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Hemp: Some Say It Can Feed The World, Others Fear It Could Topple Industries!
The story of hemp being banned for cultivation in the U.S. in 1937 under the Marijuana Tax Act is a story of criminal conspiracy to deprive Americans and most of the world of one of the best plants given to us by the Creator of the Universe to be used for food and thousands of other industrial purposes. What’s sad is that a large majority of people in this country believe that hemp is just another word for marijuana and that somehow you could get high on hemp. A little investigative research into the different species of the Cannabis plant will quickly dispel this myth.

The same industries that decided to do away with the hemp plant in the US, through pressure on the United Nations and a "war on drugs", have exported that prohibition to practically the whole world. Seeing that even the drug use of hemp - marijuana - is comparable to and probably less damaging physically than other common drugs like sugar, coffee, alcohol and nicotine, it does not make sense that some drugs should be "legal" while others are wiped out, even in their industrial and food uses.

And who, anyway, is "the government" to tell its citizens what they may morally do and what they must not do ... or be imprisoned. Are they not supposed to work for *us*?

‘Superweed’ explosion threatens Monsanto heartlands
"Superweeds" are plaguing high-tech Monsanto crops in southern US states, driving farmers to use more herbicides, return to conventional crops or even abandon their farms. 19 Apr 2009 The gospel of high-tech genetically modified (GM) crops is not sounding quite so sweet in the land of the converted. A new pest, the evil pigweed, is hitting headlines and chomping its way across Sun Belt states, threatening to transform cotton and soybean plots into weed battlefields. In late 2004, "superweeds" that resisted Monsanto’s iconic "Roundup" herbicide, popped up in GM crops in the county of Macon, Georgia. Monsanto, the US multinational biotech corporation, is the world’s leading producer of Roundup, as well as genetically engineered seeds.

The super weed is also called Palmer Amaranth or Careless Weed. For identification of pigweed species, check out this PDF. Is it nutritious? You decide. Look here for comparisons. Thanks to Hanna for forwarding the links.

Looking at this with a dispassionate eye, what keeps us from making a virtue out of necessity and starting to grow the superweed for its nutritious properties? There are already food products containing amaranth. And ... could we not feed the stuff to animals? The chickens would be happy for sure, and pigs must have been munching on it for generations for the herb to be called 'pigweed'.

So my reply to the message with these links was:

"Probably those farmers would be better off growing the pigweed (amaranth) for food and feed, rather than whatever they are growing that needs a weed-free environment. But I suppose there aren't any subsidies for growing weeds, and without subsidies, what's agriculture?"

Herbal extract inhibits the development of pancreatic cancer
Thymoquinone, the major constituent of the oil extract from a Middle Eastern herbal seed called Nigella sativa, exhibited anti-inflammatory properties that reduced the release of inflammatory mediators in pancreatic cancer cells, according to Hwyda Arafat, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of Surgery at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and a member of the Jefferson Pancreatic, Biliary & Related Cancers Center.

Nigella sativa seeds and oil are used in traditional medicine by many Middle Eastern and Asian countries. It helps treat a broad array of diseases, including some immune and inflammatory disorders, Dr. Arafat said.

New human study reinforces antioxidant benefits of tart cherries
"This study documents for the first time that the antioxidants in tart cherries do make it into the human bloodstream and is coupled with increased antioxidant activity that could have a positive impact," said Sara L. Warber, MD, Co-Director of University of Michigan Integrative Medicine and principal investigator of the study. "And, while more research is needed, what's really great is that a reasonable amount of cherries could potentially deliver benefits, like reducing risk factors for heart disease and inflammation."

Wonder what the FDA is going to say to this one. They came after the cherry growers for saying just that - cherries have great antioxidant activity and might be preventive!

MSG Is Being Sprayed On Fruits, Veggies, Nuts, Grains And Seeds As They Are Growing... Even Those Used In Baby Food
In the 1970s, reluctant food processors "voluntarily" took processed free glutamic acid (MSG) out of baby food. Today it's back, in fertilizers called "Omega Protein Refined/Hydrolyzed Fish Emulsion" and "Steam Hydrolyzed Feather Meal," both of which contain hydrolyzed proteins; and in a product called AuxiGro WP Plant Metabolic Primer (AuxiGro) produced by Emerald BioAgriculture (formerly Auxein Corporation), which contains both hydrolyzed protein(s) and "monosodium glutamate." AuxiGro is being sprayed on some of the vegetables we and our children will eat, into the air we and our children must breath, and onto the ground from which it can move into drinking water. Head lettuce, leaf lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, and peanuts were among the first crops targeted.

Remember, MSG is used to artificially induce obesity in lab animals...

Comparative Effectiveness in Medicine: What to Research
Grace E. Jackson, M.D. has made a statement recommending where to put those dollars, with respect to the allocation of money (1.1 billion dollars) from the 2009 Recovery Act fund for the purpose of achieving Comparative Effectiveness Research. Some good ideas here:

- Prioritize Ending Corporate Fraud
- Focus Upon Basic Science and Biology
- Prevent and Mitigate Iatrogenic Harm
- Recruit the Best Treatments from Around the World
- Protect the Privacy of Patients and Physicians

"Ultimately, effective health care must also be ethical health care. This will require a return of integrity in the conduct of American medical research. It will also require a health care system which prioritizes the delivery of services that are consistent with fundamental human rights, and with the human species' duty to protect (rather than to plunder) the planet's biosphere."

Is the FDA Bipolar?
In February the Justice Department charged Forest Laboratories with illegally marketing antidepressants Celexa and Lexapro to younger patients and burying a study that showed suicidal side effects in children. But the next month the FDA approved Lexapro for depression in adolescents 12 to 17.

In March the Justice Department charged AstraZeneca with knowing and hiding the diabetes side effects of Seroquel. But this month the FDA considers expanding the antipsychotic's approvals to depression and anxiety...

AHRP asks Dr. Biederman's Research be independently reviewed
AHRP proposes a multi-disciplinary team of independent scientists to review ALL of Dr. Joseph Biederman's publications and supporting documents, including: research protocols, consent forms, and the original (of course, anonymized) data sets with associated code books for all pediatric studies.

Vince Boehm's comment:

The damage done by unleashing the most damaging pharmaceutical products on the planet to our children is incalculable. The Biederman scandal at Harvard cannot be resolved by firing this man, a bunch of hand wringing, and a tearful promise this will never happen again. Too much harm has been done.

The damage must be repaired.

The large group of now-tainted studies generated by this effort must now face the scrutiny of a vigorous peer review, or be repudiated as valid scientific literature. If these studies do not pass muster these must be retracted.

This action is the only way to restore public confidence in the entire system.

Tons of released drugs taint US water
U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water - contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.

Federal and industry officials say they don't know the extent to which pharmaceuticals are released by U.S. manufacturers because no one tracks them - as drugs. But a close analysis of 20 years of federal records found that, in fact, the government unintentionally keeps data on a few, allowing a glimpse of the pharmaceuticals coming from factories.

Are Iraq Soldier Suicides Due to Psychiatric Drugs?
Why are suicides among Iraq war soldiers twice that of other wars?

One reason could be that 80 percent of troops with post traumatic stress disorder are given drugs that didn't exist during other wars.

Antidepressants like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Celexa (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors or SSRIs) and Cymbalta and Effexor (Serotonin Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors or SRNIs) that are so closely associated with suicide they carry suicide warnings.

Shock Corridor!!
Did you know that in America, the land of human rights, you can legally be given repeated electric shock treatments, for no reason, for years and years, and no one can help prevent that from happening?

Ray Sandford, 54, lives in a group home in Minneapolis. He has not been charged with any crime, and his mental problems subsided long ago. However, against his will, Ray has received over 40 court ordered shock treatments.

