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"The Flexner Report[1] is a book-length study of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by Abraham Flexner and published in 1910 under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation. Many aspects of the present-day American medical profession stem from the Flexner Report and its aftermath.
The Report (also called Carnegie Foundation Bulletin Number Four) called on American medical schools to enact higher admission and graduation standards, and to adhere strictly to the protocols of mainstream science in their teaching and research. Many American medical schools fell short of the standard advocated in the Flexner Report, and subsequent to its publication, nearly half of such schools merged or were closed outright. Colleges in electrotherapy were closed. The Report also concluded that there were too many medical schools in the USA, and that too many doctors were being trained. A repercussion of the Flexner Report, resulting from the closure or consolidation of university training, was reversion of American universities to male-only admittance programs to accommodate a smaller admission pool. Universities had begun opening and expanding female admissions as part of women's and co-educational facilities only in the mid-to-latter part of the 19th century with the founding of co-educational Oberlin College in 1833 and private colleges such as Vassar College and Pembroke College. ...
Flexner viewed blacks as inferior and advocated closing all but 2 of the historically black medical schools. His opinions were followed and only Howard and Meharry were left open, while 5 other schools were closed. His perspective was that black doctors should only treat black patients and should serve roles subservient to white physicians. The closure of these schools and the fact that black students were not admitted to many medical schools in the USA for 50 years after Flexner has contributed to the low numbers of American born physicians of color and the ramifications are still felt more than a 100 years later. ..."

What has happened recently though to address the shortage of doctors in the USA is that Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants are doing more of the hands-on work, and new careers like health coaches are showing up, knowledge about nutrition (the basis of health) is spreading through a variety of sources and practitioners from chefs to nutritionists to writers and movie makers, and we are all turning to the internet more for health care advice...

Doctors are becoming more and more like technicians controlling a prescription pad in the process -- which is sad for a bunch of reasons. As Dr. Fuhrman says, many prescriptions are just "permission slips" for continuing bad behavior including eating poorly.

And some specific specialties like oncology and cardiology are being called scams...
"Scientific Studies Show Angioplasty and Stent Placement are Essentially Worthless"
https://www.drfuhrman.com/libr...
"Exposing the fraud and mythology of conventional cancer treatments"
http://www.naturalnews.com/033...

Meanwhile: http://www.pdfernhout.net/to-j...
"From Marcia Angell:
http://www.nybooks.com/article...
"The problems I've discussed are not limited to psychiatry, although they reach their most florid form there. Similar conflicts of interest and biases exist in virtually every field of medicine, particularly those that rely heavily on drugs

Amazon Fire TV monitors and records your conversations

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Millions of Americans installing 'perfect spying device' in their own living rooms: Amazon Fire TV monitors and records your conversations

Tuesday, July 15, 2014 | by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

http://www.naturalnews.com/046...

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"Millions of Americans installing 'perfect spying device' in their own living rooms: Amazon Fire TV monitors and records your conversations"

"Amazon.com is building the CIA's new $600 million data center, reports the Financial Times. (1) At the same time Amazon.com is building this massive cloud computing infrastructure for the CIA, the company is also shipping millions of Fire TV set-top devices to customers who are placing them in their private homes. I have one myself, and it's a terrific piece of hardware for delivering Prime video content. In fact, in terms of its usability and specs, it's far superior to Roku or Netflix-capable devices. Fire TV is, hands down, the best set-top video delivery device on the market today.

But there's something about it that always struck me as odd: it has no power button. There's no power button on the remote, and there's no power button on the box. It turns out there's no way to power the device off except for unplugging it.

This is highly unusual and apparently done by design. "It is not necessary to turn off Amazon Fire TV when you are finished using it," says the Amazon.com website. (2) "Your Amazon Fire TV is designed to go into sleep mode after 30 minutes, while continuing to automatically receive important software updates."

Note carefully that this does not say your Fire TV device WILL go into sleep mode after 30 minutes; only that it is "designed" to go into sleep mode after 30 minutes. As lawyers well know, this is a huge difference.

Fire TV devices linked to your identity
So far, you might not be convinced this is anything to write home about, but there's much more to this story. What we know so far is that Amazon.com is building the CIA's new cloud computing data center, and we also know the company's Fire TV devices have no way to be turned off and are being placed in the living rooms of private homes.

What starts to make this really interesting is when you realize these devices are linked to your identity before they're shipped to you.

Ever notice that when you power on your Fire TV device, it already knows who you are? Your entire library of video purchases on Amazon.com is already available, and those purchases are of course linked to your credit card, which is linked to your social security number, which is linked to your identity.

In other words, Amazon.com knows the identity of the owner of every Fire TV box currently sitting in living rooms across America. This mean it can connect everything that happens around that box (including audio monitoring, as you'll see below) to your personal identity.

Fire TV devices listen to your voice and upload audio to Amazon servers
Here's the next piece of this puzzle that may give you pause: There is a built-in microphone on the Fire TV remote.

When you click the search button, your voice is recorded and uploaded to Amazon.com servers where it is analyzed by Amazon cloud computing applications -- the same kind of thing Amazon is building for the CIA -- in order to return search matches to your local TV screen.

