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1. Colloidal Silver, natures antibiotic

2. Soybean DANGER hormones, children puberty, menopause, all effected.

3. Fluoridation KILLS ya

4. Medicare's well being

5. Jailed for buying cheaper medicine

6. How the US serves minorities

7. Bush's Health Care Scam

8. WARNING Anti-depressants

Colloidal Silver
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More Than 650 Diseases

The following is a partial list of the more than 650 diseases that colloidal silver has been used successfully against:

ANTHRAX -Colloidal Silver has been documented since 1887 as an effective anti-biotic against the deadly killer ANTHRAX spores- now sadly, due to the ever present threat of biological warfare a very real concern in our modern everyday lives .

Acne
Allergies
Anthrax
Appendicitis
Arthritis
Athlete's Foot
Bacterial pneumonia
Blood poisoning
Bladder Infections
Burns
Blood parasites
Boils
Cancer
Candida Albicans and Globata
Canine Parvo Virus
Cholera
Conjunctivitis
Cystitis
Cholera
Colitis
Dermatitis
Diptheria
Diabetes
Dysentery
Ear infections
Eustachian Tubes
Eczema
Fibrositis
Gastritis
Gonorrhea
Golden Staphlococcus
Herpes
Hepatis C
Indigestion
Influenza
Inflammation
Impetigo
Intestinal
Keratitis
Leukemia
Lyme Disease
Leprosy
Lupus
Lymphagitis
Malaria
Menier's Symptoms
Meningitis
Neurasthenia
Ophthalmology
Parasitic infections:
Pneumonia
Pleurisy
Prostate
Psoriasis
Purulent opthalmia,
Rheumatism
Ringworm
Rhinitis
Seborrhea
Septicemia
Scarlet Fever
Skin Cancer
Soft Sores
Shingles
Syphilis
Strep Throat
Staphylococcus
Streptococcus infections
Stomach flu
Thyroid
Tuberculosis
Tonsillitis
Toxemia
Trachoma
Thrush
Trench Foot
Ulcers
Whooping Cough
Viral Warts
Yeast Infections

STL Colloidal Silver in Advance of Illness
When taken orally each day, and applied topically when there is a skin problem, it's like having a second immune system. Older folks feel younger because their body energies are used for other than fighting disease, and digestion is better. Medical research has shown that silver promotes rapid healing, with less scar tissue, even in the case of severe burns. Fantastic successes have been reported in many cases previously given up by established doctors. Colloidal Silver is tasteless and won't sting even a baby's eyes.

Soy Slammers

Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:06 PM Subject: [Health_and_Healing] Conspiracy, Fraud & Benefits of FERMENTED SOY / Soy's Negative Impact on The Thyroid

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Soy's Negative Impact on The Thyroid Guide picks

Information on the negative effects that overconsumption of soy foods and isoflavones can have on thyroid health and function, including soy baby formula for infants.

The Downsides and Thyroid Dangers of Soy Products The risk that soy products have for adults with thyroid disease, and particularly for infants on soy formulas, is discussed, including how much soy is safe to eat.

Interview: Larrian Gillespie, MD on Wt. Loss & Menopause Larrian Gillespie, MD talks about how women with thyroid problems should eat in order to lose weight, the menopause/thyroid relationship, the controversial use of soy foods, and exercise.

Soy Online Service Best of the Net The web's best, most in-depth scientific discussion and evidence of the negative health effects of soy products.

Soy, Thyroid and Menopause Information Center In-depth look at the connections between soy products and thyroid problems, including journal research references.

Concerns Regarding Soybeans Discusses issues regarding soybeans, and the safety of these products, including the benefits of fermented soy products. [Rheumatic Diseases Website]

4. Medicare's Well-Being Suddenly a Key Issue

By Peter Wallsten and Matea Gold Los Angeles Times

Sunday 05 September 2004

Bush boasts of reforms without mentioning a record premium increase revealed Friday and seized on by Kerry.

BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio - Medicare emerged as a key point of contention Saturday in the race for the White House, as President Bush defended his efforts to improve it while Sen. John F. Kerry blasted the administration for promising fixes, only to approve the largest premium hike in the program's 40-year history.

With new polls showing Bush opening up a double-digit lead over his Democratic opponent, Kerry has come under pressure from allies to conduct a more aggressive campaign. Kerry aides said they thought the race would again tighten, and that they were confident Bush is especially vulnerable on the domestic front.

Bush told voters jammed into a gym in the Cleveland suburb of Broadview Heights that reforms his administration pushed through last year would provide seniors with healthcare screenings and a prescription drug benefit in the next two years. But he did not mention the 17% Medicare premium increase for millions of elderly and disabled patients that his administration imposed a day earlier. It takes effect next year.

