The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-22-10
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PCBs Found In Fish Oil Supplements
June 22,2010
Natural News
By: Ethan A. Huff
A California lawsuit is accusing several fish oil supplement manufacturers of selling fish oils that contain unsafe levels of polychlorinated biphenyl compounds, also known as PCBs. The state’s Proposition 65 requires products that may contain toxic ingredients above safe levels to have warning labels for consumer safety.
Five supplement companies, CVS and Rite Aid drug stores, and Omega Protein, Inc., the world’s largest producer of omega-3 fish oil, are all named in the suit, which the plaintiffs hope will bring light to fish oil contamination problems. They also hope to see more accurate labeling of fish oils that includes specifics about contaminants like PCBs; that way, consumers will be able to make better decisions about which kinds are safe to buy.
The PCB chemical family consists of 209 different chemical compounds, all of which were tested for in the lawsuit by a California lab. That same lab also tested each of the product samples for 12 of the most toxic PCB compounds. It then evaluated each sample in terms of daily exposure to PCBs overall, and daily exposure to PCBs in terms of toxicity.
The brands tested included Nature Made, Twinlab, Now Foods, Solgar and GNC. Each brand included various types of fish oil, including cod liver, shark liver and salmon. Those that tested the lowest for PCBs contained one-70th the amount of those with the highest levels, indicating a significant difference in contamination among various brands, and types, of fish oil.
According to David Roe, the man who filed the lawsuit in San Francisco’s Superior Court, the oils that tested highest exceed California’s daily limit for PCBs by a factor of ten in terms of cancer risk. On the same token, some of the oils tested very low, and are not of particular concern to consumers.
Both Nature Made and Twinlab issued immediate responses to the lawsuit in defense of their respective brands’ safety. Erin Hlasney from the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), a supplement industry trade group, also came to the defense of fish oils in general, explaining that they have been used safely for decades.
But the plaintiffs contend that it is not enough to simply say that a product meets guidelines; consumers have a right to know how a product actually tests for contaminants once it arrives on store shelves. Many brands claim that their fish oils have been purified and treated to reduce or remove contaminants, but few actually explain to what extent these toxins have been removed.
States Launch Probe On Google Wi-Fi Spying
June 22, 2010
Computer World
By: Gregg Keizer
As many as 30 states could join an investigation into Google Inc.’s collection of personal information from unprotected wireless networks, Connecticut’s attorney general said today.
According to Richard Blumenthal, who issued a statement Monday, more than 30 states’ attorneys general have expressed interest in joining the investigation, which his office will lead.
Google’s response today was similar to what it said earlier this month.
“It was a mistake for us to include code in our software that collected payload data, but we believe we didn’t break any U.S. laws,” a company spokesman said in an e-mail. “We’re working with the relevant authorities to answer their questions and concerns.
The joint investigation will ask Google for additional information about its snatching of data from personal and business Wi-Fi networks using the company’s Street View vehicles, which have cruised U.S. streets and roads since 2007 as part of an effort to map wireless hot spots for mobile location purposes.
Calling the practice “deeply disturbing,” Blumenthal also said the inquiry will look into possible violations of state laws, and whether state and federal privacy laws need to be strengthened.
“Street View cannot mean Complete View — invading home and business computer networks and vacuuming up personal information and communications,” said Blumenthal in his statement. “Google must come clean, explaining how and why it intercepted and saved private information broadcast over personal and business wireless networks.”
Last month, Google acknowledged that its Street View vehicles had collected data from unsecured wireless networks around the world, but it said that snooping had been inadvertent. Earlier this month, Google CEO Eric Schmidt blamed an unnamed company engineer for adding code to the Wi-Fi detection software that grabbed fragments of data from nearby networks.
The company first disclosed the data-gathering when it conducted an audit after complaints by German data privacy authorities.
Google already faces investigations by privacy authorities in several European countries, including the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Last week, the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) said its investigation had concluded that Google had snatched passwords and extracts of e-mail messages from the air.
