Movement of Life!
Dr Rath speaks about preventing heart disease, cancer, AIDS and the role of the petrochemical - pharmaceutical cartel in opposing any change

The pharmaceutical industry is not a health industry but an investment business accountable to the profit interests of its shareholders.

The prevention and eradication of disease decreases the global markets for pharmaceutical drugs and is therefore not in the interests of this industry and is being actively fought by them.

Micronutrients address the cellular root causes of diseases. By preventing diseases at their roots, this natural, non-patentable health approach threatens the multi-billion global drug markets and ultimately the continuation of the pharmaceutical investment business with disease.

The pharmaceutical industry, one of the largest investment industries in the world has now been exposed as an organized fraud: it promises health but delivers disease – and feeds itself on this global deception.

FDA Scientists Petition President Obama - Protect the Public, Protect the Whistleblowers
The attached letter from FDA Whistle blowers to President Obama petitions the president to act now to clean up the corruption in the FDA.

The words "Dear Mr. President" in the short article are linked to the PDF of the actual letter, which starts out with the words:

"The purpose of this letter is to draw your attention to the frustration and outrage that FDA physicians and scientists, public advocacy groups, the press, and the American people, have repeatedly expressed over the misdeeds of FDA officials. Recent press reports revealed extensive evidence of serious wrongdoing by Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, Dr. Frank M. Torti, top FDA attorneys, Center and Office Directors, and many others in prominent positions of authority at FDA. As a result, Dr. Frank M. Torti, Acting Commissioner and the FDA’s first Chief Scientist, abruptly left the Agency. But, the many other FDA managers who have failed to protect the American public, who have violated laws, rules, and regulations, who have suppressed or altered scientific or technological findings and conclusions, who have abused their power and authority, and who have engaged in illegal retaliation against those who speak out, have not been held accountable and remain in place."

I wonder how long the FDA will continue to be looked at as a kind of benevolent older brother by the health authorities of countries around the world. Unless the very serious shortcomings in the agency are addressed and eliminated, all we can get from following the FDA's decisions seems to be a less effective and more dangerous bunch of pharmaceutical products. So why imitate the FDA at all?

Who Owns Life, Not Monsanto?
In Canada food is not labelled, and campaigners have protested to find out what’s in their food by demanding labelling. The National Farmers Union has warned farmers not to buy Monsanto’s GM seeds because of their aggressive attitude. The Government has been unsuccessful in introducing any new GM crops such as wheat, rice, flax, and alfalfa because there was such an uproar by the people who have seen the damage and don’t want any more GM crops. Schmeiser said, “If we’re trying to stop them in the US and especially Canada, why would you want to introduce them in the UK and Europe?” He believes that now the Corporations have lost the ability to introduce any more GMOs in Canada they have turned their attention to other countries in the world. He compared this dominant strategy with the sale of agricultural pesticides and chemicals that have been exported wholesale to Africa and Asia once the North American markets were saturated.

Schmeiser's run-in with Monsanto, from beginning to end. One of the questions Schmeiser brought up before the Supreme Court in Canada: " 5. Who owns life? Has anyone, either an individual or a corporation, the right to put a patent on a higher life form?" That is a question that still needs answering, and it is legislators as much as courts who have to decide.

Corporate Monopoly on GM Science
As you may already know, you can’t just go into a store and buy genetically modified (GM) seeds. You have to sign an agreement with the company that produced them, and one of the conditions is that you may not save the seeds from your harvest.

What is less well known is that the agreements also prohibit you from using the seeds for research. That may not matter to most farmers, but it is important because it means that research into GM crops can be done only by the biotech companies or with their approval. If they don’t want a particular piece of research carried out, they can refuse permission to use their seeds. Even when they have given permission, if they don’t like the way the research is turning out they can stop it, or prevent the results from being published. Consequently, important decisions on GM crops and all GM organisms (GMOs) are increasingly based on evidence selected by the companies to put them and their products in the best possible light.

Advantame - new sweetener from Aspartame producer Ajinomoto
"We are all very excited about Advantame. The clean sugar-like taste means that it blends very well with sugar and high fructose corn syrup, providing food and drink companies with an alternative that has both nutritional and environmental advantages..."

Wasn't Aspartame bad enough?

