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Monsanto falls from grace

Diane Grace
oh-yay.com
Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:19 UTC
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Monsanto falls from grace and Dr Joseph Mercola is pleased
Monsanto, the giant biotechnology agriculture company that created genetically modified corn, soybeans and herbicides, is suffering as its products appear to be failing.

Leading natural health advocate Dr Joseph Mercola, and one of Monsanto's greatest critics, is ecstatic to see the company he hates so much suffer.

Dr Mercola has posted the news of Monsanto's apparent turn of fortunes on his website Mercola.com - which he claims is the world's number one natural health website.

Like other natural health advocates, Dr Mercola has long been an opponent of genetically modified foods.

"Monsanto isn't riding so high this year in the stocks department, as news comes in that its products aren't working like they'd hoped," Dr Mercola writes.
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Hands Off "Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS)" Says Brunei Health Ministry


The Brunei Times
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00 UTC
The Ministry of Health yesterday issued a public advisory against selling and purchasing a product called "Miracle Mineral Solution" or "Miracle Mineral Supplement" which is available through the Internet.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against reports advising consumers to dilute several drops of the solution (28 per cent sodium chlorite) with citric acid before adding the mixture to water or juice before drinking it.

This mixture will produce chlorine dioxide which is a form of industrial bleach normally used in industrial textile manufacturing and industrial water treatment.

This industrial strength solution is a health hazard as it can induce vomiting and severe diarrhea.
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As Bug Spreads, Ugandans Watch Their Flesh Rot Away


The Associated Press
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00 UTC
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A 40-year-old man in eastern Uganda shows hands and feet infested by flea-like, blood-sucking jiggers. At least 20 Ugandans have died, and more than 20,000 have been sickened in just two months. Uganda's government has allocated $1 million to fight the epidemic.
A disease with progression and symptoms that seem straight out of a horror movie has killed at least 20 Ugandans and sickened more than 20,000 in just two months.

Jiggers, small insects that look like fleas, are the culprits in the epidemic, which causes parts of the body to rot. They often enter through the feet. Once inside a human, they suck blood and multiply by the hundreds. Affected body parts -- buttocks, lips, even eyelids -- rot away.

James Kakooza, Uganda's minister of state for primary health care, said jiggers can easily kill young children and cause early deaths in grown-ups with other diseases.

The parasitic disease, named tungiasis, also exists in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Some affected people in rural Uganda, such as Dakaba Kaala, 60, say they are bewitched and simply wait to die.
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Windowfarming - Join people all over the world!


YouTube.com/Windowfarms
Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:29 UTC
Windowfarms is an open source community developing hydroponic gardens for urban windows.

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Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to Survive

Makenna Goodman
ChelseaGreen
Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:56 UTC
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Having food resiliency is as much about learning how to store and use food properly as it is about growing it. The key is learning interdependence not independence.

In an age of erratic weather and instability, it's increasingly important to develop a greater self-reliance when it comes to food. And because of this, more than ever before, farmers are developing new gardening techniques that help achieve a greater resilience. Longtime gardener and scientist Carol Deppe, in her new book The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times, offers a wealth of unique and expansive information for serious home gardeners and farmers who are seeking optimistic advice. Do you want to know more about the five crops you need to survive through the next thousand years? What about tips for drying summer squash, for your winter soups? Ever thought of keeping ducks on your land? Read on.
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Unsafe at any dose: Hormone therapy boosts cancer death risk

Martha Rosenberg
FoodConsumer
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:29 UTC
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Want to increase your chances of getting node-positive breast cancer and dying from it? Take hormone therapy.

Pharma's lucrative estrogen plus progestin combo is already known to increase the chance of getting breast cancer by 26 percent. But an article in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows hormone therapy also increases the chance of dying from breast cancer, as follow-ups are conducted on women who took it.

