Source: TheFirearmGuy
January 7, 2017
Here is about about a senior citizen lady who was armed and took care of an armed intruder with her gun. This lady teaches all of us the value of awareness, preparedness, and having a defensive mindset.
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Killing Grandma: Over a third of elderly sent to ER due to adverse medication reactions
Source: NaturalNews.com
Vicki Batts
December 7, 2016
Prescription drug use is at an all-time high here in the United States. In 2015, a report from the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that approximately three out of every five citizens are currently taking some form of prescription medication. Useage of just about every type of medication has increased since the year 2000. And of course, to go along with our penchant for medication, there has also been a distinct rise in trips to the emergency room. Adverse reactions to prescription drugs also seems to be on the rise.
One of the downfalls of prescription drugs is the potentially hazardous effects they may produce. The side effects of different medications can vary wildly. A study conducted by the CDC has revealed that 1 out every 250 visits to the ER is because of a drug reaction in both 2013 and 2014. This was a significant increase from the years 2005 and 2006 — the last time drug reactions were studied.
Estimates for children, teens and young adults have remained about the same; however, the number of older patients visiting the ER thanks to a medication reaction has made a substantial climb. Older Americans are being affected by adverse reactions in much higher numbers now than ever before — even when adjustments are made for population increases.
In fact, of all visits to the ER for drug reactions, about 35 percent of the patients are 65 years of age or older. That’s nearly a ten percent increase! In the 2005 and 2006 study periods, elderly patients accounted for just 26 percent of ER visits related to drug reactions.
According to Nadine Shehab, a senior scientist in the CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, and her co-authors, there are a few key culprits behind this increase — namely, anticoagulants (blood-thinners for preventing blood clots), antibiotics, diabetes medicines, opioids (pain medications) and antipsychotics.
In an email, Dr. Daniel Budnitz, the senior author of the paper and director of the CDC’s Medication Safety Program, noted that the fact that these are the same drugs identified a decade ago for commonly causing trips to the ER should be a cause for concern. Dr. Budnitz states that safety interventions should be more focused on these particular types of drugs.
In their research, the team focused on the reasons why people are visiting the emergency room, with a focus on drug reactions. They analyzed data from 58 different emergency rooms and then created estimates for the population as a whole. The team then compared this data to their estimates from 2005 to 2006. Based on their surveillance of 42, 585 cases, the researchers posit that roughly 4 out of every 1,000 Americans goes to the ER due to an adverse reaction to a drug. More than a quarter of these patients will be hospitalized, or about 27 percent.
Overall, the estimates indicated that diabetes medication, blood thinners and antibiotics led to nearly half of the ER visits for drug reactions.
In children under 5, antibiotics were the most common cause for the ER visit, at about 56 percent of the total. The same held true for older children and teens, though it was a slightly smaller majority with only 32 percent.
More than a third of all visits to the emergency room for medication reactions occured in the elderly population. Older adults also had a much higher rate of hospitalization. Some of the ill effects patients experienced included hemorrhages from anticoagulants, severe allergic reactions to antibiotics, and hypoglycemia with neurological effects from diabetes drugs.
Another study published last year, in the journal PLOS One, found that an increasing number of Americans are being prescribed multiple medications concurrently. They found that many patients were taking medications without their doctors’ knowledge and some were even taking dangerous combintations of drugs.
Timothy P. Ryan, founder of Sano Informed Prescribing, a health care technology company, noted that between the aging population and the rising number of prescriptions per patient, these study results are sadly not that surprising. Ryan notes that when patients are cared for by multiple physicians, there is often an incomplete view of their drug use, so the ER visits are really the result of a much larger issue.
Ryan says, “Americans are increasingly overmedicated.”
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California About To Pass The ‘Medical Pedophiles Protection Act’ To Criminalizing Journalists For Posting Videos That Document Medical Abuse Of Children, Seniors & Surgical Patients
Source: NaturalNews.com
Mike Adams
August 16, 2016
As yet more proof that you’re living in a totalitarian police state regime run by mentally insane criminals named Jerry Brown and Nancy Pelosi, California is about to pass a law that would explicitly criminalize undercover investigative videos of all “health care providers.”
