The FDA is going after Vitamin C
Action Alert—Now the FDA Is Going After Vitamin C!
Alliance For Natural Health
Jan 6, 2011
The FDA has just notified small pharmacies that they will no longer be allowed to manufacture or distribute injectable vitamin C—despite its remarkable power to heal conditions that conventional medicine can’t touch. Please help reverse this outrageous decision!
Let’s get this straight. The government acknowledges the risk of a worldwide flu pandemic. It acknowledges that conventional drugs cannot cure big viruses-like the mononucleosis and hepatitis viruses, many influenza viruses, and many others. It acknowledges that many bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics and are killing increasing thousands. It acknowledges the risk of a worldwide drug-resistant TB pandemic.
Despite acknowledging all this, it now insists on wiping out one of the best potential treatments for these conditions and for certain cancers as well. And why is this being done? What possible rationale is offered? Because it’s dangerous? No. Because it can’t be patented and therefore won’t be taken through the standard FDA approval process. No matter that vitamin C is one of the least toxic components of our food supply and liquid forms of it have been used safely for decades.
By the way, here is what is not safe. Don’t substitute home-made vitamin C solution for pharmaceutical grade liquid. That is not safe for injection. If the FDA action leads someone to do that, the FDA should be held responsible for the results.
The government, instead of banning intravenous vitamin C, should instead be supporting research into it. Even though IV C is being used in burn units around the world, including in the US, and has been adopted by the military for this purpose, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) refuses to fund any studies using intravenous C in patients. There are privately funded studies currently underway, but of course these cannot continue if the FDA bans the substance.
With at least one of the pharmacies, the FDA seems to be banning injectable magnesium chloride and injectable vitamin B-complex 100 as well. These two substances are routinely added to intravenous C to make the “Myers Cocktail,” used especially for conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, and infectious diseases such as hepatitis, AIDS, mononucleosis, and flu. The FDA is not going after the Myers Cocktail directly, but is rather attacking each individual substance used to make the cocktail, and may conceivably be going after injectable vitamins and minerals in general, despite such injections being given under the care of a qualified physician.
Codex Alimentarius and Vitamin C
Codex Alimentarius, Vitamin C, and Viral Pandemics
Codex Alimentarius is a set of regulations dictated by the pharmaceutical
industry to the World Trade Organization, and recently enacted into U.S.
law as part of CAFTA. Codex criminalizes the sale of all nutrients in
useful quantities, including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and all herbal
remedies. For example, are you using Coenzyme-Q10 to prevent congestive
heart failure or cancer recurrence? If so, Codex will result in your death.
Do you take "megadoses" (i.e., the amounts produced naturally by animals)
of Vitamin C for colds and flu? Codex Alimentarius makes it impossible to
obtain Vitamin C in useful amounts, leaving you only with the symptomatic
relief drugs sold by the pharmaceutical companies, which have no effect on
the viruses at all. Your body will be damaged, and the drug companies will
make additional tens of billions of dollars in profits.
The legislators you elected voted for CAFTA (which, like NAFTA, will enable
American companies to send many more American jobs to Third World countries
where the people will be paid 50 cents/hour). This will enable the ultra-wealthy
people who own those companies to make even higher profits.
The legislators you elected voted for Codex Alimentarius, which will prevent
you from buying the nutrients you need for health and protection from disease.
If the bird flu mutates into a form easily caught and transmitted by people,
or if the 1918 flu, recently dug up and resurrected by U.S. government
scientists, mysteriously manages to get loose, like the anthrax from the U.S.
government labs a few years ago, and you get infected by it, you may very
well die for lack of large amounts of Vitamin C, if Codex is implemented.
Do the legislators you voted for act for your interests, or those of the ultra-wealthy
elite who control the economy, the media, and the government?
Did you know how they would act? No, because the media, owned and controlled
by the ultra-wealthy, didn't tell you. Did you select who would run in the elections?
No, because only people favored by the ultra-wealthy were given enough money
to broadcast advertisements on TV and radio.
How can you find out what the U.S. government is actually doing? Some websites
and mailing lists on the Internet will tell you. Is the government protecting
freedom of speech on the Internet? Two bills have been introduced --
CBDTPA: Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, by Senator
Fritz Hollings, and INDUCE: Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation,
by Senator Orrin Hatch. Both laws are supposedly for the purpose of preventing
people from copying songs and movies via the Internet. But what they would each
actually do is impose total government censorship on your computer. Before you
could access any website, or receive any piece of e-mail, your computer would
ask permission from a government "Digital Rights Management" server. If that
server (a remote government-operated computer) wasn't programmed to give you
permission for that particular website, or for e-mail from that particular person or
list, your computer would refuse to do it, and there would be no way around it.
Do you think the government would give you permission to read this website?
CBDTPA is backed by Senator Dianne Feinstein, and INDUCE is backed by Senator
Barbara Boxer, of California, both supposedly "liberal" Democrats. Are they
protecting your freedom of speech, and your right to hear others speak?
Do we have democracy in the United States?
Answer that question yourself.
Codex Alimentarius will result in an enormous increase in disease and
death, and, by criminalizing Vitamin C, will leave the population defenseless
against the new pandemic flu viruses now being developed in government labs
(supposedly for test purposes). Listen to the six-part series of Taking Aim
radio programs on this subject -- 050315, 050322, 050329, 050405, 050419,
and 050426 -- in the Taking Aim audio archive.
1 - Vitamin C, Flu, and Codex Alimentarius
2 - How Vitamin C Works - Cathcart - with summary
3 - Vitamin C Treatment Of Severe Flu - Levy
4 - Origin Of Vitamin C Treatment For Polio - Klenner
5 - Codex Aims - Rath
5a - Codex Aims - Pharma Profits (graph)
6 - Life Under Codex - Helke Ferrie
7 - Codex Details - Taylor, Rath
Look familiar, this is a good one, eh?
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Johnson and Johnson MYLANTA recall
J & J heartburn worsens with Mylanta recall
12 million bottles pulled for failing to note trace amounts of alcohol
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Reuters
updated 1 minute ago 2010-12-02T16:40:07
Share Print Font: +-NEW YORK — Johnson & Johnson's consumer-product distress worsened on Wednesday as the company recalled 12 million bottles of over-the-counter Mylanta and almost 85,000 bottles of its AlternaGel liquid antacid.
J&J said the actions, which it described as "wholesale and retail level" recalls, were taken because the presence of small amounts of alcohol from flavoring agents was not noted on product packaging.
"It is unlikely that use of these products will cause either alcohol absorption or alcohol sensitivity adverse events," the company said on its Mylanta website.
Although wholesalers and retail outlets are obliged to clear their shelves of the products, the company said consumers may continue to use the medicines, which contained concentrations of less than 1 percent alcohol.
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..The brands are manufactured as part of a 50/50 joint venture with Merck & Co, formed to develop and make nonprescription drugs primarily derived from Merck's prescription drugs.
J&J said the products were made at the joint venture's plant in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A J&J plant in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, has been shut down to fix hygiene problems and other quality control lapses that in the past year have forced huge recalls of J&J's own iconic consumer brands.
Just a week ago, J&J recalled 9 million bottles of Tylenol because packaging did not adequately inform customers about the presence of trace amounts of alcohol. They were made by a third-party manufacturer.
All told, more than 200 million bottles of J&J products have been recalled in the past year, including painkillers Tylenol and Motrin, allergy treatment Benadryl and Rolaid antacid.
The crisis has harmed J&J's once-pristine image and is beginning to take a significant toll on its financial results. U.S. sales of J&J's consumer products plunged 25 percent in the third quarter as scores of formulations became unavailable and customers opted instead for generic store brands.
Quality-control problems have also hounded J&J's factory in Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, forcing recalls of Benadryl and Tylenol in June.
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..Wells Fargo analyst Larry Biegelsen on Tuesday cautioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could temporarily shut down or seize the Puerto Rico plant, after having recently inspected it and noting unresolved quality-control lapses in an agency report filed Nov. 2.
The negative report, called a Form 483, follows a similar one issued by the FDA after an inspection of the plant in January and February, Biegelsen said.
Biegelsen said the Puerto Rico plant produces most of the over-the-counter drugs sold in the United States by J&J's McNeil consumer healthcare division.
J&J last week declined to comment whether it may be forced to take special charges to account for the mounting number of recalls.
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J & J heartburn worsens with Mylanta recall
12 million bottles pulled for failing to note trace amounts of alcohol
Below:x Jump to discussion comments below .discussion x Next story in More health news Military's gays policy harms health, doctor says related
.Advertisement | ad info.By Ransdell Pierson
Reuters
updated 1 minute ago 2010-12-02T16:40:07
Share Print Font: +-NEW YORK — Johnson & Johnson's consumer-product distress worsened on Wednesday as the company recalled 12 million bottles of over-the-counter Mylanta and almost 85,000 bottles of its AlternaGel liquid antacid.
J&J said the actions, which it described as "wholesale and retail level" recalls, were taken because the presence of small amounts of alcohol from flavoring agents was not noted on product packaging.
"It is unlikely that use of these products will cause either alcohol absorption or alcohol sensitivity adverse events," the company said on its Mylanta website.
Although wholesalers and retail outlets are obliged to clear their shelves of the products, the company said consumers may continue to use the medicines, which contained concentrations of less than 1 percent alcohol.
Health highlights Sip and sniff? Scientists thwart wine allergies
Sulfites long have been blamed for wine allergies, but new research suggests molecules called glycoproteins might be a bigger culprit.
.14 foods that could change a diabetic's life
9 million Tylenol bottles recalled
Airport pat-downs may raise infection risk
Look at this turkey. Do you feel nicer already?
..The brands are manufactured as part of a 50/50 joint venture with Merck & Co, formed to develop and make nonprescription drugs primarily derived from Merck's prescription drugs.
J&J said the products were made at the joint venture's plant in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A J&J plant in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, has been shut down to fix hygiene problems and other quality control lapses that in the past year have forced huge recalls of J&J's own iconic consumer brands.
Just a week ago, J&J recalled 9 million bottles of Tylenol because packaging did not adequately inform customers about the presence of trace amounts of alcohol. They were made by a third-party manufacturer.
All told, more than 200 million bottles of J&J products have been recalled in the past year, including painkillers Tylenol and Motrin, allergy treatment Benadryl and Rolaid antacid.
The crisis has harmed J&J's once-pristine image and is beginning to take a significant toll on its financial results. U.S. sales of J&J's consumer products plunged 25 percent in the third quarter as scores of formulations became unavailable and customers opted instead for generic store brands.
Quality-control problems have also hounded J&J's factory in Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, forcing recalls of Benadryl and Tylenol in June.
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..Wells Fargo analyst Larry Biegelsen on Tuesday cautioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could temporarily shut down or seize the Puerto Rico plant, after having recently inspected it and noting unresolved quality-control lapses in an agency report filed Nov. 2.
