The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-18-11
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Over-The-Counter Pain Medication Carry Heart Attack Risk
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WikiLeaks Exposes Pfizer’s Strong-arm Tactics to Cover up Deaths of Innocent Children
January 18, 2011 by Andrew
Filed under Government
January 18th, 2011
Mercola.com
Dr. Mercola
U.S. diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks show that drugmaker Pfizer hired investigators to find evidence of corruption against Nigeria’s attorney general, in an effort to convince him to drop legal action against the company.
Pfizer was sued for $2 billion over testing of the meningitis drug Trovan. Nigerian authorities said the tests killed 11 children and left dozens disabled. Pfizer eventually agreed to a $75 million settlement.
Reuters reports:
“… [A] memo leaked by WikiLeaks referenced a meeting between Pfizer’s country manager, Enrico Liggeri, and U.S. officials suggesting the drug company did not want to pay to settle two cases brought by Nigeria’s federal government … Pfizer had hired investigators to uncover corruption links to federal Attorney General Michael Aondoakaa … Pfizer’s investigators were passing this information to local media.”
A series of damaging articles detailing Aondoakaa’s alleged corruption ties were published by local news agencies subsequent to the meeting
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Fox News Head Tells Hosts To Tone It Down
January 17, 2011 by Andrew
Filed under Government
January 17th, 2011
Politics Daily
By: David Gibson
Roger Ailes, the conservative who heads the Fox News Channel, has told his traditionally outspoken hosts to “shut up, tone it down” in the wake of the massacre in Tucson that is putting overheated right-wing rhetoric under intense scrutiny.
“I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually,” Ailes said in an interview with Russell Simmons, the global hip-hop impresario, that was posted at Simmons news site, GlobalGrind.com. “You don’t have to do it with bombast.”
Investigators have made no direct connection between the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, and any extremist organizations. Loughner shot and killed 6 people on Saturday at a Tucson mall while wounding a dozen others, including his main target, Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
But the shooting has raised questions about the often violent language and imagery associated with many populist activists and politicians, from Tea Party members to Sarah Palin.
Those questions are creating yet another rift between right and left. In his comments, the combative Ailes wasn’t about to throw in the towel, but instead argued that the left was as guilty as the right in the war of words, and in fact was exploiting the memory of victims like 9-year-old Christina Green, who was killed by Loughner’s bullets.
“It’s just a bullshit way to use the death of a little girl to get Fox News in an argument,” Ailes told Simmons.
“The education system knew about this guy… they kicked him out of school and told him until he gets a letter saying he’s not going to kill anybody, he can’t come back to school,” Ailes said. “The police department picked him up five times and let him go and nobody screened him for getting a weapon… So, by the time he decided to go to a mall and and wanting to kill somebody, he was attached to nobody. He was a flag burner. He just was not attached to the Tea Party.”
Ailes also cited various examples of violent left-wing imagery targeting conservatives, including a picture of himself with a bull’s-eye on his head — much has been made of a Palin ad showing Gifford’s district with a target on it — as well as a picture of a Palin doll hanging by a rope.
“This goes on,” Ailes said. “Both sides are wrong, but they both do it.”
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-17-11
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Arizona Shooting Victim Arrested After New Threat
January 17, 2011 by Andrew
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January 17th, 2011
AOL News
By: Bob Christie and Gillian Flaccus
In an unexpected twist to the Arizona shootings, a man wounded in the attack was arrested and taken for a psychiatric exam after an outburst at a town hall meeting, during which he took a picture of a tea party leader and yelled “you’re dead,” authorities say.
James Eric Fuller, 63, was detained on misdemeanor disorderly conduct and threat charges Saturday during the event taped for a special edition of ABC’s “This Week,” Pima County sheriff’s spokesman Jason Ogan said.
He apparently became upset when Trent Humphries suggested that conversations about gun control be delayed until all the dead were buried, KGUN-TV in Tucson reported.
Authorities said he took a picture of the leader and yelled “you’re dead.”
Ogan said deputies decided he needed a mental health evaluation and he was taken to a hospital, which will determine when he will be released.