This means any journalist who records nursing homes abusing elderly patients would be thrown in jail, right alongside the parents who are now being criminalized by the vaccine mandate SB 277. (Oh yeah, SB 277 was just the beginning of Gov. Brown’s totalitarian violation of fundamental human rights.)
“The bill would criminalize publishing undercover video footage of ‘health care providers’ and subject third parties, including journalists, to penalties for reporting and distributing the illegally recorded footage,” reports AllGov.com. “Under AB 1671, a journalist receiving and posting footage from an anonymous source could be punished by the state as well as be opened up to potential civil lawsuits. Whistleblowers would not be exempt from the proposal either, regardless of how they obtained the illegal footage.”
Doctors who rape patients under anesthesia can now count on the corrupt state government of California to protect their “privacy” from investigative journalists who film them to expose their abusive assaults. Abortion chop shop organ harvesting factories — also known as “Planned Parenthood” — would also be safe from the scrutiny that comes from the investigative journalism that recently caught their principals on tape, admitting to harvesting intact human heads (and other body parts) from partially born, living, breathing babies who are then killed on sight so that their valuable organs can be collected and sold off for “medical science.”
The Medical Pedophiles Protection Act criminalizes journalism, free speech and the exposing of medical predators who target children
Yes, California is about to become North Korea, and assembly bill AB-1671 codifies it into law. Click here to read the proposal law yourself, so that you can better understand how a police state silences freedom of the press and crushes journalistic liberty in order to conceal the mass murder of babies, patients and senior citizens who are routinely abused or murdered by rogue health care providers.
Even more shockingly, the proposed California law describes one year prison sentences for any blogger or journalist who posts someone else’s undercover video involving health care abuses. The law actually states, “A person aids and abets the commission of an offense when he or she, with knowledge of the unlawful purpose of the perpetrator and with the intent or purpose of committing, facilitating, or encouraging the commission of the offense, by act or advice, aids, promotes, encourages, or instigates the commission of the offense…” The law further states that criminal prosecutions apply to anyone who “intentionally discloses or distributes, in any manner, in any forum, including, but not limited to, Internet Web sites and social media, or for any purpose, the contents of a confidential communication with a health care provider that is obtained by that person…”
In other words, if someone films a lunatic doctor — such as Dr. Richard Pan, as an example — medically assaulting an innocent child, any person they “leak” the video to will be arrested and thrown in prison if they post the video online. I call it the Medical Pedophiles Protection Act because it would give abusive doctors, surgeons, dentists and nursing home staffers carte blanche protection against being exposed by real journalism.
The criminal government of California hates real journalism, you see. The free press must be criminalized, just as it has recently been criminalized in China, where all independent blogs and news websites have now been shut down by decree. In China, North Korea, Venezuela and now California, all media is limited to official state-run media, and those who defy the official narratives of the criminal politicians must be intimidated, terrorized and imprisoned.
In places like China and North Korea, coincidentally, this also involves having your organs harvested to be sold off to black market buyers. California is different. There, the organ harvesting takes place at Planned Parenthood and is called “scientific research.”
Note to medical pedophiles: Move to California ASAP!
Not only would this proposed law AB-1671 make it illegal for journalists to record and distribute videos exposing medical doctors sexually assaulting young children; it also encourages medical pedophiles from across America to move to California and set up practices there, where they can operate with impunity, knowing that anyone who catches them on film sexually assaulting a child will be thrown in prison themselves. How’s that for justice?
It’s the new Pedo Gold Rush of modern medicine, and it’s all made possible by Gov. Jerry Brown, the same despicable Governor who already legalized medical child abuse with SB 277. Now he wants doctors with pricks and dicks to be able to violate children with impunity, all while throwing the journalists in jail for trying to protect those children from systematic medical child abuse. Perhaps the Governor should change his name to Ben Dover and add his name to state highways signs: “Welcome to California! BEN DOVER.”
