Re: [Biofuel] Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues

[SurpriseShan2]

I just wanted to thank you Keith for all the  urls/information  you posted, 
both in this 'thread' as well as the others. 
   best wishes
 Shan
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Re: [Biofuel] A Food System That Kills - Swine Flu Is Meat Industry's Latest Plague

[David Penfold]

Wonderful stuff Keith.

I just thought I'd chime in to say that your information collation and 
dissemination is second to none.

Your archives are a great resource. I've been hanging around for a decade now, 
so I thought it was possibly time to let you know that your work is invaluable 
to me and no doubt to others.

Cheers,

Dave

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Re: [Biofuel] Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues

[Keith Addison]

Hello Shan

Thankyou.

>I hope nobody minds if I put my 2 cents in?

You're most welcome. (You started the thread, after all.)

>   The  following were hastily thrown together and from only one
>website, but I think  that it still illustrates how reliable, 
>competent, and also
>unbiased that  the FDA is
> In my opinion  politics and healing should never be mixed. I do not
>believe that it would be  possible to 'fix' the FDA,  or Health Canada either
>for that matter.  They both need to be thrown away and replaced with
>something that has healing  and the best interests of all the people in mind.

I have to agree. I don't think there's any hope for them (and others 
like them).

Best

Keith


>I read
>somewhere that way back  when, healers were mostly monks for they had no
>other agendas nor concerns other  then the health and healing of
>people..Sounds good to me; would  certainly make me 
>respect some established
>religions more as  well.
> Actually I am far  from unbiased as far as the present 'conventional'
>medical system is concerned  and truely enjoyed reading
>these..I could very  happily spent hours 
>and hours gathering proof of
>what the drug companies as well  as 'supporting' agencies do.
>  best  wishes
>Shan
>
>A New Low in Drug Research: 21 Fabricated  Studies
>_http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2009/03/13/a-new-low-in-drug-research-21-fabricate
>d-studies.aspx_
>(http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2009/03/13/a-new-low-in-drug-research-21-fabricated-studies.aspx)
> 
>
>Scott S. Reuben, a prominent Massachusetts anesthesiologist,  allegedly
>fabricated 21 medical studies that claimed to show benefits from  painkillers
>like Vioxx and Celebrex.
>
>Baystate Medical Center said that Reuben had faked data used  in the
>studies, which were published in several anesthesiology journals 
>between  1996 and
>2008. The hospital has asked the medical journals to retract the  studies.
>The studies reported favorable results from the use of painkillers  Bextra
>and Vioxx -- both since withdrawn -- as well as Celebrex and Lyrica. Dr. 
>Reuben's research work also claimed positive findings for the   antidepressant
>Effexor XR as a pain killer.
>
>The retractions, first reported in Anesthesiology News, have  caused
>anesthesiologists to reconsider the use of certain practices adopted 
>as a  result
>of Dr. Reuben's research. His work was considered important in  encouraging
>doctors to combine the use of painkillers like Celebrex and Lyrica  for
>patients undergoing common procedures such as knee and hip replacements.
>
>
>Sources: _Wall Street  Journal March 11, 2009_
>(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123672510903888207.html)
>
>---
>
>Warning! Drug Company Buries Unfavorable  Antidepressant Drug Studies
>_http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/03/21/seroquel-studies-bu
>ried-by-astrazeneca.aspx_
>(http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/03/21/seroquel-studies-buried-by-astrazeneca.aspx)
> 
>
>Drugmaker AstraZeneca "buried" unfavorable studies on its  antipsychotic
>drug Seroquel, according to an internal e-mail. The e-mail was  made public
>due to litigation over the medicine.
>
>The drugmaker did not publicize results of at least three  clinical trials
>of Seroquel and engaged in "cherry picking" of data from one of  those
>studies for use in a presentation, an AstraZeneca official said in 
>the  December
>1999 e-mail. The company faces about 9,000 lawsuits claiming it failed  to
>properly warn users that Seroquel can cause diabetes and other health 
>problems.
>
>Seroquel, which generated sales of $4.45 billion in 2008, is  the company's
>second-biggest seller after the ulcer treatment Nexium.  AstraZeneca has
>denied wrongdoing, and is vowing to fight the lawsuits in court.
>
>Sources
>   _Bloomberg.com  February 27, 2009_
>(http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aS_.NqzMArG8&refer=home)
>
>_Washington  Post March 18, 2009_
>(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031703786.html?wprss=rss_health)
>
>
>Dr. Mercola's  Comments:
>[  Continued..]
>  (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) 
>
>
>---
>
>Drug Firms Ignore Federal Law, Not Reporting  Studies
>_http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/07/21/drug-studies.aspx_
>(http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/07/21/drug-studies.aspx)
>
>-
>Soy Maker Omits Studies That Soy May  Cause Cancer
>_http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a

