pumped out by industrial synthetics. This battle back to nature is up against those who stole homes, jobs, manufacturing, the economy, an America we love, and who wish to make sure nothing stands between them and the diseases they are planting as an endless crop for their profits. They know supplements means cure which is why they hire Interpol to kidnap, block manufacturers, order raids, and work over years to imprison doctors. The bankers have reached their moral nadir. They want cancer for this country and are unceasing in this.

Supplements are essential to save our children's health and their future. Supplements are our NO to synthetics and to those behind them who have visited catastrophes on our world and are destroying our country right now, out of a boundless arrogance, greed, and power mania to control the world.

Fight for nutritional supplements here - to always be able to offer nature itself as health and healing to those you love.

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Study Finds the Key to Language: How Humans Form Sentences

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Using magnetic resonance imaging of the brain,
researchers can visualize the two main language
processing regions, Broca's region (yellow) and
Wernicke's region (purple), as well as the (blue
and orange) pathways between them.
Study Finds the Key to Language: How Humans Form Sentences by Natalie Wolchover

Experiments with dogs, chimpanzees and other intelligent animals show that humans aren't the only beings who are able to learn the meanings of words. What distinguishes us is our ability to string those words together in meaningful ways, with one word order conveying something different than another. In short, sentences, not vocabulary, are the true hallmark of language.

Now, a team of researchers who study the neural basis of language have pinpointed the pathway in the brain that allows humans to combine words together into sentences. It's a separate pathway than the one we use to recall the meanings of individual words, a capability we share with other animals.

Most prior work on the neuroscience of language focused on bundles of neurons in two brain areas called Broca's region and Wernicke's region - the main hubs of language processing. It has long been known that the regions are connected to one another by upper and lower "white matter" pathways - strings of lipid cells that carry nerve signals - but these haven't been studied nearly as extensively as the neurons in the regions themselves. The new research, published in the latest issue of the peer-reviewed journal Neuron, reveals for the first time the important and distinct roles played by the two pathways.

While vocabulary is accessed along the lower pathway, the meaning of combinations of words is accessed along the upper one.

To come to that conclusion, the researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to visualize the brains of patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases called "aphasias" that affect their language ability. At the same time, the patients were given tasks testing their comprehension of sentences.

The researchers discovered a clear distinction between patients who had damage to their upper language pathways and those who had damage to their lower pathways, revealing the separate routes the brain uses to draw upon information stored in Broca's and Wernicke's regions. "If you have damage to the lower pathway, you have damage to the lexicon and semantics," lead researcher Stephen Wilson of the University of Arizona explained in a press release. "You forget the name of things, you forget the meaning of words. But surprisingly, you're extremely good at constructing sentences."

Wilson continued, "With damage to the upper pathway, the opposite is true; patients name things quite well, they know the words, they can understand them, they can remember them, but when it comes to figuring out the meaning of a complex sentence, they are going to fail."

If it seems hard to believe that the ability to recall the meaning of single words and the ability to recall the collective meaning of many words together could be divorced from one another, consider this example: The researchers asked the patients: "A man was walking along the railway tracks. He didn't hear the train coming. What happened to the man?"

Most unimpaired people would answer, "The man was hit by a train." The study found that people with damage to their upper language pathway, but a perfectly intact lower pathway, answered "train, man, hit."

This is reminiscent of the primitive language that can be acquired by chimpanzees, such as Nim Chimpsky, a chimp who scientists taught sign language in the 1970s. Nim had no capacity for syntax, and would sign disorderly strings of words such as "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you."

Conversely, the researchers tested patients' sentence comprehension by presenting them with a sentence like, "The girl who is pushing the boy is green," and then asking which of two pictures - one showing a green girl pushing a boy, the other, a girl pushing a green boy - depicted that scenario accurately.

"Those who have only lower pathway damage do really well on this, which shows that damage to that pathway doesn't interfere with your ability to use the little function words or the functional endings on words to figure out the relationships between the words in a sentence," Wilson said.

But the group of patients with damaged upper pathways couldn't tell their green girls from their green boys.

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