Now, I fully realize that most Americans are too gullible and naive to believe their audio recordings get uploaded to Amazon.com servers, so I'm going to quote CNET.com here which published an article earlier this year entitled: "How to delete your Fire TV voice recordings - Amazon stores your recordings on its servers to improve accuracy of voice searches. Here's how you can delete that data." (3)

As this article openly states, "To improve

Doesn't get much more safe than this

In France

where the same guys ban wi-fi.

Yes, those flat-earthers...

According to a Nobel scientist quoted here: http://www.naturalnews.com/047...
"In voicing support for Christie's quarantine, Dr. Beutler -- current director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas -- told the website, "I favor it," adding, "I favor it, because it's not entirely clear that they can't transmit the disease." He was referring to currently asymptomatic healthcare worker Kaci Hickox, a Doctors Without Borders nurse who recently returned to New Jersey after treating patients in Sierra Leone and was quarantined in the state for 65 hours. She was eventually taken to her home state of Maine.
    "It may not be absolutely true that those without symptoms can't transmit the disease, because we don't have the numbers to back that up," Dr. Beutler continued in his NJ.com interview. "It could be people develop significant viremia [where viruses enter the bloodstream and gain access to the rest of the body], and become able to transmit the disease before they have a fever, even.
    "People may have said that without symptoms you can't transmit Ebola. I'm not sure about that being 100 percent true. There's a lot of variation with viruses," he added."

Also apparently sneezing can potentially spread Ebola for several feet and it can live on surfaces for days:
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

Ways to decontaminate with robotics UV:
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

Some suggest vitamin C may help:
https://www.patrickholford.com...

Others disagree: http://scienceblogs.com/insole...
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

According to a Nobel scientist quoted here: http://www.naturalnews.com/047...
"In voicing support for Christie's quarantine, Dr. Beutler -- current director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas -- told the website, "I favor it," adding, "I favor it, because it's not entirely clear that they can't transmit the disease." He was referring to currently asymptomatic healthcare worker Kaci Hickox, a Doctors Without Borders nurse who recently returned to New Jersey after treating patients in Sierra Leone and was quarantined in the state for 65 hours. She was eventually taken to her home state of Maine.
    "It may not be absolutely true that those without symptoms can't transmit the disease, because we don't have the numbers to back that up," Dr. Beutler continued in his NJ.com interview. "It could be people develop significant viremia [where viruses enter the bloodstream and gain access to the rest of the body], and become able to transmit the disease before they have a fever, even.
    "People may have said that without symptoms you can't transmit Ebola. I'm not sure about that being 100 percent true. There's a lot of variation with viruses," he added."

Also apparently sneezing can potentially spread Ebola for several feet and it can live on surfaces for days:
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

Ways to decontaminate with robotics UV:
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

Some suggest vitamin C may help:
https://www.patrickholford.com...

Others disagree: http://scienceblogs.com/insole...
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

According to a Nobel scientist quoted here: http://www.naturalnews.com/047...
"In voicing support for Christie's quarantine, Dr. Beutler -- current director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas -- told the website, "I favor it," adding, "I favor it, because it's not entirely clear that they can't transmit the disease." He was referring to currently asymptomatic healthcare worker Kaci Hickox, a Doctors Without Borders nurse who recently returned to New Jersey after treating patients in Sierra Leone and was quarantined in the state for 65 hours. She was eventually taken to her home state of Maine.
    "It may not be absolutely true that those without symptoms can't transmit the disease, because we don't have the numbers to back that up," Dr. Beutler continued in his NJ.com interview. "It could be people develop significant viremia [where viruses enter the bloodstream and gain access to the rest of the body], and become able to transmit the disease before they have a fever, even.
    "People may have said that without symptoms you can't transmit Ebola. I'm not sure about that being 100 percent true. There's a lot of variation with viruses," he added."

Also apparently sneezing can potentially spread Ebola for several feet and it can live on surfaces for days:
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

Ways to decontaminate with robotics UV:
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

Some suggest vitamin C may help:
https://www.patrickholford.com...

Others disagree: http://scienceblogs.com/insole...
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

According to a Nobel scientist quoted here: http://www.naturalnews.com/047...
"In voicing support for Christie's quarantine, Dr. Beutler -- current director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas -- told the website, "I favor it," adding, "I favor it, because it's not entirely clear that they can't transmit the disease." He was referring to currently asymptomatic healthcare worker Kaci Hickox, a Doctors Without Borders nurse who recently returned to New Jersey after treating patients in Sierra Leone and was quarantined in the state for 65 hours. She was eventually taken to her home state of Maine.
    "It may not be absolutely true that those without symptoms can't transmit the disease, because we don't have the numbers to back that up," Dr. Beutler continued in his NJ.com interview. "It could be people develop significant viremia [where viruses enter the bloodstream and gain access to the rest of the body], and become able to transmit the disease before they have a fever, even.
    "People may have said that without symptoms you can't transmit Ebola. I'm not sure about that being 100 percent true. There's a lot of variation with viruses," he added."

Also apparently sneezing can potentially spread Ebola for several feet and it can live on surfaces for days:
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

Ways to decontaminate with robotics UV:
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

Some suggest vitamin C may help:
https://www.patrickholford.com...

Others disagree: http://scienceblogs.com/insole...
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Baking soda may help.

