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		<title>Will the Pig flu or the Q-fever kill you this winter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody loves being right, I’m no different.
H1n1a sliced my town like water through sand. People were sick everywhere. The folks who went down fastest and hardest were, of course, the ones who let the medicos actually stick h1n1a in to their arms.
My 12 year old (Emma) brought the Pig flu home from school last month [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everybody loves being right, I’m no different.</p>
<p>H1n1a sliced my town like water through sand. People were sick everywhere. The folks who went down fastest and hardest were, of course, the ones who let the medicos actually stick h1n1a in to their arms.</p>
<p>My 12 year old (Emma) brought the Pig flu home from school last month (Nov/09).  My wife and 4 year old son both came down with the flu. Thankfully neither my youngest daughter, who is 2, nor I became ill.  Emma, was tested and confirmed as having pig flu, the medico said, it is for sure, everyone else in the house has it too.</p>
<p>Of course they wanted to fill us up with antibiotics and stick flu vaccine in myself and my 2 year old, which we declined.</p>
<p>I really enjoy watching the doctors’ jump up and down when I say “no thanks” to their antibiotics and the swine flu vaccine.  This one got really red faced and angry. She accused me of being irresponsible for using colloidal silver because it’s not recognized as a drug by the regulatory authorities.  Well she is not so arrogant now because my son was back on his feet within 24 hrs of his fever. Emma was back in school within 3 days.  My wife’s flu symptoms also lasted 3 days and not an antibiotic or flu shot was seen in our house hold.</p>
<p>We are well into flu shot season in Northern Europe, big pharma is making money like clouds make rain. The radio said that yesterday 1 million children were given the flu shot on the last day of free immunization (Dutch radio).  That’s a lot of fear and that fear equals profits for big pharma.  The medicos are saying that when the Mexican flu combines with another form of flu, it will become pandemic. That sounds familiar, I get so tired of the predictions, clearly they are as in the dark as the rest of us and they only using history to predict the future.  The truth of it is that history does suggest that we are overdue a flu pandemic.</p>
<p>If you’re in the U.S. you may not yet have heard of the Q-Fever (what a creepy name for bug) but I am afraid you are going to.  (I think I just made a prediction) Q-Fever is known in Southern France in rural areas as they have a lot of sheep and goats.  It is also in my neck of the woods here in Holland. This bug is not new, sheep and goats have been getting it for years.  It’s transmitted thru air and people have also been getting it.  The reason I am writing about it now is because it’s hitting a lot more people now then ever before.  Last year there were 178 reported cases, this year it has nearly doubled to 348 according to the <em>NRC Handelsblad</em>, a Dutch newspaper. There are reports of 9 fatalities this year, that’s just in little old Holland.</p>
<p>At the moment it’s sheep and goat farmers, their families and neighbors that is at high risk. It does not look like it will stay that way.</p>
<p>I love to say it, I have a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that my family are in no real danger. Not from Q-Fever, Pig flu, bird flu or some as yet unknown reconstituted dinosaur flu, or any other pathogen nipping into my town for a bit of death and destruction. Why? My cupboard is fully stocked with colloidal silver.</p>
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		<title>Will Mexican flu Kill you this Winter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It’s going to kill a lot of us”, says the media. The CDC is keeping a very close eye on Australia and the southern hemisphere, because of course it is now winter time there.
As usual, this bug will attack the weakest among us; the very old, the very young, the vaccinated.
