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Task force recommends mandatory depression screening for all Americans

Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:43 UTC
forced medicine
The United States Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended mandatory depression screening for all Americans. The task force wants to force health insurance companies to pay for the screening. Basic economics, as well as the Obamacare disaster, should have shown this task force that government health insurance mandates harm Americans.

Government health insurance mandates raise the price of health insurance. Consumers will respond to this increase by either choosing to not carry health insurance or by reducing their consumption of other goods and services. Imposing new health insurance mandates will thus make consumers, many of whom are already suffering from Obamacare's costly mandates, worse off by forcing them to deviate from their preferred consumption patterns.

Mandatory depression screening will not just raise insurance costs. In order to ensure that the screening mandate is being properly implemented, the government will need to create a database containing the results of the screenings. Those anti-gun politicians who want to forbid anyone labeled "mentally ill" from owning a firearm will no doubt want to use this database as a tool to deprive individuals of their Second Amendment rights.
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Bullseye

Corporations killing medicine

Fran Quigley
Counter Punch
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:15 UTC
corporate medicine
Along the path toward the creation of a global capitalist system, some of the most significant steps were taken by the English enclosure movement.

Between the 15th to 19th centuries, the rich and the powerful fenced off commonly held land and transformed it into private property. Land switched from a source of subsistence to a source of profit, and small farmers were relegated to wage laborers. In Das Kapital, Marx described the process by coining the term land-grabbing. To British historian E.P. Thompson, it was "a plain enough case of class robbery."

More recently, a similar enclosure movement has taken place. This time, the fenced-off commodity is life-saving medicine. Playing the role of modern-day lords of the manor are pharmaceutical corporations, which have taken a good that was once considered off-limits for private profiteering and turned it into an expensive commodity. Instead of displacing small landholders, this enclosure movement causes suffering and death: Billions of people across the globe go without essential medicines, and 10 million die each year as a result.
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Evil Rays

Radiating corruption? The frightening politics & science of cell phone safety

Gary Null
The Ecologist
Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:33 UTC
cell phone radiation
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A growing body of scientific evidence show that cell phone users suffer a range of negative health impacts from infertility and brain tumors to hyperactivity and memory loss, writes Gary Null. Yet the Center for Disease Control has taken a weak and ambiguous stance on the issue, reflecting industry interests at the expense of citizens. We deserve - and must demand - better.

In an article published in the New York Times last month entitled 'At CDC, a Debate Behind Recommendations on Cellphone Risk', author Danny Hakim discusses the controversy surrounding the potential health risks of using cell phones.

Hakim writes that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidelines recommending"caution in cellphone use", due to the potentially harmful effects of radiation emitted by the wireless devices on human health. Included in the guidelines was information about reducing exposure among children.

Comment: Listen to SOTT Radio Network's Health and Wellness show on EMF Exposure and the adverse effects it has on children and adults.

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Ambulance

Big Pharma's role in iatrogenic mitochondrial diseases caused by vaccines & prescription drugs

Catherine Frompovich
Activist Post
Mon, 08 Feb 2016 00:54 UTC
big pharma
Perhaps my long-held postulate—if doctors read and took seriously the emerging science in peer review journals regarding vaccine chemicals and neurotoxins, in particular, and disregarded Big Pharma's hype and perks, they would not vaccinate infants and toddlers, or anyone—has been vindicated by impeccable, validating, and published research science!

What are mitochondria, you may be wondering. They are the powerhouses and sources in each cell that provide life energy in the form of ATP—Adenosine Triphosphate—for biochemical processes in the body.
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Red Flag

The case of the everlasting chicken McNugget

Claire Bernish
The Anti Media
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:36 UTC
chicken nugget happy meal
An alarming photograph of a McDonald's chicken McNuggets Happy Meal left to sit unrefrigerated and untouched for six years recently went viral on social media.

"It's been 6 years since I bought this 'Happy Meal' at McDonald's," Jennifer Lovdahl posted on Facebook. "It's been sitting in our office this whole time and has not rotted, molded, or decomposed at all!!! It smells only of cardboard."

Lovdahl's two photos show the meal's original box with the receipt attached — which, with its grease marks, appears to be in worse shape than the meal's four-piece chicken nuggets and fries shown in the second photo.

"We did this experiment to show our patients how unhealthy this 'food' is. Especially for our growing children!!" she explained in the post. "There are so many chemicals in this food! Choose real food! Apples, bananas, carrots, celery..... those are the real fast food."
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Nuke

Investigation into first commercialized GMO corn found it to be toxic to farm animals

Dr. Mercola
Mercola
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:46 UTC
gmo corn
Genetically engineered (GE) food comes from crops in which genes from one species have been integrated into another species — even between species in which this is biologically impossible in nature. The end result is a gene sequence that would never have occurred naturally.