Russians cure cancer with small version of Large Hadron Collider?
The treatment process involves focusing the flow of protons, accelerated to the speed of light, into a hair-thin ray, and directing it at the tumor, deputy head of the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Russian Sciences Academy, Yevgeny Levichev, told Life.ru website on Thursday.

The elementary particles will only destroy cancer cells, without harming the healthy ones, he said. Researchers also call the device an “ionic scalpel”.

Big Pharma: Smoking in Bed
Today, many in pharma are shocked by the fact that public opinion polls rank the industry close to big tobacco in overall approval ratings. In my view, that shock is well-founded. But the connection has a specific political history of shared alliances and agenda. It does not emerge from nowhere.

Cymbalta, Chantix Makers Busted For Misleading Google Ads
Yesterday, Bnet.com reported that 14 pharma companies had gotten warning letters from the FDA, which noted that the companies were misrepresenting their drugs' indications and were hiding side effect and risk information in various text ads that popped up during Google searches.

Among the companies were Eli Lilly and Pfizer, both of whom allegedly aren't giving the public proper risk information in those little text ads and sponsored links thingys that pop up all over the Net.

Seroquel, Wellbutrin Used For Highs In Prison
"Corrections officials throughout the country have long suspected that some inmates were either using the pills to get loaded, or "cheeking" them in order to later sell them to other prisoners to chop up and snort. Seroquel is an anti-psychotic that produces a hypnotic effect, and Wellbutrin is an antidepressant some liken to speed...."

"'It definitely goes on,' said John Madsen, secretary of the California Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors. 'Say someone is addicted to cocaine but can't get it. They'll try the next best thing. When it comes to drugs, addicts will find themselves doing just about anything.'"

Sen. Grassley Extends Pharma Probe To NAMI
As I noted last year, America's uber mental health advocacy group the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) was getting oodles from pharma companies, including $490,000 from Eli Lilly. What NAMI uses that money for isn't clear to me, but the group does a ton of lobbying on Capitol Hill and of state legislatures throughout the country. NAMI National's annual budget once ran around $12 million and roughly half of that came from pharma companies. Is it any wonder that NAMI never uttered a word of caution or alarm while scandals rolled out around Zyprexa and other atypical antipsychotics?

Bloomberg has an article about this: Grassley Probes Financing of Advocacy Group for Mental Health

Inconsistent "AIDS tests" in the news
“Health experts last week warned that in addition to people mistakenly taking only one test, conditions for misuse of rapid diagnostic HIV test kits exist in the country [Uganda] and can lead to deceptive results.” ... Not only “can”, but do and have for a long time.

The epidemiology of “HIV” tests among different population groups demonstrates that testing “HIV-positive” may reflect a variety of physiological conditions, many of them by no means health-threatening, let alone life-threatening...

Much data cited in my book and on this blog reinforce the conclusion that “HIV” isn’t sexually transmitted and that having a sexually transmitted disease (chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes, syphilis) does NOT — contrary to a common HIV/AIDS shibboleth — predispose to becoming “HIV-positive”.

More debate urged after historic HIV murder verdict
“We need to figure out why these charges have escalated from criminal negligence to assault to aggravated sexual assault and now murder without there ever having been an informed public debate,” said Alison Symington, with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.

Symington would like to see an evaluation of the case by the attorney general and clear guidelines established for prosecutors to know how to proceed with an HIV non-disclosure case. She also wants an open dialogue on the issue.

“Do we as a society think not telling someone you’re living with about a sexually transmitted infection is the equivalent of murder? We really need to stop and have this debate.”

The Crown maintained two women, who can only be identified as H.C. and S.B., were essentially injected with a “slow-acting poison” that destroyed their immune systems and, because they didn’t know Aziga had HIV, they were unable to seek effective treatment, leading to their cancers and to their deaths.

This is despite the fact that no one has described, in a scientific publication, just how HIV is supposed to cause weakening of the immune system, and despite the fact that there is no gold standard against which to measure the HIV tests, because the virus cannot be isolated from those who are said to be "infected".

Yes, that debate is indeed necessary.

Cell phones and brain tumors: a review including the long-term epidemiologic data
The results indicate that using a cell phone for more than 10 years approximately doubles the risk of being diagnosed with a brain tumor on the same ("ipsilateral") side of the head as that preferred for cell phone use.

