Gaia Health Politics

Only too often, the "care" part of healthcare seems to have been forgotten by mainstream medicine. That creates an atmosphere in which it becomes a political issue. Gaia Health does not turn away from that fact. The more you learn about it, the more you must come to grips with that fact. Whether healthcare is a right or privilege is an issue, of course, but virtually every facet of our care becomes subject to whether a profit can be made—and nothing could be more political than that.

Who controls the agencies that are tasked with overseeing the medical system? Who gets to decide what we can and can't take into our bodies? Who determines what kinds of healthcare are available? These and many other issues are being tackled by Gaia Health—and we won't pull our punches.

Recent Articles Involving Political Issues:

The Vaccine Experiment: Betrayal of the Victims (video)—The results of actual vaccine trials proved that the vaccine was virtually useless and resulted in many lives devasted by neurological disease—so officials just lied.

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Million Hearts Initiative to Bring Half US Adults into Medical System—The Initiative will not improve cardiovascular health. But that's just fine. It assures that people will be stuck on the medical system treadmill for the rest of their foreshortened lives.

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The Trap: Creation of Mental Illness by Psychiatry—From psychiatry's false promise of better lives for all, does it end in a world without meaning? Is freedom narrow and limited, to be defined by the simplistic economic model under which we now live? [video]

Mercury in Vaccines Will NOT Be Banned by UN or Treaty—The rumors that mercury will be banned in vaccines and that vaccine promoters are quaking in their boots are wishful thinking. The coming treaty will allow mercury in vaccines. Here's the proof.

Giant Plastic Bag Makers Sue Reusable Bag Company for Telling the Truth about Disposables—More and more, the courts are being used to drive smaller eco-friendly and humane companies out of business. At risk is our access to humane and eco-friendly products.

Monsanto's Roundup May End Bananas - And They're Merely the Canary in the Mine—Bananas are dying. They're killed by a fungus, one known to be caused by glyphosate, which is used on bananas. But the loss of bananas may be only the tip of the disaster.

Mild Hurricane Has Politicos Ranting—While Oil and Nuclear Disasters Are Ignored.—Lab tests confirm that BP's Macondo Well is again gushing. The area around Fukushima is uninhabitable—a no-go zone. And politicians foam at the mouth about a mild hurricane?

BP's Unstoppable Gusher Is Gushing Again: BP's Prevarication Points Finger at Self—BP gives up on outright denial. Now they hide behind lack of 'scientific evidence'. BP walks like a duck and quacks like a well-oiled duck. BP points finger back at self.

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No Return to Fukushima Exclusion Zone: Officially Uninhabitable. Radiation Greater Than 29 Hiroshimas, So Far.—The Japanese government will finally admit that radiation is making the area around Fukushima uninhabitable—but it's just one piece of a much more disastrous picture.

Autistic Girl Stolen from Her Father and Forcibly Drugged by the Canadian Government—Since being grabbed, Ayn has been placed on three different antipsychotics. She and her father are just one example of families devastated by this racket.

Gates Foundation Investments: Entire List—The Gates Foundation presents itself as a force for good. This is a list of their investments. You be the judge.

Bill Gates' & WHO's Malaria Eradication Plan Backfires: Pesticide-Resistant Mosquitos—Though completely predictable, the Gates Foundation's mosquito eradication program is floundering. Why did they push a plan that was doomed to failure?

The History of ConMed—Chapter 2, No other industrial complex could have produced so many products and commodities that have so persistently failed—and still survive.

Creation and Failure of the NHS—Chapter 1, The Failure of Conventional Medicine: Past failure has always led to further demands for resources, which have usually been found, but always with a similar lack of success - and so the cycle continues.

The Failure of Conventional Medicine—Why, after spending so much on health, do we face such a plethora of illness, including many 'new' illnesses; and why are so many diseases now at such unprecedented, epidemic levels?

Oh Horrors!—Bag Lunches May Be Dangerous!—Cold food that's left at room temperature warms up. Shocking! The lunch you bring from home may-might-could be dangerous. Run! Run for the hills! The boogie man might getcha!

Fukushima Radiation So High, Geiger Counter Can't Register It!—Fukushima radiation is six times more than the previous high, more than Geiger counters can register. News media and governments cover it up—and radioactive waste to be used as garden soil!

Another Doctor Convicted of Fraud for Unneeded Heart Surgery: Why Not Assault?—A doctor does unneeded heart surgery on a hundred patients and he's charged with...fraud? He took a knife to people. Under any other circumstances, he'd be tried for assault.

FDA to Loosen Conflict of Interest Rules—Says They Interfere with Drug Approvals!—Darn those conflict of interest rules. They slow down drug approvals! Therefore, goes the thinking of the FDA director, the rules must be loosened.

FDA's Definition of Food: Plate of Pills

The Theft of Health Rights: Can It Be Stopped?—We're losing the right to manage our own health. Even the right to choose our food is being stolen. We can stop it, but only by ending the basis on which it's being done—not by addressing each action.

Genetic Modification Wins: Rogue USDA Hands It All to Monsanto—Get ready for Monsanto's poisonous GM plants to be released without any regulation. The USDA is abdicating its role in controlling many of these plants.

Whooping Cough Epidemic Caused by Virulent New Pertussis Strain—And It's the Result of Vaccine—The CDC and NIH keep pushing the pertussis vaccine, in spite of info it's causing the new whooping cough epidemic that is 10 times more deadly than the old whooping cough.

Vaccines Will Soon Be Used to Control Behavior—Vaccines against nicotine, cocaine, and alcohol addiction are already being developed. With new methods in development, there's no telling what other behaviors will be targeted by vaccines.

FBI Raids Company...for Probiotics!—Call to Action! We must stop the attacks on innocent and healthy businesses. We must stop the attacks on our right to manage our own health!

FDA Threatens Dr. Mercola, Gives Order to Stop Thermography—This is a call to action! The FDA is now attacking Mercola for offering thermography—and attacking us by stealing thermography so we can't access it, unless they give it to Big Pharma and Big Med.

FDA Tries Bizarre and Sloppy Whitewash of Heart Drug that Causes Cancer—The FDA produces an absurd pseudo-study that claims to show no cancer link to common blood pressure drugs, but actually shows strong FDA link to Big Pharma.

Smoking Gun Aimed at Vaccines: CDC Study Shows 1 in 6 Children Developmentally Disabled.—What causes autism? The CDC would have us believe that we just don't know. But, their own study seems to hold a smoking gun aimed directly at vaccines.

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Cases of Autism Dwarf Risk from Measles—When the number of children who get measles is compared with the number who get autism, and then you consider the relative degree of harm from each, it becomes obvious that there's an agenda behind the measles fear mongering.

Modern Medicine's Insanity: Belief that Food Is the Enemy—Foods are redefined as drugs. This simple act of redefinition makes food the domain of Big Pharma—to our everlasting loss of rights and health.

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Leading Agencies Intentionally Mislead About the Dangers of Depleted Uranium (Part 2)—A concerted international effort at the highest levels whitewash the effects of depleted uranium, portraying it as safe.

Depleted Uranium Is Used in Golf Clubs—and It's Legal!—As governments dither on about where to store radioactive depleted uranium, they quietly allow it to permeate products that people come into contact with daily.

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Two Minutes in the Life of an Autism Mom Vs Normalization of Autismization (caution, strong language)—Two minutes—just two minutes!—in a day with an autistic child. You'll forever be grateful for a simple temper tantrum. Then, watch the video that utterly destroys the arguments that autism is not caused by vaccines.

Independent Analysis of Monsanto's Own GMO Crop Data Shows It Causes Organ Damage—The study provides undeniable proof that Monsanto's GMO Crops carry serious risks to health, & Monsanto has known about it & hidden the information.

GMOs Causing Mass Crop Die Offs, Infertility, and Miscarriages—The USDA and Secretary of State, Tom Vilsack, ignore warnings and evidence of in-process disaster to crops and animals. What about the implications to human life?

Europe's Pharma Regulator Officially Values Commercial Interests Over Patients' Needs—Commercial interests are valued more highly than the health and freedom of the people. The EMEA typifies medical regulatory agencies' attitude towards the people.

