Energy companies are billing them as the “green” solution to traditional meters. But are so-called “smart” meters really all that smart? And, more importantly, are they really as safe as we’re all being told they are? Continue reading
Category Archives: In the Money
Farmer Forced By USDA Board To Dump Cherry Crop On Ground
~ Editor’s NOTE ~
For the past 16 years, we have tried desperately to keep “politics” out of and off of Dr. Kelley’s website – however it appears that over the years and the decades – politics has injected itself into every aspect of our lives – most specifically into the world of OUR health and well-being. What follows is another example – in this case – short-changing the American grower (of healthy food) in order to keep others into our pockets. What is the reliability of the food we are importing? How healthy is it? How much has Monsanto stuck their filthy hands all over? Read on… ~ J.B.
Uncle Sam is forcing American farmers to dump thousands of pounds of the nation’s tart cherry crop on the ground this year, and one particular farmer wants everyone to know about it… Continue reading
The Danger of Ignoring Tuberculosis
Despite its reputation as an illness of the past, the deadly disease is as much of a threat to people in America as Ebola and Zika.
An X-ray showing a pair of lungs infected with tuberculosis. Luke MacGregor / Reuters
A century or so ago, tuberculosis was everywhere. It killed babies and brides, firemen and heads of state. The colloquial term of the era, “consumption,” littered the obituary pages and underscored how ubiquitous the disease was. Tuberculosis was so pervasive it eventually consumed you. Continue reading
Soylent Is Healthier Than the Average North American Diet
And that’s embarrassing…
Food tastes better than Soylent. On that, there is universal agreement. Bland in flavor but audacious in concept, everything else about the beige food replacement is fiercely contested. Foodies decry the decline of experiential eating, cultural critics bemoan the loss of communal mealtimes, and others warn of techno-hubris. There have also been questions about Soylent’s nutritional content, and yet, the company’s proprietary mix is almost certainly an improvement on the average North American diet. Continue reading
A Staggering $58 Million Has Been Spent By Biotech To Buy The U.S. Senate
How Much Did Your Senator Go For?
Show me de monee!
Before packing up and heading home for the long, holiday weekend, our senators held a vote to stab the American people in the back. It’s not enough that the movement was rocked with the recent, explosive news of the Organic Traitors betrayal (read more about that here), but our representation has decided Monsanto’s blood money matters more than the demands of over 90% of this country calling for clear and concise, on-package labeling, not QR codes.
The Stabenow/Roberts bill is appalling. Dennis Kucinich, former U.S. Representative and tireless advocate for GMO labeling, summed it up perfectly with his statement on the ridiculous “compromise” bill.
“The U.S. Senate, through the munificent campaign contributions of the chemical and biotech industry, has brought forth a new anti-labeling bill aimed at squashing Vermont’s GMO labeling initiative…It’s not a labeling bill. There is no requirement for labeling in the bill. It is not mandatory. All provisions of the bill are optional.”
68 “yeas” and 29 “nays” later, and we are one step closer to the death of the labeling fight.
How did your senator vote on the Stabenow/Roberts bill? More importantly, how much were they paid to vote the way they did? Continue reading
Bon Appétit
Editor’s NOTE: What follows are a series of headlines, synopsis and links to a series of articles regarding the poisonous nature of that which we are expected to ‘eat.’ Notice that there is only reference to GMO – Genetically Modified Organisms – NOT Genetically Modified FOODS. It’s all designed to confuse the mind. Just because you fill your belly does not mean that you are feeding your body of the necessary nutritional foods that have been provided by nature and real farmers for years.
Bon Appétit my friends. ~ J.B.
Whole Foods goes ROGUE… partners with Monsanto to kill GMO labeling across America and replace with fake labeling deception
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Whole Foods was just caught blatantly LYING about everything covered in this article. CEO Walter Robb has been captured on video admitting total support for Monsanto-engineered GMO fake labeling law that kills Vermont GMO labeling bill. Whole Foods… (Continue to full article)
Victory! Judge closes industry loophole, barring pesticides from compost used in organic food production
In a victory for organic consumers, a federal judge has tossed out a rule change by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that permitted the use of compost containing synthetic pesticides in growing organic foods. “The court’s decision upholds the integrity of… (Continue to full article)
Conventional corn and soybean farmer says consumers have right to know if food contains cancer-causing GMOs
Sometimes it takes an average person with direct experience of a situation to put things in perspective in such a way that anyone can understand – without a lot of industry jargon or double-talk – by simply speaking the truth in plain, commonsense terms. Such… (Continue to full article)
London grocery stores prepare to sell Fukushima rice despite health concerns over radiated food
Rice grown in the zone surrounding the still-radioactive Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will now be sold in London grocery stores, the European Union (EU) announced in late June. In March 2011, the Fukushima plant suffered multiple meltdowns after being struck… (Continue to full article)
Midwestern farmer warns: GMOs have drained BILLIONS of dollars from rural economies while monopolizing agriculture
George Naylor, a farmer and board member of the Center for Food Safety and the Non-GMO Project, has cultivated corn and soybeans on his family farm near Churdan, Iowa, since 1976. Like many others, George made the decision never to raise genetically modified (GM) crops… (Continue to full article)
Seven Refugees With Active TB Sent to Idaho
Seven refugees with active tuberculosis (TB) were diagnosed shortly after their resettlement in Idaho between 2011 and 2015, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
This makes Idaho the seventh state to confirm to Breitbart News that recently arrived refugees have been diagnosed with active TB. Continue reading
Vaccine industry horror revealed…
HPV vaccines can cause severe adverse effects on recipients
A woman decided to sue the Irish government to compel it to withdraw the license for Gardasil, Merck’s HPV vaccine, after her daughter allegedly suffered from “horrendous adverse effects,” following the latter’s vaccination under the Irish school vaccination program. Continue reading
How Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikes
A billion-dollar system in which charitable giving is profitable.