New Zealand scraps ban on traditional lightbulbs
The standard low cost, low pollution incandescent light bulb had been banned in New Zealand but on Wednesday the NZ Goverment announced an end to the ban.

There have been concerns raised around the world about the high-energy costs involved in manufacturing so called "energy efficient" light bulbs along with the potential risks resulting from the use of the toxin Mercury in such bulbs.

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More information out there...

There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.

You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.

Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.

The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.

For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.

A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:

http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/

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The Finance 2.0 Manifesto - Dear G20...
Umair Haque addresses the assembled leaders of the G20 -
Finance 1.0 cannot power growth 2.0. Yesterday's finance cannot power tomorrow's prosperity. Bailouts, taxes, nationalization, regulation are what your discussions this week are focused on. These can limit the depth and intensity of the crash. But what they cannot do is build a radically more efficient, productive, and effective financial system.

That requires a better kind of finance altogether — one designed not merely to make the worst among us richer, but to make us all authentically, meaningfully wealthier. That's why finance 2.0 is the future.

Some may ask whether we need Umair Haque's advice on re-thinking the finance system. Perhaps the banking sector will somehow just right itself.

If you have any doubt that drastic action is indeed needed, I recommend you read "The quiet Coup" http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice where Simon Johnson, who was chief economist with the IMF not long back, looks at the banking crisis with a rather penetrating eye.

EU Court: No freedom of speech on medicines
Reporting to Nutraingredients today, Susie Ekstrand, of the Danish law firm, Lett, acting as counsel for Damgaard said: “This ruling is significant because it means anything written about a product that maybe deemed medicinal in one member state, can be deemed inappropriate and consequences may follow for the author.”

Canada Bans Lawn Chemicals - Multinationals Sue
The Canadian Cancer Society praised Alberta’s action as an “appropriate first step to limit the risk to human health and the environment.” Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and more than 100 Canadian cities have now enacted lawn and landscape chemical bans but the pesticide makers are fighting back. Last October, Dow AgroSciences filed a notice of intent to seek compensation from the Canadian government over Quebec’s provincial ban. Under provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Dow (which makes the weed-killer 2,4-D), claimed the Quebec ban “breaches legal protections owed by Canada to U.S. investors.” Chemtura filed a similar NAFTA-based claim over Canada’s ban on lindane for seed treatment.

Vioxx maker Merck drew up doctor hit list
Staff at US company Merck &Co emailed each other about the list of doctors - mainly researchers and academics - who had been negative about the drug Vioxx or Merck and a recommended course of action.

The email, which came out in the Federal Court in Melbourne yesterday as part of a class action against the drug company, included the words "neutralise", "neutralised" or "discredit" against some of the doctors' names.

It is also alleged the company used intimidation tactics against critical researchers, including dropping hints it would stop funding to institutions and claims it interfered with academic appointments.

"We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live," a Merck employee wrote, according to an email excerpt read to the court by Julian Burnside QC, acting for the plaintiff.

New Zealand: Group calls for greater controls on kids' medicines
Aspartame was in at least 81 children's medicines available in New Zealand , she said.

"We want to encourage manufacturers to remove questionable and potentially harmful ingredients from their products and give the consumer more information and choice, while we wait for our regulatory authorities to do something about the appallingly neglected area of children's medicine."

Texas Bill to Curb Psychiatric Prescriptions to Children
Rep. Sylvester Turner's bill would prohibit doctors from prescribing anti-psychotic drugs to children younger than 11 who are covered by Medicaid unless they get special permission from the state.

Thousands of Texas children under 2 years old have been prescribed anti-psychotics like Seroquel and Risperdal, Turner said – drugs that treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but can produce harmful side effects in children. His measure would force state health officials to review individual prescriptions, considering a child's diagnosis and whether a drug has federal approval for use in juveniles before approving the prescription.

Alaska Admits It Is Incapable of Protecting Children and Youth in Its Care from Harmful Psychiatric Drugging
Practically every day brings revelations that pediatric psychopharmacology is the result of illegal drug company actions to improperly influence psychiatrists to prescribe extremely harmful drugs to children and youth, in spite of there being no real evidence of their efficacy. "Rather than meeting its mandate to properly care for and protect these children and youth from harm, the actions of the State are reprehensible," Mr. Gottstein declared, adding "The State is also trying to hide its complicity by stopping the discovery process."