In the U.S., Google faces multiple civil lawsuits, and the company has been asked for more information from several congressmen as a preliminary step to a legislative hearing.
Google has asked that the lawsuits be consolidated and moved to a California federal court’s jurisdiction.
Blumenthal did not name the other states that will join the investigation, saying only that he expected “a significant number” to participate.
“[Google's] response so far raises as many questions as it answers,” argued Blumenthal. “The company must provide a complete and comprehensive explanation of how this unauthorized data collection happened, why the information was kept if collection was inadvertent and what action will prevent a recurrence.”
NY Law Will Take DNA From Criminals
June 22, 2010
My Way News
By: Michael Virtanen
Gov. David Paterson has proposed roughly doubling New York’s DNA database to include samples from even low-level offenders, making it the first in the nation to so broadly collect and use this evidence to solve crimes and exonerate people wrongly convicted.
New York’s law would require adding about 48,000 samples a year to a laboratory system that state officials say is capable of handling the extra work, with no current backlogs.
“You think it’d be a huge explosion, but we have samples on so many people that recommit crimes already – it’s the old rule of criminals don’t specialize,” said Sean Byrne, acting commissioner of the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
State police now have DNA samples from 356,000 people convicted of felonies and certain misdemeanors, including petty larceny and endangering the welfare of a child. The database began in 1996 with the genetic material from killers and sex predators, and has been expanded three times.
The governor’s plan has drawn support from a law school center involved in efforts nationwide to use DNA evidence to reverse wrongful convictions. But the New York Civil Liberties Union said the latest proposed expansion raises many questions, including about protection of privacy rights, and should be given further study.
Paterson said it would cost about $1.6 million more annually for state police to increase data collection to get a complete list of New York criminals’ DNA, adding many other misdemeanors.
“DNA is the most powerful tool ever discovered to solve crimes, prevent crimes and exonerate the innocent, but remarkably in New York State we are still collecting DNA from only 46 percent of the criminals convicted,” he said.
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer first proposed the idea in 2007 but it did not win legislative approval.
The Assembly has twice passed broader legislation sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, calling for the collection of DNA in all crimes as well as requiring videotaping of police interrogations, both measures meant to help prevent wrongful convictions.
“As long as we have the innocent guy in prison, the guilty guy is going around committing crimes willy-nilly,” Lentol said.
In the Senate, similar DNA bills have been introduced, including one by Sen. Eric Schneiderman, a Manhattan Democrat who is running for attorney general.
“We’re certainly confident there will be an expansion of the DNA data bank,” said Schneiderman spokesman James Freedland.
DNA currently is not collected in most misdemeanors – some 53 percent of all convictions, said Warren County District Attorney Kate Hogan, president of the state District Attorneys Association, which supports the expansion.
Robert Perry, New York Civil Liberties Union legislative director, said there are issues with privacy and the rights of defendants to due process – and that an independent analysis is needed first. He said problems from putting the DNA of thousands more people into the data bank include the risk of degraded samples, human error in testing labs and even intentional fraud.
“The complexity and importance of the issues raised by the proposal to expand the state’s DNA data bank – issues of law, science and public policy – are matched only by the indifference of lawmakers,” Perry said.
Through April 30, there were 7,825 positive matches against the state’s data bank, including 137 homicide convictions and 453 sexual assaults, according to the criminal justice department.
Since 2006, among those convicted of petty larceny, 652 have been linked to other crimes, including 170 sexual assaults, 72 robberies and 31 homicides.
Over the past two decades, there have been 254 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States, according to the Innocence Project. The nonprofit legal clinic, associated with New York’s Cardozo Law School, encourages use of DNA evidence to overturn convictions.
It is part of a network of nearly 61 legal clinics, 52 of them in the U.S., doing similar work. The project has 214 active cases, with 8,000 under evaluation, and to date has looked at 36,000 and taken 1,250 as clients, spokeswoman Emily Whitfield said.
Rob Warden, executive director of the Northwestern University Law School Center on Wrongful Convictions, part of the network, said he supports New York expanding its DNA database. “What we all hope is getting this right,” he said.
