‘Poisoning attempt’ charges filed against French H1N1 campaign24 October, 2009 05:17:00 Michael Cosgrove In what is being seen as the first of many such actions to come, nine individuals have filed formal charges claiming that the H1N1 campaign is a deliberate attempt to poison the French population.
These charges, which were filed yesterday, could not come at a more inopportune moment for the government and health specialists. The vaccination campaign got underway last Tuesday in a climate of national skepticism as to the vaccine’s safety and efficiency, and this news will surely boost the morale of the increasing number of anti-vaccine lobbyists who are beginning to organize their resistance to any attempt to vaccinate the population against H1N1. Nine inhabitants of the Isére region of France are cited as joint plaintiffs in the case, including a health sector worker, a teacher and a radio talk show host. They met each other at various public meetings held to denounce the vaccine’s alleged health risks. The charges take the form of a ‘plainte contre X’ which means that the perpetrator of an alleged crime or felony is not known, or is not named, in the charge sheet. This is a commonly used manner of filing complaints in France, particularly where the charges relate to supposed government implication in alleged breaches of the law. In cases where those trials proceed after prior examination of the facts, the specific persons or organizations concerned are designated and charged as the trial proceeds. Jean-Pierre Joseph, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, describes the vaccination campaign as “A veritable attempt to poison.” He confirmed that the charges were filed at the High Court in Grenoble before the court’s senior examining magistrate. He said other court cases involving other plaintiffs would begin soon The various charges filed included one of “Attempting to administer substances…of a nature which could result in death.”“The aim is to put a stop to what we consider to be an act of poisoning,” according to Joseph. “The interest of this action is that people in France now have a means by which to express their concern as citizens by saying publicly “We are aware that the vaccination campaign is a swindle.” Similar court actions are planned in other areas of the Isére, as well as in Paris, Pau and Nantes, and several hundred vaccine opponents are beginning to organize themselves on the internet with a view to filing class action charges. The government and health authorities are currently battling to persuade people to get vaccinated against increasingly difficult odds. Opposition to the campaign has been increasing steadily, and various polls taken over the last few days put the figure for those who do not intend to get vaccinated as high as 70 percent. Their task is being made even more arduous by the fact that while authorities believe on the one hand that vaccination is essential despite negative public reaction, the French have traditionally proved to be very quick to condemn and file charges in cases where not enough was said to be done to prevent other medical mishaps such as the Mad Cow outbreak and an AIDS contamination case, in which several people died and many more became HIV positive after receiving AIDS-contaminated blood transfusions in hospitals. That signifies that the authorities have very little room to maneuver and are more or less obliged to continue the campaign in order to avoid similar charges should they decide or be forced to abandon the campaign and high numbers of people die as a result of not being vaccinated. | ||
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Deceptive Swine Flu Propaganda Blitz
Monday, October 26, 2009
Press Release: Truehope Challenges Health Canada in Federal Court
Oct. 26, 2009
A small Alberta vitamin and mineral company called Truehope will finally have its day in court beginning Monday, November 2 when the Federal Court in Calgary will determine the legality and constitutionality of Health Canada’s 2003 seizure of a vitamin and mineral combination (EMPowerplus) being used by thousands of Canadians for the prevention of bipolar symptoms.
Years of court battles over the seizure that left hundreds of desperate Canadians caught in the middle of a regulatory battle have, thus far, amounted to nothing but a huge waste of tax payer dollars. In 2006 Health Canada charged Truehope owners with the illegal sale of a drug, but the courts found them innocent of all wrong doing and demanded the Truehope vitamin and mineral supplements continue to be made available to Canadians. Furthermore, in his final judgment, Judge G.M. Meagher concluded that even as Health Canada agents were denying access to the supplement they were fully aware that their actions would result in harm or danger to those who depended on the product for their health.[1]
Truehope co-founder Anthony Stephan claims that if the constitutional challenge is successful Health Canada will no longer be able to remove a product from the market without first proving in court that the removal will not harm Canadians who use it for their health. “Canadians are harmed when viable natural treatments or preventions are taken away. Drugs should not be the only option for Canadians who choose health. The judgment will extend protection to all Canadians and to all natural health products.”