Creators Of Psychiatric Treatment Guidelines Deeply Tied To Pharma
An article in the Boston Globe details a new study in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics wherein researchers went through the American Psychiatric Association's treatment guidelines for depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and found that 18 of the 20 authors had ties to pharmaceutical companies. Medications for the three diagnoses are a $25 billion a year market for Big Pharma.

FDA Publicly Worries About Seroquel's Risks
"There remains a concern about longer-term risks with this drug, in particular risks related to metabolic changes," said FDA drug reviewer Thomas Laughren, in documents posted online. Laughren also pointed to a recent New England Journal of Medicine article that suggests antipsychotic drugs like Seroquel can increase the risk of sudden cardiac death.

AIDS: House of Numbers
A 2009 Documentary by Brent Leung takes on the most controversial human rights and human health issue of the last fifty years. Asking the un-askable, questioning the un-questionable, Mr. Leung uncovers the mass of information about HIV testing and the AIDS diagnosis that is daily suppressed by government and media, and hidden from public view.

Guinea Pig Kids: The Village Voice Buries the Bodies
The VERA Institute, essentially given a mandate to cover up the story, was paid three million dollars to admit that many children died, and to loudly assure the public that no drug could possibly be to blame. They excuse high dose Black Box drugs used on infants and children, up to 7 and 8 drugs at a time, each of which is capable of killing an adult.

They do this while simultaneously admitting that they were FORBIDDEN from looking at a SINGLE medical record for ANY of the children. The VERA researcher then tells the Voice reporter, Elizabeth Dwoskin, that they really can’t be sure of their assertion, or any assertion, because they had no access to medical records.

Man-made electromagnetic fields: are we at risk?
Belgian Liberal Member Frédérique Ries is sufficiently concerned that she is urging fellow MEPs to back precautionary measures before the full weight of scientific knowledge weighs in. On Wednesday evening the full European Parliament will consider her report on the matter.

It seems we are going towards an awareness of damage from electromagnetic communication technologies, and first steps are being taken to limit the damage that is being shown by several studies.

According to more recent news, the Frederique Ries report was approved by the EU Parliament on 2 April 2009 with 559 votes in favour, 22 against, and 8 abstentions.

What we now need is scientific discussion on how to change those communication technologies to make them harmless for human and animal life.

How Susceptible Are Genes to Mobile Phone Radiation?
In their articles, the experts in biomedicine and biosciences Prof. Franz Adlkofer, Prof. Igor Y. Belyaev, and Vladislav M. Shiroff show the broad range of international research efforts that document DNA and chromosome damages as well as chronic diseases resulting from electromagnetic radiation exposures. This is about non-thermal effects well below current exposure limits. UMTS radiation turns out to be especially hazardous.

Australia: Scientists speak out on mobile phone, cancer link
Epidemiologist Professor Bruce Armstrong has broken ranks on the world's largest research study, and top neurosurgeon Dr Vini Khurana has this week published his research review. Both find an increased risk of brain tumours on the side of the head the mobile is used after 10 years of calls, reflecting growing concerns around the world.

Wheel Motors to Drive Dutch Buses
Thanks largely to its in-wheel motors, the bus can travel twice as far as a conventional bus on a liter of diesel, says Arend Heinen, who is both an engineer and spokesperson for the company. That translates into a reduction in fuel consumption of 50 percent. The company has been awarded contracts to retrofit seven commercial buses with its technology, with the first to be completed next month.

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More information out there...

There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.

You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.

Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.

The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.

For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.

A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:

http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/

The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition

Open-Source Healthcare
The healthcare industry is a textbook example of what Ivan Illich (in Tools for Conviviality) called a “radical monopoly.” The central function of the government’s “safety” and “consumer protection” regulations, in most cases, is either to exclude competing providers of a good or service from the market, to circumscribe the areas of competition between them, or to set a floor on the capitalization required for doing business and thus impose a mandatory minimum overhead. The overall effect, as Paul Goodman put it in People or Personnel, is to create a 300% or 400% markup in the cost of doing anything, and render us all dependent on institutional providers with bureaucratic cultures and high overhead costs...

