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Uganda: Anti-vaccination parents face jail time after new law passes


RT
Sat, 26 Mar 2016 19:19 UTC
Uganda Vaccination
© Edgard Garrido / Reuters
The new law comes amid a growing 'anti-vaxxer' movement.
Uganda passed a new law this month targeting parents who refuse to vaccinate their children.

"Anti-vaxxers" could face up to six months in prison in the central African nation of Uganda after claims by the Health Minister and others that a growing religious "cult" is preventing parents from having their children immunized.

The new law was signed by President Yoweri Museveni on March 10, but it wasn't announced until this week.

The Immunization Act would require parents to have their children get shots for diseases such as measles, polio, tuberculosis and meningitis - or face jail time.

Children would also be denied education as it requires them to possess an immunization card to attend school.

Comment: A century later: Gandhi's Anti-Vaccine views ring true
Vaccination is a barbarous practice, and it is one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time, not to be found even among the so-called savage races of the world. Its supporters are not content with its adoption by those who have no objection to it, but seek to impose it with the aid of penal laws and rigorous punishments on all people alike.


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Ambulance

California fallout: Porter Ranch residents still suffering symptoms though authorities say it's safe

Carey Wedler
The Anti Media
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 18:02 UTC
porter ranch gas leak symptoms
On February 18, SoCalGas and the national media declared the "worst methane gas leak in U.S. history" permanently sealed, but just over a month later, hundreds of Porter Ranch residents who evacuated — and are now returning home — are suffering the same symptoms they suffered when the gas leak was active. They are experiencing nausea, dizziness, fatigue, headaches, nosebleeds, and many, including children, are also experiencing a new ailment: irritated skin rashes across their bodies.

Neither SoCalGas, which owns the Aliso Canyon facility, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, nor any other government agency has provided a concrete explanation for these continued symptoms. In fact, one of Los Angeles County's top medical officials recently told local physicians to refrain from performing tests to determine what is causing the symptoms. Late last week, preliminary lab tests from an independent UCLA study found evidence of benzene, a carcinogen, in at least two Porter Ranch homes. Benzene was reported to have been released in the 100 metric tons of methane that spewed into the Los Angeles basin for four months — a fact SoCalGas previously attempted to downplay and withhold.

Comment: It looks as if the Porter Ranch residents should move out permanently and enact detox protocols right away. Public officials cannot be trusted to tell the truth, nor are they capable of providing adequate medical care for this victims of this disaster.

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Health

Rage disorder linked to common parasite carried by 30% of people


PSYBLOG
Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:19 UTC
Chronic rage
© Alvaro Tapia
People with impulsive anger problems could have a parasite in their brain, a new study suggests.

Those who continually display behaviours like road-rage could be infected with a common parasite rather than having a psychological disorder.
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Syringe

Journal editor who removed negative study on Gardasil is Merck-insider

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
vaccine gardasil
On January 9, 2016, a study titled "Behavioral abnormalities in young female mice following administration of aluminum adjuvants and the human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil" was published by the journal Vaccine.

The study, which had gone through Vaccine's "extensive peer review process" consisted of dividing 76 female mice into four groups and testing the effects of injecting them with the vaccine. The study's findings were not good press for Merck's Gardasil.

Comment: This has become standard operating procedure - the pharmaceutical cartel insures that contradictory studies never see the light of day by making sure the gatekeepers are in their debt.

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Red Flag

Chemical companies decide what's toxic - not the EPA or FDA

Wendell Potter & Nick Penniman
Alternet
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:01 UTC
tainted
© KANIN.studio / Shutterstock.com
A bill on drinking water standards was being vetted—and possibly even written, at least in part—by chemical industry lobbyists.

The following is an excerpt from the new book Nation on the Take by Wendell Potter & Nick Penniman (Bloomsbury Press, 2016):

Arsenic, like formaldehyde, can cause health and developmental problems and at high levels is linked to certain cancers. Columbia University professor Joseph Graziano jokes, darkly, that arsenic makes lead look like a vitamin. That's because, as he told the Center for Public Integrity's David Heath, it "sweeps across the body and impact[s] everything that's going on, every organ system." It's in weed killers marketed to fight your lawn's crabgrass, and, in many places, it's in the water we drink.

Comment: The Real Story on Arsenic in Your Water

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Life Preserver

Curcumin may help fight drug-resistant tuberculosis


Science Daily
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
turmeric, curcumin
New research indicates that curcumin--a substance in turmeric that is best known as one of the main components of curry powder--may help fight drug-resistant tuberculosis. In Asia, turmeric is used to treat many health conditions and it has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and perhaps even anticancer properties.

Investigators found that by stimulating human immune cells called macrophages, curcumin was able to successfully remove Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative bacterium of tuberculosis, from experimentally infected cells in culture. The process relied on inhibiting the activation of a cellular molecule called nuclear factor-kappa B.

