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Black cohosh safe for your liver, review finds

(NaturalNews) A safety review published in the journal Menopause has confirmed that black cohosh, a natural plant alternative to conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT), is safe and will not cause liver damage. Some recent reports have questioned the dietary supplement’s safety, but the new study confirms that menopausal women can safely use black cohosh to help alleviate hot flashes, night sweats, and other menopause symptoms. Led by Dr. Belal Naser from the German-based Schaper and Brummer GmbH and Co., manufacturer of a popular brand of black cohosh, the study analyzed 1,100 women who used either black cohosh, HRT, or a placebo to treat menopause symptoms for up to six months. Not only did users of black cohosh not experience visible signs of liver damage, but 62 percent of those taking the supplement that had indicators of liver problems prior to the study actually saw these indicators normalize at the completion of the study. At least eight different studies have shown that black cohosh is just as effective as synthetic HRT therapies at treating menopause symptoms, but without the harmful side effects. A 2004 study from the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., for instance, found that black cohosh reduces weekly hot flash averages by more than 50 percent. And the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists supports the use of black cohosh for treating menopause symptoms. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026403_black_cohosh_symptoms_menopause.html). Conventional HRT drugs, on the other hand, have been shown to increase women’s risk of having a heart attack or stroke, as well as developing breast cancer, ovarian cancer, blood clots, and asthma. Much of the research claiming synthetic HRT drugs to be effective is also based on medical fraud, according to some reports (http://www.naturalnews.com/HRT.html). Sources for this story include: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/28/us-black-cohosh-idUSTRE70R7IL20110128

USDA deregulates GMO corn engineered to produce fuel, not food

(NaturalNews) Right on the heels of the USDA’s decision to deregulate GM alfalfa (http://www.naturalnews.com/031196_GE_alfalfa_GMOs.html), the U.S. Department of Agriculture has now decided to completely deregulate genetically engineered corn used for ethanol production. This is just the latest Frankenfood horror unleashed by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, who has firmly established himself as the regulatory puppet of Monsanto and other GMO giants. The public spin on this decision is that it will allow the growing of corn engineered to produce more ethanol fuel, thereby improving the efficiency in the conversion of corn to fuel. This claim is, of course, scientifically invalid on so many levels that it’s difficult to know where to begin. But I’ll take a shot at it… Remember when we used to actually EAT corn? For starters, in a world where food prices are rapidly rising, where crops are failing due to radical weather events, and where food stockpiles are at their lowest levels in many decades, the idea of converting food to fuel is utterly ludicrous. Making matters even worse, there’s the simple fact that the ethanol advocates simply refuse to admit: Growing corn for fuel consumes more fuel than it produces! The whole corn-for-ethanol debacle is simply another government-run agricultural cluster shuck involving the wasting of billions of taxpayer dollars which disappear into the black hole of subsidies handed out to corn growers. The whole thing smacks of economic insanity combined with an almost alien view of the natural world. To look upon an acre of corn and think that it’s supposed to be burned in combustion engines rather than consumed as nutrition represents a whole new level of mental illness — an illness which has infected the minds of regulators and lawmakers. (Is there a vaccine shot to prevent it yet?) Beyond that, the claim that this corn-to-fuel effort is now the justification for unleashing genetically contaminated GE corn across North America is not just bad thinking; it’s dangerously bad thinking from people who should know better. The end of agricultural genetic integrity Because you know what happens next? With GE corn being planted everywhere, the wind will cross-contaminate regular corn crops, resulting in widespread genetic pollution of the corn grown in America. This, in turn, will result in America’s corn being refused for importation by other nations which don’t want to poison their people with genetically altered corn (unlike the U.S. government). It will damage the entire U.S. corn industry, in other words, and further devastate U.S. farmers who are already squeezed by freak weather events. “The USDA’s decision defies common sense,” said Margaret Mellon, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists Food and Environment Program. “There is no way to protect food corn crops from contamination by ethanol corn. Even with the most stringent precautions, the wind will blow and standards will slip. In this case, there are no required precautions.” Over at the Center for Food Safety, science policy analyst Bill Freese wrote, “Syngenta’s biofuels corn will inevitably contaminate food-grade corn, and could well trigger substantial rejection in our corn export markets, hurting farmers.” (http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/02/usda-fully-deregulates-ethanol-corn/) An article at Truth-Out.org reveals some of the possible under-the-table financial links that may be behind this decision to deregulate GE corn: http://www.truth-out.org/big-win-biotech-usda-deregulates-monsanto-alfalfa67373 The Alliance for Natural Health has also posted a very good summary on this situation. It’s a great read: http://www.anh-usa.org/now-usda-has-deregulated-genetically-engineered-bio-fuel-corn/ Our corn supply is being stalked by Monsanto So what does it all mean? It means that between the GE corn, GE sugar beets, GE alfalfa, cotton, soy and other ingredients, we are living in a grand, dangerous experiment of playing God with seeds . I’ve said this before: It’s almost as if people like Tom Vilsack (and other Monsanto minions) are just begging Mother Nature to wipe out human civilization and start over. Here, everybody! Let’s turn our food crops into pesticide absorbers, then feed them to cows and people! It’s all being done for corporate profits, of course. Because that’s all it takes to compromise the future of life on our planet: Just another buck on the bottom line. That’s all it takes at the USDA, too: Just another promise of a sweet, cushy job in the corn industry after you’ve left the agency. Bend enough rules in favor of Big Ag, and you can name your salary a few years down the road. Because if there’s a kernel of truth to be found in any of this, it’s that corporations — and regulators — will operate with outrageous disregard for the integrity of the natural world. By the way, this decision was made under the guise of “science.” All the lies now being repeated about the safety of genetically engineered crops are being bolstered by the laughable claim that they are “scientific” and that anyone who opposes GMOs is, by default, “unscientific.” Read more about that in my article, “Unscientific” is secret code for anyone who opposes GMOs or pesticides (http://www.naturalnews.com/031093_unscientific_GMOs.html). While you’re at it, be sure to visit the Institute for Responsible Technology (www.ResponsibleTechnology.org) where you can learn more about GMOs from Jeffrey Smith, who is also a featured contributing writer here on NaturalNews. If you’re up for some educational entertainment, check out my popular hip hop song, “Just Say No to GMOs” http://www.naturalnews.com/NoGMO.html