Re: [Biofuel] Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues

[SurpriseShan2]

 the 
FDA  Commissioner to break the deadlock and approve aspartame for dry goods in 
1981.  Dr Jacqueline Verrett, the Senior Scientist in an FDA Bureau of 
Foods review  team created in August 1977 to review the Bressler Report (a 
report that  detailed G.D. Searle's abuses during the pre-approval testing) 
said: 
"It was  pretty obvious that somewhere along the line, the bureau officials 
were working  up to a whitewash." In 1987, Verrett testified before the US 
Senate stating that  the experiments conducted by Searle were a "disaster." 
She stated that her team  was instructed not to comment on or be concerned 
with the overall validity of  the studies. She stated that questions about 
birth defects have not been  answered. She continued her testimony by 
discussing the fact that DKP has been  shown to increase uterine polyps and 
change 
blood cholesterol and that  increasing the temperature of the product leads 
to an increase in production of  DKP.(13) 
 
Revolving Doors 
 
The FDA and the manufacturers of aspartame have had a  revolving door of 
employment for many years. In addition to the FDA Commissioner  and two US 
Attorneys leaving to take positions with companies connected with  G.D. Searle, 
four other FDA officials connected with the approval of aspartame  took 
positions connected with the NutraSweet industry between 1979 and 1982  
including the Deputy FDA Commissioner, the Special Assistant to the FDA  
Commissioner, the Associate Director of the Bureau of Foods and Toxicology and  
the 
Attorney involved with the Public Board of Inquiry.(24) 
 
It is important to realize that this type of revolving-door  activity has 
been going on for decades. The Townsend Letter for Doctors (11/92)  reported 
on a study revealing that 37 of 49 top FDA officials who left the FDA  took 
positions with companies they had regulated. They also reported that over  
150 FDA officials owned stock in drug companies they were assigned to manage. 
 Many organizations and universities receive large sums of money from 
companies  connected to the NutraSweet Association, a group of companies 
promoting the use  of aspartame. In January 1993, the American Dietetic 
Association 
received a  US$75,000 grant from the NutraSweet Company. The American 
Dietetic Association  has stated that the NutraSweet Company writes their 
*"Facts" 
sheets.(25) 

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[Biofuel] Free-range poultry and bird flu

[Keith Addison]

Free-range poultry and bird flu

This is derived from part of a report we prepared for Japanese 
officials in February 2007.

Japan's most notorious bird flu outbreak had happened only 4km away 
from our small farm in Tamba, and the officials were putting us under 
pressure to confine our free-range chickens indoors, permanently.

This was part of our response. It's a list of references that tells a 
story. I've added an update at the end to include the Bernard 
Matthews turkey farm scandal in the UK later that month.

--

Governments have responded to outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian 
Influenza (HPAI, or bird flu) by destroying backyard poultry flocks 
and making indoor confinement of poultry mandatory.

The theory behind these measures is that avian flu is carried by wild 
birds, which can pass it to outdoor poultry flocks, which could then 
infect intensive poultry farms and the people who work there.

