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Mainstream media now citing ridiculous junk science to discredit omega-3s

(NaturalNews) A study out of the Netherlands has put the mainstream media in a mindless tizzy about the health effects of omega-3 fatty acids. Because a group of people fed four teaspoons of omega-3-enriched margarine a day for more than three years did not experience a reduction in heart events, many media outlets are foolishly reporting that omega-3s are not as beneficial as commonly believed.

Margarine, as many people now know, is a synthetic, hydrogenated food product that is actually not a food at all. It is a product composed of synthetic trans-fatty acids that are highly toxic and harmful to health. Margarine is exactly the type of substance that causes heart attacks and cardiovascular illness, making it ridiculous to include as part of a health study.

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Quite a different take on it than TIME magazine.  The first comment must have come from Natural News:

How much Colgate toothpaste would it take to kill a child?

Fluoridealert.org created this convenient table…

… toothpaste-induced fatalities have been rarely reported in the US. In a review of Poison Center Control reports between 1989 and 1994, 12,571 reports were found from people who had ingested excess toothpaste. Of these calls, 2 people – probably both children – experienced “major medical outcomes”, defined as “signs or symptoms that are life-threatening or result in significant residual disability or disfigurement” (SOURCE: Shulman 1997).

TABLE: “Colgate for Kids” Toothpaste could Kill your Child
Age of Child	Average Weight*	Dose of Fluoride which could kill**	Percent of “Colgate for Kids” toothpaste which, if swallowed, could Kill***
2 years	~12 kg	60 mg	~42% of tube
3 years	~15 kg	75 mg	~53% of tube
4 years	~16 kg	80 mg	~56% of tube
5 years	~ 18 kg	90 mg	~63% of tube
6 years	~20 kg	100 mg	~70% of tube
7 years	~22 kg	110 mg	~77% of tube
8 years	~25 kg	125 mg	~87% of tube
9 years	~28 kg	140 mg	~98% of tube
*Average weight data obtained here ** Potentially fatal dose = 5 mg of fluoride per kg of bodyweight. This is “the minimum dose that could cause toxic signs and symptoms, including death, and that should trigger immediate therapeutic intervention and hospitalization… This does not mean that doses lower than 5.0 mg F/kg should be regarded as innocuous.” (SOURCE: Journal of Dental Research 1987; 66:1056-1060.) *** The fluoride concentration in Colgate for Kids toothpaste is 1,100 ppm. At 130 grams of paste in the average tube, this equals 143 milligrams of fluoride.

Van-mounted body scanners coming to a street near you?

Raw Story | Daniel Tencer

US law enforcement agencies are among the customers of a Massachusetts-based company that is selling full-body scanners to be mounted inside vans and used on streets, says a report from Forbes.

American Science & Engineering, based in Billerica, Mass., told Forbes blogger Andy Greenberg that it has sold more than 500 “Z Backscatter Vans,” mobile x-ray scanning units that can be used to detect bombs, contraband and smuggled people inside nearby cars.

The company says its largest customer by far is the US military, which has purchased the machines to search for car bombs and other threats in war zones. But AS&E’s vice president of marketing, Joe Reiss, said US law enforcement agencies have also bought the machines “to search for vehicle-based bombs in the US,” Greenberg reports.

AS&E has not revealed the names of its US law enforcement customers, or how many of the machines they bought. But Reiss describes the van-mounted scanning system as “the largest selling cargo and vehicle inspection system ever.”

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Feds found Pfizer too big to nail, so they looked the other way on massive fraud

(NaturalNews) When the world’s largest pharmaceutical company was found to have engaged in a massive illegal marketing campaign, federal prosecutors decided the company was too big to punish — so they let it set up a shell corporation to take the blame.

In 2001, the FDA approved Bextra for the relief of arthritis and menstrual cramps, but did not approve it for more severe surgical pain. Yet Pfizer aggressively promoted the drug to anesthesiologists and surgeons — “anyone that use[d] a scalpel for a living,” in the words of one internal company document. Company employees also told doctors that the FDA had approved Bextra as safe in doses as high as 40 milligrams, whereas the agency had actually only approved doses up to 20 milligrams.

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Feel Better™

There’s a new University of Michigan web site, purportedly to help students get help with mental health issues, called “Campus Mind Works.”

It contains a lot of info about therapy and seems rather benign and even potentially helpful, at first glance. But once you know who’s running the site- U-M Psychiatry, this deceptive little piece of marketing makes a lot more sense.

First Check out the scrolling slideshow

Frame 2 caption:

“The sooner you seek help, the sooner you will feel better.”
- Jenna, U-M student

Frame 6 caption:

“The sooner you seek help, the sooner you will feel better. Why wait?”
- Leena, U-M student

Oh well then, since both Leena and Jenna think I need some pills, let me just march right on over there ask my doctor.  I mean, I do want to Feel Better™, right?