Audit reveals widespread corruption in Global Fund

(NaturalNews) Investigators working on behalf of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a United Nations (UN) alternative funding organization, have found that much of the group’s $21.7 billion development fund has been lost to corruption. The celebrity-endorsed financing institution’s inspector general’s office found that in some countries, up to two-thirds of grant money has been misappropriated or stolen. The office has only audited a small portion of the $10 billion that has been distributed since 2002, but what it has found thus far is shocking. In Djibouti, for instance, 30 percent of grant money could not be accounted for or was misused. Thirty-six percent of funds provided to Mali to fight tuberculosis and malaria were misspent. And an astounding 67 percent of anti-AIDS money given to Mauritania was lost to fraud. Global Fund spokesman Jon Liden stated in response to the findings that his organization does “not have any corruption problems that are significantly different in scale or nature to any other international financing institution,” but such a statement is hardly a valid excuse for multiple millions of taxpayer and donor dollars simply disappearing without consequence. The Global Fund says it is ramping up efforts to better manage its funds and keep a closer watch on how the money is spent. But these good intentions cannot recover the loss of $3.5 million in Zambia, for instance, or the millions of dollars worth of malaria drugs that were stolen and resold on the black market. Many of the nations that regularly donate to the global fund are now reconsidering, including Sweden which has decided to suspend its $85 million annual donation until the situation is under control. Swedish Foreign Ministry spokesman Peter Larsson is quoted in a Time article saying that his nation is concerned about the “extensive examples of irregularities and corruption that the fund has uncovered.” He added that his country wants to be sure the funds are actually contributing to improved health, and not just to corruption, before contributing any more money to it. Major supporters of the Global Fund include U2′s Bono, former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan, and Bill and Melinda Gates. Sources for this story include: http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/24/celebrity-backed-global-fund-is-racked-with-fraud/