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Herbs Are Not Drugs, No Matter What the 'Authorities' Claim (satire)—Stepping back and taking a rational look at the claim that herbs are drugs reveals the utter absurdity of it. Yet, that's the excuse used to 'protect' us against their nearly nonexistent dangers.

Joint US-EU Commission to Improve Health by Enforcing Proper Physical Training—The commission, Body Improvement Generation: Physical Activity Risk Modalities Assessment (BIG:PHARMA), is tasked with defining science-based exercise to assure everyone's safety and health.

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May Day! Most Medicinal Herbs Disappearing in EU Under Guise of 'Your Own Welfare'.—The 1984 world we've entered with the theft of medicinal herbs from the people, under the guise of our welfare, needs to end. Please get involved in a new Forum—be part of the change to throw off this repression.

Heart Disease Deaths Four Times Higher With Low Salt Intake: JAMA Study—As Gaia Health has informed you, there is no truth to the claim that high salt intake is unhealthy. In fact, evidence shows the opposite to be true.

Big Pharma Money Casts Shadow Over Herbs

Medicinal Herbs Are Held to a Higher Standard Than Big Pharma's Poisons—Big Pharma's drugs, still wet behind the ears compared to medicinal herbs, are given preference over herbs—in spite of pharmaceuticals' lack of safety and efficacy—while the people's needs, desires, and rights languish.

Bolivia Leads: Recognizes the Earth's Status Is Equal to Humans—Bolivia recognizes the Earth's right to life, to balance, to be unpolluted, to not be genetically altered. Nature is recognized as having the rights of existence, of being Gaia, the Mother of us all.

Half of Meat Is Contaminated with Drug Resistant Bacteria: The Good News—and the Bad—There is good news hidden in the massive drug resistant bacterial contamination of meat. Most of us are not sick from it. However, what the USDA plans to do will destroy our ability to stay healthy.

FDA Persecutes Pot Patients So Proceeds Profit Big Pharma—Marijuana is the flagship herb for governmental suppression of natural products so that Big Pharma can have a monopoly.

Sarah's Last Wish: A Tale of Medical Hubris That Caused a Child to Be Tortured as Her Life Was Ending—Not only are the medical system's treatments often more dangerous than beneficial, they may even be forced upon you.

USDA Meat Testing Plan Will Not Curb Food-Borne Illness—But It Will Curb Local & Organic Meat—This assault on your food choice, made under the guise of food safety, is a demonstration that the underlying mass production paradigm has failed. If you want to maintain your right to health, then you need to send the USDA your opinion.

Microbes Win: Drug-Resistant Infectious Diseases Are Out Of Control—But Only in the Context of Antibiotics—The fear of drug-resistant diseases is realistic—but only if we stay inside the modern medical paradigm. Of course, other approaches to health are being ruthlessly suppressed.

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The Latest in Atrocious Supreme Court Decisions—Only 2 Justices Stand Up for Your Rights.—Dr. Mercola's article on this travesty is superb. The US Supreme Court has tossed your rights to redress in the garbage. If you or your child is harmed by vaccination, that's just too bad.

FDA Bans Sales of Plant Products that Compete with Drugs: Prostate Treatment Targeted—In its role as Big Pharma Front Man, the FDA bans natural products when they can isolate a drug from them. Products containing Seville orange have already been forced out. Will Willow Bark, from which aspirin was first derived, be banned?

FDA Bans Product from Compounding Pharmacies, Then Hands Exclusive Rights to Single Pharma Company—A safe and inexpensive drug used to prevent premature births, the FDA stopped compounding pharmacies from making and selling it. Then, they handed exclusive rights to a Big Pharma firm, which increased the price by 15,000 percent.

Claim that Massive Quakes Are Unknown in Northern Japan Is a Lie—What's worse is how blatant the lie is. Japan has known all along that massive quakes can and do occur in exactly the same location that the great Fukushima quake occurred.

Nuclear Disaster: Don't Believe Their Lies—We have not been told the truth about the nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan. My personal experience includes working in a nuclear power plant that came close to meltdown, and it wasn't one you've heard about, but the experience turned me into an anti-nuclear advocate.

Poison Control Reports: Not a Single US Death Caused by Supplements, Herbs, or Vitamins—Poison Control can report no deaths from natural medicine's products. Nonetheless, there is a concerted attack on them. They're portrayed as dangerous, but this report demonstrates that it's an obvious lie. The bodies are lying at the feet of Big Pharma, not natural medicine.

FDA Whines About Unapproved Drugs, Claims It Doesn't Have Resources—While Raiding Raw Milk Farms—While whining that there aren't enough resources to stop unapproved drugs, the FDA spends millions—even conducts SWAT raids—for raw milk, herbs, and health food stores

Some English Practitioners Approved to Prescribe Medicinal Herbs—Under the EU's draconian new law, most medicinal herbs will leave store shelves starting 1 May. The English will still be able to get them—if they pay a state-certified practitioner.

UK's Approved Medicinal Herbs—This is the full list of approved medicinal herbs as of 16 February 2011. On May Day this year, these will be the only direct-to-consumer medicinal herbs available in the UK.

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Airport Scanners May Harm DNA, Not Just Privacy and Dignity—Claims that airport scanners are safe, because terahertz waves are too weak to cause harm, are based on nothing but wishful thinking. They can literally tear DNA apart.

GM Crops to Enter EU: The People's Will Be Damned!—The fanatical press by Agribusiness to plant GM crops over every square inch of the earth has just moved closer to its goals. The UK and EU have no interest in their citizens' desires.

UK Moves to Cripple Homeopathy & Eliminate non-Allopathic Homeopaths—Homeopaths are to be sidelined as the UK moves to limit availability of homeopathic medicines. This is a call to action to protect access to homeopathy!

CDC Finds Link to Deaths from Drywall, But Says There's No Connection—Now you see it, now you don't: The CDC issues a report that acknowledges a connection between Chineses drywall and deaths, then denies that it exists.

US Using Codex Alimentarius to Force EU to Allow Carcinogenic & Neurogenic Drug in Animal Feed—Ractopamine causes cancer in humans, and misery to the point of death for animals. Yet, Codex Alimentarius is pushing for its worldwide use, and the United States is behind the push.

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It's True: Radioactivity Is Induced by Food Irradiation—Government claims that food irradiation doesn't make food radioactive are categorically false.

Colony Collapse Disorder Is a Myth. Neurotoxic Pesticide Causes Bee Deaths.—The proof that a neurotoxic pesticide causes bee die-offs has existed for two years, but the researcher hasn't been able to get it published.

FDA System Approves Nonexistent Product from Nonexistent Company for Human Testing—A sting nailed a company the HHS authorized to oversee human drug trials. The absurdities in the application are belly laugh funny, but in their rush to keep the money coming, they approved it.

Gates, Monsanto, and Monopoly: Foundation Keeps Wealth in the Club—A private foundation is a nonprofit organization that engages in activities for the general good...technically, that is. The catch is that the Foundation gets to define what general good means.

If You Pay Cash, DHS Says You Should Be Reported as Suspicious—According to the DHS, paying cash for a hotel room is cause for suspicion. Anyone who does should be reported.

John Pilger Interviews Julian Assange (video)—One of the greatest living reporters interviews WikiLeaks' Julian Assange. Here's a quote from Assange: 'Guantanamo is used for laundering people to an offshore haven which doesn't follow the rule of law.'

Sign, Danger High Voltage Keep Out of Brains

Science Shows Electroconvulsive Therapy Kills, Provides No Benefit to Patients (Page 2)—The very concept of evidence-based medicine is shown to be nothing more than a very bad joke—one in which the butts of the joke are people at greatest risk, those who have been defined by psychiatry through the magic of the DSM as suffering from nonexistent disorders.

Science Shows Electroconvulsive Therapy Kills, Provides No Benefit to Patients—The American Psychiatric Association's claims of ECT's safety and efficacy are proven false by a new metastudy, and the FDA's plans to deregulate it are shown as pure pandering to the APA.

