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Anatomy of an Epidemic

Robert Whitaker discusses his book 'Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America'

In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nation's children. What is going on?

Anatomy of an Epidemic challenges readers to think through that question themselves. First, Whitaker investigates what is known today about the biological causes of mental disorders. Do psychiatric medications fix "chemical imbalances" in the brain, or do they, in fact, create them? Researchers spent decades studying that question, and by the late 1980s, they had their answer. Readers will be startled—and dismayed—to discover what was reported in the scientific journals.

Then comes the scientific query at the heart of this book: During the past fifty years, when investigators looked at how psychiatric drugs affected long-term outcomes, what did they find? Did they discover that the drugs help people stay well? Function better? Enjoy good physical health? Or did they find that these medications, for some paradoxical reason, increase the likelihood that people will become chronically ill, less able to function well, more prone to physical illness?

This is the first book to look at the merits of psychiatric medications through the prism of long-term results. Are long-term recovery rates higher for medicated or unmedicated schizophrenia patients? Does taking an antidepressant decrease or increase the risk that a depressed person will become disabled by the disorder? Do bipolar patients fare better today than they did forty years ago, or much worse? When the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) studied the long-term outcomes of children with ADHD, did they determine that stimulants provide any benefit?

By the end of this review of the outcomes literature, readers are certain to have a haunting question of their own: Why have the results from these long-term studies—all of which point to the same startling conclusion—been kept from the public?

In this compelling history, Whitaker also tells the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. Finally, he reports on innovative programs of psychiatric care in Europe and the United States that are producing good long-term outcomes. Our nation has been hit by an epidemic of disabling mental illness, and yet, as Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, the medical blueprints for curbing that epidemic have already been drawn up.

Mark Sisson Explains the Primal Blueprint

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"Drug, Set and Setting - Today." - Julie Holland

Julie Holland is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, at NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY. The presentation was held at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference 2011 in Los Angeles.
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End Prohibition - Legalize Raw Milk!

On the Monday, November 7 edition of Infowars Nightly News, Alex talks with Liz Reitzig of the Raw Milk Freedom Riders. http://farmfoodfreedom.org/

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nrkwjyYHqU

Heavy Metal Toxicity in Its Many Forms

ike Adams, the Health Ranger, joins RSB to review the Raw Milk Freedom Ride and the FDA's response, as well as our shared concerns of heavy metal toxicity in its many forms. Got mercury? Got aluminum? http://www.robertscottbell.com/

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Raw Milk Freedom Riders - The Revolution Will Not Be Pasteurized

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Obama to Force 'Anthrax Vaccine' Testing on Children! Nightly #news Report

Aaron details the medical industrial complex's agenda for vaccinating children.

Alien Genetic Takeover: The End of Humanity

In this powerful video, Alex breaks down how the global takeover might as well be coming from a hostile alien species-- as depicted in John Carpenter's 1982 film 'The Thing'. In fact, such an invader would be hard pressed to wreak more destruction upon the earth's biosphere.

In the film, and its other versions from 1951 and 2011, an uncovered species takes over its host's DNA while outwardly imitating it, threatening to infect the entire planet in a short span. In the real world, aggressive genetically-modified species are destroying naturally-occurring species while provably causing harm to those who consume GMO foods-- including widespread infertility, cancer and mutations, as demonstrated repeatedly in lab animal studies.

In fact, the real dangers of GMOs, vaccines (loaded with super-viruses, dangerous chemical compounds and other special ingredients) and much more have only begun to unleash their long-term multi-generational harm. The frank reality is that what humanity faces is far worse than Alex could possibly convey in this short presentation.

Complex and controversial emerging legal rulings over gene patents and intellectual property are clearly paving the way for the globalists' 'Thing' mechanism to dominate agriculture, monopolize medicine and profit on mass-death and the unravelling of our planet's genetic inheritance. Those in power hope to retain a privately-controlled continuity through their arctic seed vaults, but life is bigger than even they can grasp.

Technological solutions will create a two-tier system aiming to enshrine the lives of the elite- with the available enhancements for health and longevity- while allowing further domination and dumbing-down of the masses (the nouveau riche, the middle class and poor alike). A wide-spectrum of ambient soft-kill enviro-additives poison us all, with the future hanging in the balance, at the very time an inner-coterie of science, tech and wealth has declared that the future doesn't need us.

If we don't stop this 'Thing' now, we may never have a second chance. It is vital we recognize this amorphous danger for what it is-- the annihilation of our species and those with which we co-inhabit. We don't have any more time to waste.

Raw Milk Freedom Riders Challenge FDA

Mike talks with raw milk activist Liz Reitzig who along with the Raw Milk Freedom Riders is challenging the FDA to arrest her in November. http://liberationwellnessblog.com/

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wMRXIfeiaM

Anthrax Vaccine Testing on Children Stirs Debate

The Obama administration is wrestling with the thorny question of whether scientists should inject healthy children with the anthrax vaccine to see whether the shots would safely protect them against a bioterrorism attack.

The other option is to wait until an attack happens and then try to gather data from children whose parents agree to inoculate them in the face of an actual threat. 