Fuller, who said he was hit in the knee and back, was one of 19 people shot at a Safeway store Jan. 8. Six people died and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition with a bullet wound to the head.
Giffords was continuing to progress Saturday, with doctors replacing the breathing tube that connected her to a ventilator with a tracheotomy tube in her windpipe. They could soon know if she can speak, but they didn’t offer a timeframe. Doctors also installed a feeding tube.
In its story on the arrest, The New York Times said Fuller reported last week that he had trouble sleeping after he was wounded.
The paper said that in an interview last week, Fuller repeatedly denounced the “Tea Party crime syndicate,” and said he placed some of the blame for the shooting on Sarah Palin and other Republican leaders, saying he believed they had contributed to a toxic atmosphere.
Meanwhile, as Tucson attempted to heal, the Safeway supermarket reopened and a memorial of flowers quickly grew outside.
Randy Larson, 57, came by to shop but instead found himself sitting quietly on the curb choking back tears.
“I wanted to come here now and see it now and not two weeks later when it’s just a grocery store. I honestly kind of thought, ‘Well, I’ll come and patronize them and shop’ but it’s really hard to, because by doing that it’s going about your day as usual,” said Larson, who runs a sandwich shop in the same shopping center.
“I can’t come here and go about my day as usual,” he said. “Why should it be usual for me when it’s not for the victims?”
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The Worrisome Stats Official Inflation Figures Aren’t Showing
January 17th, 2011
Daily Finance
By: Charles Hugh Smith
On the surface, the outlook for inflation this year appears tame. The consumer price index (CPI) registered a modest 1.5% in 2010, and the so-called “core” inflation gauge, which excludes food and energy, grew a mere 0.8%.
But looks might be deceiving. Beneath the low CPI reading, the producer price index has been rising at a rate of 4%, and the costs of intermediate goods in the middle of the supply chain climbed by 6.5% in December alone.
That wasn’t an anomaly: The cost of intermediate goods floated more than 5% higher, year over year, in 11 out of 12 months, and it exceeded 6% growth in eight months, hitting a high of 8.7% growth in April 2010.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke may well be correct about companies being unable to pass on higher producer costs, but he didn’t address the skyrocketing costs of raw materials — what the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls “crude goods.” As this chart from the bureau indicates, the cost of these crude goods has grown by 15% or more throughout 2010, far above the 4% producer price index increase or the minimal CPI advance.
The implication from these numbers is ominous. If companies selling finished goods can’t raise retail prices, but the cost of raw materials and intermediate goods in the supply chain are rising by 15% and 6.5%, respectively, that means manufacturers’ profit margins will become increasingly squeezed. It’s basic math: If your costs rise but the price you charge customers remains unchanged, your profit margins shrink.
And that’s bad news for the stock market. The current market rally is based, not just on an improving economy but more specifically on rising corporate profits. Growing producer costs and raw-materials costs could crimp those profits, spelling trouble for the stock rally.
In other words, the rising costs of basic and intermediate goods doesn’t just threaten to burden consumers with higher prices, it also threatens to cut into the fat profit margins that have been driving the stock rally for almost two years.
Energy and Medical Costs Also on the Rise
As if rising commodity and supply chain costs weren’t worrisome enough, energy costs also are skyrocketing. Gasoline prices rose 8.5% in December alone, and overall energy costs grew a sobering 13.9%. Energy is consumed at every step of the global supply chain, so higher energy costs end up adding raising the costs for everything: grain, transport, manufacturing, chemicals, you name it. While bad weather is certainly the primary mover of grain prices, higher energy costs certainly aren’t helping food commodity prices, which hit 2.5-year highs, triggering global protests.
Click here for the full report from Daily Finance
Over-The-Counter Pain Medication Carry Heart Attack Risk
January 17th, 2011
AOL Health
By: Catherine Donaldson-Evans
New evidence has surfaced adding fuel to the theory that several common prescription and over-the-counter pain drugs may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Among those targeted in the study by Swiss researchers: ibuprofen (sold as Advil, Motrin), naproxen (sold as Aleve) and prescription drugs including Celebrex and Vioxx, which has been withdrawn from the market in the U.S. over safety concerns.
