EXPOSING the FDA and the USDA - Broad Casting here the things that they would prefer us NOT to know about our FOOD & DRUGS & Farming.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The Truth About Haiti / Big-Ag Killed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijf2hIwBgFc&feature=relmfu

Cancer-causing Polio Vaccines

Feature writer J.D. Heyes brings you a truly remarkable story about how polio vacci...nes were widely contaminated with the SV40 virus that causes cancer. And it's still being found in cancer tumors in people all across the world! Read more about the true history of vaccines that the medical establishment doesn't want you to know:


http://www.naturalnews.com/032854_SV40_polio_vaccines.html

Foods That Kill

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=BCED96C19361449686F6E68ED178FFFF

Saturday, June 25, 2011

FDA's approval of aspartame

If a product is approved by the Food and Drug Administration


(FDA) and composed of natural ingredients, would you assume

it is safe to consume? If the same product is an artificial sweetener, would you assume

it helps control your weight? Millions of people use aspartame,

the artificial sweetener known as NutraSweet, with these

assumptions in mind.



Video:



http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/4092.html



However, aspartame's tainted history of approval and potentially

toxic ingredients cast serious doubt on the safety of this sugar

substitute. Furthermore, aspartame may actually increase your

appetite (Farber 52).



While the FDA approval may signal the green light for safe

consumption, 85 percent of all complaints registered with the

FDA are for adverse reactions to aspartame, including five

reported deaths. A closer look at the unscientific studies,

suspicious approval methods, and its harmful ingredients,

reveal the hidden dangers of this artificial sweetener.



In reality, aspartame poses a public health threat.



Video:



http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/4092.html




- Alexandra

See also, the FDAs "Splendid Lies,:  "Splenda" - http://exposingfdanusda.blogspot.com/2009/06/fda-on-splenda-splendid-lies.html





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Fault Lines - Healthcare special - Sanders 06 Aug 09 - Interview 2

Friday, June 24, 2011

Shocking facts that prove the ENTIRE US Healthcare Industry Has Become One GIANT Money Making SCAM

25 Shocking Facts That Prove That The Entire U.S. Health Care Industry Has Become One Giant Money Making Scam

Before Its News
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 5:05

What is the appropriate word to use when you find out that the top executive at the third largest health insurance company in America raked in 68.7 million dollars in 2010? How is one supposed to respond when one learns that more than two dozen pharmaceutical companies make over a billion dollars in profits each year? Is it okay to get angry when you discover that over 90 percent of all hospital bills contain "gross overcharges"? Once upon a time, going into the medical profession was seen as a "noble" thing to do. But now the health care industry in the United States has become one giant money making scam and it is completely dominated by health insurance companies, pharmaceutical corporations, lawyers and corporate fatcats. In America today, just one trip to the hospital can cost you tens of thousands of dollars even if you do not stay for a single night. The sad thing is that the vast majority of the money that you pay out for medical care does not even go to your doctor. In fact, large numbers of doctors across the United States are going broke. Rather, it is the "system" that is soaking up almost all of the profits. We have a health care industry in the United States that is fundamentally broken and it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

But wasn't that what Obamacare was supposed to do? No, in fact Obamacare was largely written by representatives from the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry. Once it was signed into law the stocks of most health insurance companies went way up.

The truth is that Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of legislation in modern American history. It did nothing to fix our health care problems. Rather, it just made all of our health care problems much worse.

In case you haven't noticed, health insurance companies all over the United States have announced that they are going to raise premiums significantly due to the new law. Of course they are just using it as an excuse. They have been sticking it to us good for the last several decades and they just grab hold of whatever excuse they can find to justify the latest rate hike.

If you are looking for a legal way to drain massive amounts of money out of average Americans just become a health care company executive. Health care has become perhaps the greatest money making scam in the United States. When Americans are sick and have to go to the hospital most of them aren't really thinking about how much it will cost. At that point they are super vulnerable and ready to be exploited.