The New York State Police lab processes offender DNA samples, while it and seven other accredited labs statewide process DNA from crime scenes, Byrne said.
He said the average offender who made a first DNA submission last year had five prior convictions.
Retired cold case detective Joseph Pollini of the New York Police Department said requiring all criminals to submit DNA would be a huge help because most commit smaller offenses before committing a major crime.
US On Slippery Sloap To Tyranny
June 22, 2010
Investors.com
By: Thomas Sowell
When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics.
Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they were particularly susceptible to Hitler’s rhetoric and had far less basis for questioning his assumptions or his conclusions.
“Useful idiots” was the term supposedly coined by V.I. Lenin to describe similarly unthinking supporters of his dictatorship in the Soviet Union.
Put differently, a democracy needs informed citizens if it is to thrive, or ultimately even survive.
In our times, American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the current administration in Washington, and few people seem to be concerned about it.
The president’s poll numbers are going down because increasing numbers of people disagree with particular policies of his, but the damage being done to the fundamental structure of this nation goes far beyond particular counterproductive policies.
Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever he deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere.
And yet that is precisely what is happening with a $20 billion fund to be provided by BP to compensate people harmed by their oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Many among the public and in the media may think that the issue is simply whether BP’s oil spill has damaged many people, who ought to be compensated.
But our government is supposed to be “a government of laws and not of men.”
If our laws and our institutions determine that BP ought to pay $20 billion — or $50 billion or $100 billion — then so be it.
But the Constitution says that private property is not to be confiscated by the government without “due process of law.”
Technically, it has not been confiscated by Barack Obama, but that is a distinction without a difference.
With vastly expanded powers of government available at the discretion of politicians and bureaucrats, private individuals and organizations can be forced into accepting the imposition of powers that were never granted to the government by the Constitution.
If you believe that the end justifies the means, then you don’t believe in constitutional government.
Home Sales Fall In May
June 22, 2010
CNBC
By: Reuters
Sales of previously owned homes fell unexpectedly in May as delays in processing mortgage applications hampered the closing of contracts benefiting from a popular homebuyer tax credit, an industry group said on Tuesday.
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The National Association of Realtors said sales fell 2.2 percent month over month to an annual rate of 5.66 million units from an upwardly revised 5.79 million-unit pace in April.
Analysts polled by Reuters expected May sales to rise 5.5 percent to a 6.12 million-unit pace from the previously reported 5.77 million units in April. Sales were up 19.2 percent compared to May last year.
Sales were expected to rise as transactions for existing homes are measured at contract closing.
Although the tax credit for home buyers expired in April, qualified home owners have until June 30 to close contracts.
“There hasn’t been much of a rebound in housing. We are growing from the extremely low levels of last year. On average, we are looking for a moderate advancing trend,” said Stephen Stanley, chief Economist at Pierpont Securities in Stamford, Connecticut.
U.S. stock indexes pared gains on the report, Treasury debt prices rose. The U.S. dollar was up slightly against the euro.
The Senate last week voted to extend the deadline for closing contracts to September 30.
The Realtors group said about 180,000 home buyers who had signed contracts to take advantage of the tax credit were likely to miss the June 30 deadline for closing because of delays in mortgage processing.
Government incentives and near record low mortgage rates have helped the housing market dig out of a three-year slump.
With the end of tax credit, a temporary bout of weakness is expected, before sales pick up again as the labor market and broader economy gradual improve.
The housing market, whose collapse dragged the economy into its longest and deepest recession since the 1930s, still faces major challenges from foreclosed properties, which are keeping the supply of houses elevated and prices depressed.
The report came as the Federal Reserve’s policy-setting committee prepared to start a two-day meeting, where it is expected to extend its pledge to hold overnight interest rates exceptionally low for “an extended period” to aid the recovery.
The U.S. central bank is not seen lifting rates, currently near zero, until next year.