There are two main types of GE crops:
  1. Herbicide-tolerant crops: Plants engineered to withstand heavy herbicide spraying without sustaining damage, such as Roundup Ready crops
  2. Pesticide-producing crops: So-called Bt plants are engineered to produce their own internal pesticide, so that when a bug takes a bite of the plant, it dies
Trying to control genetic changes via artificial modification is a dangerous game. An organism's genome is not static but fluid, and its biological functions are interconnected with its environment and vice versa.

Contrary to what the industry would like you to believe, the process of genetic engineering is imprecise at best, and is riddled with unintended and often unforeseeable consequences.

Of course that is about to change with the new technology, CRISPR-Cas9 that I reviewed last month. Once this technology is implemented, we will need to pay very careful attention to what the researchers are planning.
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TV

Distorting the facts to defend GMOs

Steven M. Druker
GM watch
Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:43 UTC
GMO debate

Steven M. Druker, J.D., public interest attorney and author of Altered Genes, Twisted Truth,[1] exposes the fictions fostered during the discussion with GMO proponent Robert Wager on TVO's "The Agenda"

A spirited discussion about genetically engineered foods was broadcast January 25, 2016 on The Agenda, the flagship current affairs programme of TVO, Ontario's public television network. (These products are also called "genetically modified organisms" or GMOs.) I presented evidence-based reasons for regarding these foods as abnormally risky and the current regulatory system as deficient, while Robert Wager, a biologist at Vancouver Island University, defended the foods and the system. However, his arguments substantially relied on assertions that were either flat-out false or significantly misleading. Some of his most serious distortions are detailed below, with citations to evidence that decisively demonstrates their erroneousness.
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Ambulance

Drug-makers racing to develop Zika vaccines, despite little knowledge about the virus

Ben Hirschler
Reuters
Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:11 UTC
Zika research
© Reuters/Carlos Jasso
A medical researcher works on results of tests for preventing the spread of the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases at the Gorgas Memorial institute for Health Studies laboratory in Panama City February 5, 2016.
At least 12 groups are now working to develop a Zika vaccine and health authorities said on Monday they were working to ensure development proceeded as rapidly as possible.

The World Health Organization said it was important to establish speedy regulatory pathways, although all the vaccines remained in early-stage development and licensed products would take "a few years" to reach the market.

With no approved Zika vaccines or medicines and none even undergoing clinical studies, scientists and drugmakers are on the starting-block in fighting the mosquito-borne disease suspected of causing a spike in birth defects in Brazil.

Comment: Racing to concoct a vaccine for a little understood disease sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Vaccines Are Causing Mutations That May Jeopardize The Health of Future Generations

Vaccines are causing an unprecedented number of mutations creating superbugs and potent viruses and bacteria that may eventually threaten future generations and humanity itself. Evidence continues to mount from the scientific community who now admit that certain vaccines are in-fact causing both viral and bacterial mutations.

Life-threatening pathogens are capable of evolving rapidly and developing genetic decoys that serve to disguise them from even the most powerful drugs. University of Oxford researcher Rory Bowden found that pathogens switch genetic material with other bacteria, but predominantly for the part of the genome responsible for making the cell coating, which is the area targeted by vaccines.


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Whistle

Sorry for the brain damage: Report on French drug trial fiasco highlights the pharma company's incompetence

Martin Enserink
Salon
Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:28 UTC
French health minister Marisol Touraine
© Philippe Grangeaud/Flickr
French health minister Marisol Touraine
Why one man died and four others fell ill during a drug safety study in France last month is still very unclear. But a preliminary inspection report lashes out at Biotrial, the company that conducted the study, for how it responded after the first volunteer in the clinical trial was hospitalized. Three major errors by Biotrial put other volunteers at risk, says the report,published yesterday by France's General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS).

Biotrial was testing a compound called BIA 10-2474, developed by Portuguese pharma company Bial as a candidate drug for a range of diseases. The study started in July 2015, and initial administrations of the drug produced no severe side effects; things went wrong in a group of eight people who entered the study on 6 January and received multiple, high doses. Six of them were scheduled to receive 10 daily doses of BIA 10-2474, two others a daily placebo. On 10 January, a subject identified as "volunteer 2508" complained of headaches and blurry vision; he was taken to the hospital in the early evening and stayed there overnight.

Comment: See also:

One brain dead, five others critically ill, in drug trial gone horribly wrong
More details emerge in tragic French drug trial

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Stop

Big food: Poisoning you daily & lying about it

Jake Anderson
The Antimedia
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 19:12 UTC
Cola
Much of the mainstream American food supply is laden with unhealthy additives, artificial flavorings, coloring, dyes, preservatives, hormones, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and toxins. Not everyone agrees that GMOs have been proven harmful to humans, which is why the food chains listed here were selected specifically because they are responsible for a wide variety of health violations—the GMOs and their concealment from public knowledge are included for informational purposes.

As with all things, I urge you to read with your head on a swivel, adjusting your worldview based on new information.
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