Neotame, New Neurotoxic Sweetener: FDA Says No Label Needed, Not Even in Organics—A Monsanto-created chemical, Neotame is likely more toxic than Aspartame. The FDA has quietly decided that we don't have the right to know if it's adulterating our food, not even if the food is labeled USDA Organic.

New Year to Bring Ban of Most Medicinal Herbs in Europe—The right to manage our health as we see fit is more basic than free speech. Medicinal herbs are our heritage, yet the EU intends to steal our access to most of them, handing it over to corporations.

Indian Farmers Come Together to Support Holistic Agriculture—In this Christmas Season, let's look to the farmers of India. They demonstrate the meaning of peace and freedom—and give us this season's hope.

EPA May Allow Extinction of Bees: Supports Bayer's Profits from Nerve Poison—How will the profiteers explain to their children that the flowers are disappearing because the bees are gone?

FDA Uses Swine Flu "Emergency" to Ban Homeopathic Flu Remedies—The FDA is demonstrating a pattern of deceptive and power-grabbing methods to squeeze out homeopathic remedies. They are now claiming that the swine flu pseudo-pandemic gives them the right to label homeopathic, and other, products as fraudulent...

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FDA Plans to Limit Regulation of Electroconvulsive Therapy—In a time when the FDA is criminalizing raw milk and classifying foods as controllable drugs, they want to limit control of a device whose sole purpose is to cause seizures and brain damage!

WikiRebels: A Documentary (video)—A documentary about WikiLeaks, how it came to be, and how it operates. Very nice! [57:25]

The Assault on Assange Is an Assault on All Americans—The generally-forgotten history of the Espionage Act that Holder plans to use against Assange has a bone-chilling history. If you know it, you'll know why this attempt to collar Assange is a disguised attempt to collar the rights of every American.

WikiLeaks Exposes Pfizer's Corruption—A WikiLeaks embassy cable reveals that Pfizer blackmailed a Nigerian politician to get lawsuits dropped. The suits were for harm to children from a drug trial. Pfizer had not asked for approval to do the trial, nor had they advised the patients it was being done.

WikiLeaks Wars Is StarWars—With Lots of Darth Vaders (video)—Julian Assange is Luke Skywalker. If you don't believe it now, you will before the end of this fantastic video. (5:07 great minutes)

IOM's Support for Minimal Vitamin D Based on Gaping Flaw—The inherent flaw in the IOM's Vitamin D report is so egregious and dishonest that there's no explanation other than that it's intentional.

Judge Orders Monsanto's GMO Sugar Beets Destroyed—For the first time ever, the destruction of a GMO crop has been ordered. Both the USDA and Monsanto were found to be at fault.

Codex Alimentarius Is Not a Medieval Cabal—Codex Alimentarius isn't from antiquity, but it's having a draconian impact on our most basic rights. You need to know what it is and what it's doing.

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Germany Requires Doctor's Prescription for Common Herbs: EU Plans the Same—Prelude to EU's herbal directive: German man's herbal order stopped by customs. Requires a doctor's prescription!

Fake Dairy Presents Fake Plan to Create Fake Milk on Factory Farm—Nocton Dairy is at it again with "new" plans—but that's just to get in the door. The goal is the same as ever, inhumane treatment of cattle to produce inferior milk in assembly-line production style. Please, sign the petition to stop them.

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The EU's Draconian Citizen's Petition Requirements—The roadblocks put in front of EU citizen petitioners, its effects on the Stop the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive petition, and how we plan to handle it.

Stop the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive Petition: Answers to Questions—Many questions are asked and comments made about the Stop the THMPD petition, and people need to be answered. This page responds to many of them.

It's Official: McDonald's Is Helping Define UK's Health Policy—In the UK, obesity has tripled in the last 20 years. Alcohol misuse costs the health service £2.7 and lack of exercise £1.8 billion a year. In response, the government has brought in McDonald's, PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Mars, Diageo (an alcohol consortium), and Unilever to help define food and health policies.

EU Declares Peppermint a Controllable Herb—In its ongoing efforts to make absolutely certain that every aspect of every person's life is controlled in the minutest detail, the European Union is examining every herb to determine whether there's even the slightest hint of a chance it might be either harmful or useful. To this end, peppermint has been classified as a controllable medicinal herb.

UK Bans Herbal Tea: Claims It Contains a Drug—The attack on herbs continues with the UK's banning of a herbal tea and its related product sold for slimming. Now that sibutramine has rightly been banned because it's a dangerous drug, the government is banning anything that contains it in a natural compound, even though it hasn't been shown to be dangerous in its natural form.

FDA Bans Hyland's Homeopathic Teething Tablets—The FDA's goal of making the world safe for Big Pharma is made obvious by their attack on a product for which the possibility of harm is so far-fetched that it's laughable: Hyland's Homeopathic Teething Tablets. Well, it would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that an exceptionally safe product that's been used by thousands to ease their children's teething pains is now gone.

Shadows of the Future (video)—Codex Alimentarius sounds like a medieval cabal. It's a real-life conspiracy to take control of the most basic parts of ourselves. It is the single most dangerous attack on our freedoms that has ever existed. Please watch this short video and start to protect your most precious rights. [10:25]

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EU Petition Demanding Access to Herbs! EU Members of Parliament Don't Care About Health Freedom.—Because our MEPs aren't responding to us individually, we're launching a million signature petition initiative, 'Stop the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive', which insists that Directive 2004/2/EC (THMPC) be stopped.

Enviropig: Genetically Modified Pigs Approved to Benefit Agribusiness—Continuing in lockstep with the desires of Agribusiness, a genetically engineered pig has been approved by Health Canada and is under consideration by the US's FDA. Dubbed Enviropig™ by its developer, the University of Guelph, it's designed to reduce phosphorus output in feces.

MMS Is Pure Poison, But the FDA Doesn't Stop It—The internet is full of sites fraudulently selling Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS), a product that's pure poison. Yet, it appears that the FDA has taken only the most minimal action against a single purveyor. Worse, that action consisted only of a letter sent on 6 January 2009, nearly 21 months ago—and three of the four sites cited are still pushing MMS.

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Truthful, Science-Backed Food Claim Could Put You in Prison for 10 Years: Bill Passed by US House of Reps—Under a bill passed by the US House of Representatives, you could be imprisoned for ten years for simply stating a food's potential to prevent or treat disease, no matter how conclusive the scientific research. At this point, the only thing standing between you and this law's enactment is the US Senate.

FDA Forbids Labeling Salmon As Not Genetically Modified—When the FDA approves genetically modified salmon, you would think that it would, at least, be possible to avoid it. Certainly, any producer of non-GM salmon would be sure to label it, since the vast majority of people want to know. However, the Monsanto-controlled agency will not allow foods to be labeled as non-GMO, & excuses are as absurd as can be imagined.

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New York Times Pimps for High Fructose Corn Syrup—It's bad enough that the Corn Refiners Association is trying to fool the public by changing the name of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to "corn sugar". But when The New York Times produces an editorial supporting the change, parrots the industry's mendacious claims, and implies that it's beneficial to consumers, then we have a new definition of what it means to be a pimp.

Big Pharma Scores Big Win: Medicinal Herbs Will Disappear in EU—Big Pharma has almost reached the finish line of its decades-long battle to wipe out all competition. As of 1 April 2011, virtually all medicinal herbs will become illegal in the EU. The people have become no more than sinks for any swill Big Pharma and Agribusiness choose to produce, and we have no option but to pay whatever rates they want.

EPA Scientists Oppose Fluoridation—In this age of repression on genuine scientific research, we need to take note that scientists free to do open and honest research, and report on it, have often taken stands that dispute their agencies' officials stances. Nowhere has that been more true than in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the issue of fluoride. Rank and file EPA scientists have strongly opposed water fluoridation.

The Fluoride Deception (Interview With Christopher Bryson - video)—This video is a companion to EPA Scientists Oppose Fluoridation. Journalist Christopher Bryson discusses his compelling finds on the dangers of fluoride and why it's promoted as healthful. The connection with the atomic bomb's development is a surprising, and well-documented, finding. [28:31]

Heart Attack Is a Disease of Agribusiness, Not Longevity—Claims that primitive societies' lack of heart attacks can be explained by shorter lifespans are based on nothing but wishful thinking. It seems logical, but there's nothing behind the words.

