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Americans swindled (again!) over GMO labeling laws - the DARK Act is back

Carolanne Wright
wakeup-world.com
Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:18 UTC
GMO label
"This is not a labeling bill; it is a non-labeling bill. We are appalled that our elected officials would support keeping Americans in the dark about what is in our food and even more appalled that they would do it on behalf of Big Chemical and food corporations." ~ Center for Food Safety
In yet another attack on transparency and food safety, biotech giant Monsanto has won an unexpected bipartisan victory in Congress with a "test vote" on a bill dubbed Deny Americans the Right to Know Act, or DARK Act. On June 29th, 'representatives' in the U.S. Senate announced a deal had been reached regarding federal GMO labeling requirements. Introduced by Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), both Senators were paid handsomely by agribusiness to push the pro- GMO agenda in Congress — $2,808,111 and $1,565,978 respectively. Incredibly, it wasn't just politicians that sold out the American public, a laundry list of organic brands owned by large corporations have embraced this latest version of the DARK Act as well, which will nullify state GMO labeling laws — including hard won legislation in Vermont.
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Children in 7th grade will be forcibly injected with HPV vaccine if they wish to remain in public school


Natural News
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:48 UTC
HPV vaccine
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In a highly controversial, unprecedented motion, members of the Allegheny County Health Department in Pittsburgh, PA, have publicly revealed that they're considering administering a countywide mandate to require all 7th grade girls and boys to receive the HPV vaccine before receiving admittance into school for the 2017 - 18 school year. Since the news broke last week, natural health advocates and anti-vaccine activists have been in an outrage, condemning the corporate Big Pharma-funded mandate.

The HPV vaccine is readily available to the public; that, coupled with the fact that the Human papilloma virus is transmitted exclusively through sexual activity, makes the necessity of administering a vaccine with such controversial side effects to grade school children absurd.

If passed, the mandate would make Allegheny County the only county in the state to have different vaccine regulations to the rest of Pennsylvania. While the mandate would only affect school children attending schools within Allegheny County, many fear that if the mandate is a success, other U.S. counties and states could easily follow suit.

The plot thickens, as Health Impact News reported that medical professionals who spoke in favor of administering the HPV vaccine at a recent meeting organized by the Allegheny County Health Department, had "conflicts of interest related to vaccine manufacturers that they failed to disclose."

The problem doesn't only lie in the fact that county officials are attempting to forcibly administer Big Pharma vaccines to the public, but that they're attempting to administer arguably the most controversial of all vaccines to children.

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Positive side to 'bad' habits: Thumb sucking and nail biting linked to lower risk of allergies

Agata Blaszczak-Boxe
LiveScience
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 05:56 UTC
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Young children who suck their thumbs or bite their nails may be less likely to develop allergies later in childhood, according to a new study that spanned three decades.

Although the results do not suggest that kids should take up these habits, they do suggest that the habits may help protect against allergies into adulthood, the researchers said.

"Many parents discourage these habits, and we do not have enough evidence to [advise they] change this," said Dr. Robert Hancox, an associate professor of respiratory epidemiology at the University of Otago in New Zealand. "We certainly don't recommend encouraging nail-biting or thumb-sucking, but perhaps if a child has one of these habits and [it] is difficult [for them] to stop, there is some consolation in the knowledge that it might reduce their risk of allergies."

In the study, the researchers pulled data from an ongoing study of more than 1,000 children born in New Zealand in 1972 or 1973. The children's parents were asked about their kids' thumb-sucking and nail-biting habits four times: when the kids were 5, 7, 9 and 11 years old. Researchers also tested the children for allergies using a skin-prick test when they were 13, and then followed up with the kids again when they were 32.

It turned out that 38 percent of the children who had sucked their thumbs or bit their nails had at least one allergy, whereas among kids who did not have these habits, 49 percent had at least one allergy.

Comment: The Hygiene Hypothesis - Can being too clean harm your health?

The immune system learns how to fight illness and disease by being exposed to it; it then builds defenses. When we don't allow our immune systems to have any exposure to these micro-organisms, it doesn't know how to fight them—leaving us vulnerable.

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Giant blindness-causing plant is spreading across North America and Canada

Patrick J Kiger
Seeker
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:00 UTC
Hogweed
Hogweed can grow to between 8 and 20 feet and appears set to conquer ecosystems across North America.

State environmental authorities in Wisconsin are the latest to warn of the dangers of a giant invasive plant whose toxic sap can cause temporary blindness and severe burns and blisters in people unlucky enough to come in contact with it.

