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	<title>The Total Collapse &#187; Health Crisis</title>
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		<title>Evil Scientists in Europe create deadly strain of bird flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[biosecurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bird flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H5N1]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government is sounding the alarm after reports that Dutch scientists have created a highly-contagious and deadly airborne strain of bird flu that is potentially capable of killing millions, The Independent reported Tuesday. The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity is currently analyzing how much of the scientists&#8217; information should be allowed to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The U.S. government is sounding the alarm after reports that Dutch scientists have created a highly-contagious and deadly airborne strain of bird flu that is potentially capable of killing millions, The Independent reported Tuesday.</p>
<p>The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity is currently analyzing how much of the scientists&#8217; information should be allowed to be published—given the inherent risks of having the information fall into the hands of terrorists or rogue states.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fear is that if you create something this deadly and it goes into a global pandemic, the mortality and cost to the world could be massive,&#8221; a senior US government adviser told The Independent.</p>
<p>Scientists, too, are questioning whether the science should ever have been performed in the first place.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are people who say that the work should never have been done, or if it was done it should have been done in a setting where the information could be better controlled,&#8221; a source close to the US biosecurity board told the newspaper.</p>
<p>&#8220;With influenza now it is possible to reverse engineer the virus. It&#8217;s pretty common technology in many parts of the world. With the genomic sequence, you can reconstruct it. That&#8217;s where the information is dangerous.&#8221;</p>
<p>The mutated form of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza was created by a Dutch team of scientists led by Ron Fouchier, of Rotterdam&#8217;s Erasmus Medical Centre, and the researchers are now hoping to publish the details of how they developed the new strain.</p>
<p>The new virus differs from H5N1—which is only known to be transmitted between humans who have very close contact with each other—because it can be transmitted through the air in coughs and sneezes.</p>
<p>Fouchier, who declined to answer The Independent&#8217;s questions, said in a statement that it only took a small number of mutations to change the avian flu virus.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have discovered that this is indeed possible, and more easily than previously thought. In the laboratory, it was possible to change H5N1 into an aerosol-transmissible virus that can easily be rapidly spread through the air,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/12/20/scientists-spark-fears-by-creating-highly-contagious-airborne-strain-bird-flu/#ixzz1h6MMKqXF" target="_blank">Source</a>.</p>
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		<title>Now Poland and Denmark report &#8220;radioactive dust&#8221; &#8211; IAEA official: “﻿We are a little concerned”</title>
		<link>http://www.thetotalcollapse.com/now-poland-and-denmark-report-radioactive-dust-iaea-official-%e2%80%9c%ef%bb%bfwe-are-a-little-concerned%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radioactive dust over Sweden, Stockholm News, November 12, 2011: ”The countries affected are Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, and Hungary” “The problem is that no one knows where the radioactive dust comes from” IAEA official: “We are a little concerned, because there must be a source somewhere” There are more countries affected than reported [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>Radioactive dust over Sweden, Stockholm News, November 12, 2011:</strong></p>
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<li>”The countries affected are Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, and Hungary”</li>
<li>“The problem is that no one knows where the radioactive dust comes from”</li>
<li>IAEA official: “We are a little concerned, because there must be a source somewhere”</li>
<li>There are more countries affected than reported in this article. Here is the complete list to date:</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Germany</li>
<li>Sweden</li>
<li>Austria</li>
<li>Hungary</li>
<li>Czech Republic</li>
<li>Slovakia</li>
<li>Poland</li>
<li>Denmark</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://enenews.com/now-poland-and-denmark-report-radioactive-dust-iaea-official-%EF%BB%BFwe-are-a-little-concerned" target="_blank">Source</a>.
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		<title>Radioactivity detected all over Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health Crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[iodine-131]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The IAEA has received information from the State Office for Nuclear Safety of the Czech Republic that very low levels of iodine-131 have been measured in the atmosphere over the Czech Republic in recent days. The IAEA has learned about similar measurements in other locations across Europe. The IAEA believes the current trace levels of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The IAEA has received information from the State Office for Nuclear Safety of the Czech Republic that very low levels of iodine-131 have been measured in the atmosphere over the Czech Republic in recent days.</p>
<p>The IAEA has learned about similar measurements in other locations across Europe.</p>
<p>The IAEA believes the current trace levels of iodine-131 that have been measured do not pose a public health risk and are not caused by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan.</p>
<p>Iodine-131 is a short-lived radioisotope that has a radioactive decay half-life of about eight days.</p>
<p>The IAEA is working with its counterparts to determine the cause and origin of the iodine-131.</p>
<p>The IAEA will provide further information via its Website as it becomes available.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/2011/prn201124.html" target="_blank">Source</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hpy3bIs158xIF3jQV6Z0EvCXxghg?docId=CNG.af9bf1282db3c9d34412aa1ada59f782.231" target="_blank">Link</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lebensministerium.at/umwelt/strahlen-atom/strahlenschutz/iod.html" target="_blank">Link</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/0,1518,797269,00.html" target="_blank">Link</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nuke-agency-reports-unusual-radiation-europe-134506410.html" target="_blank">Link</a>.