"We went to Washington, D.C., with the idea of solving problems," Bush said, adding later: "We have done the job when it comes to improving healthcare for our seniors."

Kerry, also campaigning in the battleground state of Ohio, accused Bush of reneging on a pledge he made Thursday in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.

"On the day after saying, 'We're going to strengthen Medicare,' Medicare premiums go up for senior citizens 17% - the largest increase in Medicare premiums in 40 years," Kerry said at a rally in Akron. His remark provoked a round of boos from his crowd, and Kerry then invoked two of the corporations that for Democrats are shorthand for the claim that the president's policies unduly favor big business.

"Let me ask you something: Who are they going to send the bill to? Are they going to send the bill to Halliburton? Are they going to send the bill to Ken Lay at Enron? You bet they're not. They're going to send the bill to our senior citizens."

Kerry planned to reinforce his message with a 30-second television ad that showed Bush making his convention pledge to help seniors, and says, "The very next day, George Bush imposes the biggest Medicare premium increase in history while prescription drug costs still skyrocket."

The back-and-forth on Medicare came as Republicans were buoyed by the second poll in as many days showing Bush holding an 11% lead nationally, coming off the party's four-day convention in New York.

As he took turns shooting clay pigeons with former Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) in Edinburgh, Ohio, Kerry said he was unconcerned about the polls. "We're doing good," he said. "They're going to get a bounce out of the convention, but we'll be coming back."

Even before the GOP convention, Kerry was on the defensive because of ads that challenged his service record in Vietnam and criticized his subsequent protests against the war. The ads were sponsored by a group of Vietnam veterans opposing Kerry.

As part of the Kerry campaign's new aggressive response to the ads, several Democrats campaigning with him Saturday sharply derided Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's Vietnam-era choices.

The hardest hit came from Rep. Ted Strickland of Ohio, who contrasted Kerry's tour of duty with the Navy "in the jungles of Vietnam" with Bush's days "as a cheerleader at Yale University."

After graduating from Yale, Bush served with the Air National Guard in two states. Critics have charged he joined the Guard to avoid being sent to Vietnam and noted that the nature of his service in Alabama has never been fully accounted.

As recently as Thursday night in Ohio, Kerry had launched some of the attacks on his opponent's military records himself. In reference to Cheney, who received multiple deferments that kept him out of military service, Kerry said the voters could decide "whether five deferments makes someone more qualified than two tours of duty."

The comments by Strickland and others seemed intended to tarnish the administration's credentials on defense and national security issues - which polls have shown is its strong suit among voters - while Kerry and his running mate, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, hit Bush on healthcare and the economy.

The Democrats received a small assist in these efforts Saturday from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who opened the Republican convention Monday night with glowing praise of Bush's national security record. McCain said Medicare premiums are "just too high for low-income families to deal with."

"The Medicare increases are going to have to be discussed," McCain said to reporters as he appeared with Cheney at a campaign event in Roswell, N.M. "We can't have continued increases along that level."

The issue is politically potent in several battleground states, such as Ohio and Florida, where seniors make up large segments of the electorate.

The White House had hoped to seize the high ground on the issue, traditionally friendlier to Democrats, when Congress passed legislation that would provide prescription drug coverage under Medicare. But polls show many seniors agree with Democratic criticism that the law did not go far enough and was designed to benefit the drug companies.

Democrats think the new premium increases could further hurt Bush's credibility on the issue. Citing increased doctor costs and the need for modernization, the administration announced premiums would rise next year for nearly all of the 41.8 million Medicare recipients.

The boost from $66.60 to $78.20 a month is the largest increase in the program's 40-year history and comes after an earlier hike of 10% in deductibles.

Kerry said the Medicare increases fit into a Bush pattern of approving policies that hurt the poor and middle class.

"Whenever this president is given an opportunity to make a choice … that's a choice for the broad interest of the American people, he's chosen the narrower interest," he said.

Dr. Mark McClellan, administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Friday that seniors would receive better service for the higher premiums and that, in the long run, the better care would help them save money.

Kerry, in his Akron appearance, linked his long-standing attack on Bush-backed tax cuts with predicted financial problems looming for the Social Security program.

Characterizing the tax cuts as skewed to the affluent, Kerry said, "This president is taking money from Social Security in order to reward the already most-rewarded in America, and I think that's a misguided policy."

Bush promoted his plan to improve Medicare during a daylong bus tour through towns in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was the president's second day of campaigning since he left the New York convention, which a poll for Newsweek magazine released Saturday indicated had given Bush a pronounced surge in the presidential contest.

