Cancer Studies Funded by

Industry-backed studies more prominent at meetings

By Genevra Pittman

NEW YORK | Tue Jun 18, 2013 3:11pm EDT

(Reuters Health) – Studies that are funded by pharmaceutical companies or involve industry-backed scientists tend to be more prominent at cancer meetings than independent studies, a new report suggests.

“Figuring out the reasons behind these findings is critical,” said Dr. Beverly Moy, who led the analysis at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston.

She and her colleagues also found the proportion of presentations with a financial conflict of interest increased between the 2006 and 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meetings.

“As long as the studies are done well, I don’t think there’s any objection to them becoming more prominent,” Moy told Reuters Health.

However, she added, past evidence suggests industry-funded research is more likely to be published if it’s positive – in favor of a product or pill – than if it’s negative, a phenomenon known as publication bias.

So it’s important to make sure relationships between scientists and companies stay “productive,” she said, rather than become untrustworthy.

The researchers analyzed conflicts of interest, ratings and conference prominence for more than 20,700 scientific abstracts, or research summaries, presented at ASCO meetings in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Over those years, the proportion of studies reporting a financial conflict of interest rose from 33 percent to 38 percent. Their abstracts were rated as slightly better quality by peer reviewers, on average: 2.76 on a scale from 1 to 5, where lower is better, versus 3.01 for studies without a link to industry.

Abstracts tied to pharmaceutical companies were also more likely to have their own session at a conference, or to be presented during a talk or poster discussion. For example, the ratio of industry-supported to non-supported studies was twice as high among oral presentations as among general posters, which receive less attention.

The findings appear in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, which is published by ASCO.

“With the increase in these relationships, we really need to figure out how to manage them,” Moy said. It’s possible, she said, that such academic-industry teams “yield an alliance that produces better research.”

Alternatively, companies might seek out the most prominent researchers for partnerships, or vice-versa.

“I think a lot of the work that gets a high profile is, of necessity, work that has a relationship with industry. They are, after all, providers of most of the ‘breakthrough’ drugs,” said Dr. David Johnson, chair of internal medicine at the UT Southwestern School of Medicine in Dallas.

But the study does serve as a caution as well, said Johnson, who has studied conflicts of interest in medical research but wasn’t involved in this analysis.

“It again points out that there is this potential for greater and greater influence in the relationship of industry and the direction that biomedical research takes, and we have to constantly be on guard,” he told Reuters Health.

“I think there is a pretty clear influence that industry has on research that’s not always bad, but it’s not always good either … We just have to be really, really cautious.”

SOURCE: bit.ly/128Yg4U Journal of Clinical Oncology, online June 17, 2013.

from:    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/18/us-health-industry-study-idUSBRE95H16R20130618

The Perils of Over-THinking

Peggy Nolan

Chief Executive Stepmom

10 Ways Over-Thinking Destroys Your Happiness

Have you ever been stuck over-thinking something that happened or something you think will happen only to get your knickers in a bunch? I know I have! This over-thinking thing keeps most of us stuck. It keeps us rooted in fear, uncertainty, and doubt. It’s a major contributor to the FUD factor and a huge reason why most people can’t find their happy.

I don’t know about you, but my over-thinking habit robbed me of my own happiness and joy. If I could put my finger on it, I’d say the trigger for breaking up with this soul-sucking, life-leeching habit over 10 years ago was when I decided I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. I had headaches, IBS, and that God awful pit in my stomach that never seemed to go away.

To make matters worse, I was in a toxic relationship (even though I didn’t know it at the time) that made my over-thinking monkey mind spin out of control. I was on my own crazy-go-round 24/7. When life as I knew it ended after my first marriage imploded, I gave up soda, coffee, and over-thinking. (For a while, I gave up men, but that’s another story!)

Here are 10 ways over-thinking destroys your happiness. Leave a comment and let me know if you can think of other ways over-thinking is a buzz kill.

  1. Over-thinking a problem will keep any problem a problem, which will keep you stuck inside the same problem until you quit thinking about it.
  2. Over-thinking a situation will make the situation worse in direct proportion to the time and energy you spend over-thinking it.
  3. Over-thinking anything prevents your creative problem solving skills from bubbling up.
  4. Over-thinking makes you worry, and worry is nothing more than your imagination concocting a negative future state.
  5. Over-thinking is a time suck — you’re so busy in a negative future state or negative past situation (which you can’t change) that you completely forget about right here right now.
  6. Over-thinking robs you of energy that could be better focused on things that are worthy of your attention.
  7. Over-thinking leads you to second guessing yourself and creates self-doubt.
  8. Over-thinking is a TNT drama that occurs on a stage, inside your head, where you are the director, producer, actor, actress, supporting cast, key grip, sound manager, and executive assistant to the executive assistant of the casting director.
  9. Over-thinking fabricates problems and gory “what if” horror stories.
  10. Over-thinking creates heightened feelings of anger, resentment, jealousy, fear, doubt, indecision, confusion, etc., as if whatever you are over-thinking is happening in real life.

When you break up with over-thinking it’s like writing your own “get out of jail free” card. It doesn’t cost you anything to end your relationship with the drama inside your head. You can decide to focus on things in the present that are deserving of your time and attention whenever you choose. The here and now is calling… will you answer?

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Additives That Contain GMO’s