Health insurance for $10 per year using the network
The core of this service is accepting that the care is third rate from day one. People will die because we don’t carry the right drugs. They’ll die because the expert system diagnostics are only 80% in practice. They’ll die because the trained worker is sick that day and sends his brother. They’ll die because the software had bugs. We accept that for every ten lives saved, one to three are lost.

It’s this tolerance for a bad healthcare system which allows this system to work at all: you can’t provide 99.9% health care on $10 per year. But you can provide 80% health care, and right now, that’s far, far better access to medical support than the poor can get any other way.

Launch of the Medicines Transparency Alliance
MeTA is an alliance of governments, pharmaceutical companies, civil society, and other stakeholders which aims to increase access to essential medicines for people in developing countries. This will be done by working to increase transparency and accountability in medicines procurement and supply chains to tackle inefficiency, corruption, and fraud in 7 pilot countries: Ghana, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Peru, the Philippines, Uganda, and Zambia.

In this first pilot phase, MeTA aims to focus on strengthening the capacity of 7 pilot countries to collect, analyse, disseminate, and use data on the quality, availability, pricing, and use of medicines. This work intends to help improve transparency and accountability with regard to the selection, regulation, procurement, distribution, and supply of medicines - including the ways in which they are prescribed to and used by patients.

How probiotics can prevent disease
The team also used probiotics to control disease in animals that were already infected. The results of these tests proved that administering these safe bacteria to an infected animal was as effective as the best available antibiotic therapies in eliminating the infectious agent and resolving the symptoms.

"We have shown that we can protect and even treat animals against pathogenic bacteria by introducing harmless bacteria at the site of the infection," said Dr Hill. "In order to use similar strategies in preventing or treating human disease we must understand the molecular basis of their efficacy. This understanding will provide the basis for intelligent screening and selection of the most appropriate protective bacterial cultures to go forward into human trials".

Study shows vitamin E tocotrienols delay tumour growth
The researchers from Kyushu University evaluated the anti-tumour activities of both gamma and delta tocotrienols in mouse cancer cells. They found that supplementing the diet of the mouse with tocotrienols (in vivo) significantly delayed tumour growth. This was found to be the case for both gamma and delta tocotrienols. The researchers also found that delta tocotrienols, when studied outside the living organism (in vitro), were particularly effective in delaying tumour growth through the induction of apoptosis (programmed cell death).

Omega-3 kills cancer cells
Docosahexanoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in fish oils, has been shown to reduce the size of tumours and enhance the positive effects of the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, while limiting its harmful side effects. The rat experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cell Division, provide some support for the plethora of health benefits often ascribed to omega-3 acids.

Bisphenol A: toxin in plastic bottles to be banned in the US?
Legislation has been announced by leaders from the US House of Representatives and the Senate to establish a federal ban on bisphenol A (BPA) in all food and beverage containers. The move follows an announcement by the gas and chemical company, Sunoco, that it could not be certain of the compound’s safety. They are now refusing to sell BPA for use in food and drink containers of children below the age of three.

Agricultural chemical industry shudders at organic White House garden
Here's an interesting twist in what appeared to be a piece of all-around good news: when officials at the Mid America Croplife Association discovered that the new White House kitchen garden was to be managed organically, they sent a letter to First Lady Michelle Obama asking her to consider managing the garden "conventionally"...

US Department of Agriculture jittery over GMO imports
In an apparently sharp reversal, the US Department of Agriculture is now borrowing all the arguments that it once pooh-poohed against obligatory trade of genetically engineered foods.

It's ok as long as the US is exporting, GMOs should not even have to be labeled ... but since other countries develop their own GMOs (in this case it's China) to export, there suddenly is a problem. Makes me scratch my head...

CODEX Committee on Contaminants in Foods discusses Melamine - Mum's the Word
NHF raised its nameplate at the CCCF meeting to speak out and oppose the 2.5 ppm upper limit on melamine contamination proposed by the Codex draft paper. At the very least the limit should be no more than 1 ppm, we argued before the Committee. And, preferably, there should be no detectable amounts at all.

The European Commission strongly opposed showing NHF’s comments in the Report, stating there was no need for the sentence. Canada and Japan both joined in the censorship move ...

