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 But corruption is always tolerated to some extent, even in china. It's only a question of WHO gets targeted for termination based on the politics of the moment. It was in China's political interests, for example, to show the West that it was cracking down on FDA corruption following the discovery of toxic pet food proteins and toothpaste products exported by Chinese manufacturers. So the execution of its top FDA official served a convenient political purpose, too.
That doesn't mean the execution wasn't justified on its own. |
| REPPED: What's interesting about China's execution of its top FDA official (Zheng Xiaoyu) for accepting bribes from drug companies is not that china executed a corrupt official, it's that such harsh actions demonstrate, in contrast, the complete lack of action against corrupt FDA officials in the United States. In the U.S., the more corrupt the politician or bureaucrat, the more power they seem to gain, and those who demonstrate the most extreme degrees of evil, greed and contempt for fellow human beings seem to end up at the very top. |
| Food and Drug Administration didn't offer the guy a job and secretly smuggle him out of china. If he can run a corrupt regulatory agency, and he's used to taking money from drug companies, he'd fit right in with the American FDA! They could use another evil bureaucrat like that around here!
As usual, the press misses the real story
What's really interesting about the press coverage of China's execution is that virtually no one has bothered to call for arresting and prosecuting corrupt FDA officials in the United States. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's the latest in a long string of health scares from Mainland China's product manufacturers.
The chemical culprit of all this is 1,4-butanediol, which breaks down into gamma hydroxy butyrate, also known as the "date rape drug." This drug is obviously not supposed to be used in children's toys, but then again we're talking about manufacturers from Communist china, where it seems that anything goes as long as western retailers close their eyes and don't bother to conduct safety tests on these products. (Dog food, anyone? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The real problem with China's toxic ingredients, you see, is that they kill Americans too quickly, thereby depriving Big Pharma of a lifetime of revenue treating some sick person's symptoms with extremely profitable patented medications. This is not appreciated in America because it competes with our own home-grown poisoning method that prefers to poison consumer more slowly, bilking them for hundreds of thousands of dollars in monopoly priced medications and hopefully killing them off right before Medicare or social security might kick in. |
| All this doesn't mean China's foods are any safer. They're not. But U.S. foods, drugs and personal care products are just as toxic. Pick up a piece of beef jerky at any grocery store, and you'll find a combination of multiple cancer causing ingredients in a single product: Sodium nitrite, monosodium glutamate and even artificial colors (not to mention the toxic animal fat sources used to make beef jerky). Where is the FDA when it comes to protecting Americans from American companies?
The unstated double standard is that American foods are safe merely by the fact that they are made in America. |
| We suffer from more cancer, diabetes, obesity, depression, heart disease, violent behavior and sheer madness than any population in the world, and you can't blame china for all that.
The real problem, it turns out, is found inside our own borders. The real problem is the corporations and regulators that run America today and who unilaterally refuse to do anything meaningful to protect the lives and health of U.S. consumers. U.S. |
| Technically, china should ban all processed meat imports from the United States, given that such meats contain detectable levels of cancer-causing chemicals in the form of sodium nitrite (and MSG, usually). If the world were really concerned about food safety, they would ban virtually all common food items made in the USA: Beef, hamburgers, processed meats, sugary sweets, diet sodas, frozen dinners and much more. The USA is the largest exporter of death and disease in the entire world. We sell more disease-promoting crap than anyone, and every country that adopts the U.S. |
| China card. Invoke the blame game!
Advocating the chemical intoxication of the American people
The FDA also allows all kinds of toxic chemicals to be used in over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. Everything from cough syrups to pain pills seems to be openly contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals ranging from synthetic sweeteners to petrochemical-derived coloring chemicals. You can hardly pick up an over-the-counter medication at a convenience store without seeing some scary chemical on the ingredients list.
The USDA, meanwhile, openly allows U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As usual, the press misses the real story
What's really interesting about the press coverage of China's execution is that virtually no one has bothered to call for arresting and prosecuting corrupt FDA officials in the United States. The reaction from the mainstream press is all too typical: It's someone else's problem, not ours. The U.S. FDA is trustworthy. Our people would never stoop to accepting bribes.