I have two small children. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“It’s going to kill a lot of us”, says the media. The CDC is keeping a very close eye on Australia and the southern hemisphere, because of course it is now winter time there.</p>
<p>As usual, this bug will attack the weakest among us; the very old, the very young, the vaccinated.</p>
<p>I have two small children. two and three years old.  They have never experienced the pin-prick of an injection.  The doctors are constantly trying to stick a crafty injection into one or more of my kids, and they have to be forcefully told to stick their syringe somewhere else!  You might think that I should be terrified that my children won’t survive any impending pandemic?  Not at all.  I sleep very well at night, and when I wake up I give my kids some vitamins and 10 or 20 ml of Colloidal Silver.  I do this a few times a week, and more if somebody gets sick &#8211; which is not very often, I am happy to say.</p>
<p>I had my faith in Colloidal Silver tested to the limit a few years ago.  My wife was pregnant, and one night at about 10 pm, she started to feel really sick.  Then she started to feel scarily sick, so we rushed to the hospital thinking something was wrong with the baby.  We thought right.  The baby had died, but it wasn’t coming out.  I guess it must have started to decompose, because it had turned into a bacteria factory.  My wife looked really really bad.  The doctors were prepping big injections and drips full of antibiotics.  My wife was slipping in and out of consciousness.  She was very frightened, and so was I.  I asked her if she wanted the antibiotics or if she was going to stick to our guns and go with the Colloidal Silver.  She wanted the antibiotics.  The doctors were pushing it hard.</p>
<p>We are all so preconditioned to listen to what ever these white-coated pharmaceutical sales reps say, that when you are stressed out and worrying about the life of a loved one or your own life, questioning these guys just doesn’t come into the picture! My faith was shaken by my wife and these doctors.  They had an attitude of “this isn’t the time for playing at natural healing, this is life or death so sign the documents and get out of the way so we can pump the drugs in”.</p>
<p>I very nearly caved at this point, clutching at the last available straw; I asked the nearest white coat, “Do you know what Colloidal Silver is?” The doctor did not know what it was, he only knew about antibiotics, so he knew nothing! That reloaded my gun! I told my wife, and I guess she could see my renewed faith. This was what convinced her that Colloidal Silver was what was going to save her – and not the antibiotics.</p>
<p>It gave me one of the most satisfying moments of my life, when 24 hours later my wife walked out of the hospital unaided, and away from a near-death experience.  Slack-jawed doctors all asked about what this product was, and it gave me great pleasure to tell them what it was, and that I made it!</p>
<p>My wife and I, needless to say, will never use antibiotics again.</p>
<p>It really surprised me just how much influence the media has over our decision making.  If you would have told me in advance that I would be making a life or death decision with my wife, and the choice would be between antibiotics and Colloidal Silver, I would have said it was a no-brainer.  When actually faced with the situation it was one of the toughest calls I’ve had to make.  That really doesn’t make sense to me.  I know Colloidal Silver works, and I know antibiotics don’t! I’ve seen C.S. help 100’s of people and not one person has ever turned blue/grey &#8211; not from my product.  Why would I have such fear and doubt at the moment of truth?</p>
<p>The insidious influence of the media is why.  You can’t open a magazine or paper, or turn on a T.V., with out seeing the reassuring adverts of our “efficient hospitals”, our wonderful medical system, and all the drugs used to treat the problems that other drugs created.</p>
<p>I would love to see a comparison between medical doctors and homeopathic doctors which showed which group gets sued more.  I know where I’d place my bet.  My wife’s brother had a baby a few months ago.  Her brother is a well-educated fellow who knows a thing or two about vitamins and Colloidal Silver.  But my wife was shocked when he said he had just come back from vaccinating his son!</p>
<p>I guess when he looked at his darkest fears, the media won.  I don’t live in the USA anymore.  The media is strong here where I live, but not quite as strong as it is in the good’ ol U.S. of A.</p>
<p>Buy Colloidal Silver; just make sure it’s not stronger then 20-PPM.  15 is best.  Buy vitamins.  Get a lot of them, for your family’s sake and your own. I don’t know if the Mexican Flu is government/Illuminati scare-mongering, or if they really intend to sacrifice millions of us on the alter of whatever gods/demons they worship.  But, whatever the case, I am ready, and I hope you are too.</p>
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		<title>Drug Dealers Selling Vitamins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A scenario of drug dealers selling vitamins could become the norm soon, because of a set of “guidelines” used by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to resolve disputes.