The negative report, called a Form 483, follows a similar one issued by the FDA after an inspection of the plant in January and February, Biegelsen said.
Biegelsen said the Puerto Rico plant produces most of the over-the-counter drugs sold in the United States by J&J's McNeil consumer healthcare division.
J&J last week declined to comment whether it may be forced to take special charges to account for the mounting number of recalls.
Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters. Click for restrictions.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Today I called 1-866-658-8367 and complained about cigarette smoking and the RJReynolds company. Becky the CSR said she could not speak with me as I was not a smoker. hmmmmmmmmmm there is an article below that I would think gives me the right to be talked to. My parents both smoked when I was growing up and my 2nd husband was a smoker. Read about second hand smoke and female fertility below.
My father died of lung cancer and now, my son smokes as he was brainwashed by his father's family that smoking was cool. I HAVE A RIGHT TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE, eh? If you have a hankering to call the number, please do and do a better job than I did, k? It's time we stand up for people that can't seem to stand up for themselves and I damn well believe this is a good place to start.
On the package of my son's Pall Mall package there is a $1.00 off coupon for Camel SNUS. (Pleaure packed in a pouch cleaner, neater, drama free. Warning: This product can cause gum disease and tooth loss.)
Republicans make secret deals with tobacco
EXCERPT:
Nicole Maschke makes a good point. Although the tobacco companies gave far more money to the Democratic for many years, and although Al Gore and many Democratic got rich on tobacco money, times have changed. People vote with their feet and their pocketbook.
Arthritis drug database nsaids
EXCERPT:
Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints. Doctors combat inflammation in several ways, most commonly with the use of non-steroidal inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) or steroids such as prednisone.
For extreme flare-ups your doctor may give you a shot of prednisone directly into your joint, but this has many side effects.
Non-steroidal anti inflammatory agents also have many side effects, particularly gastrointestinal ones but they are easier to take and are generally well tolerated as long as the patient takes them with food.
What is a Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) ?
As their name implies, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (or NSAIDs, as they are commonly called) are medicines that block or inhibit the body's inflammation process without the use of cortisone or other steroid drugs. The most commonly used NSAID's are aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen.
Rheumatoid arthritis and smoking
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There is a Connection between Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Smoking – what are the Reasons?
Smoking might be a trigger for rheumatoid arthritis.
That smoking is unhealthy really isn’t a secret any more. However, it may be less well known that smoking is especially damaging to patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or people with a genetic predisposition towards this autoimmune disease.
Until a few years ago, a coherent explanation of how smoking triggers the break in immunotolerance and why tobacco smoke promotes the onset of autoimmune disease was still missing. A group of Swedish researchers has found one of the missing links in the pathogenic chain between tobacco smoke and rheumatoid arthritis (Makrygiannakis et al., 2008). The scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm showed that cigarette smoke is directly involved in the development of rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis and tobacco
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In this issue of the Annals, Freemer et al report an association between smoking and dsDNA autoantibody production in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).1 The authors note that exposure to tobacco smoke has previously been associated with several autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and SLE. In RA, cigarette smoking has been associated with rheumatoid factor (RF) positive but not RF negative disease when these two groups of subjects were evaluated separately.2,3,4 Likewise, smoking has been associated with anti‐cyclic citrullinated antibody (anti‐CCP) positive but not anti‐CCP negative RA.5 In affected subjects, exposure to tobacco has also been associated with several measures of disease severity such as the presence of radiographic erosions, nodules, pulmonary disease, RF, and anti‐CCP antibodies.5,6,7,8
Tobacco and vascular disease
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From Apply Now, Former Health Topics A-Z Guide
Tobacco and vascular disease
Tobacco use and exposure may cause an acceleration of coronary artery disease and peptic ulcer disease. It is also linked to reproductive disturbances, esophageal reflux, hypertension, fetal illness and death, and delayed wound healing.
Secondhand smoke affects fertility
Secondhand Smoke Affects Fertility
Living With a Smoker as Damaging to IVF Success as Being a Smoker
WebMD Health NewsMay 25, 2005 -- It's known that smoking can affect a women's fertility, but now a study shows living with a smoker is as damaging as being a smoker.
"Our data demonstrate that the effects of [secondhand smoke] are equally as damaging as [firsthand] smoke on fertility," Michael Neal, PhD, and colleagues write.
Researchers say the effect is so clear they are already warning their patients to avoid exposure to secondhand smoke.
The study appears in the May issue of the journal Human Reproduction.
Smoke Affects Fertility
In the study, 225 women undergoing infertility treatments were asked whether they were nonsmokers, smokers, or living with a partner who smoked regularly. The researchers then compared success rates of the fertility treatments for the three groups.
The women had undergone either in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), an enhanced form of IVF in which a single sperm is injected into the egg.
"Despite similar embryo quality there was a striking difference in implantation and pregnancy rates," they write.
Per embryo transferred:
48% of nonsmokers became pregnant
19% of smokers became pregnant
20% of women living with a smoker became pregnant
The authors note that the study was limited by its reliance on self-reported exposure to secondhand smoke. Although the findings are important, these results will need to be confirmed in another study with more objective measures of cigarette smoke exposure, such as looking at a dose-related effect on fertility, they write.
Despite the need for further study, the researchers say they are already advising patients about the impact of secondhand smoke on fertility. According to researcher Warren Foster, "the findings from our study already warrant a warning to women to reduce or, if possible, prevent exposure to cigarette smoking, especially if they are trying to conceive."
Smokers
Description
An in-depth report on the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of stomach and GI ulcers.
Alternative Names
Duodenal Ulcers; Gastric Ulcers; H. Pylori; Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs, or NSAIDs
Risk Factors
About 25 million American are expected to have peptic ulcers at some point in their lives. Peptic ulcer disease affects all age groups but is rare in children. Men have twice the risk for ulcers as women. The risk for duodenal ulcers tends to rise at around age 25 and continues until age 75; gastric ulcers peak in people between the ages of 55 and 65.
Risk Factors for H. pylori
H. pylori grows and colonizes only in the intestinal tracts of primates and in no other animals. The bacteria is most likely transmitted directly from person to person. Still, little is yet known about its transmission.
Who Harbors H. Pylori? About half of the world's adults are infected with H. pylori. The bacteria, however, are nearly always acquired during childhood and persist throughout life if not treated. The prevalence in children ranges from under 10% to over 80%, depending on where they live. The highest infection rates (3% to 10%) are in developing countries and the lowest (0.5%) are in industrialized nations, where the rates continue to decline. Even within industrialized countries, however, the infection rates in regions that have crowded unsanitary conditions are equal to those in developing countries.
How Does the Bacteria Pass from Person to Person? It is not entirely clear how the bacteria is transmitted. A 2001 Swedish study, for example, did not find that infected students posed any risk for their classmates. Transmission within families may be the most important route for H. pylori. A 2002 study reported that spouses of people with peptic ulcers are at significantly higher risk for ulcers, suggesting that the bacteria may be transmitted from intimate contact. Some evidence suggests that it is transmissible during gastrointestinal tract illness, particularly when vomiting occurs. The bacteria also may be passed in stools. Since H. pylori can live in water, but not apparently in food, then the bacteria may also be spread by sewage-contaminated water.
Who is at Risk for Ulcers from H. Pylori? Although H. pylori infection is very common, ulcers are very rare in children and only a minority of infected adults develops ulcers. Some known risk factors include smoking, being male, and the presence of the cytotoxin-associated gene A (CagA). Experts are unable to determine, however, any single factor or group of factors that could determine which infected patients are most likely to develop ulcers.
Risk Factors for NSAID-Induced Ulcers
Between 15% and 25% of patients who have taken NSAIDs regularly will have evidence of one or more ulcers, but in most cases they are very small. According to a 2000 study, 3. 8% of regular NSAID users develop serious gastrointestinal conditions. Given the widespread use of these drugs, however, the total number of people with serious problems may be considerable. One medical center reported that between 50% and 80% of people who were hospitalized for gastrointestinal problems were taking NSAIDs.
High-Users of NSAIDs. Anyone who uses NSAIDs regularly is at risk for gastrointestinal problems. Even low-dose aspirin (81 mg) used to protect the heart may pose some risk (although lower than standard doses). In one study, over a four-year period, 4.5% of regular uses were hospitalized for GI bleeding. The highest risks, however, are in people who require long-term use of very high doses, notably people who suffer from arthritis, particularly rheumatoid arthritis. Others that have a high intake of NSAIDs, include, but are not limited to, people with chronic low back pain, fibromyalgia, and repetitive stress injuries (such as carpal tunnel syndrome).
Contributing Factors. Certain factors add to the risk for ulcers in NSAID-users. They include the following:
Cancer Network
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A 48% reduction in oral cancer risk was seen in those using NSAIDs daily for at least 5 years, and a 70% reduction in those using NSAIDs for 15 years or more. "Long-term oral NSAID use reduced risk of oral cancer by about 50%, as did smoking cessation," Dr. Sudbø told ONI, noting that 216 persons quit smoking before oral cancer development or last follow-up, and moderate (and not significant) additional effects were seen when smoking cessation and NSAID use were combined in a multivariate analysis.
"The problem was, the 50% reduction in oral cancer incidence did not translate into increased overall survival," he said. "We started mining the database and, to our surprise, found that long-term use—daily for at least 6 months but in this cohort for several years or more—was associated with double the risk of cardiovascular death" (hazard ratio = 2.06).
Among the 263 users of NSAIDs, 42 died of cardiovascular death (about 16%). Among 562 never-users of NSAIDs, 41 died of CV death (about 7%). Yet all were also at risk for CV disease, because they were heavy smokers, Dr. Sudbø said. For example, even in the cohort of 263 NSAID users, "about 20 [8%] would have died of cardiovascular disease regardless of whether they used NSAIDs."
Jon Sudbo wikipedia
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Jon Sudbø (born May 3, 1961) is a dentist and formerly a consultant oncologist and medical researcher at The Radium Hospital in Oslo, Norway. Having earlier been licensed as a dentist and a physician, he earned a doctorate (dr. med) in 2001. Until February 2006 he was an associate Professor at the University of Oslo. A research fabrication scandal surfaced in 2006; as a result of this his license to practice medicine and dentistry were revoked and the faculty board at the faculty of medicine at the University of Oslo decided to revoke his doctorate. [1][2] Recently he gained a limited authorization to work as a dentist, and is currently working in Seljord, Telemark.
Scientific misconduct—is there a need for policing the profession
by Vainio H
At the beginning of January this year, Dr Jon Sudbo, a cancer researcher and chief medical officer at The Norwegian Radium Hospital, was found to have published an article in The Lancet in October 2005 describing work that had not been done (1, 2). The paper claims to be the report of an analysis of several Norwegian health surveys and registries showing that the use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs can reduce the incidence of oral cancer. The material was fabricated. The article was accepted for publication in The Lancet through a fast-track editorial process because the results were particularly striking.