INVISIBLE GM INGREDIENTS

Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (unless they are organic or declared non-GMO). The following are ingredients that may be made from GMOs.
Aspartame (also called AminoSweet®,    NutraSweet®, Equal Spoonful®, Canderel®,  BeneVia®, E951)
baking powder
canola oil (rapeseed oil)
caramel color
cellulose
citric acid
cobalamin (Vitamin B12)
colorose
condensed milk
confectioners sugar
corn flour
corn masa
corn meal
corn oil
corn sugar
corn syrup
cornstarch
cottonseed oil
cyclodextrin
cystein
dextrin
dextrose
diacetyl
diglyceride
erythritol
Equal
food starch
fructose (any form)
glucose
glutamate
glutamic acid
glycerides
glycerin
glycerol
glycerol monooleate
glycine
hemicellulose
high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
hydrogenated starch
hydrolyzed vegetable protein
inositol
inverse syrup
inversol
invert sugar
isoflavones
lactic acid
lecithin
leucine
lysine
malitol
malt
malt syrup
malt extract
maltodextrin
maltose
mannitol
methylcellulose
milk powder
milo starch
modified food starch
modified starch
mono and diglycerides
monosodium glutamate (MSG)
Nutrasweet
oleic acid
Phenylalanine
phytic acid
protein isolate
shoyu
sorbitol
soy flour
soy isolates
soy lecithin
soy milk
soy oil
soy protein
soy protein isolate
soy sauce
starch
stearic acid
sugar (unless specified as cane sugar)
tamari
tempeh
teriyaki marinades
textured vegetable protein
threonine
tocopherols (vitamin E)
tofu
trehalose
triglyceride
vegetable fat
vegetable oil
vitamin B12
vitamin E
whey
whey powder
xanthan gum
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) although usually derived from corn, is probably not GM because it is not likely made in North America.

from:    http://nongmoshoppingguide.com/brands/invisible-gm-ingredients.html

Project Live/Love

WHO WE ARE

The Need For Love

Mother Teresa once said, “The greatest disease in the west is not TB or leprosy. It is being unwanted, uncared for, and unloved.” In America you don’t have to go far before you find someone who is in desperate need of love. Communities have been crushed by the addiction of drugs. Thousands of people sleep in the streets because they are without a home. Women and children cry themselves to sleep at night because they have been sexually exploited all day. The need for love becomes more and more apparent when seeing the absence of it.

What if it was possible to put more love in the world? Could we create real change to today’s social issues? Could we start a movement that would change the world? Could we, through love in motion, change the reality of so many living with out it? Project Live Love was born as an attempt to answer these questions with a Yes.

The Project

proj⋅ect [n. proj-ekt, -ikt] 1. something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme. 2. a large or major undertaking.

Project Live Love is a non-profit organization designed to influence culture through love in action by engaging, networking and mobilizing people who are motivated by love.”

The Mission

THINK – Our desire is to remind people to think about Living Love by exposing the need for love and bringing awareness to our message.

SHARE – Our desire is to create environments and resources that allow people to network with each other and their community’s needs to collectively Live Love.

DO – Our desire is to mobilize individuals, corporations, social organizations, and churches by providing ideas, events, and opportunities to actively Live Love.

WHAT WE DO

The Initiative – THINK LOVE

The Live Love Initiative is designed to influence the hearts and minds of individuals with the idea of “Live Love” by infusing that message into culture. We use tools like t-shirts, stickers, billboards, social media, art shows, and more to inject the message into everyday life. We are marketing a message. The initiative focuses on working with all different areas of culture (Art, Music, Words, Education, Politics, Religion, Media & Fashion) to advance the message.

The Action – DO LOVE

The Action is designed to provide hands on opportunities for individuals to serve others. We partner with individuals, corporations, social organizations, churches, and schools that desire to put their love in motion. We provide opportunities for them to do so by creating programs and projects that are based on local community needs and collecting projects from various 501(c)3 organizations that work on today’s social issues. (i.e. homelessness, sex trafficking, drug and alcohol rehabilitation and more)

Each activity is highly organized and well executed. We have systems to manage the expectations of both the project creator and those living love. Projects are designed and organized according to the geography of volunteers, love languages, time commitment, skill levels and more.

from:    http://projectlivelove.com/theproject/

Here is one of their winter projects:

THREE-OH-WE-GO!

In Atlanta alone, it is estimated that 20 plus homeless people die each year from sleeping in the freezing cold… This year, things are going to be different!

THE DETAILS

Every night from November 10th to March 30th we are on call. If the temperature is forecasted to go below freezing the GO-Alarm is sounded and volunteers are alerted. On GO-Nights our team of volunteers assemble together at 9:00pm at LOCATION TBA. From there we divide up locations and supplies then take to the streets with hand warmers, blankets, winter items, and LOVE. Our hope is to help those we encounter make it through the night warm and safe.

Click here to read the story of how THREE-OH-WE-GO began.

from:    http://projectlivelove.com/theaction/three-oh-we-go/

Tips to ID a Sociopath fr/Mike Adams

 

How to spot a sociopath – 10 red flags that could save you from being swept under the influence of a charismatic nut job

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) One of the more offensive duties of being an investigative journalist is taking out the trash — exposing liars, fraudsters, con artists and scammers for the people they truly are. Each time we investigate a sociopath, we find that they always have a little cult group following of spellbound worshippers who consider that particular sociopath to be a “guru” or “prophet.”

Sociopaths are masters at influence and deception. Very little of what they say actually checks out in terms of facts or reality, but they’re extremely skillful at making the things they say sound believable, even if they’re just making them up out of thin air. Here, I’m going to present quotes and videos of some legendary sociopaths who convinced everyday people to participate in mass suicides. And then I’m going to demonstrate how and why similar sociopaths are operating right now… today.

Why cover this subject? I’ve seen a lot of people get hoodwinked, scammed or even harmed by sociopaths, and it bewilders me that people are so easily sucked into their destructive influence. I want to share with Natural News readers the warning signs of sociopaths so that you can spot them, avoid them, and save yourself the trouble of being unduly influenced by them.

Much of this information is derived from the fascinating book, The Sociopath Next Door, which says that 4% of the population are sociopaths. The book is a fascinating read.

10 signs for spotting a sociopath

#1) Sociopaths are charming. Sociopaths have high charisma and tend to attract a following just because people want to be around them. They have a “glow” about them that attracts people who typically seek guidance or direction. They often appear to be sexy or have a strong sexual attraction. Not all sexy people are sociopaths, obviously, but watch out for over-the-top sexual appetites and weird fetishes.

#2) Sociopaths are more spontaneous and intense than other people. They tend to do bizarre, sometimes erratic things that most regular people wouldn’t do. They are unbound by normal social contracts. Their behavior often seems irrational or extremely risky.

#3) Sociopaths are incapable of feeling shame, guilt or remorse. Their brains simply lack the circuitry to process such emotions. This allows them to betray people, threaten people or harm people without giving it a second thought. They pursue any action that serves their own self interest even if it seriously harms others. This is why you will find many very “successful” sociopaths in high levels of government, in any nation.