Carrots and cruciferous vegetables prevent breast cancer

(NaturalNews) It is safe to assume that most people are aware of breast cancer’s existence, but many lack practical knowledge about how to go about preventing it through nutrition. However, a new study out of Boston University adds to the growing body of literature about the anti-cancer properties of vegetables, particularly cruciferous ones like carrots, collard greens, cabbage and broccoli. As part of the ongoing Black Women’s Health Study, the recent research was particularly focused on foods that help lower the risk of estrogen receptor-negative (ER-negative) breast cancer, a type of breast cancer common among African-American women. But what they found was that many vegetables fight all forms of breast cancer, and even cancer in general. The team tracked more than 50,000 African-American women for 12 years. Roughly 1,300 of these women developed breast cancer during that time, and 35 percent of those cancers were the ER-negative type. But those that ate at least two servings of vegetables a day were 43 percent less likely to develop ER-negative breast cancer than women who ate less than four servings of vegetables per week. Additionally, women who ate three or more servings of just carrots a week were 17 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than women who ate carrots less that once a month. And cruciferous vegetables in general exhibited anti-cancer effects for all forms of cancer. There are many practical ways by which women can help avoid getting breast cancer. Instead of celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month, NaturalNews would rather turn it into Breast Cancer Prevention Month by informing readers about the foods and herbs they can eat right now to stay healthy and avoid the disease. To learn more about breast cancer prevention, visit: http://www.naturalnews.com/breast_cancer.html Sources for this story include: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69K4WT20101021