Scientists from Bern University in Switzerland analyzed the findings of 31 trials covering more than 116,000 people taking one of the following pain medications: naproxen, ibuprofen, diclofenac, Celebrex made by Pfizer (celecoxib), Arcoxia made by Merck (etoricoxib), Merck’s Vioxx (rofecoxib), Prexige by Novartis (lumiracoxib), or a placebo.
They were looking at older non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, known as NSAIDS, and a newer set called COX-2 inhibitors to measure heart disease and stroke risks.
Ultimately, what they found was that while the painkillers’ chances of contributing to cardiovascular disease were relatively low, there were still significant risks — except with naproxen according to their study published Wednesday in the British Medical Journal.
“Naproxen in multiple studies has not [been shown to have a risk],” said AOL Health’s cardiology expert Dr. Christopher Cannon. “That is definitely the first drug of choice to use. That’s a very strong take-home message.”
The team led by Peter Juni, of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at Bern, said that Vioxx and Prexige had double the risk of heart attack as a placebo, and taking ibuprofen more than tripled the risk of having a stroke.
Cardiovascular-related death was four times more likely in patients taking Arcoxia and diclofenac, the authors said.
“Although uncertainty remains, little evidence exists to suggest that any of the investigated drugs are safe in cardiovascular terms,” said Juni, according to Reuters.
He said doctors should be careful before suggesting or prescribing painkillers to patients and must consider the heart disease and stroke risks associated with them.
Still, the rate of cardiovascular conditions was relatively low in the participant pool, with only 554 heart attacks, 377 strokes and 676 deaths among the 116,000 participants.
Both NSAIDs and COX-2 inhibitors have been under scrutiny for their risk of heart problems.
The Swiss scientists said naproxen seemed to be the least risky painkiller, though it can upset the stomach and even cause ulcers and bleeding. Celebrex, taken in 400-milligram increments once a day, is a good second choice, they concluded.
Cannon, who took part in one of the trials the scientists used for their analysis, said there are specific reasons for naproxen’s benefits. But he disputed the researchers’ recommendation to take Celebrex as an alternative if stomach troubles persist with Alleve.
“Naproxen has an anti-clotting effects, similar to the way aspirin does. That may be how it is protective,” he told AOL Health. “I would counter [the suggestion to use Celebrex]. It’s been a little less studied … but Celebrex has similar risks to Vioxx and the others, so one has to be aware of that.”
Previous studies have provided mixed results on the drugs’ potential link to cardiovascular problems, according to the researchers. Vioxx was pulled from shelves in 2004 after one clinical trial revealed a higher risk of heart attack in those taking it.
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FDA To Limit Pain Reliever Amount In Prescription Drugs
January 17th, 2011
AOL Health
By: Catherine Donaldson-Evans
The Food and Drug Administration has ordered the makers of prescription drugs containing acetaminophen to limit the per-pill dosage, the agency said Thursday.
Manufacturers of acetaminophen combination medications, such as Vicodin and Percocet, have been asked to restrict the amount of the pain reliever in them to 325 milligrams or less.
The drug makers also must ensure that their labels warn patients of the possible risk of serious liver problems, the agency said.
“FDA is taking this action to make prescription combination pain medications containing acetaminophen safer for patients to use,” Dr. Sandra Kweder, a deputy director at FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), said in a statement on the agency’s website.
She said there is heightened concern over severe liver complications related to prescription drugs containing acetaminophen.
“Overdose from prescription combination products containing acetaminophen account for nearly half of all cases of acetaminophen-related liver failure in the United States; many of which result in liver transplant or death,” said Kweder.
The move is a step to phase out high-dose prescription drugs that have acetaminophen in them, which the FDA says will happen over the next three years. The agency says the new regulations “should not create a shortage of pain medication” and believes that 325 milligrams in each capsule or tablet is a sufficient dose for relieving pain.
Acetaminophen alleviates fever as well as pain and is found in prescription and over-the-counter drugs including Tylenol. Tylenol and other OTC medications containing the painkiller aren’t affected by the new FDA requirements.