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		<title>Fears of new deadly super-flu which &#8220;could spread to Britain within 24 hours and kill Millions&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bird flu and human flu could merge into &#8216;one of biggest biological threats of our time&#8217;, warn scientists A new deadly strain of super-flu could spread to Britain within 24 hours, experts have warned. The potential for bird flu and human flu to combine and form a new virus has been described as &#8216;one of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h2>Bird flu and human flu could merge into &#8216;one of biggest biological threats of our time&#8217;, warn scientists</h2>
<p>A new deadly strain of super-flu could spread to Britain within 24 hours, experts have warned.</p>
<p>The potential for bird flu and human flu to combine and form a new virus has been described as &#8216;one of the biggest biological threats of our time&#8217;.</p>
<p>The alert comes as people have started to fall victim to seasonal flu and the more virulent swine flu at the same time, according to the Daily Express.</p>
<p>This creates the risk of a lethal mutation, leading to an &#8216;ominous&#8217; super-flu virus to which humans have almost no immunity, said scientists.</p>
<p>Dr Peter Hotez, a world-renowned infectious disease expert, said: &#8216;Highly infectious strains of the virus against which humans have little defence can spread from one continent to another within 24 hours.&#8217;</p>
<p>He said the detection of the rare double-flu infection highlighted the need for extreme vigilance against new killer strains around the world.</p>
<p>&#8216;We are required to remain vigilant against one of the biggest biological threats of our time,&#8217; added Dr Hotez, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.</p>
<p>The news comes as Britain’s winter flu season gets underway, amid fears the country could face one of the worst outbreaks of the disease in years.</p>
<p>Last year more than 600 people died from winter flu in the UK, with hospitals so overwhelmed they were forced to cancel routine ­operations.</p>
<p>The severity of the outbreak in late 2010 took experts by surprise and many Britons still have little immunity to the flu virus because of low uptake of the vaccine that fights it.</p>
<p>The true nature of this year’s virus won’t be known until the weather gets colder and people spend more time indoors, which leads to fast transmission of the illness.</p>
<p>Snow is forecast to arrive within weeks and a freezing ­December with temperatures of -15C is on the way.</p>
<p>The killer virus alert comes after experts in Cambodia confirmed the unusual incidence of people being infected with seasonal flu and pandemic swine flu at the same time.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2056953/Deadly-strain-super-flu-spread-Britain-24-hours.html#ixzz1cdZwcxRn" target="_blank">Read the full article</a>.
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		<title>American Psycho &#8211; 1 In 66 Americans Is A Psycho</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheTotalCollapse.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outselling even common drugs to treat high blood pressure and acid reflux, antipsychotic medications are the single top-selling prescription drug in the United States. Once reserved for hard-core, One Flew Over The Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest type of mental illnesses, to treat hallucinations, delusions or major thought disorders; today, the drugs are handed out to unruly kids and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Outselling even common drugs to treat high blood pressure and acid reflux, antipsychotic medications are the single top-selling prescription drug in the United States.</p>
<p>Once reserved for hard-core, <em>One Flew Over The Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest</em> type of mental illnesses, to treat hallucinations, delusions or major thought disorders; today, the drugs are handed out to unruly kids and absent-minded elderly.</p>
<p>A recent story in <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/20117313948379987.html">Al Jazeera</a> by James Ridgeway of <a href="http://motherjones.com/transition/inter10.php?dest=http://motherjones.com/">Mother Jones</a> illuminates the efforts by major pharmaceutical companies to get doctors prescribing medicines like Zyprexa, Seroquel, and Abilify to patients for whom the drugs were never intended.</p>
<p>Focusing on psychiatrists because they rely on subjective diagnoses, the drug reps have been so successful that they&#8217;ve changed the criteria for mental illness and disability payments. Ridgeway quotes former New England Journal of Medicine editor Marcia Angell.</p>