Accused murderer receives liver organ transplant while others wait to die

(NaturalNews) Johnny Concepcion is 42 years old. After divorcing his wife, she was found stabbed to death in their home, suffering at least 15 stab wounds. Concepcion reportedly confessed to his friends that he killed his wife, and he soon found himself the subject of a city-wide manhunt in New York City. On the run from authorities, Concepcion decided to kill himself by drinking a container of rat poison. But that’s not where this story gets weird. The weird part is that after the rat poison destroyed his liver, Concepcion found himself at the top of a liver transplant list at a hospital in New York City. With over 16,000 other people waiting for a liver — many of whom undoubtedly are not murderers — somehow Concepcion was chosen to receive the next available liver from an organ donor. At a cost of several hundred thousand dollars (probably paid by taxpayers), Concepcion was given the new liver transplant and then arrested and taken to jail. He now awaits an August 11 court hearing to face the charge of murder. Huge problems in the organ transplant industry I’ve been an outspoken opponent of the organ transplant industry for several years. While admittedly the industry does save some lives, it has been apparent for a long time that the industry is far more interested in profit than compassion. Organ transplants make hundreds of millions of dollars for the hospitals, surgeons, organ transportation companies and other specialists involved in transplants. The families whose loved ones donate those organs, meanwhile, receive absolutely nothing for the gift of valuable organs they donate to this system. This is a case where a “product” (the organ) is given freely to an industry that then turns around and seeks to maximize its profits often without regard to quality of life. And this case of Johnny Concepcion demonstrates this perfectly: Rather than giving the liver to a human being who truly deserves a second chance, the doctors decided to give it to a man accused of murder… and a man who destroyed his own liver by drinking rat poison . To which I say, “Are you crazy?” Shouldn’t organ transplants go to those who deserve them? If you drink rat poison and destroy your own liver, that should probably disqualify you from the transplant list. Why? Because you’ve already proven you don’t value your own God-given organs. Why should modern medicine hand over a new one? The answer, of course, is because there’s big money to be made in transplants . So even the guy who consciously drinks poison and destroys his own liver is still on the transplant list. I suppose if someone shoots themselves in the chest, they’d still be on the list to receive a heart transplant too, right? Well, the sad truth of the matter is that — get this — most people (but not all) on organ transplant lists have destroyed their own organs! Yep, I said it. I told the truth: The majority (but not all) of heart, lung, liver and kidney transplant patients are those who suffer from a history of chemical abuse or nutritional abuse of their bodies. These people include lifelong smokers, drug addicts, alcohol abusers and junk food eaters. Again, this is most but not all organ transplant recipients. Some of those waiting for organ transplants are truly innocent victims who suffered a car crash, for example, or a rare disease affliction through no fault of their own. Now what I’m proposing here is going to be extremely unpopular in the organ transplant industry, but it makes sense from a human ethics point of view: Shouldn’t transplants first go to those who most DESERVE a second chance? Commonsense guidelines for organ transplants In other words, if your hospital has one spare liver, and you have to choose between three people who all need it (and they’re all a recipient match), and the first person is an alcoholic who destroyed his own liver with drinking, and the second person destroyed his own liver with rat poison, but the third person was in a construction accident and lost half his liver through no fault of his own, shouldn’t the third person get the liver? Because, let’s face it: There are not enough livers to go around. Not by a long shot. Most people on the transplant waiting list never get a transplant. Even some truly deserving people. And far too often, livers go to people who arguably don’t deserve them because they decided to destroy their first liver. In my view, we should start organizing transplant recipients along the lines of medical ethics , rating each person’s “deserving” score based on their level of personal responsibility with the organs they already have. Why should taxpayers, in particular, pay for a half million dollar heart transplant procedure for someone who smokes three packs of cigarettes a day and lives on processed junk food while refusing to exercise? Isn’t that a terrible waste of health care dollars? I mean, if a guy wants to kill himself with cigarettes and junk food, that’s his choice. And he’s got one set of organs to destroy, and that’s it. It’s not right to give him a second set and let him destroy those too, especially when someone else may put them to a better use. Seriously. I know these are not popular questions, and if we had enough livers to go around for everyone, we wouldn’t need to ask these questions, but in an environment where livers are limited and funds are limited does it make any sense for a murderer to get a liver while some other innocent car crash victim dies while waiting for one? Of course not. And the fact that the transplant industry awards these precious organs to the wrong people just demonstrates how far it has veered from the path of medical ethics. (The term “medical ethics” is almost an oxymoron these days…) Let’s nail down some simple rules for organ transplants. We’ll call these “common sense rules” for an industry that has lost common sense: • Rule #1) Murderers should not qualify for organ transplants. No brainer. • Rule #2) People who consciously destroy their own organs (such as by drinking rat poison) should not qualify for organ transplants. • Rule #3) People who choose to live unhealthy lifestyles by consuming processed junk foods, abusing drugs or avoiding basic self-care (exercise) should not quality for organ transplants either. Why? Because it’s a waste to give a valuable organ to someone who isn’t going to take care of it. • Rule #4) Those individuals who lost their own organs through no fault of their own should move up to the top of the organ transplant waiting lists. • Rule #5) People should be required to sign a contract before receiving an organ transplant, and that contract should commit them to avoiding alcohol and drugs (including dangerous OTC painkillers which cause liver damage, for example) and pursuing a healthful diet that will support their lifelong health. Trading in human flesh You might call these the five basic rules for sensible organ transplantation. These rules probably make perfect sense to you and me, but they make no sense whatsoever to the organ transplant industry. That industry, you see, earns the same amount of profit regardless of whether an innocent victim gets the organ or a convicted murderer gets it. It’s all the same to them. In fact, the organ transplant industry is rife with corruption and misdeeds. I’ve covered stories in the past where doctors and hospitals were caught secretly trading body parts for profit . Many U.S. hospitals now engage in the black market trafficking of illegally harvested organs (http://www.naturalnews.com/028994_organ_transplants_black_market.html). In fact, 44 people, including medical personnel, were recently arrested in the United States for their involvement in organ trafficking. In addition — here’s another horrifying thought — many of the organs offered up for transplantation are diseased organs to begin with. Sometimes organs are harvested from people who are riddled with cancer! These organs are then transplanted right into recipients with no warnings about the cancer. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027353_health_disease_cancer.html) So what you have is an industry that will harvest an organ from just about anybody (cancer patients, smokers, drug users, chemotherapy victims, etc.) and transplant that organ into anybody else (murderers, rapists, smokers, etc.) and earn a hefty profit doing so. It doesn’t sound so nice when you look at the real story here, does it? The organ transplant industry is a lot darker and dishonest than what it’s publicly made out to be. Publicly, it’s all sold to you as “saving lives.” But behind the scenes, it’s really about profiting from human flesh , regardless of whether it actually helps a human being who deserves it. Reforms desperately needed Again, this is not to say that the organ transplant industry doesn’t sometimes do the right thing. I have no doubt it ends up saving many deserving lives, but this does not seem to be the driving factor behind its (literal) operations. The industry seems a lot more interested in finding any diseased organ it can get its hands on and thrusting it into any living recipient they can find without engaging in any sort of calculation about quality of life or human compassion. And that’s where the industry has gone terribly wrong. Today, those who donate their organs have to face the very real possibility that their organs could be given to a murderer who may then use them to go out and commit even more murderers. At the same time, those who receive organ transplants have no way to know whether those organs were harvested from cancer patients , drug abusers or chemotherapy victims. So even if you’re “lucky enough” to receive an organ, it might already be riddled with cancer anyway. You’re stuck with the transplant bill but might die of cancer from the organ you received! Read this story, Body part harvesting company sold parts from dead cancer patients, drug users for use in surgery recipients (http://www.naturalnews.com/020109_organ_harvesting_medical_ethics.html) Such is the status of the organ transplant industry today. It doesn’t have to be this way, however. There is arguably a place for organ transplants for true victims of accidents or other causes outside of their control . But for people who just eat junk foods, abuse drugs and alcohol, avoid exercise and live a toxic life, an organ transplant makes no scientific sense. But it does make money… and that’s why they keep being performed. Is it ethical to donate your organs to this system? Make no mistake: Many U.S. hospitals deal in human flesh. They are waiting for car crash victims, suicide victims and other recently dead in order to rip their organs out of their body and transplant them for profit. And although this is beyond the scope of this particular article, I have seen disturbing evidence that if you list yourself as an organ donor on your driver’s license, there is a chance your organs may actually be harvested before you are truly dead . When you’re an organ donor, there’s a rush, after all, to cut out your heart, liver, lungs, kidneys and other parts before they lose too much oxygen. And the very best way to do that, medically speaking, is to make sure your heart is still beating when they begin harvesting. I truly believe there are cases where organ donors have been turned over to the organ harvesting team rather than the resuscitation team even when they were not truly dead. But we’ll probably cover that in another story on another day. In the mean time, I strongly urge you to think carefully about your own organ donation status and how your organs could end up in the body of a murderer. I realize that not all organ donations are bad, and some organ transplants truly do save deserving lives, but until the organ transplant industry reforms itself and disavows the abuses outlined here, I personally will not support it, and I will urge others to avoid it. This is sad because I know that many deserving victims of accidents need organ transplants. But the system in place today too often denies them access to those organs while wasting them on others who simply don’t deserve new organs. Above all, remember this: the best way to save lives is to take care of the organs you were born with . If you don’t destroy the liver you already have, you won’t need a new one! What destroys livers? Pharmaceuticals and over-the-counter medications, for one thing. So does chemotherapy. Isn’t it fascinating that the treatments of one branch of medicine (oncology) create more business for the transplant industry by destroying livers, hearts and kidneys? That’s called repeat business . If you really want to destroy your liver, by the way, take some acetaminophen painkillers (http://www.naturalnews.com/026565_drugs_acetaminophen_liver_failure.html). This common painkiller has also been linked with kidney damage (http://www.naturalnews.com/001523.html). Think about it: If the medical industry really cared about protecting your liver, they wouldn’t keep prescribing medicines that destroy livers!