Comment:
Science confirms Turmeric as effective as 14 Drugs

Turmeric is one of the most thoroughly researched plants in existence today. Its medicinal properties and components (primarily curcumin) have been the subject of over 5600 peer-reviewed and published biomedical studies. In fact, our five-year long research project on this sacred plant has revealed over 600 potential preventive and therapeutic applications, as well as 175 distinct beneficial physiological effects.
For more information on the many benefits of turmeric and curcumin, see:

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Bacon n Eggs

Paleo diet on a budget: When does it matter most to buy grass fed?

Mark Sisson
Mark's Daily Apple
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
cows grazing on grass
By now, you're convinced of the general overall superiority of grass-fed, pasture-raised meat. If you come at it from the nutrition angle, grass-fed wins across the board. If you're more concerned with the ethics of animal husbandry, grass-fed animals live overall better lives than animals in concentrated feedlots. If you worry about the use of antibiotics in agriculture and the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, grass-fed animals receive less medication (and sometimes none). Whatever your inclination, animals who range free and nibble their biologically appropriate diet of various grasses tend to be happier, healthier, and produce more nutrient-dense meat, milk, and fat. It's objectively "better." Even an honest vegan will admit that.

But the stuff is expensive. I have the luxury of buying and eating solely grass-fed, pasture-raised meat and dairy, but not everyone can. Most folks have to choose. They have to pick their battles. Today's post will help you choose wisely.

When to buy grass-fed/pasture-raised:

Comment: Another aspect to consider is the variety of toxins that are ingested by, or injected into, factory farmed animals. While these various types of environmental toxins will likely be present in the protein to some degree, for the most part they're present in the fat, so purchasing high quality fat can help one avoid such toxins. So if you're looking to eat healthy on a budget, skimp on the protein and go with a lean cut, then splurge on the fat.

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Attention

Nationwide infrastructure decay: Deadly contamination found in water of factory towns

Spiro
Activist Post
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 22:45 UTC
water contamination
US public water infrastructure is woefully dangerous to human health. With the suspected cancer-causing chemical PFOA being phased out in the U.S., it is still very much around, turning up in the water in factory towns across the country - most recently in upstate New York and Vermont - where it is blamed by residents for cancers and other maladies.

Comment: 6.5 million Americans in 27 states drinking water tainted by byproduct of Teflon manufacturing

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People 2

Depression is not all in your head

Kelly Brogan, MD
Natural Blaze
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 21:28 UTC
Adapted from A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan, MD
mental illness
Psychiatry: A Very Special Specialty

Psychiatry, unlike other fields of medicine, is based on a highly subjective diagnostic system. Essentially you sit in the office with a physician, and you are labeled based on the doctor's opinion of the symptoms you describe. There are no tests. You can't pee in a cup or give a drop of blood to be analyzed for a substance that definitely indicates "you have depression" much in the way a blood test can tell you that you have diabetes or are anemic.

Psychiatry is infamous for saying "oops!" It has a long history of abusing patients with pseudoscience-driven treatments and has been sullied by its shameful lack of diagnostic rigor. Consider, for example, the 1949 Nobel Prize winner Egas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist who introduced invasive surgical techniques to treat people with schizophrenia by cutting connections between their prefrontal region and other parts of the brain (i.e., the prefrontal lobotomy). And then we had the Rosenhan experiment in the 1970s, which exposed how difficult it is for a doctor to distinguish between an "insane patient" and a sane patient acting insane. Today's prescription pads for psychotropic drugs are, in my belief, just as harmful and misguided as physically destroying critical brain tissue or labeling people as "psychiatric" when really they are anything but.
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Pirates

Monsanto: The world's poster child for corporate deceit & manipulation

Jeffery Smith
Monsantomafia.com
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:13 UTC
Monsanto
At a biotech industry conference in January 1999, a representative from Arthur Anderson, LLP explained how they had helped Monsanto design their strategic plan. First, his team asked Monsanto executives what their ideal future looked like in 15 to 20 years. The executives described a world with 100 percent of all commercial seeds genetically modified and patented. Anderson consultants then worked backwards from that goal, and developed the strategy and tactics to achieve it. They presented Monsanto with the steps and procedures needed to obtain a place of industry dominance in a world in which natural seeds were virtually extinct.

This was a bold new direction for Monsanto, which needed a big change to distance them from a controversial past. As a chemical company, they had polluted the landscape with some of the most poisonous substances ever produced, contaminated virtually every human and animal on earth, and got fined and convicted of deception and wrongdoing. According to a former Monsanto vice president, "We were despised by our customers."

So they redefined themselves as a "life sciences" company, and then proceeded to pollute the landscape with toxic herbicide, contaminate the gene pool for all future generations with genetically modified plants, and get fined and convicted of deception and wrongdoing. Monsanto's chief European spokesman admitted in 1999, "Everybody over here hates us." Now the rest of the world is catching on.
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