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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-31-10
Today, Kevin gives you proof that the government is lying to you!
Expert Claims of Livestock Causing Global Warming False
Record Number of Journalists Murdered Last Year
Customer Flips Over Filet-O-Fish
Cholesterol Drug Use Risky For Healthy People
Gordon Ramsay Restaurants Uses Pre-Prepared Meals
Vitamin B3 Beats Big Pharma’s Cholesterol Drug
Papaya is Effective Against Certain Cancers
Antibiotics Linked to Increased Risk of Birth Defects
General Bans Booze & Junk Food
Study Urges Vitamin D Supplement for Infants
FDA Suppressed Imaging Safety Concerns
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Record Number of Journalists Murdered Last Year
March 31, 2010
AOL News
By Joseph Schuman
Late on the night of Jan. 7, Mexican newspaper reporter Valentin Valdés Espinosa was driving through downtown Saltillo in the north of the country when his car was intercepted by two SUVs. The men inside forced Valdés and a colleague into one of the SUVs and drove away.
The next morning, Valdés’ body was found at the nearby Motel Marbella. He had been tortured, bound and shot several times, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports. Valdés had recently been part of a team reporting for the local paper, the Zócalo de Saltillo, on a massive army raid at the motel and the drug cartel it targeted. A handwritten note with his body said, “This is going to happen to those who don’t understand. The message is for everyone.”
Valdés was the victim of a growing trend of violence against journalists far from the war zones once perceived as the biggest danger to reporters. Last year, according to a UNESCO report released today, a record number of journalists were killed worldwide.
There were 77 journalists murdered last year, up from 48 in 2008, and the killings of journalists are more often taking place in countries that are officially at peace.
“There is increasing evidence of acts of violence against media professionals in many parts of the world, in particular deliberate attacks by those who do not wish journalists to investigate and reveal information of public interest,” the UNESCO report said. “The killing of journalists is just the tip of the iceberg. Media professionals face many other forms of threats such as intimidation, kidnappings, harassment and physical assaults.”
While the numerical spike last year can mostly be attributed to an ambush in the Philippines that claimed the lives of 30 journalists in one day, the numbers also show that the killing of local journalists is on the rise even as the deaths of war correspondents has been abating in recent years and violence has subsided in Iraq.
At least 80 percent of the 125 murders of journalists in 2008 and 2009 targeted reporters who were trying to uncover and report “information of public interest,” UNESCO said.
At a time when newspapers have been declining in the U.S. and other industrialized countries, UNESCO also noted that print media continued to take a frontline role reporting from dangerous areas. Among the journalists murdered, just 26 percent worked for television, 16 percent for radio and only a few for news agencies and online sites.
Following the Philippines, Mexico had the biggest rise in journalist murders, with 11 in 2008 and 2009, largely due to the drug-related violence that claimed the life of Valdés. The number of journalists killed in Pakistan rose to six from just two in the previous two-year period, and journalist murders in Russia jumped to seven from three.
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500 Volt Taser Being Considered for UK Use
March 31, 2010
Telegraph
The extended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP), already used by police in the US, fires a barbed electrode from a modified 12-bore shotgun.
It hooks into the target’s skin before administering a 20 second shock which renders the subject totally incapacitated.
And if the recipient tries to pull the device off, ”reflex engagement electrodes” complete a circuit that sends the shock through the subject’s body through their hand.
Amnesty International has expressed ”serious concern” about the XREP and are worried by news it could be authorised in the UK.
XREP manufacturers Taser International describe the taser as a ”revolutionary” step towards immobilising dangerous criminals from a greater distance than ever before.
Traditional hand-held Taser stun guns can fire electrified darts up to 25 feet and deliver a five-second shock, which can be retriggered.
A spokesman for XREP said: ”This is the first wireless projectile that can deliver less-than lethal electro-muscular incapacitation at long range.
”Launched from a 12-gauge shotgun platform, this innovative device is set to revolutionise law enforcement operations and will give military forces an effective, less lethal option up to a range of 20m.”