<p>&#8220;[T]he tally of those who are so disabled by mental disorders that they qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) increased nearly two and a half times between 1987 and 2007 &#8211; from one in 184 Americans to one in seventy-six. For children, the rise is even more startling &#8211; a thirty-five-fold increase in the same two decades. Mental illness is now the leading cause of disability in children.&#8221; <strong>Under the tutelage of Big Pharma, we are &#8220;simply expanding the criteria for mental illness so that nearly everyone has one.</strong>&#8221; Fugh-Berman agrees: In the age of aggressive drug marketing, she says, &#8220;<strong>Psychiatric diagnoses have expanded to include many perfectly normal people.</strong>&#8221;</p>
<p>Particularly vulnerable because medication decisions are often out of their hands, the old and the young suffer most.</p>
<p>For kids: the number diagnosed with bi-polar disorder rose 40-fold between 1994 and 2003 and one in five comes away from a psychiatrist with a prescription for an antipsychotic.</p>
<p>Dosing the elderly at nursing homes has become so common that sales reps have coined the term &#8220;five at five&#8221; &#8212; meaning 5 milligrams of Zyprexa at 5 pm to sedate difficult residents.</p>
<p>For all their nefarious wrangling, in 2009, Lily agreed to pay $1.4 billion, including a $515 million criminal fine. The largest settlement ever in a health care case and the largest criminal fine on any corporation in the U.S.</p>
<p>That year, Lilly sold $1.8 billion of Zyprexa alone.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/zyprexa-antipsycotics-top-selling-drugs-in-us-2011-7#ixzz1Spxr4EiK" target="_blank">Source</a>.
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		<title>Radioactive beef sold in Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[beef]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s second-biggest retailer has sold nuclear-contaminated beef in the capital Tokyo&#8217;s market and suburb area, raising great concern among the people. Aeon Co said it had sold beef from 132 cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated feed at a store in Tokyo and at more than dozen stores in the surrounding area. Cattle from Fukushima prefecture were [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Japan&#8217;s second-biggest retailer has sold nuclear-contaminated beef in the capital Tokyo&#8217;s market and suburb area, raising great concern among the people.</p>
<p>Aeon Co said it had sold beef from 132 cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated feed at a store in Tokyo and at more than dozen stores in the surrounding area.</p>
<p>Cattle from Fukushima prefecture were given rice straw contaminated with high levels of radioactive cesium, Aeon said.</p>
<p>The contaminated beef have been shipped to 36 of the 47 prefectures across Japan and consumed in 31 including Tokyo, NHK reported.</p>
<p>This is the latest health scare linked to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by a March earthquake and tsunami. Cases of contaminated vegetables, tea, milk, seafood and water have already stoked anxiety in Japan.</p>
<p>The new wave of fear started a week ago when nuclear-contaminated meat from 11 cows at a farm outside the Fukushima nuclear restricted zone was reported to have been sold around the country and probably eaten.</p>
<p>However, Aeon said in a statement that it sold 703 pounds of the beef from April 27 to June 20 at one shop in Tokyo and other shops in Kanagawa and Chiba. It also sold the beef at outlets in Shizuoka and Ishikawa, both in central Japan.</p>
<p>The retailer will start to check beef shipments from all areas that can have potentially contaminated feed. In addition, some supermarkets in Tokyo have put up signs warning about radioactive beef.</p>
<p>The Japanese government is expected on Tuesday to ban all beef shipments from Fukushima prefecture, where the atomic plant is still emitting radiation.</p>
<p>“The most likely outcome is that we will ban beef shipments,&#8221; said Goshi Hosono, the cabinet minister responsible for coordinating the nuclear cleanup.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are discussing the matter along these lines. We have to ensure food safety.”</p>
<p>“At this point, we are considering Fukushima prefecture. But we may consider whether further action is needed after studying how contaminated straw was distributed,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/189625.html" target="_blank">Source</a>.