What a wonderful new liberal society Gov. Brown and his radical leftist minions have created for Californians. The truth is criminalized. The science is fabricated. Parental rights are obliterated. And journalists are terrorized into silence.
As Jon Rappoport explains on his site:
If you feel you’ve just entered the Twilight Zone, gone down the rabbit hole, you have.
How about this? Some enterprising citizen-reporter in California secretly records a conversation with a doctor, in which the doctor admits that he vaccinates all children-patients, but would never vaccinate his own kids.
The video link is sent to a journalist in Los Angeles, who then posts it on his website. Suddenly, that LA journalist is hauled into court and the video is taken down.
What about this? Somebody makes a secret recording of a conversation between a well-known oncologist and his colleague about the massive dangers of chemotherapy—including remarks about several of the doctors’ cancer patients who actually died from chemo. A freelance reporter, who obtains the video, posts it on his site. The video is taken down, the reporter is arrested, prosecuted—and sued.
And couldn’t a California-based pharmaceutical company claim status as a “health provider?” Supposed an employee secretly recorded a conversation between two executives, during which they admitted the company buried studies of a new drug because “too many volunteers died” during testing. The employee sends the recording to a reporter at the LA Times. The reporter shows it to his editor. Is that in itself a crime?
Yes.
Government can secretly record YOU, but you can’t secretly record CRIMES against children
Just so you know the real score in this totalitarian era of criminal government, remember that the government reserves every right to secretly spy on YOU and record your keystrokes, web searches, phone calls, emails and even covert videos of you in your own home. All these secret recordings, mostly obtained without warrants of any kind, can be legally used to incriminate you for engaging in “illegal activity” such as consuming CBD oil, for example, which the DEA still considers to be a Schedule I Controlled Substance.
Yet when a citizen such as yourself conducts an undercover investigation into the crimes, abuses and violations of health care providers, suddenly you’re the criminal yet again. YOU get arrested, charged and thrown in prison while the real criminals who are sexually abusing children and anesthetized surgical patients get away scot-free. See how it works? Government protects the medical criminals, pedophiles and abusers precisely because those kind of people represent the very foundation of the corrupt medical system in the first place.
Welcome to the real California, where the Medical Pedophiles Protection Act is about to be signed into law, thereby “protecting” the numerous crimes of health care violators who routinely harvest organs from innocent children (who are first murdered, of course). This is the new “progressive society” the liberals promised you… are you enjoying it yet? Do you realize that socialism and communism always eventually leads to genocide and mass murder? (If not, read some history to learn what happens when societies devolve into totalitarian government regimes…)
Vote for Hillary and you’ll get even more of this. Keep electing democrats to office and you’ll sooner or later find yourself living (or dying) in North Korea. Oh yeah, and it’s all to “protect you” because the government knows best. So hand over your children, your parental rights, your human rights and your dignity. Father J. Brown wants to protect pedophiles, rapists and abusers who practice “health care” in the state of California, and there’s absolutely nothing you can do to stop them unless you’re willing to go to prison.
No wonder every sane person is now leaving California for good. The economic collapse of the state, by the way, will inevitably follow the collapse of human rights and free speech rights that we’re currently witnessing. California is lost. It’s now on a collision course with extreme left-wing despotism and police state tyranny. ESCAPE WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/cal…
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/08/15…
http://www.naturalnews.com/054987_CBD_cannab…
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1671
Pneumonia Vaccines Being Pushed On Seniors With Cancer Despite Manufacture’s Warnings Of Adverse Reactions
Source: NaturalNews.com
Amy Goodrich
August 5, 2016
The pneumonia vaccines Prevnar 13 and Pneumovax 23 are now going to be pushed heavily on seniors with cancer, after multiple studies somehow showed that they reduce the chance of dying from the most common bacterial lung infection in older people.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), everybody aged above 65 should get the pneumonia vaccine, especially high-risk seniors who have diabetes, heart disease or cancer.
