Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Indonesia, in fact, is doing the only rational thing it can: Keep the samples a secret, and avoid allowing the who and greedy drug companies to get their hands on them.
This argument about H5N1 samples isn't about public safety, folks. It's about profits. And Big Pharma can't manufacture and sell its useless vaccines unless it has some genetic code to work with. That's the whole reason behind this pressure to force Indonesia to "share" its bird flu samples. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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 With the imprimatur of the who, this definition established an international benchmark, which has gone on to spawn the mainstream measures of the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis around the world, from Alberta to New South Wales.
Based on the who definition, groups like the National Osteoporosis Foundation in the U.S. tell us that this "debilitating disease" is a "major public health threat for an estimated 44 million Americans," or more than half of the entire population over fifty years old. |
Andreas Moritz
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 That is exactly what we are doing during the humanitarian AIDS campaigns promoted by the who and numerous charitable AIDS organizations.
Another class of HIV tests, called viral load tests, can produce dozens of conflicting results—even from the same blood sample. The general population is made to believe that an HIV test is a reliable method to determine whether they are infected with HIV or not. If they were to read the disclaimers on the HIV test kits they would perhaps become a little suspicious, at least enough to insist on further evidence, if such can ever be provided. |
| Moreover, why is the who proclaiming that there are nearly 40 million people infected with HIV when this worldwide organization knows so well that the tests used cannot be used to make such claims?
The AIDS tests are used to create statistics of an epidemic that has no scientific backing, but is blindly accepted as true by innocent people who have no reason to believe they are being deceived over something like a deadly disease. This information needs to be shared with every person who tests positive for HIV, yet it is being concealed from these "patients. |
| AIDS has profoundly scared them, and so they have given into the tremendous pressure exerted onto them by international organizations, such as the who and their generous sponsors—the drug giants. In the historic past, the developing world has been exploited by the wealthy nations. Today, this exploitation is concealed in the generous offer to help the AIDS-afflicted countries control the escalating crisis, a crisis that existed long before HIV was named a deadly virus. |
| To be really certain that you are hypertensive, the doctor would either have to take several readings each day over a period of six months (as recommended by the who) or give you a portable electronic device to do the same. Another complication lies in the fact that the systolic blood pressure may vary between each arm by as much as 8 mm Hg. In some cases the difference can be up to 20 mm Hg.
There is also the question of whether the doctor or health care worker takes the blood pressure while the person is lying down, then sitting, and then standing. |
| Statistics released by the who show that in 1995 AIDS soared by 25 percent, reaching 1.3 million. This figure, of course tripled ten years later, again due to intentional statistical error, false HIV tests, and the renaming of existing diseases as AIDS diseases.
In those areas of the world where there are more HIV infected people than in America, the actual number of AIDS cases is significantly less. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 For example, most postmenopausal women with fractures do not have a bone density score that meets the who osteoporosis criteria.7 The World Health Organization, the National Osteoporosis Foundation, and other expert panels are in the process of releasing new guidelines to estimate a woman's risk of an osteoporotic fracture, using a bone density test along with these other risks. These new guidelines will provide better direction for treatment interventions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Should an outbreak occur, the total deaths expected around the world, according to the who, numbers in the tens of millions of people. Furthermore, the who says that the United States currently has no vaccine to distribute to the population that might offer protection from this flu epidemic.
In its own words, " ... the H5N1 strain has demonstrated its capacity to infect humans and cause severe disease, with high fatality, on three separate occasions beginning in 1997. The disease in humans has no vaccine to confer protection and no specific treatment once illness becomes severe. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Type-2 diabetics, or 8 percent of the adult population. the who predicts that deaths from diabetes in India will increase by 35 percent over the next ten years. In China, the number of people with Type-2 diabetes is likely to reach 50 million in the next twenty-five years. What we are looking at is a trend toward diabetes in Asian countries.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's influenza program, now says that a pandemic virus could infect half the population of Europe in just three to ten weeks as it gets passed from one person to another. Only radical efforts to halt international travel and local transmission of the disease would prevent widespread death, and that is exactly what the who is planning to do.
Closing down society
When this pandemic strikes, public gatherings will be banned and forming crowds will become illegal. Forget about going to see a movie with your friends and neighbors, or even walking down the street. |
Andreas Moritz
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| According to the who, fat consumption remained virtually unchanged. Heart attacks and arteriosclerosis began to increase dramatically in Germany and other industrialized nations soon after the war. Today these conditions account for over 50 percent of all deaths, excluding those caused by medical treatment.
Although fat consumption among vegetarians is not lower than among meat eaters, vegetarians have the lowest death rates from heart disease. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that a vegetarian diet could prevent 97 percent of all coronary occlusions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If it wasn't for some outstanding work by the CDC, the who and by countries like Canada, that disease would have become a global killer. It would have produced an extremely high body count.
SARS, revisited
Right now, the H5N1 bird flu virus is poised to follow in the footsteps of SARS. Hopefully, we've learned some lessons from SARS around the world. The statements we're hearing from the CDC and the who indicate we have learned these lessons the hard way. People on the inside know that we almost got nailed by SARS. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As a result of all this, when this next flu pandemic strikes – and the who believes it could be just around the corner – vaccines will be in short supply and the majority of people simply won't have access to them. With that scenario, what can you do to stop the spread of influenza before it infects half the population of the world? That's not an exaggeration, by the way. Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's influenza program, now says that a pandemic virus could infect half the population of Europe in just three to ten weeks as it gets passed from one person to another. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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| The critics argued the who blood pressure targets were not based on the best available evidence at the time and were set too low, and that WHO had failed in its responsibility by relying too heavily on one drug company study. According to the complaints, WHO had endorsed recommendations that would be used "to encourage an increased use of anti-hypertensive drugs, at great expense, and for little benefit." Brundtland wrote back saying "there should be no conflict of interest in our partnership with private industry," though concerns about the way the who develops guidelines remain. |
| The problem with the ad, according to the who officials, was that of all the major factors accepted as risks, "only cholesterol is addressed."