These Guidelines are called the Codex Alimentarius (Food Cleanliness Codes). Because the WTO will use these guidelines to resolve disputes, countries which don&#8217;t accept the Codex, and make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A scenario of drug dealers selling vitamins could become the norm soon, because of a set of “guidelines” used by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to resolve disputes.</p>
<p>These Guidelines are called the Codex Alimentarius (Food Cleanliness Codes). Because the WTO will use these guidelines to resolve disputes, countries which don&#8217;t accept the Codex, and make it law, will be penalized in international trade disputes for non compliance!</p>
<p>As most countries are either members of the WTO, or are trying to become members, this is one way of forcing the world to undemocratically submit to rules that will destroy the health of populations &#8211; but make billions in profit for the pharmaceutical cartel (which is of course owned by the world richest families, who are already trillionaires).</p>
<p>The section of the Codex that deals with nutritional supplements changes the classification of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, amino acids, and anything else necessary to sustain good health, from being foods, to being drugs. In other words, they would be controlled and regulated, and our access to these &#8211; essential ingredients for life &#8211; would only be via prescription from a doctor.</p>
<p>Why would the WTO do this? For the same reason that most things happen: money.</p>
<p>If you are taking nutritional supplements you are very unlikely to need or want drugs.  That’s a real good reason for the pharma cartel to find a way to stop you from getting your vits.</p>
<p>On both sides of the Atlantic, we are voting politicians into office who are voting for Codex Alimentarius.  That means that we are voting people into office who will stop us from getting the essential nutrients we need for life.  I don’t know about you, but when I get sick I reach for Colloidal Silver and very high dose vitamin C.  This is how I would handle most illnesses, from the Mexican flu to the common cold.  In fact, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, anything viral or bacterial can be handled in this way.</p>
<p>These politicians are making it so that I would not be able to give my children anything close to a meaningful dose of vitamins in a health crisis &#8211; the likes of which will be upon us in a few short months.  Even the terrestrial media is predicting the outbreak of Mexican flu pandemic this winter.  Oh, and guess what? Roche has already made billions on pre-sales, of the symptom-suppressing Tamiflu &#8211; which heals nothing.</p>
<p>Did you know that Under Codex Alimentarius, any quantity of a vitamin larger than the RDA is considered potentially toxic and is illegal to sell? This, despite the fact that for decades many people have taken 100 times the RDA of Vitamin C (10 grams per day), even when they have been healthy &#8211; and a lot more if they&#8217;ve had a virus.<br />
Food manufacturers want a very low RDA so they can say that their food contains 100% of the required amount of Vitamin C (and other vitamins), even though this is a lie. The pharma cartel wants to stop people from preventing and curing colds, flus, and other viral diseases with Vitamin C, so they can make billions of dollars every year selling cold and flu drugs that give only symptomatic relief &#8211; as Roche just did with Tamiflu. And they give no assurance that these will have any effect against Mexican flu!.</p>
<p>The aims of Codex Alimentarius are clearly defined: Statements on the curative effects of vitamins and other natural remedies will be banned and made a punishable offense. In the future, the distinction between a foodstuff and a medicine will be made by the pharma cartel itself, and not by governments. In other words, the pharma cartel will have the power to say vitamin C is a drug and can only be sold with a perscription!<br />
Using this new legislative edict, the pharmaceutical industry will extend its own markets as it sees fit.</p>
<p>At present, the pharmaceutical industry in Germany has succeeded in classifying 500 milligrams of vitamin C, in pill form, as a medication requiring a prescription. If the pharmaceutical industry had its way, smaller amounts of vitamin C will be classified in the same manner.</p>
<p>The strategic aims of &#8220;Codex Alimentarius:</p>
<ol>
<li>The distribution of health information concerning vitamins, amino acids, minerals and other natural products for the prevention and treatment of diseases will be banned globally.</li>
<li>The sale of vitamins and other natural products which exceed the guidelines of this Codex commission (which are arbitrary and far too low) will be prohibited globally.</li>