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		<title>Mass psychosis in the US</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux. Once upon [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, <a href="http://www.imshealth.com/portal/site/imshealth/menuitem.a46c6d4df3db4b3d88f611019418c22a/?vgnextoid=d690a27e9d5b7210VgnVCM100000ed152ca2RCRD" target="_blank">surpassing drugs</a> used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux.</p>
<p>Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses &#8211; primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder &#8211; to treat such symptoms as delusions, hallucinations, or formal thought disorder. Today, it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. Parents are told that their unruly kids are in fact bipolar, and in need of anti-psychotics, while old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers, with drugs once reserved largely for schizophrenics. Americans with symptoms ranging from chronic depression to anxiety to insomnia are now being prescribed anti-psychotics at rates that seem to indicate a national mass psychosis.</p>
<p>It is anything but a coincidence that the explosion in antipsychotic use coincides with the pharmaceutical industry&#8217;s development of a new class of medications known as &#8220;atypical antipsychotics.&#8221; Beginning with Zyprexa, Risperdal, and Seroquel in the 1990s, followed by Abilify in the early 2000s, these drugs were touted as being more effective than older antipsychotics like Haldol and Thorazine. More importantly, they lacked the most noxious side effects of the older drugs &#8211; in particular, the tremors and other motor control problems.</p>
<p>The atypical anti-psychotics were the bright new stars in the pharmaceutical industry&#8217;s roster of psychotropic drugs &#8211; costly, patented medications that made people feel and behave better without any shaking or drooling. Sales grew steadily, until by 2009 Seroquel and Abilify <a href="http://www.drugs.com/top200.html" target="_blank">numbered fifth and sixth in annual drug sales</a>, and prescriptions written for the top three atypical antipsychotics totaled more than 20 million.  Suddenly, antipsychotics weren&#8217;t just for psychotics any more.</p>
<p><strong>Not just for psychotics anymore</strong></p>
<p>By now, just about everyone knows how the drug industry works to influence the minds of American doctors, plying them with gifts, junkets, ego-tripping awards, and research funding in exchange for endorsing or prescribing the latest and most lucrative drugs. &#8220;Psychiatrists are particularly targeted by Big Pharma because psychiatric diagnoses are very subjective,&#8221; says Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, whose PharmedOut project tracks the industry&#8217;s influence on American medicine, and who last month hosted a conference on the subject at Georgetown. A shrink can&#8217;t give you a blood test or an MRI to figure out precisely what&#8217;s wrong with you. So it&#8217;s often a case of diagnosis by prescription. (If you feel better after you take an anti-depressant, it&#8217;s assumed that you were depressed.) As the researchers in one study of the drug industry&#8217;s influence put it, &#8220;the lack of biological tests for mental disorders renders psychiatry especially vulnerable to industry influence.&#8221; For this reason, they argue, it&#8217;s particularly important that the guidelines for diagnosing and treating mental illness be compiled &#8220;on the basis of an objective review of the scientific evidence&#8221; &#8211; and <a href="http://unsilentgeneration.com/2009/04/06/big-pharma-psychs-out-the-shrinks/" target="_blank">not on whether the doctors writing them got a big grant from Merck or own stock in AstraZeneca</a>.</p>
<p>Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and a leading critic of the Big Pharma, puts it more bluntly: &#8220;Psychiatrists are in the pocket of industry.&#8221; Angell has pointed out that most of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the bible of mental health clinicians, have <a href="http://ethicalnag.org/2010/04/07/medical-profession-pervasive-dependence/" target="_blank">ties to the drug industry</a>. Likewise, a 2009 study showed that 18 out of 20 of the shrinks who wrote the American Psychiatric Association&#8217;s most recent clinical guidelines for treating depression, bipolar disorders, and schizophrenia had financial ties to drug companies.</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/" target="_blank">recent article</a> in <em>The New York Review of Books</em>, Angell deconstructs what she calls an apparent &#8220;raging epidemic of mental illness&#8221; among Americans. The use of psychoactive drugs—including both antidepressants and antipsychotics—has exploded, and if the new drugs are so effective, Angell points out, we should &#8220;expect the prevalence of mental illness to be declining, not rising.&#8221; Instead, &#8220;the tally of those who are so disabled by mental disorders that they qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) increased nearly two and a half times between 1987 and 2007 &#8211; from one in 184 Americans to one in seventy-six. For children, the rise is even more startling &#8211; a thirty-five-fold increase in the same two decades. Mental illness is now the leading cause of disability in children.&#8221; Under the tutelage of Big Pharma, we are &#8220;simply expanding the criteria for mental illness so that nearly everyone has one.&#8221; Fugh-Berman agrees: In the age of aggressive drug marketing, she says, &#8220;Psychiatric diagnoses have expanded to include many perfectly normal people.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Cost benefit analysis</strong></p>
<p>What&#8217;s especially troubling about the over-prescription of the new antipsychotics is its prevalence among the very young and the very old &#8211; vulnerable groups who often do not make their own choices when it comes to what medications they take. Investigations into antipsychotic use suggests that their purpose, in these cases, may be to subdue and tranquilize rather than to treat any genuine psychosis.</p>