It was not until the end of the year, when the Director of the Division of Epidemiology at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Camilla Stoltenberg, questioned the stated use of data from CONOR, a Norwegian cohort managed by her institute. This query initiated an investigation, as a result of which Jon Sudbo has now admitted that he fabricated the data in the paper. A special committee is investigating whether other articles by Jon Sudbo, including a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine, were also based on fraudulent or fabricated data. One feature that should have alerted at least those involved in the analysis of the data is the fact that 250 of the sample of 908 people in the study were reported to have the same birthday!
Earlier last year, Dr Eric T Poelhman, in the state of Vermont in the United States (US), admitted to scientific misconduct in falsifying and fabricating research data published in numerous articles between 1992 and 2002 in the international scientific literature (3). During this period, Dr Poelhman had also submitted 17 research grant applications to federal agencies in the United States—for millions of dollars—again based on false and fabricated research data. The published results included those of a study showing beneficial effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on various health parameters of postmenopausal women. How many physicians around the globe prescribed HRT to women on the basis of these fabricated results, not to mention the financial burden on the many women who used these drugs for up to decades in the belief that they were beneficial? Given what we know today about the association between the use of HRT and cardiovascular disease and cancer (4–6), publication of this fraudulent study is particularly disturbing.
The researcher Hwang Woo-suk of the Republic of Korea resigned from his university in December 2005 after it was found that he had fabricated the results from stem-cell research, which had raised hopes of new cures for hard-to-treat diseases. According to a panel of researchers at the Seoul National University, Hwang published faked results for at least 11 stem-cell lines that he claimed to have created in a paper published in Science (7).
In many societies, people have grown accustomed to believing that science is to be trusted, that, if something is published in a prestigious high-impact scientific journal like Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, or The Lancet, then it must be true, especially if the list of authors includes leading scientists in the field. The paper by Jon Sudbo et al was signed by 13 co-authors, some from stellar research institutions such as the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, the Cornell University in New York, and Biomedicum Helsinki at the University of Helsinki. In the article in The Lancet, which requires that the contribution of each author be stated, four of the authors (including Jon Sudbo) were listed as having contributed equally to the paper. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, of which The Lancet is a member, has published the following criteria for authorship: “Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for the important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, and 3.” Thus each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content.
With its 13 competent knowledgeable co-authors submitting a paper to a high-impact journal and its able editors, one might wonder how the fabricated study got through the peer review process, which is supposed to prevent the publication of bad science.
The articles by Jon Sudbo, Eric T Poehlman, and Hwang Woo-suk are not the first fraudulent papers to be published, and probably not the last. It is unrealistic to expect a journal to be able to detect fraud consistently, but at least in this case, The Lancet does not appear to have put up as many barriers as they might have. One epidemiologist, Dr Michael Thun at the American Cancer Society, did raise a warning sign. He was asked to write an editorial on the Sudbo study for The Lancet but withdrew it when he was not given time to resolve questions over whether the analysis was correct and properly presented. Finally, however, the Editor in Chief decided that the paper, which appeared to have exceptional findings, should be published rapidly for quick publicity. Did the increasing competition among journals and a desire to raise the impact factor of the journal play a role in this decision?
Any journal can be the victim of fraud. In a bid to reduce the probability of such events, Drummond Rennie, Deputy Editor of JAMA, proposed several years ago that 1 in every 1000 papers submitted undergo a simple editorial audit in which checks would be made on whether the records exist, whether the laboratory tests were done, and what the role of each author was? This sounds like a good idea and could be a step forward. The objection that additional monitoring will discourage scientists from starting research is clearly overridden by the increasing need for policing the profession.
The other aspect that the Sudbo affair brings to light is gift authorship—the practice of conferring authorship as a reward or as a spurious stamp of credibility, rather than as a certificate of responsibility. Many people accept or confer gift authorship, detection is unlikely, and the rewards are obvious: tenure, promotion, research grants, and fame. In the Sudbo case, the contribution of each author was described in the paper, but how was co-authorship attributed if the work was never done? How many of the authors fulfilled the three criteria outlined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors? How many fulfilled only the last: approval of the final version for publication? Nevertheless, there were explanations in The Lancet paper as to why their names were included. Of all the abuses of scientific research, gift authorship is the most common and the most lightly regarded.
The Sudbo affair raises questions concerning research management. Finally, as also stated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “it is not ordinarily the task of editors to conduct a full investigation or to make a determination; that the responsibility lies with the institution where the work was done or with the funding agency”. We must first accept that fraud exists, even in Nordic countries, although its prevalence is unknown. The universal lesson is that institutions are not good at policing themselves, and several countries have set up bodies specifically for this purpose, such as the Office of Research Integrity within the US Department of Health and Human Services. The recent case of scientific misconduct from Norway should be taken seriously by research organizations and institutions, which should implement the necessary precautions. The time has come also for the Nordic countries to abandon the lax approach to scientific fraud.
Key terms letter to the editor; scientific misconduct
Swedish Match SNUS rocked by another scandal
Swedish Match Snus Rocked by ANOTHER Scandal!
Written by Larry Waters
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00
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Swedish Match AB, the largest snus manufacturer in Sweden, is about to get hit with its second scandal in less than 30 days. Most communications from Stockholm have been cut off. SnusCIA Agents in Stockholm and Gothenburg report panic among SMAB executives who are drinking fine alcoholic beverages and passing around a couple boxes of Kardus. Our agents discount their laughing and good spirits to nervous breakdowns. This behavior is quite understandable considering the pounding Swedish Match has taken over the last month.
The First Scandal was revealed on October 25, 2009. The Swedish hard-hitting news show Kalla Fakta on TV4 released an explosive broadcast which proved that Swedish Match snus has nicotine in it!!! Aside from reading the label, Kalla Fakta raided Swedish Match with investigative journalists.....who were given total access, all information requested, an an inordinate amount of Swedish Match's Executives time without even asking for it.
Kalla Fakta's blockbuster conclusion: Swedish Match used a 'secret ingredient', E500, to boost the bio-availability of the nicotine in all Swedish Match snus! Somehow, the fact-checkers at Kalla Fakta missed the fact that E500 (sodium carbonate) is used as acidity regulator in not only Swedish Match snus, but virtually all Swedish Snuses. More shocking was Kalla Fakta missing the fact that E500 has been used by Swedish Snus makers for years and is an approved food additive by the Swedish Government's equivalent of America's FDA.
Harvard researcher, Greg Connolly (an anti-all-tobacco zealot) even lamented in the few portions of the broadcast in English that "this will make it harder/impossible for people to quit using snus!" Wow! I guess my question is "so what"? Swedish snus is at least 98% less harmful to smokers than cigarettes are. Snus, tobacco and nicotine are all legal substances, much safer for smokers than cigarettes, and are completely discreet when used. So Dr. Connolly would rather millions more will die needlessly of smoking related illnesses than use Swedish Snus? I fail to follow the logic, but since he is at Harvard, it must be valid, right?
THE SATANIC BLOODLINES
Introduction
1.1. The Astor Bloodline
2.2. The Bundy Bloodline
3.3. The Collins Bloodline
4.4. The DuPont Bloodline
5.5. The Freeman Bloodline
6.6. The Kennedy Bloodline
7.7. The Li Bloodline
8.8. The Onassis Bloodline
9.9. The Reynolds bloodline
110. The Rockefeller Bloodline
11. The Rothschild Bloodline
12. The Russell Bloodline
13. The Van Duyn Bloodline
My father died of lung cancer and now, my son smokes as he was brainwashed by his father's family that smoking was cool. I HAVE A RIGHT TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE, eh? If you have a hankering to call the number, please do and do a better job than I did, k? It's time we stand up for people that can't seem to stand up for themselves and I damn well believe this is a good place to start.
On the package of my son's Pall Mall package there is a $1.00 off coupon for Camel SNUS. (Pleaure packed in a pouch cleaner, neater, drama free. Warning: This product can cause gum disease and tooth loss.)
Republicans make secret deals with tobacco
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Nicole Maschke makes a good point. Although the tobacco companies gave far more money to the Democratic for many years, and although Al Gore and many Democratic got rich on tobacco money, times have changed. People vote with their feet and their pocketbook.
Arthritis drug database nsaids
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Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints. Doctors combat inflammation in several ways, most commonly with the use of non-steroidal inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) or steroids such as prednisone.
For extreme flare-ups your doctor may give you a shot of prednisone directly into your joint, but this has many side effects.
Non-steroidal anti inflammatory agents also have many side effects, particularly gastrointestinal ones but they are easier to take and are generally well tolerated as long as the patient takes them with food.
What is a Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) ?
As their name implies, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (or NSAIDs, as they are commonly called) are medicines that block or inhibit the body's inflammation process without the use of cortisone or other steroid drugs. The most commonly used NSAID's are aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen.
Rheumatoid arthritis and smoking
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There is a Connection between Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Smoking – what are the Reasons?
Smoking might be a trigger for rheumatoid arthritis.
That smoking is unhealthy really isn’t a secret any more. However, it may be less well known that smoking is especially damaging to patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or people with a genetic predisposition towards this autoimmune disease.
Until a few years ago, a coherent explanation of how smoking triggers the break in immunotolerance and why tobacco smoke promotes the onset of autoimmune disease was still missing. A group of Swedish researchers has found one of the missing links in the pathogenic chain between tobacco smoke and rheumatoid arthritis (Makrygiannakis et al., 2008). The scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm showed that cigarette smoke is directly involved in the development of rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis and tobacco
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In this issue of the Annals, Freemer et al report an association between smoking and dsDNA autoantibody production in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).1 The authors note that exposure to tobacco smoke has previously been associated with several autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and SLE. In RA, cigarette smoking has been associated with rheumatoid factor (RF) positive but not RF negative disease when these two groups of subjects were evaluated separately.2,3,4 Likewise, smoking has been associated with anti‐cyclic citrullinated antibody (anti‐CCP) positive but not anti‐CCP negative RA.5 In affected subjects, exposure to tobacco has also been associated with several measures of disease severity such as the presence of radiographic erosions, nodules, pulmonary disease, RF, and anti‐CCP antibodies.5,6,7,8
Tobacco and vascular disease
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From Apply Now, Former Health Topics A-Z Guide
Tobacco and vascular disease
Tobacco use and exposure may cause an acceleration of coronary artery disease and peptic ulcer disease. It is also linked to reproductive disturbances, esophageal reflux, hypertension, fetal illness and death, and delayed wound healing.