Current Health Canada regulations allow bureaucrats to remove natural products at will without any accountability to Canadians for their actions.[2] “We think this kind of unconstitutional free-for-all opens the door for corruption and for big pharma lobby, and closes the door on individual freedom and choice in personal health care,” says Stephan.
The Federal Court Review is open to the public daily from 9:30 – 4:30 and commencing November 2-20 at the Calgary Federal Court 635 8th Ave. S.W. Calgary, AB. -30- For full court documents or further comments please contact:
Anthony Stephan, (403) 634-8772
[1] Citation: R. v. Synergy Group of Canada, Inc. , 2006 ABPC 196, pg 11-12 [45]
[2] Food and Drugs Act, sect. 23 (1)(d) and 26
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Health Empowerment News - Episode 7 | Diabetes
New Health Empowerment News Episode
http://www.foodsarenotdrugs.com/food-is-medicine/007-health-empowerment-news-diabetes-disease-complications-and-therapy.php
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Seasonal Flu Shot Damage
If the usual flu shot can do this - what can the "kept press" expect from an untested H1N1flu vaccine containing two brain central system irritants - squalene and Thimersol (49% mercury) while the public health shills are telling the public the mercury is as innocent as eating a tuna fish sandwich. Why do they tell pregnant moms not to eat tuna fish. -- Croft Woodruff
October 22, 2009
Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey Reach Out to Disabled Redskin's Cheerleader
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - There are new developments in the story FOX 5 first brought you about a Redskins cheerleader left disabled by a seasonal flu shot. Now, Desiree Jennings is adding a boost of star power to her cause.
An organization founded by actors (Generation Rescue*) Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey is so touched by Desiree's story that they have reached out to offer not only words of encouragement, but the organization's support.
Desiree Jennings' struggle is getting worldwide attention.
"It's been unreal," Jennings told FOX 5. "I didn't think anyone would even care about my story. People are sitting there crying and I can't understand why..."
Listen to Croft Woodruff on CBC Radio
Croft Woodruff on CBC Radio
Croft Woodruff was in studio on CBC’s Early Edition to debate the soon to be released H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine.
Croft pointed out that the vaccine contains mercury and an adjuvant called squalene which is thought to be an excito-toxin and brain irritant. He also asked to see the peer reviewed literature demonstrating that the H1N1 Vaccine is safe and effective.
To listen to the segment click on the link below:
http://www.foodsarenotdrugs.com/natural-health-news-feed/croft-woodruff-on-cbc-radio.php
You can hear more from Croft Woodruff by listening to Health Empowerment News. Croft and co-host, Andrew McGivern, discuss topics such as: vaccines, alternative medicine, chelation therapy, nutrition, health freedom and the politics of health.
New episodes are available every week at foodsarenotdrugs.com!
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Croft Woodruff may be on CBC Vancouver tomorrow morning at 6:20am
For the benefit of those who live within the listening range of CBC RADIO VANCOUVER over690 AM or 88.1 FM - I am, so far, scheduled to be an on air guest on CBC Radio's 'Early Edition' at 6;20 AM or later on Wednesday morning, the 21st of October, to discuss the Swine Flu vaccine fiasco - then & now.Croft
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Suzan Somers - "Knockout"
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Will Suzanne Somers New Book on Alternative Cancer Therapies Start the Cancer Revolt?...
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Watch Larry King tonight. He's interviewing Suzanne Somers about her new book "Knockout," which talks about REAL treatments, ones that actually work, for cancer. 9:00PM EST
The longest running war conducted by the United States is not the war in Iraq, nor the war in .Afghanistan. It is the "War on Cancer" started, with great fanfare, in 1972, thirty-seven years ago, by President Richard Nixon. It is a complete failure. The enemy, cancer, continues to gain ground.
