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AlterNet
January 27, 2012
By Kristen Gwynne

Myths about marijuana convince people that alcohol is safer, but science shows pot is the healthier choice.

Alcohol kills approximately 70,000 people per year. Prescription pills, which have helped overdose become the leading cause of accidental death in America, result in more than 20,000 deaths per year. Marijuana has never killed anybody.

Although scientific research is available to show that pot is relatively harmless, and in fact medically beneficial, myths and propaganda about the plant’s alleged harm lead to marijuana laws so severe they often have the unintended consequence of driving people to drink alcohol, a much more dangerous substance than pot.

Many people do not understand just how harsh some marijuana legislation is. In America, pot possession so minor it is not even a misdemeanor can cause caring parents to lose custody of their children, because welfare offices may charge them with neglect, regardless of how good a parent they are. The legal ramifications of pot use may make parents who want to smoke marijuana more likely to drink alcohol, which is much more likely to create abusive or otherwise harmful behavior.

Huffington Post
January 24, 2012
Larry Malerba, D.O.

With all the buzz surrounding the specter of cataclysmic change that may soon be upon us as the Mayan calendar comes to an end in December, it's a good time to take stock of life here on planet Earth. While doomsday predictions will no doubt garner much of the attention from the mainstream media, I don't plan on building a fallout shelter or taking any other extreme precautions for that matter. Nevertheless, there are big changes coming and I do believe that it is possible to discern the outlines of a new cultural paradigm that has been slowly taking shape for quite some time. What it holds in store for medicine should be of interest to us all.

On a global scale, signs of the shift are already evident. In just a short span of time we have witnessed floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, melting polar ice caps, the Fukushima disaster, and dramatic changes in weather patterns. In socioeconomic and geopolitical terms, we have seen the fall of the Twin Towers, the Wall Street financial meltdown, the burst of the housing bubble, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the European monetary crisis, and an ever-widening income gap between the haves and have-nots.

Infowars Ireland
by ZyPhReX
Dec 10, 2011

It is now known – thanks to the meticulous research of Dr. Jennifer Luke from the University of Surrey in England – that the pineal gland is the primary target of fluoride accumulation within the body.
Also, Fluoride is known to have tremendous effects on bone cancer, joint problems, bone weakness, lower estrogen & testosterone as well as Dental Fluorosis. Sodium Fluoride is the most toxic ionic molecule outside of potassium dichromate.

SaneVaxInc
December 19, 2011
by Rosemary Mathis, Vice President of Victim Support, SANE VAX, INC.

God grant me the serenity to realize that government health agencies are no longer going to protect my family’s health and wellbeing – the courage to stand up and say ‘no’ to forced vaccination and the wisdom to know the difference between coercion and compliance. Amen. - Serenity Prayer – Revised

On December 16, 2011, Janny Stokvis, SANE Vax Inc. VAERS analyst reported four new HPV vaccine deaths (3 Gardasil and one unknown manufacturer) have been posted to VAERS. View the chart located at http://sanevax.org/november-14-2011… for reports up to November 14, which shows the increase in reported deaths and injuries since August 2011.

Where is the Justice?

In the past three months almost 1,000 adverse reactions have been reported – and still only reflect 1 to 10% reporting. According to Stokvis the four new VAERS death reports include: 437971 (http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/fi… ) a hearsay foreign report of unknown age and gender; 437999 (http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/fi…) a male age 18 from Ohio who committed suicide by hanging himself 5 days after his second shot; 441365 (http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/fi… ) female age 14 – foreign report – with acute leukemia; and 442402 (http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/fi… )male age 15 from Oregon.

health freedom alliance

Submitted by Lois Rain on October 14, 2011

Preventable Vaccine-induced Diseases

A German study released in September 2011 of about 8000 UNVACCINATED children, newborn to 19 years, show vaccinated children have at least 2 to 5 times more diseases and disorders than unvaccinated children.

The results are presented in the bar chart below; the complete data and study results are here. The data is compared to the national German KIGGS health study of the children in the general population. Most of the respondents to the survey were from the U.S. (Click on the chart to see it better)

The data was collected from parents with vaccine-free children via an internet questionnaire by vaccineinjury.info and Andreas Bachmair, a German classical homeopathic practitioner. The independent study is self-funded and is not sponsored by a large “credible” non-profit or government health organization with political and financial conflicts of interest; hence Bachmair relies on Google ads and donations for revenue. Each one of the 8000 cases are actual cases with medical documentation. Three other studies had similar results according to Bachmair and are reported below.