Like a Time magazine poll released a day earlier, the Newsweek showed an 11-percentage point lead among registered voters. Surveys before the GOP convention had shown a statistical tie between the candidates, though Bush already was easing ahead in many.

Speaking to reporters Saturday, Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman assessed the polls cautiously, saying the race likely would be "topsy-turvy" in its final two months. Still, Bush's senior strategists clearly were pleased with the new poll results.

Besides discussing Medicare on Saturday, Bush said a government report released Friday showing 144,000 new jobs created nationally in August were a sign that his domestic polices have improved the nation's economy. But he also acknowledged that more must be done - particularly in industrial states such as Ohio, where many high-paying jobs have been lost overseas.

"I understand … there's places in America … that lag behind the national growth rate," Bush said. "Ohio has got pockets of unemployment that are unacceptable. But the unemployment rate nationally is 5.4%. That's lower than the average of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s."

But Kerry said the August jobs gains were paltry, at best, and he noted that the Bush administration likely would be the first since Herbert Hoover's in the Great Depression to suffer a net loss of jobs.

At an "Ask President Bush" session during his stop in Broadview Heights, the president said that if he won a second term, he would be open to discussions of a national sales tax or a flat income tax.

The latter proposal has for years been a favorite of conservatives, who view it as a way to simplify the federal tax code; critics say it would ease the tax burden on the rich while making lower-income people pay more.

"We're going to bring Republicans and Democrats together," the president said, when asked about the flat tax. "I'm not going to prejudge the outcome. It's certainly one option."

But Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, campaigning in Wisconsin, said Bush had already told a "lie" when he suggested the Democrats opposed tax cuts.

"Our difference is we are not for tax cuts for multimillionaires. They are. We are for tax cuts for working people."

5. Quest for Cheaper Drugs Can End in a Mexican Jail

By Chris Kraul Los Angeles Times
Sunday 05 September 2004

Police crack down on Americans who buy medications without local prescriptions.

TIJUANA - Californians shopping for cheaper prescription drugs may have gotten a break when the Legislature voted to ease access to low-cost medicines from Canada, but south of the border, bargain-hunters can pay an unexpected, traumatic cost - time in a Mexican slammer.

Since early last year, at least 67 Americans have been jailed here for buying medicines without a prescription from a Mexican doctor. Most recently, a 53-year-old U.S. woman was arrested here in July and spent a day in jail after buying 90 Valium tablets, a standard prescription amount, without the requisite Mexican doctor's order.

Drug shoppers in Mexico are on the same quest for discounts that has driven many Californians to buy mail-order medications from Canada, where prices also can be dramatically lower.

Late last month, days after a group of elderly Southern Californian protesters chartered a train called the "Rx Express" to buy medicines in Vancouver, the California Legislature gave final approval to a package of bills allowing cheaper drug imports from Canada. The legislation is still being considered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

To the south, thousands of Americans, mostly senior citizens, cross the border daily to buy prescription drugs at places such as Tijuana and Algodones on the California border, Nogales south of Arizona and Ciudad Juarez opposite El Paso. They are pursuing savings of up to 75% on medicines ranging from antibiotics and antidepressants to heart medication and chemotherapy agents.

Mexican druggists who sell to Americans without a prescription are also breaking the law, but the police more frequently target the customers, knowing they are easy arrests and in many cases will be only too willing to pay bribes of hundreds of dollars to avoid jail.

Facing a sharp decline in tourism in recent months, some Tijuana pharmacists are mounting a campaign to warn visitors of the hazards of buying drugs without prescriptions - and to repair Tijuana's image.

"Americans come here with no idea that they need a prescription, a Mexican prescription, to get their medicines," said Ignacio Romo Calderon, president of the Tijuana Pharmacists Assn.

"We are trying to educate the tourists because [the arrests] have given the city a bad name."

Pharmacies have multiplied here to more than 1,300 - three times the number in San Diego, with roughly the same population - as Mexico becomes known as an alternative to cost-conscious U.S. consumers.

Law-abiding druggists along Pharmacy Row will either refuse to sell the drugs or send consumers to one of the many doctor's offices here where physicians are known to write prescriptions for $40.

Some of the buyers arrested here obviously intended to traffick the suspiciously large quantities of drugs they bought, officials at the U.S. Consulate here said.

A Seattle man was arrested in September 2003 after allegedly buying more than 6,000 pills of medications, including controlled substances. Two clerks at Tijuana's Trip Pharmacy, where the purchases were made, were also jailed.