Foreclosed properties and short sales accounted for 31 percent of transactions last month, the Realtors group said, with first-time buyers representing 46 percent.
Despite the weak sales, the supply of previously owned homes on the market fell 3.4 percent to 3.89 million units. At May’s sales pace, that represented a supply of 8.3 months, compared with April’s 8.4 months.
The national median home price rose 2.7 percent from May last year to $179,600, the highest level since July.
The decline in sales last month was broad-based, with sales of single-family dwellings sliding 1.6 percent. Condominiums and co-ops dropped 6.8 percent.
Kagan Sought Secrecy In 4 Out Of 5 Cases
My Way News
By: Sharon Theimer
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s arguments as solicitor general in several cases on government secrecy were at odds with a promise of transparency made by her boss and top client, President Barack Obama.
In four of five cases she dealt with involving the Freedom of Information Act, Kagan argued in favor of secrecy, Justice Department documents show. In those four lawsuits, the Supreme Court took her side and let lower court rulings in the government’s favor stand.
The justices haven’t yet said whether they will take the fifth case, in which Kagan argued against broadening an open records exemption to let corporations claim personal privacy rights and avoid public release of government documents about them.
As the government’s top lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court, the solicitor general generally determines which cases to take to the court and what to argue. The White House and Justice Department declined to say whether Kagan’s arguments in open records cases reflect her personal views.
In the most widely publicized freedom of information case, Kagan successfully argued that the Supreme Court should overturn a New York appeals court ruling that directed the government to release photographs of foreign detainees being abused by their U.S. captors. The American Civil Liberties Union sought the photos; Obama and the Pentagon opposed their release.
“In the judgment of the president and the nation’s highest-ranking military officers, disclosure of the photographs at issue here would pose a substantial risk to the lives and physical safety of United States and allied military and civilian personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Kagan told the court in written arguments.
In another case, Kagan argued that a consumer group should be denied data on physician claims paid by Medicare because it would amount to an unwarranted invasion of the physicians’ personal privacy. That information could be paired with a publicly available Medicare fee schedule to figure out how much each physician earned from Medicare, she and her team argued, contending that the government could withhold the physician claim information under an exemption in the open records law.
“The fact that some arithmetic, using publicly available fee schedules, might be necessary to compute the precise amount of a physician’s income is no privacy protection for the physician at all,” Kagan told the high court in a brief. The court, as Kagan wanted, declined to hear the group’s appeal.
A government watchdog found Kagan’s argument in that case troubling. Kagan didn’t argue that the information the center sought is private, but rather that the information, combined with other things, could lead people to figure out something the government doesn’t want public, said Melanie Sloan, head of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a frequent user of the open records law.
“That’s really going outside the four corners of the statute,” Sloan said. “I find that kind of a ridiculous argument.”
Still, Kagan’s arguments for the government do not mean she will rule a particular way in open records cases as a justice, Sloan said. Positions on Freedom of Information Act issues do not generally fall along Democratic or Republican lines, she said.
“It’s not as clear as some other issues where you tend to have a better read just from the person’s party and the kind of things they’ve worked on in the past,” Sloan said.
In another freedom of information case involving personal privacy, Kagan argued that corporations aren’t entitled to claim the law’s personal privacy exemption to avoid having government documents about them released to the public.
In that case, telecommunications giant AT&T argues it has a right to make use of the Freedom of Information Act’s personal privacy exception. It says the Federal Communications Commission should keep secret all the information it gathered from AT&T during an investigation into its participation in the federal E-Rate program, which helps schools and libraries get Internet access.
The FCC had released some of the information under an open records request, but withheld some, citing FOIA exemptions that cover trade secrets and humans’ right to privacy. AT&T argues releasing any information violates its right to personal privacy.
An appeals court sided with AT&T. That is at odds with long-standing interpretations of the law, Kagan wrote.
The ruling threatens to put up barriers to the release of information “concerning corporation malfeasance in government programs that the public has a right to review,” Kagan told the justices.
If Kagan is confirmed as expected and the court takes the AT&T case, she will have to recuse herself due to her past involvement.