Amnesty International claim 334 people in the US died between 2001 and 2008 after being targeted by the stun gun.
K’s arms program director, Oliver Sprague, said: ”This is effectively a shotgun that fires electric-shock bullets.
”Because this bullet can be fired wire-free from a standard shotgun there is a heightened risk of causing serious injury to the face and head.
”We’re also concerned by the fact that these weapons will deliver an excruciatingly painful shock for 20 seconds.
”Amnesty would be very alarmed if the Home Office were to consider authorizing this weapon to police officers in the UK.”
A Home Office spokesman said: ”The Home Office Scientific Development Branch is considering the XREP as part of its on-going remit to evaluate new technologies.
”All new technologies are subjected to the most stringent safety tests and independent medical evaluation before they can be considered for police issue. The Government and the police have no current plans to introduce XREP tasers into service.”
Tasers have been used in around 6,000 incidents in England and Wales since they were introduced in April 2004.
When introduced Tazers were only used by firearms-qualified officers but following successful trials are now issued to officers with specialist training.
David Hanson MP said this week: ”Tasers are a vital police tool which help protect both officers and the public.”
”They do not even have to be discharged to help defuse violent or dangerous situations; often just drawing the device can be enough to deter criminals.”
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When Warren Buffett Looks Safer Than Uncle Sam
March 31, 2010
The Chicago Tribune
For many decades, U.S. government securities have been the epitome of safe, dull investments. If you wanted to be absolutely positive you’d get your money back and then some, Treasury bills were the way to go. Right now, lots of Americans who put their money into big mortgages or stocks a decade ago wish they had gone the more mundane route.
But it’s mundane no more. With federal budget deficits running wild, investors are growing uneasy at the idea of lending money to an institution that seems unable to stop spending beyond its means. Last month, something extraordinary happened: Two-year bonds offered by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. commanded lower yields than those offered by the U.S. government. As Bloomberg.com put it, “The bond market is saying that it’s safer to lend to Warren Buffett than Barack Obama.”
That may sound common-sensical — Buffett has experience at meeting payrolls, while Obama does not — but it’s actually a surprising perception. Berkshire Hathaway, after all, conceivably could make so many mistakes that it runs out of money and closes down. But the U.S. government is not about to run out of money, even if it keeps overspending.
Why not? First, it can appropriate more of its citizens’ earnings through the tax system. Second, and more important, it can print money to pay its bills. Warren Buffett doesn’t have those options.
So it’s hard to see why investors would be leery. Well, actually, it’s not so hard: The federal government is digging itself deeper into debt every month and intends to keep doing so indefinitely.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office offers a prognosis: “Under the president’s budget, debt held by the public would grow from $7.5 trillion (53 percent of GDP) at the end of 2009 to $20.3 trillion (90 percent of GDP) at the end of 2020.” Interest payments would quadruple.
The long-term problem here is not that the government eventually would default on its obligations. The danger is that it would create money to make those debts payable, a course that would lead to much higher inflation. Then, yields on even impeccable corporate bonds would climb with those of T-bills.
The economy would also suffer as businesses and households scrambled to cope with the disruptive effects of soaring prices. It would suffer again if and when the government decided to curb inflation by driving up interest rates — a step that virtually guarantees a sharp downturn.
Frightened investors may be wrong to think they’re less likely to get their money back from the government than from Buffett’s Berkshire.
But they’re not wrong to be frightened.
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Leading British Retailers Selling BPA Laced Baby Bottles
March 31, 2010
Telegraph
By: Laura Roberts
Bisphenol A (BPA) has already been banned in Canada and three US states. Most manufacturers of baby bottles have stopped putting it in their products but older stock containing the chemical is still on sale at Boots and Mothercare, according to a report by The Independent.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) supports its removal and has stated concerns regarding the impact of the chemical on babies and young children.
Although BPA is legal in Britain and the rest of Europe infant feeding brands such as NUK have removed it from their bottles.
Mothercare had intended to stop selling bottles made using BPA in January 2010 but admitted that its schedule to phase out the chemical was behind and the target was now “the end of the year”.