It is almost unbelievable how much money some of these companies make. Health insurance companies are more profitable when they provide less health care. Pharmaceutical companies aren't in the business of saving lives. Rather, they are in the business of inflating the profit margins on their drugs as much as possible. Many hospitals have adopted a policy of charging "whatever they can get away with", knowing that the vast majority of the public will never challenge the medical bills.

The system is broken.

Everyone knows it.

But it never gets fixed.

The following are 25 shocking facts that prove that the entire U.S. health care industry is one giant money making scam....

#1 The chairman of Aetna, the third largest health insurance company in the United States, brought in a staggering $68.7 million during 2010. Ron Williams exercised stock options that were worth approximately $50.3 million and he raked in an additional $18.4 million in wages and other forms of compensation. The funny thing is that he left the company and didn't even work the whole year.

#2 The top executives at the five largest for-profit health insurance companies in the United States combined to receive nearly $200 million in total compensation in 2009.

#3 One study found that approximately 41 percent of working age Americans either have medical bill problems or are currently paying off medical debt.

#4 Over the last decade, the number of Americans without health insurance has risen from about 38 million to about 52 million.

#5 According to one survey, approximately 1 out of every 4 Californians under the age of 65 has absolutely no health insurance.

#6 According to a report published in The American Journal of Medicine, medical bills are a major factor in more than 60 percent of the personal bankruptcies in the United States. Of those bankruptcies that were caused by medical bills, approximately 75 percent of them involved individuals that actually did have health insurance.

#7 Profits at U.S. health insurance companies increased by 56 percent during 2009.

#8 According to a report by Health Care for America Now, America's five biggest for-profit health insurance companies ended 2009 with a combined profit of $12.2 billion.

#9 Health insurance rate increases are getting out of control. According to the Los Angeles Times, Blue Shield of California plans to raise rates an average of 30% to 35%, and some individual policy holders could see their health insurance premiums rise by a whopping 59 percent this year alone.

#10 According to an article on the Mother Jones website, health insurance premiums for small employers in the U.S. increased 180% between 1999 and 2009.

#11 Why are c-sections on the rise? It is because a vaginal delivery costs approximately $5,992 on average, while a c-section costs approximately $8,558 on average.

#12 Since 2003, health insurance companies have shelled out more than $42 million in state-level campaign contributions.

#13 Between 2000 and 2006, wages in the United States increased by 3.8%, but health care premiums increased by 87%.

#14 There were more than two dozen pharmaceutical companies that made over a billion dollars in profits in 2008.

#15 Each year, tens of billions of dollars is spent on pharmaceutical marketing in the United States alone.

#16 Nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis according to a CDC report that was just released. According to the report, approximately one-third of all Americans use two or more pharmaceutical drugs, and more than ten percent of all Americans use five or more prescription drugs on a regular basis.

#17 According to the CDC, approximately three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the United States because of adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs.

#18 The Food and Drug Administration reported 1,742 prescription drug recalls in 2009, which was a gigantic increase from 426 drug recalls in 2008.

#19 Lawyers are certainly doing their part to contribute to soaring health care costs. According to one recent study, the medical liability system in the United States added approximately $55.6 billion to the cost of health care in 2008.

#20 According to one doctor interviewed by Fox News, "a gunshot wound to the head, chest or abdomen" will cost $13,000 at his hospital the moment the victim comes in the door, and then there will be significant additional charges depending on how bad the wound is.

#21 In America today, if you have an illness that requires intensive care for an extended period of time, it is ridiculously really easy to rack up medical bills that total over 1 million dollars.

#22 It is estimated that hospitals overcharge Americans by about 10 billion dollars every single year.

#23 One trained medical billing advocate says that over 90 percent of the medical bills that she has audited contain "gross overcharges".

#24 It is not uncommon for insurance companies to get hospitals to knock their bills down by up to 95 percent, but if you are uninsured or you don't know how the system works then you are out of luck.

#25 According to one recent report, Americans spend approximately twice as much as residents of other developed countries on health care.

Sadly, the pillaging of the American people only seems to be accelerating.

Whether it is as a result of Obamacare or not, health insurers have decided that this is the season to raise health insurance premiums. Just consider the following excerpt from a recent article on Fox News....