Bipolar disorder and its biomythology: An interview with David Healy
In the case of bipolar disorder the biomyths center on ideas of mood stabilization. But there is no evidence that the drugs stabilize moods. In fact, it is not even clear that it makes sense to talk about a mood center in the brain. A further piece of mythology aimed at keeping people on the drugs is that these are supposedly neuroprotective—but there's no evidence that this is the case and in fact these drugs can lead to brain damage.

Drugging Kids With No Verifiable Disease
Health Canada responded with a letter, which stated in part:

“For mental/psychiatric disorders in general, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and ADHD, there are no confirmatory gross, microscopic or chemical abnormalities that have been validated for objective physical diagnosis. Rather, diagnoses of possible mental conditions are described strictly in terms of patterns of symptoms that tend to cluster together.”

“Once children are diagnosed with a mental disorder, that label stays with them throughout their school and medical history,” Dr Baughman warns.

“If they are made to take addictive stimulants or other dangerous psychiatric drugs, they are victims of the biggest health care fraud in history” ...

Video:Depression Test Puts Kids' Health at Risk
Our kids' health is at risk. Depression screening may lead to drug treatment for millions of kids across the United States, with drugs that are known to cause suicide and violence.

Video - The Onion:FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful
Made by Pfizer, Despondex is the first drug designed to treat the symptoms of excessive perkiness.

Carolyn Dean has a comment about this one on her site.

Decolonizing Our Minds, Freeing Our Spirits
It was one of those inexplicable moments in which you transcend yourself and see things in a completely new way. I clearly saw two paths ahead of me: one path worn and familiar, the path of the “mental patient.” That path was sterile and without life, without color—a concrete path. The other path was bumpy, muddy in places, obscured with brilliant wildflowers and overgrown trees. It was lush and challenging and it beckoned me.

Suddenly, for the first time in my life, it occurred to me that I had a choice—at that point in time I could decide that I was no longer going to consume what they were offering. In that moment, my entire life changed. With my rejection of the system that had long killed my spirit and numbed my mind with drugs and psychobabble, I stepped on to a new path—a path uncertain but filled with possibility.

Video:Urgent Warning about Gardasil
New information links the Gardasil vaccine to thousand of health complaints and more than 30 deaths.

April 23 - Rethinking AIDS Day
This coming Thursday 23 April will be the second "Re-thinking Aids Day" to bring attention to the inconsistencies and outright lies about Aids and HIV which we are served by health authorities and an uncritical press continuously, during the year.

Henry Bauer, author of an excellent blog that points out those inconsistencies and lies will be holding a talk in Los Angeles on 23 April.

Last year, 23 April saw a call by a group of scientists for new thinking on HIV and Aids.

Video: Rethinking AIDS Day
A video representing the unheard voices of HIV positives struggling to break free of the death sentence of the HIV industry, in honor of Rethinking AIDs Day

Vitamin C in the Treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
A 1984 paper by Dr. Robert F. Cathcart III, MD which evidently has been disregarded by the Aids medical mainstream but is still as relevant as it could ever be

House of Numbers
If you're living in Nashville or in the Boston area, treat yourself to a film this Re-thinking Aids Day. (Screening Schedule)

"In House of Numbers, an AIDS film like no other, the HIV/AIDS story is being rewritten. This is the first film to present the uncensored POVs of virtually all the major players; in their own settings, in their own words. It rocks the foundation upon which all conventional wisdom regarding HIV/AIDS is based. House of Numbers could well be the opening volley in a battle to bring sanity and clarity to an epidemic gone awry."

House of Numbers - Trailer

Health risks of shipping pollution have been 'underestimated'
Confidential data from maritime industry insiders based on engine size and the quality of fuel typically used by ships and cars shows that just 15 of the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the world's 760m cars. Low-grade ship bunker fuel (or fuel oil) has up to 2,000 times the sulphur content of diesel fuel used in US and European automobiles.

"Ship pollution affects the health of communities in coastal and inland regions around the world, yet pollution from ships remains one of the least regulated parts of our global transportation system," said James Corbett, professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, one of the authors of the report which helped persuade the US government to act.