In fact hormone therapy, already indicted for causing delays in breast cancer diagnosis by increasing breast density (and increasing lung cancer deaths) is now so dangerous Dr. Peter B. Bach from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who wrote an accompanying JAMA editorial, told the New York Times the very advice of "taking the lowest possible doses for the shortest possible time" is now questionable. Perhaps like prescribing the fewest and lowest tar cigarettes as possible.

Comment: While discussing the danger of hormone therapy, this article takes a few swipes at smoking. Let us point out that contrary to hormone therapy, which is harmful and promoted by Big Pharma, smoking is beneficial by boosting the acetylcholine level in your brain and thereby promoting learning, thinking and reducing stress. For more information on the anti-smoking scam, read our Focus article below:

Let's All Light Up!

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Is Atheism a Belief?

Greta Christina
Greta Christina's Blog
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:06 UTC
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I really wish I could just leave it at that. Maybe post a funny story about Einstein instead, or show you some cute pictures of our cats.

But I suppose I can't just leave it at that.

Here's the thing. One of the most common accusations aimed at atheists is that atheism is an article of faith, a belief just like religion. Because atheism can't be proven with absolute 100-percent certainty, the accusation goes, therefore not believing in God means taking a leap of faith -- a leap of faith that's every bit as irrational and unjustified as religion.

It's a little odd to have this accusation hurled in such an accusatory manner by people who supposedly respect and value faith. But that's a puzzle for another time. Today, I want to talk about a different puzzle -- the puzzle of what atheism really is, and how it gets so misunderstood.
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UK: Patients' anger after they are unable to opt out of swine flu vaccine despite fears of side effects

Jo Macfarlane
DailyMail
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:41 UTC
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The H1N1 'swine flu' vaccine will be included in this years seasonal flu jab meaning millions of elderly and vulnerable patients will get it automatically
Patients' groups have expressed anger over this year's seasonal flu jab programme because people are unable to opt out of having the swine flu vaccine.

The H1N1 vaccine will be the dominant of three flu strains included in the shot, meaning millions of elderly and vulnerable patients will get it automatically.

Yet many people refused to have the swine flu vaccine when it was offered last year because of fears it may cause serious side effects.
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The Doctors on Pharma's Payroll

Christopher Lane, Ph.D.
Psychology Today
Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:34 UTC
Earlier this week, investigative journalists at ProPublica released a devastating report on the number of American doctors with spotty records who are shilling for drug companies. The report makes for depressing - yet eye-popping - reading.

Compiling its database from disclosures made by seven major drug companies, including Lilly, AstraZeneca, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, and Johnson & Johnson, the investigative agency found that these and other companies had spent "$257.8 million in payouts since 2009 for [doctors'] speaking, consulting and other duties."

Yet many of the hired shills had been disciplined by state boards for serious professional misconduct. In some cases, the doctors' licenses had even been revoked. Regardless, they were still being paid tens of thousands of dollars aggressively to push drugs such as the painkiller Bextra and the diabetes drug Avandia that the FDA has since yanked because of their alarming side effects.

Most of the disclosures were the result of legal settlements compelling the drug makers to air their dirty laundry. The response and outcry, including by PhRMA - Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America - which posted a defensive mini-essay trying to change the subject and avoid the facts, was almost instantaneous, and I'll get to that in a moment.
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Study: Paying Cash, Not Credit, Leads to Healthier Food Choices

Meredith Melnick
Time
Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:02 UTC
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Paying with cash instead of plastic at the grocery store leads to more careful spending and healthier food choices, a study in the Journal of Consumer Research finds.

The idea is that shelling out actual money is psychologically more difficult than swiping a credit card, which takes away from the joy of spending.

Researchers followed the grocery shopping habits of 1,000 households over six months, tracking what they bought and how they paid for it.

"The notion that mode of payment can curb impulsive purchase of unhealthy food products is substantially important," wrote authors, Manoj Thomas, Kalpesh Kaushik Desai and Satheeshkumar Seenivasan. "The epidemic increase in obesity suggests that regulating impulsive purchases and consumption of unhealthy food products is a steep challenge for many consumers."
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