The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-12-11
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-11-11
Today, Kevin explains why most people will not be successful in network marketing. Plus, Princess stops by the show to reveal secrets “Kevin” doesn’t want you to know about!
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Wisconsin Fight: Bill Limiting Unions Passes in Messy Process
March 11, 2011 by Andrew
Filed under Government
March 11th, 2011
PoliticsDaily.com
By: Tom Diemer
A three-week stalemate that saw angry protests, the flight of Democratic state senators to a neighboring state and even a take-down tackle of one lawmaker by police came to an end Thursday as the Wisconsin Assembly gave final passage to a bill stripping public workers of key collective bargaining rights.
Democracy is often a messy thing — and that has been on display in Madison on an almost dally basis, leading up to Thursday’s conclusive 53-42 vote. Last week, Democratic legislator Nick Milroy, whom authorities did not recognize, was wrestled to the ground by police as he tried to enter the closed Capitol.
“Yeah, it was a living and breathing democracy,” acknowledged Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), who is fighting a similar bill in Columbus.
Events in Wisconsin have demonstrated that elections have consequences — and also that state government can often touch people’s lives in a more direct and personal way than the federal government in far-off Washington. For weeks, thousands of citizens on both sides of the labor rights issue flooded the Statehouse in an effort to hold lawmakers accountable.
Already, Wisconsin Democrats have filed recall petitions aimed at eight GOP senators who supported Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to curtail collective bargaining rights and require larger public employee contributions to pension plans and health care plans. Walker is expected to quickly sign the approved bill into law.
The hard feelings came to a head Wednesday night when the Wisconsin Senate, in a parliamentary maneuver, removed budget provisions from the bargaining bill so it could be passed with fewer than the 20-member quorum required for spending measures. Fourteen Senate Democrats left the state last month and camped out in Illinois to deny Republicans the quorum they needed to act on the “Budget Repair” bill.
With protesters shouting “You are cowards” and “Shame,” the slimmed-down bill passed 18-1, with not a single Democratic senator in the chamber. It was taken up Thursday by the State Assembly, which had to concur with the Senate changes. But final passage was delayed by another noisy protest as police removed dozens of pro-labor demonstrators, the New York Times and the Associated Press reported.
Ryan, who joined a recent demonstration in Columbus against the collective bargaining bill pending in Ohio, followed the events in Wisconsin with a hopeful eye. “We are living with the consequences of an election where a lot of people didn’t vote and a handful of people probably voted for the other guy,” he said, suggesting that some Democratic voters switched sides in the Republican wave last November.
Events in Ohio and Wisconsin, he said, have “energized and mobilized what I think is a sleeping giant — and that is the American work force.” Ryan believes the political pendulum is about to swing again toward his party, but Democrats “need to get back to these bread and butter issues.”
“We may lose this battle,” he said of the pro-union side, “but we may ultimately win the war.”
Watch the scene in Wisconsin Senate Wednesday night, courtesy of the MacIver Institute and YouTube.
Click here for the full report from PoliticsDaily.com
U.S. Takes Over Three Tylenol Plants
March 11th, 2011
CNNMoney.com
By: Parija Kavilanz
The government is taking over three Tylenol plants following a blizzard of drug recalls and a Food and Drug Administration criminal investigation into safety issues at the factories.
The FDA and the Justice Department on Thursday took action against McNeil PPC and two of its executives — its vice president of quality and its vice president of operations for over-the-counter products — for failing to comply with federally-mandated manufacturing practice.
McNeil, a division of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ, Fortune 500), said it had agreed to put its plants — one in Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, one in Fort Washington, Pa. and one in Lancaster, Pa., under FDA supervision.
The agreement, known as a “consent decree,” is subject to approval by a federal judge in Pennsylvania.
The decree requires McNeil to adhere to a strict timetable to bring those facilities into compliance.
McNeil also must retain an independent expert to inspect the three plants to determine whether the violations have been corrected, and to ensure that adequate manufacturing processes are in place. After expert certification, the FDA will determine if the facilities are in compliance.
“This is a strong, but necessary, step to ensure that the products manufactured by this company meet federal standards for quality, safety and purity,” said Deborah Autor, director of the Office of Compliance with the FDA.