#4) Sociopaths invent outrageous lies about their experiences. They wildly exaggerate things to the point of absurdity, but when they describe it to you in a storytelling format, for some reason it sounds believable at the time.

#5) Sociopaths seek to dominate others and “win” at all costs. They hate to lose any argument or fight and will viciously defend their web of lies, even to the point of logical absurdity.

#6) Sociopaths tend to be highly intelligent, but they use their brainpower to deceive others rather than empower them. Their high IQs often makes them dangerous. This is why many of the best-known serial killers who successfully evaded law enforcement were sociopaths.

#7) Sociopaths are incapable of love and are entirely self-serving. They may feign love or compassion in order to get what they want, but they don’t actually FEEL love in the way that you or I do.

#8) Sociopaths speak poetically. They are master wordsmiths, able to deliver a running “stream of consciousness” monologue that is both intriguing and hypnotic. They are expert storytellers and even poets. As a great example of this in action, watch this interview of Charles Manson on YouTube.

#9) Sociopaths never apologize. They are never wrong. They never feel guilt. They can never apologize. Even if shown proof that they were wrong, they will refuse to apologize and instead go on the attack.

#10) Sociopaths are delusional and literally believe that what they say becomes truth merely because they say it! Charles Manson, the sociopathic murderer, is famous for saying, “I’ve never killed anyone! I don’t need to kill anyone! I THINK it! I have it HERE! (Pointing to his temple.) I don’t need to live in this physical realm…”

Watch Charles Manson saying this at the 3:05 mark of this YouTube video.

How to dispel illusion and get to the truth

Sociopaths are masters at weaving elaborate fictional explanations to justify their actions. When caught red-handed, they respond with anger and threats, then weave new fabrications to explain away whatever they were caught doing.

A sociopath caught red-handed with a suitcase full of cash he just stole, for example, might declare he had actually rescued the money from being stolen by someone else, and that he was attempting to find its rightful owner. He’s the hero, see? And yet, in reality, he will simply pocket the money and keep it. If you question him about the money, he will attack you for questioning his honesty.

Sociopaths are masters are presenting themselves as heroes with high morals and philosophy, yet underneath it they are the true criminal minds in society who steal, undermine, deceive, and often incite emotional chaos among entire communities. They are masters at turning one group of people against another group while proclaiming themselves to be the one true savior. Wherever they go, they create strife, argument and hatred, yet they utterly fail to see their own role in creating it. They are delusional at so many levels that their brains defy logical reasoning.

You cannot reason with a sociopath. Attempting to do so only wastes your time and annoys the sociopath.

Lower Health Insurance Fees

health

U.S. doctors are dumping all health insurance and charging patients LESS

Thursday, June 20, 2013 by: Lance Devon

(NaturalNews) In some places across the US, high-cost health insurance coverage is being discarded altogether. The looming Affordable Care Act health insurance mandate seems to be inspiring constructive disobedience. Yes, doctors are now “outsmarting” this government mandated health care system and moving towards a cash only system. This is leading to more affordable, expansive care for many – as the red tape is eliminated. Quality, affordable health care will return to America, not through blind compliance to mandates, but from those who completely defy the health insurance system altogether. As doctors move toward a much simpler system, they can charge less and also spend more time caring about their patients instead of dealing with unneeded paperwork.

Kansas physician cuts through the red tape

This is exactly what’s happening in Wichita, Kansas. The red tape is being cut down. This Kansas family physician, Doug Nunamaker, says he is now offering higher quality health care at a fraction of the cost after abandoning the entire money-bloated insurance system. He now effectively cuts overhead costs and charges his patients a small monthly fee, reducing medical service costs across the board.

Tired of all the red tape and insurance paperwork over the last five years, 32-year old Nunamaker decided to simplify his practice. Noticing how wasteful the system really was, Nunamaker realized that he paid an entire staff to manage health insurance red tape. By ditching this system, Nunamaker has been able to lower costs to patients and spend more time actually caring for them.
Most of Nunamaker’s clients are self employed, small business owners. These patients are now testifying that a small monthly fee to Nunamaker’s office is much more affordable than modern day health insurance plans (which are set to be mandated on Americans in 2014).

A more efficient route based on personal choice

Nunamaker also recommends to his patients that they opt to carry a high deductible health insurance plan to cover extreme emergencies that may require hospitalization. This option, coupled with Nunamer’s monthly fee, continues to be much more affordable than buying into current health insurance packages.

With much simpler options on the table, Nunamaker presents a more efficient way for Americans to be covered in case of an emergency and also providing inexpensive access to a wide variety of care.

In this way, healthy people aren’t forced to pay for another person’s poor lifestyle choices (like under Obamacare).

Nunamaker’s way also prevents a select few from feeling “entitled” to free healthcare. Everyone who chooses to participate pays a reasonable fair share based on age. Under Obamacare, nearly everyone, whether they choose or not, pays for everyone’s universal medical expenses, necessary and unnecessary.

Nunamaker working with colleagues to provide expansive network of affordable care

Under the Nunamaker’s basic membership plan, patients pay a flat monthly fee based on age that allows them to access unlimited “direct primary care” from medical providers that work at his practice.

For example, pediatric services are accessible for only $10 a month. Adults up to age 44 only pay $50 a month. Anyone over 44 pays only $100 a month. This cash only method, which also encompasses credit and debit transactions, is bypassing hours of wasted time, bloated prices, and red tape. It effectively goes around the new “Affordable Care Act” and actually offers affordable care. For example, a basic cholesterol test only costs his patients $3, compared to a typical $90 charge brought on by an insurance company.

Nunamaker is also working with professionals outside his office to create a network of coverage that includes services he cannot provide. He and a colleague have already got the price of an MRI down to $400, compared to what they were charging through insurance companies – around $2,000.

Obamacare requires all Americans to pay for the stupid decisions of others, like “walking into a lamppost”

As this Wichita family physician cuts through red tape, the Affordable Care Act is poised to add more new red tape to health care, which includes 122,000 new health codes. These codes include absurdities like “injuries sustained from a turtle,” or “injuries sustained from walking into a lamppost.”