Dr Garry Gordon reveals ways to slow aging, joins NaturalNews Talk Hour

(NaturalNews) This week’s NaturalNews Talk Hour presents “How to Stop Accelerated Aging”. We’ll reveal the unknown toxins that people use and are exposed to every day. Discover the underlying cause of accelerated aging and dis-ease. If you’re interested in preserving life, don’t miss this show. Can YOU reverse the aging process? According to our next guest – the answer is yes! Watch our latest video to discover how to greatly improve your health, and even help slow the aging process. That video is available now on NaturalNews.TV: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=227 Jonathan – we hope this reaches you. The show with Dr. Garry Gordon was magnificent. You spoke for us when you told the Doctor you could go on for hours – I think we all would have stayed with you. Thank you for bringing such “good” medicine to us. – John and Kathleen Poisoning for Profits According to Dr. James Martin, “The slow poisoning of the population of the United States yields huge profits for mainstream medicine. Treating symptoms with drugs makes billions for the pharmaceutical companies. Costly diagnostic testing, invasive procedures and surgeries keep hospitals, laboratories and medical supply companies in the black.” The NaturalNews Talk Hour begins this Thursday evening at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern, and registration is FREE. Simply enter your email address in the registration form on the right column of this page and you’ll receive call-in details for the show. The Wake-Up Call Why is America SO SICK and aging so poorly? We think about our health more than ever. We watch what we eat, we exercise, and we drink lots of water. In addition, our healthcare system is one of the biggest industries in the world – spending money on the newest wellness or exercise products and services. Discover how to eliminate toxins. Watch our FREE video on NaturalNews.tv: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=227 Toxins in YOUR Home Did you know that the average home contains 2 to 10 gallons of hazardous materials? Think about your carpet, tile, furniture, toys, cosmetics, shampoos, soaps and cleaning products. Most of these products contain toxic heavy metals plus synthetic and artificial chemicals. All these toxins can cause accelerated aging. This week’s guest: James H. Martin, N.D., D.C.C.N. James H. Martin, N.D., D.C.C.N. – “How to Stop Accelerated Aging” Thu. July 8th Dr. Martin is an established Clinical Nutritionist and retired Chiropractic physician who has been in practice for over 30 years. Dr. Martin is the Director of Nutrition Wellness Center in Sarasota, Florida. For decades Dr. Martin has been lecturing and dedicating himself to researching the highest quality of nutritional alternatives. Dr. Martin is dedicating his expertise solely to nutrition, so that his knowledge and experience can reach more people in achieving their optimal health. Don’t Miss Out! Connect with other NaturalNews readers, gain knowledge and have fun at the same time. Space is limited. Be sure to call a few minutes early to reserve your spot on the show. Register now using the email form in the right column, and you will be emailed show details. Register Now!

