Medical Doctors may be Hazardous to your Health

Slowly we are waking up to the fact that medical doctors are influenced by big pharma, hence whether they know it or not, they are not necessarily in your health's best interest.

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Medical Doctors may be Hazardous to your Health

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/05/25/two-new-studies-warn-medical-doctors-may-be-hazardous-to-your-health/



Today’s doctors-in-training are learning how to think critically and clearly about the need for — and potential dangers of — any drugs they prescribe. And surgeons only operate if they are physically and mentally able to make sure they will not be putting their patient in any danger, right? Unfortunately, two new papers show that those assumptions are wrong. In fact, they reveal critical reasons why mainstream medicine can be a danger to your health and even threaten your life.

Bottom line: med students are being taught through a hidden curriculum devised and carried out by Big Pharma (and allowed by medical schools) to push the prescribing of their drugs. Meanwhile, countless surgeons are operating and sometimes harming patients because they are impaired by fatigue and lack of sleep.

Here are the facts. Medical students in the United States are being bombarded with the pro-drug propaganda of pharmaceutical companies– and the students are exposed to this throughout their education, even in the years before they have clinical experience treating patients. According to research led by Kirsten Austad and Aaron S. Kesselheim from Harvard Medical School just published inPLoS Medicine, it turns out the drug giants have created what the Harvard researchers have dubbed a highly influentialhidden curriculum
that pushes doctors-in-training into accepting and promoting Big Pharma’s prescription drugs and other therapies.

The enormous and ongoing contact with drug companies is associated with medical professionals developing positive attitudes about the marketing of prescription medications. Moreover, the med students are not developing any healthy skepticism about potential negative implications of the drug pushing techniques — or the drugs themselves.

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Inflation SHOCK: Food prices surging at highest rate in 21 years

There is no inflation. Why on earth would you want to protect your wealth in an inflation protected zero counter party risk asset like silver and gold?

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Inflation SHOCK: Food prices surging at highest rate in 21 years

http://www.thedailycrux.com/content/7768/Agriculture/eml

U.S. food-price inflation may top the government's forecast as higher crop, meat, dairy and energy costs lead companies including Nestle SA, McDonald's Corp. (MCD) and Whole Foods Market Inc. (WFMI) to boost prices.

Retail-food prices will jump more than the U.S. Department of Agriculture's estimate of 3 percent to 4 percent this year, said Chad E. Hart, an economist at Iowa State University in Ames. Companies will pass along more of their higher costs through year-end, said Bill Lapp, a former ConAgra Foods Inc. chief economist. The USDA will update its forecast today.

Groceries and restaurant meals rose 2.4 percent in the four months through April, the most to start a year since 1990, government data show. During the period, rice, wheat and milk futures touched the highest levels since 2008, and retail beef reached a record. Yesterday, J.M. Smucker Co. announced an 11 percent price increase for Folgers coffee, the best-selling U.S. brand, after the cost of beans almost doubled in a year.

"It's going to be a tough year" for U.S. shoppers, said Lapp, who is president of Advanced Economic Solutions, an agriculture consultant in Omaha, Nebraska. "You're looking at an economy where a lot of consumers are under some serious pressure from food and fuel costs."

Even after a drop in commodities this month, seven of eight tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index are higher than a year earlier as adverse weather damages crops, rising demand erodes inventories and a weak dollar boosts demand for U.S. exports. Corn futures are up 98 percent, wheat gained 67 percent, raw sugar advanced 44 percent, and rice jumped 25 percent.

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Trade Update on Silver

Full Disclosure, I sold some PSLV at these levels. Since I use margin, I am now only 130% long PSLV. I took some off the table and plan to take a little more off if silver hits $40. The reason is that just in case silver decides to retest $33 or $35, I'd like to have some dry powder available to buy more.

My new phyzz arrives tomorrow. Trade paper silver. Accumulate physical silver.

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LOL at 0bama

Heh! Granted I get the date wrong sometimes too, but usually it is in January and the year I put down is the previous one. This should file under Tuesday Funny.

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President Obama Has No Idea What Year It Is

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/05/president_obama_has_no_idea_wh.html



This is how President Obama signed the guestbook at Westminster Abbey earlier today, where he got a tour from the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall and laid a wreath on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior.
It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common sacrifice.

Barack Obama

24 May 2008

It was really nice until he got the date wrong by three years. Granted, 2008 was a great year for him, and we might try to live it for as long as possible, too, if we were him. Also, though, he may have had a stroke.

Update: For those who find the European-style date suspicious, the Telegraph reports that a "Westminster Abbey spokeswoman confirmed it was the president who had written the wrong date."

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Embry - Silver Market Extraordinarily Tight, Look for $125

No matter how you slice it, everyone that knows what they are talking about thinks that silver will be over $100 in less than 2 years. That's nearly triple from here at the lowest. Most expect in the $120-140, which is quadruple from here. These are low ball estimates for the end of 2012. If you combine this article, with the one posted directly before it with gold at $5000 that puts silver at nearly $300 in a few years, or 8-fold from where we are today at $36.