Secondhand smoke affects fertility
Secondhand Smoke Affects Fertility
Living With a Smoker as Damaging to IVF Success as Being a Smoker
WebMD Health NewsMay 25, 2005 -- It's known that smoking can affect a women's fertility, but now a study shows living with a smoker is as damaging as being a smoker.
"Our data demonstrate that the effects of [secondhand smoke] are equally as damaging as [firsthand] smoke on fertility," Michael Neal, PhD, and colleagues write.
Researchers say the effect is so clear they are already warning their patients to avoid exposure to secondhand smoke.
The study appears in the May issue of the journal Human Reproduction.
Smoke Affects Fertility
In the study, 225 women undergoing infertility treatments were asked whether they were nonsmokers, smokers, or living with a partner who smoked regularly. The researchers then compared success rates of the fertility treatments for the three groups.
The women had undergone either in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), an enhanced form of IVF in which a single sperm is injected into the egg.
"Despite similar embryo quality there was a striking difference in implantation and pregnancy rates," they write.
Per embryo transferred:
48% of nonsmokers became pregnant
19% of smokers became pregnant
20% of women living with a smoker became pregnant
The authors note that the study was limited by its reliance on self-reported exposure to secondhand smoke. Although the findings are important, these results will need to be confirmed in another study with more objective measures of cigarette smoke exposure, such as looking at a dose-related effect on fertility, they write.
Despite the need for further study, the researchers say they are already advising patients about the impact of secondhand smoke on fertility. According to researcher Warren Foster, "the findings from our study already warrant a warning to women to reduce or, if possible, prevent exposure to cigarette smoking, especially if they are trying to conceive."
Smokers
Description
An in-depth report on the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of stomach and GI ulcers.
Alternative Names
Duodenal Ulcers; Gastric Ulcers; H. Pylori; Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs, or NSAIDs
Risk Factors
About 25 million American are expected to have peptic ulcers at some point in their lives. Peptic ulcer disease affects all age groups but is rare in children. Men have twice the risk for ulcers as women. The risk for duodenal ulcers tends to rise at around age 25 and continues until age 75; gastric ulcers peak in people between the ages of 55 and 65.
Risk Factors for H. pylori
H. pylori grows and colonizes only in the intestinal tracts of primates and in no other animals. The bacteria is most likely transmitted directly from person to person. Still, little is yet known about its transmission.
Who Harbors H. Pylori? About half of the world's adults are infected with H. pylori. The bacteria, however, are nearly always acquired during childhood and persist throughout life if not treated. The prevalence in children ranges from under 10% to over 80%, depending on where they live. The highest infection rates (3% to 10%) are in developing countries and the lowest (0.5%) are in industrialized nations, where the rates continue to decline. Even within industrialized countries, however, the infection rates in regions that have crowded unsanitary conditions are equal to those in developing countries.
How Does the Bacteria Pass from Person to Person? It is not entirely clear how the bacteria is transmitted. A 2001 Swedish study, for example, did not find that infected students posed any risk for their classmates. Transmission within families may be the most important route for H. pylori. A 2002 study reported that spouses of people with peptic ulcers are at significantly higher risk for ulcers, suggesting that the bacteria may be transmitted from intimate contact. Some evidence suggests that it is transmissible during gastrointestinal tract illness, particularly when vomiting occurs. The bacteria also may be passed in stools. Since H. pylori can live in water, but not apparently in food, then the bacteria may also be spread by sewage-contaminated water.
Who is at Risk for Ulcers from H. Pylori? Although H. pylori infection is very common, ulcers are very rare in children and only a minority of infected adults develops ulcers. Some known risk factors include smoking, being male, and the presence of the cytotoxin-associated gene A (CagA). Experts are unable to determine, however, any single factor or group of factors that could determine which infected patients are most likely to develop ulcers.
Risk Factors for NSAID-Induced Ulcers
Between 15% and 25% of patients who have taken NSAIDs regularly will have evidence of one or more ulcers, but in most cases they are very small. According to a 2000 study, 3. 8% of regular NSAID users develop serious gastrointestinal conditions. Given the widespread use of these drugs, however, the total number of people with serious problems may be considerable. One medical center reported that between 50% and 80% of people who were hospitalized for gastrointestinal problems were taking NSAIDs.
High-Users of NSAIDs. Anyone who uses NSAIDs regularly is at risk for gastrointestinal problems. Even low-dose aspirin (81 mg) used to protect the heart may pose some risk (although lower than standard doses). In one study, over a four-year period, 4.5% of regular uses were hospitalized for GI bleeding. The highest risks, however, are in people who require long-term use of very high doses, notably people who suffer from arthritis, particularly rheumatoid arthritis. Others that have a high intake of NSAIDs, include, but are not limited to, people with chronic low back pain, fibromyalgia, and repetitive stress injuries (such as carpal tunnel syndrome).
Contributing Factors. Certain factors add to the risk for ulcers in NSAID-users. They include the following:
Cancer Network
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A 48% reduction in oral cancer risk was seen in those using NSAIDs daily for at least 5 years, and a 70% reduction in those using NSAIDs for 15 years or more. "Long-term oral NSAID use reduced risk of oral cancer by about 50%, as did smoking cessation," Dr. Sudbø told ONI, noting that 216 persons quit smoking before oral cancer development or last follow-up, and moderate (and not significant) additional effects were seen when smoking cessation and NSAID use were combined in a multivariate analysis.
"The problem was, the 50% reduction in oral cancer incidence did not translate into increased overall survival," he said. "We started mining the database and, to our surprise, found that long-term use—daily for at least 6 months but in this cohort for several years or more—was associated with double the risk of cardiovascular death" (hazard ratio = 2.06).
Among the 263 users of NSAIDs, 42 died of cardiovascular death (about 16%). Among 562 never-users of NSAIDs, 41 died of CV death (about 7%). Yet all were also at risk for CV disease, because they were heavy smokers, Dr. Sudbø said. For example, even in the cohort of 263 NSAID users, "about 20 [8%] would have died of cardiovascular disease regardless of whether they used NSAIDs."
Jon Sudbo wikipedia
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Jon Sudbø (born May 3, 1961) is a dentist and formerly a consultant oncologist and medical researcher at The Radium Hospital in Oslo, Norway. Having earlier been licensed as a dentist and a physician, he earned a doctorate (dr. med) in 2001. Until February 2006 he was an associate Professor at the University of Oslo. A research fabrication scandal surfaced in 2006; as a result of this his license to practice medicine and dentistry were revoked and the faculty board at the faculty of medicine at the University of Oslo decided to revoke his doctorate. [1][2] Recently he gained a limited authorization to work as a dentist, and is currently working in Seljord, Telemark.
Scientific misconduct—is there a need for policing the profession
by Vainio H
At the beginning of January this year, Dr Jon Sudbo, a cancer researcher and chief medical officer at The Norwegian Radium Hospital, was found to have published an article in The Lancet in October 2005 describing work that had not been done (1, 2). The paper claims to be the report of an analysis of several Norwegian health surveys and registries showing that the use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs can reduce the incidence of oral cancer. The material was fabricated. The article was accepted for publication in The Lancet through a fast-track editorial process because the results were particularly striking.
It was not until the end of the year, when the Director of the Division of Epidemiology at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Camilla Stoltenberg, questioned the stated use of data from CONOR, a Norwegian cohort managed by her institute. This query initiated an investigation, as a result of which Jon Sudbo has now admitted that he fabricated the data in the paper. A special committee is investigating whether other articles by Jon Sudbo, including a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine, were also based on fraudulent or fabricated data. One feature that should have alerted at least those involved in the analysis of the data is the fact that 250 of the sample of 908 people in the study were reported to have the same birthday!
Earlier last year, Dr Eric T Poelhman, in the state of Vermont in the United States (US), admitted to scientific misconduct in falsifying and fabricating research data published in numerous articles between 1992 and 2002 in the international scientific literature (3). During this period, Dr Poelhman had also submitted 17 research grant applications to federal agencies in the United States—for millions of dollars—again based on false and fabricated research data. The published results included those of a study showing beneficial effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on various health parameters of postmenopausal women. How many physicians around the globe prescribed HRT to women on the basis of these fabricated results, not to mention the financial burden on the many women who used these drugs for up to decades in the belief that they were beneficial? Given what we know today about the association between the use of HRT and cardiovascular disease and cancer (4–6), publication of this fraudulent study is particularly disturbing.
The researcher Hwang Woo-suk of the Republic of Korea resigned from his university in December 2005 after it was found that he had fabricated the results from stem-cell research, which had raised hopes of new cures for hard-to-treat diseases. According to a panel of researchers at the Seoul National University, Hwang published faked results for at least 11 stem-cell lines that he claimed to have created in a paper published in Science (7).
In many societies, people have grown accustomed to believing that science is to be trusted, that, if something is published in a prestigious high-impact scientific journal like Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, or The Lancet, then it must be true, especially if the list of authors includes leading scientists in the field. The paper by Jon Sudbo et al was signed by 13 co-authors, some from stellar research institutions such as the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, the Cornell University in New York, and Biomedicum Helsinki at the University of Helsinki. In the article in The Lancet, which requires that the contribution of each author be stated, four of the authors (including Jon Sudbo) were listed as having contributed equally to the paper. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, of which The Lancet is a member, has published the following criteria for authorship: “Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for the important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, and 3.” Thus each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content.
With its 13 competent knowledgeable co-authors submitting a paper to a high-impact journal and its able editors, one might wonder how the fabricated study got through the peer review process, which is supposed to prevent the publication of bad science.
The articles by Jon Sudbo, Eric T Poehlman, and Hwang Woo-suk are not the first fraudulent papers to be published, and probably not the last. It is unrealistic to expect a journal to be able to detect fraud consistently, but at least in this case, The Lancet does not appear to have put up as many barriers as they might have. One epidemiologist, Dr Michael Thun at the American Cancer Society, did raise a warning sign. He was asked to write an editorial on the Sudbo study for The Lancet but withdrew it when he was not given time to resolve questions over whether the analysis was correct and properly presented. Finally, however, the Editor in Chief decided that the paper, which appeared to have exceptional findings, should be published rapidly for quick publicity. Did the increasing competition among journals and a desire to raise the impact factor of the journal play a role in this decision?
Any journal can be the victim of fraud. In a bid to reduce the probability of such events, Drummond Rennie, Deputy Editor of JAMA, proposed several years ago that 1 in every 1000 papers submitted undergo a simple editorial audit in which checks would be made on whether the records exist, whether the laboratory tests were done, and what the role of each author was? This sounds like a good idea and could be a step forward. The objection that additional monitoring will discourage scientists from starting research is clearly overridden by the increasing need for policing the profession.