As Americans are forced to pay for absurd medical decisions and even ones that go against their personal beliefs, many doctors across the US will have the option to defy Obamacare, giving Americans individual liberty to choose the medical services and health care they deem appropriate for themselves.

As more red tape befalls America, the best doctors will lead with integrity and show some guts, adopting a more responsible form of health care. The US can move back toward a much simpler, less expensive form of healthcare. A government mandated system that caters to pharmaceutical companies is destroying true healthcare.

from:    http://www.naturalnews.com/040873_doctors_health_insurance_patient_fees.html

Tooth Deacy, Meth, & Diet Soda

Tooth Decay From Diet Soda Compared To That Caused By Meth, Crack

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online

Diet soda might be as bad for you as methamphetamines or crack cocaine – at least when it comes to the health of your teeth, according to new research published recently in the journal General Dentistry.

As reported by the Daily Mail, the study was conducted by Dr. Mohamed Bassiouny, a professor of restorative dentistry at the Temple University School of Dentistry in Philadelphia. The research focuses on a woman in her 30s who reportedly consumed at least two liters of soda each day for a period of nearly five years.

“According to Bassiouny, she had the same amount of dental damage as a 29-year-old meth user and a 51-year-old crack addict,” the UK newspaper reported. “The meth user, however, also consumed two or three cans of regular soda a day because the drugs made his mouth dry, and the crack addict has been a regular crack user for 18 years, nearly four times as long as the soda drinker had been consuming excessive amounts of soda.”

Furthermore, the diet soda drinker confessed that she had not seen the dentist in two decades.

Even so, Dr. Bassiouny told Dennis Thompson of HealthDay News that it was “startling to see the intensity and extent of damage” when looking at the mouth of the soda drinker side-by-side with those of the meth user and the crack addict.

All three substances are highly acidic and capable of producing similar dental problems, the professor said, and unless a regular drinker practices good dental hygiene, the citric and phosphoric acid in soda could cause “erosion and significant oral damage,” according to Thompson.

In comparison, the two illegal drugs reduce the amount of saliva in a person’s mouth, reducing the body’s ability to wash away acids in the mouth, said Douglas Cobb of the Guardian Express. The extra acid damages teeth and can lead to other systematic health issues that affect a person’s dental hygiene, he added.

The woman said that she had switched to diet soda over weight concerns, and believed that sugary soft drinks was more closely linked to tooth decay. Her teeth were described by Thompson as “soft and discolored.” She, along with both of the illicit drug users, needed to have all of her teeth removed, according to Dr. Bassiouny.

The American Beverage Association objected to the study’s findings.

In a statement reprinted by HealthDay News, the organization said, “The woman referenced in this article did not receive dental health services for more than 20 years – two-thirds of her life. To single out diet soda consumption as the unique factor in her tooth decay and erosion – and to compare it to that from illicit drug use – is irresponsible.”

“The body of available science does not support that beverages are a unique factor in causing tooth decay or erosion,” they added. “However, we do know that brushing and flossing our teeth, along with making regular visits to the dentist, play a very important role in preventing them.”

 

Source: redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online
from:    http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1112857290/tooth-decay-from-diet-soda-case-study-052713/

Health and Harms

Connecting the Dots: Vaccines, Heavy Metals, GMOs and Brain Damage

Intelligence and memory loss symbol19th June 2013

© Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

America’s Invisible Crises – Connecting the Dots (Part 2):

Three years ago, I wrote an article linking early signs of brain dysfunction/damage with the toxic ingredients in Chemtrails. See:

http://wakeup-world.com/2013/03/14/chemtrails-the-consequences-of-toxic-metals-and-chemical-aerosols-on-human-health/

This is one of the most dangerous, covert, and global operations to which we have ever been exposed; and this is very difficult for people to understand: the serious implications of products (cell phones and Smart Meters) and invisible environmental toxins that damage our ability to think clearly. This is a major contributing factor to our diminished cognitive functions. However, it is not the only source of harm.

When we begin to connect the dots to the thousands of unsafe and often highly toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and hormone disruptors to which we are exposed daily, we then can collectively see that this is not just a one-issue health crisis we face. Rather, with corporations allowed free reign to poison us with impunity [the new Monsanto protection bill is the latest crime against us], we do not have any way to have any redress of decades of grievances. The ramifications of this are enormous.

Vaccines & Heavy Metals Dangers

The idea that a vaccine can give a person or animal protection from some disease has been around since even before the 19th century. It seemed like a reasonable idea, and it took off in the 20th century with a giant push from the pharmaceutical corporations and backed by a covert agenda of harm. So, by the mid-1950s, American children were required to get about 4 vaccinations, including the polio vaccine.

What was hidden from us, and never taken into any public account even in 1960, was that the polio vaccine was prepared using the African Green Monkey. Even then, this primate was known to be a carrier of a cancer-causing virus known as Simian Virus 40 (SV40). This virus crosses species to humans. The Salk vaccine contains this carcinogenic virus; but Americans were never told about the dangers. As with so many other poisons, federal agencies knew, but these vaccines were never removed from the market, until it was very late. The harm done to unsuspecting people was huge. See:

www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/Polio-SV40/BLFTestimonySV40.aspx

Today, American children are given more than 40 vaccines. This starts on the very first day of life when they are given the Hepatitis B vaccine. A newborn’s immune system is immature; and so, from day one, a baby’s health is already compromised with toxic ingredients in this vaccine. In addition, there are 3 more recommended doses of the Hep B vaccine during the baby’s first year. Ingredients in the Hep B vaccine include: Polysorbate 80 [also known as Tween 80, used as an emulsifier in cosmetics, and is known to cause infertility, grand mal convulsions, spontaneous abortions, and life-threatening anaphylactic shock]; formaldehyde [a known carcinogen and reproductive or developmental toxicant]; and aluminum sulphate [toxic to the reproductive system, mucous membranes, skin, causes bone loss, and damages brain function]. Aluminum is known as a persistent neurotoxin.(2) It is also one of the ingredients in the deadly aerosol Chemtrails, in the form of nano-coated fiber Aluminum.