FDA Bans Stem Cell Therapy That Saved UK Boy's Life & Man's Leg—In the US, the FDA bans a treatment that saved a little boy's life and a man's leg in the UK. The FDA is protecting Big Pharma from the competition of autologous stem cell therapy, no matter what the cost to individual lives.

Recall of Supplement Containing Seville Orange Shows Absurdity of FDA's Claims—The FDA has made Solo Slim sound like a sinister product, using the very real dangers of sibutramine, the drug, to force its withdrawal from the market. The fact, though, is that the natural ingredient is not the same thing as the drug. Genuine concern for the public's health has nothing to do with banning a product for including Seville oranges.

The UK Refuses to Drop Homeopathy—In a decision that reaffirms the individual's right to choose, the United Kingdom's Department of Health has slapped down the Science and Technology Committee's demand to abandon homeopathy. Rather than report on it honestly, news media are simply allowing anti-homeopathy forces free rein to give their opinions.

Attacks on Raw Foods Accelerate to Police State Levels—With specious claims and a police state mentality, the attacks on raw foods multiply. Well coordinated raids on farms and shops that produce and distribute them are being done to intimidate the producers. They are being informed that it doesn't matter if they're innocent or right, they'll be driven out of business by harrassment, costs to defend themselves, and even prison.

Dengue Fever, BP's Gulf Gusher, the CIA, and Army Germ Warfare—The CIA & Army conducted germ warfare experiments in in central Florida in the 1950s. they were conducted in low-income areas. They released mosquitoes carrying dengue fever. People died, and people are infected and reinfected to this day. Science fiction? No—it's fact. Fengue fever can't be distinguished from symptoms of BP's Gulf Gusher.

UK Testing GM Potatoes That Offer No Benefit to Farmers or Eaters—Fanning the flames of fear with the specter of the Irish Potato Famine, the UK is testing genetically modified (GM) potatoes. They have been engineered to resist a fungal blight, which may seem worthy—until you learn that the UK already has blight-resistant potatoes developed through cross-breeding.

FDA Panel Votes to Keep Dangerous Drug on the Market—Evidence be damned! Diabetes drug Avandia offers no benefit over a rival drug, but causes significantly more deaths. In a panel vote that sees no reason to remove the drug from the market, the FDA reveals its true allegiance: Big Pharma.

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Fraud Found in GSK's Avandia Trial Reveals FDA's Lack of Oversight—If even a poorly designed trial can't demonstrate that your drug is safe, then hiding data is the next-best trick for getting approval. When the FDA doesn't check the data in trials, such methods work. Both of those tricks worked for GSK's Avandia study in 2007. Fortunately, a researcher decided to look more closely in advance of the drug's review next week.

FDA Tries to Silence Info Documenting Avandia Deaths—The FDA appears to have tried to prevent publication of information documenting a significant increase in deaths and cardiovascular disease from Avandia over its competitor. FDA employee, Dr. Graham, claims that an underhanded trick was used in an attempt to keep his paper, which documents significantly increased Avandia risks, from being published.

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The Attack on Home Births and Midwives Is Gearing Up—A recent medical journal study claims that, while women do better when they deliver babies at home, mortality in newborns is three times greater. However, the conclusion completely misrepresents the data. The study actually found that the infant death rate for home births was the same when a qualified midwife was present.

Doctor Faked Research on Drug That Killed Thousands: Gets Only Six Months—Scott Reuben, the doctor who faked research on Celebrex and Vioxx, which killed tens of thousands of people, has been sentenced to a mere six months in prison. The judge was easy on him because his attorney claimed that he'd suffered from an 'undiagnosed bipolar disorder'. The real criminal, though, is modern medicine.

GMO Salmon Near FDA Approval—Public's Input Not Wanted—As the FDA nears approval for the first genetically engineered salmon, the public's views on the issue are not wanted. These genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be the first animals approved for food, but the FDA is treating them like veterinary drugs, so the approval process is not open to the public and none of the documentation is available for inspection.

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High Lead Levels Found in 85% of "Healthy" Foods Marketed to Children—Food products marketed to children have been found to have illegal levels of lead. A full 85% were found to have lead that exceeds federal limits for drinking water. The California-based Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) had 150 food products tested by an Environmental Protection Agency-certified lab.

Antidepressants Cause Major Increase in Miscarriages—Medical powers-that-be are pressing to identify women "at risk" of depression during pregnancy - likely to push them into taking anti-depressants. Now, a study has shown that SSRI and SNRI antidepressants can increase miscarriages by 68 percent. These drugs have also been associated with birth defects. Now, that is truly depressing.

U.S. Doesn't Control BP's Gulf Gusher Cleanup: Here's Why.—Surely you must wonder why the US is so hamstrung in dealing with BP's Gulf Gusher, a slow-motion wreck of the Gulf of Mexico coast. The US government is helpless to even keep tabs on what's happening. The reason is in a political system that has handed over control to an economic system. We must rely on news media outside the country to bring us the truth.

In Food Label Wars, Both Sides Hide the Facts—In the EU, a battle has been waged between the forces of evil, Agribusiness, against the forces of evil, government agencies. Both sides want to control what goes on food labels. Agribusiness won, and it's being called a defeat for consumers. The truth, though, is that consumers lose no matter which side wins. Neither wants to tell the public what's really in the foods bought in stores.

The FDA Says You Have No Right to Freedom of Food—The FDA has stated that you have no inherent right to health. You thought you had the right to choose what you eat? The FDA says you don't. They claim that there is no fundamental right to choose your food or freedom to contract for it. Responding to a lawsuit, the FDA clearly states that you do not have the right to freedom of choice in your diet.

Doc Who Harms No One Is Punished, But Doc Who Killed Can Practice.—In typical hubristic fashion, the UK's GMC has stripped Dr. Sarah Myhill of many of the functions required to care for her patients, while allowing doctors who have killed patients with sloppiness, lies, and egregious errors to continue in practice. She harmed no one, and no such accusation was made. Not a single patient has complained.

Max Kane Risks Prison for Refusing to Tell Who Sells and Who Buys Raw Milk—Max Kane has been charged with nothing. There is no case being prosecuted against him or anyone else for anything, not even for selling or buying raw milk. Yet, he has been ordered by Wisconsin to inform on his friends. They want him to name people who sell or buy raw milk. He has refused, and for that, he's been under threat of prison.

FDA Persecutes Raw Milk Dairies: Raids Amish Farm—The FDA is using strong arm tactics on family farms that do their best to produce genuinely healthy milk for customers who care about their own family's health. They have raided an Amish dairy farm with the accusation, "We have credible evidence that you are involved in interstate commerce." There's no accusation that the raw milk they produce is unsafe.

FDA to Control Salt Intake, Not Aspartame or High Fructose Corn Syrup—The FDA plans to control intake of salt, a natural and necessary food. Meanwhile, known killers like aspartame and HFCS are left free to continue their destruction of health. The usual incestuous techniques have led to the latest ploy to hand over our food supply to Agribusiness, and the marketing campaign is in full swing.

World Health Organization: Vaccine Near, So Fearmongering Starts for Another Mild Disease

Vaccine Near, So Fear Mongering Starts Over Another Mild Disease—Have you ever heard of respiratory syncytial virus? In all likelihood, you haven't, though you'e probably had it. You or your parents most likely called it a cold. There's an RSV vaccine on the horizon, so the fear mongering is starting. Of course, to back up the fear, a study, funded by vaccine promoters, was done to show that the disease is scary.

India Stops Gardasil Trial: Ethics and Logic of Trial Questioned—After four girls died during a trial of Merck's Gardasil vaccine, their Council of Medical Research ordered that it be stopped in the two states where it was conducted. Brinda Karat, a member of their parliament, has questioned both the ethics of the trial and the logic of how it was conducted. Here is the story from DNA India.