The other aspect that the Sudbo affair brings to light is gift authorship—the practice of conferring authorship as a reward or as a spurious stamp of credibility, rather than as a certificate of responsibility. Many people accept or confer gift authorship, detection is unlikely, and the rewards are obvious: tenure, promotion, research grants, and fame. In the Sudbo case, the contribution of each author was described in the paper, but how was co-authorship attributed if the work was never done? How many of the authors fulfilled the three criteria outlined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors? How many fulfilled only the last: approval of the final version for publication? Nevertheless, there were explanations in The Lancet paper as to why their names were included. Of all the abuses of scientific research, gift authorship is the most common and the most lightly regarded.
The Sudbo affair raises questions concerning research management. Finally, as also stated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “it is not ordinarily the task of editors to conduct a full investigation or to make a determination; that the responsibility lies with the institution where the work was done or with the funding agency”. We must first accept that fraud exists, even in Nordic countries, although its prevalence is unknown. The universal lesson is that institutions are not good at policing themselves, and several countries have set up bodies specifically for this purpose, such as the Office of Research Integrity within the US Department of Health and Human Services. The recent case of scientific misconduct from Norway should be taken seriously by research organizations and institutions, which should implement the necessary precautions. The time has come also for the Nordic countries to abandon the lax approach to scientific fraud.
Key terms letter to the editor; scientific misconduct
Swedish Match SNUS rocked by another scandal
Swedish Match Snus Rocked by ANOTHER Scandal!
Written by Larry Waters
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 00:00
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Swedish Match AB, the largest snus manufacturer in Sweden, is about to get hit with its second scandal in less than 30 days. Most communications from Stockholm have been cut off. SnusCIA Agents in Stockholm and Gothenburg report panic among SMAB executives who are drinking fine alcoholic beverages and passing around a couple boxes of Kardus. Our agents discount their laughing and good spirits to nervous breakdowns. This behavior is quite understandable considering the pounding Swedish Match has taken over the last month.
The First Scandal was revealed on October 25, 2009. The Swedish hard-hitting news show Kalla Fakta on TV4 released an explosive broadcast which proved that Swedish Match snus has nicotine in it!!! Aside from reading the label, Kalla Fakta raided Swedish Match with investigative journalists.....who were given total access, all information requested, an an inordinate amount of Swedish Match's Executives time without even asking for it.
Kalla Fakta's blockbuster conclusion: Swedish Match used a 'secret ingredient', E500, to boost the bio-availability of the nicotine in all Swedish Match snus! Somehow, the fact-checkers at Kalla Fakta missed the fact that E500 (sodium carbonate) is used as acidity regulator in not only Swedish Match snus, but virtually all Swedish Snuses. More shocking was Kalla Fakta missing the fact that E500 has been used by Swedish Snus makers for years and is an approved food additive by the Swedish Government's equivalent of America's FDA.
Harvard researcher, Greg Connolly (an anti-all-tobacco zealot) even lamented in the few portions of the broadcast in English that "this will make it harder/impossible for people to quit using snus!" Wow! I guess my question is "so what"? Swedish snus is at least 98% less harmful to smokers than cigarettes are. Snus, tobacco and nicotine are all legal substances, much safer for smokers than cigarettes, and are completely discreet when used. So Dr. Connolly would rather millions more will die needlessly of smoking related illnesses than use Swedish Snus? I fail to follow the logic, but since he is at Harvard, it must be valid, right?
THE SATANIC BLOODLINES
Introduction
1.1. The Astor Bloodline
2.2. The Bundy Bloodline
3.3. The Collins Bloodline
4.4. The DuPont Bloodline
5.5. The Freeman Bloodline
6.6. The Kennedy Bloodline
7.7. The Li Bloodline
8.8. The Onassis Bloodline
9.9. The Reynolds bloodline
110. The Rockefeller Bloodline
11. The Rothschild Bloodline
12. The Russell Bloodline
13. The Van Duyn Bloodline
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Genetic engineering and Monsanto, Dow and Dupont
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Today Pillsbury food products are made from genetically-engineered crops. Other foods that are now genetically engineered include Crisco; Kraft salad dressings; Nestle's chocolate; Green Giant harvest burgers; Parkay margarine; Isomil and ProSobee infant formulas; and Wesson vegetable oils. Fritos, Doritos, Tostitos and Ruffles Chips -- and french fried potatoes sold by McDonald's -- are genetically engineered.[1,pg.92]
By next year, if Monsanto's plans develop on schedule -- and there is no reason to think they won't -- 100% of the U.S. soybean crop will be genetically engineered. Eighty percent of all the vegetable oils in American foods are derived from soy beans, so most foods that contain vegetable oils will contain genetically engineered components by next year or the year after.[1,pg.52]
It is safe to say that never before in the history of the world has such a rapid and large-scale revolution occurred in a nation's food supply. And not just the U.S. is targeted for change. The genetic engineering companies (all of whom used to be chemical companies) -- Dow, DuPont, Novartis, and preeminently, Monsanto -- are aggressively promoting their genetically engineered seeds in Europe, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, India, China and elsewhere. Huge opposition has developed to Monsanto's technology everywhere it has been introduced outside the United States. Only in the U.S. has the "agbiotech" revolution been greeted with a dazed silence.
GE Privatization Seeds
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INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE II: THE NEW BIOREVOLUTION
The same companies that promoted chemical-based agriculture are now bringing the world genetically engineered food and agriculture. Some of the leading pesticide companies of yesterday have become what today are euphemistically called "life sciences companies" - Aventis, Novartis, Syngenta, Monsanto, DuPont, and others. Through genetic engineering, these companies are now converting seeds into product-delivery systems. The crops produced by Monsanto's Roundup-Ready brand seeds, for example, tolerate only the company's Roundup brand herbicide.
How monoculture is like triple a cdos
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Big agriculture companies like DuPont and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), of course, have an answer to this problem: genetically engineered crops that are resistant to disease. But that answer is the agricultural equivalent of creating triple-A-rated mortgage bonds, fabricated precisely to prevent the problem of credit risk. It doesn’t make the problem go away: It just makes the problem rarer and much more dangerous when it does occur because no one is — or even can be — prepared for such a high-impact, low-probability event.
DuPont satanic bloodline
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This article starts out with this anecdote to make a point--the 13 top families do control the press--and are very sensitive to any negative publicity of any kind. Not only are their Satanic activities deeply hidden, but even just the normal everyday sinfulness or human soap box drama of their lives is deeply hidden. By the way, Coleman duPont, an extremely hedonistic man, is one of the duPonts I strongly suspect was into Satanism. Further secrecy has been obtained by working through trusted proxies. Today, a key proxy is the jew Irving Saul Shapiro. The du Pont family is represented in a number of groups by Irving Saul Shapiro, who is on the Council of Foreign Relations. Irving S. Shapiro is a key person who has been the go-between to coordinate the activities of the Rockefellers, the du Ponts, and the Watson families (Watson family members who are 6° Illuminati are mentioned in the 1/1/93 newsletter. Shapiro was a member of Carter’s Advisory Council on Japan-US. Economic Relations, is a trustee of the University of Delaware, director of the Jewish Federation of Delaware, director of IBM (which is a Watson-Rockefeller business), director of Citicorp (Rothschilds and Rockefellers--headed in the past by 6° Illuminatus, CFR member, Bilderberger Walter Wristen), and the U.S./U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council (which Rockefeller plays a big part of). Shapiro is or was director of Continental American Insurance Co., International Business Machines (under IBM). Irving Saul Shapiro was chairman of the du Pont company.
BEGINNING AT THE BEGINNING
The biographies of the du Pont family usually begin with the marriage of Samuel du Pont to Anne Alexandrine Montechanin in 1737 in Paris, France. Although Anne was a Huguenot, she was a medium with the spirit world. Anne came from an ancient noble family that lived in Burgandy, France. It is quite possible that it was Anne’s bloodline that gave the Du ponts their occult power. Anne’s bloodline may possibly tie in to the House of David. At any rate, Samuel and Anne’s son was the first du Pont to rise to greatness, and the first du Pont that can be connected directly to the Illuminati.
American supporters of Europe
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As a result, these firms retained the economic and political power to affect the shape of governmental relations both within and between these nations in a manner which maximized corporate global profits. In short, they were private governments unaccountable to the citizens of any country yet possessing tremendous
Irving S. Shapiro wikipedia
Irving Saul Shapiro (July 15, 1916, Minnesota - September 13, 2001) was an American businessman. He is best known for being the chairman and CEO of DuPont (December 1973-1981)
He was born as a son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family.
Virgil Effinger wikipedia
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Born in Newark, Ohio, Effinger served with the United States Army during the Spanish–American War.[1] Settling in Lima, Ohio after his military service, Effinger worked as a salesman in the town.[2] A strong racist, anti-Semite and anti-Catholic, he joined the Ku Klux Klan and attained the rank of Grand Titan within the movement.[3]
[edit] Black Legion
Effinger took control of the Black Legion, a group within the local Klan, in 1931 and saw in it the basis for a network of militia cells.[2] He soon advocated a revolution with the Legion seizing power in Washington D.C. and installing him as dictator.[2] Effinger underlined his intetions when he described his movement as "a guerilla army designed to fight the Republican and Democratic parties".[4] Such was his fanaticism that he even rewrote American history by claiming that the Legion dated back to the Boston Tea Party.[2]
Under Effinger's leadership the Legion grew during the early 1930s and was linked to a handful of racist murders as well as arson and bomb attacks on communist bookshops.[5] The murder of Catholic Charles Poole by Legion member Major Dayton Dean and some followers in 1936 proved the Legion's undoing as the police pursued Poole's killers as he was white and not involved in labor organizations, with the crimes against non-whites and labor activists often ignored by right-wing small-town police at the time.[6]
[edit] Later years
Effinger escaped capture and attempted to organise a successor movement, the Patriotic Legion of America in 1938, this time admitting Catholics.[6] However the new group proved a failure and Effinger disappeared into obscurity.[1] He died in a psychiatric hospital in Toledo, Ohio in 1955, denying any involvement in the Black Legion until his dying day.[1]
Black Legion (political movement) wikipedia
The Black Legion was an organization that splintered from the Ku Klux Klan and operated in the United States in the 1930s. The organization was founded by William Shepard in east central Ohio.[1] The group's total membership, estimated between 20,000 and 30,000, was centered in Detroit, Michigan, though the Legion was also highly active in Ohio and one of its self-described leaders, Virgil "Bert" Effinger, lived and worked in Lima, Ohio.
The Associated Press described the organization on May 31, 1936, "as a group of loosely federated night-riding bands operating in several States without central discipline or common purpose beyond the enforcement by lash and pistol of individual leaders' notions of 'Americanism.'" The death of Charles Poole, kidnapped and murdered in southwest Detroit, caused authorities to finally arrest and successfully try and convict a group of twelve men, thereby ending the reign of the Black Legion.