If McNeil and the executives violate the decree, the FDA may order McNeil to cease manufacturing, recall products and take other corrective action, including levying fines of $15,000 for each day and an additional $15,000 for each violation of the law.
The fines can total up to $10 million annually.
“We are a company that strives to do the right thing, and we succeed far more often than not. When we don’t succeed, it’s painful,” Johnson & Johnson CEO William Weldon, wrote in a statement Thursday which was posted on the company’s blog.
“By moving to resolve the FDA’s concerns about McNeil Consumer Healthcare US manufacturing facilities, we are able to look to the future and focus on what is most important to us: serving the millions of people around the world who rely on our products every day to meet their health care needs,” he said.
While a consent decree isn’t an unprecedented step, that action is also not taken frequently, said Douglas Stearn, assistant director with FDA’s Office of Compliance.
“It is a significant step,” he said.
Stearn said the agency informed McNeil Thursday that it would proceed with a civil lawsuit against the company, citing its Tylenol and other drug recalls for violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
However, McNeil agreed to terms of a consent decree, which effectively warded off the FDA’s lawsuit.
McNeil’s plants in Puerto Rico and Lancaster will continue to operate, McNeil spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs said. But “there is the potential for some impact [in production] initially as we implement the additional steps.”
Stearn said McNeil can continue to manufacture and ship drugs from the Las Piedras and Lancaster plants, but not from the Fort Washington facility.
The agreement also requires McNeil to destroy all drugs under its control that have been recalled from the three facilities since December 2009.
Stearn declined to comment on the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation into McNeil’s recall activities.
McNeil also operates a facility in Guelph, Canada, Stearn said that plant was not affected by the agreement.
McNeil’s drugmaking plants have come under intense scrutiny over the past year after successive recalls in 2010 of over-the-counter pain and cold medicines such as Tylenol, Benadryl and Motrin produced at those facilities.
The company shut its Fort Washington plant following a scathing FDA inspection report of the factory last May that cited 20 manufacturing violations.
That facility makes all of McNeil pediatric over-the-counter Tylenol, Benadryl and Motrin medicines. The other two facilities make adult medicines, including Tylenol.
In July 2010, McNeil submitted its plan to the FDA outlining steps to improve quality at its facilities.
David Rosen, a former FDA official, called Thursday’s developments “very serious” for McNeil and its parent Johnson & Johnson.
“If McNeil violates the agreement, regulators can shut down all the production at the plants,” said Rosen.
Consent decrees are also very expensive for companies, he said. “McNeil will have to pay for the outside expert and the new inspections. And there’s millions of dollars in lost sales from drug products that can’t be marketed.”
Click here for the full report from CNNMoney.com
Ground Zero Museum Executives Cash In Big
March 11, 2011 by Andrew
Filed under Government
March 11th, 2011
New York Post
By: Annie Karni
Schoolchildren thought their penny jars and bake-sale proceeds would go toward building a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero — not the six-figure salaries of nonprofit execs.
But 11 staffers at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum each pulled down more than $170,000 in total compensation in 2009, according to the most recent filings. Four execs took home more than $320,000.
Foundation President Joseph Daniels, 38, pocketed $371,307 after receiving hefty raises three years in a row — 28 percent in 2006, when he was promoted from acting president, followed by 12 percent and 6 percent.
Museum director Alice Greenwald made $351,000, and capital planning Vice President Joan Gerner soaked up $337,143 before leaving last spring. Development director Cathy Blaney raked in $322,292. The full-time foundation employee also worked last year as a fund-raiser for Gov. Cuomo’s election campaign.
The money to pay the $5.3 million in compensation for the foundation’s 87 staffers in 2009 came from private donations — $220 million raised in a Herculean grass-roots effort to honor the 2,974 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and $150 million from blue-ribbon board members. More than 60,000 individuals in all 50 states and 31 countries donated to the cause.
The rest of the foundation’s money — about $330 million in tax funds from the state and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. — is earmarked for construction of the $610 million project.