DOJ Punishes Big Pharma for Bribing Foreign Doctors, Ignores Corruption Here—Pharmaceutical exec Robert John Dougall has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for paying £4.5M to Greek doctors. As Director of Marketing at DePuy, now part of megacorp Johnson & Johnson, he bribed Greek surgeons to buy their products. It's a start, but why is the Department of Justice focusing on foreign doctors?

Supporter's Sign Saying 'Listen to Andrew Wakefield'

In-depth Interview With Dr. Andrew Wakefield (video)—Dr. Wakefield discusses his findings on autism, bowel disease, and vaccines with Dr. Mercola. He tells his story for the first time, stating 'I've never met so many experts as I have in autism, experts about a disease about which we know nothing. We know nothing, and yet we're surrounded by experts. And that's a paradox that needs to be resolved.'

FDA Says Walnuts Are Drugs and Doritos Are Heart Healthy—In its latest salvo against our health and freedom, FDA issued a warning to Diamond Foods stating that their claims for the health promoting qualities of walnuts have moved them from a food to a drug. At the same time, it allows Frito-Lay to advertise its health-destroying chips (crisps in the UK) as 'heart healthy'.

USDA Trashes Organic: Pasture Not Required for Cows' Last 4 Months—The rules for the USDA Organic label for beef are already watered down. Now, though, they're allowing feedlot conditions for their last four months—about one-fifth of their lives. You can help reverse this by contacting the president and USDA. I'll tell you how, including links.

Raw Milk Source Shut Down, But There's Been No Bad Milk—In what looks more and more like a concerted FDA plan to shut off raw milk supplies, a Michigan raw milk dairy is being forced to shut down. Their supplier is based a short distance away, but it's across a state boundary. That state, Indiana, allows the sale of raw milk, but the FDA's pressure has caused it to stop shipping to Michigan.

Raw Milk Disease Outbreak In Perspective: Tempest in an FDA Teapot—Perhaps you've heard of the claimed raw milk campylobacteria disease outbreak in Michigan recently. It's been hyped to the world by the FDA. However, if you look carefully at the wording, you'll see only that it's 'linked' to raw milk. It's nothing but a tempest in the FDA's teapot.

WHO 'Gambled Away' Public Confidence With Swine Flu Fear Mongering—The Vice Chair of the Council of Europe's Health Committee is preparing a report stating the WHO 'gambled away' public confidence in its swine flu fear mongering. The Guardian reports that he complains that 'the discrepancy between the estimate of the numbers of people who would die from flu and the reality was dramatic'.

Doctor with oversized hypodermic with money inside

Doctors' Performance Standards Lowered for Giving More Flu Jabs—In the UK, Scottish doctors have been the most effective in pushing their patients into having swine flu vaccines. The swine flu pandemic was a bust and its vaccine has been shown to be ineffective in the elderly. In the face of that, Scotland will reward doctors with high vaccine uptake by letting them skate on standards measuring the quality of their practices.

Leading Autism-Vaccine Coverup Researcher Absconds with $2 Million—In the face of the Vaccine Court's recent ruling that there is no connection between autism and vaccines, it now comes out that much of the research cited was done by a researcher who has now vanished with $2 million that was supposed to have been spent on the research. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells the tale.

Humane Claims of Plan for Huge UK Dairy Factory Farm Don't Add Up—A proposal for England's first American-style factory farmed milk paints a pretty picture of contented cows living in spacious quarters and treated humanely. However, the claims literally don't add up. Nocton Dairies' plans provide minimal space for the cows, crowding them obscenely and feeding an unnatural diet that will make them ill.

Pig Pharma mother pig suckling FDA baby pigs

Scientists' Letter Claiming FDA Corruption Is Authentic—In January last year, a letter was sent to the highest levels of United States government by FDA scientists and doctors accusing top FDA officials & attorneys of violating laws, suppressing & altering scientific findings & conclusions, abuse of power & authority, and retaliation against those who've spoken out. The FDA has finally acknowledged that the letter is authentic.

Big Pharma Blocks Studies of Long Term ADHD Drug Effects While FDA and EMEA Dither—The FDA and EMEA dither while Big Pharma blocks studies into long term effects of ADHD drugs--unless, of course, they're produced by their own pet (and very highly paid) researchers, such as Joseph Biederman, Timothy Wilens and Thomas Spencer. Hanging in the balance are the health and futures of millions of children.

Gamer boys staring with glazed eyes, caption reads 'Is this who runs the FDA?'

FDA Issues Secret Warning to Shire for Fraudulently Marketing Drug—Shire Pharmaceutical gave patients of their kidney-failure drug, Fosrenol, a brochure. It gave false information, did not provide information about risks, made unsubstantiated claims, overstated the efficacy, and said it could be used for things that had never been approved. The FDA's response was to send Shire a warning letter in secret.

Who Does a Food Safety Bill Really Serve?—When was the last time you heard of someone getting sick from food that hadn't been mass produced? Or eating food fresh from an organic garden? Or from a local organic farm? All the stories about unsafe food are the result of factory farming and mass production. But, current plans would push small producers of real food out of business—even criminalize them.

Genetically-modified Amflora potatoes by BASF

Europe Approves Antibiotic Resistant Genetically Modified Potato—BASF has managed to gain European Union (EU) approval for its potato, Amflora, genetically engineered for antibiotic resistance. It's not intended for human use. However, the skins are expected to be used in animal feed—and the meats will not have to be labeled as genetically modified or fed GM organisms.

Hypodermic casting shadow over Haitians after quake

Mass Vaccinations in Haiti—The squalid conditions of refugee camps combined with the oncoming rains threaten Haiti's earthquake victims with diseases common to poor sanitation, lack of safe drinking water, and contaminated food. Cholera, typhus, and dysentery are the best known. So, they're trotting out mass vaccinations for measles, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough.

Shiny heart lying on back with arms & legs sprawled, hypodermic needle stabbing it

Two Mumps Vaccines Don't Work, So Public Officials Push a Third Jab—The outbreak of mumps has been seen mostly in people who've been vaccinated--not just the majority of cases, but the vast majority. The CDC is reporting that 93% who've come down with mumps have had one dose and 85% have had two doses of the MMR vaccine.

The Case For Homeopathic Medicine: The Historical and Scientific Evidence—Skeptics of homeopathy go to incredible extents to exaggerate & misconstrue homeopathic medicine. It's more than a tad ironic that these 'skeptics' holding themselves as 'defenders of medical science' exhibit an embarrassingly poor scientific attitude about what homeopathy is and what the scientific evidence says.

Engineering Animals to Feel No Pain So We Feel No Guilt—No one wants to consider that the food on the dinner plate lived a life of suffering. In most cases, though, that's exactly what happens. So, now a proposal is in place to genetically engineer feed animals so they don't feel pain. But who actually benefits? And who is the focus of such a concept?

FDA Raids Amish Farm for Raw Milk—The FDA will spare no one in their zealous protection of your safety. Apparently, those seemingly harmless Amish people are really dangerous. They must be. What other reason could there be for raiding an Amish farm for the--Gulp! Horrible crime of raw milk! Run for the hills!

Test Them & Drug Them: New Plan to Halt Spread of AIDS—The war against AIDS may start causing a lot of collateral damage in the military lingo sense—dead people. A trial is about to start in South Africa to see if HIV/AIDS rates can be cut back by testing everyone and handing out drugs. The idea isn't to save the lives, but to stop the spread of disease.

Government Tracks Your DNA Without Your Consent—Several states in the U.S. are storing your baby's DNA sequence. It's generally being done without your knowledge. All United States newborns' DNA is now routinely screened for genetic disorders. Parental approval is not required—nor are parents informed. Our children are being born into a Brave New World.

Capsule with Caduceus & Poison Skull Symbols Imprinted

Diet Drug Causes Heart Attacks: Europe Bans & U.S. Issues Warning—A drug used for obesity, though it has always been known to have limited benefit and carries the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, is finally being banned in Europe, but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is merely putting a warning on it, a move known to have little effect on usage. Sibutramine is sold by Abbott pharmaceuticals as...