Going after the meltdown profiteers - will we finally see some heads on a pike?
Financial advisor Mike Morgan started an anti-Goldman Sachs website to examine “what part Goldman Sachs and their executives played in the current Global Economic Crisis.” The investment bank and its lawyers told him to cease and desist. So Morgan sued Goldman. The response has been overwhelming. Morgan is now organizing volunteers to go after the other banksters.”

Sweden: hundreds protest Pirate Bay conviction
Wearing bandanas and waving Jolly Roger flags, hundreds of supporters of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay demonstrated on Saturday against a Swedish court's conviction of the Internet site's organizers.

Last week I posted an article that makes the point that public libraries are not really that different from peer-to-peer file sharing. You can go get your book, CD or DVD or other media, enjoy it and return it for others to view.

Now, there has been a conviction in the Swedish Pirate Bay case, no doubt with pressure brought on behalf of the recording industry, which has smugly welcomed the punishment of those who would dare share their music or videos.

No doubt, this will not be the end of file sharing, but rather the beginning of a new chapter...

Building a Scaffold for Social Change
For the most part, the mainstream media and federal government still treat the economic collapse as something that can be fixed, so that economic growth can resume in a few years. But some commentators are beginning to realize that our meltdown represents a deeper and more permanent paradigm shift. The physical environment can no longer withstand the assaults of our industrial culture. We are experiencing a termination of capitalism as we have known it, a shutdown recently dubbed "The Great Disruption" by Thomas Friedman, in The New York Times.

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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

Vitamin deficiency linked to asthma
A Nottingham University-led team found people with a low intake of vitamin C had a 12% increased risk of asthma, the Thorax journal reported.

For vitamin A the raised risk was less clear cut, the team said, but there was still a significant association.

Could the efforts to reduce vitamin dosages in supplements and the long term campaign being run by pharmaceutical interests to make less of the role of nutrients in health have had an impact on our health? There certainly has been an increased incidence of asthma and other respiratory illnesses...

Germany Bans Cultivation of GM Corn
The sowing season may be just around the corner, but this year German farmers will not be planting gentically modified crops: German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner announced Tuesday she was banning the cultivation of GM corn in Germany.

Under the new regulations, the cultivation of MON 810, a GM corn produced by the American biotech giant Monsanto, will be prohibited in Germany, as will the sale of its seed. Aigner told reporters Tuesday she had legitimate reasons to believe that MON 810 posed "a danger to the environment," a position which she said the Environment Ministry also supported.

Monsanto GM-corn harvest fails massively in South Africa
South African farmers suffered millions of dollars in lost income when 82,000 hectares of genetically-manipulated corn (maize) failed to produce hardly any seeds.The plants look lush and healthy from the outside. Monsanto has offered compensation.

Monsanto blames the failure of the three varieties of corn planted on these farms, in three South African provinces,on alleged 'underfertilisation processes in the laboratory".

I hesitate to believe that this failure was entirely accidental. Given that three different kinds of seed were involved, there likely has been an intervention that resulted in the plants being sterile. A large-scale rehearsal ... for what?

GM Hazards & Failures: Call for Direct Witness Evidence
This kind of direct witness evidence is very important; but is inadequately and only sporadically documented. This makes it easy for our regulators to ignore it, using the lame excuse that they are relying only on evidence “peer-reviewed and published” in scientific journals.

ISIS has already accumulated a large dossier of evidence, and your help in assembling witness evidence may be just what’s needed to make the case for a global ban on environmental releases of GMOs that we have advocated since 2003.

Please submit to us photographic and video evidence of hazards and failures...

Darwin’s Pangenesis, the Hidden History of Genetics, & the Dangers of GMOs
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho uncovers a fascinating page in the history of genetics expurgated from the mainstream account that also tells us why genetic modification is so dangerous
Evidence of the inextricable entanglement between the organism and its experience of the environment is forcing us to rethink not only genetics, but evolution. The phenomenon of ‘epigenetic inheritance’ indicating that experience during a crucial period of an individual’s life could influence subsequent generations, is nothing short of the ‘inheritance of acquired characters’, a mechanism of evolution attributed to Lamarck. Lamarck was the subject of ridicule and derision in the mainstream account; as opposed to Darwin, whose theory of evolution by natural selection has remained unquestioningly revered to this day. So, was Darwin mistaken?