A key working group of federal advisers in September endorsed testing, sparking objections from those who consider that step unethical, unnecessary and dangerous. The National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB), which advises the federal government, is to meet Friday to vote on its working group's recommendation.

"At the end of the day, do we want to wait for an attack and give it to millions and millions of children and collect data at that time?" said Daniel B. Fagbuyiof Children's National Medical Center in Washington, who chaired the group. "Or do we want to say: 'How do we best protect our children?' We can take care of Grandma and Grandpa, Uncle and Auntie. But right now, we have nothing for the children."

The vaccine has been tested extensively in adults and has been administered to more than 2.6 million people in the military. But the shots have never been tested on or given to children, leaving it uncertain how well the vaccine works in younger people and at what dose, and whether it is safe. Unlike with measles, mumps and other diseases, the chance that children will be exposed to anthrax is theoretical, making the risk-benefit calculus of testing a vaccine on them much more questionable.

"It's hard to believe that it's something that makes a great deal of sense," said Joel Frader, a pediatrician and bioethicist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. "It would be difficult to justify testing it on kids simply on the hypothetical possibility that there might be an attack."

Anthrax is a life-threatening infection caused by a toxin-producing bacteria long considered a bioterrorist's likely choice because it is relatively easy to produce and distribute over a large area. A week after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, letters containing anthrax spores arrived at several media offices and two Senate offices, killing five people and sickening 17 others. The FBI eventually concluded that the letters were mailed by Bruce Ivins, a disgruntled scientist at Fort Detrick in Maryland who committed suicide in 2008, although some experts question the FBI's findings.

As part of broad effort to better protect Americans against bioterrorism, the Pentagon began a controversial military anthrax immunization program in 1998 that was challenged in court over questions about the vaccine's safety and reliability. Currently, the Pentagon requires the shots for personnel assigned to bioterrorism defense activities and some other special units, as well as those deployed 15 or more days in the Middle East and some nearby countries, and in South Korea.

The federal government has spent $1.1 billion to stockpile the vaccine to protect Americans in the event of an attack. Antibiotics would help protect those immediately exposed. The vaccine would defend against lingering spores, which is how the pathogen lurks in a dormant state. The vaccine is made from a piece of a strain of anthrax that doesn't cause the illness.

In April, Nicole Lurie, the assistant secretary in charge of bioterrorism at the Department of Health and Human Services, asked the 13-member biodefense board to evaluate whether the vaccine should be tested in children. A federal simulation of an anthrax attack on San Francisco, called Dark Zephyr, raised quesions about how to handle children.

"If there were an anthrax release and we needed to administer anthrax vaccine, we have no experience with kids. It's never been in the arm of a kid," Lurie said. "I started asking myself, 'Is this the right way to respond in an emergency?' "

Those concerns were heightened by the public wariness that had been shown toward the H1N1 influenza pandemic vaccine. 

"There is a lot of skepticism on the part of the public about vaccines in general," Lurie said. "If you had a situation where a vaccine has never been given to a child, it's pretty hard to think what you could say to people about its safety and efficacy."

Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher

Mike talks with author Gwen Olsen in-studio. Olsen, a sales rep in the pharmaceutical industry for fifteen years, wrote Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher, a book that describes how big pharma entices doctors to push prescription meds on patients. http://www.gwenolsen.com/

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhGsOKdF7a0

Staying Healthy Naturally

On Monday's power-packed transmission, Alex reports live from U.S.-Mexico border as Obama tries to distract attention away from his complicity in Fast and Furious -- the Justice Department organized gun-running operation with bank-financed criminal drug gangs in Mexico. Alex talks about Obama beating wars drums under the flimsy pretense of bogus terror accusations leveled against Iran last week. He also divulges bombshell info on today's show and talks about the Federal Reserve takedown order filed with YouTube after Infowars posted a video revealing how the Fed is a privately run bankster cartel and not a federal agency as it fraudulently claims.

Part 2 http://ur1.ca/5fqxi
Part 3 http://ur1.ca/5fqxk

FDA Trying to Destroy Vitamin Industry: Dr. David Brownstein Reports

The latest round in conventional medicine's ongoing attempts to discredit (and ultimately outlaw) nutritional supplements is found in a highly questionable study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which claims that vitamins actually increase the risk of death.

The study claims to have analyzed a collection of previous studies on Vitamin A, beta carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin E and selenium, concluding that most of the nutrients are actually dangerous to human health. Of course, this is research from conventional medicine -- an industry that promotes patented chemicals as perfectly safe, even though FDA-approved pharmaceuticals are killing 100,000 Americans each year. (Imagine the uproar if vitamins killed even a fraction of that number...)

To avoid getting hoodwinked by questionable research on "vitamins," you have to strongly consider the financial interests of the source of this research. JAMA accepts millions of dollars in advertising from drug companies each year, and its pages are absolutely packed with drug ads. The American Medical Association, for its part, has long worked to discredit alternative medicine and has even been found guilty by U.S. federal courts of engaging in a conspiracy to destroy chiropractic medicine. The AMA, which is largely considered a joke by anyone familiar with natural health, is hardly a credible source for publishing scientific findings on nutrition. To protect the multi-billion dollar drug industry, the AMA would say practically anything, I believe.
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