The theory behind it is that cancer grows in an acidic environment. Baking soda neutralizes the acidity making it more difficult for the cancer to grow and easier for the immune system to fight it.

Some examples:

http://drleonardcoldwell.com/2...

http://www.naturalnews.com/042...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

http://www.bibliotecapleyades....

Unfortunately, "mainstream medicine" has yet to accept this treatment as viable and effective; despite the fact that many people have had excellent results. Cancer is big business, and I can't help but think that effective treatments like baking soda are shunned and discredited because big pharma has a vested interest in protecting their profits. That is to say that it is much more profitable to sell someone monthly treatments for the rest of their life than it is to sell them a cure once. Especially if it only costs you 99 cents for a box of baking soda.

The same can be said of cholesterol, statin drugs and heart disease but they're still a good idea.

No, they are not. Cholesterol has been labeled a boogeyman, along with saturated fats, but it's all based on erroneous or over-hyped information. That has given us margarine (plastic for your body), high carbohydrate diets loaded with wheat gluten, and the result is massive obesity - and all the concomitant health issues.

You NEED a good amount of cholesterol for a healthy nervous system, and avoiding eggs and cholesterol containing foods in general is thought to be responsible for the increase in Alzheimer's disease, among other issues.

Actually most federal agencies have armed tactical units these days.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2...

here is the epa doing the same thing:
http://www.naturalnews.com/042...

They all have armed divisions and if you ignore them they will send men with guns to sort you out.

This answers your question. They do have weapons.

Next question?

Here's the real thing (read more on http://www.naturalnews.com/031...):

Why is some random naturalnews.com website I've never heard of and which is run by a single person more legitimate a source than Greenpeace?

More to the point, why haven't you read the sources I provided? Part of the point of the Greenpeace article I linked to is that Apple are making stronger pushes in this area and being more transparent. That article was published in 2014. Your article was published in 2011. So Greenpeace says that Apple are the leaders in the field and have strongly improved, and your article points out that they weren't always as good or open years ago. There's no contradiction there. All you are doing is showing that Apple have taken action and improved.

Making their products environmentally friendly.

When will they be doing that?

They've been doing that for many years. Here's the info, specifically the products. Even Greenpeace are singing their praises, specifically, saying: Apple has put its money where its mouth is: Greenpeace's report, "Clicking Clean," found that the company's embrace of renewable energy is genuine, and is leading the technology sector.

So your evidence that Apple makes environmentally friendly products is that Apple says so, and that Greenpeace (basically the greeners equivalent of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition) is singing their praise?

Here's the real thing (read more on http://www.naturalnews.com/031...):

Many large, multinational companies have operation facilities in China, including HP, Sony, Nokia, Samsung, and Toshiba. But among a list of 29 major companies that run facilities there, Apple turned out to be the worst overall, routinely evading inquiries from environmental groups about environmental pollution and other factory problems.

The report, issued by a group of 36 Chinese environmental groups, cites HP, BT, Alcatel-Lucent, Vodafone, Samsung, Toshiba, Sharp and Hitachi as among the best companies for both addressing environmental and workplace concerns, and working on specific ways to fix them. But at the bottom of the list were Nokia, LG, SingTel, Ericsson and Apple.

"Apple behaved differently from the other big brands and seemed totally complacent and unresponsive," said Ma Jun, author of the report and Director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, a Chinese non-governmental organization (NGO).

Aren't they (windmill owners) immune now? Feds grant wind farm operators 30-year license to kill endangered species.

If you wanted to prevent more eagle deaths we'd be shutting down coal and wind plants and installing LFTRs throughout the country. America certainly doesn't have the grid to handle anything else in the near term.

I'm from California, and we've been building wind power facilities since the 70s.

Most of them are abandoned and rust in the sun... our deserts are littered with them.

Failed project after failed project after failed project.

Every time they tell us about how great it will be and how it will be self sustaining. All they need is a little start up money.

So we give them the start up money and tax credits and tax breaks and all sorts of other subsidies.

And everything is fine for 5 years. After about 5 years our subsidies go away. Because they said they would be self sufficient by then.

Well... they've never been self sufficient. Every time... 5 years rolls on... and then the subsidies run out... and then they declare bankrupcy....

There is so little money left over when all is said and done that they can't even afford to demolish the defunct wind turbines. And so another field of wreckage is added to our deserts...

So here I am on slashdot and some wind study is saying "oh we'll break even in 8 months"...

Yeah sure...

Since many of you probably are totally clueless about this... here are some links:
http://toryaardvark.com/2011/1...

http://epaabuse.com/3124/edito...

http://www.naturalnews.com/034...

I just typed abandoned wind farm into google... I didn't bother reading any of the links because I live here and I've seen this happen with my own eyes over and over again.

Here is my answer to the whole thing... if its such a great thing and will pay itself back so fast... then you don't need government money.

A coal power plant won't pay off its construction debt in 8 months. It will at least take four or five years and in some cases those things take 10 to 20 years to pay off.

So the wind guys are saying they can break even in 8 months? Then they have a power plant with a faster turn around time then anything else on the market... ever.

Color me skeptical.

Joking aside, I know someone who actually did get a pancreas transplant, and his Type-1 was *essentially* cured.

After hearing about this, it makes me wonder how many cases could be corrected with a minor capsaicin injection instead of transplants or manual insulin micromanagement.