Why are these poisons in a supposedly “protective” vaccine? Does it make any sense to a rational person? This is a vaccine that is supposed to “prevent disease.”(1) Hepatitis B vaccine is given for “high risk behavior” persons. Does a newborn baby qualify for being a high risk? How long can we still believe the lies and enormous decades-long deceit from agencies bought off by the corporations?

There are numerous other ingredients that are unsafe and toxic that are included in vaccines. The various flu vaccines are loaded with poisonous ingredients. See “Dangers in the Shots”:

http://rense.com/general86/dngers.htm

There also are the toxins in the HPV vaccine now pushed on children as young as 11 – even when there have been many deaths! This has all been preventable were parents informed of vaccine dangers. Earlier this year, Judicial Watch sued the US government for “Secrets on HPV vaccine deaths.”(4) See:

www.wnd.com/2013/03/feds-sued-for-secrets-on-hpv-vaccine-deaths and http://rense.com/general92/hpv.htm

For decades, Robert Kennedy Jr. has also been writing and speaking about another dangerous ingredient in vaccines, the mercury derivative known as “thimerosol.” He documents that “government health agencies colluded with Big Pharma to hide the risks.”(3) It is used as a vaccine preservative, so that more doses can be made and give Big Pharma far more profits.

Going back to ancient Rome, mercury has been known as a poison. Used in vaccines since the 1930s, mercury has a centuries-long history of causing cell injury and cell death. It is known to destroy the central nervous system. It is also linked to brain damage and to the explosion of ADD, ADHD, and other early cognitive troubles that were rare until children were forced to have more shots. In an Orwellian world gone amok with criminality, the governments deny any of these dangers. See:

http://vran.org/about-vaccines/vaccine-ingredients/mercury-thimersol-neurodevelopment-outcomes

And see also  Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s TV interview on vaccines and thimerosol:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn4qJLxp_QE

Forced vaccinations are a breach of ethics, informed parental and human rights.

Mercury is also one of the major toxic ingredients in dental amalgam “silver fillings.” Millions of Americans have these fillings in their mouths. Over a lifetime, each filling leaches mercury into the bloodstream. It takes decades for mercury to show its lethal impact on brain function. Amalgam fillings are a major contributing factor to brain damage and cognitive dysfunction seen in elders.

mercury-fillingsBoth my grandfather and mother were leading dentists who spoke out about the dangers of amalgam fillings. In 1910, my grandfather was opposed to using amalgam fillings as a dental restoration. That was 103 years ago! Then, my mother continued his research and lectured worldwide on these known dangers. She had a 47-year dental practice in New York and opposed the American Dental Association [ADA] for its heinous support of amalgam use.

These well-based warnings were never heeded. So, today millions more people have toxic mercury – instead of safer alternatives – leaching into their bloodstreams. Both these leading dentists urged the use of gold [foils, inlays, or crowns] as a safe and lifetime dental restoration. See:

http://rense.com/general92/merc.htm

PLEASE NOTE: removal of amalgam fillings must be done by a dentist with experience needed for the specific heavy metals Haz-Mat protocol. This is both for the safety of the patient and the dentist. The fillings cannot just be drilled out without a specific safety procedure. This mercury then must be disposed of properly.

Mercury is also found in other products. It was removed from glass thermometers because of the known dangers. But mercury is still in constant use. Light bulbs have now been replaced with supposedly “energy-saving” long-life light bulbs that also contain mercury. When one of these bulbs breaks, it becomes a Haz-Mat site. These new compact fluorescent light bulbs contaminate our environment with 30,000 pounds of mercury annually:

www.naturalnews.com/021907_compact_fluorescent_lights_lamps.html

There is no safe level of mercury. Further, there is enough overwhelming medical evidence that mercury-based products cause enormous harm. There has never been any precaution in manufacturing vaccines, or toxic light bulbs, or dental fillings. Greed has trumped any precaution and safety, while we continue to suffer harm. The deliberate lies and the massive “vaccine hoax” perpetrated on unknowing and un-informed consumers is over. See:

http://nsnbc.me/2013/05/10/the-vaccine-hoax-is-over-freedom-of-information-act-documents-from-uk-reveal-30-years-of-coverup

Genetically Modified Organisms [GMOs]

Splicing genes from one species to another to create genetically modified organisms has contaminated the web of life throughout our planet. When the Big Agra businesses decided to create GMOs, there was barely any public discussion in America; and laws were passed without any precaution or long-term testing. Crops that are GMO – corn, soy, rapeseed oil, some species of wheat, and cotton – have been grown in heavily damaged soil using glyphosate [product name, Round-Up], and have poisoned millions of acres of land belonging to farmers who do not grow GMOs. In India, the suicide rate among farmers is 46 per day – with a staggering total of 270,940 farmers’ deaths since 1995.

http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/farmer-suicides-soar-in-india

Corporations, such as Montanto, can take these farmers to court for growing GMOs because of the rigging of the legal system to favor corporate crimes. These tragic deaths are often linked to the control of the seed supply. Dr. Vandana Shiva, one of India’s greatest women [author of 20 books, more than 500 articles, and 1993 recipient of the Right Livlihood Award], notes:

“Monsanto and its PR men are trying desperately to delink the epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India from its growing control over the cotton seed supply. For us it is the control over seed, the first link in the food chain, the source of life which is our biggest concern. When a corporation controls seed, it controls life. Including the life of our farmers. The trends of Monsanto’s concentrated control on the seed sector in India or across the world is the central issue.

