Month: August 2018

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today issued this statement in response to today’s verdict in the case of Dewayne Johnson vs. Monsanto Co., awarding $289.2 million in damages to plaintiff Dwayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper who, after being required to spray Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, is terminally ill with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
“This verdict proves that when ordinary citizens, in this case a jury of 12, hear the facts about Monsanto’s products, and the lengths to which this company has gone to buy off scientists, deceive the public and influence government regulatory agencies, there is no confusion,” said Ronnie Cummins, OCA’s international director. “This is a company that has always put profits ahead of public safety, and today, Monsanto has finally been held accountable.
“We hope that this is just the first of many defeats for Monsanto, and that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will pull this product off the market immediately. In the meantime, OCA looks forward to the next steps in our own lawsuit against Monsanto, for misleading consumers about the safety of Roundup for humans and pets. And we are grateful to Mr. Johnson for bravely facing down the ‘most evil corporation’ in the world.”
https://www.organicconsumers.org/press/monsanto-loses-landmark-case-roundup-weedkiller-case-jury-awards-290m-cancer-victim

“So much science, so much spin—who will the jurors believe?” tweeted Carey Gillam, research director of U.S. Right to Know and author of “Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science.”
https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/monsanto-roundup-trial-jury-deliberations

japan has the lowest infant mortality rates and longest life expectancy in the world. Citizens of Japan are statistically proven to be the healthiest and longest-living people in the world. The country also has the lowest infant mortality rate on the planet.
It may come as no surprise to many that the Japanese Government banned a number of vaccines that are currently mandatory in the United States and has strict regulations in place for other Big Pharma drugs and vaccines in general. Japan’s anti-vax policies have long been criticized by vaccine pushers in the US who claim that vaccinating the public “promotes health.” However, Japanese people live longer, healthier lives than Americans, with babies born in the US twice as likely to die in infancy than those born in Japan.
It’s clear to see that Western nations have a lot to learn from the Japanese when it comes to their approach to vaccinations and issues facing public health. The Japanese are vaccine skeptics, to put it simply, and due to adverse reactions suffered by Japanese children, have banned many vaccines.
Citizens are well educated on the dangers of over-vaccinating their children and oppose the use of multi-shot vaccinations such as the MMR vaccine. Following a record number of children developing adverse reactions, including meningitis, loss of limbs, and even sudden death, the Japanese government banned the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine from its vaccination program, despite facing serious opposition from Big Pharma.
The people of Japan, therefore, ruled that no profit was large enough to compensate for the adverse health effects suffered by their children. The three-in-one MMR vaccine has caused years of controversy. One of the most hotly disputed arguments is the vaccine’s links to autism. Despite the fact that it has been blamed in vaccine courts for causing autism, vaccine supporters still deny the correlation between the MMR vaccination and skyrocketing rates of autism spectrum disorder, which now affects at least one in 45 children, with even higher rates of diagnosis among boys. However, the vaccine carries other serious risks in addition to the autism links, which has led to an outright ban of MMR jab in Japan.
http://www.neonnettle.com/features/1483-anti-vaccine-japaPerfect
http://www.neonnettle.com/features/1483-anti-vaccine-japaPerfect

The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for stronger federal food safety requirements, warning families to avoid microwaving and dishwashing plastic containers that contain harmful chemicals.
In a report published online last week, pediatricians cited growing evidence against chemicals in food colorings, preservatives and food packaging materials.
“This report outlines not only safe and essential steps that the healthcare community can communicate to parents and families but also some steps that the FDA can take, and frankly manufacturers can take, to limit the exposures of greatest concern,” Leonardo Trasande, lead author on the policy statement and AAP Council on Environmental Health member, told USA TODAY.
Something that’s particularly catching the attention of parents:Heating plastics (including bottles) in the microwave or running them through a dishwasher increases the chance of leaking dangerous chemicals, according to the AAP.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/allthemoms/news/2018/08/03/dont-microwave-childrens-plastic-food-containers-doctors-say/896952002/

We have discovered a network of government and drug industry entanglement so complex and so richly funded, they form a pervasive tightly woven fabric consisting literally of thousands of groups all working together towards just one thing: increasing vaccination uptake.
https://vaxxter.com/bernadette-pajer-washington-state-board-of-health/

In case you did not hear, Alex Jones runs a site called infowars.com. He has a very “conspiracy theory” viewpoint. I personally find him a bit “over the top” but apparently a few others labelled him a lot more severely so had him blacklisted.
My take on that is this.
All of us are natively equipped with a personal censor that we use to filter out information that does not align with what we believe to be true or that which we find unconscionable or objectionable. Last time I checked, mine was still working. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the US Constitution do not abrogate this right to a government to a corporation. For good reason. History shows they are not to be trusted. Each has a vested interest. For instance, just this last week, Monsanto were just ordered to pay over $200 million to a person who contracted cancer by using Roundup, their herbicide. They kept it secret since 1981 that it caused cancer.
Any government, corporation or individual seeking to censor information for another has a reason to do so. All of these people are going to claim they are righteous and moral doing it for the benefit of society. Someone with crimes to hide is NEVER going to come out and say, “I want to hide my crimes so we will just censor these people so they can’t talk about them.” They talk in righteous tones about “truth” and “protecting others” so we will agree to hide their crimes.
Rather than censoring by decree, how about we promote the intelligence and rationality of the individual so we can better trust them to abandon the hate speakers like politicians who clamour for war or the racists or the religious bigots so the few misguided people of this ilk spend their time talking to empty seats?

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the developed world, and yet we are still in the dark ages when it comes to treating and understanding it.
The colossal failure of conventional cancer treatments reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what cancer – the “enemy” – actually is. For one, chemotherapy and radiotherapy are both intrinsically carcinogenic treatments. The only justification for their use, in fact, is that they are highly effective at damaging the DNA within cells – with the hope that the cancer cells will be more susceptible to being harmed than the healthy ones (sadly, not always true).
The reality, however, is that the “collateral damage” from treatment is inevitable; it is not a matter of “if,” but to what degree the damaging side effects will occur. As in real modern warfare, the decision to strike is often based on deciding how much collateral damage to “civilian” populations is deemed acceptable. This is not unlike the fixation in toxicological risk assessments for drugs, environmental pollutants, food additives, etc., where determining “an acceptable level of harm” (a rather horrible oxymoron) to the exposed population is the first order of business.
https://australiannationalreview.com/2018/08/01/chemo-and-radiation-can-make-cancer-more-malignant/

We are probably all aware by now that fat has been the target of much scorn, but it is absolutely necessary for graceful aging and lowering inflammation in our bodies which is a key to aging successfully. Consuming the right fats and oils supplies the essential fatty acids (EFA’s) that our bodies are incapable of producing on their own, and these are highly important for preventing aging. The right kinds of fats will also ferry fat soluble vitamins such as A, D, E & K around the body; delivering these much needed nutrients to your skin cells, resulting in a healthy complexion.
https://www.foodmatters.com/article/good-fats-for-successful-aging