Medicated in the cockpit: FAA says pilots on psych drugs can fly commercial airliners

(NaturalNews) What would happen if the Columbine high school rampage shooters who were psyched out on mind-altering antidepressant drugs had been piloting a jet airliner instead? On Friday, the FAA issued a new rule that says pilots taking psychiatric medications are now allowed to pilot passenger airliners while medicated! This “permission to fly while medicated” decision by the FAA covers pilots taking the antidepressant psychiatric drugs Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa and Lexapro. Not coincidentally, these are the same drugs that, in the minds of many industry observers, are linked to acts of aggression, suicide and mass murder. People on these drugs may simply lose touch with reality and feel like they’re playing out a video game rather than acting out in the real world. It begs the question: Why is the FAA putting medicated pilots in control of jet airliners? What happens if a psych drug medicated pilot suddenly thinks he’s in a video game and aims his Boeing 767 at a civilian target “just for the fun of it?” Or what if he goes raving mad, strangles the copilot and then crashes the jet airliner nose-first into the ground? While this kind of scenario may seem remote, you have to remember: It only takes one such event to cost the lives of hundreds of air passengers (and perhaps thousands of people on the ground). Today, air travel is remarkably safe in terms of the number of fatalities per miles traveled. It’s far safer than traveling in your car, in fact, and a fair amount of the credit for that safety belongs with the FAA. So why is the FAA now making a decision that seems, on its surface, to endanger the lives of air passengers by allowing psychiatric patients to pilot airplanes? According to the FAA, the answer is because modern psychiatric drugs have fewer side effects. That seems like a political statement, not a medical conclusion, because the side effects that are experienced by a very small number of psychiatric medication users can be so whacked out that they can pose a very real danger to the lives of those around them. The majority of U.S. school shootings that we’ve seen over the last 15 years have been carried out by shooters taking psychiatric medications. Antidepressants work no better than placebo The other part of this story that the FAA seems to be missing is that for all but the most extreme cases of depression, antidepressant drugs have been scientifically proven — through multiple clinical trials — to work no better than placebo. These pilots would do just as well taking capsules filled with olive oil as they do on patented, monopoly-priced SSRI drugs. Yet despite the scientific reality that antidepressants are no better than placebo for the vast majority of patients, doctors continue to prescribe them and now the FAA has allowed these drugs into the cockpit. Er, excuse me, the “Flight Deck.” And this makes me wonder whether those pilot-narrated fly-over descriptions — “On the left you can see Mt. St. Helens” — will start to include hallucinogenic elements, too. “On the right, I see Santa Claus and his ten reindeer, about to pass under engine number four. Please fasten your seat belts while we take evasive action…” Depression is a sign of another health problem If a pilot suffers from depression, that’s an indication that there’s some other health problem they’re dealing with: Usually cardiovascular disease of some kind. Depression can also be brought on by vitamin D deficiencies or a diet lacking in omega-3 oils. Depression isn’t simply an isolated “chemical imbalance in the brain,” as the drug companies would like you to believe: It’s a symptom of a much larger health challenge that almost always includes a cardiovascular component. So if a pilot suffers from depression, shouldn’t that mean they need to reform their own personal health from the inside out rather than relying on a chemical agent to mask their symptoms? I actually know a senior pilot for a major U.S. airline; a guy who flies the largest and most technical Boeing aircraft around. He’s a member of the Life Extension Foundation and takes care of his health through exercise, fasting and daily nutritional supplementation. He’s the kind of pilot I want behind the yoke because I believe that pilots have a special responsibility to be healthy and alert. I would not want to be a passenger on any airplane being piloted by a psychiatric patient medicated on Big Pharma’s dangerous mind-altering drugs. The difficulty, of course, is that you just don’t know which pilot you’re going to get on any given flight, nor what medications that person may be on. We’ve all seen the dangers of people who drive on the roads while medicated — they are responsible for as many as one-third of all traffic accidents today! There’s no question in my mind that allowing medicated pilots to fly commercial airliners is increasing the risk of an accident that could harm or kill the crew and passengers . So I’m going to lay out a prediction here, and even though it may take years for this to come true, there’s little doubt it’s coming unless the FAA reverses its rules: There will be an airplane crash one of these days where the cause is not merely “pilot error” but actually medication-induced pilot error . Some pilot who is psyched out on antidepressant drugs might fly his plane into a building, mountain, ocean or other landscape feature, and the NTSB will recover the black boxes only to find that the pilot had gone stark raving mad minutes before impact. A little more investigation will reveal he was on psychiatric prescription medications. However, you will never learn this truth because the black box data will be buried or it will be claimed they were never found — which is still the case with the jet airliners involved in 9/11, by the way. Those are the only land-based commercial jet airliner crashes in history where the black boxes were claimed to have been completely lost (even though they are virtually indestructible and painted bright orange so they can’t be missed). You can expect the same kind of cover-up to take place after a commercial pilot flies 300+ American passengers into the ground because his psych drugs took his brain chemistry beyond the boundaries of sanity. The FAA, you see, would never want to admit that allowing medicated pilots to fly commercial airliners was a bad decision. And Big Pharma wouldn’t want the story to get out either… Keep psych drugs out of the flight deck (and out of Congress) It seems an obvious point: Mind-altering psychotropic drugs should have no place on the flight deck. Most people who do not have ties to the pharmaceutical industry would agree with that. At the same time, it’s not just pilots who have responsibility for the lives of the people, is it? Members of the U.S. Congress are also making decisions that impact the lives (and livelihoods) of a far greater number of people than airline pilots. So why are most members of Congress doped up, psyched out and mass-medicated with dangerous pharmaceuticals, too? In a recent video that has become an overnight YouTube sensation, U.S. Congressman Hank Johnson from the 4th district of Georgia actually claimed that putting too many people on the island of Guam would cause the island to tip over and capsize: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg Yes, you read that right: This former court judge who somehow got elected to Congress by Georgian voters, said flatly and without joking: “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.” To which the steadfast Admiral Willard paused in disbelief and then replied, without even a hint of sarcasm, “We don’t anticipate that.” Congressman Hank Johnson is not a stupid person. His bizarre on-camera behavior can best be explained by medication side effects . Watch the video and you can see for yourself how he’s barely able to stumble through an attempted description of the geography of the island of Guam. He is displaying classic symptoms of an overly-medicated Congressman! Now you know how the recent health care reform bill got passed. Many of those who voted for it were so over-medicated with Big Pharma’s mind-altering drugs that they had no concept of what they were voting for. This is especially ironic, given that they were voting for enforcing a monopoly medical system that would ensure even more mind-altering drugs being prescribed for the American people! This is why I have publicly called for health standards for all members of Congress. Medicated members of Congress should not be allowed to vote! And that would throw out virtually all the bastards, wouldn’t it? I was thinking we could take all those Congresspeople who no longer meet the health standards and ship them off to Guam to see if it actually does tip over. In fact, why not make a new reality TV show featuring former U.S. Congressmen running wild on the beaches of Guam — and call it “The Tipping Point?” Resources and sources for this story: Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052702304871704575159740692643072.html Hank Johnson’s statements about Guam: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/guam/7548366/Hank-Johnson-US-Congressman-claims-Guam-will-capsize-from-military-influx.html Help stop the madness of modern psychiatry. Support CCHR: www.CCHR.org

In a Time of Cutbacks, Organic Chocolate Maker Looks to Expand

Green & Black’s, the British organic chocolate maker, has expanded to North America, and is now aiming at Northern Europe, including Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany.

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