As stated by the CDC, only 60 percent of those in this age group have gotten their shot, and they are on a mission to inoculate the other 40 percent too. This is big news – and a great deal – for Merck and Pfizer that will be providing the vaccines.
Pneumococcal disease is a broad term referring to a number of different infections ranging from a mild ear infection to deadly infections of the brain (meningitis) and blood stream. Streptococcus pneumonia, the cause of these infections, is also the most common cause of lung diseases among adults over the age of 65.
Why cancer patients shouldn’t be given vaccines
Apart from the flu shot, the American Cancer Society doesn’t recommend any other vaccine for cancer patients or people with weakened immune systems. The immune system is a complex system designed to fend off infections and diseases. For an adequate response, vaccines require a healthy and proper working immune system.
Cancer and cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation, suppress its function, leaving patients in a weakened state. When the immune system isn’t working properly vaccines may cause severe adverse effects, in particular among the elderly. In some cases they can be fatal when the vaccine contains live viruses.
One way you can strengthen your immune system and take care of your body is through living a healthy lifestyle in combination with superfoods such as chlorella and spirulina.
Adverse effects in seniors
Despite the fact that the Pneumovax 23 vaccine manufacturer Merck includes a warning that elderly and sick people should not receive the pneumonia vaccine due to a higher risk of potential adverse reactions, the CDC’s new guidelines state that those over 65 should get not just one, but both of the available pneumonia vaccines.
Furthermore, Dr. John Swartzberg, head of the editorial board at the University of California Berkeley Wellness Letter, advises elderly people or those with compromised immune systems who previously received the pneumonia vaccine to contact their doctor for an additional booster shot.
He believes that the pneumococcal vaccine is crucial, since study after study shows that it reduces the chance of dying from pneumococcal pneumonia. Of course, we can all guess who is producing these vaccine-promoting “scientific” studies.
Unfortunately, next to infants, seniors have always been an easy target for the pharmaceutical industry. Out of fear and respect for their doctors and nursing personnel at rest homes, the elderly usually follow strict orders without giving it a second thought.
Always make sure to talk to your doctor, and don’t be afraid to ask for a second opinion if you or someone you love is planning to take any of these vaccines.
Sources for this article include:
Big Pharma Prescriptions In Including Painkillers, Antidepressants Plummeting Seniors Turn To Medical Cannabis
Source: NaturalNews.com
David Gutierrez
July 26, 2016
Use of many prescription drugs has plummeted following the legalization of medical marijuana, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Georgia and published in the journal Health Affairs.
The researchers found that Medicare prescriptions fell for conditions that can be treated by cannabis, including anxiety, depression, pain, nausea, psychosis, seizures, sleep disorders and spasticity. Prescriptions for other types of drugs, such as blood-thinners, remained unchanged. This led the researchers to conclude that legalization led directly to the changing prescription habits.
The drop in prescriptions led to a measurable decrease in Medicare spending in those states.
Limits Big Pharma price gouging
The researchers found that medical marijuana reduced Medicare costs by $165 million in 2013. If medical marijuana had been legal and available nationwide, the savings would have been about $470 million.
“We wouldn’t say that saving money is the reason to adopt this. But it should be part of the discussion,” said study co-author W. David Bradford.
The researchers are also analyzing the effects of medical marijuana legalization on prescriptions paid by Medicaid, the federal-state insurance program for low-income people. Preliminary data from that study show an even larger drop in pharmaceutical prescription costs.
Much of the savings might come simply from the fact that insurance does not cover medical marijuana, which can cost a patient as much as $400 per month out of pocket.
“I have some trouble with the idea that this is a source of savings,” said Deepak D’Souza of Yale University, who has research medical marijuana but was not involved in the current study.