Forced confinement threatens the livelihood and food security of 
millions of small-scale farmers and poor families in countries 
affected by bird flu.

Confinement also threatens organic poultry operations, grass-fed 
pastured poultry and free-range egg production.

Since 2003 there have been 272 cases worldwide of the disease passing 
from infected poultry to humans, with 166 deaths (6 February 2007). 
The fear is that the virus could mutate into a form that can easily 
pass from human to human, leading to a world-wide human flu pandemic 
that could kill millions.

But will outlawing outdoor poultry production save us from a deadly 
new flu pandemic? Or could it actually increase the risk of the 
disease?

--

"We cannot control migratory birds but we can surely work hard to 
close down as many backyard farms as possible." -- Margaret Say, 
Southeast Asian director for the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council: 
"Asia Needs to Shut Backyard Farms to Halt Bird Flu", Reuters, 8 
November 2005


"The backyard chicken is the big problem and the fight against bird 
flu must be waged in the backyard of the world's poor." --  Louise 
Fresco, Assistant Director-General of the United Nations Food and 
Agriculture Organization (FAO), "Bird Flu Strategy Will Hit Poultry 
Farmers", IPS-Inter Press Service, Ho Chi Minh City, 15 November 2005


"Backyard- and free-range birds account for as much as 70% of total 
poultry production in low-income, food-deficit countries..." - FAO, 
Spotlight / 2002: "In praise of family poultry"


"When it comes to bird flu, diverse small-scale poultry farming is 
the solution, not the problem." -- GRAIN, "Fowl play: The poultry 
industry's central role in the bird flu crisis", Briefings, February 
2006


--

1.

Wild birds are not the main route of infection of highly pathogenic 
avian influenza (HPAI). The poultry industry and the poultry trade 
are mainly responsible for spreading the disease, much more so than 
wild birds.

Samuel Jutzi, Director of FAO's Animal Production and Health 
Division, speaking at the Regional Meeting on Avian Influenza in Ho 
Chi Minh City (23-25 February 2005), said:

"Current evidence suggests that trade in live poultry, mixing of 
avian species on farms and at live bird markets, and poor biosecurity 
in poultry production contribute much more to disease spread than 
wild bird movements.

"Strict biosecurity measures need to be applied throughout the 
poultry production chain, from farms and small producers to 
distribution channels, markets and retailers."

-- Control and containment key to combating avian influenza
Disease/Infection News
Published: Thursday, 24-Feb-2005



UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):

"Avian influenza (bird flu) is a complex issue in which wild birds 
have most often been identified as the culprits. It is indeed likely 
that they can introduce the disease to unaffected areas from 
countries in which the disease has already been identified - but the 
disease is spread through the human activities of poultry production, 
improper hygiene and uncontrolled commercialisation.

"It is unreasonable to place the blame on wild birds as the source of 
the H5N1 strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus 
in the absence of rigorous research into their role in the ecology 
and dynamics of the virus.

"In the meantime, notes Juan Lubroth, Head of FAO's Infectious 
Disease Group, it is very easy to point the finger at migratory 
birds, but this distracts from the effort it and OIE [World 
Organization for Animal Health] are making to improving hygiene, good 
husbandry and production practices and monitoring of the poultry 
sector which require strong partnerships between the regulatory 
government sector and private industry and its farmers."

Re: [Biofuel] A Food System That Kills - Swine Flu Is Meat Industry's Latest Plague

[Keith Addison]

Hello David

>Keith,
>
>I hope things are well with you...

Yes thankyou, you too I hope.

>Keith Addison wrote:
>>  How many deaths have there been from swine flu so far?
>>
>>  A few days ago WikiAnswers.com answered: "more than 10 thousands 
>>people have died."
>>
>>  That in spite of this news a day or two earlier: "Only 7 swine flu 
>>deaths, not 152, says WHO", April 29, 2009 [...]
>>
>  > The Guardian since reported: "There have been 17 confirmed deaths 
>worldwide."
>
>It's a bit early for either a sigh of relief or abject fear.