In truth, the only people who benefit from this war are those in the huge, for profit, cancer industry - certainly not cancer victims or their families. The accepted therapies, those claimed to be "proven," are, in actuality, worthless. The statistics generated, even though the industry massages them, clearly show that 97.9% people who go the chemotherapy therapy route are dead five years later. That's correct - chemotherapy only has a 2.1% success rate over five years. Put in a 2.5% "margin of error" and you've got a big fat zero.
More, the government apparatus we've created to help with this war is no more than a huge "welfare for scientists" program with absolutely nothing to show for their thirty-seven years of existence except higher percentages of cancer deaths.
The mechanism created by the plan, amounts to the biggest rip-off ever conducted against the American people. The people running the "War on Cancer", had this been a US military operation, would long ago been fired for incompetence. US casualties of this war are shocking. More Americans have died in this war, during this period (thirty-seven years), than during the total of ALL of the wars ever fought by the people of the US. Cancer now tops the charts in the US as the largest annual health problem - ahead of heart disease.
President Obama, and his people, want to reform US health care. This is the place to start - for it is here that every problem, every wrong thing in the US healthcare system is exemplified.
Suzanne Somers's new book "Knockout," an examination of cutting-edge Alternative Cancer treatments, will be on the stands October 20th, 2009. Larry King interviewed her about the book yesterday October 13th, 2009 in his Los Angeles studio. The show will Air at 9:00 PM EST on October 19th, 2009 on CNN. The interview is about the book not the problem of the "War on Cancer."
I haven't seen Suzanne's book yet, but I've heard from someone who has read it that it is terrific. Featured in it is the work of some of the finest cutting-edge scientist/cancer therapists in the US: Nicholas Gonzalez MD, Stanislaw Burzynski MD PhD, James Forsythe MD, and more.
The US has lost the "War on Cancer" started by President Richard Nixon, in 1972. Hundreds of billions of dollars has been spent, in essence, developing a cancer industry that has never intended to do anything about cancer - in fact, they do the opposite. It also created a huge, bloated bureaucracy of "cancer scientists" who, simply, get all dressed up, go to a meeting in a city far away, stay overnight in a five-star hotel, drive a Mercedes Benz - and accomplish absolutely nothing. Never have, never will.
Stay tuned...
Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate
Friday, October 16, 2009
Simply Raw
SIMPLY RAW: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
Gabriel Cousens M.D, Anthony Robbins, Woody Harrelson, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Morgan Spurlock, David Wolfe & More Discuss the Healing Power of Raw Foods in New Film
BETHEL, CT (January 27, 2009)-A fascinating, independent film follows the remarkable journeys of six diabetics (Type 1 and 2) for 30 days as they take the “Raw Challenge” to reverse their disease naturally without prescription drugs by eating only organic, vegan, uncooked, ‘raw foods’ despite the American Medical Association’s claim that “Diabetes is a chronic disease that has no cure.” Their physiological and emotional transformations are featured in a new DVD entitled Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (March 2009).
Set at The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona founded by Gabriel Cousens, M.D., the film follows the participants as they are challenged to give up their traditional, American diets consisting of meat, dairy, sugar, processed foods, and cooked foods, as well alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine, as they continue to reduce their dosages of insulin and prescription medications. The results are astounding.
“One of the most potent, pandemic diseases is Type 2 diabetes affecting 246 million people worldwide. We need to wake up to the possibility that simply changing our diet can significantly reverse and even cure this disease. The results of the participants in this documentary offer evidence of that,” states Dr. Cousens. The author of There’s a Cure for Diabetes and founder of The Tree of Life, Gabriel Cousens, MD is a well-known holistic medical doctor for 35 years and published authority on alternative healing and raw living food nutritional therapies. He has helped thousands heal myriad diseases through the power of raw foods.