<p>Carl Elliott reports in <em>Mother Jones</em> magazine: &#8220;Once bipolar disorder could be treated with atypicals, rates of diagnoses rose dramatically, especially in children. According to a recent Columbia University study, the number of children and adolescents treated for bipolar disorder rose 40-fold between 1994 and 2003.&#8221; And according to <a href="http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/09/dan-markingson-drug-trial-astrazeneca?page=2" target="_blank">another study</a>, &#8220;one in five children who visited a psychiatrist came away with a prescription for an antipsychotic drug.&#8221;</p>
<p>A remarkable <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/dosed-in-juvie-jail-drug-firms-pay-state-1491309.html?viewAsSinglePage=" target="_blank">series published in the <em>Palm Beach Post</em> in May</a> true revealed that the state of  Florida&#8217;s juvenile justice department has literally been pouring these drugs into juvenile facilities, &#8220;routinely&#8221; doling them out &#8220;for reasons that never were approved by federal regulators.&#8221; The numbers are staggering: &#8220;In 2007, for example, the Department of Juvenile Justice bought more than twice as much Seroquel as ibuprofen. Overall, in 24 months, the department bought 326,081 tablets of Seroquel, Abilify, Risperdal and other antipsychotic drugs for use in state-operated jails and homes for children…That&#8217;s enough to hand out 446 pills a day, seven days a week, for two years in a row, to kids in jails and programs that can hold no more than 2,300 boys and girls on a given day.&#8221; Further, the paper discovered that &#8220;One in three of the psychiatrists who have contracted with the state Department of Juvenile Justice in the past five years has taken speaker fees or gifts from companies that make antipsychotic medications.&#8221;</p>
<p>In addition to expanding the diagnoses of serious mental illness, drug companies have encouraged doctors to prescribe atypical anti-psychotics for a host of off-label uses. In one particularly notorious episode, the drugmaker Eli Lilly pushed Zyprexa on the caregivers of old people with Alzheimer&#8217;s and other forms of dementia, as well as agitation, anxiety, and insomnia. In selling to nursing home doctors, sales reps reportedly used the slogan &#8220;five at five&#8221;—meaning that five milligrams of Zyprexa at 5 pm would sedate their more difficult charges. The practice persisted even after FDA had warned Lilly that the drug was not approved for such uses, and that it could lead to obesity and even diabetes in elderly patients.</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj0LZZzrcrs" target="_blank">video interview</a> conducted in 2006, Sharham Ahari, who sold Zyprexa for two years at the beginning of the decade, described to me how the sales people would wangle the doctors into prescribing it. At the time, he recalled, his doctor clients were giving him a lot of grief over patients who were &#8220;flipping out&#8221; over the weight gain associated with the drug, along with the diabetes. &#8220;We were instructed to downplay side effects and focus on the efficacy of drug…to recommend the patient drink a glass a water before taking a pill before the  meal and then after the meal in hopes the stomach would expand&#8221; and provide an easy way out of this obstacle to increased sales. When docs complained, he recalled, &#8220;I told them, ‘Our drug is state of the art. What&#8217;s more important? You want them to get better or do you want them to stay the same&#8211;a thin psychotic patient or a fat stable patient.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>For the drug companies, Shahrman says, the decision to continue pushing the drug despite side effects is matter of cost benefit analysis: Whether you will make more money by continuing to market the drug for off-label use, and perhaps defending against lawsuits, than you would otherwise. In the case of Zyprexa, in January 2009, Lilly settled a lawsuit brought by with the US Justice Department, agreeing to pay $1.4 billion, including &#8220;a criminal fine of $515 million, the largest ever in a health care case, and the largest criminal fine for an individual corporation ever imposed in a United States criminal prosecution of any kind,&#8221;the Department of Justice said in announcing the settlement.&#8221; But Lilly&#8217;s sale of Zyprexa in <a href="http://www.drugs.com/top200.html" target="_blank">that year alone</a> were over $1.8 billion.</p>
<p><strong>Making patients worse </strong></p>
<p>As it turns out, the atypical antipsychotics may not even be the best choice for people with genuine, undisputed psychosis.</p>
<p>A growing number of health professionals have come to think these drugs are not really as effective as older, less expensive medicines which they have replaced, that they themselves produce side effects that cause other sorts of diseases such as diabetes and plunge the patient deeper into the gloomy world of serious mental disorder. Along with stories of success comes reports of people turned into virtual zombies.</p>
<p>Elliott reports in <em>Mother Jones</em>: &#8220;After another large analysis in The Lancet found that most atypicals actually performed worse than older drugs, two senior British psychiatrists penned a damning editorial that ran in the same issue. Dr. Peter Tyrer, the editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry, and Dr. Tim Kendall of the Royal College of Psychiatrists wrote: &#8220;The spurious invention of the atypicals can now be regarded as invention only, cleverly manipulated by the drug industry for marketing purposes and only now being exposed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bottom line: Stop Big Pharma and the parasitic shrink community from wantonly pushing these pills across the population.</p>
<p><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/20117313948379987.html" target="_blank">Source</a>.