Ahh, it's never too early for a bit more fear, some would seem to 
think. If one likes facts though of course it's too early (or was).

>Unfortunately each of these statements could be true. Ten thousand could
>have died from the flu,

I don't think so. For instance, time-lines show it started around the 
beginning of April, see eg: Swine Flu in Mexico- Timeline of Events 
.
 
WikiAnswers.com's 10,000 dead means 10,000 would have died in barely 
a month, not worldwide, but in only the countries that the swine flu 
could have reached by then.

The CDC claims that 36,000 people in the US die of ordinary flu every 
year, or 3,000 a month (though it's seasonal, but still). Maybe twice 
the US population could be affected, so make the background level 
6,000 deaths from flu a month - or make it 10,000 a month if you 
like. In other words the flu mortality rate for April in the affected 
countries would have doubled at least, which would not go unnoticed. 
But there's been no such blip.

WHO says 100,000 people die of regular flu worldwide every year, a 
much lower estimate that would make the blip even bigger.

>but unless its genetic signature has been
>confirmed by a reputable lab, then no one can be sure that those who
>died had H1N1 (this new swine flu), some other flu virus, or another
>disease masquerading as flu. Further, WHO may be getting its confirmed
>death count from agencies other than those used and quoted by the Guardian.

The Guardian used the WHO as a source, among others. Didn't you read 
the article? I posted a full ref, including the url.

Your snipping is a bit liberal, if I may so so. Snipping previous 
messages to save bandwidth should stop short of compromising clarity. 
That usually means that at least the message you're responding to 
should be reproduced in full and not snipped.

I've restored the previous message at the end of this one.

>For example, in the US, at present, CDC (Centers for Disease Control in
>Atlanta) is the only place where there is a lab which can confirm the
>presence of H1N1 in a sample. Sometime this month, the plan is that each
>of the 50 states would have at least one lab that can do the tests which
>can confirm the presence of the particular genetic signature (a
>fluorescent dye that is specific to that signature is the main thing
>needed to be distributed). Nevertheless, if one wants statistics
>regarding confirmed cases or deaths in the US, then up to this point it
>was necessary to wait for the lab at CDC. Where there is a fast-moving
>increase in cases, obviously that bottleneck would tend to under-report
>either statistic.

I haven't seen any references to such a bottleneck causing problems 
or undue delays. Mexico doesn't seem to be having that problem, nor 
other countries. There hasn't been such a fast-moving increase in 
cases anyway, not very much beyond the normal level for the season, 
which should be well within the CDC's capacities and those of the 
other countries involved. And as results have come through they've 
shown much lower numbers than those touted.

>Further, even though we speak of this virus as though it were one thing,
>the fact is that it will continue to do what it has done to become what
>it more or less is at present. That is, the virus carries an amalgam of
>genes from human, swine and bird flu varieties, and may well have
>evolved some unique genetic sequences of its own. This morning's news
>carried a report of a human with the flu infecting more than 200 pigs,
>putting this masterful quick change artist into a new alembic.

Not much risk of that, it seems. The worker has recovered and the 
pigs are also recovering, with the odds of reassortment now rated as 
"slim", see eg: "Slim odds for viruses to mix in pigs now, experts 
say", Monday, May 4, 2009, CBC News


>Things
>similar are bound to happen repeatedly, and unreported. In other words
>as it continues to spread, no doubt it will continue to change and
>recombine, and without question the varieties which result will be
>selected for those which are more easily transmitted and which are
>resistant to the various drugs in the cocktail of cures we throw at it.
>If, in addition, those characteristics somehow become coupled into a
>variant that is also more leth

Re: [Biofuel] Colloidal Silver Has Mainstream Medicine Singing the Blues

[Keith Addison]