But Bradford believes that marijuana legalization does lower overall health spending, because marijuana is so much cheaper than many of the pharmaceuticals it displaces. This analysis is supported by Harvard Medical School emeritus professor Lester Grinspoon, who has written two books on the topic (but was not associated with the new study).
“There’s a limit to how high a price cannabis can be sold at as a medicine,” Grinspoon said.
Will DEA finally admit benefits of cannabis?
The lure of lowered health care spending may play an important role in an ongoing review by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which is considering reclassifying marijuana from Schedule I substance to a Schedule II.
A Schedule I drug is classified as having no medical benefits, and therefore doctors are prohibited from prescribing it and insurance will not cover it. Even in the 25 states (plus Washington, D.C.) where medical marijuana is legal, doctors can only write a referral to a dispensary.
Schedule II drugs (like narcotic painkillers) are permitted for medical uses. If marijuana were moved to this classification, insurance companies would be more likely to cover it.
The recent study suggests other major benefits that the DEA would also do well to consider. For example, many of the drugs replaced by medical marijuana use have dangerous side effects that are not a concern with cannabis. Perhaps foremost among these are opioid painkillers, which are relatively easy to lethally overdose on.
“That doesn’t happen with marijuana,” D’Souza said.
While marijuana can carry its own risks, increasing legalization would make it easier for scientists to carry out research that could guide responsible use.
But on a fundamental level, medical marijuana may simply challenge the medical-scientific model of health care by placing key decisions — and even production of the medicine in the hands of the patient.
“As physicians, we are used to prescribing a dose,” D’Souza said.
“Do you say, ‘Take two hits and call me in the morning?’ I have no idea.”
With natural medicine booming, hopefully more people will wake up to the fact that natural medicines, and foods, are in many ways superior to their lab-engineered alternatives. The health-supporting effects of fresh fruits, vegetables and all-natural superfoods simply cannot be beat.
Sources for this article include:
NPR.org
#GoodNewsNextWeek: West Virginia Comes Together After Historic Floods
Source: MediaMonarchy.com
James Evan Pilato
June 28, 2016
This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Stop the presses! Going outside is good for your mind and body; West Virginia gets outpouring of support after deadly floods; and we’re lovin’ it as McDonald’s closing 500 more locations. Notes/Links:
Long Visits To Nature Linked to Improved Mental Health
http://bit.ly/296qOvd
Death Toll Lowered To 23 After Deadly #WestVirginia Floods
http://bit.ly/28WVB9I
Fayette County Sheriff’s Department: “If the residents of this area catch you first, you may not make it to jail.”
http://bit.ly/2921Rl1
Not Lovin’ It: McDonald’s To Close Over 500 Restaurants Worldwide To Stay Afloat
http://bit.ly/29a16ED
Activists Rescue 1,000 Dogs From China’s Controversial Dog Meat Festival
http://bit.ly/28Zo1QM
Outdoor Library Season Begins In Slovenia
http://bit.ly/290D02t
Peace Breaking Out? Colombia Agrees To Peace With FARC, Ending 50 Years Of War
http://bit.ly/290CCkG
Brisbane’s Orange Sky Laundry Still Helping Homeless
http://bit.ly/290CC4d
Real Brexit “Catastrophe”: World’s 400 Richest Lose $127 Billion
http://bit.ly/296B6wW
Phoenix Seniors Find Healing With The Power Of Music
http://bit.ly/296qPiG
Running Releases Proteins That Help Boost Brain’s Ability To Remember
http://bit.ly/28Ys7sP
Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Forced Blood Draws for DUI Unconstitutional
http://bit.ly/296rCjq
“Pinot Meow” Wine Made With Catnip Lets You Get Drunk With Your Cat
http://bit.ly/290CMbR
Lawfully-Armed Portland Woman Shoots, Kills Home Intruder
http://bit.ly/293q5uq
Oregon Cowboy Lassos Would-Be Thief In Wal-Mart Parking Lot
http://bit.ly/28ZFObh
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