A diet consisting of plant-source only, raw foods is rapidly gaining worldwide recognition for its power to heal and rejuvenate, as well as maintain health at a high energy level. The raw diet mostly consists of fruits, vegetables, grains, sprouts, nuts and seeds. It is a vegan diet (no meat, cheese, eggs or milk), but with one caveat: It is prepared at temperatures less than between 118 degrees Fahrenheit to preserved the natural enzymes, nutrients and the food’s life-force energy from the sun. When food is cooked, 50 percent of the protein is lost, 70-80 percent of the vitamins and minerals are lost, and close to 100 percent of the phytonutrients are destroyed.
Simply Raw chronicles the transformation of six “real life” participants - with no prior knowledge of a plant-source only, raw food way of life - all struggling with diabetes. Their inspiring transformations are documented over 30 days. Upon arrival at the Tree of Life, the group receives physical exams and medical tests under the care of Dr. Cousens and his staff. Daily medical discussions and support group meetings teach the participants about food selection and preparation as well as exercise, meditation and yoga. Throughout the film, we witness moments of struggle, support, and hope. Remarkably nearly all of the participants were able to attain normal blood sugar levels and eliminate their insulin and prescription drug intake they depended on for decades.
The Simply Raw film has inspired a movement www.rdnmovement.com, to bring together people from around the world to reverse diabetes naturally through the spreading of educational resources on nutrition such as the Simply Raw film and “The Ultimate Encyclopedia of the Raw Food Lifestyle”. An RDN Action Day is slated for April 25, 2009.
The Simply Raw DVD is available for purchase at simplyrawmovie.com or at amazon.com. Running time: 88 minutes.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Diabetic Leg Wounds
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy- Article from the Globe & Mail, March 26, 2005
Diabetics are losing legs unnecessarilyby Christie BlatchFord |
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| Canadian diabetics are losing feet and legs at an alarming rate every year despite a growing body of scientific evidence which shows that a treatment already available can potentially prevent amputation in about 70 per cent of cases. In Ontario alone, conservative estimates are that 2,100 diabetics suffer below- or above-the-knee amputations every year due to foot ulcers, with some doctors quietly putting the number at twice that and a recent British study finding that amputation rates themselves are often unreliable and underestimated. Statistically, every year about 2.5 per cent of the more than two million Canadians with diabetes develop foot ulcers - the disease often causes poor circulation and nerve damage in the extremities, with the result that such minor problems as calluses and cuts can quickly become infected before the patient realizes it - with about a quarter of those eventually going on to amputation. Most are older people, if not elderly, their bodies worn down after decades of the disease's insidious effects. Yet though the treatment called hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or HBOT - is, on paper, available in most major Canadian cities, its controversial history of overblown claims, combined with ignorance about its legitimate efficacy in more than a dozen conditions and a pharmaceutical-driven medical establishment, has resulted in the therapy being relegated to the sidelines. "It's got no champion," Dr. Wayne Evans, chair of the Ontario Medical Association’s hyperbaric medicine division, said sadly of HBOT. "It gets lost in the shuffle. It's not glamorous. The profession sees it as boring stuff involving yechy wounds mostly in old, smelly people." Calgary hyperbaric physician Ross Harrison says the lack of information and widespread reluctance of doctors to refer their diabetic patients for HBOT is tantamount to a conspiracy of silence. "That's definitely true," he told The Globe and Mail in a telephone interview from his office at HBOT Clinics Inc., a private facility that treated 12 diabetics last year. "Diabetics are losing legs unnecessarily," Dr. Harrison said. "There's no question. We run into a great deal of resistance, from several different quarters," and mentioned one local health authority that flatly refuses to approve the treatment. HBOT is long-established as a remedy for divers suffering from decompression illness and fire-fighters with carbon monoxide poisoning. But since 1976, when the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society first formed a committee to review research and clinical data, other therapeutic uses for HBOT have been added, with the recommended "indications" now refined to 13, including delayed radiation injuries (which may show up years after cancer treatment) and so called problem wounds, the broad