Coal Ash Industry Virtually Ghost Writes EPA Reports—The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been having a hard time deciding whether coal sludge is toxic, in spite of it being loaded with mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and radioactive materials. Joshua Frank of Truthout explains how the coal industry has been able to control and manipulate information inside the agency.

Representative John Murtha Dies of Medical Error—Representative John Murtha, the first Vietnam veteran elected to the United States Congress, died yesterday from a medical error. He entered the hospital for routine gall bladder surgery—but his intestine was nicked. He died of it.

Barbara Loe Fisher Speaks Of Dr. Wakefield's Bravery: Doctor Panel Hangs Its Own (Video)—Barbara Loe Fisher speaks of Dr. Wakefield's bravery and honesty in the face of the recent She discusses how he refused to accept her suggestion, back in 1997, that he not speak at the first international public conference on vaccination because of the risks to his career.

Agribusiness Giant ADM's CEO Tells the Truth! (Satire/Video)—As a co-chair of the annual meeting, part of my focus will be on agriculture's role in today's economic savagery and the broader long term issues of robbing whole groups for the greed of the food industry. At ADM, we are not farmers or retail food manufacturers, rather we covet the harvest from the globe...

Safer to Give Birth in Bosnia Than California—If you're a pregnant woman in California, you'd be better off moving to Bosnia. The mortality rate from pregnancy of California women has tripled in recent years and is now higher than in Bosnia, a war-ravaged nation creeping back into the industrial world. Attempts to explain California's Department of Public Health report as simply a matter of better reporting...

Dr. Wakefield Harrassment Continues: UK Charges "Professional Misconduct"—The cost of doing honest research that runs against the medical-pharmaceutical complex is your career. Dr. Andrew Wakefield's harrassment for researching and publishing his findings on a potential connection between autism and the MMR vaccination continues with the UK's General Medical Council (GMC) claiming...

Doctor with hypodermic needle with dollar bills inside, focus on hypo & bills

The Next Big Vaccination Scam: Norovirus—Just as the truth starts to sneak out to the general public about the swine flu fraud, the powers-that-be are organizing the next great fake pandemic: norovirus, complete with a brand new vaccine. You've likely never heard of it, but you've probably had it several times. It's a mild stomach virus. No big deal - until now.

Government Tells Farmers to Use Poisonous Coal Waste on Food Crops—The misnamed Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) is telling farmers to fertilize with coal waste. It's full of mercury, lead, fluoride, arsenic, and other poisons. The current administration is carrying forward a policy first begun in 2001.

Europe to Investigate Fake Swine Flu Pandemic—More than 20 billion dollars was spent by nations to battle the swine flu, which has proven to be only a mild disease. The investigation request filed by Dr. Wolfgang Wodard can be seen here.

Manchurian Candidates: Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections—In today's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Court ruled that corporations should be treated the same as 'natural persons', i.e. humans. Well, in that case, expect the Supreme Court to next rule that Wal-Mart can run for President.

Swine Flu Fraud—Official Questioning Now Starts—Now that Big Pharma has made its profits and locked nations into long term contracts for vaccines, the truth is starting to come out. Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, the president of the Council of Europe's Health Commission, was interviewed by L'Humanité about the links between Big Pharma, the World Health Organization (WHO), and governments.

Cartoon of perplexed man looking at poison labels. Caption reads 'Just ignore the label, the worst stuff isn't listed anyway.'

By Law, Chemical Ingredients Don't Have To Be Listed If It Hurts Profits—Chemical manufacturers' trade secrets take precedence over safety in the United States. That's not mere speculation. It's the law. The 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) supposedly requires chemical companies to inform the government of any new chemicals they're planning to market. There is, of course, a loophole...

Petrie disk with MRSA culture behind thumbs-up hand painted as Norway flag

MRSA Superbug Nearly Nonexistent in Norway—Here's Why—MRSA is a scourge in virtually all modern hospitals in every industrialized country, with the exception of Norway. How are they doing it? In the most simple of ways. In Norway, the problem was faced head-on. The cause - overprescription of antibiotics - was acknowledged. So they stopped overprescribing.

Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO

WHO Chief Fans Swine Flu Fear—But Hasn't Had Vaccination—With typical hubris, Margaret Chan, the Director General of WHO (World Health Organization) is fanning the flames of fear over swine flu—but hasn't bothered to get vaccinated herself. Now that the pandemic-that-wasn't, as minor as it's been, has largely passed, she says that we must 'guard against complacency'.

Government Chief of Vaccine Promotion to Head Merck's Vaccine Division—After being America's biggest vaccine promoter as head of the CDC, Julie Gerberding has been hired by Merck & Co. to head its vaccine division. It is a testament to the intimate connections between Big Pharma and the government agencies they have coopted.

Doctor holding injection needle with 20 dollar bill inside (Conflicts of Interest Put CDC's Swine Flu and HPV Vaccine Decisions Into Doubt)

HHS Study Documents CDC Conflicts of Interest, Puts Swine Flu and HPV Vaccine Decisions Into Doubt—The mass HPV vaccination of girls and the H1N1 vaccination protocol in the US were recommended by a committee that was contaminated by CDC advisors with conflicts of interest. HHS issued a report entitled documenting an inbred culture of deceit within the CDC.

Pile of Cash (Vaccines, Prions, Genetic Modification, Mad Cows, and You)

Vaccines, Prions, Genetic Modification, Mad Cows, and You—Apparently, the issue of pig rendering workers developing a neurological disease isn't supposed to worry the rest of us. The Lancet has reported that there's no infectious agent. So, we're supposed to sit back, heave a big sigh of relief, and stop worrying?

Autistic boy whose mother gave him marijuana

Did Medical Marijuana Save This Autistic Boy's Life?—A California mother of an autistic boy claims that medical marijuana saved her son's life and has improved his autistic condition. Out of desperation and fearing for Joey's life, she gave him marijuana-laced brownies.

Ukraine Flu, Fear Mongering at Its Worst—The widely hyped Ukrainian flu outbreak is an election ploy. All the media coverage...connections to 1918...weaponized virus...leaking from a lab is a massive campaign of fear. The only real data are the counts of numbers infected and how many have died. Those numbers tell a tale far removed from the hype.

Written on chalkboard: 2+2=5 (only for very large values of 2)

CDC Invents New Number System! Increases H1N1 Deaths! (Satire)—In a master stroke, the CDC has created an entirely new system of mathematics based on a new way of counting! With this stroke of insight, they've increased the number of swine flu deaths almost six times over...new branch of math, estimates, based on the new axiom, 2+2=5, but only for very large values of 2.

Bloody woman with threatening surgeon wielding butcher knife

Surgeons Mutilate Women's Genitals, Say It's for Beauty (Part 1)—Concerns about genital mutilation generally focus on cultures "over there", not here at home. But make no mistake, female genital mutilation is alive and well...and the practice is both increasing and highly profitable. Surgical clinics have sprung up all over offering female genital mutilation—more often termed labiaplasty.

Surgeons Mutilate Women's Genitals, In Spite of the Risks (Part 2)—Genital mutilation in women is commonly performed and hyped by medical terrorists—a more appropriate term than medical doctors—every day. It's being done recklessly, with claims of safety, improved sexual satisfaction, and better mental health. These claims are made without any credible evidence.

Chelation Cured Desiree Jennings' Mercury Poisoning—Chelation has cured Desiree Jennings of the dystonia caused by a flu vaccination. As ever, the medical world denies both that she was injured by the vaccine and that she was cured. They use their usual canard: claiming that her illness was psychogenic, that is, they're saying it was all in her head.

Physician's Group Allies Itself With Coca-Cola—The outrages of our corporate controlled medical system just keep coming. Now it's an alliance between the AAFP and Coke. AAFP has proudly announced that this first in its Consumer Alliance program will 'educate consumers about the role their products can play in a healthy, active lifestyle.'

Dr. Thomas Insel speaking in front of screen picturing Martin Luther King, Jr.

Insel, NIMH Director, Shows Disdain for Austistic Boy—The mistreatment of a woman and her autistic son by the director of the NIMH, the person in charge of determining treatment for autism...how those trying to stop the autism epidemic are routinely treated by public servants in authority: stonewalled, with condescension, and outright lied to.