But they're not the only ones worried about giant hogweed (scientific name Heracleum mantegazzianum), a plant from central Asia that misguided horticulturists imported to New York state back in 1917, possibly because of the beauty of its umbrella-shaped white flowers. Since then, it's spread across the United States from Maine to Washington state, and across Canada as well.

Comment: See also: The special intelligence of plants
  • Plants communicate using an internet of fungus, "wood wide web"

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Green Light

Big Pharma terrified: Pill sales plummet as medicinal marijuana is legalized

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Thu, 07 Jul 2016 16:32 UTC
legal pot
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Big Pharma Shaking in Their Boots as 80% of Cannabis Users Give Up Prescriptions Pills for Pot
For decades the pharmaceutical industry has poured millions into the pockets of corrupt politicians as they lobbied to keep cannabis illegal. A new study from the University of Georgia shows exactly why all that money was spent. Legal marijuana destroys big pharma's profits.

The study examined the costs of Medicare's prescription drug benefit program in 2013, a year when only 17 states and the District of Columbia had legalized medicinal marijuana. They found that legal pot contributed to a savings of $165.2 million in prescription costs. Researchers at the University of Georgia used those number to determine a savings in the hundreds of millions if all states would legalize medical cannabis.
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Does dirty electricity and EMF smog cause Type 3 diabetes?

Catherine Frompovich
Activist Post
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:54 UTC
type 3 diabetes
Diabetes, according to former FDA toxicologist Dr Dana Flavin, MD, PhD, has increased 700 percent over the years! As of 2014, the CDC stated that 9.3 percent of the U.S. population had diabetes: 21 million diagnosed and 8.1 million undiagnosed. [1]

Diabetes usually is diagnosed as Type 1 or Type 2 but, according to Dr Magda Havas, PhD, there is a third type of diabetes that needs to become mainstreamed information. It results from exposure to electromagnetic frequencies. Dr Havas ought to know what she's talking about since she works at the Centre for Health Studies and Environmental & Resource Studies, Trent University, Petersborough, ON, Canada. [2]

In this 7 minute video Dr Havas explains the three types of diabetes:

Comment: Check out these episodes of The Health and Wellness Show for more on EMF and dirty electricity:

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Dreamsicle

Get the lowdown on high fructose corn syrup

Catherine J. Frompovich
Activist Post
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:01 UTC
high fructose corn syrup
High fructose corn sugar (HFCS) has taken on another name—a façade of sorts—to legitimize its ubiquitous presence in most processed foods. If you haven't seen HFCS recently on food labels, did you recognize its alter ego—"corn sugar"?

The Corn Refiners Association and food processors wanted another term for HFCS which, basically, equated with "not healthful" or "contributes to certain unhealthy conditions," thus we now have HFCS appearing as corn sugar, but still delivering the same adverse nutrition aspects that prompted the name change.

Dr Dana Flavin, MD, PhD, former FDA official and toxicologist, has expertise in HFCS, which she says is "too sweet to eat." Furthermore, that 45 percent of HFCS or corn sugar is tainted with mercury (Hg)! That's according to a peer-reviewed study published in Environment Health Magazine. HFCS came on the market in the 1970s. Until then, food processors used sucrose as sweeteners. Since then, HFCS has been used by soft drink makers and other food processors without abandon. It's more economical to use corn sugar than other natural sugars in making things taste sweet.

Comment: High fructose corn syrup is evil, unnatural and should be avoided at all costs.

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Latest glyphosate study shows it can damage uterus and promote the development of uterine cancer

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 19:26 UTC
glyphosate
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One of the most difficult aspects of demonstrating the possible risks of GMOs and their paired chemical herbicides such as Monsanto Roundup containing glyphosate is that the GMO chemical companies make it virtually impossible for serious, unbiased scientists to test possible dangers. An uncharacteristically huge resistance inside the member countries of the EU among the population and various NGOs has three times forced a postponement of EU Commission decision to renew the EU license for glyphosate. In 2015 an agency of the World Health Organization labeled glyphosate a "probable carcinogen. Now a team of scientists has published their peer-review findings discovering serious damage to the uterus of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world's most-used weed-killer. Other alarming signs of high glyphosate toxicity also to humans are being documented as well.

In an article published in the current issue of the international scientific journal, Toxicology, researchers injected a group of newborn rats with a commercial dosage of glyphosate-based herbicide (GBH) and a control group with a saline solution to compare. Astonishingly, it was the first test in the 42 years since Monsanto first brought glyphosate to market as the main component of its most popular weed-killer, Roundup, that tested effects on uterine development of glyphosate-based herbicide exposure. The results are hair-raising and ought to have been featured on the front page of every major world press.