category into which diabetic foot ulcers fall. Whether for treatment of "the bends" or a foot ulcer, patients enter a treatment chamber where they breathe 100-per-cent oxygen at a pressure typically 21/2 to three times that of sea level. With diabetic wounds, what this hyper oxygenation does is kick start a number of healing processes, chief among them the growth of new blood vessels. Since 2001, there have been four randomized, controlled clinical trials of HBOT on diabetic ulcers the gold standard in evidence based medicine - though the patient numbers were small, ranging from 30 to 70. All the studies found either markedly fewer amputations with patients who received HBOT compared to those who didn't, or enormously improved healing. Yet the Canadian Diabetes Association, which defines one of its functions as "effective advocacy for diabetics, makes not a single mention of the therapy on its website. Indeed only last month did the CDA announce it will soon begin an independent technical review of the HBOT literature, with recommend-ations expected this summer. The agency was responding to a letter from Bill Roman, president of the Canadian Council on Clinical Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, urging the group to "take a leadership role and provide this information to patients, physicians and the [Ontario] minister of health and flatly describing the loss of limbs in Ontario as "a carnage." Diabetes in Ontario, published in 2003 by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and considered a top-level "practice atlas," devotes an entire chapter to peripheral vascular disease (the underlying problem that causes nerve damage and leads to amputation) without any reference to HBOT. 'All of them deserve the right to have a say in it, and to know that there are options.' Federally, Health Canada devotes two pages on its website to HBOT and lists 11 recognized uses of the therapy - but none for problem wounds like foot ulcers. Indeed, Health Canada’s "A-Z" on-line information guide has four listings about dengue fever, hardly the equal of the health crisis posed by diabetes, which experts universally estimate to be increasing by about 10 per cent a year due to the aging baby boomer generation and what is euphemistically called “over-nutrition." Yet there is only one reference, currently unavailable, on the Ottawa website for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. As Michael Garey, a hyperbaric doctor at Lakeview Hospital near Salt Lake City, Utah, says: "For some people, amputation is the best way to go. It’s a good surgery. But a lot of people, we can save. And all of them deserve the right to have a say in it, and to know that there are options." It was more than two years ago that the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that administers the Medicare plan and helps states administer Medicaid, issued a “national coverage decision” expanding approved use of HBOT to specifically include coverage for "diabetic wounds of the lower extremities." Starting in April of 2003, U.S. diabetics with serious ulcers failed to heal within a month using standard treatment were eligible for HBOT as an "adjunctive therapy," a decision described OMA’s Dr. Evans as "a very logical but gutsy move." Dr. Evans, a hyperbaric doctor of 14 years at Toronto General's small unit and a University of Toronto assistant professor, noted that "the U.S. decision isn’t the only piece of information. There’s tonnes of scientific material that supports it [HBOT}. Admittedly, a large body of the older work is lower-quality evidence," he said, “but the recent work is pretty substantial evidence. It just doesn’t get headlines that a study of 5,000 patients gets. A huge study may be required to show a slight difference but a smaller one can still show a statistically significant difference. As Dr. Ted Sosiak, secret the OMA’s committee on hyperbaric medicine, told The Globe, because "there's no patent [to be had] on oxygen and no financial incentive, there's no one coming in to do research with $20-million. Yet Dr. Sosiak says, "the evidence is there" - not only that HBOT works "about 75 per cent of the time," but also that it's cost effective. "Amputation in Canada using the CDA’s own figures, costs about $74,000," he said, while an average course of HBOT treatment- 30 or 40 are usually needed to fully heal a diabetic ulcer - costs between $8,000 and $12,000. The situation in this country is complicated by provincial health insurance plans, which cover HBOT. But some, like Ontario's, pay only for physician consultation, using archaic codes that were developed in 1968 when hyperbaric oxygen was used primarily with divers. In other plans, such as Alberta, clinics are also compensated with a “facility fee” which is billed to the local health region. Because the Ontario style of funding pays no facility or technical fee, it means there's little incentive for hospital-based HBOT clinics, such as the one at Toronto