But most trans-border consumers are elderly Americans who simply are buying medicines for their own ailments or those of family members. Most walk into the Mexican pharmacies with a U.S. prescription or with none at all.

Alfonso Gonzalez, a San Diego retiree, drives to Tijuana every month to buy eyedrops for his glaucoma. He pays $20 for the same monthly supply of drops that in San Diego costs $90. That's a considerable savings for 70-year-old Gonzalez and his wife, who subsist on the $1,100 a month they receive in Social Security benefits.

"We retirees are the ones who suffer the most because the drug business is so controlled in the United States. It's why you never see a price reduction," said Gonzalez, who said that Medicare did not cover the cost of his drops, which he said were vital in keeping his eyesight.

He said the Tijuana pharmacy he patronized sold him his drops without a prescription.

Although police are likely to look the other way a case such as Gonzalez's eyedrops, they can come down hard on those who buy controlled substances, such as those known by their U.S. brand names Valium, Ritalin, Percodan and Darvon.

The average length of jail time is 48 hours.

Although most of those arrested are released after producing documentation proving a medical need, those who can't or who are suspected of buying drugs with trafficking in mind can be sentenced to lengthy terms.

In the most highly publicized case here, Dawn Marie Wilson, 48, received a five-year term for buying a variety of prescription drugs in Baja California last year, including anti- epilepsy medication and Valium.

Through her lawyer, she said she did not buy all the drugs listed by Mexican authorities in her court papers. Wilson is now in an Ensenada jail but is scheduled to be transferred to U.S. custody this month.

Raymond Lindell, 66, of Phoenix was held in a Nogales jail for eight weeks this year after being caught with 270 Valium pills he had bought for his wife. Lindell argued that he went to Mexico to buy the drugs after his insurer stopped reimbursing him and his wife for the cost of the tranquilizer.

In a notorious case, an Iowa woman was raped while in custody late last year after Mexican police arrested her and her husband for possession of Ritalin they had bought in Tijuana for their 9-year-old son.

The arrests of U.S. shoppers have contributed to Tijuana's dubious status as the place where more Americans are arrested - an average of more than seven a day - than in any other foreign city with a consular presence. Most arrests are for drunkenness and disorderly conduct.

Baja California accounts for 20% of all arrests of U.S. nationals on foreign soil each year.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/090604B.shtml

6. How the US serves minorities

Howard Dean: The First Americans are Last in Health Care By Howard Dean YubaNet.com
Monday 30 August 2004

A serious health care crisis is gripping a segment of our nation at rates astronomically higher than any other group in America. According to a study conducted in 2003, American Indians and Alaska Natives face a diabetes rate which is 249 percent higher than average, a tuberculosis rate 533 percent higher than average and an alcoholism rate 627 percent higher than average.

And yet as a nation, we spend a little over half as much per person on health care for this group of Americans than we do on the rest of us.

The media often reports on local conflicts over American Indian gaming, but they rarely report on the reality that Native Americans are second-class citizens when it comes to allocating health resources. If any other minority group in America were systematically receiving half the health resources that everyone else in the nation gets, there would be a justifiable cry of racism. What America is doing in the area of Indian health care is plain wrong and this nation is too strong to continue to do this.

Indian Health Service facilities are often substandard and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission has called the systematic under funding of this system a "quiet crisis." Yet, the price tag to bring the Native American population up to equal funding is about what we spend in Iraq in one month.

Of course, more health care funding is not the only solution to this crisis. A stronger economy across the board in Indian country is key to improving overall health factors. We must fund education in Indian country with an eye toward stimulating long-term opportunity. Instead of sending our jobs overseas, we ought to keep some of them for our own people, particularly in the rural areas where Native Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to find work that pays a living wage, or even to get a job at all.

We also need to improve retention of medical professionals in Indian country. Since people who are recruited from their home areas are more likely to return home to practice, it is important to improve recruitment and support for young Native Americans to go to college and pursue medical school and nursing. We need to fund adequate incentives for health care professionals, in exchange for practicing in underserved areas all over America - including Indian country.

The best hope for increased national attention to the concerns facing American Indian and Alaska Native people is the political awakening going on in Indian country all over America. In the last few election cycles, numerous candidates have been elected with help from the Native American vote. Two United States senators, Tim Johnson of South Dakota and Maria Cantwell of Washington, can thank Native Americans for providing the key votes it took to carry them to victory. And Kalyn Free, a Choctaw from Oklahoma, narrowly lost a primary for U.S. House of Representatives in a solid Democratic district to the son of a well-known politician.

