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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
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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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Evil Rays

Is your heart being cooked by microwave radiation?

Benjamin Nowland
Wake Up World
Sat, 07 May 2016 17:21 UTC
Heart electromagetic field
© Institute of HeartMath Research Centre
The Power of the Heart

Your heart produces an electromagnetic field 5000 times as powerful as that produced by your brain.[1] This field projects from your physical body to contribute to the circumvent field or aura. 60 - 65 % of heart cells are neural cells connected to the central nervous system and brain and concomitant with the amygdala, thalamus, hippocampus and cortex.[2]

One way the heart communicates with the brain and the rest of the body is 'energetically'. If the electromagnetic energetics of the heart are altered so are the resultant communication signals. In fact, heart transplant recipients often show a different personality post-operation, literally having a 'change in heart'.

The metaphysical phenomena of chakras has also been scientifically verified. In one test visible light was generated from the heart chakra. [3]

The heart is a dynamic, non-linear harmonic oscillator.[4] The heart's pacemaker cells are biological oscillators that generate an electric field. Simultaneously the heart produces a magnetic field which forms a pattern similar to a standard magnet.[5] This electromagnetic field is a constantly shifting spectrum of frequencies with vast amounts of information contained in each frequency. This field is torus shaped (pictured above), just like the energy field of all living organisms, including the cells of our body, plants and the earth. And, as with a holograph, each segment of the heart's field holds all information for the whole field.[6]

Comment: See the following material for more information on non-native electromagnetic frequencies:

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Syringe

CDC's VAERS data confirms: Multiple vaccines given at same time increase morbidity & mortality in children

Catherine Frompovich
Activist Post
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:47 UTC
vaccines
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Kudos to medical research journalist Neil Z Miller on the publication of an apparent retrospective analysis of CDC VAERS data titled "Combining Childhood Vaccines at One Visit Is Not Safe" published in the Journal of American Physicians Surgeons Volume 21, Number 2, Summer 2016.

Miller does an exceptional job of delineating reports of hundreds of thousands of adverse reaction reports, while all the time adhering to zeroing in on certain specifics, i.e., multiple vaccines injected during one session of vaccinations—anywhere from three to eight vaccines at the same time.

According to Miller, "Since 1990, the VAERS database has received more than 500,000 reports of suspected adverse reactions to vaccines." That's over half a million and vaccines are considered safe?

Comment: What they are not telling you about vaccines




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Ambulance

Death by chemotherapy: Leukemia drug trial shut down after patient deaths


RT
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 08:42 UTC
chemotherapy deaths

Juno Therapeutics Ordered To Stop Experiments Of New Leukemia Treatment After Two Deaths
Trials of an experimental therapy to treat Leukemia have been halted by US authorities after two patients died last week. The treatment developed by Juno Therapeutics looks to reprogram cells to find and eliminate cancer.

The two patients who passed away died from swelling of the brain, which occurred after the chemotherapy agent fludarbine was added to the treatment program. Doctors began to see an increase in "severe neurotoxicity," said CEO Hans Bishop.

"The last week has been difficult and humbling for everyone involved, in particular, of course, the physicians and the patients' families," Bishop added, according to the AP.

This prompted the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to temporarily shut down the CAR-T therapy program known as JCAR015.

Comment: 97 Percent of the time, chemotherapy does not work! Bigpharma greed and profits assure it's continued use, despite more effective and less toxic alternatives:

Cancer treatment is a very lucrative business; the only reason doctors prescribe chemotherapy is because they make money from it. Chemotherapy kills far more normal cells than cancer cells, and damages and toxifies many of the normal cells that do survive. It boosts cancer growth and long-term mortality rates. Most chemotherapy patients either die or are plagued with illness within 10-15 years after treatment. The treatment destroys their immune system, increases neuro-cognitive decline, disrupts endocrine functioning and causes organ and metabolic toxicities. People who refuse chemotherapy live over 12 years longer than those undergoing chemotherapy treatments, proving that there are effective treatment alternatives:

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Evil Rays

Former tennis star suddenly sensitive to EMF and environmental toxins, doctors blame a virus

Rachael Rettner
Live Science
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 14:10 UTC
Marion Bartoli
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Former professional tennis player Marion Bartoli says that a mysterious virus is causing her to experience bizarre symptoms, but experts say they donꞌt know of any virus that fits the description of her illness.

Yesterday (July 7), Bartoli addressed rumors that she has an eating disorder by saying that she has been diagnosed with a virus that doctors have not been able to identify. The virus has made her sensitive to electrical devices, including her cellphone, and left her unable to eat anything but organic salad, the former Wimbledon champion said, according to The Guardian.

"Iꞌm reduced to eating organic salad leaves with cucumber without the skin, because my body can't even process the skin," Bartoli was quoted as saying. "I canꞌt be on my phone for more than five minutes as my heart starts to pump ... Every time I do something, Iꞌm scared to see the reaction to my body," she said. Bartoli also said she is sensitive to tap water, and must wash herself with mineral water.

Comment: None of her symptoms seem out of the ordinary given the research on the dangers of EMF, tap water toxins, fiber, etc. See also:

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