General Hospital - the only hospital clinic serving the country's largest city - to treat elective patients such as diabetics, or to expand. The TGH's so-called "standalone" budget is but $285,000, hospital spokeswoman Gillian Howard said, emphasizing that the clinic is meant to function as "an emergency service." Ms. Howard said that in a given year, the clinic treats between 100 and 125 cases; there are about four elective patients a day, only two of whom, The Globe has learned from other sources, are diabetics. These sources say this has translated to a waiting list of about a year at TGH, and about eight months at the province's other hospital clinics, located in Ottawa and Hamilton. With TGH treating only about 15 diabetics a year, and the other hospitals together averaging about 35 annually, it means, Dr. Sosiak said, that not more than 50 of the thousands of Ontarians with deteriorating leg ulcers are able to take advantage of HBOT. According to the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, there are 23 HBOT clinics - a mix of hospital, private and military facilities - across Canada. And diabetics who resist amputation and learn about the therapy will dig into their own pockets if necessary and travel to get the treatment. Mary Svitek, a 64-year-old from Windsor, guesses she spent about $ 1 0,000 for travel and accommodation while getting HBOT from a private Toronto clinic more than two years ago. "Within two months," she told The Globe, the ulcer on her right foot healed, and even grew new skin. "That's still fine." But in early 2003, she developed three new sores on the bottom of the foot, and had to return for more treatment. "Two of them healed," Mrs. Svitek said, "but one is still open." Yet she continues to walk, and remain active. "To me, it would be very, very difficult to lose my leg. I'm a very active person." Mrs. Svitek learned about HBOT on the Internet, where, as the OMA’s Dr. Evans said, "You have to be a very good Googler, and have an obsessive-compulsive" persistence to unearth information. "None of the doctors in Windsor seemed to be aware of it," Mrs. Svitek said. When she asked her family physician for a referral, she said his attitude was, "'Well, you can go ahead but I don't know if it's going to work.' He was very impressed when he saw how it healed." "It's made a believer out of me," Toronto private investigator Jack Hunter said. "I'd never heard of it, but it worked wonders." At 66, Mr. Hunter's journey through surgery is typical of the slippery slope that for many diabetics begins with a minor amputation and, several agonizing procedures later, ends in death. First, the big toe on his right foot became discolored, then went black with gangrene; he had it amputated; then the adjacent toes went the same way, and on March 1 1, last year, the leg was amputated below the knee, and he walked out of hospital five weeks later on a brand-new prosthesis. But three months later, informed enough now to be panic-stricken, Mr. Hunter noticed "a little black spot" between the toes on his left foot, and ultimately lost two toes and a piece of the sole. He credits HBOT, which he received at Toronto General Hospital from Dr. Evans, with saving his leg. "At the end of eight weeks, it's really doing well. It's almost healed. It's just amazing," he said. Dr. Ted Sosiak, secretary of the Ontario Medical Most of the physicians interviewed by The Globe say the demand for HBOT is primarily patient-driven. "Why isn’t there more usage?" the OMA’s Dr. Sosiak asked rhetorically. "Physician ignorance, no training [in HBOT] in our universities; patient ignorance; a culture of antagonism." I'd never heard of it, but it worked wonders. As Dr. Garey of Utah’s Lakeview Hospital said sadly, "Part of it is politics; part of it is that doctors are not exposed to it in residency and what they're not exposed to, they're leery of. I run into that when I lecture at the university ... I always reply, 'How many of the 39,000 articles have you read?' " He said that in his six years of hyperbaric medicine, he has treated "dozens of people who were told they need amputation, and we were able to save their limbs." Given that most diabetics facing amputation are older, Dr. Garey said, saving their legs "is a tremendous quality-of-life issue. Rehabilitation is not a fast thing, not any faster than wound care. Prostheses are much better now, true, but most of the elderly can never successfully use them. Almost 50 per cent [of those who undergo amputation] die within months." Dr. Garey said hyperbaric doctors often make the black joke that only when they develop a "scratch ‘n’ sniff panel for our pictures" will HBOT get the recognition it deserves. In June, he will present a paper at the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society conference in Las Vegas. The title of his paper? "Limb salvage." Who would have thought that in 2005, such a discussion would be necessary.
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