It's all hogwash, of course, and the mainstream media is part of the problem because it refuses to print the truth about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. |
| I'm no proponent of the death penalty, especially since it is almost always applied in a racist manner in the United States, but there are times when high crimes against the people can seemingly justify permanently removing someone from society. china did precisely that in executing its top FDA official for accepting more than $800,000 in bribes from drug companies to approve unsafe drugs. Yet bribery is routine in the United States drug approval process. |
| It was in China's political interests, for example, to show the West that it was cracking down on FDA corruption following the discovery of toxic pet food proteins and toothpaste products exported by Chinese manufacturers. So the execution of its top FDA official served a convenient political purpose, too.
That doesn't mean the execution wasn't justified on its own. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The answer is simple: Why would china want to mess with the great scam? china is selling all sorts of plastic goods to U.S. citizens who are spending more money to buy them. This results in a huge transfer of wealth to china, and china uses a portion of that wealth to purchase U.S. debt.
China gets both the profits of the products it sells, plus all the trade surpluses, and it gains political and economic power over the most dangerous superpower in the world, the United States of America. |
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 You see this in china and Taiwan; this is a region of the world that I watch very closely, and we see that china is always threatening Taiwan with war. china continues to see Taiwan as a renegade province, and Taiwan, of course, is an independent country by any definition; it has just failed so far to declare its independence, even though it operates completely independently from china.
There's been military and political tension between these two countries for a long time, since the late 1940s when Chiang Kai-shek and his allies left the mainland china and came to Taiwan. |
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| All our health problems are obviously China's fault, and anyone who suggests the U.S. is to blame for its own diseased population is obviously unpatriotic. |
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| This results in a huge transfer of wealth to china, and china uses a portion of that wealth to purchase U.S. debt.
China gets both the profits of the products it sells, plus all the trade surpluses, and it gains political and economic power over the most dangerous superpower in the world, the United States of America. Obviously, if you're china and you'd like to increase the strength of your position for the present time, you continue to allow the U.S. to sink itself deeper and deeper into debt.
How could this have happened? |
Elaine Magee
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 For that information, we turn to the Cornell-China-Oxfprd Project on Nutrition, Health, and Environment, a long-term study comparing the diets of rural china with average American ones. Since the early 1980s, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, director of the project, has been tracking the eating habits of people living in 100 Chinese rural villages. What has he discovered so far? In rural china, the rates of major chronic diseases, including breast, colon, and rectal cancer, are mere fractions of those reported in the United States. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 The uncertainty of having a standard procedure prompted us to measure fiber in more than a dozen ways in our china Study. As summarized in chapter four, as consumption of almost all of these fiber types went up, colon and rectal cancer rates went down.69 But we could make no clear interpretations70 as to which type of fiber was especially important.
Despite the uncertainties, I continue to believe that Burkitt's66 initial hypothesis that fiber-containing diets prevent colorectal cancers is correct and that some of this effect is due to the aggregate effect of all the fiber types. |
| As I have moved on from the laboratory studies and the china Study and encountered the information discussed in Part II, I have become overwhelmed. I have come to realize that some of our most revered conventions are wrong and real health has been grossly obscured. Most unfortunately, the unsuspecting public has paid the ultimate price. In large measure, this book is my effort to right these wrongs. As you will come to see in the following chapters, from heart disease to cancer, and from obesity to blindness, there is a better path to optimal health. |
| According to our china Study data, lifetime exposure to estrogen1 is at least 2.5-3.0 times higher among Western women when compared
CHART 8.2: DIETARY INFLUENCE ON FEMALE HORMONE EXPOSURE OVER A WOMAN'S LIFETIME (SCHEMATIC)
60-,----1 i-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60
Woman's Age with rural Chinese women. This is a huge difference for such a critically important hormone.2 To use the words of one of the leading breast cancer research groups in the world,3 "there is overwhelming evidence that estrogen levels are a critical determinant of breast cancer risk. |
| On occasions, when our paths have crossed, Professor Willett and I have had discussions about the findings on fat as they relate to the china Study and the Nurses' Health Study. 1 have always made the same point: whole foods, plant-based diets, naturally low in fat, are not included in the Nurses' Health Study cohort, and that it is these types of diets that are the most beneficial for our health. Professor Willett has said to me, in response, on more than one occasion, "You may be right, Colin, but people don't want to go there." This comment has disturbing implications. |
| I told her a little bit about the china Study and about the important role of nutrition. I told her that just because a person has the gene for a disease does not mean that they are destined to get the cancer: prominent studies reported that only a tiny minority of cancers can be solely blamed on genes.
