Joseph Skues's List: All about Health

• guilty of defamation and harassment against a chemical company.
• we wanted the lies to stop
• In December 2008, Helena Chemical Company sued Uribe
• saying he had repeatedly defamed Helena in public statements
• defamed the company via six individual slides within various presentations at community meetings
• harassed employees
• Uribe and 22 community members had filed a lawsuit in state court alleging that the chemical company’s emissions were sickening local children. Health problems include chronic respiratory infections, asthma, severe chronic bronchitis and nosebleeds.
• mas also said she was worried about how the jury’s decision will affect people living in Mesquite: “They’re not going to go back to their community and feel safe—they’re going to feel like they can’t speak out because they’re worried they’re going to be sued.”  The case will also have nationwide implications, for activists on both sides of the political spectrum: “This decision is going to have a chilling effect on everyone in the country, on anyone who might want to stand up against polluters in their community, or meet with other community members to talk about concerns.”
• or not complying with New Mexico’s air quality laws and regulations. At that time, in June 2005, the department issued a press release quoting deputy secretary Derrith Watchman-Moore saying, “Since our first inspection a year and a half ago, we have consistently and patiently made every attempt to work with them and get them into compliance. Our patience is now at an end. This order is a clear message to Helena to immediately comply with New Mexico’s environmental laws and become a good neighbor to the people of Mesquite.”
• failed to report a 500-gallon spill of  liquid fertilizer.
• citing 15 violations of the Mesquite facility’s air quality permit.
• beneath the plant. Levels of nitrates, sulfates, total dissolved solids, fluoride and chloride all exceed regulations
• fact, the day following the jury’s decision, NMED issued a notice of violation to Helena for failing to follow state water quality laws in its plans to cleanup groundwater contaminatio
• It’s inaccurate to call it a ‘facilit
• As for Arturo Uribe, whose home sits about 30 yards from the warehouse, he plans to appeal the jury’s verdict—and says he will continue protecting his community.
• e jury’s decision might chill nonprofits, community activists and free speech advocates, he says—but it will not destroy him. “It’s not going to scare me from speaking out when I believe something is wrong

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• ormer CDC Director Julie Gerberding resurfacing as President of Merck Vaccines in December.
• he "magic three" of drug sales-
• fear, forever and faith
• pharma-planted bone density machines in medical offices revealed they had "osteopenia,
• Unfortunately they can cause others…
• for children as young as 10
• it approved Crestor for 6.5 million people who have no cholesterol or heart problems at all!
• CRP isn't necessarily even a marker for heart disease
• statins can cause Type 2 diabetes,
• Provigil --"a mood-brightening and memory-enhancing psychostimulant which enhances wakefulness and vigilance,"
• pharma is now finding childhood diseases in adults
• "difficulty with organization and time management,
• . Adults may suffer from autism too says a 2008 article in Psychiatric News, if they're "unsociable, extremely rigid, given to angry outbursts" and "acutely sensitive to light, heat, and pain."

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• Creighton University School of Medicine in Nebraska has revealed that supplementing with vitamin D and calcium can reduce your risk of cancer by an astonishing 77 percent. This includes breast cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer and other forms of cancer.
• strong new evidence that vitamin D is the single most effective medicine against cancer,
• Over four year, the group receiving the calcium and vitamin D supplements showed a 60 percent decrease in cancers.
• he full press release of this study is included below. It provides more details about the findings.)
• these astonishing effects were achieved on what many nutritionists consider to be a low dose of vitamin D.
• It means that if you take high-quality calcium supplements and get lots of natural sunlight exposure or take premium vitamin D supplements (such as those made from fish oil), you could easily have a greater reduction than the 77 percent reduction recorded in this study.
• This research on vitamin D is such good news that the American Cancer Society, of course, had to say something against it. An ACS spokesperson, Marji McCullough, strategic director of nutritional epidemiology for the American Cancer Society, flatly stated that nobody should take supplements to prevent cancer.
• Click here to read more about the ACS and its financial ties to chemical companies, pharmaceutical companies and radiology equipment manufacturers.
• I've written extensively about the criminal organizations that protect and promote the industry.
• they're only searching for new patented drugs to profit from cancer).
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  This research on vitamin D is a huge threat to the cancer industry profit mongers because it reveals a way to prevent cancer for free -
• The idea that the cancer industry could lose 80% of its patients due to widespread education about vitamin D and sunlight scares the living daylights out of the cancer industry.

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