In the 1990s, a few colleagues and I found ourselves fighting a lonely battle warning regulators and the scientific community about the dangers of horizontal gene transfer from the rampant creation of GMOs and GM constructs.

Horizontal gene transfer and recombination not only create new disease-causing bacteria and viruses, but also spread antibiotic resistance marker genes in transgenic DNA, making infections untreatable. Integration of foreign DNA into cells can disrupt genes, cause cancer, and reactivate dormant viruses that are in all genomes.

Monsanto's Herbicide Roundup Linked to Birth Defects
The herbicide used on genetically modified soy - Argentina's main crop - could cause brain, intestinal and heart defects in fetuses, according to the results of a scientific investigation released Monday.

Although the study "used amphibian embryos," the results "are completely comparable to what would happen in the development of a human embryo," embryology professor Andres Carrasco, one of the study's authors, told Efe.

Monsanto promotes its "Roundup Ready" GM grain varieties as a superior way to grow food and feed - and thus practically forces farmers to use the herbicide poison on those crops. Are human illnesses the "collateral damage" here?

EPA to Require Tests on Pesticides to Determine Risk to Humans and Animals
The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time will require pesticide manufacturers to test 67 chemicals contained in their products to determine whether they disrupt the endocrine system, which regulates animals' and humans' growth, metabolism and reproduction, the agency said yesterday.

Researchers have raised concerns that chemicals released into the environment interfere with animals' hormone systems, citing problems such as male fish in the Potomac River that are bearing eggs. Known as endocrine disruptors, the chemicals may affect the hormones that humans and animals produce or secrete.

It's about time, I would say, that something is done about these ubiquitous poisons. This move by the EPA shows that globalization works both ways ... think of the EU's REACH regulation which requires an examination of all chemicals as to their safety.

Video:Health Canada Raids Natural Doctor
PART ONE of a testimonial by Naturopathic Doctor, Eldon Dahl, describing his home and family being raided and held for 11 hours by Health Canada and the RCMP. (Check related videos for the other parts.)

Pfizer Settles Nigerian Children Deaths for $75 Million
According to the lawyers, eleven of the children died and many more later suffered serious side-effects ranging from organ failure to brain damage. The Pfizer team reportedly packed up after two weeks and left.

Trovan never became the blockbuster that Pfizer had hoped for and it is no longer in production. The European Union banned the drug and it has been withdrawn from sale in the US.

It appears that Pfizer has finally ended the public relations nightmare with Friday's settlement. But the Trovan battle may not be over yet.

"Doctors of Deception" Electroshock machines to Undergo safety & efficacy tests
It may come as a shock to some of you; but, Electroshock machines have never been tested for safety or efficacy. Electroshock machines were "grandfathered" into the system when the FDA assumed jurisdiction over medical devices in 1976.

The ECT makers must submit proof of safety and efficacy to the FDA by August, 7, 2009. If the data submitted is not up to par, the FDA intends require manufacturers to undergo the more-rigorous premarket approval process for their existing devices, as well as new ones.

A just published book "Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know About Shock Treatment," by Linda Andre (published by Rutgers University Press, 2009) couldn't be more timely! This book sheds light, among other things, on the maneuvers used by organized psychiatry and the makers of Shock machines to delay safety trials for 33 years.

Ten Years After Columbine: Rally in Denver
Ten years ago this month the violence and suicide caused by SSRI antidepressants gained international recognition in headlines all over the world when it became known that one of the teen shooters at the Columbine massacre, Eric Harris, had taken Zoloft in the past and was on Luvox at the time of the murder-suicide spree.

A friend of Dylan Klebold, the other shooter, would later come forward to say she had been trying to help Dylan get off Paxil and Zoloft.