I know I'd rather get stabbed once (or maybe even a couple times if it comes back) with an extract from one of my favorite cooking ingredients than cut open, stitched together, and having to scarf down immunosuppressants like hummingbirds sip nectar. (and even then, transplant sounds better than having to stab myself 50-900 times a day)

I don't really have bandwidth to fact-check this. There are a lot of trends and correlation is not necessarily causation. Mass shootings are defintiely on the rise in this country as are metal detectors in high schools. Also a lot of professional criminals are moving from physical to virtual crimes which may involve less gun violence.

Everyone of those mass shooters were involved with supervised psychotropic drugs.

Another Mass Shooting, Another Psychiatric Drug? Federal Investigation Long Overdue
One Thing in Common... and It's Not Guns
Or
Mass+Shooter+Psychotrpic+Drugs

Some vaccines are safe, some are deadly; 98 million Americans were given polio vaccine contaminated with cancer-causing virus, admits CDC. Don't believe me, go read it for yourself; http://www.naturalnews.com/041...

Walmart shoppers are mostly a fat and unhealthy lot (or thin and flabby) mainly because it is cheaper to eat poorly and that is all they can afford.

Walmart sells the same food you get anywhere else. Same brands, same species.

Being overweight isn't a result of eating unhealthy foods, rather it is a result of eating too much food. This is what we call a first world problem. Does walmart contribute to that? Probably, because by eating their food you get a lot for your money. It's really up to you to determine how much food you need, not walmart.

Stores like whole foods rip you off. The shit they sell isn't any better than what wal-mart sells, rather it just has a feel good label on it that makes you think it's somehow better. That, and they sell homeopathic medicine that is completely useless, yet people pay out the nose for it anyways thinking it's so natural and pure.

When given the choice between paying a lot more and getting nothing better (whole foods) and getting exactly what you pay for (walmart) I choose walmart, thanks. Whole foods bans ingredients that have actually proven to be harmless, including MSG. Some "natural" researchers don't even seem to understand what it is, like this:

http://www.naturalnews.com/034...

Notice they don't even seem to understand what the term means. Mono-Sodium Glutamate. They refer to it in the singular form, and then point to chemicals that don't have sodium (rather potassium) as being MSG (while additive-wise it serves the same purpose, it isn't the same chemical.) The proper thing they should be targeting are the glutamates in that case (this is the only thing on the "list" that they all have in common.)

Here's what the real research says:

http://www.yalescientific.org/...

Even if it did cause allergies, peanuts are known to be fatal for some people, yet you won't find whole foods banning peanuts. So why all the hate for MSG but not peanuts? I'll tell you why: It's because whole foods caters to people who are gullible idiots, and a fool and his money soon part. People who bitch about MSG are every bit as idiotic as those who claim they have electromagnetic allergies.

You know who follows the mainstream (rather than fringe) science though? Walmart.

And by the way, unlike most people, I actually know what "processed" means when it comes to processed foods, and I'm just going to call it like I know it: It isn't unhealthy. In fact I've actually turned my own health from provably bad (based on my blood work) to very good (again based on the same metrics.) Part of that included eating food at walmart and mcdonalds (prior to this I never actually ate at McDonalds; the reason I eat there now is because their food is so well documented I can know exactly what's in it.)

the tremendous amount of offshoring which has destroyed the US manufacturing base.

In a word: Bullshit. The US is still the worlds #2 manufacturer of physical goods. Frankly I'm surprised we're even that high; we're a very distant #3 on the global population list, but most of our population prefers to work in service jobs. So many of us look down their nose at people who work on assembly lines yet at the same time believe that there aren't enough manufacturing jobs.

If soap contains Quick Silver, indeed it can be wise to avoid. Hopefully, no soap does contain that!

It's nice to bring in real arguments now and then, not just emotional justification.

... issues like "dizziness, heart palpitations, chronic depression". The US RDA for vitamin D for adults is several times too low, and people in solitary confinement indoors are unlikely to be getting enough sunlight to make up the difference. The isolation itself is no doubt harmful to many people too, but the vitamin D aspect could at least be addressed easily even within the current system. The nutrition issue is even larger; see for example:
http://www.psychologytoday.com...
http://www.theguardian.com/pol...
http://www.naturalnews.com/039...

And environmental toxins contribute too:
http://www.motherjones.com/env...

Ironically, corporations get to repent by "restorative justice" (paying reparations or fixing what was broken) while real people are hit with "punitive justice".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

US prison population stats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
"In 2008 approximately one in every 31 adults (7.3 million) in the United States was behind bars, or being monitored (probation and parole). In 2008 the breakdown for adults under correctional control was as follows: one out of 18 men, one in 89 women, one in 11 African-Americans (9.2 percent), one in 27 Latinos (3.7 percent), and one in 45 Caucasians (2.2 percent). Crime rates have increased by about 25 percent from 1988 to 2008.[18] In recent decades the U.S. has experienced a surge in its prison population, quadrupling since 1980, partially as a result of mandatory sentencing that came about during the "war on drugs." Violent crime and property crime have declined since the early 1990s.[19]"

Recent incarcerations for drone protesters, but presumably not in solitary:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.veteransforpeace.or...

