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Patrick Soon-Shiong
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index reveals that Soon-Shiong's net worth is $9.8 billion. His company NantKwest went public in 2015, and now Soon-Shiong's compensation is tied to reaching "strategic milestones." Does that mean actually finding a cure? Maybe the company's marketing team will tell you so, but typically, milestones for publicly traded companies are exclusively tied to revenue growth and profit.
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Just how much of Monsanto's most popular weed killer are you eating every morning for breakfast?
In an unsettling report released Tuesday by the Alliance for Natural Health, the nonprofit advocacy group details the results of a study that shows a host of breakfast foods—from cereal to eggs to coffee creamer—contain residues of glyphosate, the chemical herbicide more commonly known by Monsanto's trade name for it, Roundup. The report comes one year after the cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization made headlines by classifying glyphosate, which has long been regarded by U.S. regulators as posing little risk to public health, as a probable human carcinogen.
© YouTubeMainstream media are reporting the news about mumps outbreaks at colleges like Harvard, but are they reporting the whole truth?
"I'm actually more concerned now than I was during any time of the outbreak."Harvard isn't the only college in the Boston area hit by mumps this spring — Boston University, the University of Massachusetts and Tufts University have also reported cases among their students.
Comment: Vaccine failure: Vaccinated people are spreading the mumps
Vaccines are a very lucrative business. Pfizer's vaccine Prevnar, which targets 13 strains of pneumococcus bacteria, generated $6.25 billion in revenue last year. And that's just one vaccine.1
Even ineffective vaccines allow vaccine makers to make a mint. One of the most obvious vaccine failures is the mumps vaccine (part of the measles, mumps, rubella, aka MMR).
Again and again, outbreaks among vaccinated populations occur, yet rarely is the truth of the situation addressed, namely the fact that the vaccine is ineffective and doesn't work as advertised.
However, usually the proponents of pharmaceutically-derived mechanistic medicine point to the high success of the industry, but considering that in the US alone around 290 people die from prescription drugs each day and over 250 thousand people are dying from medical errors each year, this is simply not true.
A Discovery article makes it clear why medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States of America:
Comment: In 2007, medical errors was the 5th leading cause of death in the US. So much for evidence-based practice and patient-focused care.
© shutterstock.comIn a sense, aren’t they one and the same?
Plants make up the base of every food chain of the food web (also called the food cycle). Plants use available sunlight to convert water from the soil and carbon dioxide from the air into glucose, which gives them the energy they need to live. Unlike plants, animals can't synthesize their own food. They survive by eating plants or other animals.
Clearly, animals eat plants. What's not so clear from this picture is that plants also eat animals. They thrive on them, in fact (just Google "fish emulsion"). In my new book, "A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism," I call it the transitivity of eating. And I argue that this means one can't be a vegetarian.
Comment: Additional ideas that are worth 'digesting'
- The Naive Vegetarian
- Why Vegetarians Are Eating Meat
- Confessions of a former vegetarian
- Why you should think twice about vegetarian and vegan diets
- High Priestess in the Pulpit: A Theory on the Feminist Vegetarian/Vegan Movement
- The myth of vegetarianism: Respecting the natural cycle of life through eating meat
- How does a vegetarian transition to paleo?
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"In less than a fortnight, EU Member States will take a decision on the re-approval of glyphosate. Genius [lobby firm] is working to get this toxic herbicide re-approved by communicating the industry's mantra that glyphosate is scientifically proven safe, sponsored by Monsanto, Dow and Syngenta. At the same time, they are being paid by German authorities and EU-funded projects to work on issues that are closely related to glyphosate, and that are key to the interests of the same corporations. Public authorities using the same lobby consultancies as the corporations they are supposed to regulate is highly problematic..." - Corporate European ObservatoryThis article contains edited key extracts taken from the text of the Corporate European Observatory.
On 9 May, Corporate Europe Observatory posted an article on its website that described how Genius, a lobby consultancy firm based in Germany, has been employed to distort the debate on glyphosate in favour the biotech industry.
Research linking the use of glyphosate to various diseases is well documented, and the World Health Organisation has declared the substance as "probably causing cancer to humans." Despite this, the European Commission is seeking to grant glyphosate re-approval for another ten years. The re-authorisation is being sought by the Glyphosate Task Force (GTF), an industry platform uniting producers of glyphosate-based herbicides, whose members include Monsanto, Dow Agrosciences, Syngenta, and Barclay Chemicals. Genius was used to run its website.
In addition to the Glyphosate Task Force (GTF), Genius has been hired by biotech lobby group EuropaBio, its German member organisation DIB and individual corporations including Bayer, BASF, and Syngenta. It also works for the Brussels-based corporate food think tank EUFIC (European Food Information Council).
Monsanto, Syngenta, and Dow (all members of the GTF), as well as BASF and Bayer coordinate a lot of their lobbying efforts via lobby associations like EuropaBio. All of them share a deep commercial interest in the re-approval of glyphosate and in the continued production of glyphosate-tolerant GM crops, also via the sales of other brands of pesticides used for the same crops.
Comment: Considering the wealth of scientific studies showing the serious health and environmental dangers posed by glyphosate, the decision to re-approve it's use is criminally irresponsible.
- Monsanto's most dangerous product? The case against Glyphosate
- Roundup Birth Defects: Regulators Knew World's Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Problems, New Report Finds
- Don't let Monsanto deny, obscure and belittle the carcinogenicity of glyphosate!
- Bad news for Monsanto: The world's most credible medical journal outlines the dangerous health hazard of Glyphosate
- 10 Things Monsanto Does Not Want You to Know
- Research: Roundup Diluted by 450-Fold is Still Toxic to DNA
- Death by Multiple Poisoning, Glyphosate and Roundup
- Monsanto's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health
- Glyphosate destroys the gut and triggers autoimmune disease
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First, many think of fascia as a glorified body stocking - a seamless piece of tissue that Saran wraps you just underneath the skin. While this is true of the superficial fascia, it's important to understand it is a richly multi-dimensional tissue that forms your internal soft tissue architecture.
From the superficial ("body stocking") fascia, it dives deep and forms the pods (called fascicles) that actually create your musculature like a honeycomb from the inside out. Imagine what it looks like when you bite into a wedge of orange and then look at those individually wrapped pods of juice. We're like that too! Fascia also connects muscle to bone (tendons are considered a part of the fascial system), and bone to bone (ligaments are also considered a part of the fascial system), slings your organ structures, cushions your vertebrae (yep, your discs are considered a part of this system, too), and wraps your bones.
Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends 69 doses of 16 vaccines by age 18. Different kinds of exemptions, including religious exemptions, medical exemptions, or philosophical exemptions, are available in all fifty states, but some state governments have recently increased their efforts to limit vaccine exemptions and make additional vaccines "mandatory" for school attendance. [2, 3]
"The time to act is now. Waiting for science and society to wake up to the importance of these ancient Old Growth fungi is perilously slow and narrow in vision ...The rainforests of the Pacific Northwest may harbour mushroom species with profound medicinal properties. At the current rates of extinctions, this last refuge of the mushroom genome should be at the top of the list of priorities for mycologists, environmentalists and government. If I can help advance this knowledge, I will have done my part to protect life on this planet."
Comment: It should be blatantly obvious that even after all of the research, screening campaigns and races for the cure, the cancer industry is not about eradicating this disease. Like all industries, profits come first.