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		<title>Deadly German E.coli outbreak that hit over 4,000 called unprecedented</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today &#8211; A mix of two dangerous E. coli strains caused the recent deadly food poisoning outbreak in Germany, according to a new study of the bacteria&#8217;s DNA. Scientists said the E. coli outbreak strain combined one that makes a toxin and another that sticks to the gut in a way that potentially speeds [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://yourlife.usatoday.com/fitness-food/safety/story/2011/06/E-coli-outbreak-caused-by-mix-of-2-deadly-strains/48729896/1" target="_blank">USA Today</a> &#8211; A mix of two dangerous E. coli strains caused the recent deadly food poisoning outbreak in Germany, according to a new study of the bacteria&#8217;s DNA.</p>
<p>Scientists said the E. coli outbreak strain combined one that makes a toxin and another that sticks to the gut in a way that potentially speeds up the body&#8217;s absorption of the toxin. They described it as &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; in its lethality.</p>
<p>&#8220;The two strains are in themselves quite nasty,&#8221; said Hugh Pennington, an emeritus professor of microbiology at the University of Aberdeen, who wrote an accompanying commentary on the research.</p>
<p>&#8220;It may be that more of the bugs are sticking to the intestines, and that may result in more toxin being produced,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Experts had earlier suggested, based on an early DNA sequence of the bacteria, that the new strain was particularly aggressive because it reproduced quickly and released more toxin than similar bacteria.</p>
<p>Unlike previous E. coli outbreaks, the German strain caused three times as many cases of a severe complication that can lead to kidney failureIt was the deadliest E. coli outbreak in history, infecting 3,601 people and killing 39 across Europe, with most cases in Germany. More than 800 people developed kidney problems from the outbreak that peaked in late May.</p>
<p>German officials identified sprouts from an organic farm in northern Germany as the outbreak&#8217;s cause, though they don&#8217;t know how the sprouts got infected.</p>
<p>There are hundreds of E. coli strains in the environment, and many strains dangerous to humans come from animals like cows and sheep. People naturally carry E. coli in their gut but few strains cause illness. But the bacteria is constantly evolving and swapping genes with other strains, giving it countless opportunities to mutate into a killer version.</p>
<p>Pennington said it is crucial to find out whether this new E. coli strain is widely circulating in animals. &#8220;If it turns out to be very common in cattle, that would ring alarm bells that this kind of (outbreak) might happen again in the future,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>In the new study, researchers at the University of Muenster and the Robert Koch Institute analyzed samples from 80 patients sent to a national laboratory between May 23 and June 2. The analysis was paid for by the German government and Network Zoonoses. It was published Thursday in the journal, Lancet Infectious Diseases.</p>
<p>In separate research published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, German doctors released an early description of the outbreak, including the cases of 59 people hospitalized with the illness at the Hamburg University Medical Center. They found about 20 percent of patients developed the kidney failure complication linked to E. coli.</p>
<p>Unlike in previous E. coli crises, few children were affected. &#8220;The pathogen seems to have a special affinity for adults,&#8221; said Dr. Gerard Krause, a director at the Robert Koch Institute, and one of the paper&#8217;s authors. He said it could be that even if children picked up the bacteria, they didn&#8217;t fall sick.</p>
<p>Krause said scientists are conducting studies to find where the bacteria naturally lives in the environment, but that it could take years to get an answer. He said control measures might help prevent future outbreaks, and that Germany&#8217;s outbreak response system could be streamlined. Under their current reporting system, hospitals&#8217; notifications of serious illness still often wind their way to the national disease control center by mail.</p>
<p>Critics slammed Germany&#8217;s bungled response to the outbreak and officials mistakenly blamed imported Spanish cucumbers for the crisis before pinpointing local sprouts as the cause. An editorial published earlier this month in the Lancet concluded that &#8220;coordination of the German public health response seems to have been utterly absent.&#8221;
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		<title>Dishwashers harbour killer bugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telegraph &#8211; The inside of the appliances, which four in ten homes in Britain own, are the perfect breeding ground for fungi associated with potentially deadly illnesses. The moist and hot environment, combined with the alkaline water caused by the dishwasher tablets, means that the machines appear to have created a previously unknown and possibly [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8589765/Dishwashers-harbour-killer-bugs.html" target="_blank">Telegraph</a> &#8211; The inside of the appliances, which four in ten homes in Britain own, are the perfect breeding ground for fungi associated with potentially deadly illnesses.</p>
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<p>The moist and hot environment, combined with the alkaline water caused by the dishwasher tablets, means that the machines appear to have created a previously unknown and possibly serious threat to human health, the research paper has suggested.</p>