Donors ranged from Ohio high-school students who raised $14,000 by completing a 650-mile trek from their Toledo suburb to Ground Zero, to pupils at Bethpage HS in New Jersey who collected $746 in pennies.
Teacher Shawn Clincy of the Mary Volz School in Runnemede, NJ, whose middle-school students raised $1,000 knocking on doors, was shocked by the salaries. “They’re taking money from 13-year-olds who went out and collected donations. That doesn’t sit right with me,” he said.
Michael Burke, whose firefighter brother, William, was killed in the attacks, questioned the generous pay: “These guys are making a fortune — it seems extravagant.”
Sandra Miniutti, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator, said the salaries were “on the high side for a comparable-sized organization.” The average base salary for a CEO of a mid-size foundation like the memorial is about $160,000, and second-tier managers usually make much less, she said.
The memorial and museum is being built on 10 acres at Ground Zero, featuring two large reflecting pools with manmade waterfalls set within the footprints of the Twin Towers.
Originally scheduled to open in 2009, the memorial designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker will be unveiled two years late, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The museum is expected to open in 2012, also two years late.
The underground 100,000-square-foot museum will exhibit the iconic “survivor stairs” and “last column” and donated artifacts from the site and victims’ families.
The foundation defended the salaries disclosed in IRS tax filings reviewed by The Post.
“We’re setting up a venue that will be the highest drawing venue in New York City,” said board member Tom Roger, who lost his daughter on 9/11. “You don’t bring in your typical, well-meaning nonprofit person off the street to get that done. Once it’s opened and operational, the salary structure will . . . come back down.”
Foundation officials pointed to the compensation package of $456,558 earned by the head of the American Cancer Society’s Eastern Division, which has similar annual revenue of $96 million.
Mayor Bloomberg, board chairman, said, “They’re paid only a fraction of what they’re worth, but at a level similar to people at comparable nonprofits.”
High-priced execs
Highest earners at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum (2009 total compensation):
* Joe Daniels, President: $371,307
* Alice Greenwald, Executive VP for Programs: $351,100
* Joan Gerner, Executive VP, Capital Planning (Left in Spring 2010): $337,143
* Cathy Blaney, Executive VP, Development: $322,292
* David Langford, CFO: $224,113
* Luis Mendes, VP Design and Construction: $221,429
* Lynn Rasic, Senior VP, Public Affairs: $214,270
* Noelle Lilien, General Counsel: $193,316
* Suany Chough, Senior Adviser, Design Construction and Planning: $190,831
* Allison Bailey, Chief of Staff to President: $171,417
Click here for the full report from the New York Post
The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-10-11
Today, Kevin explains why America has become the land of free lunches instead of the land of opportunity. Plus, turn off the news and put down the newspapers, Kevin gives you the FACTS behind the HCG Protocol.
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Is The HCG Diet Hazardous To Your Health?
March 10th, 2011
Cleveland Leader
By: Julie Kent
Most fad diets promise quick weight loss, but are often unhealthy and don’t work in the long-term. The latest diet craze, however, takes it to the extreme, and involves injecting the hormone hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) while eating just 500 calories per day.
hCG was first pushed as a weight-loss aid in the 1970s. Fans of the diet believe that it could help people lose weight because in pregnant women, hCG helps to direct calories to the fetus.
hCG is a hormone first produced by the developing embryo, and then the placenta during pregnancy. Promoters of the diet say that because hCG helps re-route calories from the mother to the fetus during pregnancy, injecting the hormone could help curb appetite and help dieters to get through the day on few calories.
Dr. David Katz says:
“This diet is appalling. It takes irresponsible diets to new heights.”
Beyond injecting the hormone, subsisting on just 500 calories per day is dangerous.
Restricting caloric intake to such a level makes for a real risk that you’re not providing your body with enough essential amino acids, so it scavenges itself. Sometimes, it can cause the body to scavenge from critical places, like the heart.
If you’re looking to lose weight, for the sake of your health, avoid this diet.
Click here for the full report from the Cleveland Leader
HCG ‘Diet’ Controversy: Dangerous Diet Or Healthy Hormone Treatment?
March 10th, 2011
The Huffington Post
By: Dean Praetorius
The hCG “Diet” has been stirring quite a bit of controversy after Dr. Oz took a closer examination of the already controversial weight-loss program.