The Black Legion was organized along paramilitary lines and had five brigades, 16 regiments, 64 battalions, and 256 companies. Although its members boasted that there were one million legionnaires in Michigan, it probably had only between 20,000 and 30,000 members in the state in the 1930s, one third of whom lived in Detroit.
Members wore black uniforms with skull and crossbones insignia and were allegedly responsible for numerous murders of alleged communists and socialists, notably Earl Little, Malcolm X's father.
[edit] In media
A film based on the movement called Black Legion was released in 1937 by Warner Brothers and starred Humphrey Bogart.
The April 1, 1937 episode of True Detective Mysteries, a radio show based on the magazine of the same title, was based directly on the Black Legion and the murder of Poole.
The March 20, 1938, episode of the radio show The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role, was entitled "The White Legion"; it was based loosely on the Black Legion movement.
Archer Daniels Midland: A Case Study In Corporate Welfare
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by James Bovard
James Bovard is an associate policy analyst with the Cato Institute. His most recent book is Shakedown: How the Government Screws You from A to Z (Viking, 1995).
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Executive Summary
The Archer Daniels Midland Corporation (ADM) has been the most prominent recipient of corporate welfare in recent U.S. history. ADM and its chairman Dwayne Andreas have lavishly fertilized both political parties with millions of dollars in handouts and in return have reaped billion-dollar windfalls from taxpayers and consumers. Thanks to federal protection of the domestic sugar industry, ethanol subsidies, subsidized grain exports, and various other programs, ADM has cost the American economy billions of dollars since 1980 and has indirectly cost Americans tens of billions of dollars in higher prices and higher taxes over that same period. At least 43 percent of ADM's annual profits are from products heavily subsidized or protected by the American government. Moreover, every $1 of profits earned by ADM's corn sweetener operation costs consumers $10, and every $1 of profits earned by its ethanol operation costs taxpayers $30
One of the most politically charged debates in Washington revolves around business subsidies known as "corporate welfare." A number of policy organizations have published studies examining the corporate welfare phenomenon: what qualifies as corporate welfare, how much it costs taxpayers, and how much it damages the economy. This study examines the dynamics of corporate welfare somewhat differently by investigating ADM as a classic case study of how those subsidies are obtained, how the welfare state encourages such "rent seeking," and how such practices fundamentally corrupt the political life of a nation. Congress's expressed desire to foster a free marketplace cannot be taken seriously until ADM's corporate hand is removed from the federal till.
Bloodlines of the Illumaniti
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4. The DuPonts
A DYNASTY OF SATANIC ROYALTY
THE COMPLETE FACTS ARE DIFFICULT TO DISCOVER
BEGINNING AT THE BEGINNING
THE NEXT GENERATION
THE JACOBINS
A POWDERMAN BECOMES DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL BANK
EARLY YEARS IN AMERICA
A ROYAL DYNASTY
THE NEXT GENERATION--Pierre Samuel’s grandchildren
HITTING PAY DIRT Society of the Cincinnati. The Order of the Garter
THE THREE COUSINS THAT SAVED THE DUPONT COMPANY IN 1902
THE DUPONT COMPANY USED AS A TOOL TO BRING US INTO THE NEW ORDER
REVIEW OF SOURCES
CHECK THIS OUT.
A Dynasty of Satanic Royalty
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A DYNASTY OF SATANIC ROYALTY
Sitting down to write about the du Pont.s reminded me of two other families. Recently, John Coleman, a researcher on the elite, commented to me that when he had researched the Queen of Denmark he had discovered that the royal Danish family was slipping away secretly from everyone and they were going to Satanic rituals. It is also noteworthy that 5 modern kings of Denmark have been the leaders of Freemasonry in Denmark, and the Danish royal family, princes etc. have been active Masons.
John Dale wrote a book The Prince and The Paranormal which goes into the secret occult activities of the British royal family, especially Prince Charles, but also many other royal family members too. Besides the secret occult activities of the British Monarch, they have been openly leaders of Freemasonry ( see the Appendix of Be Wise As Serpents for a detailed chart on this.) The du Ponts are similar to these families in that they too are a dynasty, they too have a very public image, and they too have a totally hidden life. In fact, the du Ponts have better control over the press’s coverage of them than the British Royal Family.
One of the clues that the family is a top Satanic family are the frequency of marriages between relatives of the du Pont descendants. Few people are aware of the immense importance bloodlines play in the upper levels of Satanism. Blood is believed to carry the occult power. Unless a person has the correct blood he or she will not rise to the highest levels of Satanism. The du Ponts have intermarried with the Balls and the Gardners. These other families are known to be involved with the Illuminati and Satanism. For instance George W. Ball is on the important permanent steering committee of the Bilderbergers and has attended the Bilderberger meetings that I know of starting with the original first meeting in 1954, plus in 1955, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1975. George W. Ball is also a member of CFR and the Trilateral Commission. Eliza Cazenove (Gardner was a sister to a du Pont. I)orsey Cazenove (Gardner was a distant cousin. Will Gardner and Bessie Gardner duPont were cousins of the duPonts. John W. Gardner is a 60 Illuminatus and in charge of the Rockefeller Bros. Fund. I have found the Gardners in the thick of Satanism and witchcraft.
influence over the course of war and peace in the world.
Union Carbide partnerships
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1984 In December, a gas leak at a plant in Bhopal, India, caused by an act of sabotage, results in tragic loss of life. (http://www.unioncarbide.com/bhopal)
1985 GAF Corporation announces bid to takeover Union Carbide Corporation.
1986 GAF halts takeover bid in response to Union Carbide's defense, which includes plans to make major divestitures.
Union Carbide divests a number of businesses: films packaging, major portions of metals business, battery products, specialty polymers and composites, home and automotive products and agricultural products business.
Union Carbide purchases Amerchol Corporation from CPC International.
1988 Allied-Signal and Union Carbide complete the formation of UOP joint venture. UOP provides process technology, catalysts and adsorbents to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, gas-processing and energy industries.
1989 Carbon products and industrial gases businesses become subsidiaries on Jan. 1st. Carbon products business is renamed UCAR Carbon Company and industrial gas business is named Union Carbide Industrial Gases Inc. On July 1st Union Carbide Corporation becomes a holding company, owning these two subsidiaries plus Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company, Inc.
1990 Urethane polyether polyols and propylene glycol business is sold to Arco Chemcial Co.
UCC purchases Triton surfactant and alkylphenol business from Rohm & Haas.
1991 Mitsubishi Corporation buys 50% stake in UCAR Carbon; UCAR Carbon later becomes a publicly traded independent company.
1992 Union Carbide Industrial Gases is spun-off as an independent company. Its name changes to Praxair, Inc.
1993 OrganoSilicon Products business is sold to DLJ Merchant Banking Partners L.P. and affiliates of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc.
1994 Alberta & Orient Glycol Company Ltd. opens a 660,000 lbs. per year ethylene glycol plant at Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Alberta & Orient Glycol is a joint venture between Union Carbide (50%), Far Eastern Textile Ltd. (25%) and Mitsui & Company Ltd. (25%).
Sale of Union Carbide's 50.9% interest in Union Carbide India Limited to McLeod Russel is completed.
1995 UCC acquires ethylene oxide and derivatives businesses, including facilities in the United Kingdom, from ICI.
Union Carbide becomes a partner in Polimeri Europa S.r.l., a 50-50 ethylene/polyethylene joint venture between Union Carbide and EniChem S.p.A.. It will produce polyethylene for the European market.
Union Carbide forms Asian Acetyls Company, Ltd. a joint venture in Korea with BP Chemicals and Samsung Fine Chemicals Company to manufacture vinyl acetate monomer.
Union Carbide and two partners (Petrochemical Industries Company and Boubyan Petrochemical, both of Kuwait) form Equate Petrochemical Company. The new firm will build and operate a petrochemicals complex in Kuwait; products include ethylene, polyethylene and ethylene glycol.
1996 Purchase of the polypropylene assets and business of Shell Oil Company is completed.
Plans for Union Carbide and Nova Corporation to build a 2.8-billion pound ethylene plant in Alberta, Canada are announced. Union Carbide will build a Unipol Process polyethylene plant to consume its half of the output.
1997 Union Carbide and Exxon Chemical Company launch a joint venture, Univation Technologies, for the licensing of polyethylene technology and for research, development and commercialization of metallocene and other advanced catalysts for the production of polyethylene. The venture is also the licensing agent for Union Carbide's UNIPOL Process technology for polypropylene.
1998 UCC and Petronas (the national oil company of Malaysia) form a joint venture to build a new petrochemical complex in Malaysia. The planned complex will include an olefins cracker and have facilities for production of ethylene oxide and its derivatives and oxo alcohols and oxo derivatives, primarily serving solvents and intermediates end-uses.
1999 On August 4th, Union Carbide and The Dow Chemical Company announce that their boards of directors have approved an $11.6 billion transaction which would result in Union Carbide becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company.
2001 On February 6th, Union Carbide Corporation became a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company.
Union Carbide and BP
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Release date: 07 February 2001
BP announced today that it will offer new polyethylene production technology for licence worldwide, combining metallocene catalysts with its INNOVENE gas phase polyethylene process for the first time. The proven technology offers high performance linear low density polyethylenes (LLDPEs) free from the processing difficulties associated with existing metallocene-catalysed polyethylene.
Today's announcement follows agreement between BP and The Dow Chemical Company and between BP and Univation Technologies, LLC, the ExxonMobil/Union Carbide joint venture, regarding earlier metallocene catalyst research. The agreement represents a final resolution of the issues arising from BP and Dow's collaboration on metallocene catalyst technology and is part of a wider deal under which BP will acquire Dow's interest in the technology developed jointly by the two companies. BP will now have the right to develop and license constrained geometry metallocene catalyst technology for gas phase polyethylene processes.
BP and Dow had been collaborating to develop catalysts based on Dow's INSITE metallocene technology for use with BP's INNOVENE gas phase polyethylene process since 1995, but the active collaboration ended in 1999 when Dow announced plans to merge with Union Carbide, leaving BP to pursue the development alone.
Univation Tech LLC
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Univation Technologies, LLC
Univation is a joint venture that is the leading technology licensor to the polyethylene (PE) industry. Univation Technologies licenses its UNIPOL™ PE process technology to companies worldwide. Univation is also the world's largest supplier of catalysts for polyethylene production.
Nearly 25 percent of the world's polyethylene is produced using UNIPOL™ technology. The UNIPOL™ technology allows polyethylene to be produced in a wide range of densities, melt indices and molecular weight distributions for applications including packaging films, hose and tubing, pipes, bottles and containers. The process is safe, environmentally friendly, adaptable and cost effective compared to competing processes.