Court Papers: Accused Killer Stopped Taking Medication
According to court documents, the Berks County man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend at Gettysburg College last week admitted to the crime. Court papers also indicate that Kevin Schaeffer, 21, of Oley Township says he stopped taking his Zoloft, an antidepressant.

Just another instance of psychiatric-drug-connected violence. Stay away from those antidepressants, if you like your friends and family!

Placebo Beat Both Zyprexa & Eli Lilly's Experimental Drug
Underlying the commercial success of the new antipsychotics is evidence (usually suppressed) showing that these drugs are both harmful and ineffective even for their approved use.

Reuters reported that the results of an Eli Lilly controlled clinical trial comparing the company's experimental antipsychotic (mGIu2/3), against its FDA-approved blockbuster drug, Zyprexa, show that the PLACEBO PERFORMED BETTER than EITHER of Lilly's antipsychotics.

Lilly acknowledged that three patients on the experimental drug "experienced convulsions."

Epilepsy Drug Linked to Babies' Lower IQ
Women with epilepsy who took the drug valproate ( Depakote) during pregnancy gave birth to children whose IQ at age 3 averaged up to 9 points lower than the scores of children exposed to other epilepsy drugs, according to a new study.

The average IQ of children born to women who took valproate was 92 -- 8 below the 100 that is considered average -- and the scores of those exposed to other epilepsy drugs ranged from 98 to 101, he tells WebMD.

Big Pharma Psychs Out the Shrinks
Now, $1.4 billion might sound like a tough punishment, until you find out that Lilly’s total sales of Zyprexa have topped $37 billion. And at least some of those sales were thanks to doctors who, with guidance from Lilly drug reps, wrote thousands of prescriptions for patients with virtually no ability to defend themselves. Can you imagine an easier group for the drug companies—and their shills in the medical profession—to victimize than old people with dementia?

Olmsted on Autism: 1 in 10,000 Amish
In case anyone had any lingering doubts about the virtual absence of autism among the Amish, they were effectively put to rest on Friday night's Larry King segment when Dr. Max Wiznitzer -- defending the vaccine program, arguing autism has not increased and insisting it is a genetic disorder preset from birth, said the rate of autism in northeastern Ohio, the nation's largest Amish community, was 1 in 10,000. He should know, he said: "I'm their neurologist."

Spam Is Killing The Planet
According to a study released by McAfee, “Carbon Footprint of Spam,” the world expends 33 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, or 33 terawatt-hours, to send, route, and filter spam messages.

That’s the equivalent of the electricity required to power 2.4 million homes, the study estimates. And that much energy use emits the same amount of greenhouse gases as 3.1 million passenger cars using 2 billion gallons of gasoline.

And to think of it ... most of the spam I get, and I certainly get a lot of it, is in some way or another connected with the pharma crowd: Buy viagra, get vicodin, take this pill to make your sex life more exhilarating, discount medicines, Pfizer, Lilly, and whoever for them, hawking their wares...

Peer to peer file sharing: think of libraries
It is in the physical world, where everybody agrees that culture exchange is necessary for the common progress, that no one seems to have any problem at all with information sharing. For that matter institutions have been providing us with information exchange networks called libraries.

In such a network anyone can borrow information, be books, DVDs or CDs, and no one is considered a thief for sharing them with members of his immediate network.
Are goverments who build libraries and create networks around them liable of piracy?

When you deal with information exchange online think of the internet as the biggest library mankind has created, an analogy that has been around since the first days of the web and not too difficult to understand.

Overconsumption Dwarfs Population As Main Environmental Threat
It sounds like a no-brainer. More people must inevitably be bad for the environment, taking more resources and causing more pollution, driving the planet ever farther beyond its carrying capacity. But hold on. This is a terribly convenient argument - "over-consumers" in rich countries can blame "over-breeders" in distant lands for the state of the planet. But what are the facts?

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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

Kurt Walter Donsbach arrested for practicing medicine without a license
Kurt Walter Donsbach, who claimed to have the cure to cancer, faces 11 felony charges ranging from treating patients without a license, misbranding drugs or sale, grand theft and unlawfully dispensing drugs as a cure for cancer.