Besides the Medicare claims case, the Supreme Court declined to review two other open-records lawsuits in which Kagan argued that lower-court rulings letting the government keep information secret should stand. One involved Pentagon documents sought by a court-martialed Army private sentenced to death. In the other case, the government refused to release an Internal Revenue Service officer’s time sheets.
Obama, who appointed Kagan solicitor general and nominated her to the Supreme Court, has promised to govern transparently and directed the government to handle open records requests with the presumption that information can be disclosed. Agencies have discretion over whether to apply exceptions to the law that let them keep information secret in special circumstances.
Asked whether Kagan’s briefs reflect Obama’s positions and say anything about how Kagan would rule on such cases as a justice, White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said: “The role of the solicitor general is to represent the American people and their government before the Supreme Court. It is not to represent their personal views before the court, nor do the positions they take in court necessarily reflect the administration’s views – solicitors general have a duty to defend the laws that are on the books.”
The solicitor general is the government’s top lawyer, but the job “has had a great degree of independence” and discretion over which cases to pursue, a description on the Justice Department website says.
Justice and the White House declined to say if there were any freedom of information rulings against the government that Kagan decided against appealing.
Cancer Cells Killed By Chemo May Actually Spread Cancer
June 22, 2010
Natural News
by: Sherry Baker
Chemotherapy is known to come with a long list of side effects — from debilitating nausea and hair loss to extreme fatigue — and in many cases, it does not cure or even stop cancer from progressing. But what if chemotherapy does something no one has realized before during all the decades it has been in use? What if chemo actually encourages cancer to spread throughout the body, the process known as metastasis?
Researchers with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center and UAB Department of Chemistry have just been awarded a $805,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program to see if the answer to those questions is “yes”. The study is investigating the very real possibility that dead cancer cells left over after chemotherapy spark cancer to spread to other parts of the body.
“What if by killing cancer cells with chemotherapy we inadvertently induce DNA structures that make surviving cancers cells more invasive? The idea is tough to stomach,” Katri Selander, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UAB Division of Hematology and Oncology and co-principal researcher on the grant, said in a statement to the media. “Fundamentally this question must be answered to advance the knowledge base and to know all the risks and benefits of cancer treatment. This research has the potential to reach across numerous scientific disciplines, and may one day improve the lives of patients worldwide.”
The UAB scientists are concentrating on inactivated or altered genetic material (DNA) left in the body after breast-cancer cells are exposed to chemotherapy. The research team stated that the resulting altered DNA could be the deadly factor that sparks the dreaded process of metastasis through a specific molecular pathway. Finding out whether chemotherapy could cause cancer spread is hugely important to the field of oncology because metastasis is the number one cause of cancer recurrence and treatment failure.
Dead cancer cells have been found to activate a pathway in the body mediated as a protein dubbed toll-like receptor 9, or TLR9, that is present in the immune system and in many kinds of cancer. “If TLR9 boosts metastasis, then researchers will work on finding targeted therapies that block or regulate this molecular pathway,” Dr. Selander stated.
FDA Cracking Down On Radiation From Medical Imaging Devices
June 22, 2010
Natural News
by: David Gutierrez
The FDA has announced a plan to reduce patients’ unnecessary exposure to radiation from three different medical imaging tests. The three-pronged strategy will focus on increasing the safety of the devices, increasing patient awareness of risks, and improving the ability of patients and doctors to make informed decisions.
The tests in question are computed tomography (CT) scans, nuclear medicine studies and fluoroscopy. CT scans produce three-dimensional images of different areas of the body, nuclear medicine studies involve consumption of a radioactive substance to observe its motion through the body, and fluoroscopy uses a continuous beam of radiation to produce a real-time, moving image.
“The FDA continues to support a strong dialogue between patients and physicians over the medical necessity and risk associated with these types of imaging studies,” the agency said. “However, like all medical procedures, CT, nuclear medicine, and fluoroscopy pose risks.”