In August 2015, Turing Pharmaceuticals and its then-chief executive, Martin Shkreli, purchased a drug called Daraprim and immediately raised its price more than 5,000 percent. Within days, Turing contacted Patient Services Inc., or PSI, a charity that helps people meet the insurance copayments on costly drugs. Turing wanted PSI to create a fund for patients with toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection that is most often treated with Daraprim.
Having just made Daraprim much more costly, Turing was now offering to make it more affordable. Continue reading
Drug Industry Shrugs Off Widespread Criticism and Keeps Raising Drug Prices
(graphic: Bull’s Eye/Imagezoo/Getty Images)
From the campaign trail to the halls of Congress, drugmakers have spent much of the last year enduring withering criticism over the rising cost of drugs.
It does not seem to be working.
In April alone, Johnson & Johnson raised its prices on several top-selling products, including the leukemia drug Imbruvica, the diabetes treatment Invokana, and Xarelto, an anti-clotting drug, according to a research note published last week by an analyst for Leerink, an investment bank. Other major companies that have raised prices this year include Amgen, Gilead and Celgene, the analyst reported. Continue reading
Johnson & Johnson lawsuit set to begin after the company knowingly hid baby powder’s cancer risk
Johnson & Johnson is being sued by more than 1,000 women who developed ovarian cancer after using the company’s Baby Powder product. The lawsuit is based on the assertion that the company knew their product was associated with an increased cancer risk but deliberately withheld that information from the public. Continue reading
Government Penalties Against Major Drug Companies Have Sharply Declined
Major pharmaceutical companies have been feeling intense political heat in the past year over skyrocketing drug prices, with some lawmakers and politicians threatening congressional or administrative action to rein in those costs. Continue reading
Specialty drugs now cost more than the median household income
The average annual retail cost of specialty drugs used to treat complex diseases such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis now exceeds the median U.S. household income, according to a recent published report.
The study of 115 specialty drugs found that a year’s worth of prescriptions for a single drug retailed at $53,384 per year, on average, in 2013 — more than the median U.S. household income, double the median income of Medicare beneficiaries, and more than three times as much as the average Social Security benefit in the same year. The report was prepared by the AARP Public Policy Institute to highlight the impact of drug prices on seniors. Continue reading
5 Reasons Conventional Doctors Ignore Alternative Medicine
By now, you probably have come to realize that something is not quite right with the current health care system that dominates today. It has become a dictating, disease managing, and complicated mess that has generally left more people sick than healthy. Sure, it’s great for emergency and acute care, but when it comes to eradicating disease, it hasn’t even sniffed the coffee yet.
So when other options exist, such as alternative medicine, that have proven track records for helping people actually uproot the cause of their suffering, why has conventional medicine typically deemed it as quackery? Continue reading
Tough Medicine
A disturbing report from the front lines of the war on cancer.
We have cancer therapies, Vincent DeVita says, that could cure another hundred thousand patients if used to their full potential.
CREDIT ILLUSTRATION BY HARRY CAMPBELL
In the fall of 1963, not long after Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., joined the National Cancer Institute as a clinical associate, he and his wife were invited to a co-worker’s party. At the door, one of the institute’s most brilliant researchers, Emil Freireich, presented them with overflowing Martinis. The head of the medical branch, Tom Frei, strode across the room with a lab technician flung over his shoulder, legs kicking and her skirt over her head. DeVita, shocked, tried to hide in a corner. But some time later the N.C.I.’s clinical director, Nathaniel Berlin, frantically waved him over. Freireich, six feet four and built like a lineman, had passed out in the bathtub. Berlin needed help moving him. “Together, we pulled him up, threw his arms over our shoulders, and dragged him out through the party,” DeVita writes, in his memoir, “The Death of Cancer” (Sarah Crichton Books). “Out front, Freireich’s wife, Deanie, sat behind the wheel of their car. We tossed Freireich in the backseat and slammed the door.”
Half a century ago, the N.C.I. was a very different place. It was dingy and underfunded—a fraction of its current size—and home to a raw and unruly medical staff. The orthodoxy of the time was that cancer was a death sentence: the tumor could be treated with surgery or radiation, in order to buy some time, and the patient’s inevitable decline could be eased through medicine, and that was it. At the N.C.I., however, an insurgent group led by Frei and Freireich believed that if cancer drugs were used in extremely large doses, and in multiple combinations and repeated cycles, the cancer could be beaten. “I wasn’t sure if these scientists were maniacs or geniuses,” DeVita writes. But, as he worked with Freireich on the N.C.I.’s childhood-leukemia ward—and saw the fruits of the first experiments using combination chemotherapy—he became a convert. Continue reading