Dr Donsbach was arrested during a broadcast of his internet radio health show. It takes quite a nerve to arrest Donsbach, a homeopath and nutrition researcher, for what doctors and healers in America and all over the world do daily: try and help patients to better health.

For most of the media the case seems clear: guilty as charged - no need to wait for the court to make that determination...

Comment from an 83-year old man in Iowa:

"Dr. Donsbach is one of the kindest people I know. I am told it took 20 armed lawmen to arrest this good man. Why was that necessary? Was the 'establishment' trying to create a spectacle of some kind?

Question: What kind of results can you expect from a "phony doctor" who promotes healing via the body's own immune system?

Specifically, what has Dr Donsbach done for me?

After being in the hospital for six days, going through many tests and many specialists, I was sent home with no answers. The MD's and DO's didn't have a clue as to how to fix my problem. Then, Dr. Donsbach came to town to do a lecture and I went to him immediately following his program. I explained my situation and the good Doc said, "Piece of cake! Follow my nutritional program for three days and you'll be OK." Piece of cake? I had just been in the MD Hospital for 6 days and they couldn't get to square one! Dr Donsbach was right. I was OK in just three days. Simple: just give the body what it is missing and it will heal itself! That's the way Naturopathic doctors think.

Which doctors are "phony"? The ones that get results, or the ones that don't?"

Higher dose vitamin D reduces fractures by 20% in over 65s
Although calcium (in combination with magnesium) is of crucial importance in the formation of bone, and short trials of calcium supplementation have shown that it can help to reduce loss of bone density in postmenopausal women, it has been known for some time that high calcium diets do not appear to reduce the risk of hip fractures, and should by no means be the main focus when it comes to osteoporosis recommendations. It has been shown that the same applies for fractures amongst older men. Individuals at risk of fractures are much more likely to be deficient in vitamin D and magnesium, than in calcium.

Vitamin D may exacerbate autoimmune disease
Written under the guidance of professor Trevor Marshall of Murdoch University, Western Australia, the paper contends that 25-D's actions must be considered in light of recent research on the Human Microbiome. Such research shows that bacteria are far more pervasive than previously thought - 90% of cells in the body are estimated to be non-human - increasing the likelihood that autoimmune diseases are caused by persistent pathogens, many of which have yet to be named or have their DNA characterized.

Natural Products Europe '09: Risks of GM crops in Europe
Dr Robert Verkerk's presentation in the keynote theatre at Natural Products Europe, 'Genetically Modified Food – how might it impact your health and your business?', has been uploaded in 5 parts on youtube.

PART 1 OF 5

PART 2 OF 5

PART 3 OF 5

PART 4 OF 5

PART 5 OF 5

GM and medicinal laws: how long will we be free?
...on March 2nd ... the environment ministers of all but 4 of Europe’s 27 Member States voted to support the rights of Austria and Hungary to maintain their ban on the planting of Monsanto and Bayer’s GM maize crops. They did this in full contravention of the desires of the European Commission and the World Trade Organization—the policeman of the Codex Alimentarius Commission which develops global guidelines that by and large are built around the interests of the world’s largest food producers.

Kids as Guinea Pigs - The New GM Food Trials
Golden rice was genetically engineered to produce a beta carotene-packed staple food in the hopes that impoverished children and adults might have abundant, easy access to vitamin A.

What's wrong with this picture? I'll let the scientists who sent the Tufts letter explain: "There is now a large body of evidence that shows that GM crop/food production is highly prone to inadvertent and unpredictable pleiotropic effects, which can result in health damaging effects when GM food products are fed to animals."

So it's hard to imagine why the Tufts program simply passed on the animal stage for testing golden rice.