Ladies- the fact that there are 13 women and 4 men in this thinly-veiled commercial should give you a clue that you are being targeted by the drug industry disproportionately.

Is it because you’re more trusting of authority than men?  Are you just more likely to use drugs because you’re more emotional?  Or are they targeting you as part of a larger agenda that is not purely market driven?

I don’t know the answers to these “why” questions, but one thing I do know is there are a lot of women out there hooked on antidepressants and anxiety drugs.  Based on some studies, women are about twice as likely to take antidepressants as men.

You probably won’t realize that the main purpose of this site is slinging happy drugs to students until you actually follow thru and speak with a doctor.  Thats when they sell you hard on the drugs.

There’s no free lunch.  Good luck with the brain zaps.

Nuke that thing now, part 4

Holy sh*t.  This may be the biggest BP media deception yet. The gist of it is that the main well is still leaking and the “capped well” we’re looking at video of a 2nd nearby well from this drilling operation.

“Use skimmers to siphon off the oil” …. “Send a bomb down there”

And suddenly Matt Simmonds is dead.

See also:

Nuke that thing now
Nuke that thing now, Part 2
Nuke that thing now, Part 3

For years, Crestwood Illinois Public Water Supply secretly cut its “purified” Lake Michigan water with contaminated well water

Little did the Crestwood residents know, for years they were drinking significant amounts of chlorinated hydrocarbon dry cleaning chemicals because the Crestwood Public Water Supply mixed contaminated well water with the Lake Michigan water they claimed to be delivering into the municipal water system.

Incidence of kidney and lung cancer is significantly higher in Crestwood, and the EPA has reported that the contaminants detected in the Crestwood water are likely due to a spill of a dry cleaning chemical, perchloroethylene (perc).  From the EPA’s perc ‘chemfact’ page: “Laboratory studies show that PERC causes kidney and liver damage and cancer in animals exposed repeatedly by inhalation and by mouth.”

The EPA estimated that residents of Crestwood were consuming water containing the various chemical byproducts of the perc spill in the low PPB (parts per  billion) range, which may not seem like much, but over years of chronic exposure can lead to significant increases in the incidence of disease.

Those who are predisposed to certain diseases may find their tissues can not withstand the chronic exposure to organic chemicals.

From Natural News

A report by the Chicago Tribune has revealed that officials in the village of Crestwood, just outside Chicago, have been secretly introducing tainted well water into the town water supply for years.

“I feel deceived,” village resident Tom Parkis said.

For years before the story broke, town residents had wondered if there might not be something wrong with their water. For example, Frank Caldario was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2009, at the age of 30.

“I can’t help but wonder if what happened to me had something to do with the water,” said Caldario, a non-smoker.

“It’s just unreal for someone my age to get that.”…In response to the article, the Illinois Department of Public Health conducted a survey of disease rates in Crestwood between 1994 and 2006. The researchers found that rates of kidney and gastrointestinal cancer were significantly higher in Crestwood men than in the population at large, and rates of lung cancer were significantly higher in both men and women. The researchers could not prove that the higher cancer rates were caused by the polluted water, but did find it to be a possible cause.

From the Illinois EPA’S site regarding the contamination (check out the FAQ)

From 1986 to 2007, the Illinois EPA believes Crestwood was using water from its contaminated groundwater well to supplement the Lake Michigan source water without informing the Illinois EPA or its water customers. Since the Crestwood Public Water Supply (PWS) well was reportedly not in use during this time period, no routine samples of that well were taken; federal Safe Drinking Water Act regulations do not require sampling of PWS wells that are not in use. Consequently, no regularly-collected analytical data are available to determine the levels of contamination over those years. However, in a letter to the Illinois EPA from April 1998, a consultant investigating a nearby drycleaner solvent release reported results from two samples collected from the Crestwood well. This letter also documents conversations with Crestwood officials who told the consultants that the well water was being mixed with the purchased Lake Michigan water at a ratio of 10:90. If this report is accurate, this set of results indicates that the chemical contamination discovered in 1986 had not yet degraded into the more dangerous chemical, vinyl chloride, which was first found in a 2007 well sample

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Where are the VOCs vinyl chloride, 1,1-dichloroethylene (1,1-DCE) and the cis- and trans- forms of 1,2-DCE coming from?

Vinyl chloride is often found in the environment as a breakdown product of other solvents and is most likely coming from a release of the drycleaner solvent known as tetrachloroethylene

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Illinois EPA is actively researching potential sources of the Crestwood well contamination.