What a difference a nun can make even in prison:
"84-year-old nun sentenced for her anti-nuclear activism"
http://www.catholic.org/nation...
"Rice said she learned in prison to see her fellow inmates, not as perpetrators but as "victims" of a system that gave them few options. Walli says that like Rice, he spends long hours talking to inmates to "instill the idea that human life is sacred. "They know that they are the human fallout and the victims of the profiteering by the elite and top leaders of the corporations that are contracted to make the nuclear weapons. It's (the money) denied to human services that should be the priority of any government," Rice said. "

http://www.naturalnews.com/029...

Well some ppl have some evidence that says cell phones are having an effect.

http://www.naturalnews.com/042...

The TPP will make it illegal to label your food GMO free and no, it won't matter what your nation's legislature had to say on the topic or would like to say later. The TPP will supercede the laws of you nation's legislature:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/09/obama-trans-pacific-partnership_n_4414891.html

http://www.nationofchange.org/trans-pacific-partnership-and-monsanto-1372074730

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/stop_tpp_tafta_monsanto_protection_act_on_steroids/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-r-shaffer/tobacco-symbol-of-corrupt_b_4439416.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/041965_tpp_gmo_labeling_monsanto.html#

The U.S. government is extremely corrupt, in many ways. It amazes me how often U.S. citizens joke about that, or change the subject, showing that they don't care.

U.S. government corruption, a short list:

1) The U.S. government has the biggest debt of any country in the history of the world.

2) Governments in the U.S., federal, state, and city, have the largest percentage of citizens in prison of any country in the history of the world. The percentage is SIX TIMES that in the European countries. Putting citizens in prison is a huge industry in the United States.

3) The U.S. government has invaded or bombed 28 countries since the end of the 2nd World War, FAR more than any other government.

4) The U.S. government is involved in many, many kinds of activities that are kept mostly secret from citizens. For just one example, read the story about the US government's purchases of over one billion rounds of anti-personnel ammunition. Quote: "The ammunition is to be used domestically, not by the military."

5) The U.S. government often arranges to lie to citizens.

6) The U.S. government has more military installations in more countries than any country in the history of the world. Some of those are secret, so this list is not complete: List of U.S. government military bases.

7) There is far, far more corruption than that. For example, look at the photos of George W. Bush kissing a Saudi price. The book House of Bush, House of Saud, tells part of the story about how Bush and his friends and family took money to support the Saudis against the best interests of United States citizens.

Be a responsible citizen of the planet and do some research. For example, as many others have said, read A People's History of the United States. The U.S. government has a long history of violence, much of it motivated by desire for profit.

The U.S. government is not the same as U.S. citizens. The U.S. government often engages in many secret activities, such as secret violence, apparently sometimes partly to encourage other violence which is profitable for some people. Secrecy cannot be democratic, because the people have no power if they don't know what the government is doing.

HFCS is bad for you, but there's nothing special about it vis-a-vis cane sugar. Or agave nectar, or honey, for that matter.

Independent studies show that the body can process and digest natural sugars (honey, beet, cane) but can not process HFCS. Natural News has reported on numerous studies on the subject. Additive producers "claim" that they are the same, but they obviously have self interest in making such claims.

See this site for some of the benefits of coconut oil: (Parkinson's is mentioned)
http://m.naturalnews.com/news/039388_coconut_oil_dementia_alzheimers_disease.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/025393_health_WHO_life.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/036756_depopulation_agenda_eugenics_survivor.html

The U.S. government is EXTREMELY CORRUPT. This is no time for joking.

In some ways the U.S. government is the most violent that has ever existed. The U.S. government has invaded more countries than any other country in the history of the world. The U.S. government has more than 760 military bases worldwide. Taxpayers pay, but aren't allowed to know where there money goes.

Read the story about the US government's purchases of over one billion rounds of anti-personnel ammunition. Quote: "The ammunition is to be use domestically, not by the military."

Do you think it won't get worse?

I wonder if you are being serious or don't realize the irony of your statement.

If you are dealing with cancer recovery, some ideas:

"Ketogenic Diet May Be Key to Cancer Recovery"
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/03/10/ketogenic-diet.aspx
"The premise is that since cancer cells need glucose to thrive, and carbohydrates turn into glucose in your body, then cutting out carbs literally starves the cancer cells."

People who live in traditional societies eating a traditional vegetable heavy diet and getting lots of sunlight and exercise also seem to have less lung cancer even when they smoke.
"Eat For Health - The Anti-Cancer Diet"
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/article24.aspx

Also look into vitamin D:
http://www.naturalnews.com/036597_vitamin_D_anti-cancer_drug.html
http://www.grassrootshealth.net/

And iodine:
http://theiodineproject.webs.com/cancerandiodine.htm

Making these sorts of changes is not quite the same as an Android body btw, mentioned in Star Trek episode "I, Mudd" as something Uhura wants), but at least it might help get to the point where you could have one if you wanted -- related to out other conversation:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3892785&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=44082521

I can see you project an optimistic sense of humor about it all, which can be a healthful thing:
http://www.humorproject.com/bookstore/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10116744
"Laughter has many clinical benefits, promoting beneficial physiological changes and an overall sense of well-being. Humor even has long-term effects that strengthen the effectiveness of the immune system."