Hello again David

>Keith,
>
>Keith Addison wrote:
>  > The IRS has mercy? If so it seems to get left out in the telling, 
>the way Americans tend to tell it.
>
>That's the joke, yes. The FDA is like the IRS without mercy; like the
>Spanish Inquisition without the light hearted humor and clever reparteé.
>
>  >> [...] For example, NSAIDs, drugs that help prevent heart problems,
>  >
>  > NSAIDs stands for Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs. I'm 
>aware that, as well as for the anti-inflammatory effect, they're 
>used to lower fever and for pain relief, but (apart from aspirin) 
>this is the first time I see them described as drugs that help 
>prevent heart problems.
>
>My mistake.
>
>>>  As implied, I often found dealing with the FDA to be like living 
>>>in one of the circles of hell. In spite of all of it, however, I 
>>>think the system is basically sound and that the ideas underlying 
>>>it are reasonable. Of course we need to test drugs. Of course we 
>>>need to have solid evidence of safety and efficacy. Science 
>>>actually works.
>>>
>>  Science does, yes, within its limitations, when it's allowed to. 
>>Too often it depends who's paying the piper.
>>
>>  Equating science with the FDA is stretching it more than a little...
>
>Having been on the wrong end of the FDA's gun, I still think that the
>majority of what the Agency does is soundly based. And when I speak of
>the wrong end of the gun, I mean (for example) that our company suffered
>from the abuse of science at FDA's hands. They once quoted a
>peer-reviewed paper at us in the attempt to demonstrate that our device
>could potentially damage nerves. We happened to know the guy that wrote
>the paper, and he was kind enough to write them a letter saying "This is
>a misuse of my work." We further demonstrated that the parameter they
>said was dangerous in our device was 100 to 500 times worse in
>already-approved devices, or to turn that around, our device was 100 to
>500 times safer than approved devices. FDA had to back off. Science won
>that round, and often does.
>
>In other words, I don't necessarily raise a salute when FDA marches
>past, and in saying the system is basically sound, I am not saying that
>I agree with everything the Agency does. I most certainly don't. What it
>does mean, however, is that we need a system that uses good science and
>valid statistics (perhaps an irreconcilable oxymoron) to demonstrate
>that the treatments and drugs that are used are safe and effective.

That's what you don't have, yet you say the system is basically sound.

>The
>European system, in my view, is far superior, because it is not as much
>of an adversarial system. In Europe, there are three parties involved:
>the company, the government, and the Notified Bodies. These last are
>like consulting organizations, hired by the companies, and they are
>charged with insuring the law is followed. If the NBs fail to do that,
>they can lose their certification, which means they lose their place on
>the gravy train. So the NBs have to find the sharp edge of the blade in
>balancing between the government and the companies. Of course, there are
>abuses, mistakes and problems in that system as well.
>
>In the US, it's just the companies and the FDA, and there can be a bit
>of the revolving door. Even so, the situation with the FDA is far
>superior to what it would be without the FDA.

Well, it's a nice view, but it seems a bit faith-based to me. As I said:

>On the other hand, it's a little hard these days to find solid 
>evidence that the FDA is more a part of the solution than part of 
>the problem. It's just another piper to be paid for.

But close your eyes and chuck a dart - I happened to go to 
SourceWatch earlier today, this is at the top:

"Merck's Heart-Stopping PR in Australia: In Australia, the 
pharmaceutical company Merck is on trial. Australians who took the 
pain medication Vioxx allege that Merck and its Australian 
subsidiary, Merck Sharp & Dohme, "knew Vioxx increased the risk of 
heart attacks long before it voluntarily withdrew the drug from the 
market in 2004." Merck has paid $4.85 billion to U.S. Vioxx patients, 
but never admitted liability. ..." 

Nothing special about today, and it's not only SourceWatch, far from it.

>In the end, however, the
>finest rules and regulations will fail precisely to the degree the
>people are corrupt, greedy, ignorant, or asleep.

The people? Are you sure that's where the problem arises? Have you read these?

Mammoth corporations


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And if they're asleep, how exactly did they get that way?

Anyway, I won't be around much for the next few days so I won't be 
able to discuss it further. No need t