A Boots spokesman said: “With the exception of Canada, polycarbonate, which is made from bisphenol A is approved as a food-contact material worldwide. The vast amount of scientific evidence still supports its continued safe use.”
A spokesman for Mothercare said: “In 2009 we introduced BPA-free alternatives to our product ranges in response to consumer feedback, and Mothercare remains committed to phasing out polycarbonate bottles containing BPA in its own brand feeding and drinking ranges.
“In addition to its own brand BPA-free ranges, Mothercare continues to offer parents the widest possible choice of products that includes a range of BPA-free products from branded manufacturers.”
BPA is known as an endocrine disruptor and interferes with the release of the female hormone estrogen. It can affect disorders associated with metabolism, fertility and neural development. It is widely used in tins of food and canned drinks to toughen the internal lining of the container.
In December last year seven experts from five British universities wrote to Andy Burnham, the health secretary, calling for a review of BPA.
A spokeswoman for Born Free, a BPA free brand, said: “We believe that BPA has been one of the most studied chemicals for decades for a reason. Recent scientific research suggests that small amounts of BPA may leach into foods or beverages stored in polycarbonate containers, especially when the contents are acidic, high in fat or heated.”
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FDA Suppressed Imaging Safety Concerns
March 31, 2010 by JP
Filed under Government
March 30, 2010
Google News
By Associated Press
A former Food and Drug Administration scientist says he was fired after raising concerns about the risks of radiation exposure from high-grade medical scanning.
Dr. Julian Nicholas told an audience of imaging specialists that he and other FDA staffers “were pressured to change their scientific opinion,” by managers.
Nicholas made his remarks at a public meeting designed to kick off the FDA’s campaign to reduce radiation exposure from medical scanning. The agency is seeking input from physicians and manufacturers on additional safety controls and training to improve CT scanners and other medical imaging devices.
The average American’s radiation exposure has nearly doubled in the last three decades, largely due to imaging tests, according to the FDA.
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FDA to Examine Menthol Cigarettes
March 31, 2010 by JP
Filed under Government
March 30, 2010
Wall Street Journal
By Jared A. Favole
A panel of health experts will begin studying the health effects of menthol cigarettes starting Tuesday as the government grapples with how to regulate the products.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which has new powers to regulate tobacco, wants the panel’s help in determining how menthol cigarettes affect the public’s health, and whether they induce people to smoke and make it harder for them to quit.
The panel will be closely watched by tobacco companies such as Lorillard, Altria and Reynolds American, all of which make menthol cigarettes under brands such as Newport, Marlboro and Camel.
The panel’s recommendations will go to the FDA and the FDA is expected to publish a report on the public health impact of menthol by the end of the year. The FDA could ban the products or take less drastic steps such as restricting sales and advertising.
The FDA last year got new powers to regulate the tobacco industry and heavily restrict how the products are advertised, particularly to children. Many health experts have, over the years, raised concerns that the minty flavor in menthol cigarettes induces people to smoke and makes it harder to quit.
A ban on cigarettes flavored with fruit or candy took effect this year.
Tobacco companies have challenged some of the FDA’s powers to restrict their advertising and lost in key areas.
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WHO Losing Public Confidence After Flu Pandemic
March 31, 2010
Guardian
By: Sarah Boseley
The World Health Organisation and other public health bodies have “gambled away” public confidence by overstating the dangers of the flu pandemic, according to a draft report to the Council of Europe.
The report, by the Labour MP Paul Flynn, vice chair of the council’s health committee, says that a loss of credibility could endanger lives.
“This decline in confidence could be risky in the future,” says the report, seen by the Guardian. “When the next pandemic arises many persons may not give full credibility to recommendations put forward by WHO and other bodies. They may refuse to be vaccinated and may put their own health and lives at risk.”
In Britain, says Flynn, the discrepancy between the estimate of the numbers of people who would die from flu and the reality was dramatic. “In the United Kingdom, the Department of Health initially announced that around 65,000 deaths were to be expected. In the meantime, by the start of 2010, this estimate was downgraded to only 1,000 fatalities. By January 2010, fewer than 5,000 persons had been registered as having caught the disease and about 360 deaths had been noted,” says his report.