Many prescription painkillers combine acetaminophen with other ingredients, typically codeine and other opioids (i.e. Tylenol with Codeine), oxycodone (Percocet), and hydrocodone (Vicodin).
People who already are taking the higher-dose prescription acetaminophen painkillers shouldn’t fret over the latest mandate, however.
“There is no immediate danger to patients who take these combination pain medications, and they should continue to take them as directed by their health care provider,” Kweder said.
She explained that the risk of serious liver injury and other complications generally arises only when patients take multiple acetaminophen combination drugs at the same time, drink alcohol when taking prescription acetaminophen or exceed the maximum dosage of 4,000 milligrams in 24 hours.
The new regulations were developed after an advisory meeting on the matter in June 2009. For more information on products affected by the new regulations, click here
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Where Are The Jobs Going?
January 17, 2011 by Andrew
Filed under Government
January 17th, 2011
Daily Finance
By: Danny King
Take heart, America. Yours isn’t the only country to lose jobs to developing nations.
Australia, Canada and Israel, among others, have dropped off the list of best places for information-technology and business-processing services, according to a report that research firm Gartner released Monday.
As more developing countries have created workforces that can handle those tasks at lower cost, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore and Spain are also no longer on Gartner’s list of the 30 best countries for outsourcing, which considers both costs and skill sets.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Colombia, Peru and Mauritius have all joined the list for the first time, while Panama, Sri Lanka and Turkey reappeared after an absence during previous years. Those nations join South American countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, as well as the Asian powerhouses of China and India.
Competition for Outsourcing Grows
The changes reflect the growing trend of cost-cutting via outsourcing, which started with U.S. companies and spread to other parts of the world.
Countries such as Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica have created government programs that boost education and upgrade the domestic labor pool. China and Malaysia, among others, have improved their infrastructure to make them attractive to tech companies. And Brazil’s relatively stable government status keeps the country attractive to many different types of companies.
“In this increasingly dynamic global environment, multinational providers will continue to extend their footprint in different geographies, carrying with them their expertise and maturity, while local providers will strive to become offshore providers, searching for opportunities and niches they can explore,” Ian Marriott, research vice president at Gartner, said in a statement. “Even though some countries are rated poorly for some categories, clients may find individual providers — global and local — whose capabilities mitigate some of the risks.”
Where Are the Jobs Going?
Increased outsourcing has hindered the U.S.’s economic recovery and may pose similar problems to other countries that have been bumped off the list.
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CIA Is ‘Out Of Control’
January 17, 2011 by Andrew
Filed under Government
January 17th, 2011
AOL News
By: Sharon Weinberger
The CIA is “out of control” and often refuses to cooperate with other parts of the national security community, even undermining their efforts, said former National Security Agency head William Odom, according to a recently released record of a 9/11 Commission interview.
“The CIA currently doesn’t work for anyone. It thinks it works for the president, but it doesn’t and it’s out of control,” says a report summarizing remarks made by Odom, a retired three-star general who served as director of the NSA from 1985 to 1988.
Odom, who also served on the National Security Council staff during the Carter administration, was known as an outspoken advocate for intelligence reform. He died in 2008.
The 2003 interview, among others conducted by the 9/11 Commission, was posted on the website Cryptome, which is often compared to the secret-spilling WikiLeaks website. The report was not a leak, however, but one of many records relating to the 9/11 Commission that have been released and made available on the National Archives website.
“Quite a few remain ‘access restricted’ for classification review,” John Young, who runs Cryptome, told AOL News in an e-mail about the records, some of which he has reposted. “We expect to make an FOIA [Freedom of information Act] request for their release once we have a full listing of those restricted.”
In the commission interview, Odom portrayed CIA officers as individualistic, saying they were interested in writing “exposes.” He also accused the CIA of not sharing “humint,” meaning intelligence collected through contact with people, and of trying to sabotage the Pentagon’s own work in this area.
“The director of the CIA has as much reason to brief the president as the man on the moon,” Odom told the staff of the commission investigating the failure to prevent the terror attacks.
Odom also believed that intelligence officials weren’t held sufficiently accountable for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He said he believed that the heads of the NSA and the CIA should both have been fired by the president after 9/11 for “symbolic purposes.”
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