Of course it could go higher. Buy the phyzz. As much as you possible can. Buy popcorn. Watch. Retire early.

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Embry - Silver Market Extraordinarily Tight, Look for $125

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2011/5/24_Embry_-_Silver_Market_Extraordinarily_Tight,_Look_for_$125.html

When asked if there was still tightness in the silver market Embry replied, “As far as what we look at, my partner Eric Sprott, he thinks the market is extraordinarily tight. I think one thing people are underestimating is the investment demand. This is being triggered by the high gold price which is driving the little guy into silver for the simple reason that he can’t handle how much it costs to get an exposure in gold, so he buys silver.

So I think this will be an ongoing phenomena and when you put that together with the strong industrial demand, the two together will drive silver much higher. I think the optimists that are talking about the gold/silver ratio declining to historical lows of 10 to 15 times could well be right, and given where I think gold is going, I mean that has an enormous upside potential for silver.

...Well let’s say gold goes to $2,500 which I don’t think is an outrageous statement in the face of what is going on, and the gold silver ratio falls to 20 to 1, well that puts silver at $125...People that were top-calling in silver and gloating when it got taken to the cleaners, I don’t really think they really understand the dynamics of the market.”

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Russell - Expect $5,000 as US Has to Back Currency With Gold

Russell - Expect $5,000 as US Has to Back Currency With Gold

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2011/5/24_Russell_-_Expect_$5,000_as_US_Has_to_Back_Currency_With_Gold.html

I think the gold action goes along with the above scenario. Why take profits or sell your gold, when the real move in gold is slated for 2012 and beyond?

Why is China so intent on accumulating gold? My thinking is that China is preparing its renminbi to replace the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. To become the new world power, China needs two items: (1) A military second to none. (2) The world's most trusted and wanted currency.

(1) China is now on an all-out campaign to build up its military. (2) China wants the renminbi to backed with a huge percentage of gold, thereby making the renminbi the world's best and most trusted currency.

To compete, I believe that somewhere head the US will have to back its current irredeemable fiat currency with gold. In order to do that, the US will have to boost the price of its huge gold hoard to a level where the dollar may be backed anywhere from 50% to 100% with gold. That could mean unilaterally raising the price of gold to maybe $5000 and ounce or more...I thought that gold, closing higher, in the face of the stronger dollar, was significant. Gold appears to be advancing against almost all fiat currencies (is this a preview of the future?).

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Bob Chapman Tyranny, Silver And Your 401K

Bob Chapman Tyranny, Silver And Your 401K

Bob Chapman says the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange is going to sell silver in two to three months, right about the July CRIMEX delivery contract.

Bob says NOT TO TRADE THE SILVER MARKET. ONLY BUY PHYSICAL SILVER. Go long and stay long.

Get out of your 401k and IRA if you can’t get out borrow against it.



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A Historical Case for $960 Silver

I can only dream...

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http://dont-tread-on.me/a-historical-case-for-960-silver/

A Historical Case for $960 Silver

By Silver Shield, on May 5th, 2011

During the height of the Roman Empire that average days pay for a soldier and laborer was on silver Denarius. This Denarius was 1/10th of an ounce of silver, similar to our silver dimes of yesteryear. What I find amazing is the implied value of this coin into our modern lives.

This dime of the Roman Empire was the average wage of the average worker. It paid for all of the living expenses of a man and his family; food, shelter, clothes, taxes and maybe a little fun from time to time. How would we begin to relate the value of that Roman dime to where we are today. First think about the kind of work a Roman soldier or a field worker would have to do to get that Denarius. Most likely the Roman soldier would be enduring terrible conditions or fighting in hand to hand combat. The average laborer would be working 12 hour days using rudimentary tools doing arduous tasks to eek out an existence.

The average American Empire laborer or soldier probably makes minimum wage of about $8 an hour. If we multiplied $8 times the 12 hours the Roman laborers must have worked that would make the implied value of the silver Denarius about $96. If the Denarius is 1/10th of an ounce of silver, then the implied value of an ounce of silver is $960. Let’s think about it another way, Judas sold out Jesus Christ for 30 Sheckles which is about 15 ounces of silver. Would you condemn your friend, much less the Messiah to death for 15 x $38= $570? What about 15 x $960= $14,400? That seems to be about the same cost I hear in those murder for hire plots…

This is just one of the many ways for you to see through the paper silver propaganda. For a more complete picture, read the Silver Bullet and the Silver Shield. http://dont-tread-on.me/the-silver-bullet-and-the-silver-shield/ . Why you are aware of the once in human existence opportunities of investing in physical silver, then it makes it easier to create generational wealth. Buy right, and sit tight.

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The American Dream By The Provocateur Network

The American Dream By The Provocateur Network



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Alex Jones’ Audio Blog: Owner’s Manual on Reality

Alex Jones’ Audio Blog: Owner’s Manual on Reality


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