Swine Flu Emergency in US Is Faked by CDC—Stunning findings by CBS News after a three-month investigation has documented that the claims the CDC—America's official source of information on swine flu, its spread and its risks—has made for swine flu cases are vastly overstated, by as much as 98%...the CDC stopped counting cases suddenly and without explanation on the 24th of July this year.

Rescue a Child—Only two countries have failed to sign the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Russia has signed. China has signed. The only ones that haven't are Somalia and the United States of America. Are you ashamed? I am. Please, watch this brief and haunting video—then, sign a petition to urge President Obama to sign the treaty.

Holistic Economics—A Way Out of This Mess (video)—I'm reposting this because we need to understand the roots of our economic and environmental mess. The concept, as is so clearly shown in this brief video, is easy to see, and the solution flows out of that understanding. These seemingly dry economists have the most thrilling approach to our problems that I've yet seen.

Caduceus shadowing UN, US, UK, & Canada flags

Medical Reporter’s Casebook: Big Government And Big Medicine—The frequency of (fake) epidemics. Anthrax. SARS. Smallpox-imminent-terror-attack. Monkeypox. Swineflu. When government and science and medicine are One, idiocy is sure to follow. The sheep are lining up for their vaccinations. It’s called brainwashing: the belief in a false and absurd proposition created by repetition and the mask of authority.

Child holding ear to mum's pregnant tummy

Popular Fibroid Treatment Causes Miscarriages and Heavy Bleeding—An increasingly popular fibroid treatment has been shown to cause miscarriages, heavy bleeding, and caesarians...UAE injects a mass of chemicals through an incision into the groin and femoral artery...Women have been heavily pushed into the it...Invasive and dangerous procedures are heavily hyped because they're profitable.

FDA Enters the Fashion Industry (Satire)—In a surprise move stunning the high fashion world, the FDA has made its first foray into haute couture. Combining the best of style with its policy of taking control of anything that makes a health claim, the FDA has combined forces with Japanese menswear company, Haruyama Trading, in a tour-de-force: a stylish men's suit that prevents swine flu.

Mouse hiding in petrie dish from hypodermic needle

Only Tiny Fraction of UK Doctors Plan to Take Flu Vaccine—In the face of frantic hype surrounding swine flu and official pressure, the vast majority of UK doctors and nurses are not planning to take the controversial H1N1 vaccine. Why? If this flu is so scary and the vaccinations so effective and safe, wouldn't those on the frontlines, the ones most likely to come into contact with infected people, be the first to queue up?

Man Who Refused Swine Flu Vaccine Orders Health Workers to Take It—In a stunning display of hypocrisy, Dr. Richard Daines, New York State's Commissioner of Health, has ordered all healthcare workers to be injected with both seasonal and swine flu vaccines, while he has refused to take it himself.

Taiji Dolphin Slaughter—Please Sign Petition to Stop It.—This secretly-shot video graphically shows the wholesale slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. It's merciless. The dolphins are herded into a cove and exit is stopped by nets. The nets are drawn in, tighter and tighter, as the men kill them, one by one, with knives.

Boy behind distorting glass with threatening hypodermic needle

The Cocaine Vaccine—For Control of the Masses?—An ineffective cocaine vaccine has been developed. In Orwellian Newspeak, the abject failure is being billed as a success. The real issue, though, is why. What's really going on? Is it simply more profits for Big Pharma, or could it be plans for controlling the masses?

Claim That Girl Did Not Die from Cervarix—Is It Credible?—Today's news reports tell us that Natalie Morton's tragic death shortly after receiving the Cervarix vaccine was not caused by the jab. However, on reading reports of the claim, I find it difficult to believe. Here's why.

Hypodermic injecting or drawing from raw egg yolk

UK Approves Untested Flu Vaccine With Dangerous Additives for Use in Children—Pandemrix vaccine contains squalene, has not been tested on children under 18, has limited efficacy, and was tested for bird flu, not swine flu. Yet, it's being pressed on virtually the entire English population, and may be forced on children.

Docs Reveal Private Patient Info on Blogs and Tweet During Surgery—What was that about doctors treating your personal information as confidential? Don't count on it. Imagine that you're in surgery and look up to find your doctor Tweeting away, getting the word out about the fascinating surgery he's about to do? How would that make you feel?

People in India Devastated by Industry-Induced High Fluoride Levels—In the United States, fluoride is added to water and toothpaste. It's a major component of many drugs, fertilizers, and pesticides. Fluoride's toll on people in India, where corporations are relatively uncontrolled, is evident in horribly deformed bodies wracked with pain. Is it possible that it's taking a toll in the US, too?

The Yes Men Parody the New York Post—The Yes Men do another one of their brilliant satires, but this one with a twist. They put out a New York Post, a notoriously right wing climate change denying paper, but it tells the truth about climate change.

Mad As Hell Doc Passionately Explains Why Healthcare Must Be A Right—This Mad As Hell Doctor passionately explains why the only solution for the abomination of our healthcare system must come from the government. "The government is the instrument by which this obscenity must be changed."

Skull & Crossbones on Dollars Going Down a Drain

Sting on FDA Demonstrates Its Corruption—If the FDA ever existed for the benefit of the people, that time has long passed. A congressional sting demonstrates the malfeasance that places every person who could be subjected to drugs or devices wielded by the medical system at grave risk.

Fluoride Damage in Horses from US Fluoridated Water—The Same Stuff We're Supposed to Drink (video)—The damage done to these horses from drinking Colorado fluoridated water is devastating. This video gives evidence of tooth fluorosis, hoof deformities, bone fluorosis, skin disorders, and cancer caused by water fluoridation. Given a choice, the horses will ignore city water and eat snow.

Doctors Prescribe Zyprexa on Bets With Lilly Sales Reps—How would you like knowing that your doctor prescribed a drug to you because he lost a bet with a pharmaceutical representative? That's exactly what happened with Zyprexa, one of the most toxic drugs around.

Universal No Symbol Over Hypodermic Needle

UK Protest Against Forced Vaccinations—In response to England's plans of mandatory vaccinations, the Vaccine Awareness Network (VAN) has organised a protest in outside the Houses of Parliament, Parliament Square Garden, London, 12.00-2.00 on 3 October 2009. This issue affects anyone who values personal freedom.

Shadow of Parent and Child Hands Reaching for Each Other

England Is Planning on Forced Vaccinations—England appears to be quietly planning to force vaccinations on all people, including children. JCVI and its Big Pharma money-soaked members have virtually the weight of law on their side in forcing everyone, including children, to be vaccinated.

Man Reenlists for Medical Coverage for Son—Dies in Action—A man out of the military for 11 years lost his job, and with it went his son's healthcare. So he reenlisted, went to Afghanistan - and died a month later.

Sign says: Waltons America's Richest Family

Who Pays for Walmart Employees' Healthcare?—This very short video explains why single-payer health insurance is in the public's interest. The Waltons are the richest family in America, but a big part of their wealth is based on their employees' lack of healthcare.

The Daily Cognitive Discord—George Orwell Spins—In this modern world, perception is everything. Spin it right and things will go your way, but only corporate quantities of money can finance this sort of control of public impression. That isn't hyperbole; it's how the world is run. It is, of course,unsustainable—but so is everything else in the modern world.

Bill Moyers Says Americans Are Children of Barnum & Bailey—'We're about to get healthcare reform that measures human beings only in the corporate terms of cost-benefit analysis,' says Bill Moyers.

Fluoride? over Salt Shaker, Water Glass, and Toothpaste

A Pinch of Fluoride in Salt?—Are you adding fluoride to your toxic intake when you use salt? In several major European countries, India, and Japan, salt fluoridation is routine. Of course, the usual excuse is that it's good for teeth, but that claim is highly questionable. While topical treatment may be beneficial, ingestion offers no benefit, and fluoride is highly toxic.

Who Owns the Country? It Ain't You.—Why are things so crazy? George Carlin explains. No mincing around about it, no punches pulled.

A bit of a warning: If you're offended by strong language, then pass this one by. (But you'll be missing the perfect humor...you know, the kind that tells the truth.)