This fall, American Indians in South Dakota will make the difference in the biggest Senate race of all - the re-election of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. If he wins, and if Democrats succeed in retaking control of the White House, it is time for both Daschle and the Democrats to deliver real health equity to Native Americans everywhere.

Battle of Little Big Vote By Tara McKelvey The American Prospect
Friday 27 August 2004

Welcome to South Dakota, where Republicans tried to impose a poll tax to suppress the Indian vote.

A plastic sign outside a polling place in Andes Central High School on the Yankton Sioux reservation was clear and concise. "Photo ID required," it read.

The only problem, said Charon Asetoyer, executive director of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center in Lake Andes, South Dakota, was that the sign was illegal.

Sitting in a conference room decorated with a buffalo skull, hand-sewn medicine bags, and a poster that says "Prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome," Asetoyer explains how the law doesn't, in fact, require voters to have a photo ID. If you don't have one, you can sign a personal-identification affidavit.

"The whole issue around denying Indian people the right to vote because they don't have a photo ID puts in people's minds, 'They're not going to let me vote, anyway, so why should I even go to vote?'" she said on June 15, describing what happened at the city election and at a June 1 special congressional election. "It's an intentional act to disenfranchise the Native American vote."

Nobody knows how widespread the problem was on June 1.But at least 21 Native Americans were turned away from the polls because they didn't have a photo ID, says Bret Healy, executive director of the Four Directions Committee, a nonprofit voter-registration organization in Rapid City, South Dakota. He's collected signed statements from all of them.

"In one case, an election worker insisted that in order to use an affidavit, you had to have an ID," Healy says. "What had been drilled into folks was that you had to have an ID."

Chris Nelson, South Dakota's secretary of state, says state officials are trying to fix the problem by educating poll workers about the law.

"We know that in a few instances that it happened," Nelson says. "It was wrong. And we're going to do everything we can to make sure it doesn't happen in November."

Native American voters have been courted (and feared) ever since 2002, when Democratic Senator Tim Johnson got 524 more votes than John Thune, who'd been handpicked by Karl Rove to run in the race. Indian voters turned out in unusually high numbers for the election and put Johnson in office. This year, Thune is taking on Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country. Native American voters may again tip a close election. It's a prospect that has, says Tim Giago, former editor of the Rapid City newspaper Lakota Journal, "stirred up a little fear in the hearts of Republicans."

Roughly 9,500 Native Americans voted in 2000, according to Healy, who's the former executive director of the state Democratic Party. In 2002, thanks to a get-out-the-vote campaign run by state Democrats, the number of Native American voters jumped to 16,500 - with roughly 88 percent choosing Johnson.

The following year, Republicans in the state Legislature proposed a bill requiring voters to show a photo ID. Local activists were outraged. Many Native Americans don't even have driver's licenses, they said. And, yes, they can get a tribal ID - if they pay $8. Requiring an ID would be tantamount to imposing a poll tax. The bill was amended so that people could sign a personal-identification affidavit if they didn't have an ID. Last year, it was signed into law.

The law has created problems. But South Dakota is hardly the only state to have imposed it. The number of states with voter-identification laws has actually risen over the past four years, from 11 in 2002 to 17 today. Most are located in the South, including Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.

And - surprise, surprise - it's a partisan issue.

As Dan Seligson, editor of electionline.org, a nonpartisan Web site that monitors election reform, says: "Republicans are on the side of security. They say if you don't have the law, you could have an illegal vote. Democrats use the 'D-word' - disenfranchisement - that you're going to frighten away the population that doesn't carry an ID, including the elderly, poor, and minorities."

On the macro level, the effects of voter-identification rules have been negligible, despite concerns on both sides. As Seligson points out, they've hardly made a dent in combating voter fraud. On the other hand, there's no evidence that suggests the law suppresses turnout. But it may have a depressing affect on individuals - and that's where the D-word can rightly be used.

"I think voter identification has intentionally been used as the basis of some people being wrongly turned away from the polls," Seligson says. "That's disenfranchisement."

On September 3, the state Legislature's Rules Review Committee will vote on a proposal to prohibit signs outside polling places from stating "Photo ID required." Instead, they must spell out both options, explaining to voters that they can either show a photo ID or sign a personal-identification affidavit. Regardless of what the signs say, though, lawyers will closely watch the polls on the day of the "barn-burning election," as Healy puts it, in November.

Meanwhile, activist Asetoyer is still upset about the June elections. She grips the edge of a conference table as she talks.

"At the end of the day, there were more ballots than people signed in to vote," she says. "It's blatant, blatant crap - it's blatant racism."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/090104K.shtml