While the wildly popular doctor said the treatment requires “further examination,” many doctors don’t approve. However, some dieters disagree.
The program, which has dieters consume less than 500 calories per day, is supplemented by “daily shots of a hormone produced by pregnant women called human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG).”
But the question of whether it works or not has raised a lot of questions about the “diet.” While hCG proponents claim to lose up to 30 pounds in a single month, those results aren’t unexpected on such a restricted diet.
One variation of the hCG diet, involving homeopathic supplements, has reportedly been dismissed as illegal and fraudulent by the FDA. Elizabeth Miller, who leads the agency’s Internet and health fraud team, tells USA Today that even if not dangerous, the products are, at minimum, “economic fraud.”
From Dr. Oz’s Website:
What about the hCG injections — doesn’t that make the diet more effective? No. Promoters of the hCG diet claim that when people are injected with hCG hormone they don’t feel hungry even though they’re not eating. The idea of using hCG injections to curb appetite was introduced over 50 years ago and has been carefully studied in over a dozen well-done trials. Every single well-done trial showed that the hCG injections were no better than injecting a salt-water placebo. In other words, people injected with hCG lost the same amount of weight as people injected with a salt-water placebo.
According to Dr. Oz, the shots don’t even make the restricted diet any safer.
Click here for the full report from the Huffington Post
The hCG Diet Myth: Why Would a Pregnancy Hormone Make You Skinny?
March 10th, 2011
Time Healthland
By: Maia Szalavitz
Quick quiz: does pregnancy cause weight loss or gain? It seems like a dumb question but it’s a test that the promoters of the “hCG diet” seem to have failed.
Short for human chorionic gonadotrophin, hCG is the hormone secreted by the embryo that makes a pregnancy test positive. Since the 1950s, certain doctors have promoted hCG injections as the key to hunger-free weight loss — and now, the diet is taking off on the Web. This, despite 14 clinical trials showing that hCG has no effect on weight.
The hCG diet restricts caloric intake to 500 calories a day. That alone pretty much guarantees weight loss for anyone who can manage to stick with it. But people who take a placebo instead of hCG while restricting calories do just as well as those who take the hormone — and taking the hormone doesn’t increase the likelihood that people will stay on the diet.
Some doctors will actually give injections of hCG, but many people take hCG pills, which are sold online — illegally, according to the FDA — for use in this diet. There’s even less evidence for the effectiveness of pills than the injections, however, and it’s impossible to know whether the pills actually even contain hCG.
There’s also data to show that such starvation-level diets — with or without hormones — can cause dramatic rebounds in weight in the long run, making maintaining healthy weight much more difficult.
So why does this demonstrably ineffective and potentially harmful diet aid stay popular? In brief, it’s the power of placebos and anecdotes.
For one thing, research on placebos has shown that the effect of getting an injection is more powerful than taking a pill, in terms of getting a result based on patients’ positive expectations. So the hCG injections themselves power the placebo effect, producing compelling anecdotes of successful weight loss. In reality, of course, what causes the dropped pounds is the caloric restriction — but the people who tout the diet emphasize the shots.
And all of us — doctors included — are fundamentally susceptible to seduction by dramatic success stories. Our brains are biased to believe real people providing emotional accounts of change over the dull, dry statistics found in scientific papers. What better evidence could there be than a dramatic before-and-after story, our minds tell us.
But it’s worth remembering that anecdotes cannot be used to distinguish between effective and ineffective treatments: that misconception is what allowed bloodletting and other harmful practices to persist in medicine for centuries. Requiring a higher standard of proof to demonstrate causality is what has made modern medicine a success. Going beyond anecdote is the only way to know for sure whether something helps or harms.
So if you want to find a diet or other medical treatment that works, it’s better to stick with the data and avoid hCG. Unless you want to believe that a growing infant in the womb secretes hormones altruistically to avoid growing and to make its mom skinnier. Consider this: even the nausea of early pregnancy generally ends in weight gain, not loss.
Click here for the full report from Time Healthland
HCG Diet on ABC News
March 10th, 2011
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