Formed
1997
Ownership
•ExxonMobil Chemical Company - 50%
•The Dow Chemical Company - 50%
Headquarters Location
Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
Technology Centers
•Baytown, Texas
•Bound Brook, New Jersey
•South Charleston, West Virginia
Catalyst Production Locations
•Baytown, Texas
•Seadrift, Texas
Products and Services
•Process technology, catalysts
THE SATANIC BLOODLINES
Introduction
1.1. The Astor Bloodline
2.2. The Bundy Bloodline
3.3. The Collins Bloodline
4.4. The DuPont Bloodline
5.5. The Freeman Bloodline
6.6. The Kennedy Bloodline
7 7. The Li Bloodline
8.8. The Onassis Bloodline
9.9. The Reynolds bloodline
110. The Rockefeller Bloodline
11. The Rothschild Bloodline
12. The Russell Bloodline
13. The Van Duyn Bloodline
Merovingian European Royal Families
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Interconnected families:
The Disney Bloodline
The Krupp Bloodline
The McDonald Bloodline
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Today Pillsbury food products are made from genetically-engineered crops. Other foods that are now genetically engineered include Crisco; Kraft salad dressings; Nestle's chocolate; Green Giant harvest burgers; Parkay margarine; Isomil and ProSobee infant formulas; and Wesson vegetable oils. Fritos, Doritos, Tostitos and Ruffles Chips -- and french fried potatoes sold by McDonald's -- are genetically engineered.[1,pg.92]
By next year, if Monsanto's plans develop on schedule -- and there is no reason to think they won't -- 100% of the U.S. soybean crop will be genetically engineered. Eighty percent of all the vegetable oils in American foods are derived from soy beans, so most foods that contain vegetable oils will contain genetically engineered components by next year or the year after.[1,pg.52]
It is safe to say that never before in the history of the world has such a rapid and large-scale revolution occurred in a nation's food supply. And not just the U.S. is targeted for change. The genetic engineering companies (all of whom used to be chemical companies) -- Dow, DuPont, Novartis, and preeminently, Monsanto -- are aggressively promoting their genetically engineered seeds in Europe, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, India, China and elsewhere. Huge opposition has developed to Monsanto's technology everywhere it has been introduced outside the United States. Only in the U.S. has the "agbiotech" revolution been greeted with a dazed silence.
GE Privatization Seeds
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INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE II: THE NEW BIOREVOLUTION
The same companies that promoted chemical-based agriculture are now bringing the world genetically engineered food and agriculture. Some of the leading pesticide companies of yesterday have become what today are euphemistically called "life sciences companies" - Aventis, Novartis, Syngenta, Monsanto, DuPont, and others. Through genetic engineering, these companies are now converting seeds into product-delivery systems. The crops produced by Monsanto's Roundup-Ready brand seeds, for example, tolerate only the company's Roundup brand herbicide.
How monoculture is like triple a cdos
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Big agriculture companies like DuPont and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), of course, have an answer to this problem: genetically engineered crops that are resistant to disease. But that answer is the agricultural equivalent of creating triple-A-rated mortgage bonds, fabricated precisely to prevent the problem of credit risk. It doesn’t make the problem go away: It just makes the problem rarer and much more dangerous when it does occur because no one is — or even can be — prepared for such a high-impact, low-probability event.
DuPont satanic bloodline
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This article starts out with this anecdote to make a point--the 13 top families do control the press--and are very sensitive to any negative publicity of any kind. Not only are their Satanic activities deeply hidden, but even just the normal everyday sinfulness or human soap box drama of their lives is deeply hidden. By the way, Coleman duPont, an extremely hedonistic man, is one of the duPonts I strongly suspect was into Satanism. Further secrecy has been obtained by working through trusted proxies. Today, a key proxy is the jew Irving Saul Shapiro. The du Pont family is represented in a number of groups by Irving Saul Shapiro, who is on the Council of Foreign Relations. Irving S. Shapiro is a key person who has been the go-between to coordinate the activities of the Rockefellers, the du Ponts, and the Watson families (Watson family members who are 6° Illuminati are mentioned in the 1/1/93 newsletter. Shapiro was a member of Carter’s Advisory Council on Japan-US. Economic Relations, is a trustee of the University of Delaware, director of the Jewish Federation of Delaware, director of IBM (which is a Watson-Rockefeller business), director of Citicorp (Rothschilds and Rockefellers--headed in the past by 6° Illuminatus, CFR member, Bilderberger Walter Wristen), and the U.S./U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council (which Rockefeller plays a big part of). Shapiro is or was director of Continental American Insurance Co., International Business Machines (under IBM). Irving Saul Shapiro was chairman of the du Pont company.
BEGINNING AT THE BEGINNING
The biographies of the du Pont family usually begin with the marriage of Samuel du Pont to Anne Alexandrine Montechanin in 1737 in Paris, France. Although Anne was a Huguenot, she was a medium with the spirit world. Anne came from an ancient noble family that lived in Burgandy, France. It is quite possible that it was Anne’s bloodline that gave the Du ponts their occult power. Anne’s bloodline may possibly tie in to the House of David. At any rate, Samuel and Anne’s son was the first du Pont to rise to greatness, and the first du Pont that can be connected directly to the Illuminati.
American supporters of Europe
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As a result, these firms retained the economic and political power to affect the shape of governmental relations both within and between these nations in a manner which maximized corporate global profits. In short, they were private governments unaccountable to the citizens of any country yet possessing tremendous
Irving S. Shapiro wikipedia
Irving Saul Shapiro (July 15, 1916, Minnesota - September 13, 2001) was an American businessman. He is best known for being the chairman and CEO of DuPont (December 1973-1981)
He was born as a son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family.
Virgil Effinger wikipedia
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Born in Newark, Ohio, Effinger served with the United States Army during the Spanish–American War.[1] Settling in Lima, Ohio after his military service, Effinger worked as a salesman in the town.[2] A strong racist, anti-Semite and anti-Catholic, he joined the Ku Klux Klan and attained the rank of Grand Titan within the movement.[3]
[edit] Black Legion
Effinger took control of the Black Legion, a group within the local Klan, in 1931 and saw in it the basis for a network of militia cells.[2] He soon advocated a revolution with the Legion seizing power in Washington D.C. and installing him as dictator.[2] Effinger underlined his intetions when he described his movement as "a guerilla army designed to fight the Republican and Democratic parties".[4] Such was his fanaticism that he even rewrote American history by claiming that the Legion dated back to the Boston Tea Party.[2]
Under Effinger's leadership the Legion grew during the early 1930s and was linked to a handful of racist murders as well as arson and bomb attacks on communist bookshops.[5] The murder of Catholic Charles Poole by Legion member Major Dayton Dean and some followers in 1936 proved the Legion's undoing as the police pursued Poole's killers as he was white and not involved in labor organizations, with the crimes against non-whites and labor activists often ignored by right-wing small-town police at the time.[6]
[edit] Later years
Effinger escaped capture and attempted to organise a successor movement, the Patriotic Legion of America in 1938, this time admitting Catholics.[6] However the new group proved a failure and Effinger disappeared into obscurity.[1] He died in a psychiatric hospital in Toledo, Ohio in 1955, denying any involvement in the Black Legion until his dying day.[1]
Black Legion (political movement) wikipedia
The Black Legion was an organization that splintered from the Ku Klux Klan and operated in the United States in the 1930s. The organization was founded by William Shepard in east central Ohio.[1] The group's total membership, estimated between 20,000 and 30,000, was centered in Detroit, Michigan, though the Legion was also highly active in Ohio and one of its self-described leaders, Virgil "Bert" Effinger, lived and worked in Lima, Ohio.
The Associated Press described the organization on May 31, 1936, "as a group of loosely federated night-riding bands operating in several States without central discipline or common purpose beyond the enforcement by lash and pistol of individual leaders' notions of 'Americanism.'" The death of Charles Poole, kidnapped and murdered in southwest Detroit, caused authorities to finally arrest and successfully try and convict a group of twelve men, thereby ending the reign of the Black Legion.
The Black Legion was organized along paramilitary lines and had five brigades, 16 regiments, 64 battalions, and 256 companies. Although its members boasted that there were one million legionnaires in Michigan, it probably had only between 20,000 and 30,000 members in the state in the 1930s, one third of whom lived in Detroit.
Members wore black uniforms with skull and crossbones insignia and were allegedly responsible for numerous murders of alleged communists and socialists, notably Earl Little, Malcolm X's father.
[edit] In media
A film based on the movement called Black Legion was released in 1937 by Warner Brothers and starred Humphrey Bogart.
The April 1, 1937 episode of True Detective Mysteries, a radio show based on the magazine of the same title, was based directly on the Black Legion and the murder of Poole.
The March 20, 1938, episode of the radio show The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role, was entitled "The White Legion"; it was based loosely on the Black Legion movement.
Archer Daniels Midland: A Case Study In Corporate Welfare
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by James Bovard
James Bovard is an associate policy analyst with the Cato Institute. His most recent book is Shakedown: How the Government Screws You from A to Z (Viking, 1995).
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Executive Summary
The Archer Daniels Midland Corporation (ADM) has been the most prominent recipient of corporate welfare in recent U.S. history. ADM and its chairman Dwayne Andreas have lavishly fertilized both political parties with millions of dollars in handouts and in return have reaped billion-dollar windfalls from taxpayers and consumers. Thanks to federal protection of the domestic sugar industry, ethanol subsidies, subsidized grain exports, and various other programs, ADM has cost the American economy billions of dollars since 1980 and has indirectly cost Americans tens of billions of dollars in higher prices and higher taxes over that same period. At least 43 percent of ADM's annual profits are from products heavily subsidized or protected by the American government. Moreover, every $1 of profits earned by ADM's corn sweetener operation costs consumers $10, and every $1 of profits earned by its ethanol operation costs taxpayers $30
One of the most politically charged debates in Washington revolves around business subsidies known as "corporate welfare." A number of policy organizations have published studies examining the corporate welfare phenomenon: what qualifies as corporate welfare, how much it costs taxpayers, and how much it damages the economy. This study examines the dynamics of corporate welfare somewhat differently by investigating ADM as a classic case study of how those subsidies are obtained, how the welfare state encourages such "rent seeking," and how such practices fundamentally corrupt the political life of a nation. Congress's expressed desire to foster a free marketplace cannot be taken seriously until ADM's corporate hand is removed from the federal till.
Bloodlines of the Illumaniti
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4. The DuPonts
A DYNASTY OF SATANIC ROYALTY
THE COMPLETE FACTS ARE DIFFICULT TO DISCOVER
BEGINNING AT THE BEGINNING
THE NEXT GENERATION
THE JACOBINS
A POWDERMAN BECOMES DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL BANK
EARLY YEARS IN AMERICA
A ROYAL DYNASTY
THE NEXT GENERATION--Pierre Samuel’s grandchildren
HITTING PAY DIRT Society of the Cincinnati. The Order of the Garter
THE THREE COUSINS THAT SAVED THE DUPONT COMPANY IN 1902
THE DUPONT COMPANY USED AS A TOOL TO BRING US INTO THE NEW ORDER
REVIEW OF SOURCES
CHECK THIS OUT.