I was surprised at how little she knew about nutrition. She thought genetics was the only factor that determined risk. She didn't realize that food was an important factor in breast cancer as well.
We talked for twenty or thirty minutes, a brief time for such an important matter. |
| My laboratory work was focused on several cancers, including those of the liver, breast and pancreas, and some of the most impressive data from china were related to cancer. For this lifetime work, the American Institute for Cancer Research kindly presented me with their Research Achievement award in 1998.
An exceptional number of books have summarized the evidence on the effects of nutrition on a variety of cancers, each with their own particularities. |
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| This results in a huge transfer of wealth to china, and china uses a portion of that wealth to purchase U.S. debt.
China gets both the profits of the products it sells, plus all the trade surpluses, and it gains political and economic power over the most dangerous superpower in the world, the United States of America. Obviously, if you're china and you'd like to increase the strength of your position for the present time, you continue to allow the U.S. to sink itself deeper and deeper into debt.
How could this have happened? |
Dawson Church
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 She was imprisoned from the ages of sixty-six to seventy-one, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s in china. Upon her release, she went on to write some of her most highly praised works. She wrote an inspiring novel describing her experience of banishment to China's northern wilderness.
Helen Keller: Blind, deaf, and mute from age nineteen-months, she wrote and published (at age seventy-five) her book Teacher in honor of the woman who helped her thrive through her suffering.
Jesse J. Aaron: A descendant of slaves with a Seminole Indian grandmother, he too worked as a slave. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Kunstler points out that not only has oil likely reached a peak in terms of global production that may have occurred in the last two or three years, but at the same time the demand for oil is sharply rising around the world, especially as nations like china demonstrate an increasing appetite for energy consumption. As a result, countries that once seemed to have an unlimited supply of oil, like the United States, are now going to have to compete with nations like china for those limited energy supplies.
He then goes on to discuss the interdependency of our modern-day society on cheap oil. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Juices from concentrate are usually imported from growers around the world (including china), then reconstituted with water. The process of removing the water in the first place causes a loss of some nutrients. Reconstituted fruit juice is never as nutritionally potent as fresh fruit juice.
There is also no requirement that juice companies list the country of origin for their juice concentrates. For all you know, they may have been imported from china or some other country famous for exporting contaminated products.
#6: What are the ingredients to watch out for on superfruit juice labels? |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 A 1992 article published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology called "Recent Advances on Ginseng Research in China" stated that ginseng
"has a wide range of pharmacological and therapeutical actions; it acts on the central nervous system, cardiovascular system and endocrine secretion, promotes immune function and metabolism, possesses biomodulation action, anti-stress and anti-aging activities, and so on." Hardly an undistinguished resume. china has approved many preparations of ginseng for clinical application. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Recently, multiple retailers were forced to recall million of toys made in china due to high levels of lead. Could china be secretly disposing of their hazardous waste by hiding it in the products they ship overseas?
Intestinal Toxins from Cadmium
In general, people are not as aware of the dangers of cadmium as they are of metals such as arsenic, mercury, aluminum, and lead. Cadmium is an extremely toxic heavy metal even in small quantities. Since it's poorly excreted, cadmium can collect slowly in intestinal and body tissue. |
Elaine Magee
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| In rural china, the rates of major chronic diseases, including breast, colon, and rectal cancer, are mere fractions of those reported in the United States. "There are some regions in china in which breast cancer and heart disease are almost unknown," Campbell says. Type 2 diabetes and bone-weakening osteoporosis are much less prevalent, even though the Chinese consume far fewer dairy products than we do in the United States, according to Campbell.
Does soy offer breast cancer benefits? |
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