…Through patents on seeds, Monsanto has become the ‘Life Lord’ on the planet, collecting rents from life’s renewal and from farmers, the original breeders. Patents on seed are illegitimate because putting a toxic gene into a plant cell is not the “creation” or invention of the plant. They are seeds of deception -the deception of Monsanto being the creator of seeds and life, the deception that while it sues farmers and traps them in debt, it is working for farmers’ welfare and ‘improving farmers lives’- the deception that GMOs feed the world.”(5)

From the beginning, in Europe, there has been far more transparency about the toxicity of GMOs. The oldest environmental magazine is the UK’s “The Ecologist” founded 43 years ago by the brilliant Edward Goldsmith – a recipient of the 1991 Right Livelihood Award [the alternative Nobel Prize]. In 1998, this magazine devoted an entire issue to GMOs called “The Monsanto Files.” This is an excellent source of background information that was not reported here. The company has a very long history of harm. See:

www.theecologist.org/back_archive/dynamic/?url=http://exacteditions.theecologist.org/exact/browse/307/308/5361/1/1

GMOs have never delivered what they purportedly were supposed to do: increase crop yields, and use less herbicides and pesticides. None of this has happened, because there were lies and deception from the beginning. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, one of the world’s leading scientists, and director of London’s Institute for Science in Society (ISIS), has long been an opponent of GMOs; and she has published several books and numerous scientific papers on transgenic dangers. ISIS published “The Case for a GM-Free Sustainable World.” The following is part of the Executive Summary:

“The instability of transgenic lines has plagued the industry from the beginning, and this may be responsible for a string of major crop failures. A review in 1994, stated ‘while there are some examples of plants which show stable expression of a transgene these may prove to be the exceptions to the rule.’ In an informal survey of 30 companies involved in the comercialization of transgenic crop plants…almost all of the respondents indicated that they had observed some level of transgene inaction. Many respondents indicated that most cases of transgene inactivation never reach the literature.”

“In the United States, glyphosate-tolerant weeds are plaguing GM cotton and soya fields, and atrazine, one of the most toxic herbicides, has had to be used with glyfosinate-tolerant GM maize.”(6)

In the US, about 85 percent of the corn grown in genetically modified. Why would anyone want to eat corn that has been poisoned by atrazine and glyphosate? The links between serious illness and GMOs are well documented. ISIS has published one scientific report after another documenting these dangers.

This executive summary also includes major concerns about GM food safety, dangerous gene products being incorporated into crops, and terminator crops spreading male sterility. These broad-spectrum herbicides are “toxic to humans and other species.” The list of dangers goes on and on, and there is more than a decade and a half of reported GMO toxicity in the scientific literature.

Birth defects and sterility have been linked to genetically engineered crops and Round-Up as well as enormous harm to animals, humans and plants. A new website is documenting the worldwide scientific research, and can be found here (7):

http://gmoevidence.com

F. William Engdahl’s book “Seeds of Destruction” is also another damning indictment of GMO dangers and what devious practices have transpired behind the scenes with the multi-national agra corporations. This also is essential reading! On June 4, Engdahl also published a new article, “The Monsanto Protection Plan”: Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe”:

www.globalresearch.ca/the-monsanto-protection-plan-monsantos-deception-game-on-gmo-in-europe/5337502

Two other recent events give us hope that GMOs will soon be banned and the corporations that have wrecked such havoc will be held accountable for massive and criminal poisoning of our food supply.

John Graf picsFirstly, there was a 56-nation Monsanto protest and march two week’s ago on May 25. People are fed up with the lies and deceit; and this was the largest worldwide protest against the poisoning of our food supply. Here are some pictures taken by photographer John Graf in Los Angeles.

The day before this global protest, Dr, Mae-Wan Ho and Dr. Eva Sirinathsinghji published a scathing GMO indictment on ISIS: “Ban GMOs Now. Health & Environmental Hazards Especially in the Light of the New Genetics.” THIS IS MUST READING FOR EVERYONE! SO, PLEASE SHARE THIS! Here is the link:

www.i-sis.org.uk/Ban_GMOs_Now.php

No one has the legal or moral right to patent life! We will stop these heinous crimes.

Hormone Disruption

Our endocrine (or hormone) system is a collection of glands that secrete various hormones (chemical messages) into our bloodstream. These impact and influence almost every one of our cells, organs, and bodily functions. There are literally millions of chemical products globally that affect the endocrine system and, in fact, DISRUPT it.  Some of the earliest evidence of hormone disruption dates back to the 1970s, when frogs and other amphibians were found with 5 legs, and there were other indications that 18-20 percent of adult frogs were feminized.

Something was amiss; but scientists were puzzled about what was wrong and how it was already impacting wildlife. One of the early scientific published reports showed “that atrazine causes tadpoles of the classic ‘laboratory rat’ of the frog world, the African clawed toad, Xenopus laevus, to become hermaphroditic as adults.” The atrazine levels were low, but still did enormous harm.(8)

There are chemical disruptors that mimic hormones, and are known to affect production of estrogens, androgens, other hormones, and normal sexual development. They are also known to block hormonal action and alter and disrupt hormonal chemical messages. The list of extensive harm that results is enormous. Products includes: industrial chemicals [PCBs, and dioxin]; and pesticides [such as DDT, one of the first used, that still causes long-lasting harm, even though it was banned in 1973  in the US].

Rachel Carson warned us in 1962 about DDT toxicity. Her warning was ignored. One of the long-lasting impacts of DDT is that girls exposed to it before they reach “puberty, are 5 times more likely to develop breast cancer in middle age.” See:

www.panna.org/issues/persistent-poisons/the-ddt-story

Another group of hormone disruptors are a group of chemicals known as phthalates. They are used to make plastics soft, are found in thousands of household products [cosmetics, childrens’ toys and thousands of baby products, including baby bottles and pacifiers, rolls of food wrappers, and food packaging –that off-gases and then leaches into food]. They are ubiquitous around the world. About 1-billion pounds of phthalates are produced annually. See:

www.ourstolenfuture.org/newscience/oncompounds/phthalates/phthalates.htm

Ten years ago, when I included phthalates in a section of my book “The Uterine Crisis,” most women did not know about the devastating effects on reproduction. Phthalates off gas; and we are constantly exposed to the chronic harm they cause. These include damage to: egg production; prenatal development; offspring’s development and sexual maturity. Women are not the only ones negatively affected by exposure to phthalates. For men, this includes: a reduction in sperm motility; damaged sperm; and lower sperm count. Male sperm count is now down 50 percent from where it was in the 1970s.

One of the other devastating effects of phthalate exposure is that it is linked to obesity. See:

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120626113915.htm

While mainstream controlled news focuses on the problems with our food supply [and yes, the toxic chemicals in food are a big problem], the phthalate link is rarely addressed. However, a new report recently issued by the World Health Organization [WHO] documents the extreme dangers of phthalates. See:

www.who.int/ceh/publications/endocrine

One of the best books, written for the general reader is by co-author Dr. Theo Colburn: “Our Stolen Future”. The book was written in 1996; and the website has become an important resource for all the updated dangers of what these chemicals have done to all humans and other life forms, and how this systemic toxicity is now in the gene pool. See:

www.ourstolenfuture.org

There are no safe levels of phthalate use (or even BPA-free). These chemcals have already caused massive devastation and global harm. For our safety and future, all these chemicals need to be banned. There are safe alternatives.