To us, the implication is that smokers, obese individuals, or those who live a sedentary lifestyle can safely continue to smoke, remain overweight, or take little exercise, provided they take medication to reduce their cholesterol values.
The WHO letter went on to argue that the Pfizer-funded campaign was not "accurate, informative, or balanced." Rather, it was misleading and likely to induce "unjustifiable drug use. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Nutrition advocates concede that the WHO's global strategy does present some positive suggestions, including calling for food and beverage ads to "not exploit children's inexperience or credulity," discouraging "messages that encourage unhealthy dietary practices," and limiting "the availability of products high in salt, sugar, and fats in schools." But let's face it, this global strategy would have been much more powerful, effective, and appropriate if it had included the four points outlined above. |
| By making its position on the who indistinguishable from that of the food industry, the Bush administration undermines the efforts of more forward-thinking food companies and threatens public health," Dr. Nestle and Dr. Brownell wrote. "Its action underscores the need for government to create a wall between itself and the food industry when establishing nutrition and public health policy. Recommendations to cut back on sugars may not please food companies, but it's time to stop trading calories for dollars. |
| Nestle and Brownell's letter continued: "Senators Larry Craig and John Breaux, co-chairmen of the Senate Sweetener Caucus, asked Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to call on the who to 'cease further promotion' of the report, while trade associations for the sugar, corn refining, and snack food industries questioned the report's legitimacy and asked for Mr. Thompson's personal intervention. They got it. |
| Internationally known scientists drafted the who report. The report comes to obvious conclusions. Threatened by such conclusions, food companies and their friends in government try to pick apart the science, ridicule the process, and delay action, just as the cigarette industry did for so many years."
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| Sugar Association, which represents sugar growers, vowed to use "every avenue available to expose the dubious nature" of the recommendations, even asking members of Congress to challenge the United States' $177 million in contributions given annually to the who.
Consumer and nutrition groups were outraged. The Center for Science in the Public Interest blasted the Sugar Association, calling its tactics "thug-gish" and describing its threats as blackmail rather than lobbying.
The distinguished Dr. Marion Nestle and Dr. Kelly D. |
| Does the sugar industry really believe it can bribe the who? Has it come to this?"
Politics and Industry Interests Play a Role in New Dietary Guidelines, Critics Charge
Our fourth politically charged example has to do with the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans, jointly released on January 12, 2005, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Tests cannot guarantee that a GM protein will not cause allergies.
2. the who and FAO offer criteria that help minimize the likelihood that allergenic GM crops are approved.
3. GM soybeans, corn, and papaya fail those criteria.
4. The GM proteins from these foods are too similar to known allergens.
5. This evidence was ignored by regulators, who approved the crops. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Incidentally, the sugar industry, in their fight against the who conclusion, has relied heavily7 on the FNB report with its 25% limit. In other words, the FNB committee produces a friendly recommendation for the sugar industry which then turns around and uses this finding to support its claim against the who report.
THE INFLUENCE OF INDUSTRY
This discussion still leaves unanswered the question of how industry develops such extraordinary influence. |
| Professor James and his colleagues at the who stood up to the pressure; the FNB group appears to have caved in. The U.S. panel received funding from the M&M Mars candy company and a consortium of soft drink companies. Is it possible that the U.S. group felt an obligation to these sugar companies? Incidentally, the sugar industry, in their fight against the who conclusion, has relied heavily7 on the FNB report with its 25% limit. |
| At about the time this FNB report was being released, an expert panel put together by the who (World Health Organization) and the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) was completing a new report on diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases. Professor Phillip James, another friend of mine, was a member of this panel and a panel spokesperson on the added sugar recommendation. Early rumors of the report's findings indicated that the WHO/FAO was on the verge of recommending an upper safe limit of 10% for added sugar, far lower than the 25% established by the American FNB group. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 For example, if you are a woman who gets a BMD test and follows the who criteria, there is a 50% chance you will be diagnosed with osteoporosis at the age of seventy-two (t score < -2.5) and a good chance your doctor will recommend medication. Your risk of having osteopenia (^score < -1.0), for which your doctor may recommend medication to "prevent" osteoporosis, is 50% by age fifty-two. In other words, according to the guidelines, half of postmenopausal women should be taking medication for osteoporosis. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 In what is perhaps the most comprehensive study yet designed to examine how environmental factors, including exposure to unsafe water and indoor and outdoor air pollution, contribute to disease and ill health, the who stated that of the 102 major diseases reported yearly, 85 are partly caused by environmental factors, and it estimates that in the United States alone nearly 400,000 deaths each year are preventable simply by making improvements to our environment. |
| In its June 2006 report, titled "Preventing Disease Through Healthy Environments," the who focused on the environmental causes of disease and how numerous diseases are influenced by environmental factors. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 African women and 25 percent of African men are estimated to be overweight, and the who predicts that these numbers will rise to 41 percent and 30 percent respectively in the next ten years.
In the developed world, obesity is a true epidemic. North America has the highest percentage of people who are obese, as well as the highest number of people who are succumbing to obesity-related illnesses. Our healthcare system is already strained by this epidemic, and the ability to sustain even basic healthcare in the years to come is in doubt if obesity continues to prevail as it does today. |
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