Among the findings of the researchers was that GBH-exposed uteri showed morphological changes when they are exposed for only 7 days after birth. Further, GBH treatment also altered the expression of proteins involved in uterine organo-genetic differentiation. i For the layperson, morphological change in an embryo in a uterus is pretty major, to put it mildly. It means a change in form of the embryo, say a born rat with three ears or grossly deformed head. Altered expression of organo-genetic differentiation means that the GBH diet also affected the very organs of the embryo.


Comment: One little piggy had birth defects: Is Monsanto's Roundup to blame?

Glyphosate is a known teratogen, meaning "monster-maker." Studies conducted on rats and rabbits since the 1980s have shown an astonishing spectrum of birth defects associated with glyphosate, including absent kidneys, missing lobes of the lungs, enlarged hearts, ventricular septal defects (holes in the heart), extra ribs, and deformed and absent bones of the skull, spine, ribs, sternum and limbs.


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Bad Guys

The Global Vaccine Program: Conflicts of interest, corporate philanthropy & the Gates Foundation

Rishma Parpia
The Vaccine Reaction
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:35 UTC
vaccines
© 21stcenturywire.com
Bill Gates is reported to be one of the richest individuals on Earth, with a current net worth of $87.4 billion.1 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), founded in 2000, is the largest private foundation in the world.2 The foundation's mission is to support and fund international development initiatives that improve social, economic and health conditions on a global level.3 The BMFG has been praised for pumping massive amounts of money into public health policy initiatives and scientific research on issues that forward the personal vision and social reform goals of Bill Gates.2

A recent report released by a U.K. based organization Global Justice Now, closely examines the BMGF operations and reveals that the foundation's influence on global health initiatives is greater than any other donor country including Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Italy.2 However, unlike democratic governments who are accountable to their electorates, the BMGF is a private foundation that essentially remains unaccountable to populations impacted by the foundation's social reform and public health initiatives, with the exception of tax reporting requirements.2

Comment: Corporate philanthropy, like BMGF, does deserve far more public scrutiny!

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Corruption of medical science: For-profit review boards are taking over clinical trials

Sheila Kaplan
Stat News
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:12 UTC
corruption medicine
For years, ethicist Arthur Caplan warned medical researchers that paying businesses to evaluate their clinical trials was a bad idea.

He condemned trials that didn't rely on hospital or academic review boards — long the gold standard in science — and argued that for-profit review boards were out to make a buck, not protect patients.

Today, Caplan sits on the advisory board of WIRB-Copernicus Group, the largest commercial institutional review board, or IRB, in the country.

He says he had no choice.

"This shift to commercial IRBs is, in effect, over," said Caplan, who heads the division of bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center. "It's automatic and it's not going back."

Institutional review boards — which review all research that involves human participants — have undergone a quiet revolution in recent years, with many drug companies strongly encouraging researchers to use commercial boards, considered by many more efficient than their nonprofit counterparts.

Commercial IRBs now oversee an estimated 70 percent of US clinical trials for drugs and medical devices. The industry has also consolidated, with larger IRBs buying smaller ones, and even private equity firms coming along and buying the companies. Arsenal Capital Partners, for example, now owns WIRB-Copernicus Group.

Comment: The medical community holds a legal and ethical relationship of trust with patients and the public and the only fiduciary responsibility should be with them.

For more information, see:

SOTT Exclusive: Corruption of medical science - Least adequate person appointed as head of the FDA

The impact of researchers loyal to Big Pharma on the ethics and quality of clinical trials in Latin America
Antonio Ugalde, Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin.
Núria Homedes, Doctor in Public Health and director of global health at the University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health.

Abstract

This article explains the difficulties innovative pharmaceutical firms have in repaying shareholders with attractive dividends. The problem is the result of the expiration of the patents of blockbuster drugs and the difficulties that the firms have in bringing new blockbuster drugs to the market. One of the solutions companies have found has been to accelerate the implementation of clinical trials in order to expedite the commercialization of new drugs. Doing so increases the period in which they can sell drugs at monopoly prices. We therefore discuss how innovative pharmaceutical firms shorten the implementation time of clinical trials in Latin America and the consequences such actions have on the quality of the collected data, the protection of human rights of the subjects of experimentation, and compliance with the ethical principles approved in international declarations.
Some of their conclusions are pretty damning:
Other behaviors from researchers loyal to Big Pharma in Latin America, following pressure to accelerate the implementation of clinical trials, which calls into question the validity of the data and which violate ethical principles and norms include: 1) the use of unsafe equipment ; 2) falsifying analytical results; 3) failure to report adverse effects; and 4) retaining subjects in the experiment, which due to their health, should not be part of an experiment.


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