<li>Countries that fail to apply these laws will be punished by international economic sanctions.</li>
</ol>
<p>What to do? First of all, go out and buy a kilo of the best vitamin C powder you can find (powder is cheaper, and has no fillers like tablets do). Get a liter at least of Colloidal Silver (not more then 15-20 PPM).</p>
<p>Then ask your local politician if he/she will vote against The Codex.</p>
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		<title>Medical Journal Advocates Dangerous Psych Meds for Healthy People</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an amazing article in Nature, the international weekly journal of science , it is recommended that dangerous mind-altering psych drugs be given to healthy people, preferably university students.  The journal bases this incredible statement on a survey, taken at university campuses, which found that 7% of the students use psych meds to increase [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In an amazing article in <em>Nature</em>, the international weekly journal of science , it is recommended that dangerous mind-altering psych drugs be given to healthy people, preferably university students.  The journal bases this incredible statement on a survey, taken at university campuses, which found that 7% of the students use psych meds to increase their exam scores and study performance, on some campuses it&#8217;s 25%. Note that the other 93% to 75% use the old-fashioned method of just studying your books and materials.</p>
<p><em>“In this article,”</em> says the journal, <em>“we propose actions that will help society accept the benefits of enhancement, given appropriate research and evolved regulation. Prescription drugs are regulated as such not for their enhancing properties but primarily for considerations of safety and potential abuse. Still, cognitive enhancement has much to offer individuals and society, and a proper societal response will involve making enhancements available while managing their risks.&#8221; </em></p>
<p>The “enhancement” referred to consists of drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall, blacklisted by numerous watchdog agencies as unsafe and dangerous, causing side effects ranging from heart attacks to violence and death (either suicide or homicide – pick your choice). </p>
<p>Now, if you question the oxymoron of a magazine called “Nature”  advocating psych meds for healthy people, they have a ready answer for you in the same article: </p>
<p><em>“As for an appeal to the &#8216;natural&#8217;, the lives of almost all living humans are deeply unnatural; our homes, our clothes and our food — to say nothing of the medical care we enjoy — bear little relation to our species&#8217; &#8216;natural&#8217; state. Given the many cognitive-enhancing tools we accept already, from writing to laptop computers, why draw the line here and say, thus far but no further?”</em></p>
<p>Yes, you read this correctly! In other words, you&#8217;re eating double-double bacon and cheese burgers too, you&#8217;re wearing polyester clothes and you use hair extensions, so why not just throw a bottle of Ritalin in the equation?</p>
<p>You&#8217;re not natural anyway, so who cares?</p>
<p>Wow!</p>
<p>A look further into this puffery finds that <em>Nature</em> hired several “experts” to put this article together – two of which are on Big Pharma&#8217;s payroll, naturally. </p>
<p>Mike Adams of the Natural News Network puts it this way: <em>&#8220;Once again, the answer is obvious: It&#8217;s all about monopolizing the profits on drugs. Big Pharma wants you to buy THEIR drugs, and the only difference between a legal drug vs. an illegal drug is who profits from it. Everything that makes money for Big Pharma will be legal. Everything that competes with pharma profits will be outlawed. Even when they&#8217;re all the same chemicals!&#8221;</em></p>
<p>I suggest you read the <em>Nature</em> article and write the people who wrote the article (emails are listed). Tell them to take some Ritalin or Adderall and try it out to see if they feel more “enhanced”. And don&#8217;t be surprised that at least one of them will find himself dangling at the end of a rope or engage in a shoot-out at the nearest MacDonald. He wasn&#8217;t &#8220;natural&#8221; anyway, wasn&#8217;t he?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7223/full/456702a.html"><br />
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7223/full/456702a.html </a></p>

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The Supreme Court may rule that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for dangerous or even deadly side effects from their drugs if those side effects arise from an FDA-approved use.