By Jagannath Chatterjee, (as submitted to vaccinechallenge.org)
27 November 2011

[This is in email consultation with doctors, medical scientists, advocates, media persons, public health activists, human rights activists, victims of vaccines and parents of vaccine damaged children, both in India and abroad]

Our bold & innovative ideas for increasing vaccine uptake are;

1. Conducting independent and unbiased vaccine safety research, both short term and long term, and also research on safety about the combined effect of various vaccines given to the children.

2. Compare the health of vaccinated vs non vaccinated children.

3. Identify all cases of vaccine induced deaths and damage.

4. Compensate parents of those children who died because of vaccines. Identify children damaged and disabled due to vaccines, provide them free treatment for life, compensate them and rehabilitate them when they reach the employable age. Arrange for giving disability certificate to them so as to make it possible for them to avail all disabilty benefits.

The Express Tribune
By Shahbaz Rana
Published: November 19, 2011

Report claimed that vaccines for infants caused death and disabilities.

ISLAMABAD: Six months after the prime minister’s watchdog claimed in a report that vaccines funded by a particular programme were dangerous for infants, the premier’s office has ordered a reassessment of the report.

The decision comes immediately after the contents of the report appeared in the press, pitching Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s office against its own watchdog, the Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission (PMIC).

Sources said that Gilani has asked officials concerned to review the report on monitoring of multi-billion-rupee Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), launched by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) to reduce infant mortality.

AlterNet
Raw Story
By Stephen C Weber

In 1988, a federal program made Elvy Musikka one of the first Americans to receive medical marijuana. Now a marijuana activist, she shares her inspiring -- and enraging -- story.

November 14, 2011 | LOS ANGELES — In 1988, Elvy Musikka (pictured) became the first woman in the United States to be legally permitted by the federal government to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes, due to a case of Glaucoma that threatened to render her blind.

Photo Credit: Erik R. Bishoff on Flickr

Armed with a mountain of paperwork, a dedicated doctor and a savvy attorney, she managed to get both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to sign off on her right to access the only medicine that alleviated her symptoms, joining a tiny, exclusive group who have successfully used the legal system to gain access to medical marijuana grown by the feds.

NaturalSociety
Anthony Gucciardi
November 2, 2011

  

More Americans died in 2008 from pharmaceutical painkiller overdose than fatalities from illegal drugs like cocaine and heroin combined. Responsible for nearly 15,000 deaths in 2008, prescription painkillers have become wildly popular among Americans. The news comes after a previous report found drugs to outnumber traffic accidents in fatalities. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics, as of last year more than 12 million were on prescription painkillers purely for the high they cause instead of their intended medical purpose.

Many of these individuals obtain the drugs by eliciting prescriptions from several doctors, known as ‘doctor shopping’ within the community. Others purchase them from underground drug rings and illegal online pharmacies, bringing the ingredients into question. It is no wonder that the amount of painkillers made available at pharmacies and even doctors’ offices has quadrupled from 1999 to 2010. In fact, the CDC has blamed irresponsible doctors for unnecessarily prescribing painkillers to patients who do not need them:

AlterNet
October 26, 2011

Here's the tricks that big breakfast barons use to fool you into believing their products are pesticide and GMO-free.

Photo Credit: D. Sharon Pruitt

A trip to the supermarket is an adventure into a tempting and treacherous jungle. The insatiable hunger for a ready-made breakfast that nourishes our bodies and our social conscience has made our morning bowls of cereal a hiding place for corporate charlatans. A new report, Cereal Crimes, by the Cornucopia Institute discloses the toxic truth about “natural” products and unmasks corporate faces like Kellogg’s hiding behind supposedly “family-run” businesses such as Kashi.

When these breakfast barons forage for profit, we eaters are the prey. But what are the laws of this jungle? And how do we avoid being ripped off by products that are hazardous for our health and our environment? Let’s have a look at some of these corporations’ sneaky strategies.