The National Health Federation plans to oppose these ironically high limits on melamine contaminants. It is ironic because while touting consumer “safety” as its reason for imposing strict maximum upper levels on natural and healthy dietary food supplements in one Codex committee, the European Commission conveniently looks the other way when consumer safety is at risk by a man-made contaminant such as melamine.

Study: Housing Homeless Drunks And Letting Them Drink Saves Millions
The 98 street drunks whom the study tracked had cost the public $4,066 a month prior to entering 1811 and afterwards they cost $1,492 a month after six months in the facility and $958 a month after 12 months. That's a pretty big savings and, oddly enough, some of the residents began to drink less. Some even got sober.

Now if we could just get to the same realization on drugs other than alcohol, and end the prohibition, opening the way to damage reduction strategies, things might just turn around in a big way, as much of the crime that is caused by prohibition would simply cease to be lucrative.

Medicine: 'It's an odd trial where you know the outcome before you start'
Now, Harvard and the National Institutes of Health have launched a new investigation, which has uncovered some slides Dr Biederman showed to drug company executives, outlining plans to test their drugs. One slide said the trial "will support the safety and effectiveness of [the drug] in this age group". Another, about a separate trial, said it would "clarify the competitive advantages of [the drug]" over its rivals.

It is an odd kind of trial where you know the outcome before you start.

Book:MediSIN
This book is a fascinating and unique perspective of the unholy practices of allopathic medicine and the commercialization of devitalized and chemical based foods...

Doctors' Group Wants All Teens Screened For Depression
This is simply stunning stuff. While I'm not a depression denier--I know all about teen depression from personal experience--I am simply stunned that an allegedly reputable group of doctors would recommend such wholesale screening when they know damn well that psychotherapy is often inaccessible (for a number of reasons) and that doctors, with zero expertise in mental health care, will simply steer kids towards anti-depressants which have very rocky track records in terms of efficacy and safety.

Florida Docs Prescribed Antipsychotics Like Candy To Little Kids With ADHD
As a result of the approval process, prescriptions of atypicals in this population decreased by 75 percent last year and 40 percent fewer doctors even wrote prescriptions for the drugs at all. Shall we say that quite a few docs were being indiscriminate in the use of these drugs?

The Psycho-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex - Profiting from drugging women and children
In the United States, one in three doctor's visits by women involves an antidepressant prescription, 11 percent of women take antidepressants, and a 2007 study of pregnant women enrolled in Tennessee Medicaid revealed that antidepressant use during pregnancy increased from 5.7 percent in 1999 to 13.4 percent in 2003.

Glutathione Inhibits Tuberculosis in HIV Positives and Negatives
Intracellular levels of glutathione are depleted in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in whom the risk of tuberculosis, particularly disseminated disease is many times that of healthy individuals.

Treatment of blood cultures from human immunodeficiency virus infected subjects with N-acetyl cysteine, a glutathione precursor, caused improved control of intracellular M. tuberculosis infection.

TB: an 'opportunistic' infection
“HIV” has accomplished a great deal during its relatively brief existence: it has been responsible indirectly for a great many deaths (from mis-diagnoses and iatrogenic drug-induced damage); it has addled countless brains, not least among doctors and medical scientists; it has brought wasted expenditures over the years that cumulatively exceed the $170 billion that AIG “bail-outs” have cost; and, far from least, “HIV” has sapped from the media any remaining vestiges of common sense and everyday skepticism (investigative reporting? What’s that?!).

Despite these notable achievements, perhaps the greatest accomplishment of decades-old “HIV” has been to convert the millennia-old scourge of tuberculosis (TB) into an “opportunistic infection”...

Clinical Trials in New York City Orphans
I think it’s clear that ICC was founded with good intentions, to assist abandoned, ill and suffering infants. But I also think that a shocking and inexcusable ethical line was crossed when the children began to be used as pharmaceutical test subjects.

I will point out that the vast majority of ICC’s wards were children of crack addicts, themselves born chemically-addicted and profoundly debilitated, according to the childcare workers, nursing staff and children from ICC that I interviewed.

Further, I think, the relabeling of these children as “HIV positive” arises from the non-standardized, highly-flexible nature of HIV testing. Here is my summary of the limitations of the tests, Here is an extensive catalog of citations from the medical literature on the subject.