These toxins connect some of the important dots to the evidence of the tremendous amount of poisoning to which we are constantly assaulted every day. If we think we are safe, it is an illusion. Much of this is invisible and, therefore, off our radar. But early signs of worldwide brain dysfunction and damage do fit into this picture. There are thousands upon thousands of scientific and medical reports and decades of research showing the insidious dangers of each and every toxin mentioned in this article.

When one begins to add up the thousands of poisons and what they do to any living organism, it is not surprsing that we have staggering rates of cancers, multiple immune diseases, global hormone disruption, and a worldwide population that is crippled with harm. The damage done to our children and grandchildren is incalculable. As co-author Dr. Theo Colburn has written: 1 chemical plus 1 chemical does not equal 2. It could equal up to 1,600 times the original poisoned dose. We now have a mathematical nightmare of staggering proportions with this highly toxic spew.

What can we do?

We continue to be cannon fodder and experimental lab animals for the elites and their multi-national corporations. Their bottom line is massive profits, and billions of people buy their toxic products. We all are expendable for their $$$! As David Icke said a few days ago: “We are looking at an historic moment, in terms of the history of exposure.”(9)

Please share this information widely. Stay tuned for Part 3 next week. I do have a workable plan and want to ask for your help! This nightmare is fixable!

for more info, go to:    http://wakeup-world.com/2013/06/19/vaccines-heavy-metals-gmos-and-brain-damage/

Men & Menopause

Hot Flash! Men May Be Cause of Menopause

Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer
Date: 13 June 2013
older man on date with woman
 Through history, older men have, on average, tended to partner with younger women, which may have led to the evolution of menopause, new research suggests.
CREDIT: auremar | Shutterstock.com

Ladies, here’s one more thing you can blame on men: menopause. At least, that’s according to a new theory.

Women go through menopause because men have consistently preferred younger women in recent evolutionary history, according to a study published today (June 13) in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.Thus, menopause is not evolutionarily advantageous and may be the result of a series of random, harmful mutations that accumulated in women but weren’t acted on by evolution because the women had already reproduced by the time the mutations affected them.

“Our first assumption is that mating in humans is not random with respect to age, which means men of all ages prefer to mate with younger women,” said study co-author Rama Singh, an evolutionary biologist at McMaster University in Canada. “If mating is with younger women, any deleterious mutations which affect women’s reproduction later in life will accumulate because they are not being acted on by natural selection.”

Menopausal mystery

Menopause, in which women stop menstruating and become infertile, has been a long-standing puzzle for biologists: Why would evolution have led to a trait that essentially reduces the reproductive potential of an animal?

Most other animals don’t go through menopause (although killer whales do). Even chimpanzees, humans’ closest living relatives, seem to reproduce into old age in the wild, and males even prefer older females.

Biologists have proposed the grandmother hypothesis to explain the conundrum. The hypothesis holds that menopause allows a grandmother who is done rearing her own kids to help rear the young of her children, thereby increasing the survival odds of her grandkids, and therefore, her genes.

But grandchildren and grandparents share just a quarter of their genes, versus half for children and their parents, so menopause would have to dramatically boost survival of grandchildren to be evolutionarily advantageous. Past studies have shown that maternal grandmothers boost their grandkids’ survival rates, though exactly how much depends on the society.

Younger women

For thousands of years (at least), men have, on average, mated with younger women, Singh said.

That’s because, if all else is equal, “those who reproduce earlier, their genes are passed on faster,” Singh told LiveScience.

So the researchers created a computer simulation to model that preference.

Early on, both men and women in the model reproduced until death. But over time, the model found, men’s preference for youth reduced older women’s odds of reproducing.

Simultaneously, people accumulated random mutations, some of which decreased later-life reproductive ability. But since older women were left out in the cold anyways, those mutations didn’t impact their reproductive success, whereas mutations in men that could reduce late-life reproduction were weeded out. (Men who stopped reproducing at some point in life would produce fewer offspring than those who didn’t, and the late reproducers would outcompete those who stopped breeding earlier.)

Over 50,000 to 100,000 years, the accumulation of all those mutations could have led to universal menopause, the researchers suggest. Menopause would then be another form of aging akin to graying hair or wrinkles.

If later childbearing becomes the norm, as current societal trends suggest, women who can reproduce at older ages might gain an evolutionary advantage, and menopause could, in theory be pushed later, Singh said.But it’s more plausible that technological changes such as fertility treatments will artificially extend women’s ability to reproduce, Singh said.

Questionable assumptions

But the new model might have the causation reversed, wrote Kristen Hawkes, an anthropologist at the University of Utah, who was not involved in the study, in an email to LiveScience.

As human life spans increased, women might have had many healthy years after fertility. As a result, men grew to prefer younger women because older women couldn’t reproduce.

Supporting that hypothesis, female chimpanzees see their egg reserves decline around the same age as human females, Hawkes noted. But unlike humans, they die shortly after this age, whereas humans have decades of healthy life left.

“The preference men have for young partners is a striking contrast with other primates,” Hawkes said. “My guess about that has been it’s a consequence of our life history.”

from:    http://www.livescience.com/37430-male-preference-younger-women-menopause.html

COncerned About Food Safety? Check This Out

Secret Trade Agreements Threaten Food Safety, Force GMO imports

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ttip gmoBy Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins
Organic Consumers Association

If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don’t meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could be powerless to shut down imports of unsafe food or food ingredients. And if it tries, multinational corporations will be able to sue the U.S. government for the loss of anticipated future profits.

More frightening? Negotiations for both agreements are taking place behind closed doors, with input allowed almost exclusively from the corporations and industry trade groups that stand to benefit the most. And the Obama Administration intends to push the agreements through Congress without so much as giving lawmakers access to draft texts, much less the opportunity for debate.