The FDA chose to focus on the three procedures because together they provide the single greatest source of radiation exposure for the U.S. population. CT scans, nuclear medicine studies and fluoroscopy all deliver much higher doses than other radioactive imaging procedures, such as mammography or X-rays. For example, a single CT abdomen scan uses as much radiation as 400 chest X-rays or 800 dental X-rays.
Yet in spite of the risks, which according to the FDA include cancer, cataracts and burns, the use of radioactive imaging tests has become much more common in the United States in recent years.
“The amount of radiation Americans are exposed to from medical imaging has dramatically increased over the past 20 years,” said Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
The FDA plans to reduce unnecessary exposure by encouraging “appropriate justification” of all radiation tests, as well as “optimization of the radiation dose.”
“Working together,” said Shuren, “the FDA and other organizations hope to help patients get the right imaging exam, at the right time, with the right radiation dose.”
Under the first prong of its three-prong strategy, the FDA seeks to encourage safer use of the three techniques. Toward this goal, it plans to require manufacturers of radiation imaging devices to implement specific safeguards in the machines and implement standardized training for all device operators. The specific requirements to be established have yet to be determined, but might include making all devices display, record and report radiation doses and other relevant settings; having devices issue alerts when a higher-than-normal dose is entered; and making devices immediately add information about each test to a patient’s permanent medical record and a national dose registry.
The FDA is also working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to impose new accreditation requirements on all facilities that perform radioactive imaging, with the goal of improving oversight and safe device use.
In order to improve patient awareness, the FDA is working with a number of other organizations to design a patient medical imaging history card, which would record every radiation test undergone by a specific patient in a fashion similar to an immunization card. This card (which will also be available via the FDA web site) could then be presented to physicians to inform them about the patient’s prior lifetime radiation exposure.
In service of the final goal, informed consent, the FDA is encouraging the development of a national radiation dose registry so that researchers can monitor nationwide radiation exposure and help produce more targeted recommendations on when the risk of a procedure outweighs its benefits.
“Health care decisions made by patients and their physicians should include discussions of the medical need and associated risks for each procedure,” the agency said.
New Dr.’s Linked To Unnecessary Deaths, Especially In July
June 22, 2010
Natural News
by: S.L Baker
If you plan on going to a teaching hospital for a test or elective procedure, here’s a warning that could save your life: Stay away from the hospital in July. The reason? According to a new study headed by Dr. David Phillips and Gwendolyn Barker from the University of California, San Diego, fatal medication errors soar that month — especially in teaching hospitals.
The research team investigated the cause behind the so-called curious “July Effect” that has long been noted to worsen the outcomes of patients being treated in teaching hospitals during the month of July. Phillips and Barker focused on 244,388 U.S. death certificates issued between 1979 and 2006 that listed fatal medication errors as the primary cause of death. Then they compared the number of deaths that occurred in July with the number of expected events in a given month for a given year. Next, they looked to see if there were any differences between deaths in and out of hospitals in July and in counties that had or lacked teaching hospitals.
The research, which was just published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found a clear association between inexperienced physicians and deadly medical errors. Specifically, the spike in hospital deaths each year from medication mistakes (such as accidental overdoses, wrong drugs given, and accidents in the use of drugs during medical and surgical procedures) in July coincided exactly with the annual influx of thousands of rookie doctors who begin their medical residencies and take on responsibility for patient care that month.
This July peak in fatal drug errors was seen only in counties with teaching hospitals. In fact, the greater the concentration of teaching hospitals in a region, the greater the July spike in deaths. This was no little insignificant blip in the number of fatal physician screw-ups, either. The number of July deaths from medication mistakes linked to new doctors was a full 10 percent higher than the expected level.
“Our findings provide fresh evidence for 1. re-evaluating responsibilities assigned to new residents; 2. increasing supervision of new residents; 3. increasing education concerned with medication safety,” the authors of the study concluded. “Incorporating these changes might reduce both fatal and non-fatal medication errors and thereby reduce the substantial costs associated with these errors.”
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