So, laughing is probably better healthwise than a buzz from a "droud"? :-)
http://laughteryoga.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEfjVnYkqM

For nerve damage, vitamin B12 and omegas 3s. See also my comments here on mercury and herbs:
http://aaronwinborn.com/blogs/aaron/monday-was-my-46th-birthday-and-likely-my-last-anything-awesome-i-should-try-after-i-die

Yeah, stairs can be a real life-saver for many -- to get some regular exercise, which moves the lymph around, which boosts the immune system and the body's natural self-cleaning mechanisms. Walking outside in the sunshine helps, too (although of course how you need to manage your DVT and clot risks however competent doctors recommend):
http://www.bluezones.com/

For some inspiration, a movie that is up for free on YouTube for a while for the two year anniversary (again, adjusted for DVT):
http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/
http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/

And also, here is a movie (and book) on how clogged arteries can limit blood flow to the body's cells, creating a huge variety of health issues from that common cause (perhaps the root cause of most chronic illnesses in the US today as "diseases of affluence" such as you may be experiencing):
http://www.ravediet.com/

Also ask, "What Color is Your Diet?"
http://www.amazon.com/W

This is as recent point of contention with GMOs http://www.naturalnews.com/037249_GMO_study_cancer_tumors_organ_damage.html

The obvious weak point in the "smart" grid are the so-called "Smart" Meters. Which apparently aren't all that smart , are already being hacked, and tools for hacking them are readily available. It seems probable, even almost certain, that someone will use the authentication in the meters to hack into the grid itself. And from there, much mayhem, either intentional or unintentional (anyone remember the Morris Worm ?? ) I'd pass, but, of course, my utility didn't care, they installed one anyway, over both my objection and my HOA's objection. And, gee, ever since the "money-saving Smart Meter" was installed, my electricity bill has skyrocketed. . .

"Sorry if my postings on this upset the anti-GMO crowd, but the facts are sometimes annoying."

Which is the reason why pro-GMO lobbyists so vehemently prevent any form of serious research on them, presenting only their own as valid.

Here is one example, among many others :
http://www.naturalnews.com/037665_gmo_scientists_organ_damage.html

There just happened to be a drill requiring the presence of snipers on roofs, the presence of men from Craft International (motto 'Violence does solve problems') near where one of the bombs was planted and exploded, a man running away from the explosion whilst everyone else was crouching in shock (i.e. he was experienced in reacting to explosions), a photo possibly showing the pressure cooker before it exploded - man, it is big. A Craft man with a radioactivity monitor in his hand near one explosion. Craft men guarding a grey haired white guy who has two bags, standing at the edge of the finish line bomb blast zone - before the explosion.

The easy mark to look at is the money involved. Is it really about the money, or is it about propaganda? If you investigate things about 911 and look into building 7, the lack of plane debris in PA and the Pentagon, you really should be questioning whether it's really all about money. Look at the lack of coverage on Obama signing the NDAA on any major media, the lack of coverage on the dozens of wars we are waging, the lack of coverage on drone strikes in the middle east. I'll add the lack of coverage regarding Egypt, the specific comments every major media outlet has regarding Syria and North Korea.

I found this article interesting at least, and they point out that main stream media never even mentions these guys.

Obviously CNN failed and has become a joke, but Fox/NBC and ABC are just as bad. Either they make shit up or tell you nothing. The Daily Show showed what most of us think of CNN last night.

Yeah yeah, here come the "you are just a conspiracy theorist" comments. Anyone that asks a question, or suggests that people ask questions, must be crazy because the media told you so.

"May the BEST MAN, win..."? I seriously suspect that THAT is a BIG PROBLEM in the world today, what-with all the scumbag cheats & shenanigans out there (much of it in "the world of business", especially).

Just plain dead-up DISHONORABLE bullshit, to be blunt about it!

* I mean, what - Did those FOOLS *think* they'd "get away with it"? Come on...

There's ALWAYS someone who will "let the cat outta the bag" with b.s. like that, a prime example(s) being:

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The Chinese Water Army:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/12/chinese-water-army-hijacks-onl.html

OR

HBGary:

http://www.naturalnews.com/033490_Facebook_infiltration.html

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(Both being caught doing pretty much the same thing, albeit by using MULTIPLE trolling accounts/sockpuppets).

Samsung, were I they (or their board of directors but perhaps MORE IMPORTANTLY, their shareholders)? I'd find out WHO put their "John Hancock" on that order, & can his ass, fast... if only for "damage control", before they damage themselves further!

These people are no better than our OWN "trolling scumbag" Jeremiah Cornelius who now has to face the music on pretty much the same crap!

(I.E./E.G.-> JC spammed posts about myself here by the MANY 100's all March 2013 last month, only to BLOW IT, accidentally submitting one as his "registered 'luser'" account here instead of his USUAL ac ones -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3581857&cid=43276741 )

He pissed the entire forums here off royally trying to 'crap on me' & lmao, only ended up crapping on himself (and yet the punk had the NERVE to 'complain' about it, here too -> http://slashdot.org/~Jeremiah+Cornelius/journal/360681 later... no class, no honor, & certainly NO BALLS! )

I can't stand people like that. I really can't. Nice part is though, they ALWAYS screw up & get caught (like any up to no good idiot usually does, if only eventually).