Designed to grease the wheels of world commerce, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would force the U.S. and other participating countries to “harmonize” food safety standards. That means all countries that sign on to the agreement would be required to abide by the lowest common denominator standards of all participating governments. So for instance, say Vietnam allows higher residues of veterinary antibiotics in seafood than the U.S. allows, and Vietnam and the U.S. both sign on to the TPP. As a trade partner, the U.S. could be forced to lower its standards to allow for imports of seafood from Vietnam – or face a lawsuit by the seafood exporter for depriving the company of future sales of its products in the U.S.

The U.S. has already had a taste of this type of policy under the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA). In 2005, the Canadian Cattlemen for Fair Trade sued the U.S. the U.S. government for banning imports of beef and live Canadian cattle after a case of mad cow disease was discovered in Canada. In the end, the U.S. prevailed, but not until it had spent millions to defend itself in court. Mexico wasn’t so fortunate when three companies (Corn Products International, ADM/Tate & Lyle and Cargill) sued the Mexican government for preventing imports of high fructose corn syrup. Mexico lost all three cases, and was forced to pay out a total of $169.18 million to the three firms.

Among the many gifts to Big Ag contained in the TTIP and TPP?  Back-door entry for their genetically modified seeds and crops. Countries, including those in the European Union, could find it increasingly difficult to ban, or even require the labeling of, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), if biotech companies determine that those countries’ strict policies restrict fair trade and infringe on the companies’ “rights” to profit.

The TTIP and the TPP are, individually and combined, two of the largest free trade agreements in world history. According to the Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC) the TPP alone covers 40 percent of the global economy. That percentage will likely grow, because the agreement allows for other countries, besides the 12 currently involved, to “dock on” after the agreement is in place.

Both the TTIP and TPP could have dangerous consequences for food safety in the U.S., and around the world. But they’re not limited to food or agriculture policy. Both also contain sweeping policies that could affect everything from the environment and sustainability, to healthcare, Internet freedom and the financial markets. Given the potential of these agreements to shape global policy on so many fronts, it’s reasonable to assume that negotiators would actively solicit, and take into careful consideration, input from the affected parties, including consumers, farmers and governments. Instead they’ve taken the opposite approach. From day one, negotiations for the TTIP and TPP have been shrouded in secrecy. The public and participating governments, including the U.S. Congress, have been shut out of the negotiating process, denied access to everything from early proposals to final draft texts.

Why the secrecy? The Obama Administration wants as little public debate as possible, so it can ram the agreements through Congress using something called “Fast Track.” Fast Track, a product of the Nixon presidency, strips Congress of its authority to control the content of a trade deal and hands that authority over to the executive branch. Congress gets a vote, but only after the negotiations have been completed, and the agreements have been signed. No debate. No amendments. Just a fast, forced vote, too late for Congress to have any influence.

According to the CTC, two-thirds of Democratic freshmen in the U.S. House of Representatives have expressed serious reservations about the TPP negotiations and the prospect of giving Fast Track authority to the President. And more than 400 organizations representing 15 million Americans have already petitioned Congress to do away with Fast Track in favor of a more democratic approach to trade agreement negotiations. So far those pleas have fallen on deaf ears.

If the public is shut out, and Congress gets no say, who gets a seat at the table? Corporations. That’s right. The Obama Administration is trusting corporations like Dow AgroSciences, Cargill and DuPont, and trade groups like the Pork Producers Council and Tobacco Associates, Inc., to write food safety policies. In all, more than 600 corporations have been given access to drafts of various chapters of the TPP. Requests for the same level of access, from members of Congress and from the public, have been denied.

No wonder then that, according to leaked drafts obtained by groups like the CTC, Public Citizen and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), the TPP contains proposals designed to give transnational corporations “special rights” that go far beyond those possessed by domestic businesses and American citizens, says Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of the CTC. Experts who have reviewed the leaked texts say that TPP negotiators propose allowing transnational corporations to challenge countries’ laws, regulations and court decisions, including environmental and food safety laws. Corporations will be allowed to resolve trade disputes in special international tribunals. In other words, they get to do an end run around the countries’ domestic judicial systems, effectively wiping out hundreds, if not more, domestic and international food sovereignty laws.

U.S. consumers aren’t the only ones who should be up in arms about these trade agreements, the secrecy around their negotiations, and the Obama Administration’s intent to fast-track them. Under the TTIP and TPP, consumers in countries that have stricter food safety regulations than those in the U.S. will see their standards lowered, too. For instance, Japan prohibits the use of peracetic acid to sterilize vegetables, fruits and meat, while the U.S., Canada and Australia allow it. Japan’s health ministry, in anticipation of the TPP, has said the country will add the acid to its approved list. In all, Japan has approved only about 800 food additives, to the more than 3,000 approved in the U.S. Japan’s consumers could soon see a sudden reversal of laws enacted to protect their health.

European consumers will also suffer. Europe has long used the precautionary principle to ban ractopamine in meat, chlorine rinses of poultry and the use of rBGH growth hormone in milk production. Under the TTIP, Europe could be forced to allow all three in order to meet the lowest common denominator rule. The precautionary principle removes the burden of proof from policymakers, allowing them to make discretionary decisions in situations where there is the possibility of harm, given the lack of scientific proof to the contrary. But that principle flies out the window under TTIP rules.

The Organic Consumers Association is urging consumers to petition President Obama and Interim U.S. Trade Representative Miriam Sapiro to release the draft texts of the TTIP and TPP, and encourage full and open debate on the policies contained in both agreements. The petition also asks President Obama to end the Fast Track option, and grant Congress the ability to debate and amend the agreements, before voting on them.

With the world’s food supply, and consumers’ health, already endangered by chemical-intensive industrial agriculture and climate change, the U.S. and other governments should be looking for ways to promote sustainable food and agriculture policies, not restrict governments’ abilities to do so. Instead, the Obama Administration is subverting the principles of democracy in favor of handing a few transnational corporations unprecedented power to put profits above the health and well being of consumers.

Katherine Paul is Director of Communications and Development for the Organic Consumers Association.
Ronnie Cummins is National Director of the Organic Consumers Association.

from:    http://foodfreedomgroup.com/2013/06/13/secret-trade-agreements-threaten-food-safety-force-gmo-imports/