The public health minister, Gillian Merron, told Flynn in a meeting for the report that a Cabinet Office investigation was looking into Britain’s handling of the outbreak and would report some time after June. Countries across Europe reacted very differently to the pandemic, says the report. Not all mounted high-profile vaccination campaigns, as did the UK.
Flynn’s draft accuses the WHO of a lack of transparency. Some members of its advisory groups are flu experts who have also received funding, especially for research projects, from pharmaceutical companies making drugs and vaccines against flu.
“The neutrality of their advice could be contested,” says the report. “To date, WHO has failed to provide convincing evidence to counter these allegations and the organisation has not published the relevant declarations of interest. Taking such a reserved position, the organisation has joined other bodies, such as the European Medicines Agency, which likewise, have still not published such documents.”
Flynn’s report was commissioned by the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly, which is holding an inquiry into the handling by European bodies and governments of the flu pandemic. The second evidence session will be held in Paris tomorrow. The witnesses will include the Polish health minister, Ewa Kopacz, who will explain why her government decided not to order any H1N1 vaccines.
At the first evidence session, in January, some experts criticised the dramatic comparisons made last year between the novel strain of H1N1 circulating in Europe and the devastating Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Professor Ulrich Keil, epidemiologist and director of the WHO collaborating centre on epidemiology of the University of Münster in Germany pointed out in evidence that the Spanish flu broke out in the very different circumstances of the first world war, where infections were easily transmitted by undernourished soldiers and there was an absence of medicines such as penicillin.
One of the central questions of the Council of Europe inquiry, says Flynn, “concerns the possibility for representatives of the pharmaceutical industry to directly influence public decisions taken with regard to the H1N1 influenza, and the question of whether some of their statements had been adopted as public health recommendations without being based on sufficient scientific evidence”. He cites as an example the decision to recommend two doses of flu vaccine for children, which was later questioned.
“Various factors have led to the suspicion that there may have been undue influence by the pharmaceutical industry, notably the possibility of conflicts of interest of experts represented in WHO advisory groups, the early stage of preparing contractual arrangements between member states and pharmaceutical companies as well as the actual profits that companies were able to realise as a result of the influenza pandemic,” says the draft report, which will be finalised when all the evidence has been taken, at the end of April.
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Expert Claims of Livestock Causing Global Warming False
March 30, 2010
InfoWars.com
By Gerald Warner
It is becoming difficult to keep pace with the speed at which the global warming scam is now unravelling. The latest reversal of scientific “consensus” is on livestock and the meat trade as a major cause of global warming – one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions, according to eco-vegetarian cranks. Now a scientific report delivered to the American Chemical Society says it is nonsense. The Washington Times has called it “Cowgate”.
The cow-burp hysteria reached a crescendo in 2006 when a United Nations report ominously entitled “Livestock’s Long Shadow” claimed: “The livestock sector is a major player, responsible for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalents). This is a higher share than transport.” This led to demands in America for a “cow tax” and a campaign in Europe at the time of the Copenhagen car crash last December called Less Meat=Less Heat.
Now a report to the American Chemical Society by Frank Mitloehner, an air quality expert at the University of California at Davis, has denounced such scare-mongering as “scientifically inaccurate”. He reveals that the UN report lumped together digestive emissions from livestock, gases produced by growing animal feed and meat and milk processing, to get the highest possible result, whereas the traffic comparison only covered fossil fuel emissions from cars. The true ratio, he concludes, is just 3 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in America are attributable to rearing of cattle and pigs, compared with 26 per cent from transport.
Mitloehner also makes the deadly serious point: “Producing less meat and milk will only mean more hunger in poor countries.” Precisely. The demonising of cows and pigs is just another example of global warmists’ callous indifference to starvation in the developing world, as in the case of the unbelievably immoral and reckless drive for biofuels – pouring Third World resources for subsistence into Western liberals’ fuel tanks – and, notoriously, carbon trading.
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