A Dynasty of Satanic Royalty
EXCERPT:
A DYNASTY OF SATANIC ROYALTY
Sitting down to write about the du Pont.s reminded me of two other families. Recently, John Coleman, a researcher on the elite, commented to me that when he had researched the Queen of Denmark he had discovered that the royal Danish family was slipping away secretly from everyone and they were going to Satanic rituals. It is also noteworthy that 5 modern kings of Denmark have been the leaders of Freemasonry in Denmark, and the Danish royal family, princes etc. have been active Masons.
John Dale wrote a book The Prince and The Paranormal which goes into the secret occult activities of the British royal family, especially Prince Charles, but also many other royal family members too. Besides the secret occult activities of the British Monarch, they have been openly leaders of Freemasonry ( see the Appendix of Be Wise As Serpents for a detailed chart on this.) The du Ponts are similar to these families in that they too are a dynasty, they too have a very public image, and they too have a totally hidden life. In fact, the du Ponts have better control over the press’s coverage of them than the British Royal Family.
One of the clues that the family is a top Satanic family are the frequency of marriages between relatives of the du Pont descendants. Few people are aware of the immense importance bloodlines play in the upper levels of Satanism. Blood is believed to carry the occult power. Unless a person has the correct blood he or she will not rise to the highest levels of Satanism. The du Ponts have intermarried with the Balls and the Gardners. These other families are known to be involved with the Illuminati and Satanism. For instance George W. Ball is on the important permanent steering committee of the Bilderbergers and has attended the Bilderberger meetings that I know of starting with the original first meeting in 1954, plus in 1955, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1975. George W. Ball is also a member of CFR and the Trilateral Commission. Eliza Cazenove (Gardner was a sister to a du Pont. I)orsey Cazenove (Gardner was a distant cousin. Will Gardner and Bessie Gardner duPont were cousins of the duPonts. John W. Gardner is a 60 Illuminatus and in charge of the Rockefeller Bros. Fund. I have found the Gardners in the thick of Satanism and witchcraft.
influence over the course of war and peace in the world.
Union Carbide partnerships
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1984 In December, a gas leak at a plant in Bhopal, India, caused by an act of sabotage, results in tragic loss of life. (http://www.unioncarbide.com/bhopal)
1985 GAF Corporation announces bid to takeover Union Carbide Corporation.
1986 GAF halts takeover bid in response to Union Carbide's defense, which includes plans to make major divestitures.
Union Carbide divests a number of businesses: films packaging, major portions of metals business, battery products, specialty polymers and composites, home and automotive products and agricultural products business.
Union Carbide purchases Amerchol Corporation from CPC International.
1988 Allied-Signal and Union Carbide complete the formation of UOP joint venture. UOP provides process technology, catalysts and adsorbents to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, gas-processing and energy industries.
1989 Carbon products and industrial gases businesses become subsidiaries on Jan. 1st. Carbon products business is renamed UCAR Carbon Company and industrial gas business is named Union Carbide Industrial Gases Inc. On July 1st Union Carbide Corporation becomes a holding company, owning these two subsidiaries plus Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company, Inc.
1990 Urethane polyether polyols and propylene glycol business is sold to Arco Chemcial Co.
UCC purchases Triton surfactant and alkylphenol business from Rohm & Haas.
1991 Mitsubishi Corporation buys 50% stake in UCAR Carbon; UCAR Carbon later becomes a publicly traded independent company.
1992 Union Carbide Industrial Gases is spun-off as an independent company. Its name changes to Praxair, Inc.
1993 OrganoSilicon Products business is sold to DLJ Merchant Banking Partners L.P. and affiliates of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc.
1994 Alberta & Orient Glycol Company Ltd. opens a 660,000 lbs. per year ethylene glycol plant at Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Alberta & Orient Glycol is a joint venture between Union Carbide (50%), Far Eastern Textile Ltd. (25%) and Mitsui & Company Ltd. (25%).
Sale of Union Carbide's 50.9% interest in Union Carbide India Limited to McLeod Russel is completed.
1995 UCC acquires ethylene oxide and derivatives businesses, including facilities in the United Kingdom, from ICI.
Union Carbide becomes a partner in Polimeri Europa S.r.l., a 50-50 ethylene/polyethylene joint venture between Union Carbide and EniChem S.p.A.. It will produce polyethylene for the European market.
Union Carbide forms Asian Acetyls Company, Ltd. a joint venture in Korea with BP Chemicals and Samsung Fine Chemicals Company to manufacture vinyl acetate monomer.
Union Carbide and two partners (Petrochemical Industries Company and Boubyan Petrochemical, both of Kuwait) form Equate Petrochemical Company. The new firm will build and operate a petrochemicals complex in Kuwait; products include ethylene, polyethylene and ethylene glycol.
1996 Purchase of the polypropylene assets and business of Shell Oil Company is completed.
Plans for Union Carbide and Nova Corporation to build a 2.8-billion pound ethylene plant in Alberta, Canada are announced. Union Carbide will build a Unipol Process polyethylene plant to consume its half of the output.
1997 Union Carbide and Exxon Chemical Company launch a joint venture, Univation Technologies, for the licensing of polyethylene technology and for research, development and commercialization of metallocene and other advanced catalysts for the production of polyethylene. The venture is also the licensing agent for Union Carbide's UNIPOL Process technology for polypropylene.
1998 UCC and Petronas (the national oil company of Malaysia) form a joint venture to build a new petrochemical complex in Malaysia. The planned complex will include an olefins cracker and have facilities for production of ethylene oxide and its derivatives and oxo alcohols and oxo derivatives, primarily serving solvents and intermediates end-uses.
1999 On August 4th, Union Carbide and The Dow Chemical Company announce that their boards of directors have approved an $11.6 billion transaction which would result in Union Carbide becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company.
2001 On February 6th, Union Carbide Corporation became a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company.
Union Carbide and BP
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Release date: 07 February 2001
BP announced today that it will offer new polyethylene production technology for licence worldwide, combining metallocene catalysts with its INNOVENE gas phase polyethylene process for the first time. The proven technology offers high performance linear low density polyethylenes (LLDPEs) free from the processing difficulties associated with existing metallocene-catalysed polyethylene.
Today's announcement follows agreement between BP and The Dow Chemical Company and between BP and Univation Technologies, LLC, the ExxonMobil/Union Carbide joint venture, regarding earlier metallocene catalyst research. The agreement represents a final resolution of the issues arising from BP and Dow's collaboration on metallocene catalyst technology and is part of a wider deal under which BP will acquire Dow's interest in the technology developed jointly by the two companies. BP will now have the right to develop and license constrained geometry metallocene catalyst technology for gas phase polyethylene processes.
BP and Dow had been collaborating to develop catalysts based on Dow's INSITE metallocene technology for use with BP's INNOVENE gas phase polyethylene process since 1995, but the active collaboration ended in 1999 when Dow announced plans to merge with Union Carbide, leaving BP to pursue the development alone.
Univation Tech LLC
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Univation Technologies, LLC
Univation is a joint venture that is the leading technology licensor to the polyethylene (PE) industry. Univation Technologies licenses its UNIPOL™ PE process technology to companies worldwide. Univation is also the world's largest supplier of catalysts for polyethylene production.
Nearly 25 percent of the world's polyethylene is produced using UNIPOL™ technology. The UNIPOL™ technology allows polyethylene to be produced in a wide range of densities, melt indices and molecular weight distributions for applications including packaging films, hose and tubing, pipes, bottles and containers. The process is safe, environmentally friendly, adaptable and cost effective compared to competing processes.
Formed
1997
Ownership
•ExxonMobil Chemical Company - 50%
•The Dow Chemical Company - 50%
Headquarters Location
Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
Technology Centers
•Baytown, Texas
•Bound Brook, New Jersey
•South Charleston, West Virginia
Catalyst Production Locations
•Baytown, Texas
•Seadrift, Texas
Products and Services
•Process technology, catalysts
THE SATANIC BLOODLINES
Introduction
1.1. The Astor Bloodline
2.2. The Bundy Bloodline
3.3. The Collins Bloodline
4.4. The DuPont Bloodline
5.5. The Freeman Bloodline
6.6. The Kennedy Bloodline
7 7. The Li Bloodline
8.8. The Onassis Bloodline
9.9. The Reynolds bloodline
110. The Rockefeller Bloodline
11. The Rothschild Bloodline
12. The Russell Bloodline
13. The Van Duyn Bloodline
Merovingian European Royal Families
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Interconnected families:
The Disney Bloodline
The Krupp Bloodline
The McDonald Bloodline
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Allen Quicke journalist murdered in Hua Hin Thailand
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Hua Hin
Thailand
Thursday, August 19, 2010
What is happening in the quiet backwaters of Thailand – Murder and unlawful killings have been prevalent in 2010 in the Thai resort town of Hua Hin the latest is the brutal stabbing and battering to death of
Allen Quicke
aka
Allen George Quicke
57 Years old
Born in Pietermaritzburg in 1953
South African national
Long term Thailand resident dating back to at least 1995
Editor-in-Chief of Asia Times Online
Allen Quicke
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[Re Allen Quicke, obituary, Aug 18] I am shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Allen Quicke. Asia, indeed the world, owes much to him. Asia Times Online is a newspaper like no other: broad-minded, and distinctly different. Many voices jostle, some hardly heard elsewhere. That is exactly as it should be. I also owe Allen a personal debt of gratitude for publishing my pieces on Korea. It is a privilege to appear in these columns.
The man is gone. That is too sad. Yet his work and vision will live on. Requiescat in pace: rest in peace.
Aidan Foster-Carter (Aug 23, '10)
EXCERPT:
Hua Hin
Thailand
Thursday, August 19, 2010
What is happening in the quiet backwaters of Thailand – Murder and unlawful killings have been prevalent in 2010 in the Thai resort town of Hua Hin the latest is the brutal stabbing and battering to death of
Allen Quicke
aka
Allen George Quicke
57 Years old
Born in Pietermaritzburg in 1953
South African national
Long term Thailand resident dating back to at least 1995
Editor-in-Chief of Asia Times Online
Allen Quicke
EXCERPT:
[Re Allen Quicke, obituary, Aug 18] I am shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Allen Quicke. Asia, indeed the world, owes much to him. Asia Times Online is a newspaper like no other: broad-minded, and distinctly different. Many voices jostle, some hardly heard elsewhere. That is exactly as it should be. I also owe Allen a personal debt of gratitude for publishing my pieces on Korea. It is a privilege to appear in these columns.
The man is gone. That is too sad. Yet his work and vision will live on. Requiescat in pace: rest in peace.
Aidan Foster-Carter (Aug 23, '10)
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