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<p>The scientists studied 189 dishwashers in 101 different homes around the world. They found 62 per cent of dishwashers contained fungi on the rubber band in the door. More than half of these included the black yeasts Exophiala dermatitidis and E. phaeomuriformis which are known to be dangerous to human health.</p>
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<p>Writing in the journal Fungal Biology, Dr Polona Zalar of the University of Ljubljana, said that &#8220;the potential hazard they represent should not be overlooked&#8221;.</p>
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<p>Her co-author Nina Gunde-Cimerman told <em>The Daily Telegraph</em>: &#8220;One thing that is not in the report is that we tested the dishes after they had been cleaned in these dishwashers and they were full of this black yeast, so too the cutlery that you put in your mouth. We just don&#8217;t know how serious this could be.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Black yeasts are particularly dangerous for people with cystic fibrosis, as they are able to attack the lungs. They have also been found to occasionally cause fatal infections in healthy humans.</p>
<p>Both Exophiala species displayed remarkable tolerance to heat, high salt concentrations, aggressive detergents and to both acid and alkaline water.</p>
<p>This explains why the fungi survived even in high temperatures between 60 º to 80 º C, and despite the use of detergents and salt in the dishwasher.</p>
<p>This is the latest in a long line of health scares to raise concerns about everyday consumer goods. Which?, the consumer group, found that computer keyboards contained five times as many bugs as a lavatory on average. Meanwhile tests on shoppers’ bags, by the University of Arizona, revealed half contained traces of E.coli, the food poisoning bug that killed over 20 people in Europe over the last month.</p>
<p>Dishwasher manufacturers declined to comment.</p>
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		<title>US Bio-Attack On Germany Warned May Start Global Pandemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A chilling report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Chief Sanitary Inspector and head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko confirms that the E.coli strain that has killed over nearly 40 people in Germany has been “genetically weaponized” and now poses the threat of causing a global pandemic he warns “may be unstoppable.” Onishchenko had previously imposed a ban on all European Union fruits and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>A chilling report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Chief Sanitary Inspector and head of <a href="http://rospotrebnadzor.ru/news">Rospotrebnadzor</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadiy_Onishchenko">Gennady Onishchenko</a> confirms that the E.coli strain that has killed over <a href="http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110618-35737.html">nearly 40 people</a> in Germany has been <em>“genetically weaponized”</em> and now poses the threat of causing a global pandemic he warns <em>“may be unstoppable.”</em></p>
<p>Onishchenko had previously <a href="http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/06/06/51316201.html">imposed a ban</a> on all European Union fruits and vegetables coming into Russia after this outbreak began saying he was not satisfied with the answers he was being given by EU authorities regarding their safety.  In the past 24-hours, however, Onishchenko states in his report that the EU laboratory in Rome had <a href="http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n252636">supplied Russia</a> with a sample from which his <em>“initial analysis”</em> is being made.</p>
<p>Important to note is that Onishchenko’s initial analysis of this never before seen deadly E.coli strain being genetically weaponized concurs with tests done by Chinese scientists on its DNA structure, and as we previously reported on in our 10 June report “<strong><a href="http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1491.htm">Obama Ordered To Secret Bilderberg Meet Over US Bio-Attack On Germany</a></strong>.”</p>
<p>US experts, likewise, concur on this new E.coli strain being genetically weaponized, and as we can read, in part, as reported by the <strong><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">NaturalNews.Com</a></strong>website:</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">“When scientists at Germany&#8217;s Robert Koch Institute decoded the genetic makeup of the O104 strain, they found it to be resistant to all the following classes and combinations of antibiotics:</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">• penicillins</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">• tetracycline</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">• nalidixic acid</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">• trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazol</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">• cephalosporins</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">• amoxicillin / clavulanic acid</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">• piperacillin-sulbactam</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">• piperacillin-tazobactam</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">In addition, this O104 strain posses an ability to produce special enzymes that give it what might be called &#8220;bacteria superpowers&#8221; known technically as ESBLs:</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">&#8220;Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases (ESBLs) are enzymes that can be produced by bacteria making them resistant to cephalosporins e.g. cefuroxime, cefotaxime and ceftazidime &#8211; which are the most widely used antibiotics in many hospitals,&#8221; explains the Health Protection Agency in the UK (http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/Infect&#8230;).