Here is the terse reason CareFirst/Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Washington gave its subscribers for raising a monthly premium from $333 to $512 on a middle aged man who is healthy, is not a smoker and is not obese: "Your new rate reflects the overall rise in health care costs and we regret having to pass these additional costs on to you."

512 dollars a month for health insurance for a healthy non-smoker?

Are they serious?

Apparently they are.

Things have gotten so bad that an increasing number of Americans are going outside of the country for medical care.

According to numbers released by Deloitte Consulting, a whopping 875,000 Americans were "medical tourists" in 2010.

Is there anyone out there that is not paid by the health care industry that is still willing to defend it?

Is there anyone out there that still believes that the health care industry is not just one giant money making scam?

Feel free to leave your comments below. In particular, if you have a horror story about a health insurance company, a pharmaceutical company or the health care industry as a whole please share it with us....



Read more at The End of the American Dream;

Before It's News

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Irriated Seed-Crops Sicken Cattle w/ Fatal Disease / Russia

UNDIAGNOSED DISEASE, BOVINE - RUSSIA: (TATARSTAN) REQUEST FOR


INFORMATION

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Date: Wed 20 Apr 2011

Source: Epidnews.Ru [in Russian, trans. Corr.ATS, edited]







Spasskiy district plague: are the cattle killed by radiation?

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The environmental protection activists in the Republic of Tatarstan

have reported mysterious cattle death cases in Spasskiy district since

last summer [2010]. The cause of these deaths remains unknown;

however, the activists connect it with a recent gamma irradiation

experiment of the seeds in the region. The affected animals develop

muscle weakness, start limping, and at the end die. A representative

of the environmental protection activists has visited one of the

affected villages and asked the villagers about these cases. All 3

respondents have had a dead cow in their farm. They have said that the

same situation exists in their neighbor's yards. There are no official

statistics available for these fatal cattle cases.



A local veterinarian considers that the disease could be

osteodystrophy due to affected metabolism in these animals. He also

thinks that the quality of the local forage could be low because of

the very hot summer last year [2010], which led to decreased

nutritional value and less vitamins in all vegetation. Such problems

with feed sometimes can cause similar health problems in cattle in

early spring, he says.



The environmental activists consider that seed irradiation also can

lead to a low content of vitamins in forage plants. To prove their

claims they point out clustering of cattle deaths only in Spasskiy

district, where the irradiation experiment took place. The neighboring

districts, which had similarly hot summers last year, did not report

cattle health problems at all. The environmentalists also cite

scientific articles from the 1950s, which document loss of vitamins in

irradiated seeds. Additionally, they say, there is evidence about

development of radiation sickness in animals if they are fed

irradiated forage.



There is an ongoing project in Russia to establish a centralized

radiation facility for cattle forage and maybe chicken feeds as well.

The local environmentalists consider this a dangerous development and

are lobbying for local legislative measures against such radiation

projects.



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Communicated by:

ProMED-mail Russian service PRO/RUS





[This report is rather turbid, lacking quantitative as well as

qualitative data, seemingly belonging to the "hearsay" party. No

epidemiological or clinical information on the population which is

said to be affected are included.



Food irradiation is the process of exposing food/feed to ionizing

radiation to destroy microorganisms, bacteria, viruses or insects that

might be present in the food/feed. There are also other applications,

including sprout inhibition. Irradiated food does not become

radioactive, but in some cases there may be subtle chemical changes. -

Mod.AS]



[The undiagnosed illness/death affecting the cattle is not from

radiation. I am also hard pressed to believe the radiation effect on

the plants. Osteodystrophy and what the vet said sound correct. -

Mod.TG]



[Maps of Russia can be seen at



and . The Republic of Tatarstan is

located in the Volga (Privolzhsky) Federal District, which forms the

southeastern part of European Russia. - Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ]



[see also:

2008

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Undiagnosed disease, bovine - Russia (02): (Irkutsk) 20080107.0094

Undiagnosed disease, bovine - Russia (Irkutsk) 20080106.0073]

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