Pig butts with hypodermic needle & shadow needle superimposed

New Flu Vaccine Linked to Paralysis—In a letter leaked from the UK's Health Protection Agency (HPA), the new swine flu vaccine is linked to paralysis, Guillain Barré syndrome. It's the same condition that was caused by the 1976 flu vaccine prepared for an epidemic that never happened, yet the vaccine left about 500 people with their lives forever constrained by paralysis and 25 dead.

Hands of hospitalized elderly woman with blood oxygen monitor

The Medical Paradigm Is Fatally Flawed—We live in a society based on a fatally flawed paradigm, a fact that is becoming apparent as we face a collapsing economic system in a collapsing environment. Even so, many who recognize the flaws of these systems still hold tightly to the concept of a medical system that exists for their benefit. It is, though, part of the same flawed paradigm.

Tamiflu Package With Skull & Crossbones Superimposed

Tamiflu^®Causes Side Effects in Over 50% of Children—A study of Tamiflu showed that more than half the children taking it suffered from gastrointestinal or neuropsychiatric problems...The UK has made Tamiflu an over the counter drug...It's difficult to believe that Britain's citizens are NICE's primary concern.

Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings—Joe Bageant on the next stage of corporate takeover: "For all its pretense and manufactured consent, our government is just a corporate racket now, and probably will remain so from here on out...Corporations are now, for all practical purposes, the only way anything can get done, made or distributed, or even imagined as a way of anything coming into being." If you don't like strong language, then pass this one by.

Sterilizing the World Will Not Make Us Safe—Agribusiness is trying to sterilize the world. This is, of course, a business decision. If the goal were to improve health, then they would long ago have focused on growing healthier foods—but they don't. It's all about profits. When their bottom line was hurt by food poisoning outbreaks, they had to find a way to capitalize on it.

Was Virulent E. Coli Caused By Agribusiness?—E. coli is a common bacterium...a type of probacteria. You have it in your system right now, and would die if it weren't there...Why are we experiencing these disease outbreaks? Could it be that Big Agribusiness has created this scourge?

The Military's Afraid of a Single Soldier's Homosexuality—Lt. Dan Choi has stood up and spoken out. He's gay. No one should care, but the military is so fearful that the mere fact he's done so has resulted in putting him on trial simply for being who he is and refusing to be silent about it. Shortly before the United States of America's celebration of independence—for whom?—here are his words today:

Mouse cowering in petrie disk from big hypodermic needle.

Squalene—Is New Vaccine Additive the Worst Yet?—Cover your arms, because a new and even worse vaccination assault may be upon Americans. Already approved to assault Europeans, an adjuvant—vaccine additive to increase its effect—called squalene is being added to boost the activity of the newer, weaker vaccines...It's been tested to see what happens when injected into animals. The results are, quite frankly, ugly.

Biohazard Stamp over Dragon & Codex Alimentarius

Codex Alimentarius (Part 2)—Food Defined As A Bunch of Chemicals—Foods most commonly eaten—those supplied by agribusiness—are sorely lacking in nutrients. If the health of people were Codex's primary concern, this would be a major issue...Instead, it is determined to remove our ability to rectify the problem. Supplement and vitamin potencies are so low that they become virtually useless.

Codex Alimentarius (Part 1)—Evil as a Medieval Cabal—Codex Alimentarius sounds like a medieval cabal. It is, though, quite thoroughly modern...It's stated purpose is "protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade...Appearances, though, can be deceiving...What Codex Alimentarius has in common with a medieval cabal is its nature—evil.

Anti-Education Intentionally Dumbs Down Americans—Something is deeply wrong in America and the world. It's as if the vast majority of people have given up. Given up caring. Given up thinking. Given up common sense. Given up everything but gluttony. Even in the face of economic meltdown, the focus of government and most people seems to be only to get back to the seeming normality of borrowing and spending.

CDC Covered Up Worst Lead Contamination in History—Tap water in parts of Washington D.C. between 2001 and 2004 was so polluted with lead that it should have been classified as hazardous waste. The nation's watchdog agency, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) knew about it—and covered it up...Lead permanently shrinks children's brains...reduces intelligence...makes children violent.

PsychoCorp #1—FMC Product Banned in U.S. Kills Lions in Africa—FMC hypes its "Commitment to Stewardship" campaign while selling its pesticide to African nations after it was restricted in the U.S. and banned in Europe. The product, Furadan, is such an effective poison that Kenyan cattle herders have sprinkled it over carcasses to lure and kill lions. Oddly enough, its manufacturer, FMC, sees it a little differently.

Skull, medical book, stethoscope, & money

If Homeopathy Can't Work, Then Neither Can Anesthesia—One of the most common arguments against homeopathy says: It can't work, therefore it doesn't. Another throws out the challenge to explain how it works. Neither is a fair argument...These same people do not place the same burden on their own belief in allopathy.

Mountaintop Coal Mining—The Greatest Environmental Sin of All (With Photo Gallery)—The scar in the earth shown in the picture on the right is the result of mountaintop coal mining. If the coal companies have their way, it's what will become of the rest of the Appalachian Mountains. As bad as it looks, the reality is even worse. The scars are not only ugly, they're toxic. The environment will never recover. It's poisoned.

New Killer Flu Is Here—and It's Drug Resistant—After years of fear-mongering about a new killer flu, with news about possible outbreaks here and there coming to nothing, the breakout of the real thing is receiving little attention. There's no media outcry, though. Why not?

Why Americans Are No Longer the Tallest People in the World—Average height provides one of the best indications of a population's overall health. Until the last few years, U.S. citizens were the world's tallest and enjoyed better health than the people of any other nation. Things have changed, though. Now, western Europeans' height exceeds that of Americans, and the difference is growing larger...longevity has also decreased during the same time that height has dropped...the United States is between 28 and 38 in the world for life expectancy, behind nearly all western European nations.

Erasing Bad Memories Pill—Recycling Bad Drugs for Worse Uses—You have a bad memory. Would you trade it for the risk of chronic heart failure or sexual dysfunction? That's the truth behind the headlines of a new wonder drug that might be able to erase bad memories.This is what our drug manufacturers and medical system have come to: hiding the truth behind drugs while pushing them on an unsuspecting populace that has been conditioned to look in awe at doctors and scientists as demigods.

A Commodity Called Misery—A subject near and dear to my heart is the issue of mental health—in terms of its definition, what it means in today's society, and how it's become medicalized. So, I've wracked my brains trying to figure out how to introduce the topic in Gaia Health. Meanwhile, Joe Bageant—the brilliant individualistic curmudgeon—went ahead and wrote what I'd have written. Assuming I had half his talent. So, rather than sink to plagiarism, I asked if he'd mind allowing Gaia Health to reprint it.

What the FDA Considers Acceptable Yucky Stuff in Food—Do you wash your food before eating it? Do you toss moldy food? Do you make sure that flies don't land on your dinner? Is the thought of poo on your food just plain disgusting? Do you think that the FDA assures the same things? Here's a shock for you: Sesame seeds are allowed 5 mg. of "mammalian excreta" per pound.

So...Who Runs the FDA?—If you ever had any doubt about who runs the FDA, then you can stop wondering. It's the peanut gallery. You might think that the first duty of the FDA is to the people of America. But you'd be missing something far more important—the true lifeblood of the nation, peanut butter. The Peanut Corporation of America had to approve any public notification that the FDA might want to produce.

Unsuspecting People Die From Artificial Blood Tests—If you have been in an accident during the last ten years, you could have been a guinea pig for a medical product without even being told – and the FDA approved it. The products are artificial blood, several types produced by different pharmaceutical corporations. Perfectly good human blood could have been available, but you would have been given the artificial stuff.

Bananas Are Dying—Killed By Corporate Monoculture—Prepare to say goodbye to bananas. Do you remember back in the sixties when there was a change in bananas? It wasn’t announced, but those of us who love the fruit recall it...That change foretold what’s now coming—the near-complete death of bananas. They're dying, and their death is a precursor of what’s to come if we continue to accept corporate farming.