Geithner’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: The Entire Global Financial System is at Risk
Today five US banks according to data in the just-released Federal Office of Comptroller of the Currency’s Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activity, hold 96% of all US bank derivatives positions in terms of nominal values, and an eye-popping 81% of the total net credit risk exposure in event of default.

Continuing to pour taxpayer money into these five banks without changing their operating system, is tantamount to treating an alcoholic with unlimited free booze.

UK: Report says the problem's not bankers, it's society
THE ECONOMIC system is broken, and attempts by governments to fix it by kick-starting growth and consumerism are "delusional" and "pathological", the Westminster and Holyrood governments will be warned by their own advisers this week.

A ground-breaking report by the leading environmental advisers to First Minister Alex Salmond and Prime Minister Gordon Brown will deliver a damning verdict on capitalism and demand a radical shift to a fairer, more sustainable society.

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More information out there...

There is much I cannot cover but other sources for this kind of information exist and are active.

You can subscribe to the Zeus Newsletterhere. Appears twice monthly. If you would like to see some samples of Louise's collection of informative links, here are the archives. She also has a weekly newsletter all about homeopathy - Zeus Homeopathy News.

Dr Mercola's health blog, Mike Adams' Natural News and the One Click Group in the UK have good health information. The Dr Rath Foundation is also putting out a weekly collection of health related news. Here is the link to their Newsletter Archive.

The Alternative Medicine Yahoo Group and the healthfreedom ning group are places to discuss and exchange information on what is happening in the world of natural health.

For the influence of electromagnetic waves from radio, mobile phones and other radio emitting devices, check out the emr-updates group on Yahoo. Genetic modification and issues around agriculture and foods are reported on the Organic Consumers Association site.

A few sites to keep up to date with the other side of world affairs, the stuff you won't necessarily find on your tv or in the papers:

http://therealnews.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.truthout.org/

The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Investigators in the German Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Study have identified several novel risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, including sleeping away from home or sleeping outside the parent's bedroom.

Sleeping face down was identified in a number of case-control studies in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a major risk factor for SIDS, Dr. Mechtild M. Vennemann at the University of Munster and colleagues explain in the journal Pediatrics. This resulted in the recommendation to avoid the prone sleeping position, which was followed by a marked reduction in SIDS deaths in many countries.

In the German SIDS Study, conducted between 1998 and 2001, researchers examined the risk factors for SIDS in a population where few infants slept face down.

A total of 333 SIDS cases and 998 control infants were included in the study.

A significantly higher risk of SIDS was found when infants slept in a friend or relative's house compared to sleeping in the parent's home. Compared to sleeping in the parent's bedroom, sleeping in the living room was also associated with an increased risk of SIDS. Duvets, bed sharing (especially in those younger than 13 weeks), and sleeping face down on a sheepskin all increased the risk for SIDS.

Only 4.1 percent of infants were put to sleep face down. These infants were at high risk of SIDS. A very high risk was also observed among infants who were unaccustomed to sleeping face down and those who turned on their own to the face down position.

"This study in general," the investigators conclude, "supports the current recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics," which call for parents put infants to sleep on their backs as opposed to their stomachs.

SOURCE: Pediatrics, April 2009.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with mild cognitive impairment appear to have a lower risk of progressing to full blown dementia than previously thought, according to a new report.

Mild cognitive impairment is a transitional stage between normal brain function and dementia/Alzheimer's disease.

It's estimated that up to 15 percent of people with mild cognitive impairment go on to develop dementia, Dr. Alex J. Mitchell, of the University of Leicester, and Dr. M. Shiri-Feshki, of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, note in a report in the journal Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.

However, based on pooled data from 41 published studies they analyzed, the proportion of patients with mild memory problems who progress to full dementia is 10 percent per year in high-risk groups and 5 percent per year in low-risk groups.

"Moreover, only a minority (20 to 40 percent) of people developed dementia even after extended follow-up, and the risk appeared to reduce slightly with time," Mitchell noted in a university statement.

Mild cognitive impairment can no longer be assumed to always be a simple transitional state between normal aging and dementia," the researchers conclude.

SOURCE: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, April 2009.

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