U.S. Government Accountability Project Report Urges FDA Clinical Trial Reform
The report examines a number of recent and historical controversies with regard to clinical trial studies and institutional review boards – analyzing how major players at both the corporate and FDA levels have too often failed to perform their critical duties to safeguard human health. More importantly, GAP’s report proposes constructive reforms to the overall process, calling for the empowerment of trial participants, whistleblower protections for employees staffing trials and IRBs, removal of financial conflicts of interest between parties, and trial biases in favor of approval of proposed drugs.

Mexico City Bans GMO Corn - Vows to Protect Native Varieties
Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard has announced that the City government will take steps to protect more than 60 maize breeds known to grow in its territory, also known as the Mexican Altiplano.

The declaration says that a research programme will be established with the aim of improving local maize breeds. There will also be funds to support farmers who sow only native seeds and to promote the use of organic fertiliser and pesticides. The purchase and distribution of transgenic maize in Mexico City is now banned.

Harvard Doctor Falsified Data in Obesity, Sleep Apnea Study
"Dr. Robert B. Fogel, who taught at Harvard Medical School and practiced at Brigham and Women's Hospital until 2004, said he altered numbers and invented anatomic details reported in an article about obesity and sleep apnea. The journal Sleep retracted the article in February and the federal Office of Research Integrity concluded its investigation last month.

"What I did was obviously horrendously wrong," Fogel told The Scientist magazine. "I never really thought through the consequences, and once I did this I got myself into a loop that I found I couldn't get out of...."

FDA Orders Safety, Effectiveness Data For ECT Machines, Other Medical Devices
ECT devices haven't been through randomized clinical trials versus groups of patients on placebo or on an anti-depressant of known efficacy or against psychotherapy, etc. and the fact that such trial data hasn't been submitted to the agency represents a serious oversight on the part of the FDA. Even deeply treatment resistant depression treatments deserve this level of safety and efficacy review.

Psychotic in America
Last week, an FDA Advisory Committee voted against the approval of the atypical antipsychotic, Seroquel, to treat General Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder in adults because the benefits of the drug for those indications did not outweigh the risks.

“Extension of labeling to these common indications would likely result in the exposure of hundreds of thousands if not millions of patients to substantial medical risks without significant clinical benefit to justify these risks,” Harrisburg Pennsylvania psychiatrist, Stefan Kruszewski, told committee members in a submission to the panel.

Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry
Motherhood has fallen prey to the psycho-pharmaceutical complex. If new legislation known as the Mother's Act becomes law, the drugging of infants through pregnant and nursing mothers will no doubt increase.

Congress has rightfully refused to pass this bill for eight years. The official title is currently the "Melanie Blocker Stokes Mom's Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act of 2009."

The legislation was introduced in the House during the 110th Congress on January 4, 2007, by Illinois Democrat Bobby Rush and later reintroduced into both bodies of the new Congress in January 2009

Wi-fi networks a cancer risk, say UK teachers
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers called for classroom wireless networks to be suspended immediately until research has properly considered the threat to health.

Members said they were concerned by scientific reports linking wi-fi with impaired concentration, loss of short-term memory, chromosome damage and increased incidence of cancer.

Program Your Own Money
by Douglas Rushkoff
Yes, we are watching something melt down. But I'd argue the thing that's dying is not business itself, but a financial parasite -- a speculative marketplace that no longer funds business but instead seeks to extract value from healthy commerce. More a funds vampire than an infuser of needed capital, the investment industry has been exposed as a drag on business. The future of commerce looks bright to me because it may be unencumbered by the weight of this non-productive capital.

Tiny Flower Turns Pig Waste into Fuel
Able to thrive on nutrients in animal waste, duckweed produces far more starch per acre than corn, say researchers. It could be an alternative to corn-based ethanol biofuel, which is disfavored by environmentalists because of waste generated in farming it.

“Based on our laboratory studies, we can produce five to six times more starch per unit of footage,” said Jay Cheng, a biological engineer at North Carolina State University.

Sounds like an interesting alternative to using corn for fuel. The advantages: more efficient, no use of prime agricultural land to grow fuel crops and ... it might make a dent in the great problem of animal waste which accumulates and eventually gets into our water supply or pollutes the oceans.

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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

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/

The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition

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