APK

P.S.=> Now, they're going to have to "live it down", & find out that though you MAY do 1,000 great things now or in the past, all it takes is 1 'blackmark' to mess you up for years-to-decades into the distance... & "oh sure", the business types figure "Ah, customers are STUPID - they'll 'fuggit bout it'", right? WRONG... for example above, the ones I pointed out in the 2 links above (I, for one, will NEVER forget that, & I am certain I am NOT alone in that sentiment)...

... apk

You just dis-proved your own point. You, a person working in the government, believes that your constituents are crazy when they might not be. Let's be honest, there are a bunch of wackos out there and many bunk conspiracy theories.

Unfortunately, Chemtrails are real:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/atmospheric-geoengineering-weather-manipulation-contrails-and-chemtrails

http://www.naturalnews.com/037451_chemtrails_conspiracy_theory_geoengineering.html

Most of the things that you see in the sky are in fact normal jet contrails but don't act like nobody has ever sprayed a questionable substance from an airplane. It happens.

I never heard a conspiracy about the Portland water bureau. I do know of real problems with the water in Portland. There have been at least two cases in the last 3 years of the water not being safe to drink downtown. This was reportedly due to someone throwing a contaminant in to an open-air reservoir. I remember seeing signs on every bar and being told that water was not available at a restaurant. They talked quite a bit about putting lids on the open air reservoirs to avoid future contamination. Now they want to fluoridate the water and that is up for debate.

Bad water in Portland:
http://www.kgw.com/news/Boil-water-notice-issued-for-Portlands-west-side-163294096.html

Before you go calling everyone crazy you should consider that there may be cause for real concern behind public outcry. It may not be rational but that is what political debate is all about. People need good information so they can make informed decisions.

'Bill Gates dumps another $10 million into researching new GM crops for agricultural takeover of Africa '

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18845282
http://www.naturalnews.com/036561_Bill_Gates_GM_crops_Africa.html

These are all cosmetic and none are assault weapons by a proper definition. Ask anyone who has been in the military. Assault weapons have been almost impossible for the private citizen to own for over 50 years. TThese are called assault weapons only because the Left changed the definition to include a whole bunch of characteristics. They also removed the need to fire full auto. IE: They changed the definition to suit their needs. The school shooting has been used as a bogus excuse for firearms regulation, even though an assault weapon, or rather what the Left now defines erroneously as an assault weapon was not use at the school. Outside of the handguns he used the only weapon found was a shotgun contrary to what the bumbling medical examiner said in the interview. None of the proposed laws would have made any difference Rifles are high profile weapons so they are easier to pick on. The AR platform , short for ArmaLite is a very popular hunting and target rifle with many millions of the semiautomatic version in civilian hands Hammers and clubs account for about twice as many murders as do rifles. Bare hands account for over twice times as many. http://www.naturalnews.com/038687_homicides_hammers_rifles.html Then of course there are those who justify cars as being necessary even though they account for over 33,000 deaths per yeas which is down from a peak of over 50,000. So I guess they are saying 30,000 dead is just the cost of doing business as usual. To those losing family members, dead is dead and should not be justifiable! period. BTW the local sherrif told me that close to a third of the drivers on the road in our county are driving on a suspended license, or never had one at all. One of 'em drove into the side of my TA. No license, no insurance, wrong license plates...tried to run.

Exactly what type of "horrible shit" are you talking about?

Basically, standard big business horrible stuff. This is behavior that lots of megacorps engage in, Monsanto just uses a new set of tools.

I don't consider their GM stuff to be evil, but Monsanto's predatory practices are pretty shameful, and organic farmers do tend to take it in the shorts, more than most.

Monsanto is certainly not alone in these types of scandals.

This is one reason why I think that classifying businesses as "people" is ridiculous. If people behaved the way that corporations do, they would be locked up. However, corporations are rewarded for that type of behavior.

He picked the wrong battle.

Whenever a Mr. Natural starts lecturing me about how we need to all return to hunter-gathere lifestyle, I counter with "No problem! We just need to exterminate about 90% of the human population on Earth. Would you like to start?"

Whether we like it or not, the future is here, and we can't survive without factory farming, container transportation, nuclear and fossil energy, farm fishing, etc.

There's just too damn many of us.

The only answer to "too damn many" is "culling the herd."

Flu shots often result in delayed side effects and long-term injury, and according to the CDC, "The following substances are found in vaccines: aluminum,(brain toxin) antibiotics, formaldehyde (now listed as carcinogenic), MSG or monosodium glutamate (a known neurotoxin),and thimerosal(neurotoxic mercury)." http://www.naturalnews.com/033891_vaccines_delayed_injury.html The FDA admits in a court case that vaccines still contain mercury: http://www.naturalnews.com/035432_vaccines_mercury_court_case.html Thanks in advance for all reasoned responses. I believe there is still much to learn about vaccinations, their ingredients and the body's responses to them, provided we have an open mind. (jab, lol)

Flu shots often result in delayed side effects and long-term injury, and according to the CDC, "The following substances are found in vaccines: aluminum,(brain toxin) antibiotics, formaldehyde (now listed as carcinogenic), MSG or monosodium glutamate (a known neurotoxin),and thimerosal(neurotoxic mercury)." http://www.naturalnews.com/033891_vaccines_delayed_injury.html The FDA admits in a court case that vaccines still contain mercury: http://www.naturalnews.com/035432_vaccines_mercury_court_case.html Thanks in advance for all reasoned responses. I believe there is still much to learn about vaccinations, their ingredients and the body's responses to them, provided we have an open mind. (jab, lol)

