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Popular Artificial Sweetener Penetrating the Gulf Stream, UNC Wilmington Scientists Confirm [2011]

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“While pouring the popular artificial sweeter sucralose into their morning coffees, University of North Carolina Wilmington Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry Research Laboratory (MACRL) researchers began to ponder, ‘If only 10 percent of this is going to stay in our bodies, what happens to the other 90 percent?’ This question led to the first scientific confirmation that sucralose is lingering in the Gulf Stream, the conveyor belt of water transport that circulates in the Atlantic Ocean from the coasts of North America to Europe, Africa and beyond.”

http://uncw.edu/articles/2011/11/popular-artificial-sweetener-penetrating-the-gulf-stream,-unc-wilmington-scientists-confirm

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Government Healthcare Propaganda versus The Truth (Seniors Vaccine Edition)

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“USA Today reports that, overall, the vaccine was only 56 percent effective in terms of cutting the need for influenza-related medical visits. Specifically for folks age 65 and older, the vaccine was only 9 percent effective against this season’s most prevalent flu strain, H3N2. ‘Everyone at CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting was scratching their heads over this,’ William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine in Nashville, told USA Today.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/02/government-healthcare-propaganda-versus.html

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1 in 5 American teenage boys diagnosed with ADHD

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“Nearly one in five American teenage boys is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, marking a dramatic rise in the past decade.  The condition, for which potent stimulant drugs like Adderal or Ritalin are often prescribed, has been previously estimated to affect three to seven percent of children.  The newspaper compiled the data from raw figures provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which took a phone survey of 76,000 parents from 2011 to 2012.  The report said that 15 percent of school-age boys in the United States have received an ADHD diagnosis, compared to seven percent among girls.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/01/1-in-5-american-teenage-boys-diagnosed-with-adhd/

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50 Signs That The U.S. Health Care System Is A Gigantic Money Making Scam That Is About To Collapse

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“In the United States today, the health care industry is completely dominated by government bureaucrats, health insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations.  The pharmaceutical corporations spend billions of dollars to convince all of us to become dependent on their legal drugs, the health insurance companies make billions of dollars by providing as little health care as possible, and they both spend millions of dollars to make sure that our politicians in Washington D.C. keep the gravy train rolling.  Meanwhile, large numbers of doctors are going broke and patients are not getting the care that they need.”

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/50-signs-that-the-u-s-health-care-system-is-a-gigantic-money-making-scam-that-is-about-to-collapse

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UPS receives $40 million fine for shipping prescription drugs for online pharmacies

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“UPS Friday agreed to forfeit $40 million and implement a compliance program after a Department of Justice probe found the company delivered drugs on behalf of illegal online pharmacies.  The agreement followed an investigation that showed that UPS was shipping drugs on behalf of Internet pharmacies that were distributing controlled substances and prescription drugs that were not supported by a valid prescription. Despite being on notice from employees that such illegal shipments were being delivered, UPS ‘did not implement procedures to close the shipping accounts of Internet pharmacies,’ said a Department of Justice statement.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/29/ups-agrees-to-pay-40-million-for-shipping-illegal-prescription-drugs/

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The Drug Warriors Cashing In on Pot Prohibition

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“When eight former DEA chiefs signed a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder earlier this month, demanding that the feds crack down on Washington and Colorado, there was more than just drug-war ideology at stake. Two of the elder drug warriors, Peter Bensinger (DEA chief, 1976–1981) and Robert DuPont (White House drug chief, 1973–1977), run a corporate drug-testing business. Their company, Bensinger, DuPont & Associates, holds the pee stick for some 10 million employees around the US, including Kraft Foods, American Airlines, Johnson & Johnson, the Federal Aviation Administration and even the Justice Department itself.”

http://www.thefix.com/content/marijuana-legalization-drug-prohibition-lobbying-revolving-door8111?page=all

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Anti-anxiety drug pollution makes fish fearless and antisocial

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“Anti-anxiety drugs find their way into wastewater where they make fish more fearless and antisocial, with potentially serious ecological consequences, researchers said Thursday.  Sientists examining perch exposed to the sedative Oxazepam — which, like many medications, passes through the human body — found that it made them more likely to leave their school and strike out on their own.  With the use of such drugs on the rise, in Sweden and elsewhere, the researchers said the changes in the fish could be a global phenomenon, adding that more research is necessary before broad-based conclusions can be drawn.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/14/anti-anxiety-drug-pollution-make-fish-fearless-and-antisocial/

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Pharma firms paid East German state to test drugs on population

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“Major Western pharmaceutical companies carried out tests of medications in the 1980s on patients in communist East Germany, in some cases without the subjects’ knowledge.
A newspaper, which examined the documents, reported that more than 50 Western firms had contracts with East Germany’s Health Ministry to carry out a total of 165 medical tests between 1983 and 1989.  In exchange, the communist authorities were paid up to 860,000 deutschmarks (around 430,000 euros today or $567,000), according to the report, at a time when East Germany was desperate for hard currency.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/28/pharma-firms-tested-drugs-on-east-germans-report/

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Cannabis For Infant’s Brain Tumor, Doctor Calls Child “A Miracle Baby”

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“Medical marijuana is gaining acceptance, but could it even help kids? Saying he was ‘quite a skeptic 5 or 6 years ago’, Dr. William Courtney continued that ‘my youngest patient is 8 months old, and had a very massive centrally located inoperable brain tumor.’ The child’s father pushed for non-traditional treatment utilizing cannabis.  ‘They were putting cannabinoid oil on the baby’s pacifier twice a day, increasing the dose… And within two months there was a dramatic reduction, enough that the pediatric oncologist allowed them to go ahead with not pursuing traditional therapy.’ The tumor was remarkably reduced after eight months of treatment.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/01/cannabis-for-infants-brai_n_2224898.html

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Glenn Greenwald: Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job

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“Whatever one’s views on Obamacare were and are: the bill’s mandate that everyone purchase the products of the private health insurance industry, unaccompanied by any public alternative, was a huge gift to that industry.  More amazingly still, when the Obama White House needed someone to oversee implementation of Obamacare after the bill passed, it chose a former health insurance industry executive.  Now, Liz Fowler is once again passing through the deeply corrupting revolving door as she leaves the Obama administration to return to the loving and lucrative arms of the private health care industry.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/05/obamacare-fowler-lobbyist-industry1

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