</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">On top of that, this O104 strain possesses two genes &#8212; TEM-1 and CTX-M-15 &#8212; that &#8220;have been making doctors shudder since the 1990s,&#8221; reports The Guardian. And why do they make doctors shudder? Because they&#8217;re so deadly that many people infected with such bacteria experience critical organ failure and simply die.</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">So how, exactly, does a bacterial strain come into existence that&#8217;s resistant to over a dozen antibiotics in eight different drug classes and features two deadly gene mutations plus ESBL enzyme capabilities?</a></em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html">There&#8217;s really only one way this happens (and only one way) &#8212; you have to expose this strain of e.coli to all eight classes of antibiotics drugs. Usually this isn&#8217;t done at the same time, of course: You first expose it to penicillin and find the surviving colonies which are resistant to penicillin. You then take those surviving colonies and expose them to tetracycline. The surviving colonies are now resistant to both penicillin and tetracycline. You then expose them to a sulfa drug and collect the surviving colonies from that, and so on. It is a process of genetic selection done in a laboratory with a desired outcome. This is essentially how some bioweapons are engineered by the U.S. Army in its laboratory facility in Ft. Detrick, Maryland.”</a></em></p>
<p>Even worse, this report states, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung <a href="http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/germanys-superbug-is-weaponized-with-bubonic-plague-dna/">recently reported</a> that leading German E. coli researcher Helge Karch had discovered that the O104:H4 E.coli bacteria responsible for the current outbreak is a so-called chimera that contains genetic material from various E.coli bacteria, including DNA sequences from the deadly bubonic plague bacteria, thus making it the most deadly form of this bacteria ever found.</p>
<p>Onishchenko further states in his report that University of Aberdeen microbiologist Hugh Pennington discovered that this new E.coli <em>“super-bug”</em> is <a href="http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2011/06/mutant-strain-of-e-coli-bacteria/">specifically not affecting children</a>, a fact, he states, could only have been genetically engineered in a laboratory, not by <em>“natural means.”</em></p>
<p>Onishchenko also warns in his report that that this already deadly E.coli strain appears to not only be mutating further, but is also being carried throughout European waterways, a claim supported by news reports from Germany stating it has now been <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/06/201161941630620984.html">found in a stream near Frankfort</a>.  Health officials in Germany have, also, confirmed that they have detected the first case of <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/06/201161941630620984.html">human-to-human spread</a> of this deadly E.coli strain.</p>
<p>The greatest danger to humans from this new E.coli strain, Onishchenko warns is through its continued mutations beyond the 50-75 generations it appears to have been genetically modified to <em>“expire”</em> in. This warning is especially grave after reports were received from France detailing how <a href="http://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/foodborne-illness-outbreaks/7-children-in-france-remain-in-the-hospital-due-to-e-coli-infection/">7 children are now critically ill</a> due to an E.coli outbreak from an already known strain, but which now has the dreaded and life-threatening complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) that destroys the kidneys and had only been found in the German strain before.</p>
<p>Even though Onishchenko hasn’t assigned blame in his report as to who may have genetically altered and weaponized this new E.coli strain, he does posit that the <em>“most likely”</em> method of delivery was through an <em>“airborne release mechanism of an aerosolized version”</em> of it over Northern Germany where the outbreak began.</p>
<p>To who is responsible for this deadly bio-attack on Germany we had reported on previously by quoting a Russian Foreign Ministry report that stated the American President, Barack Obama, had been summoned to last weeks Bilderberg meeting in Switzerland to <a href="http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1491.htm">answer the charges</a> made against him by the Germans claiming that he had ordered the attack over Chancellor Merkel’s refusal to back the Libyan War or allow another multi-billion-euro bailout of Greece.</p>
<p>Interesting to note is that within days of this Bilderberg meeting, Germany gave into the ultimatums being forced on them by Obama and quickly <a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jun2011/liby-j15.shtml">recognized the Libyan rebels</a> and Merkel <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/business/global/18euro.html?_r=1">gave up her demand</a>that the US and European banks that had caused the Greek Crisis help in fixing it instead of putting the whole burden, once again, on the backs of taxpayers.</p>
<p>So, today in Germany, <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g-08NOWhxc9Ru0D3OXPIifEUTInw?docId=6aaf7fc8367447a39cb47a40888aea24">nearly 40 people are already dead and over 3,400 lie ill from this bio-attack, over 700 of them near death</a>….all of them needless deaths in this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Great_Game">New Great Game</a> for the control of our Earth’s remaining resources being played out by great empires whose only motive is profit and power….and which all of us “<em><a href="http://www.amerikanexpose.com/UNSystem/Global_Depopulation.htm">useless eaters</a></em>” find ourselves nothing more than pawns.</p>
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