Under a legal argument known as &#8220;pre-emption,&#8221; the FDA&#8217;s approval of a drug absolves companies of any responsibility if that drug later turns out to be [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>The Supreme Court may rule that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for dangerous or even deadly side effects from their drugs if those side effects arise from an FDA-approved use.</strong></p>
<p>Under a legal argument known as &#8220;pre-emption,&#8221; the FDA&#8217;s approval of a drug absolves companies of any responsibility if that drug later turns out to be dangerous, even if information was concealed from the FDA during the approval process. While courts have rejected this argument for decades, the winds appear to be shifting.</p>
<p>In February, the Supreme Court ruled that makers of medical devices were indeed immune from state lawsuits if their devices had received FDA approval. But that decision hinged on the specific wording of the law that gives the FDA authority over medical devices, and the laws relating to drug regulation are not worded the same way.</p>
<p>Even so, the Bush administration has been actively urging the courts to apply the same principle to drugs. The administration argues that only the FDA is equipped to regulate drugs and decide whether a product is safe, and that judges or juries are not able to make informed decisions on those matters.</p>
<p>The FDA has also recently thrown its support behind pre-emption, reversing a longstanding, de-facto policy of viewing lawsuits as an extra layer of oversight to make up for the agency&#8217;s time and budget constraints. Now the agency says that lawsuits over drug side effects could lead to a confusing state-by-state regulatory patchwork that would cause hardship to drug companies and discourage patients from taking certain medications.</p>
<p>Drug companies are using the pre-emption argument as a legal defense in a wide variety of lawsuits, and the Supreme Court is expected to hear such a case, concerning the company Wyeth, in the fall. Before that, however, a lower federal court is expected to rule on whether pre-emption can be used to dismiss lawsuits by more than 3,000 women who claim that they were injured by using Johnson &amp; Johnson&#8217;s OrthoEvra birth control patch according to the instructions on the label.</p>
<p>When Johnson &amp; Johnson announced its plans for a birth control patch in 1996, one of the main benefits it claimed the product would provide was the ability to prevent pregnancies through lower doses of estrogen than birth control pills. High doses of estrogen are known to increase women&#8217;s risks of blood clots, heart attacks, strokes and death.</p>
<p>But company documents publicized as part of the lawsuits show that in 1999, the company discovered that the patch actually exposed women to significantly more estrogen than the pill, a total of 30 to 38 micrograms per day. Because only about half of the estrogen in a birth control pill actually enters the bloodstream, this means that women using the patch were getting as much estrogen each day as if they were taking a 76 microgram birth control pill.</p>
<p>The FDA banned birth control pills containing more than 50 micrograms of estrogen in 1988.</p>
<p>Rather than reporting this data to the FDA, however, the study&#8217;s author instead applied a &#8220;correction factor,&#8221; reducing the estrogen figures by 40 percent. Although the author claimed this was meant to adjust for differing rates of estrogen absorption, such a &#8220;correction&#8221; was a deviation from the study procedure previously submitted to the FDA.</p>
<p>In the final report submitted to the FDA, Johnson &amp; Johnson claimed that OrthoEvra exposed women to only 20 micrograms of estrogen per day. The &#8220;correction factor&#8221; was referenced only once in the 435-page study report, buried in a complex mathematical formula.</p>
<p>According to internal company emails, other clinical trials conducted before approval suggested that women were experiencing side effects such as breast soreness and nausea due to high estrogen doses, but the company did not warn the FDA that the patch might be delivering more estrogen than advertised. Nor did it tell the agency about other studies, in 1999 and 2003, showing that the patch exposed women to more estrogen than the pill.</p>
<p>When the FDA approved the product in 2001, Johnson &amp; Johnson marketed it as releasing less estrogen than the pill, containing 20 micrograms per day.</p>
<p>The label was not revised until a 2005 investigation by the FDA, following reports of deaths resulting from use of the drug. At that point, the FDA made Johnson &amp; Johnson add a warning that the product &#8220;exposes women to higher levels of estrogen than most birth control pills.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the company always knew this to be the case, several lawsuits now allege, and is thus responsible for the side effects that resulted: heart attacks, strokes and even deaths in those who used the patch as directed. Studies have since confirmed that women on the patch may have twice the blood clot risk of women taking birth control pills, and prescriptions have fallen 80 percent, from a high of 900,000 in March 2004 to only 187,000 in February 2007.</p>
<p>But Johnson &amp; Johnson claims that because the FDA approved the drug, the company cannot be held responsible for its effects.</p>
<p>Janet Abaray, a lawyer for one of the plaintiffs, disagrees, saying the company took advantage of the agency&#8217;s shortcomings.</p>
<p>&#8220;Johnson &amp; Johnson knew that FDA. does not have the funding or the manpower to police drug companies,&#8221; Abaray said.</p>
<p>David Vladeck of Georgetown Law School agrees that the FDA has no ability to verify that drug companies are being truthful in their reports.</p>
<p>&#8220;These are scientists, not cops,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Chris Seeger, another plaintiffs&#8217; lawyer, said it would be a mistake to allow pre-emption to let the drug companies off the hook.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our lawsuits are the ultimate check against the mistake made by the government, or fraud made by the companies against the government, or just an underfunded bureaucracy stretched thin,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Sources for this story include: www.nytimes.com.</p>

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