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Regina's Blog: Swine Flu Hoax?

Regina's Blog: Swine Flu Hoax?.

Whenever I begin to see blaring headlines regarding the word “pandemic”, I make a call to Dr. Lorraine Day, the former chief of Orthopedic Surgery at USF. Not one to mince words, and a dogged researcher, I can count on Lorraine to give me the big picture behind the headlines. I made that call yesterday. Her first words, underscored with a hearty laugh, were “It’s just another hoax!” Here’s the long and short of it according to Lorraine. (click link above for more)

Say NO to Vilsack!

Say NO to Vilsack!.

Despite a massive public outcry, including over 20,000 emails from the Organic Consumers Association, President-Elect Obama has chosen former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to be the next Secretary of Agriculture.

While Vilsack has promoted respectable policies with respect to restraining livestock monopolies, his overall record is one of aiding and abetting Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) or factory farms and promoting genetically engineered crops and animal cloning. Equally troubling is Vilsack's support for unsustainable industrial ethanol production, which has already caused global corn and grain prices to skyrocket, literally taking food off the table for a billion people in the developing world.

Pharma Drugs Masking a Much, Much Bigger Problem

Here are some fascinating stats about our health care system (below).  With  a 14 trillion dollar (US) gross national product, the U.S. is on its way to spending WAY, WAY too much in medical health benefits, as you can see.  The model of "symptom-->drug-->side-effects-->more drugs-->repeat" is highly problematic since the CAUSE is never addressed.  People aren't sick because they have a deficiency of pharma drugs (as the tagline for this blog openly declares).  They are sick because they don't understand that symptoms are merely CLUES to a deeper issue--one that must be uncovered and addressed if the symptoms are to stop.

Drugs MASK the symptoms which a) makes it almost impossible to get to the bottom of the situation and b) gives the patient the false idea that the deeper cause/disorder has been resolved.  It hasn't. Now it's just hiding.  So a few more days/weeks/months later, up it pops again only now it's worse.  What was once a bad case of hemmorhoids (symptom) is now a major vascular disorder requiring expensive surgery to save the life.  Not even the surgery has addressed the actual problem (probably dietary).

We are on track as a country for a total breakdown in this health care system.  There are $900 TRILLION in unfunded but promised Medicare and Social Security benefits right now [1].  If that were distributed to every American, regardless of age (even infants), we would all have to come up with $300,000 or 25x the current household income.

What does this mean?

Genetically Modified Foods

"When eminent scientist Arpad Pusztai went public about his accidental discovery that genetically modified (GM) potatoes severely damage the immune system and organs of rats, he was suspended from the prestigious Scottish research institute where he had worked for thirty-five years. He was silenced with threats of a lawsuit while the Institute denied or distorted his findings." Read more at: www.wanttoknow.info

Virgnia Tech raises concerns - Campus News

Actually this isn't really true.  Just look for the ones who are already on mind-altering psychiatric drugs.

Link: Virgnia Tech raises concerns - Campus News.

Director of Counseling Services Mary Jane Phillips offered her take on the issue.       “The problem is, even in a room full of people with violent thoughts and tendencies, only one or two will actually act on them, so we can’t effectively predict which ones will,” said Phillips. 

Link Between School Shootings Found

Codex Summary

Link: Codex Summary.

HealthFreedomUSA.org, the website of the Natural Solutions Foundation, is beholden to no one: our only interest is health freedom. Rima E. Laibow, MD, successful natural medicine physician since the 1970s, has studied 16,000 pages of Codex documentation. Her conclusion is that people who say that Codex is “consumer protection”, “voluntary”, or “harmless” are, at best, seriously mistaken.

NPR : Researchers Find Bias in Nutrition Studies

This is very interesting and worth noting.  It goes right along with a speech by Michael Crichton about how science as a subject is becoming more and more watered down by political and, if this NPR article is any measure, corporate influence.  Click on link below to listen to the NPR story.

Link: NPR : Researchers Find Bias in Nutrition Studies.

Morning Edition, January 9, 2007 · A new study, co-authored by Harvard researchers and analysts from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, suggests there's a systematic bias in nutrition studies funded by food companies.

JAMA says doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies

Link: JAMA says doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies.

The Journal of the American Medical Association is rocking the boat in conventional medicine. An article in JAMA has come up with the suggestion -- aghast! -- that doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies. Most people didn't know that doctors routinely accept bribes (including hundreds of thousands of dollars in "contractor's fees" for signing patients up for drug trials), so this news may come as a bit of a shock to some.

Big Pharma spends nearly $19 billion a year bribing and influencing physicians, by the way. That's billion with a "B." How much money is $19 billion? It's more money than NASA wastes smashing satellites into Mars and exploding space shuttles in Earth's upper atmosphere. It's more money than the entire junk food industry spends hypnotizing obese children into nagging their parents for another box of sugar-bomb breakfast cereal at the quickie mart. Heck, it's more money than the entire United States spends on genuine disease prevention and health education.

Michael Moore to Expose Big Pharma

Michael Moore, who of course is best known for "Fahrenheit 9/11", is about to take on the pharmaceutical cartel with a new movie called "Sicko".  I'll be counting the months until its September '06 release.  If I were a pharma-corp (read: corpse), I'd start hedging my stock prices now and consider a new line of work--maybe one that doesn't involve pawning addict-creating pseudo-science to children in the name of help.

Link: Variety.com - Checking the pulse on Moore's 'Sicko'.