See Dr. Joel Fuhrman: http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/cold-flu-flu-and-nutrition-dr-fuhrman-responds-to-comments.html
"The idea that a person eating a nutrient-rich diet is just as likely to develop and suffer the dangerous consequences from an influenza virus as a cheese burgers and soda eating American is simply wrong. More importantly such opinions are dangerous as they may lead to tragic outcomes for those mistaking authority for knowledge. Let's review just a few articles from the scientific literature that further support this concept that nutritional.excellence can offer protection from viral attacks. I will show the reference and post some explanatory comments below each reference. ..."

Numerous citations there.

Also, on vitamin D:
And: http://www.naturalnews.com/029760_vitamin_D_influenza.html

Counter-evidence on vitamin D though:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/02/health/vitamin-d-colds/index.html

But elsewhere it's been said by Dr. John Cannell that vitamin D has only helped with some influenza strains and also by compairson that the amount in the previous study may still have been too low:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/news-archive/2009/h1n1-flu-and-vitamin-d/

Can you provide any substantial evidence to back up your claims to the contrary? Can you even cite any good evidence the flu vaccine to date has accomplished anything significant except put more aluminum in people's bodies? By contrast:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/does-the-vaccine-matter/307723/
"But what if everything we think we know about fighting influenza is wrong? What if flu vaccines do not protect people from dying -- particularly the elderly, who account for 90 percent of deaths from seasonal flu? And what if the expensive antiviral drugs that the government has stockpiled over the past few years also have little, if any, power to reduce the number of people who die or are hospitalized? The U.S. government -- with the support of leaders in the public-health and medical communities -- has put its faith in the power of vaccines and antiviral drugs to limit the spread and lethality of swine flu. Other plans to contain the pandemic seem anemic by comparison. Yet some top flu researchers are deeply skeptical of both flu vaccines and antivirals. Like the engineers who warned for years about the levees of New Orleans, these experts caution that our defenses may be flawed, and quite possibly useless against a truly lethal flu. And that unless we are willing to ask fundamental questions about the science behind flu vaccines and antiviral drugs, we could find ourselves, in a bad epidemic, as helpless as the citizens of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. ...
Jackson's findings showed that outside of flu season, the baseline risk of death among people who did not get vaccinated was approximately 60 percent higher than among those who did, lending support to the hypothesis that on average, healthy people chose to get the vaccine, while the "frail elderly" didn't or couldn't. In fact, the healthy-user effect explained the entire benefit that other researchers were attributing to flu vaccine, suggesting that the vaccine itself might not reduce mortality at all. Jackson's papers "are beautiful," says Lone Simonsen, who is a professor of global health at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., and an internationally recognized expert in influenza and vaccine epidemiology. "They are classic studies in epidemiology, they are so carefully done."
The results were

Perhaps you should do some research on what is in the metal fillings and why some people have bad or altered reactions. Maybe start here? http://www.naturalnews.com/007851.html

He can't. He's quoting a website verbatim.

However, the title of the JAMA article is "Is US Health Really the Best in the World?", and it's available here, though apart from the statement (accompanied by another citation that I'm not ambitious enough to track down) of the number of deaths, it says little else relevant to this story.

However, I used to work with those adverse effect records, and citing them directly is incredibly misleading. The 106,000 deaths is only a tiny percentage (0.06%) of the 170,000,000 Americans on prescription medications (rough mental estimate of 48%), and it's inflated. The way adverse effects are recorded, any drug that could possibly be the cause of death is recorded as having definitely caused it. If an epilepsy drug causes a side effect, and the patient takes acetaminophen for it but overdoses and dies, the epilepsy drug is considered to be at fault, because the death was a result of its adverse effect.

The reason for this odd system of inflated numbers is that its purpose. The system was designed to inform doctors and researchers of what could happen as a result of a drug's use, including any previously-unknown interactions. By recording that an epilepsy drug, when taken with acetaminophen, could cause overdose symptoms, researchers could be pointed to an interaction between the two medications.

For direct deaths, the percentage (original research, no source) is closer to 0.001%, and the majority of these (to the point where I couldn't really differentiate "all") were where the prescription triggered an allergic reaction that wasn't already known (or at least recorded in the doctors' notes).

Which is why I have backyard chickens and rabbits...

That's interfering with interstate commerce, and could land you in jail.

From the article found here: http://www.naturalnews.com/037108_Stanford_Ingram_Olkin_Big_Tobacco.html Over the last several days, the mainstream media has fallen for an elaborate scientific hoax that sought to destroy the credibility of organic foods by claiming they are "no healthier" than conventional foods (grown with pesticides and GMOs). NaturalNews has learned one of the key co-authors of the study, Dr. Ingram Olkin, has a deep history as an "anti-science" propagandist working for Big Tobacco. Stanford University has also been found to have deep financial ties to Cargill, a powerful proponent of genetically engineered foods and an enemy of GMO labeling Proposition 37.

take the money out of the studies and you'll get a different story

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